roughly

29 ms·

631.
by roughly 1y ago
I'm personally a fan of https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Solarpunk
632.
by roughly 1y ago
I wish this weren't so evergreen. Truly this is the Era of the Torment Nexus.
633.
by roughly 1y ago
Christ, you sound like my nutritionist.
634.
by roughly 1y ago
The biggest mistake the Cyberpunk authors made was making their dystopia look so cool and then assuming we’d actually read the book.
635.
by roughly 1y ago
This is a rock we’re going to have an increasingly hard time throwing at other countries.
636.
by roughly 1y ago
So this issue clearly doesn’t affect your life in any real tangible way, and yet for some reason it’s so triggering to you that you felt compelled to jump in on a thread about it, and I’d sure wager this isn’t the first time. Again, Why Are
637.
by roughly 1y ago
Looking past the gender in art issue, the approach is really interesting - they note in the article that early on members of the collective went to a protest and noted how ineffectual it seemed, and so they leaned into a style much closer t
638.
by roughly 1y ago
> I've met zero people who use pronouns So what the hell are you doing in this thread?
639.
by roughly 1y ago
> OpenAI isn't trying to produce art. They are trying to replace human creation with artificial creation, but an artificial creation whose entire input was the human creation. And they’re trying to build a business off it as well. T
640.
by roughly 1y ago
This is also why different stores have different skus for items - that $20 coolermaster 40mm with red LEDs is cm40rl-w at Walmart and cm40rl-a at Amazon.
641.
by roughly 1y ago
> “Fry's Electronics is closing all stores", 300 comments (2021), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26246435 > "Is Fry’s Electronics in trouble?", 350 comments (2020), https://news.yc
642.
by roughly 1y ago
Amazon prices what they can get away with, not what their costs are. Jeff Bezos’s rocketry hobby is a testament to Amazon’s ability to extract surplus.
643.
by roughly 1y ago
If you're back down there, the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art in Riverside is awesome - Cheech collected Chicano art all throughout his career and worked with the City of Riverside to open a museum to house it. It's a really
644.
by roughly 1y ago
This is a delight! This site is a great reminder that almost everyone visiting Hacker News has a set of skills which can be put to beneficial use for causes you care about - this is a small, simple, cheap site (and I mean that in a good way
645.
Unraveling the Secrets of the Inca Empire(theatlantic.com)
4 points by roughly 1y ago|0 comments
646.
by roughly 1y ago
> But what exactly is understanding? He alludes to quite a bit here - impossible languages, intrinsic rules that don’t actually express in the language, etc - that leads me to believe there’s a pretty specific sense by which he means “un
647.
by roughly 1y ago
Jobs, for all his enormous character flaws, was a humanist - he believed in people and he wanted to make beautiful objects that would enhance people's lives. He was also an enormous asshole and constitutionally incapable of masking his
648.
by roughly 1y ago
I recognize I’m not going to change your mind on this, but I’ll sure be interested to hear how all those systems are working in a year or two - although from your comments elsewhere, you run a consultancy, so I guess that’s not your problem
649.
by roughly 1y ago
> There are plenty of commercial pirates, and those commercial uses were grouped in with noncommercial sharing I don't think many people were particularly sympathetic to people making money off piracy - by and large, people were ups
650.
by roughly 1y ago
The moral argument in favor of piracy was that it didn’t cost the companies anything and the uses were noncommercial. Neither of those applies to the AI scrapers - they’re aggressively overusing freely-provided services (listen to some of t
651.
by roughly 1y ago
AI isn't the one closing up shop, it’s the one looting all the stores and taking everything that isn’t bolted down. The AI companies are bad actors that are exploiting the openness of the internet in a fashion that was obviously going
652.
by roughly 1y ago
There’s enough stories about Stallman’s “eccentricities” that aren’t the result of ethical choices. The man’s hygiene is sort of legendary at this point. None of this is to say he’s wrong or argue against his ethical consistency or the admi
653.
by roughly 1y ago
Prophets are often more than a bit idiosyncratic. It’s a lot easier to really see society from the outside.
654.
by roughly 1y ago
You’re right, I’m not using the term in its correct physics meaning. Is there another word or phrase you’d suggest for the concept here?
655.
by roughly 1y ago
I mean, I think it’s a distinction without a difference, is the problem - yes, the biosphere exchanges material with the rest of the ball of mud, but that, for all intents and purposes, is a closed system, and so things like its ability to
656.
by roughly 1y ago
The earth as a giant ball of matter is an interesting geological phenomenon, but our concern is more the earth as a viable biosphere, which, as you note, is a much more constrained system, and that seems to be the set of constraints we have
657.
by roughly 1y ago
This kind of thing is possible because we haven’t come around to recognizing the Earth as a finite, closed system. We’re pretty sure all the junk and pollution and carbon and whatnot goes Somewhere Else.
658.
by roughly 1y ago
Yes, that’s it on the nose. The number of things which have been laundered under “prevent child porn” is absurd. No, it is not a problem which warrants a global panopticon state. As for drug sales, I’m not sure what to say if you think that
659.
by roughly 1y ago
Also some fairly direct ties to the rise of right-wing movements and governments in Europe.
660.
by roughly 1y ago
The weird thing about the LLM era is it’s impossible to tell if an actual human decided to string these words together or if someone’s just playing around with an Ebenezer Scrooge persona.

More ›