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by beezlebroxxxxxx 1y ago
One example is basically all of the major AI players have used Annas Archives/Libgen's database to unlawfully access millions of books.
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 1y ago
> Ultimately I hope AI will force us to decide on an updated paradigm of who owns ideas and it won't be a case of me receiving a cease and desist letter if I type a ChatGPT prompt that includes Mickey Mouse or "Miyazaki".
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 1y ago
I agree. I've met some very wealthy people before and when you're outside of the bubble you start to see how $$$ helps a lot to justify anything you do as helping people. A lot of wealthy people will say "look I contribute
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 1y ago
> BUT some books shouldn't be summarized because the difficulty is part of the importance. It's not even about the difficulty. Why is there this insistent demand to have summaries of everything? Summaries never fully capture
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 1y ago
That's because those books (very popular in airports) are blog posts extended out into books with almost no value add as a result aside from some "choice" anecdotes intended to prove whatever points they're making. Usual
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 1y ago
> I can’t imagine hiring them as a prof when they’re so young Many institutions would actually jump at the chance. That's way better than a 35 or 37 year old burnt out from just finishing their PhD and getting onto the tenure track
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 1y ago
My mother tongue is English, but I learned French and German for my work. My French colleagues say I "speak French" and my German colleagues say I "kinda speak German." Would you say they're wrong? When, according t
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 1y ago
Most people that know many languages, know many languages because they're trying to do things with many languages, and they grow up in that situation: they have to speak many languages. You need to get things done, so you communicate i
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 1y ago
This is something that really only seems like a mystery when viewed from an explicitly academic context. Speaking many languages is the norm for many people, and speaking many, many, languages is a very refined ability. When you think of la
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 1y ago
The Last Supper by Leonardo was painted with tempera, a medium that uses egg-yolk.
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 1y ago
Damn, kudos for approaching a pretty well trodden area with a new look. The animations and the design are great!
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 1y ago
Despite what every AI exec will say publicly, I'm pretty sure they're salivating at the prospect of war/defense related applications of AI. There's just too much money floating around in the military industrial complex f
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 1y ago
I've used an Android and Apple phone on and off since the first phones were available with the respective OSs. In general, I've found the Android UI to be more intuitive (although they've both had their boondoggles). But late
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 1y ago
I don't think the syntax is particularly difficult, if slightly archaic; but the real problem is the lack of a paragraph break in the first 2 paragraphs (it felt like reading Henry James) and the way Harper's styled their website.
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 1y ago
I think people actually do find social networks, and apps that support them, to be deeply useful and in high demand. The problem is almost every social network app, or website, is really just a massive spynet trying to capture as much pers
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 1y ago
The majority of work behavior and relationship advice can be summarized down to 3 points. 1. Be nice. 2. Don't be an asshole. 3. Don't be a push-over. (Arguably the hardest as many people read that as "be an asshole". It
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 1y ago
I can already see the pharma salesmen drooling at the idea of how various symptoms can be marketed to. "As an AI agent, a possible diagnosis is [xxx]. Ask your doctor about / look into [yyy™] for a possible solution!"
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 1y ago
Many of my friends are in the trades (I would be fascinated to know if that's common on HN, my hypothesis is that it is not) and the unspoken thing in a lot of "go into trades" rhetoric is that most trades people either get i
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 1y ago
I don't know if this is the case with BART, but I've seen in my own local public transit network an incredible inability or lack of will to use systems proven in other areas. Instead of going with quick, proven, and reliable, syst
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 1y ago
More and more you run into people who simply don't care about craft and quality. I can already hear the chorus of people that will scream "I'm not paid enough to care" or "it's just a job for some people",
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 1y ago
I've heard through the grapevine of some designers (one who worked at Shopify) getting caught using Fiverr (or something similar) to farm out all of their work. Despite all the weird crazy dog and pony show and jumping through hoops th
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 1y ago
You always hear these sayings and then when you look at acceptance rates in Canadian higher-ed you find that there just aren't that many highly selective schools. Brock isn't an outlier at all; compared to a school like Stanford,
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 1y ago
I agree. The long term effect will be a devaluation of knowledge work more broadly. It's a rich irony that so many people clamor to these tools when their constant use of them is more often the thing undoing their value as knowledge wo
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 1y ago
There is skill atrophy, and there is also a certain kind of entitlement. I see it in a lot of new grads and students that are very reliant on LLM and "GPT" in particular. They think merely presenting something that looks like a
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 2y ago
If we must have ads, the best quality ads I see online are dumb ads. Just an image as a link. The most effective ads I see are ones on blogs where the blogger sells ad space (side columns) and they're just images that directly link to
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 2y ago
In Canada, Rogers/Bell would have you assassinated for even suggesting speeds like that are possible in 2025.
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 2y ago
> Whole article is just authors screaming insecurity. I have yet to see a single AI proponent commit to giving their kid over to AI, if they even have one. SV CEOs are sending their kids to hardcore techfree schools and limiting their ow
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 2y ago
I find audiobook performances are usually quite bad or cheesy. Even the ones that people rave about. I also find radio plays, or podcasts with full scripts, the same way. I also find them simply boring to listen to, even the ones of books I
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 2y ago
At your fitness level, you're more than capable of doing a long bikepacking trail. The hard part isn't really fitness (for any moderately experienced biker unless your trip has a specific time or FKT goal), it's the logistics
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 2y ago
One person's purple prose is often another's style. It's not really a measure of something, and more an assertion of taste. You see a similar thing when someone says a writer uses "too much description and not enough act

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