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by humanistbot 3y ago
Slightly off-topic, but is there a good smart speaker you can more easily disconnect from corporate clouds and integrate with homeassistant? I was excited about the ESP Muse Luxe, but mine kept breaking, and from the reviews, it seems I was
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by humanistbot 3y ago
No, the locals want the tourists to pay for an expensive hotel room or AirBNB, respectfully get to know the city, and eat and shop at local establishments. They don't want tourists who load up on the breakfast buffet on the ship, rush
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by humanistbot 3y ago
> This seems like the type of thing that a government will regret in ten years Then in ten years, they can reassess and easily re-open the dock. I don't think you're right, but there isn't really a big risk here even if yo
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by humanistbot 3y ago
Neither was the original training data, which was copyrighted books, art, etc.
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by humanistbot 3y ago
Your second argument, if true, disproves your first argument.
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by humanistbot 3y ago
By that logic, if you convert a copyrighted song or movie from one codec to another, then that would not be copyrightable because it is the output of a machine.
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by humanistbot 3y ago
And it also remains to be seen if various legislatures will pass laws that explicitly declare the copyright status of model weights. It is important to remember that what is or is not copyrightable can change.
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by humanistbot 3y ago
> the frequency of people saying stuff like "I loaded Wikipedia onto this battery powered Raspberry Pi in a Pelican case, now I'm ready to rebuild civilization if it collapses," and seemingly believing it. As someone who i
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by humanistbot 3y ago
> "the sum of all human knowledge," which that shows is a lie by definition. By which definition? In math, the sum of a set necessarily implies a loss of information about that set, for sets larger than 1. But they're usi
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by humanistbot 3y ago
> Maybe we're talking about different time periods. Perhaps, or different ecosystems. Most of my experience is in Debian.
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by humanistbot 3y ago
> The pre-GitHub equivalent would be giving people commit access to the CVS/Subversion repository. Correct. > This generally did not happen lightly either in most projects. Maybe not for the super big or central projects. But for
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by humanistbot 3y ago
> Several years ago, I came across Felix Geisendörfer's Pull Request Hack. The premise is simple - if people are making decent Pull Requests to your project then you should give them commit access. This is not a "hack", th
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by humanistbot 3y ago
Nevermind, got it to work after disabling adblocker
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by humanistbot 3y ago
I couldn't get this to work on Firefox 115, but could in Chrome. Does this require Chrome?
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by humanistbot 3y ago
Yeah, this is 100% disingenuous and exaggerated for effect. Why not enable the margins and page format for both or neither?
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by humanistbot 3y ago
Your criticism seems pedantic and does not contribute to the discussion. Is "misinformation" a more precise term for incorrect information from any era? Sure. But did you sincerely struggle to understand what the authors are refer
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by humanistbot 3y ago
See this HN thread for all kinds of experiences with hiring fraud: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32996457 It doesn't benefit genuine candidates to blatantly lie. They'll get caught later in the process. But
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by humanistbot 3y ago
The idea is that you keep your webcam on your face while you fill out the application for identity verification, to make sure it is actually the applicant. But if you think that's bad, the hot new thing in these hiring startups is that
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by humanistbot 3y ago
California does, but not federally.
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by humanistbot 3y ago
> Yes. And there have been numerous court cases confirming this In the US. It is different in the EU. I know HN is US-centric, but tech is global and there are more people in the EU than the US.
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by humanistbot 3y ago
If you're just quoting an excerpt from Wikipedia, especially for non-commercial use or to comment on the article, you are likely engaged in fair use and do not need to follow the copyright license. Same as for a copyright work with the
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by humanistbot 3y ago
Did they require you to enter your email to read? Or did they just ask you for personal information, let you decline with a single click, and let you get to reading the article? Privacy is about giving people the freedom to choose how their
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by humanistbot 3y ago
That is exactly what "pay to win" means in the parlance of our times: the more you pay, the better chance you have to win. Tiers vs continuum doesn't matter here. The important part is that players with the same skill must de
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by humanistbot 3y ago
You can't just focus on longevity of the material medium, because then you'll be carving into clay tablets, which we have actual proof that it can last for millennia. Or maybe that is perfect if you only have a few very important
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by humanistbot 3y ago
I like Zotero, which is developed for academic reference management, so it can work with longform articles, blog posts, as well. It has zero recommendation features and very limited group support, which I see as a feature.
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by humanistbot 3y ago
> As I understand it (sorry, I don't have a citation handy) This is so irresponsible of you to just assert without evidence, and is so out of context to portray VW as the good guys here. They did not break the rules and flaunt regul
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by humanistbot 3y ago
I'm pretty sure they are porn actors, producers, and distributors whose principles are that they should be able to freely exercise their first amendment to perform, produce, and distribute porn. Is that a problem?
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by humanistbot 3y ago
Does that make her challenge to this censorship any less valid? Of course the porn companies are paying the legal bills. That's going to happen in any lawsuit of any broader political and economic significance. You're going to fin
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by humanistbot 3y ago
> From ChatGPT: Please do not use a hallucinating LLM as a source for any substantive issue.
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by humanistbot 3y ago
Two week old dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36246309

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