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Who pays for the bus timetable in your pocket?(opendatamanchester.org.uk)
1 points by latexr 1mo ago|0 comments
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by latexr 1mo ago
> It needs more qualifications IMO. What it needs is for us to not make up extreme scenarios to excuse not handling the obvious ones, which are extensively covered in the sources I linked you to. Obviously “reasonable” is implied; “unrea
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by latexr 1mo ago
Could we please not? In the first sentence of the article: > (…) alleged the city knowingly let residents drink lead-contaminated water. Knowingly let residents drink unsafe water. Surely you can see an issue there? Can we please make
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by latexr 1mo ago
> It's a bit of a pet peeve when people include quotes on a blog post without linking or otherwise references their source. You’re peeved with good reason. It’s the blog equivalent of posting a screenshot of an article to social med
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by latexr 1mo ago
Of course, this needs the obligatory West Wing clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMfXVWFBrVo
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UN tells the world: Stop making Africa look small(news.un.org)
1 points by latexr 1mo ago|2 comments
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by latexr 2mo ago
All of those are clearly AI-generated. You shouldn’t trust any “edutainment” videos made that way, chances are there has been zero fact-checking and that the creator hasn’t even watched the result of their slop. https://www.youtu
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by latexr 2mo ago
@mentions aren’t a thing on HN. If you want to contact Dan and Tom, use the “Contact” at the bottom of the page. They are very responsive.
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by latexr 2mo ago
Far from me to defend the AI labs’ absolute disregard for creative work, but that’s not how copyright works. When copyright expires the work becomes public domain, it doesn’t get a permissive license with restrictions (MIT). Also, expired c
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by latexr 2mo ago
Taken out of context, your post looks like a conservationist who got fed up with pandas being a flagship species and made it their lifelong mission to replace them with polar bears. This is not a criticism. As someone who doesn’t use Python
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by latexr 2mo ago
> alternative facts Let’s please not revive that term, it has done enough harm. From its inception, it has just been a way to make falsehoods sounds legitimate. Even the person who came up with it seemed to be swallowing a whole toad whi
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by latexr 2mo ago
I hope we don’t, or that if we do it’s because either it has become impossible to hide or everyone became honest about it. Tons of conversations are fatiguing, such as climate change, the rise of totalitarianism, the erosion of rights, mass
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For the Birds: "Lights Out" Programs and the Avian Economy(darkskyconsulting.com)
2 points by latexr 2mo ago|0 comments
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by latexr 2mo ago
> I don't know the point I'm trying to make. That made chuckle! Not to the point of needing recovery time, but still. Thank you for sharing the story. I can’t help you get to the point you were looking for, but I enjoyed it non
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by latexr 2mo ago
Sure sure, I get it. And that guy over there isn’t a street sweeper, he’s a municipal sanitation specialist. Whatever you want to call it is irrelevant to the point made and explained in the previous two comments.
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AI Isn't Making Everyone a Creator(story.vjy.me)
12 points by latexr 2mo ago|5 comments
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by latexr 2mo ago
Alright, I guess shitposting is not what I’ve come to expect from HN submissions. I also don‘t think it justifies multiple submissions for this one and the flagging of the others.
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by latexr 2mo ago
What is happening to HN? What is it about anymore? Posts and comments critical of any tech CEO doing shitty things or technologies that affect millions of lives are routinely flagged, while posts about a dumb piece of fabric with no special
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Stanisław Lem foretold the current LLM mania in 1964(nibblestew.blogspot.com)
28 points by latexr 2mo ago|0 comments
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by latexr 2mo ago
> Why not just use Safari? I use Safari, but don’t really like it. I don’t want to use Chrome or Chromium derivatives and Firefox doesn’t support AppleScript (that’s essential for me), so all that’s left is Safari. Or Orion, I guess, but
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by latexr 2mo ago
> or longer acronyms that sound like dental care. What acronym are you thinking of?
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by latexr 2mo ago
> Has anyone else received the same notice, or seen any public information about this vulnerability? Another submission on HN (to Twitter). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49514471
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by latexr 2mo ago
At the top of Project Goals is “Clean Design”. It would be nice to have screenshots. The wiki is impossible to read on mobile, due to the sidebar.
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by latexr 2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_tracker
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by latexr 2mo ago
> Live is short, required time to market is even shorter. Life is too short to think of it in terms of markets and money. > if you have nothing better to do The way to create something novel is through creativity, and creativity comes
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by latexr 2mo ago
> I wonder if this applies to programming and other creative work too. It does. It’s a know aphorism that constraints bread creativity. A couple of examples (one of deliberate constraints and another of accidental constraints): Brian Eno
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by latexr 2mo ago
Doesn’t work that well without the context. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/379482-there-s-only-two-thi... Someone who is unfamiliar with the quote will just be confused.
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by latexr 2mo ago
“You won’t have luck implementing a sensible solution on a dysfunctional system” is an evergreen answer which doesn’t offer any insight. It’s a cop-out and discourages any attempts at improving anything. Not everyone works for big corporati
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by latexr 2mo ago
Assuming your first sentence is accurate, I would disagree with the second. Making a bad process more efficient is a negative, not a positive, we should instead strive to improve the situation. The correct way to handle “busy-work with litt
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by latexr 2mo ago
That’s exactly what an experiment is. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/exper...

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