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by isp 3y ago
$ echo -n $'Was just verifying your tweet\'s hash, and then...omg!!! I couldn\'t believe what I realised. The SHA256 of THIS tweet starts with exactly the same 7 characters as your tweet\'s hash. What are the chan
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by isp 3y ago
$ echo -n "The SHA256 for this sentence begins with: one, eight, two, a, seven, c and nine." | sha256sum 182a7c930b0e5227ff8d24b5f4500ff2fa3ee1a57bd35e52d98c6e24c2749ae0 -
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The SHA256 for this sentence begins with: one, eight, two, a, seven, c and nine.(twitter.com)
277 points by isp 3y ago|143 comments
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by isp 3y ago
archive.org has a snapshot from 2002-12-03, as further evidence that it was written on or around 2002-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20021203075817/https://cr.yp.to/...
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by isp 3y ago
(2002) Previous comments: - 2010: "The IPv6 Mess" (37 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1236048 - 2022: "The IPv6 Mess (2002)" (68 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/it
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by isp 3y ago
mp3 via archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20130310140729/https://ventureha...
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by isp 3y ago
These stories are wonderful: Excerpts: > “And she realized… she left money on the table.” > And Sandy gulped and picked the biggest number she thought anybody would ever rationally pay. And said, “$75,000”. And she said all the buyer
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It's easy to underprice your product (2009)(venturehacks.com)
109 points by isp 3y ago|41 comments
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by isp 3y ago
Absolutely - the specific examples of "Why Vim Uses hjkl" and "Why JavaScript months start from 0" were very interesting in themselves. But the profound point was the generalisation: > We can always look further, peel
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There's always more history (2020)(hillelwayne.com)
68 points by isp 3y ago|9 comments
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by isp 3y ago
Setup details from a user of the Oracle Cloud "Always Free" tier: https://ryanharrison.co.uk/2023/01/28/oracle-cloud-free-serv... Disclaimer: I haven't tried this out myself. I found this blog
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by isp 3y ago
Yes - from https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/21/world/sturddlefish-paddle... - > The initial goal of the study was to encourage the critically endangered sturgeon to reproduce asexually. That isn’t quit
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by isp 3y ago
I found it very surprising, due to: > American paddlefish (Polyodon spathula), which are diploid, have 60 pairs of chromosomes, while Russian sturgeons (Acipenser gueldenstaedtii), which are tetraploid, have four sets totaling about 250
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by isp 3y ago
See https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.57... - Page 2, the judge uses the very words "doubled down": "But if the matter had ended with Respondents coming clean about their actions
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by isp 3y ago
All the same case.
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by isp 3y ago
Related: - "A man sued Avianca Airline – his lawyer used ChatGPT" (27 days ago, 139 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36095352 - "Lawyer who used ChatGPT faces penalty for made up citations&quot
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Sturddlefish(en.wikipedia.org)
71 points by isp 3y ago|27 comments
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by isp 3y ago
> “I’m still confused. My jaw is still on the floor,” said Prosanta Chakrabarty, an ichthyologist at Louisiana State University and the curator of fishes at its Museum of Natural Science. “It’s like if they had a cow and a giraffe make a
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by isp 3y ago
Related: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36322705 - Google Search Uses “Genesis” and “Megadrive” Interchangeably (23 hours ago, 2 points, 3 comments)
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Googling “the book of megadrive” gives these results(twitter.com)
2 points by isp 3y ago|1 comments
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by isp 3y ago
Topical tweet from 2018: > Optimist: AI has achieved human-level performance! > Realist: “AI” is a collection of brittle hacks that, under very specific circumstances, mimic the surface appearance of intelligence. > Pessimist: AI h
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by isp 3y ago
In this article is the first time I've seen a graph with units "Hiroshimas per Seconds". https://climatecasino.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Ocean_H...
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by isp 3y ago
This is a good example of exactly the kind of argument that would have been made against clean water 175 years ago, and which (I predict) will be unthinkable to make decades from now against clean air. The rise of respiratory pathogens corr
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by isp 3y ago
I agree that the earlier claim about kids somehow not catching/spreading were egregious. My takeaway was that evidence-free predictions should be treated differently to evidence-based predictions.
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by isp 3y ago
Excellent comment, thank you. https://twitter.com/innercitypress/status/166683852676213965... is worth reading in full. I am not a lawyer, but I was cringing throughout. For non-lawyers (like me), I found it helpf
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by isp 3y ago
Related: - "A man sued Avianca Airline – his lawyer used ChatGPT" (13 days ago, 174 points, 139 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36095352 - "Lawyer who used ChatGPT faces penalty for made up ci
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by isp 3y ago
I am definitely not one for outlandish claims. Amidst all the noise, my understanding of the key points is: - We know that airborne diseases primarily spread indoors - We know that we can clean the air, and that cleaning the air reduces dis
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by isp 3y ago
Ah - I see where we are talking at cross purposes. I am primarily thinking of "dirty air" in the context of airborne diseases (e.g., Covid and flu). This can be any enclosed indoor place with people and without mitigations, i.e.
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by isp 3y ago
Note: The historically logged ChatGPT prompts and responses are included as #46 (Exhibit A) - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.57... #48 (Exhibit D) is from a later date, where ChatGPT was prom
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by isp 3y ago
The evidence is now incontrovertible that people are "literally getting ill and dying" for diseases currently spread through the air. So the situation is analogous: back then, it was controversial to introduce the steps required t

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