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by bell-cot 4mo ago
In theory , I don't see any particular reason for AI-generated ads to be specially labeled as such. But two rules I would suggest: - If ads, products, or whatever claim to be AI-free, then the penalties for the claim being untrue are
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
> When security researchers want to understand what a modern processor is really doing with the kind of detail that determines whether attacks like Spectre and Meltdown are possible, they usually run their experiments on top of an opera
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
Nice...but no mention of the how the rubber's cost compares to traditional sources, nor per-acre yield, nor other factors. It'd be nice to assume that their investors are rational. But lots of supposedly-rational money has been
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
The crap that U&L are pulling existed long before AI. And are very easy to do, at scale, without AI. Biggest downside might be that the PHB's and minions at U&L couldn't include "with AI" in their bragging. If
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
Ignore the "AI" clickbait. What matters is that U&L are charging different customers very different prices for the same ride, and playing games with fake discounts. Which are both sleazy and, in places, illegal. (Though if y
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
The article talks about a variety of mechanical props, painting, chains, concrete and such over the decades. And about recent droughts and heat waves stressing the tree. But no mention of local authorities bothering to water or mist it. A
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
Communities (on-line or off-line) of people who share your disorder, and maybe health care professionals who see many patients with your disorder.
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
Sounds just like https://xkcd.com/303/
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
> ... couldn't get a job except in teaching. Or nursing, or a fair number of other career tracks. Perhaps as important, there were plenty of smaller and family-owned firms. In many of those, talented women could get quite a ways a
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
I'd assume it's pruning to make only the best-paying (to Google) restaurants visible.
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
> “That’s the sort of thing they could have access to, funded by the Gulf coast coalition, so long as they honor their end of the obligation..." How does that differ from "is theoretically possible, if a whole bunch of people w
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
The occasional saintly individual aside, no political elites - anywhere, ever - actually care about the good of their countries. They're usually willing to give lip service. And seriously pretend if that's a necessary means to s
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
If you're in any sort of engineering or management role - it might be better to focus on how the defective design of his airplane ended his military career that day. Just when America's need for experienced, successful naval avia
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
> ... because apparently there's many more Israeli startups working on medical research, green technology and world peace. > If there are, they certainly would do no harm in being more vocal ... Perhaps, but - talk to someone who
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
The subtitle is more informative - > While companies in the US chase smaller footprints, there are a lot of new large reactors going up in China. And the third-to-last para answers the headline question: > Larger reactors generally pr
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
Just contemplate who is building major facilities in central and southern Texas, and the potential for poetic justice.
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
> GM has partnered with Peak Energy to develop next-generation sodium-ion battery cells, but they’re not going into EVs – they’re for grid-scale energy storage projects. GM Ventures is making a strategic investment in Peak Energy. > U
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
Maybe re-read the article? For an NPR piece, it's loaded with specific attributions and named names, of people pushing "Chinese influence operation" theories. Or do you mean evidence of widespread (& effective) Chinese i
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by bell-cot 4mo ago
Only far enough to know that the article is a bunch of short anecdotes. HN's comments include quite a few longer & better ones.
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
> About the Report > Endgame: The State of the Russian Economy is Kiel Report No. 9 (June 2026) and includes the following [6 articles by various authors] There is a huge market for academic-toned articles about the war in Ukraine. D
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
Some, somewhat, depending on circumstances. But that doesn't much matter - because deterring other children is not a major motivation for the "sentence 'em as adults!" crowd.
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
Yes, but low information quality is even worse than low information density. If I happen to know the subject well, and the article contains glaring errors, obvious omissions, or miserable fudges - I'd like a quick way to tag it as d
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
Disagree: - In Shakespeare's day, the physical ordeal of setting type, printing, binding, etc. were a non-trivial moat against copying of printed works. Not so now. - Shakespeare was closely associated with London theaters and compani
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
From HN's FAQ: > What does [flagged] mean? > Users flagged the post as breaking the guidelines or otherwise not belonging on HN. I'd favor having a second type of tag, for submissions, which meant "the linked article is
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
I'd say WWI was at least as bad for German-language science.
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
You don't move up the Cyberdyne Systems org chart by caring what the stupid little meatbags think.
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
True. OTOH, this is a world where many people get yelling-and-cursing angry with a bottom-tier Post Office clerk in (say) Podunk, Montana over the latest increase in the price of 1st Class postage stamps. When that decision was made by a b
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
Tell us two interesting truths and one plausible-seeming lie about yourself. (You need not reveal which is which:)
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
Unfortunately, real-world bureaucratic orgs of any meaningful size or age always include a third type of person - dedicated neither to the org's goals, nor to the org itself. In general, one should speak more circumspectly about that t
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by bell-cot 5mo ago
Forget "philosophical thoughts", it is a business deal. What matters is the benefits, vs. the costs & risks, vs. what other coding-assist tools and suppliers might offer you.

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