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by calibas 3y ago
It was posted on HN last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39349992
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> For decades, robots.txt governed the behavior of web crawlers. It never governed anything, web crawlers were never under any obligation to follow robots.txt. This article seems like they took an existing controversy, rebranded it as
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Reductionist philosophy is very common in science. It's essentially the idea that you can break things down into simpler parts to better understand how everything works. It's kind of "common sense", if you understand how
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The article just mentions firmware encryption, it looks like secure boot is compromised as well? Both features depend on HW AES keys.
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If you're wondering whether or not this is a joke, consider that it describes Blockbuster Video as one of the "world’s most forward-leading thought-drivers".
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I wonder if this response is based on training or an artificial constraint? Did it learn this based on forum posts with similar responses?
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This is complete bullshit. We've sequenced neanderthal DNA and can tell exactly how much modern people have in common. If you want to promote some scientifically-accurate racism, the only "pure-blooded" homo sapiens come from
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by calibas 3y ago
It's often confidently wrong, but it's still a useful tool. I spent 5 minutes searching Google for what an email error code meant, it kept showing me threads on Microsoft's forums that never gave me a clear answer. Took about
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by calibas 3y ago
We're not sure exactly what happened, it's a mystery, which I'd argue is inherently interesting. And not just because of human emotions, but also because of the possibility of scientific advancement. It could be there's
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I wrote something similar, it's a simple Python tool that estimates what a story's rank should be based on the score, and compares it to the actual rank. It's rough and only tested on Win 10 so far: https://github.
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>Psychological transformation (defined here as rapid, marked and enduring psychological change, where ‘psychological’ refers to perception, cognition and action or behaviour) has been the focus of previous psychological and philosophical
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Prepare for downvotes and rebuttals if you say anything that even remotely disparages Harvard University on HN. Personally, I think it's quite scandalous that Harvard gave the world's most famous sex-trafficker his own office. I m
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The title makes it sound like it was just some mistake. The actual details make it sound they they knowingly committed scientific fraud.
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I don't think people really understand what happened. Consumer protection laws allow people to choose whether they consent to being tracked, but then this mutated into a system that effectively means you pay an extra fee to opt-out of
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I know a lot more couples where the man has left, leaving the woman the raise the child, than the other way around. "If you create life you must be responsible for it" Maybe women are being told that, and you just haven't hea
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Converting everything to lowercase for the purposes of saving space when zipping is technically a lossy compression algorithm. It's an algorithm for saving space, and it doesn't recreate a perfect copy of the original data.
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I used to think of orchids as something exotic, then I realized there's over 20 species of orchids native to where I live in Northern California. Bog orchids, Lady's Slippers, Coralroots, Twayblades, Fairy Slippers, and the Phanto
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> The key is deliberative practice: not just doing it again and again, but challenging yourself with a task that is just beyond your current ability, trying it, analyzing your performance while and after doing it, and correcting any mist
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You can't really separate SEO and the Google algorithms. SEO is a product of the Google's ranking algorithms. The entire effort of SEO is to either to follow Google's official guidelines, or reverse-engineer how things work t
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I used to help run a Facebook page that shared a variety of content. We'd post political things sometimes and we'd get a few angry messages, that was normal. One incident stands out because we received far more messages than I&#x2
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So don't take it if you have heart problems, but otherwise it's safe compared to other drugs, legal or illegal.
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The HN title is wrong and contradicted by the article. More people are buying electric cars than ever before, but adoption rates aren't quite as high as what the government had hoped for.
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There's two separate but related issues that the article and comments here are merging together: identification & authentication The problem of identification, which is assigning a unique identity to each human being, has pretty mu
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The government can violate your rights so long as they go through a 3rd party...
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> Do you think it's holding us back? Absolutely, the idea that a naked human body is inherently obscene, and that we need to protect people from viewing it, is ridiculous. It's the sign of an immature society whose practices ar
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Herbicides and pesticides are actively harmful to bees. Even if chemicals in the herbicides aren't toxic to bees, you're still killing off the "weeds" that the bees feed upon. When there's less food and the bees hav
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Part 2 seemed fairly easy until I noticed "twone". I used Rust and match_indices to get the answer.
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I assume that's intentional so you learn when it's required. From Python.org: "all functions without a return type or parameter types will implicitly default to using Any"
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Until there's actual general AI, we'll still need people that understand how things work on a fundamental level. You can use AI created code, but you still need someone to tie everything together. You're also going to want an
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This seems to be an argument against why everything must switch to Rust. It's almost a complete straw man because most Rust developers aren't even making the claims he's arguing against, but there is a little bit of truth.

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