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by morisy 4y ago
Great backstory! Been playing around with a very similar tool (for a specific, niche context: context for archives of government documents) and then was excited for GPT-3 to help solve it versus other options and have run into the same expe
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by morisy 4y ago
In the 2000s, what in retrospect seems like obvious con men selling random number generators got pretty far up the national security chain of decision making: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/reno-casino-conman-
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by morisy 4y ago
I used to be the community manager for a StackOverflow-style (pre-dated SO by a number of years) site that catered to enterprise technology and we had ~200k-400k monthly visitors just on AS/400 topics — it was a huge and active communi
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by morisy 4y ago
This, but for the read later service.
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by morisy 4y ago
I think this comes from a supportive mindset, but working with homeless populations over the years I think they often were more at risk than many other groups. Significant numbers deal with domestic violence or otherwise abusive relationshi
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by morisy 4y ago
To clarify the above, the criminal charges came in not over copyright but over destruction of evidence and false statements: > However, criminal proceedings began when it transpired that Fairey lied in the earlier case, destroyed documen
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by morisy 4y ago
For a while, there's been a few ML based tools that have been given flat images and generated 3D renders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7j4f6U7FJ4 I think that machine learning models will quickly hit some walls tha
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Revolving-door riches: How Obama-Biden officials cashed in during Trump years(muckrock.com)
4 points by morisy 4y ago|4 comments
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MO Gov. commissioned study that found mask mandates worked, then kept it secret(muckrock.com)
7 points by morisy 5y ago|0 comments
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Voyager Labs, social media surveillance vendor selling to local government(theguardian.com)
5 points by morisy 5y ago|0 comments
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White House Market's closure opens up opportunities for new dark web bazaars(muckrock.com)
9 points by morisy 5y ago|0 comments
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States offered muted reaction to Apple's iPhone-as-ID push(muckrock.com)
2 points by morisy 5y ago|0 comments
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How the transparency collective DDoSecrets eclipsed Julian Assange(newrepublic.com)
2 points by morisy 5y ago|0 comments
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by morisy 5y ago
MuckRock | $90,000 | DocumentCloud Lead Developer | Remote/Global | Full Time MuckRock is a non-profit transparency organization that helps file Freedom of Information requests, analyze and host massive document sets, and builds tools
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Chicago Suburb Spent Entire Federal Covid-19 Relief Funding on Police Payroll(ciceroindependiente.com)
72 points by morisy 5y ago|4 comments
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Departure Letter from Katherine Maher, Executive Director of Wikimedia(diff.wikimedia.org)
3 points by morisy 5y ago|0 comments
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Warnings of AI doom gave way to primal fear of primates posting(thenewatlantis.com)
37 points by morisy 6y ago|19 comments
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How four states handled scaling and upgrading their unemployment IT systems(govtech.com)
1 points by morisy 6y ago|0 comments
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Why Massachusetts Struggled to Make a Vaccine Website(zagaja.com)
2 points by morisy 6y ago|0 comments
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Where Is Alibaba Founder Jack Ma?(time.com)
3 points by morisy 6y ago|0 comments
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Share your stories of opaque government for the 2021 Foilies(muckrock.com)
1 points by morisy 6y ago|0 comments
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Svelte Recipes(svelte.recipes)
2 points by morisy 6y ago|0 comments
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Database Exposes Offshore Holdings of Prominent Germans(spiegel.de)
1 points by morisy 6y ago|0 comments
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How Secure Is Your Child’s Data in Virginia’s Virtual Classrooms?(vcij.org)
1 points by morisy 6y ago|0 comments
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As Georgia reopens, state relies on corporate donations with PPE orders unfilled(muckrock.com)
3 points by morisy 6y ago|0 comments
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by morisy 6y ago
Only semi-related, but I thought their was an open source PDF-flowing tool featured on hacker news a while back (that turned PDF into responsive HTML). Anyone know of something like that?
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by morisy 6y ago
Having been on both side of the hiring fence, many HR departments primarily pass around PDFs when evaluating candidates. If you instead, as suggested, include a link, I think you're even more likely to shoot yourself in the foot becaus
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The messy, secretive reality behind OpenAI’s bid to save the world(technologyreview.com)
70 points by morisy 7y ago|4 comments
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Database of algorithms used by local governments around U.S.(muckrock.com)
1 points by morisy 7y ago|0 comments
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by morisy 7y ago
More background, including access to the public records requests that led to this investigation: https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2020/jan/18/clearview...

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