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by isp 3y ago
That's exactly it - the analogy is that they couldn't see that the water was unclean, and so it was difficult to build the political will to spend money to fix an "invisible" problem. So even though they knew the water m
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by isp 3y ago
The modern London sewer system was created in the late 19th century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_sewer_system Before then, the River Thames was essentially an open sewer.
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by isp 3y ago
In 1850s London, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1854_Broad_Street_cholera_outb... John Snow traced a cholera outbreak to contaminated water from a particular water pump, the Broad Street pump. The pump handle was t
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by isp 3y ago
Live coverage (EDIT - cancelled): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxaBMALE7LQ EDIT: Due to the problems with the air quality in New York, the channel now apparently won't include live coverage
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by isp 3y ago
Related: "A man sued Avianca Airline – his lawyer used ChatGPT" (12 days ago, 174 points, 138 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36095352 Original court documents: https://www.courtlistener
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by isp 3y ago
Exactly this. Clean water used to be controversial decades ago, but is now considered essential. Decades from now, I predict that clean air will be considered essential also. And just as there are mandates (not recommendations) for clean wa
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by isp 3y ago
> Crypto companies think they don't trade securities To quote the Binance Chief "Compliance" Officer: "we are operating as a fking unlicensed securities exchange in the USA bro" Source: Quoted in the filing yeste
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by isp 3y ago
1 day ago, SEC sued Binance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36197353 (575 points, 423 comments) The Binance complaint: https://www.sec.gov/files/litigation/complaints/2023/comp-pr..
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by isp 3y ago
I hope we are wrong too. But I (perhaps naïvely) think this is being approached from the wrong direction. To me, if Apple had launched a new highly limited device but with the Google Glass form factor - then I could see the path to incremen
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by isp 3y ago
The idea of hybrid AR/VR - adjusted by a dial (crown) - is very clever. As is a high-resolution display. But the form factor is a problem. If it had all of the capabilities announced but combined with the Google Glass form factor of
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by isp 3y ago
Well put. I stand by this comment: > Catch-all comment for all ChatGPT use cases: > (1) Stunning tech demo, a vision of the future today > ... yet ... > (2) There are so many sharp edges that I'm not brave (foolhardy?) eno
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by isp 3y ago
The above link wasn't the only hallucination(!) The lawyer kept digging the hole deeper and deeper, and (as a non-expert) I agree that it seems that the lawyer is at serious risk of being disbarred. Interesting documents are from #24 o
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by isp 3y ago
I've been following this from legal circles Original court documents: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63107798/mata-v-avianca... The lawyer didn't only cite "bogus" cases, but when challen
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by isp 3y ago
Yes, /r/badUIbattles Original sources: - "Please enter your phone number" by /u/Lamamour - https://old.reddit.com/r/badUIbattles/comments/udx3ab/please... - "Volume Con
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by isp 3y ago
Related - "Engineers are competing who creates the worst UI on Reddit" - https://twitter.com/volodarik/status/1657755496852475906 I particularly like: - https://twitter.com/volodarik&#x2F
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by isp 3y ago
The legendary Cray-2 was the fastest supercomputer in the world in 1985, with peak 1.9 GFLOPS. Less than four decades ago. By comparison, the Cray is outperformed by my smartphone. Actually, it is outperformed by my previous smartphone, w
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by isp 3y ago
> So if we want to do something, I think the first step is really to get visibility to the problem A sensible first step would be to very visibly display CO₂ monitors in buildings (e.g., throughout office buildings, schools, etc) Once th
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by isp 4y ago
Thank you - these links are helpful. From the above, my understanding is that they currently offer opt out for the paid subscription users only ("ChatGPT Plus"). Perhaps they may end up compelled by this case to add a similar opt
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by isp 4y ago
> They already stopped using chats as training material for everyone anyway From the latest ChatGPT General FAQ [0]: > Will you use my conversations for training? Yes. Your conversations may be reviewed by our AI trainers to improve
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by isp 4y ago
Good summary: https://www.politico.eu/article/italian-privacy-regulator-ba... The key issue under GDPR seems to be that OpenAI: > lacks a legal basis justifying "the mass collection and storage of personal data
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by isp 4y ago
Linux Kernel Module written in Scratch (a visual programming language for kids) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31921996 - June 2022 (38 comments)
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by isp 4y ago
Not yet, but hopefully soon: > Image inputs are still a research preview and not publicly available.
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by isp 4y ago
The "visual inputs" samples are extraordinary, and well worth paying extra attention to. I wasn't expecting GPT-4 to be able to correctly answer "What is funny about this image?" for an image of a mobile phone charg
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by isp 4y ago
Catch-all comment for all ChatGPT use cases: (1) Stunning tech demo, a vision of the future today ... yet ... (2) There are so many sharp edges that I'm not brave (foolhardy?) enough to blindly trust the output Doubly so when the outpu
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by isp 4y ago
"rm -rf ~" doesn't require root, and would do significant harm. Neat tech demo to run on a sandboxed VM, but I would strongly recommend against running this on a box you care about.
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by isp 4y ago
HN comments on this article (7 days ago, 127 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34683545
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by isp 4y ago
I was curious about this too, so went digging. The immutability is handled by "nearly", created for blendOS: https://github.com/blend-os/nearly (In turn, "nearly" is called by the "blend"
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by isp 4y ago
I was curious about the same, so had a look round. The main innovation in blendOS is the "blend" package manager: https://github.com/blend-os/blend Under the hood, this uses "distrobox" to create co
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by isp 4y ago
Related: "Long Covid: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations" (207 comments, 12 days ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34375735
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by isp 4y ago
My best guess is that it's a deterrent for spammers. It's not as easy to obtain a throwaway phone number that can receive SMS as it is a throwaway email address.

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