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by mmooss 6mo ago
The OP speculates on why the Trump administration would change direction. Like so many they omit the reason staring everyone in the face: It's a way to acquire more power and wealth for Trump and allies, and more leverage. AI is the hi
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by mmooss 6mo ago
It is indeed a problem for people who refuse to use their sense of humor.
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by mmooss 6mo ago
As I said in another comment, this is brilliant. Suggestion: Remove anything that isn't part of the satire; act always as if it's a 'real' encyclopedia. For example on the front page I would remove, > Articles are gen
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by mmooss 6mo ago
> Edit: Oh look, there's an article about the YC! https://halupedia.com/y-combinator This should be on YC's About page.
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by mmooss 6mo ago
Yes, that would be the perfect touch. This is brilliant satire. We need more satire!
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by mmooss 6mo ago
Somebody showed me it appearing near the top of some of their DuckDuckGo queries.
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by mmooss 6mo ago
Wow, I never heard of these. They operated on sound. Here's an article with photos, including some internals and the history of its engineering: https://www.theverge.com/23810061/zenith-space-command-remot... I wo
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by mmooss 6mo ago
Ah, thanks. That makes sense.
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by mmooss 6mo ago
I wouldn't automatically accept the researcher's claim, but for a HN quick-take critique the burden of establishing legitimacy is on the commenter.
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by mmooss 6mo ago
I generally agree, though I think calling it the "ideal of science" goes too far. It's more the ideal of democracy. > imperfect human practice Whether human social habits affect it or not (I agree they probably do), it wou
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by mmooss 6mo ago
> The dashboard is your personal tablet or phone. That seems worse in terms of tracking. Those are the leading tools for tracking people.
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by mmooss 6mo ago
What are the options for cars that don't track you? For example, new cars that don't include tracking, cars old enough to not have it, cars that can be modified (e.g., parts disconnected, software updated) to stop it, etc.
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by mmooss 6mo ago
> it is also true that HN commenters can be quite good at spotting math errors They can be quite good at making that claim, which is cheap. And others like to rally around it - just like the comments rejecting most OPs that make their wa
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by mmooss 6mo ago
Users usually don't know about or change settings, so opt-out often means little. What portion of users knows about DNT? 1% 0.1% Microsoft knows that; they rendered DNT meaningless: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
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by mmooss 6mo ago
> The whole point of science is that anyone can make an informed critique and self-evaluation of it, with no necessity of depending on a priesthood to interpret it. That's a misinterpretation: > anyone can (Of course nothing stop
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by mmooss 6mo ago
> Medical professionals have a history of not necessarily having complete understanding of the maths HN commenters have a far greater history of that. Also, researchers trained for years and invested a long time on this work; the HN comm
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by mmooss 6mo ago
The paper is here, no paywall: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-71404-0 Mistry, P.K., Branigan, N.K., Gao, Z. et al. Nonergodicity and Simpson’s paradox in neurocognitive dynamics of cognitive control. Nat Co
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by mmooss 6mo ago
To partly correct myself, among the many reports OP cites and reviews, it directly refers and links to the following: > In a report titled Characterizing Knowledge Manipulation in a Russian Wikipedia Fork, ... The OP describes and quotes
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by mmooss 6mo ago
What book entry are you referring to? What book? The paper - not a book entry or book - cited in the GGP was linked to and reviewed in detail by the OP.
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by mmooss 6mo ago
Wow. I've never seen that. It would be great if it became more widespread. But isn't DNT deprecated in most browsers? Maybe I misremember.
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by mmooss 6mo ago
The article is not about that link. Here's what it says: Yesterday, I read a Wikipedia page for a book I’m about to review. I am still unsettled. The page was stripped of reality, and in its place was a sanitized fairytale where Putin
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by mmooss 6mo ago
I generally agree, though ... > At least with delivery robots people don't have to take a one ton metal box everywhere with them just to get groceries because they live in a poorly designed car-centric city. Robots are not needed an
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by mmooss 6mo ago
That's great, but isn't DNT deprecated?
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by mmooss 6mo ago
Could you provide more details? Many applications use multiple processes, and use some intermittently. It seems like quite a bit of work to enumerate every process used and then to keep the white/blacklist updated as usage and software
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by mmooss 6mo ago
Microsoft is too sophisticated to plead ignorance; they are responsible for that outcome and I think we can assume they knowningly chose it. (Though now Microsoft browsers are such a small portion of the market that it doesn't matter.)
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by mmooss 6mo ago
> Rail does have traffic, they just sit next to you and you have to navigate around them on foot. Obviously not what I'm talking about. It does not increase travel time in a significant way, and I'm including NYC subways. It&#x
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by mmooss 6mo ago
> All of the pitches for more passenger rail have a for-the-greater-good tint to them that glosses over the fact that point-to-point private vehicles are better in every other conceivable way You must not live in a dense city. Rail doesn
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by mmooss 6mo ago
There are many ways Google could prevent third parties from using Android code, and the code of Android components (e.g., Google Play), to make varient OSes. Without Android support and compatibility, it would be very tough going for Graphe
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by mmooss 6mo ago
GrepheneOS depends also on Google's Android OS, not only on Google's hardware.
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> consider who this attitude helps It helps the good people, who do good and influence their society to do the same, and live in a good society. The best societies give the accused the full protection of the law, and give them fair trial

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