smcin

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   by smcin 2y ago

   Jardine is still a name in trading, at least in the west, not China, where they are not fondly remembered for their 19th-century "import activities". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Jardine_Matheson_%
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   by smcin 2y ago

   ??? I've always found wikihow superbly curated, clear, direct, readable, with simple clear diagrams and almost no fluff. At least for how-to-do guides, not buying. Can you post a link to a low-quality wikihow article or two?
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   by smcin 2y ago

   But not even 'editorializing' where that is not injecting opinion, but simply correcting a misleading headline (as in this case)? (I only used the word 'editorializing' in this broader sense that HN people do. They key p
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   by smcin 2y ago

   I understood that, and I was trying to help reverse-engineer what might have changed.
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   by smcin 2y ago

   Yes, we have an ongoing problem with HN guidelines requiring us to use the original headline even if it's misleading and/or needs some editorializing. Better would be: "IG to automatically put teens into private accounts wit
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   by smcin 2y ago

   Any ideas why that misnumbering happens? It sounds a very basic thing to get wrong. And as a fallback, could be brute-force kludged with an extra pass which appends the output list to the prompt.
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   by smcin 2y ago

   FYI Gauss's grave is in Albani cemetery, 37085 Göttingen, Germany. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanifriedhof But per below comments, the star is on the monument in Brunswick/Braunschweig, not on his headst
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   by smcin 2y ago

   Depends, what date did you create that channel, they may have changed rules since.
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   by smcin 2y ago

   Ok but not a company as reputable as Apple, yes? Apple historically used to have a deservedly good reputation for this. I was quite shocked at this story.
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    by smcin 2y ago

    I think you mean the universities of the Data Colada researchers, not the researchers accused of misconduct. Sure, but if this were to become commonplace, you can see misconduct researchers becoming a target for big recurring legal defense
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    by smcin 2y ago

    My own post here [0] got suddenly multiply downvoted and flagged, even though I wrote it very carefully and double-checked every single statement. Truth defense. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41526702
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    by smcin 2y ago

    I can't comment, but it's a truly bizarre spectacle to see research integrity being upheld by three public-minded researchers (one of them based in Spain) and a defense fund on GoFundMe organized by an Australian academic. The aca
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    by smcin 2y ago

    [tl;dr] US District Court dismisses Francesca Gino's controversial $25m defamation lawsuit against Harvard Business School and DataColada scientist-bloggers (Simonsohn, Nelson, and Simmons). The judge allowed Gino's breach of cont
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    by smcin 2y ago

    It's an interesting and severely non-trivial debate, and there's no way to 'prioritize'/'curate'/'feature'/'select' content (which controls what passively-browsing users are l
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    by smcin 2y ago

    Don't misrepresent me. Bad as it is for forums to assume default US context on anything, it's worse for a blog to title itself "Shops can refuse to take cash even though it’s legal tender..." then lead "A [15-mon
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    by smcin 2y ago

    Thanks. Yes the HN guidelines about using original titles, even when ragebait...
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    by smcin 2y ago

    The 'Build Your Own Cravings Box' has by far the highest variation in price, in particular in Florida, it jumps abruptly from regions where it's identically $5.99 to $12.99. Unlike any other item. Previously discussed in 2023
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    by smcin 2y ago

    - This is the same Pantry & Larder website as "McCheapest: A site that tracks the price of a Big Mac in every US McDonald's" (pantryandlarder.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38980793 . Although
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    by smcin 2y ago

    Shift-click to zoom out.
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    by smcin 2y ago

    There are at least three things wrong or misleading about that original title, and possibly worth editing/flagging for: 1) it's missing the (2023) 2) it is/was about the UK (the title omits that) 3) it was a (factually mislea
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    by smcin 2y ago

    That wasn't a non-sequitur in the least. I was telling you many of us here couldn't understand "Florida is 90% RH..." (Rental Housing? Red Hot? ...?) without googling. In California and the PNW, 'RH' is not
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    by smcin 2y ago

    Existing thread: "US, Britain, EU to sign first international AI treaty" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41455059
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    by smcin 2y ago

    Previous discussion: "EU Poised to Enact Sweeping AI Rules with US, Global Impact" 3/2024 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39617338 "Regulating AI: areas of convergence and divergence across EU vs. U
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    by smcin 2y ago

    Archive: https://archive.ph/H0MSu
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    US, Britain, EU to sign first international AI treaty(reuters.com)

    9 points by smcin 2y ago|4 comments
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    by smcin 2y ago

    "90% RH" = Relative Humidity. If you live in California you wouldn't even recognize that acronym regularly. As to disruption by possible hurricanes, can you break that down to how much disruption x how many days/yr? How
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    by smcin 2y ago

    Yet another article on the Therac-25 radiation therapy machine dose bug scandal from the 1980s. 62 previous posts: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=therac-25
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    by smcin 2y ago

    Even the parsing of obfuscated HTML + CSS + dynamic JSON content?
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    by smcin 2y ago

    Interesting. How long did it take to figure out how to do this with ChatGPT? > "By scraping raw text with AI, FetchFox lets you circumvent anti-scraping measures on sites like LinkedIn and Facebook. Even the the complicated HTML st
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    by smcin 2y ago

    Which dictionary are you using? Words not in it: DREG, TREND(ED), DEDENT(ED), DENNED...