notRobot

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   by notRobot 3y ago

   > My only advice for people starting out their career is to make sure you are surrounded by really good people. I keep hearing this, but I have a hard time actually finding such people. There unfortunately aren't events like hackath
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   Deadliest AI scam I've ever heard of: plant and fungi foraging guide books.(twitter.com)

   6 points by notRobot 3y ago|4 comments
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   by notRobot 3y ago

   GET requests are not supposed to modify server state. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45016234/what-is-idempot... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP#Request_methods
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   by notRobot 3y ago

   If reloading a page (which is what this is identical to) breaks your website, that's not on the user.
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   by notRobot 3y ago

   For anyone interested, here's a bookmarklet to view the current page's HTTP status code (makes a new request): javascript:(function()%7Bjavascript%3A(function()%20%7B%0A%20%20var%20xhr%20%3D%20new%20XMLHttpRequest()%3B%0A%20
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   The Remarkable Story Behind the Most Important Algorithm of All Time [video](youtube.com)

   1 points by notRobot 3y ago|1 comments
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   by notRobot 3y ago

   And the other way around, if they throttle Netflix then that'll show up in the speed tests.
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   by notRobot 3y ago

   This is why it's important to consult multiple speed tests, because it's not really a general "internet speed test", rather a "connection speed test" with a particular server.
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   Detroit woman falsely arrested while pregnant due to facial recognition tech(nbcnews.com)

   44 points by notRobot 3y ago|21 comments
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    1990 Capitol Crawl to Access for All(dmh.lacounty.gov)

    1 points by notRobot 3y ago|0 comments
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    by notRobot 3y ago

    I'm not saying experts are perfect. I'm not saying they don't get stuff wrong. It's simply that someone educated in a matter is less likely to be wrong in their area of expertise than a random person off the street who k
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    by notRobot 3y ago

    > Who decides which expert to listen to? Because we have experts on both sides of this issue. The representatives you elect. If you're not happy, you can try to hold them accountable or elect someone else. I acknowledge this isn&#x2
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    by notRobot 3y ago

    We live in representative democracies, not direct democracies. Those representatives, in turn, hire experts and scientists. My entire point is most people know nothing about science, why should they be making these decisions? Many people
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    by notRobot 3y ago

    Many Americans think cloud storage involves actual clouds. The prevailing view in the 60's among the public was that moon landings were a waste of money. These decisions should be taken by scientists and experts. I think it's impo
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    by notRobot 3y ago

    It's possible they printed the wrong tag and no one noticed in the moment, no?
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    IRS vows to digitize all taxpayer documents by 2025(arstechnica.com)

    3 points by notRobot 3y ago|0 comments
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    by notRobot 3y ago

    I'm out of the loop, can someone please provide ELI5ed context for this?
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    by notRobot 3y ago

    It asks for the user's consent.
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    by notRobot 3y ago

    Someone's gotta push the extremes so most of us can exist in the middle and still make progress.
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    by notRobot 3y ago

    Created a game, if anyone wants to join https://birdga.me/harsh-division
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    Why everything you buy is worse now [video](youtube.com)

    5 points by notRobot 3y ago|0 comments
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    Shopify employee breaks NDA to reveal firm replacing laid off workers with AI(thedeepdive.ca)

    461 points by notRobot 3y ago|542 comments
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    by notRobot 3y ago

    A domain is not going to attract traffic, and doesn't actually matter that much, you need to market the website if you want traffic.
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    by notRobot 3y ago

    I feel like this is actually a very sensible take. AI has many uses, and it can be really good at some things, but it's not the hail mary it's being treated as.
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    by notRobot 3y ago

    I've seen (and actually even used once, I think) automatic passbook updating printer machines in quite a few ATMs in some places.
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    by notRobot 3y ago

    Does anyone have a link to a simple beginner explainer tutorial to practically setting up keys and SSH (mostly for git and server remote access), but without going too deep or hardcore?
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    by notRobot 3y ago

    Several niche subreddits are still offline.
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    Google's answers to factual questions differ person-to-person(twitter.com)

    3 points by notRobot 3y ago|0 comments
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    Ask HN: Do we need more users to browse /newest on HN?

    11 points by notRobot 3y ago|11 comments
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    by notRobot 3y ago

    HN discussion from 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23155647