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by smcin 6mo ago
California Proposition 8 (gay marriage ban) was unconstitutional though, it was always likely to be struck down by the SC.
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by smcin 6mo ago
When a car that's been discontinued still racks up sales several years after its discontinuation, it means there was leftover stock on dealer lots... 3 years in the case of the 500X
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by smcin 6mo ago
"a metallic material called θ-phase tantalum nitride"
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by smcin 6mo ago
Interesting but your site renders very badly on mobile; I have to scroll down through four screenfuls of ads or blank padding before I see a single paragraph of article, then more blank page. It is visually indistinguishable from an adfarm.
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by smcin 6mo ago
I never called it a scam. I think it's commendable for a huge corporation building lots of data centers to (partially) offset that impact. Amazon, Oracle and others aren't. It's unhealthy for a single company to be most of th
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by smcin 6mo ago
"Microsoft made 90% of all carbon removal purchases worldwide last year [2025]... and between 79-90% of all historic carbon removal purchases"
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by smcin 6mo ago
Your website says your goal is "to act in the best interests of all our citizens" but doesn't define who all your citizens are, other than presumably founders Ella and Robert, so isn't that an alignment problem? Theft, p
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by smcin 6mo ago
3. How does anyone else know it hasn't been faked? (e.g. someone could have written a cron-job or script to resubmit other people's work)
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by smcin 6mo ago
Interesting article. I was expecting a completely different exposé of NASA, based on the title...
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by smcin 6mo ago
The first link (YouGov) in fact is even less enthusiastic than GP quoted: 28% of Americans strongly or somewhat support the war with Iran. (setting aside that it's illegal under international law, and unauthorized by Congress)
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by smcin 6mo ago
OKC analyzed message traffic in an anonymized way to infer when matching was/wasn't working, and what insights that revealed about people's inferred vs stated preferences. As such it wasn't "reading other people&#x2
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by smcin 6mo ago
No it totally wasn't a fucked up admission, it was actually a useful and pro-user measure (all this good stuff was before the 2011 acquisition). Christian Rudder's OKTrends blog (and Sam Yagan's presentation at their acquisit
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by smcin 7mo ago
Euronews' headline is pure clickbait. The UK proposed only to supply free or discounted excess wind power to nearby homes, on windy days (not all the time, and not predictable). And that only because "Sometimes there is too much
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by smcin 7mo ago
Noone expects the etymology inquisition.
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by smcin 7mo ago
On the study of management in the military, what does West Point think of HBS, and v.v.? (for example, were the fictitious body counts in the Vietnam War comparable/earlier/later than civilian management doing dubious things with
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by smcin 7mo ago
Any of us can help log the changes by submitting revisions of the article to web.archive.org With a fast-changing news story where vague/incomplete/conflicting details emerge in the first few hours it's not unreasonable for t
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by smcin 7mo ago
Already posted this yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47449126
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by smcin 7mo ago
Me too. I meant "How could the first sentence be rewritten to sound positive/ not attract downvotes?"
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Mediahaus suspends senior journalist for using fabricated quotes produced by AI(thejournal.ie)
10 points by smcin 7mo ago|0 comments
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by smcin 7mo ago
Ok but on that site you can't search by lyrics. Only by title.
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by smcin 7mo ago
Interesting. How would you rewrite the first sentence to sound positive?
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by smcin 7mo ago
Yes it's a very broad global average. Advertisers pay much more for North American users, then European users.
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by smcin 7mo ago
The relative timing, valuations (and float sizes) of the expected SpaceX, Anthropic and then OpenAI IPOs would still be highly correlated. Even allowing for moral degeneracy among most of the gamblers on this particular Polymarket market.
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by smcin 7mo ago
Source cited by @chriso-wiki.bsky.social is this article on DR.dk, the Danish public broadcaster: https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/groenland/danmark-forbered...
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by smcin 7mo ago
Because “ID columns” and “value columns” (or "pivot") are dry statistician jargon, as opposed to terms like "wide-to-long" , and most of your users won't be MS in statistics or economics. So like you do, just visual
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by smcin 7mo ago
If you rewrote it to be less trollish, it would be reasonable comment. Also, less blatant sales pitch on the URLs.
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by smcin 7mo ago
https://archive.ph/DiJxi
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by smcin 7mo ago
(Sorry, the correct link for Roupenian's 2017 story "Cat Person" is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15892630 )
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by smcin 7mo ago
That Polymarket traders believe an OpenAI IPO this quarter, or even this year, is unlikely (or else almost all of them are hedging, e.g. long on other AI stocks. Which seems unlikely.) Anyone who thinks that position is wrong and it's
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by smcin 7mo ago
Sampling 50/50 choices would be a binary distribution that (very crudely) approximates a normal distribution. But the counterintuitive thing about the CLT is that it applies to distributions that are not normal.

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