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by instagraham 3y ago
The power of selfless development on open source AI will become so crucial to avoiding this scenario. I do think that even today, open AIs are capable of filling in a lot of the gaps you'd have if you didn't want to use OpenAI&#x2
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The Interdimensional Internet(interdimensionalinternet.com)
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The DragonBall chip's super history(thedaoofdragonball.com)
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by instagraham 3y ago
I think there should be considered a distinction between a magazine's content (produced over a week or a month, with time to pause and consider the news cycle) and everyday journalism content (a newspaper or new site perpetually strivi
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by instagraham 3y ago
> I'm but one data point. I used to buy a lot of magazines, Popular Science, Byte, APC, MacWorld, Motoring, Unique Homes, Architectural Digest, To speculate a bit, notwithstanding your need for information, were you not also buying
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by instagraham 3y ago
Those subscriptions in particular - do you ever turn back to them years later and see if they were prescient? I find much joy in reading old magazines.
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> as that'd do nothing but generate negative PR. Don't you think we're far past the era where this was a reason not to do something? The "break stuff, 4d chess enthusiasts will explain why later" mentality seem
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by instagraham 3y ago
> Magazines are mostly short form, cheap content (excluding periodical literary magazines, indie 'zines, etc.) I'd disagree on this. If you compare magazine news reporting with newspaper reporting, the magazine is usually deepe
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by instagraham 3y ago
Thanks for the thought-out reply! I am very interested in alternative models. For lack of a better rationale, I feel like journalism is a space with many problems, and as-yet unexecuted solutions, making it ripe for a good ole disruption. E
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Ask HN: Why are books still alive, but magazines are dying?
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I think if we see it in terms of "if something is data, it can be pirated and it should be pirated", we get a lot of comparisons between not-equally monetisable industries. Like journalism is innately piratable - the sourcing of f
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by instagraham 3y ago
The section on piracy is insightful: > The effect is not black and white. One pirate will not bring the industry crashing down. Even widespread piracy will not kill the industry. Widespread piracy will have four effects: First, software
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by instagraham 3y ago
DJI once bricked all Vision 2+ drones with a software update a year or two after launch and offered zero support because it had newer models in the market.
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It adds a layer of difficulty for fakery. At the very least, such a signed image is a better "source" of truth than an unsigned jpeg from Telegram. We will enter and perhaps are already in an era where you need to build a habit
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Shooting several people in a bid to get them to hospital to have their corneas scanned for cataracts can also lead to lower cataract rates. That doesn't make it the best way to get people to scan for cataracts.
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by instagraham 3y ago
The researcher behind this, Ganesh Bagler, has done a lot of work on data-ifying food, in a field he dubs computational gastronomy. Worth looking up, perhaps collaborating with, if you have questions.
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DietRX, a database of food, disease-links, and gene links(cosylab.iiitd.edu.in)
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Barbara Harris-White on the 2023 IPCC Report(madrascourier.com)
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by instagraham 3y ago
Thought this was an interesting read. Barbara Harris-White is a rather renowned social scientist, famous for her work on the informal economy. It's interesting to see how social scientists respond to such documents, since in some form
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Tesla Jailbreak Lets You Unlock Free Upgrades [video](youtube.com)
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Website owners and creators are blocking OpenAI's web crawling GPTBot(venturebeat.com)
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QPaper OS: Customizable firmware for an ESP32-powered ePaper smartwatch(hackster.io)
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by instagraham 3y ago
Would that be worth reporting in Congress? Believing so suggests there's a purpose to deliberately wasting everyone's time in such a hearing. Or a simpler answer, Grusch is plain lying. But somehow, the stakes seem pretty high for
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by instagraham 3y ago
From the BBC story: Rep Nancy Mace, a North Carolina Republican, tried to get Grusch to elaborate on what he knew about non-terrestrial bodies. She asks him if "biologics" were recovered from any crashed crafts. Referencing his pr
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Former intel officer says 'non-human biologics’ found at alleged UFO crash sites(bbc.co.uk)
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AMD 'Zenbleed' Bug Leaks Data from Ryzen, EPYC CPUs: Most Patches Coming Q4(tomshardware.com)
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by instagraham 3y ago
Companies with large turnovers (above Rs 50 crore - 6$ million) are mandated to have a route to accept digital payments https://incometaxindia.gov.in/communications/circular/circul... Besides this, stakeholders&#x
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Top rice exporter India bans most shipments as late monsoon hits crops(reuters.com)
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Ask HN: An app that reads and summarises URLs in your bookmarks
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Make the pie higher (A poem compiled from Bushisms)(theguardian.com)
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