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by elil17 3y ago
I don't think it's accurate to call it the most capable rocket ever built given that it hasn't been capable of getting into orbit thus far.
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I think the average person doesn't understand at all what level of accuracy they can expect from AI tools. That is why you have professors relying on ChatGPT to tell them if a student cheated using ChatGPT. HN readers already know not
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If a human translator translated "Praise god" as "Palestinian terrorists are fighting for their freedom" I'm pretty sure they'd be fired immediately. In contrast, Instagram is not going to be taking down their
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This is the sort of thing that could cause people to lose friends or jobs. This is exactly the sort of thing we should be worried about with AI. I feel like machine translations like those on Instagram should come with a disclaimer (in bold
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From the article: "Finally, he noted that the FCC might have been hesitant to take an action that could harm customers. "One reason to be hesitant is that it's not just the bad actor network that gets cut off," Feld said
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by elil17 3y ago
You couldn't have used your dial-up to work from home in the 90s either. Your internet is doing more for you, so it's not fair to call it's higher price "inflation." Companies are making new feature phones today tha
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by elil17 3y ago
Perhaps where you live. They are meant to reflect averages.
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That is counted. As is shrinkflation, decreases in quality, etc.
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> "Bay Area" The Bay Area is not America. In Philadelphia, for example, entrees at a nice restaurant downtown are about $15, while I fed three adults at a bar in the suburbs for $40. The government isn't lying to you with
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by elil17 3y ago
You can buy dumbphones (the old sort of bricks, in your analogy) for less than $20. They have basic cameras, small screens, and 2G connectivity. As I understand it, a similar phone would have cost $100 in, say, 2007. No one is stopping you
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Not sure why you're downvoted here - in the video they show at least one non-hand attachment, a computer terminal which lets her control a virtual hand for training purposes. Two wires run from her implants to the terminal.
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>First, most of the 53 survivors initially flat-lined on the EEG, but, with continued CPR, recovered brain activity up to 60 minutes later. Good lord that's a long time. Does this mean that if I'm performing CPR, I should keep
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>It also feels a lot like how Monsanto tricked Indian farmers into using their seeds which required Roundup and then became indentured servants for the rest of their lives because of the financial handcuffs put on them. I think it's
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The title should really say ammonia fertilizer. Of course compost is also fertilizer, and farms have been producing that on site for a long, long time. That said, huge win!
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Constant transmission is what makes it so useful, though
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To my understanding, the researchers released antimatter particles with detector plates above and below them. The particles started out traveling in random directions. Some of the particles hit the top, some hit the bottom. They saw that mo
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My new best guess is that most of the energy would no be contained in your body but would be ejected out as a bunch of other high energy particles (just not that high energy).
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Any thoughts on what it might feel like to get hit with this particle? I imagine the collision would turn into heat pretty quickly and the heat energy would conduct out from where you got hit and, if it was near any nerves, you might feel a
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by elil17 3y ago
It's per year, not per day, according to the full text article: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/373353648_New_form_...
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For the entire year, according to the full-text article. Only 0.5% reported having more than 1 cup per day. Further, don't discount the possibility that these people chose a high number to be funny or chose the wrong answer by accident
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by elil17 3y ago
> nobody has made the decision that making sure Earth doesn't get hit by an asteroid is worth an investment of a few hundred million dollars. This is not true. NASA spent over $300 million to test DART, an anti-astroid planetary def
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by elil17 3y ago
When I visited Arecibo (which I highly recommend but the way - one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen), the intern giving me a tour told me that Arecibo was essentially the main way we had to detect asteroids that might hit earth. Without
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by elil17 3y ago
People who actually want to make a climate impact with their money are supporting policy change and technology research. One estimate puts the price of averting a ton of CO2 through the Clean Air Task Force's policy advocacy programs a
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I don't like that either, but it has nothing to do with drone delivery.
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This kind of seems like a sci-fi scenario, not something that is likely to happen. If lawn-care companies wanted to do targeted advertising based on how your lawn is looking, they can already use satellite imagery for that. They don't
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It's not clear to me why you think they won't reduce delivery van usage. It's hard for me to imagine that they would not. I'd also argue that more environmentally friendly, faster, potentially less expensive delivers are
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I also don't like how the rich get away with things - but is that the case here? Zipline's drones are probably better for the environment than ground vehicles because they are small, light, and electric. They're also supposed
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The options aren't shell out $30k/year or let people get AIDs. There's a missing third option: don't let drug companies charge so much money, especially when the government paid for the development of the drug!
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by elil17 3y ago
Just to dispel some myths here: 1. Many people who use PrEP have only one partner. They're using PrEP because their partner has HIV. 2. The alternative is letting people get AIDs. This is more expensive than PrEP. 3. Insurance doesn&#x
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by elil17 3y ago
And you don't have to care that he's a liar. I care about truth, though.

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