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by gjm11 1y ago
Well, excuse me for refuting something you actually wrote rather than the thing you would have preferred me to focus on. When you say something like "whose primary function is to psychologically condition children into siphoning off
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by gjm11 1y ago
I'm sure you felt very clever writing that zinger about children and parents, but unless the majority of Apple devices are sold to/for children -- which I would bet is extremely not true -- it's obviously wrong.
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Guess what? Actual title is "Here's how they ...". As usual, HN automunges it to make it mean something different and if anything more clickbaity than the original title. Can't we stop doing this?
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It does not work for me in the UK.
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Has anyone ever seen an instance in which the automated "How" removal actually improves an article title on HN rather than just making them wrong? (There probably are some. Most likely I notice the bad ones more than the good on
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There's some prior art for important books involving a weird obsession with whales.
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I never write ℕ, for exactly this reason. I write ℤ with a subscript ">0" or ">=0". Doesn't take up much more space, and completely unambiguous.
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Oh, well, that's OK then. We will be as safe from whatever future AI systems might want to do as we are from all the other things that malicious actors want to do and are 100% successfully prevented from doing by our extremely well-des
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by gjm11 1y ago
My exact thought process on seeing the title here: "Ah, 'insufficient data for meaningful answer'. No, wait, that one's called 'The Last Question'. So perhaps it's 'There is now '." :-) (As
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I've given many Christmas gifts. None of them required anyone to believe in flying reindeer, Turkish bishops living at the north pole, frosty winds and frozen water in a place that never gets below 10degC or so, etc. All it requires is
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The following is perfectly compatible with everything in the article being correct and important (though I share the suspicion that there may be some reverse-causality going on), but the author seems to be extremely fishy in some ways. He&#
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To some of us weirdos, it actually matters whether things we repeatedly stand up and declare or sing about are true, and whether the stories we draw meaning from are factually correct, and whether values we repeatedly and publicly affiliate
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They mean that their invariant does a good job of distinguishing different knots from one another. The way they quantify this is: they pick a biggish set of knots that are known all to be distinct from one another. They then compute their i
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Yeah, I think the (entirely unintended, as it happens) well-actually-ness probably rubbed some people the wrong way. Ah well, I'll hopefully do better next time.
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Huh, interesting. For what it's worth[1], here's how I see the same matters: [1] Which may not be much; I will in no way be offended if you don't care. I didn't miss that the person I was replying to said that "used
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"Used to" isn't actually a weird metaphorical thing. To "use" can mean (though in most contexts this meaning is obsolete) to do something regularly or habitually. So "I use to do X" means "I am in the
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My spideysense is tingling a bit. This thing is posted by someone who says here "I'm a data engineering student who recently decided to shift from a non-tech role into tech", who is apparently glad to have found a guide to he
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You might want to look at the author's comment here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45290591 ) posted at about the same time as the link itself, which largely answers these questions.
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I don't know anything much about the history of Sanders's rhetoric specifically, but: Inflation and economic growth mean that "millionaire" very much doesn't mean what it used to N years ago, and more so the larger
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(tl;dr on reflection I mostly agree with you) Interesting. I would sometimes say "the mortgage", "the bank", "the car", etc., but I don't think "my" is wrong for any of those except in so far a
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I too find the "My" stuff patronizing and annoying but I'm not convinced by your string of "my"s as showing that it's childlike. I mean, you could equally say: my files on my computer on my desk in my work-room
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> If an election were called tomorrow [...] Reform with a massive majority [...] 33% of the vote (Just remarking in passing on what a terrible electoral system we have in the UK. But, also, precisely because we have this terrible system,
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> like the social media algorithms pushing child abuse content to potential pedophiles There's something weird about this complaint, isn't there? I mean, it's horrifying if social media algorithms are pushing child abuse c
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Within whose party base? If you're saying that the Tories are viewed as too left-wing by Reform voters, then I assume that's true because Reform are further right than the Tories, but so what? If you're saying that Conserva
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I think there's less to this than meets the eye. Previously, on https://sustainability.google/operating-sustainably/ : "We've set a goal to achieve net-zero emissions across all of our operations and valu
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Lossy compression does make things up. We call them compression artefacts. In compressed audio these can be things like clicks and boings and echoes and pre-echoes. In compressed images they can be ripply effects near edges, banding in sm
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Unless the parent of your comment was edited after you posted, it does say what you wanted to know, here: "The medlar's aliases abroad were hardly more flattering [...]"
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Yup, sorry, I was imprecise.
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That's a separate thing -- it's not about being in a different state from where the crime was committed, it's about (supposedly) it being procedurally impossible to give you the jury trial you have to have, because literally
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"Progress is made by the people in front" is plausibly true by definition. "Progress is made by the people who were in front 15 years earlier" is not true by definition. (So: you can't safely assume that the peopl

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