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Phantom Time Conspiracy Theory(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by fumblebee 3y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Where are you putting your capital in 2023?
4 points by fumblebee 3y ago|4 comments
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by fumblebee 4y ago
Honest question: why was this downvoted? To me it seems totally reasonable that: > The U.S. should continue investigating splitting up Alphabet, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft.
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by fumblebee 4y ago
> I do worry sometimes I might just be entertaining myself while staving off the inevitable. Pretty certain that Colm Doherty was not referring to this game when he said this, but somehow it seems applicable. Brilliant job!
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by fumblebee 4y ago
* bleep bloop bleep * I'm 58.93% sure I'm not a bot.
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by fumblebee 4y ago
Feels closer to an SNL skit. Here's the original link to the news story [1]. Clearly this is a problem on the Amazon side, and not the Facebook side. If Amazon design their platform in a way where fake reviews are trivial to write, the
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by fumblebee 4y ago
Oddly prescient. We're converging on a bimodal world of information. 1. Trusted, centralised sources like the Economist, BBC, NYTimes, etc. 2. Everything else, you should basically assume is generated information pushing some agenda. Q
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by fumblebee 4y ago
As Károly Zsolnai-Fehér of Two Minute Papers[1] fame consistently likes to point out (paraphrased): > "Don't look at the current state, just imagine this 2 papers down the line". [1] https://www.youtube.com&#x2F
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by fumblebee 4y ago
Every thought piece around the subject of generative AI starts and ends with how the tech is "exciting and scary". The sentiment is cliche to the point that going forward I'll just assume the articles were generated by a mode
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by fumblebee 4y ago
I'd actually wager that the guardrails are a preemptive play to gain favour with regulators, similar to how Coinbase navigated the nascent field (read: wild west) of crypto.
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by fumblebee 4y ago
> Just a few weeks ago they released a tool to "detect" ChatGPT. Obsolete already? I've seen so much hype around these tools. Not only are they theoretically unsound, they're downright dangerous and equip folks with s
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Ask HN: Best open-source text-to-speech tools?
6 points by fumblebee 4y ago|2 comments
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by fumblebee 4y ago
Local transfers in many jurisdictions are instant or near instant [1]. UK based FPS is just one of many. International transfers are certainly not instant - Wise originally innovated a cheaper and faster solution to this problem, but that c
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by fumblebee 4y ago
This feels different. In the case of recommendation systems, the unconscious consumer is wholly unaware of the witchcraft occurring on the backend. OpenAI's ChatGPT, Midjourney, HuggingFace, and their kin, are commoditising a technol
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by fumblebee 4y ago
I'm curious, why even have the 10 year expiry cutoff? Is there a regulatory ask that this be the case, or is there logic I'm not seeing? Hindsight is ofc 20/20, those contracts have long since been set in stone, but I can&#x2
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Climate change: New idea for sucking up CO2 from air shows promise(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by fumblebee 4y ago|0 comments
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by fumblebee 4y ago
https://archive.ph/mu0pK
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The progressive city that few know(bbc.com)
1 points by fumblebee 4y ago|1 comments
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by fumblebee 4y ago
This writing style was popularised on LinkedIn, and has the unaffectionate nickname "broetry". A quick search serves up this definition: > Broety is a style of writing, often popular on LinkedIn, that uses line breaks after eve
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Unlimited AI Generated Steam Hams(twitch.tv)
1 points by fumblebee 4y ago|0 comments
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by fumblebee 4y ago
This reminds me of London slang, or what I now know is called "Multicultural London English"[1], which I was introduced to when I moved to London. A friend asked me: > "Ey, wagwan fam, bare man gwarn dis flick, whatchu say
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by fumblebee 4y ago
When you see an economist.com submission on HN, typically the top comment is a morally dubious but ever so helpful archive link to get around the paywall. In this case: https://archive.ph/SUYp1
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by fumblebee 4y ago
Maybe also - though cause/effect is hard to tease out - the rise of English as the dominant language in scientific and academic communication played a part here (surely buoyed by US global standing and the destruction of Europe during
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by fumblebee 4y ago
If, in this context, we're defining crazy as disturbing and unpalatable, then I struggle to see how "Food manufacturers are a powerful lobbying group and additives make a significant difference to profitability" _isn't_
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by fumblebee 4y ago
I'm sure many folks here will be familiar with Andrew Huberman. If not, I highly recommend listing to his podcast, The Huberman Lab Podcast. Relevant to this discussion is his brilliant episode on alcohol [1]: "What Alcohol Does t
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by fumblebee 4y ago
I stand corrected!
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Revolut to hire 1,700 more staff as London fintechs defy global jobs cull(standard.co.uk)
4 points by fumblebee 4y ago|0 comments
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by fumblebee 4y ago
To be clear, PayPal is not a bank. But they will absolutely perform everything you mentioned here, and I agree with your assessment.
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by fumblebee 4y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20230130015330/https://www.econo...
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by fumblebee 4y ago
From the perspective that “AI will eat everything”, Tyler Cohen suggests that this will weed out the mediocre creatives (developers, artists, musicians, whatever). Put another way: > The returns to factual knowledge are falling, continui

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