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by sigmar 2y ago
dyson doesn't sell third party stuff. If ikea was forced to sell all their chairs at every store, but only for 3 years. are people looking for chairs going to have better options for where to get chairs at the end of the 3 years? I thi
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by sigmar 2y ago
I've been pretty anti-google on this topic (and a long time fdroid-lover). but this ruling is nuts to me, particularly where it says google "must give rival third-party app stores access to the full catalog of Google Play apps&quo
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by sigmar 2y ago
>It's mostly talk radio, and more factual than the Internet. are you joking? coast to coast is worse than 4chan
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>This would be the first dissent by a governor in the FOMC since 2005. Yes, but for context- not the first dissent broadly, as there are 5 non-governors on the FOMC. >In June 2022, Kansas City Fed President Esther George cast what unt
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by sigmar 2y ago
To what extent is the current content being paid for on onlyfans "real content?" There are companies that you can pay to manage your onlyfans messages[1]. As in- people think they are messaging the content creator, but are actuall
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by sigmar 2y ago
If "this is the last game for Alex Morgan" wasn't included as any part of the input/prompt, how on earth could the AI summary have come up with this for inclusion in the game recap? If some teenage intern was given a tab
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by sigmar 2y ago
>The Bluesky app won’t list all the quote post removals directly on your post, but developers with knowledge of the Bluesky API will be able to access this data. Seems like they have some good ideas for how to deal with quote posts/
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by sigmar 2y ago
Do you think the inclusion of AI is some new departure? Google has declared itself as "AI-first" for the past 8 years[1]. There's been neural cores included in every Pixel since the Pixel 4. [1] https://www.busines
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>But between unrelated people? Why can't I discuss the legacy of the dead? We are defined by our deeds in life. It is only natural that in death, people will talk and opine about what we have done. Nothing wrong with it. unless you
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yeah, but it is opt-in. and even if it was defaulted to enabled, firefox already has a "search google for" in the right click menu which also sends selected text to a third party... were people upset with that button?
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by sigmar 2y ago
Summarizing huge blocks of text is a very useful feature of the LLMs, why are HN users so angry about this?
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49 doesn't seem that low? Especially since it was below 43 twice in 2023: https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_ism_manufacturing_new_orde... Am I missing something or is CNN just sensationalizing?
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deaths being rare != shootings almost never happen many people shot are not killed. being a victim of a school shooting does not even mean you were shot.
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It is very useful device, but sure- it doesn't block bullets. In a shooting it's mostly useful for contacting family and 911. >"having access to a cellphone" did not alter the outcome at all in those tragic incidents
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>No, you do not need to have a phone at all times "for emergencies" that almost never happen. Almost never happen? There have been 464 school shootings in the US since 2010. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li
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>For example, while my mom might struggle to use Apple Photos to search for specific pictures, she would have no trouble asking Siri for all the photos of her granddaughter dressed like a princess. Want to point out Google photos has bee
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Yeah, was going to comment the same. Pretty clear evidence of a lot of wage compression the past few years https://www.nber.org/papers/w31010 https://www.ft.com/content/f32d4927-a182-4d7c-bf2d-dd91
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by sigmar 2y ago
> The released source code has lagged behind the version on the Google Play store by long periods of time many times. Seems like FUD. This took me 30 seconds to check just now: -Telegram's android source code git hasn't had a t
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>Neko Health, with its smaller price tag, doesn’t perform M.R.I.s or X-rays. Instead, it uses about 70 different sensors and a mix of proprietary and off-the-shelf technologies to non-invasively measure heart function and circulation, an
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>License plate scanning technology has been around for decades. While this is true, the big optical character recognition breakthrough was Yann LeCun's use of Convolutional Neural Networks in the 1990s, which I think most people put
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Great article. Can't imagine what it would be like for this village to get so much new tech (solar radios, solar boats, solar-enabled internet) is such a short amount of time. In my childhood, getting access to an early Wikipedia after
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by sigmar 3y ago
The delivery of "(the 'software')" at 0:21 had me chuckling.
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That would be true if you could ban the person from using new emails, but I don't think that's true when the thread if rife with sock puppet accounts. You ban the first rude email account, then there will be 2 new accounts complai
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by sigmar 3y ago
Shouldn't revenue numbers be considered alongside the expenses? This seems framed as if these models can't produce much revenue unless they achieve AGI... and I don't think that's accurate.
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>It's unlikely that "regulators" had anything to do with it, given the quick resolution. Disagree. EU regulators act quickly. Here's the commissioner for Internal Market of the Eu: "I take note with satisfactio
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by sigmar 3y ago
How is this embarrassing? 12 days of low power mode allegedly (vs 1.5 days for the apple watch) seems impressive.
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Doesn't seem "disposable per-conversation" in my reading of the announcement. Seems like a permanent username that just doesn't get featured in the conversation. >Your profile name remains whatever you set it to.
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>now if I don’t reinstall the app myself or borrow a friends phone to try and reconfigure it then I guess we’re now out of touch forever? It’s not privacy-friendly to replace or hide built in functionality, it’s just an attempt to coerce
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>“While a chatbot has an interactive component, it is still just a part of Air Canada’s website,” Tribunal member Christopher C. Rivers wrote. “It should be obvious to Air Canada that it is responsible for all the information on its webs
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by sigmar 3y ago
The user would get rid of the app/browser that is doing this, no? The same way they would have to for any malicious app that persistently requests a special permission?

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