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Bing Search APIs will be retired on 11 August 2025
1 points by huijzer 1y ago|0 comments
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by huijzer 1y ago
I think the article is credible though regarding the ties; especially since the CIA's investment arm, In-Q-Tel, was also involved in Google Earth.
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The Evilization of Google–and What to Do About It(billdembski.substack.com)
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by huijzer 1y ago
I don’t get the whole MechaHitler outcry, LLMs have been doing weird things for years now. Sometimes randomly this, sometimes randomly that. Even Google and Microsoft had many cases were AI gave weird responses
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Project Controlled Weather Popeye(en.wikipedia.org)
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by huijzer 1y ago
> BBC Channel 4 had a documentary in which a psychologist described 16-year-old boys with erectile dysfunction coming into his counselling room. I think that must be another medical condition or the boy lied, but we’ve all been 16 here a
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by huijzer 1y ago
> That being said, the other 80% is somewhat consistent in their patterns. Yes very consistent in promising one thing and then doing another.
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by huijzer 1y ago
> it's that the set of things you can do to make a living is narrowing more and more. Or, instead of handing out more and more money from the state, try to introduce dynamism again. Try to reduce the amount of times that YouTube tak
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"Let's get real about free speech"(huijzer.xyz)
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by huijzer 1y ago
According to statistics and people I met at conferences, young people are also not getting hired in tech. So maybe nobody is?
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by huijzer 1y ago
Yes if the EU’s aim was to just throw sand in the machine that is called society, then it seems they did a splendid job.
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by huijzer 1y ago
> So the answer is: it has to be decided democratically. Okay so the voters have to choose what other people are allowed to say? Either we all have to say what the democrats want us to say and then what the republicans want us to say?
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by huijzer 1y ago
> I'm really tired of people hiding behind free speech and "but what if someone had something important to say!". But who is going to decide what we are allowed to say and what not? We all know “Power corrupts. Absolute po
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by huijzer 1y ago
> Why could a court favor the interest of the New York Times in a vague accusation versus the interest and right of hundred millions people? Well maybe some people in power have pressured the court into this decision? The New York Times
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by huijzer 1y ago
Well the main issue is of course that somehow China is nowadays producing the most advanced batteries, solar panels, and drones. All pretty useful stuff for advanced weaponry. At the same time, don’t underestimate newer companies like Andur
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The Outlaw escaping from prisons in protest against inf detention (2024)(theguardian.com)
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by huijzer 1y ago
They should be fine. According to their balance sheets they had $64.3 billion (yes with a b) in net assets as of June 30, 2023 [1]. I suspect that hasn't materially declined since then. Especially since their operating expenses are $6
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How Is a Cult Defined and How Can People Get Out?(huijzer.xyz)
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by huijzer 1y ago
> I absolutely despise comments like these, and you only see them on HN. Unfortunately the progressives have been pushing the downplaying of powerful people quite hard for a long time under the guise of equality, so it’s more widespread
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How Effective Is Russian Subversion?(huijzer.xyz)
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Yuri Bezmenov: Psychological Warfare Subversion and Control of Western Society(youtube.com)
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Show HN: A (micro)blogging server that you can self-host(github.com)
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by huijzer 1y ago
Wow you are right. I mixed up Stanford and Harvard. He is at Stanford. Thanks.
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by huijzer 1y ago
> When you use any social media, you're not really choosing what you're looking at. You just scroll and the site decides what you're going to look at next. Yeah it’s crazy. I used to have a commonly held believe until last
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by huijzer 1y ago
Well peer review primarily is a very old system where nobody seems to care about speeding up the process. Why also are journals allowed to make huge amounts of money without paying the academics and without providing much services either.
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by huijzer 1y ago
I have done a MSc in CS and PhD in psych dept. Sometimes I had the feeling that the system didn’t want me to get anything done.
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by huijzer 1y ago
Yeah Harvard is doing good stuff. I also love listening to Stephen Kotkin. He uses the Socratic method a lot so he just goes a bit from here to there and lets you make up your own mind. Really great historian if you ask me. Very calming to
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Stephen Kotkin's Hopeful Future for the West(huijzer.xyz)
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by huijzer 1y ago
> Is it the professor, the department, or the funding agencies fault? Like so many things that are being turned upside down nowadays, I think the author already answers it: > Before we go any further, let me be clear: this isn’t abou
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What's the carbon footprint of using ChatGPT?(sustainabilitybynumbers.com)
3 points by huijzer 1y ago|1 comments

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