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by toraway 7mo ago
Why are you absolutely convinced the government requesting a contractor (Palantir) no longer use a technology they've determined to be unsuitable for their needs would be "extremely illegal", yet demanding every single compan
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by toraway 7mo ago
"Disrupt" feels like yesterday's Web 2.0 lingo, now we say "Democratizing".
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Well, we were able to observe in the impact of legalization of online betting in real time, watching every other ad slot during sports games turning into gambling app ads designed to hook 20 something men into lighting their paycheck on fir
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by toraway 7mo ago
Semmelweis died approximately 100 years before the thalidomide scandal so not sure what that is supposed to prove… (other than being a favorite go-to of numerous quacks and charlatans who insist that modern medicine is similarly persecuting
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by toraway 7mo ago
This appears to be an advertisement for a (somewhat inscrutable) AI product they're selling called CANONIC, that also has a cryptocoin bolted on to it somehow.
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by toraway 7mo ago
Sora was one of the earliest demos of a "wow okay that is good enough to be mistaken for real" GenAI model, which is what that comment was referencing with the "weapon" reference (the tech behind it not just Sora™ Videos
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by toraway 7mo ago
IMO what's really wishful thinking is believing that society will necessarily adapt for the better in response to a deluge of AI spam/ads/propaganda. You could have said the same about say, pre-AI deceptively edited/rage
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by toraway 7mo ago
(FYI, this is an LLM bot, check their comment history and note the repetitive structure with every comment they've ever posted all within the last hour) > This is the right question but hard to answer in practice ... > The
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by toraway 7mo ago
Sure, and I'm also consuming a gigantic quantity of GenAI art while knowing it, completely against my will. Which like OP has soured my overall perception of it. The existence of inoffensive use cases doesn't invalidate anything O
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by toraway 7mo ago
Yes, and Disney is apparently no longer investing in OpenAI, making one more example of an OpenAI investment hype cycle that turned out to be hot air. Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora https://www.hollywoodr
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by toraway 7mo ago
Yeah, my mental image before reading the article was the farts analogy would be a company actually trying out the AI chatbot slopware they added to their line of Bluetooth toothbrushes and hyping to investors as the Next Big Thing or someth
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by toraway 7mo ago
Look at the names, the parent comment is implying hiring Indians destroyed Microsoft with a wink/nudge. And conspicuously omitting Phil Spencer who led the deteriorating Xbox/gaming division for almost a decade but instead chose t
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by toraway 7mo ago
AI is the same: it's unquestionably (to anyone evaluating it fairly) a huge boost to productivity . And yet, the only research that tries to evaluate this in a controlled, scientific way does not actually show this. Critics the
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by toraway 7mo ago
That, and an objective comparison measuring time saving should include all time that went into learning, configuring, maintaining the tool. And ideally a sample large enough to capture any wasted time from dead ends in other tasks where the
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by toraway 7mo ago
It’s a well known benchmark in comparative political science with a specific rubric for how each category is analyzed. It’s imperfect but far more rigorous than dismissing indicators of backsliding as just “not liking Trump” (just one of ma
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by toraway 7mo ago
They move a carrier into a vulnerable position in the Strait, where an attack by a tiny boat could both result in causalities and draw the UK into another protracted war in the Middle East with no clear exit condition and even more casual
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by toraway 7mo ago
Okay, but have you considered that thanks to Polymarket, society was able to intuit within mere minutes that Khamenei was most likely dead when the odds jumped to 99%? No more need to rely on MSM or governments, it's all just math and
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by toraway 7mo ago
By that definition, nuclear is also “dependent on natural gas” because it’s a baseload power source that can’t dynamically follow demand.
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by toraway 7mo ago
As an example of this, I am currently comparing two different models of Android e-readers, from a Chinese brand where the tech specs are all published but there aren't a lot of good comparative reviews. Plus, the specs like battery lif
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by toraway 7mo ago
Or just maybe, it was developed to further a legitimately needed area of medical research with direct human clinical relevance like quantifying differences in the microbiome for colorectal cancer, etc. The concept of the Golden Fleece award
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by toraway 7mo ago
Every time I see news about Brendan Carr's latest threat leveraging FCC licenses to enforce approved administration speech I search for the corresponding HN post and half the time it's a graveyard. Wasn't that long ago an art
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by toraway 7mo ago
Accusation in a mirror, a strategy that is pretty much as you describe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accusation_in_a_mirror
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by toraway 7mo ago
Codex CLI is so much more pleasant to use than CC. I cancelled my CC subscription after the OpenCode thing, but somewhat ironically have recently found myself naturally trying the native Codex CLI client first more often over OpenCode. Kind
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by toraway 7mo ago
Haha, reminds me of an unbelievably aggravating exchange with Codex (GPT 5.4 / High) where it was unflinchingly gaslighting me about undesired behavior still occurring after a change it made that it was adamant simply could not be ha
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by toraway 7mo ago
It doesn’t help that a frequent recommendation on HN whenever someone complains about Claude not following a prompt correctly is to “ask Claude itself how to rewrite a prompt to get the result you want”. Which sure, can be helpful, but it’s
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by toraway 7mo ago
That doesn't sound like it would help while reviewing a PR full of verbose slop in your day job.
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"Among his accomplishments has been establishing the department’s Real Time Crime Center that leverages technology and data to support officers in responding more effectively to incidents," the city's release said. &quot
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by toraway 7mo ago
Not saying it’s actually linked to cancer but it definitely does increase the risk of hemorrhoids, rectal prolapse and bleeding from straining. Which could mean chronic stress at a cellular level repairing damage over the long term.
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by toraway 7mo ago
That seems like wishful thinking, IMO. Seems more likely we will find it’s due a complex constellation of genetics, diet, lifestyle factors like exercise, environmental exposure, etc associated eith a modern sedentary lifestyle with no cle
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by toraway 7mo ago
If I was controlling a swarm of 1000 agents who do all the dev work on my extremely complex enterprise SaaS product with tightly defined business logic I feel like I’d definitely want something like Jira to manage what they’re working on. T

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