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Academic freedom declined in 50 countries(academic-freedom-index.net)
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by dash2 4mo ago
This really isn’t what HN is for. I think you should read the guidelines. I’ve looked at your posting history and it is all like this: relentless negativity with low information content.
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by dash2 4mo ago
The idea that Chinese citizens could’ve prevented the Tiananmen massacre with a bunch of home printed AK-47s is silly. The government had tanks. The same applies in the US.
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by dash2 4mo ago
If it is worth trying out, it is worth writing the README for.
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by dash2 4mo ago
Sounds very unlikely in practice. Any evidence anyone actually tried to deanonymize this data for this purpose?
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by dash2 4mo ago
That’s not quite the same as censoring information, though.
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by dash2 4mo ago
> for the second, relevant question (would allowing this data make it easier and far more useful for gerrymandering and advertisement), you are obviously wrong. Really? Why? When has gerrymandering ever relied on identifying individuals?
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by dash2 4mo ago
I don’t understand why gerrymandering would require privacy violation, or how differential privacy would stop it.
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by dash2 4mo ago
I mean, for most of the world that is not the gotcha you think it is…
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by dash2 4mo ago
"We shouldn't try to be like the big browsers because that's not what our Community wants." This is just a path to irrelevance. Firefox had the ambition to be the default browser, what Chrome is now! It's a shame if
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by dash2 4mo ago
It sounds like we agree that Russian war crimes were vast, but that even in Mariupol, a majority of inhabitants were not killed or enslaved. I’m not sure why you are combative about this. Do you think any form of moderation or precision in
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by dash2 4mo ago
He may be the unsung hero, but I reread it a few years ago and found the whole scene unbearably twee.
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Turns out HN users have the Endowment Effect…
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by dash2 4mo ago
Do you believe that the majority of inhabitants even of Mariupol have been killed, tortured or enslaved? If so, could you point me to a source for that? Wikipedia reports its population has dropped from about 425K to an estimated 120K, but
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by dash2 4mo ago
You don't explain how scoring works, maybe it's obvious to MTG players? If you're using gpt 5.5, is there a possibility that it is biased in favour of models that think the way it does?
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by dash2 4mo ago
I think "killed, enslaved, and/or tortured most of the citizens of the regions it's already captured" is an exaggeration. That is not to deny Russian war crimes, which are clearly large-scale and horrendous. But I don&#x
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by dash2 4mo ago
I wonder how much of this is truly smart as in planned/intentional behaviour. Couldn’t it just evolve? Suppose you hang around something that you want to eat . And you make a lot of noise. So now predators show up. none of this was pl
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by dash2 4mo ago
Do you have any policy recommendations for governments that could help public companies preserve their culture?
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by dash2 4mo ago
Side note: one tell for AI speak is not understanding what’s important. This boasts that it adapts to mobile screens, which is hardly unusual for a modern website and probably not a central feature of the software.
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What’s your evidence for this claim?
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by dash2 4mo ago
Let’s accept for the sake of argument that all the cookie banners are malicious compliance. Fine. Then they should change the law to stop the malicious compliance! Regulation has an outcome nobody likes. Are you gonna wait for every company
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I wish Ed Zitron (currently also front page HN) would adopt this calm, measured writing style. It’s much more convincing and shorter to read too.
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But then why don’t we see this productivity growth in any other statistics? In layoffs or in faster GDP growth or in new software products?
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by dash2 4mo ago
Look if everyone agrees the outcome of the law has been incredibly annoying, then that is ultimately down to the law and/or its enforcement. The point of the law is to provide incentives to self-interested actors for good behaviour. I
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by dash2 4mo ago
If your friends have never said “man I hate these cookie popups”, they sound like a highly selected group.
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by dash2 4mo ago
As I said, the indexes are stuck in a race to the bottom! I don’t like it either.
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by dash2 4mo ago
Unfortunately, repeating the word “conservative” does not stop you from becoming the last buyer of overpriced stock, which others are buying exactly so they can unload onto you.
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I’m seeing a lot of naive optimism about this decision. The risk S&P takes by doing this is that they will still be forced to buy SpaceX, but a year after everybody else. Given that there is a massive amount of capital that you know wil
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by dash2 4mo ago
No, it's very likely they did. But to have memorized one proof for every academic paper would be very demanding on parameters, I think.
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I asked it to prove the theoretical result in a (published, prize-winning - though not really for the theory) academic paper of mine. The proofs hadn’t been that hard objectively, but they’d taken at least a week. I fed it the model. It got

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