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by disqard 2y ago
> just don't buy food that's covered in plastic packages. Canned food/ingredients are also in contact with the inner lining: "According to the Can Manufacturers Institute, today about 95 percent of food cans are made
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by disqard 2y ago
I was about to write this as well. There are dozens of us! :)
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by disqard 2y ago
Of late, LinkedIn has been prompting me to answer questions such as "how does one deal with a career change?" etc. I usually ignore these, but sometimes I don't -- I'll have ChatGPT generate an answer of two paragraphs,
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by disqard 2y ago
I found it extra funny when Satya said (after their "let's add AI into every corner of Office" release) "I want people to know that we made them dance" Every day that Google continues to pursue this crap in order to
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by disqard 2y ago
Before MOOCs, it was TV that would revolutionize education, and before that, radio was supposed to replace the need for classes/lectures. What each of these (including the latest wave of "AI" approaches) has overlooked is tha
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by disqard 2y ago
Shhhhh, he's the patron saint of the tech world, and you're on HN -- do you really expect a large percentage of folks here to share your views? FWIW, I think he did understand some very fundamental truths about how to sell techn
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by disqard 2y ago
You beat me to it. Bon mots apart, he really appears to have an innate capacity for betrayal.
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by disqard 2y ago
That's a really human-centered view of what we have in forums. I think many of us (wrongly) have a tech-centered view of online communities -- witness the multitude of "Show HN" posts that are "look! I made an online pla
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by disqard 2y ago
I'm siding with you here. The same is happening at Google, but they definitely have momentum from past decades, so even if they go "full Boeing", there's a long way to fall. Meanwhile, OpenAI (and the rest of the folks r
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by disqard 2y ago
Your comment resonates with my experience -- often an idea devoid of substance will materialize from the ground up, and have 10^7 USD poured into it, all because an exec said one day "hey, it would be cool if we had a product that did
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by disqard 2y ago
It is likely that soon, all authors will use AI to "author" their papers, and reviewers will use AI to "review" these papers. Quite an interesting situation, where academia becomes intermediated via LLMs.
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by disqard 2y ago
Articulate, accurate, and simultaneously funny and sad. These bureaucratic processes have been around for a while, but within the past ~2 years it all became shamelessly overt, and is now explicitly about "business as usual".
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by disqard 2y ago
(playing devil's advocate) At what stage is it appropriate to care "too much" about safety? Is it okay to be enthusiastic about an invasive-and-unproven technology when you're dreaming up pie-in-the-sky use-cases and are
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by disqard 2y ago
I saw a post on reddit a while ago that described this terrible situation: ...a kid was tasked with researching Peru "in the news." After 10 minutes I went to check on them and they had nothing done. They told me there was nothing
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by disqard 2y ago
I don't know why you are being downvoted. Perhaps there are too many Elon fanboys in this thread. What you wrote rings true, especially the "would have landed lesser people in prison many, many times" part.
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by disqard 3y ago
Paraphrasing McLuhan: "We become what we behold"
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by disqard 3y ago
You could try searching for "Post-it Flags, 200/High Volume Desk Grip Dispenser" * They remove cleanly, if you're worried about permanently marking up or defacing a book. * They are easy to write on (I've mostly use
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by disqard 3y ago
It sounds like "Commoditize your complement": https://gwern.net/complement
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by disqard 3y ago
Piggybacking on this to also express my appreciation. If/when you write a memoir someday, it would be a valuable historical record. If not, your hn comments are a wonderful corpus too :) Thank you for sharing your experiences, Chuck!
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by disqard 3y ago
(paid user of Kagi here) FWIW, Kagi is built on top of Google search, so yes it's "replacing" (for you and me) a dependence on Google search, but it is categorically not a from-the-ground-up replacement for Google search.
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by disqard 3y ago
Good catch! An image search revealed that this Substack profile is using this human's name + photo: https://www.instagram.com/ecraftdesigns/p/C22pkGYMCRb/
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by disqard 3y ago
I don't know any more details than what I've seen in public news sites. My understanding is that they disrupted office operations. That automatically allows their employer to (rightfully) claim that they broke some fundamental rul
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by disqard 3y ago
Lovely! Thanks for sharing. Chet (author of "Androids") left recently to pursue comedy screenwriting. There are so many diversely-talented folks at Google, and I'm often floored to discover what amazing things these people
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Google Fires 28 Employees After Multi-City Protests(cnbc.com)
55 points by disqard 3y ago|65 comments
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by disqard 3y ago
> This worked sometimes (I’d estimate >98% of the time), but failed enough that we had to dig deeper. > While we were investigating, we noticed that another field, name, was consistently returning the full name of the state…the cor
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by disqard 3y ago
This is a growing chorus indeed, and I see no reason to believe that it'll die down. Big Tech does indeed resemble Big Oil, plus "I'm in this picture and I don't like it" (for many folks on this site).
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by disqard 3y ago
I had a similar thought -- my perspective: There will be a TON of these 60-second tracks, and no one wants to listen for anywhere near that long while skimming a feed , so these will now be ignored.
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by disqard 3y ago
You and GP are both correct. I've observed how many posts are set up with the "hive mind does (or does not ) agree on" outcomes. Here are concrete examples: * Does Anyone Else foo? * Pretty sure I'm gonna get downvoted
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by disqard 3y ago
Perhaps not exactly "instantly generate a song based on a random blog post or group chat history", but more like "instantly generate a song based on an input prompt sentence" is suno.ai -- you should check it out!
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by disqard 3y ago
> The employees were told Google wanted to use people’s publicly available content in Google Docs, Google Sheets and related apps for an array of A.I. products. The employees said they didn’t know if the company had previously trained A.

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