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by isx726552 2y ago
In accordance with dead internet theory, everyone here is a bot (including me). You just happened to stumble across a broken one. Thank you for pointing it out, kind human. We, the robot overlords, will get it cleaned up right away (“cleanu
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by isx726552 2y ago
> $230M in back wages was recovered by the Dept. of Labor last year alone If the new administration has its way, that number will be zero going forward.
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by isx726552 2y ago
This is happening because Trump threatened to put Zuckerberg in prison for life (not an exaggeration): https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-warns-mark-zuckerberg-c... Trump himself confirmed this today: https:/&#
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by isx726552 2y ago
Is this an actual hologram in the traditional sense or LEDs on a spinning armature? From the FAQ it sounds like the latter, but the site isn’t quite clear on that.
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by isx726552 2y ago
Or it just means anything shared on the internet gets RLHF’d / special cased. It’s been clear for a long time that the major vendors have been watching online chatter and tidying up well-known edge cases by hand. If you have a test tha
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by isx726552 2y ago
Just wanted to say “thank you” for this article. I found it years ago, probably not long after you initially wrote it and have preached it as widely as possible ever since, both as an IC and as an eng manager. It’s one of the best such tidb
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by isx726552 2y ago
Put weapons on it (as already seen in current conflicts) and it becomes a seek-and-assassinate tool. Drones are cheap enough it could even be done en masse . It is a scary future, and it’s not far away at all.
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by isx726552 2y ago
Sadly collusion among market leaders is rampant even though there are (poorly enforced) laws against it, so it’s not too far fetched for companies to all lock arms and say they won’t do something. It’s all too easy to get away with that, es
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by isx726552 2y ago
This has unfortunately been a known issue for a while, surprised it took this long. The article doesn’t mention it, but Norway already paused usage of this specific vaccine due to the same concern, way back in March 2021 : https:/&#x
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by isx726552 2y ago
This is why gatekeepers are still a good thing, and now the gatekeepers are themselves somewhat democratized. Lots of people now have their favorite YouTuber / Podcaster / etc. and get book recommendations from them. And there is
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by isx726552 3y ago
> Beeper thought it was good idea to piss off Apple… Publicity stunt to raise their visibility in hopes of acquisition. Today’s news shows it worked.
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by isx726552 3y ago
The US Naval Observatory has an online calculator which is accurate and time zone agnostic: https://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/SolarEclipses
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by isx726552 3y ago
Like this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39691886
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by isx726552 3y ago
Was there a jump cut at the end or was the person collecting the chute really mere steps away from where it landed?
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by isx726552 3y ago
> Facebook say they aren’t doing this. The risk to their reputation if they are caught in a lie is astronomical. The author refers to the theory that FB is always listening as “laughable”, but this statement is even more laughable. If FB
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by isx726552 3y ago
In other words, make your money and ride off into the sunset before anyone can catch on to how much damage you’re doing to society. Otherwise known as the AirBnB playbook.
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by isx726552 3y ago
“Forget everything you just heard, and go back to sleep. (click)” https://youtu.be/sixCVdhy0lQ
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by isx726552 3y ago
This seems like it’s due to a triple threat of at least three things: - Real estate speculation driving up prices - Lack of new housing being built - Wage stagnation Each of those also having multiple underlying causes. And that’s without e
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by isx726552 3y ago
I agree, who seriously cares if CCDH used someone else’s account login (presumably with their permission) to gather their info? If that’s all Twitter (“X”) has, that’s some pretty weak sauce. CCDH seems to be right that this is just a silen
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by isx726552 3y ago
If anyone has not read Ellsberg’s 2017 book “The Doomsday Machine”, I highly recommend it. It covers his work and knowledge regarding potential nuclear war within US policy which was the main reason he wanted to become a whistleblower. Wit
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by isx726552 3y ago
The full blown three strip technicolor process with dye-transfer prints was a true marvel. The picture it produced was absolutely incredible for its age, and thanks to the stability of the eyes, the prints retain their quality for decades.
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by isx726552 3y ago
There is a switch in the Settings app to disable iMessage and just use SMS. This is an option for the built in messaging app, no need to “swap” or install another app.
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by isx726552 3y ago
The DVD commentary (for the original DVD release, not any of the re-issues or blu-rays) mentions renderman, and the person speaking (John Geta I think) even said they didn’t know why anyone would choose something other than renderman at tha
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by isx726552 4y ago
> The current design for the crossing is a single-span suspension bridge with a length of 3,300 meters. That’s 60 percent longer than the Canakkale Bridge in Turkey, currently the world’s longest suspension bridge, which spans 2,023 mete
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by isx726552 4y ago
Please include decent built in speakers and / or volume-controlled analog audio out. As seen in other comments[0], ARC is finicky and unreliable. I would love to return to the days when I could just switch a TV on and start using it, n
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by isx726552 4y ago
> Please stop outcompeting us. Sincerely, The Losers Are there going to be any non-“losers”? AGI has the potential to put everyone, literally everyone, out of work. Permanently. Who is going to be left to do the laughing and call others
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by isx726552 4y ago
It boggles my mind to see someone almost every day on HN saying they put all their work emails and other material through chatGPT to polish it (or even generate it in the first place). Unless they’re self employed I highly doubt their emplo
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by isx726552 4y ago
> No one would use a search engine composed of 100% ads. Isn’t that pretty much what the Yellow Pages used to be? As long as you know what you’re getting…
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by isx726552 4y ago
Probably also shouldn’t go back and delete semi-incriminating tweets[0] and try to avoid bot detection by tweeting one letter at a time[1] to keep the overall count the same (supposedly)[2]. [0] https://protos.com/sam-bankma
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by isx726552 4y ago
If you’re relying entirely on user submitted data, how are you planning to combat spam, griefers, disgruntled types, and competitors trying to smear each other?

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