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by hourago 3y ago
> I'm betting some people wish they had a union now. 100% this. Unions help employees to negotiate better even in a layoff situation. Engineers and other software related jobs, are just that jobs. Unions are specially designed to h
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by hourago 3y ago
> Chatbots pretending to be journalists have been discovered running almost 50 AI-generated “content farms” so far, according to an investigation by the anti-misinformation outfit NewsGuard. I am always surprised when I see links that lo
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by hourago 3y ago
> “Comments, such as the ones Arvind made, validate the claims that AI can reduce support jobs and hence costs for the company. It will set the direction for other enterprises to look for similar opportunities in their support functions,
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by hourago 3y ago
> I think anyone would be grumpy if they didn't get what they wanted Only if you are a child. One thing is that Microsoft leadership does not like the situation the other one is to insult the UK and lash out. That is a sign of entit
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by hourago 3y ago
Microsoft basically said that the UK is a bad place to do businesses because they didn't got what they wanted. An extremely entitled and childish comment coming from someone that should know better. Microsoft is showing its most unprof
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by hourago 3y ago
> Is this concept living in the age of satellites? It is even worse in the age of Digital Rights Management were you buy something and do not own it. A fake detour in a map with hundreds of thousands seems mild in comparison.
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by hourago 3y ago
> LLMs do not require real-time access to the internet or permission to use specific data points. But why? Why copyright and other licenses and rights do not apply?
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by hourago 3y ago
> whistleblowers are trouble makers often ... Why? Because people who are good and social with the group do not have a contrarian character. Most "troublemakers", as you call them, that I have known are people deeply moral and
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by hourago 3y ago
It reminds me of the video "Sand Castle Holds Up A Car! - Mechanically Stabilized Earth" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0olpSN6_TCc
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by hourago 3y ago
> If there are sufficient candidates in the well-off rubric why should we as a society artificially push anyone else into the arena? 1. You get better prepared people. Any society based on nepotism is doomed to fail. 2. You get differen
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by hourago 3y ago
> instead of the way it is in modern Western media, which is being an instrument of social change first All art is a form of personal expression and it is full of new views and political change. I think that the difference is that in the
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Japan's population may drop by almost one-third by 2070(www3.nhk.or.jp)
74 points by hourago 3y ago|237 comments
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by hourago 3y ago
They did this in Sweden. I think that people was not even worried about gambling addiction, but just totally tired of the non-stop amount of loud flashy ads. Gambling ads usually are quite aggressive and TV, websites, bus stops, everywhere
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by hourago 3y ago
> Technology just gets better, as those airport bookstores get smaller. I’m wary of our artificial-intelligence future, and the notion that we will lean on bots to think for us, writing code, speeches and even poetry. There is a big ince
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by hourago 3y ago
> Apple is receiving a kickback from the municipality for indicating that online sales to California residents are transacted in Cupertino. They’re not bringing customers to Cupertino—not physically, at least—but merely are choosing that
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by hourago 4y ago
> Ban social scoring, not the AI, the tool doesn't matter. Automated human classification without recourse nor transparency is what the EU is against. "You cannot get a loan because the AI says so" is not acceptable. >
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by hourago 4y ago
> The regulation, proposed by the Commission in 2021, was designed to ban some AI applications like social scoring, manipulation and some instances of facial recognition. It would also designate some specific uses of AI as “high-risk,” b
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by hourago 4y ago
> If neither supply nor demand changed as a result, why would the price change? If I buy all the lithium supply in the world and sell it back, what price do you think that I will charge? Monopolies and cartels make prices go up.
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by hourago 4y ago
I asked for gift ideas, and then I asked for gift ideas for someone that does not like the ones given in the first answer. It came effortlessly with new ideas. The links were all relevant, even if on different degrees.
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by hourago 4y ago
I guess that by phones it means "social media". The amount of hate poured into social media creates a false reality where many teenagers live. The so called "free speech absolutists" that are just a facade for far-right
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by hourago 4y ago
> it now displays images of text, instead of the text itself. This is of course a huge step backward in terms of accessibility, Accessibility needs to be regulated. In UK accessibility is well regulated for public websites: https:/
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Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem(dataspace.copernicus.eu)
1 points by hourago 4y ago|1 comments
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by hourago 4y ago
The Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem is an open ecosystem that provides free instant access to a wide range of data and services from the Copernicus Sentinel missions and more on the planet’s land, oceans and atmosphere.
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by hourago 4y ago
> When Professor Cost left his job at Wachtell, Lipton, he took what I estimate to be an 85% pay cut. What would motivate a man to do such a thing? From a government accountant’s point of view, Professor Cost has made a terrible mistake.
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by hourago 4y ago
Amazon philosophy of growth and medical care are totally incompatible. This is one of the reasons that capital profits should be taxes way higher. Letting one company accumulate such power in such a short period of time makes society unstab
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by hourago 4y ago
> So that's interesting. What are advertisers going to do to lure me into watching ads for longer than 6 seconds? Tiktok makes it extremely easy to flip through videos instantly and I'll often (not always) judge I don't li
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by hourago 4y ago
> Queries can be 2000 words. That is why Bing is the wrong product to integrate it with. Most Google users will not look after the first 10 results because reading so much gets tiresome. They are never going to write 2000 words to try to
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by hourago 4y ago
> The conspiracist in me sees this as pure propaganda. It is not a hidden fact that CEOs wants to hype companies to increase share value. That is the basics of 2023 economy, hype over results.
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by hourago 4y ago
> the skepticism and the general dismissive tone on HN baffles me. I think that it comes from having high expectations. It took me four or five questions until Open AI chat started to write lies, and half trues. When talking with it I fe
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by hourago 4y ago
> making them a little bit of extra money. That may be the reason. To create an article that looks like professional best practices but it is just an advertisement. Microsoft used to do a lot of that in its war against Open Source back i

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