jaredwiener

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by jaredwiener 3mo ago
Isn't this the NRA's argument? The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. Or at least somewhere between that and full on protection racket. LLMs come on the scene, hammer the site until it goes offline or
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Show HN: Follow primary sources, and know first
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Band Lit Settles Sony Lawsuit over 'Streaming' Clause from 1998(billboard.com)
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Bloom Energy's Big Lie(hntrbrk.com)
2 points by jaredwiener 3mo ago|1 comments
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by jaredwiener 3mo ago
What do you want to get out of this project? That's how you determine if its worthwhile.
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SpaceX Showed Investors Prototype of Elon Musk's New AI Device(wsj.com)
6 points by jaredwiener 3mo ago|0 comments
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People are betting on wildfires. Should they?(hcn.org)
6 points by jaredwiener 3mo ago|1 comments
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JetBlue flight hits drone while landing at JFK: Officials(abcnews.com)
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by jaredwiener 4mo ago
Look, I agree with some of this. Full disclaimer, I am building that service that pulls in primary sources and aggregates/synthesizes ( https://www.forth.news ) But there is more to journalism/reporting than what youre
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by jaredwiener 4mo ago
They have a pretty broad definition of "newspaper" -- it can be a digital outlet.
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by jaredwiener 4mo ago
Not demonizing. Trying to convey that this is a much more complicated subject than you seem to want to admit. Feels like https://xkcd.com/793/
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by jaredwiener 4mo ago
"Close to 3,500 newspapers have vanished..." in the last 25 years. https://localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/projects/state-...
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by jaredwiener 4mo ago
Absolutely no. Even the basic act of deciding which stories to cover can be seen as bias. Which experts are we seeking out? What are their agendas? Altering facts and statements is not bias, it is incorrect reporting. Anything reported as
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by jaredwiener 4mo ago
Source? This is sort of what I mean in one of the other comments regarding biases. This is an entirely subjective take, not to mention vague. Who redefined it? Whose journalism were they redefining? Everyone's, or specific people&#
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by jaredwiener 4mo ago
"it would be in the people's best interest" -- the problem is that as we're seeing, people do not seem to agree, at least not when voting with their wallets. And who determines what is "unbiased?" If I don&#x2
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by jaredwiener 4mo ago
Part of the problem is deciding what journalism is . I don't mean that in terms of the craft -- I was a journalist for many years in the legacy media. We knew what we were doing, and were proud of our work. The issue is that like an
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MSG was keeping tabs on facial recognition activists(fightforthefuture.org)
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Google Investing in 'Backrooms' Studio A24 in AI research partnership(wsj.com)
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The Major Oak, Ancient Tree of Robin Hood Legend, Has Died(nytimes.com)
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Fox Corporation to Acquire Roku, Inc(foxcorporation.com)
3 points by jaredwiener 4mo ago|1 comments
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OpenAI models GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.4–and Codex–now on Amazon Bedrock(aboutamazon.com)
3 points by jaredwiener 4mo ago|0 comments
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by jaredwiener 4mo ago
I've noticed a lot of weaselly statistics associated with AI adoption. Company replaces phone support with AI chatbot, then says "Call center interactions dropped 80%! People must really love our AI bot," even though they we
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by jaredwiener 4mo ago
Theres a difference between users seeking out AI, and PMs cramming AI into previously existing products.
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DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms(techcrunch.com)
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Corporations Can Vote in Some Delaware Elections, Judge Says(news.bloomberglaw.com)
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News outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism(niemanlab.org)
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Publishers Tell Common Crawl to Stop Unauthorized Scraping(mediapost.com)
1 points by jaredwiener 5mo ago|0 comments
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by jaredwiener 5mo ago
Zeroing out the gas tax aside, the EV tax makes _some_ sense. Gas taxes provide the revenue that help pay for road maintenance and the rest of the infrastructure that cars use. Gas taxes made sense -- the more you drive, the more you chip
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Jury Rejects Musk's Claim Against OpenAI(nytimes.com)
6 points by jaredwiener 5mo ago|0 comments
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Byron Allen to Buy a Controlling Stake in BuzzFeed(nytimes.com)
3 points by jaredwiener 5mo ago|0 comments

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