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by permo-w 1y ago
I edited mine to add additional observation, leaving the central focus the same. your edit entirely changed the meaning of your comment, changing the meaning of my reply
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by permo-w 1y ago
>forbidding private parties to most anything well thank fuck for that! besides financial self-interest, why would you want private parties doing anything with AI and biometrics whatsoever? if anyone is to at all, it should be publicly
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by permo-w 1y ago
my friend, I'm sorry but this is simply a factual bridge too far. the EU has quite specifically brought out wide-ranging laws heavily restricting the very thing the UK is doing, plus a load of other very positive restrictions on the
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by permo-w 1y ago
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20240308IP... if you're going to change the central focus of your comment, do it in a reply not an edit
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by permo-w 1y ago
the EU has literally banned facial recognition by law enforcement across the entire bloc. HN has terrible EU Derangement Syndrome: any time its mentioned here, suddenly there are tens of people lining up to blindly shit on it, usually for l
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by permo-w 1y ago
except no, the EU has specifically outlawed facial recognition in public places
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by permo-w 1y ago
first of all, the average idiot is going read that sentence and switch their brain off after hearing "has a very low toxicity", it's hardly a ringing alarm. second, this is quote from clicking through to the sodium bromide pa
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by permo-w 1y ago
> It seems factual that this person decided to start consuming bromine and it had an adverse effect on them. certainly > Why would medical professionals mislead on this though? I'm not suggesting it's intentional, but: to ge
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by permo-w 1y ago
having tried it quite a few times with quite a few variations, without making it extremely clear that I was talking in a sense of chemistry rather than dietary, I was unable to get ChatGPT to give anything other than a long list of edible s
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by permo-w 1y ago
and yet this doesn't change the fact that they wrote an entire medical article the crux of which is little more than hearsay. "did you get advice from an LLM?" is far less relevant and all-catching a question here than "
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no. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_salt#Inorganic_sodium_s...
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by permo-w 1y ago
>his exact interaction with ChatGPT remains unverified there is no informational point to this article if the entire crux is 'the patient wanted to eat less "chloride" and claims ChatGPT told him about Sodium Bromide&quo
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Ask HN: Which fish species has the best mental map of the oceans?
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this is a misleading quote. the prompt was "Taylor Swift celebrating Coachella with the boys.". that prompt plus "spicy" is still asking for trouble, but your quote makes it sound like they asked for 'Swift tearing
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>These policies actively restrict freedoms by removing the freedom of choice from consumers. They introduce deadweight loss and moral hazard. relate every part of this sentence to the previous sentence
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>That's just marketing from the right to discourage people with average income to vote left ("they want to give all your money to the immigrants!"). The only people the left doesn't want freedom for is those who are a
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by permo-w 1y ago
freedom isn't just freedom. it's freedom for. conservatives tend to favour freedom for businesses. freedom for the establishment. freedom for the rich. you would hope that progressives favour freedom for everyone, but nowadays the
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by permo-w 1y ago
this is still absolutely true, but there have been some rumblings of change in recent years. "left wing" values have partially shifted from trying to provide equal freedoms for everyone, to trying to provide freedoms for perceived
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by permo-w 1y ago
I'm broadly supportive of nuclear fission, but I completely understand more nervousness of it than coal, particularly in the days before we cared much about climate change or industrial pollution. the worry about nuclear isn't low
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by permo-w 1y ago
the second someone like Trump gets hold of a voter exam setting process, they're either going to abuse it to their advantage, or abolish it entirely, after having used it as a wedge issue to set the working classes against "elites
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by permo-w 1y ago
that is not the logical alternative
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by permo-w 1y ago
a small scroll: >Under federal law, members of Congress can designate up to two qualified libraries for federal depository status.
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by permo-w 1y ago
why is it different like that?
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by permo-w 1y ago
>French villages have no more drinking water it's not unreasonable to expect a reader to glean that it means that the villages have no more water drinkable from the ground. the alternative is deeply unlikely
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by permo-w 1y ago
>The model seems to make a lot of assumptions based on such a small fragment this could be said about a shocking amount of historical study
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by permo-w 1y ago
precedent is a real thing, de jure and de facto
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wi-fi/phone signal jammer would have to be included. most cctv operates wirelessly over wi-fi and no one is phoning the police with their phone signal jammed
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there's a major difference between an AirTag or tracking or some other form of relatively complex new-fangled technology that can be easily made to seem confusing or unreliable or even just inadmissible to a judge or jury, and high de
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not forgetting that CCTV is absolutely ubiquitous and high def, where previously it was reasonably rare and low quality
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by permo-w 1y ago
>Like saying an aeroplane is like a squirrel because they both perform aerobic respiration. except that the primary societal function of a brain is to process and react to information using language. the primary function of an LLM is the

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