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by vntok 1y ago
> And you are saying that those misuses of money were happening at Harvard? Out of a more than $2.6B research grant package, yes I do feel pretty certain that there's some misuse happening. Don't you? Misuses of money routinely
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There's Kialo: https://www.kialo.com/
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Kialo does this for online debates: https://www.kialo.com/ An example tree for the statement "God exists": https://www.kialo.com/god-exists-3491?path=3491.0~3491.1
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I do not agree with your postulate that funding any medical research necessarily brings "long-term benefits for society and also result in a net increase in happiness and productivity". Surely that needs proving. And it seems quit
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Why would you think it is bad? The website cost next to nothing but a bit of prompting time, it loads almost instantly on my 2021 smartphone while on network broadband (4G), it uses parallelism extensively to optimize perfs with cascade lo
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In your own allegory, stopping calorie intake would be akin to defunding " Science ". Obviously that brings death to the body and brain drain to the country, no one disputes this I think. But that's not what is happening
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> Who is to say that if I stop eating beef I won't see long-term benefits and also result in a net increase in happiness and productivity? See how considering the tiniest amount of nuance instead of oversimplifying everything tend
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Have a look at the "Mother of all demos". It dates from 1968. Some of its use cases such as having a "smart" personal/digital assistant on the computer helping organize your day are only popping up now thanks to the
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To be honest, the page you linked is a bit difficult to parse; there are people who work "with" MDN, "in" MDN, "on" MDN, who "joined" MDN, etc. Can you share how many people are actually full time emp
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> "Land" is legally defined as pertaining to planet earth. Interesting. Where have you read this? Intuitively, it seems very weird for a lawmaker to specify the planet the law would apply to.
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I wonder how much posts like these do to push people away from Firefox and towards other alternatives like Brave, Orion, etc. Surely, given the HN audience, virtually nobody in here is seriously discovering that Firefox exists. However, onc
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If you're 50 years old, your personality is a product of 50-ish years. Another way to say this is that humans have a very large context window (that can span multiple decades) for solving the problem of presenting a "face" to
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> Humans very much are 99.9% accurate This is an extraordinary claim, which would require extraordinary evidence to prove. Meanwhile, anyone who spends a few hours with colleagues in a predominantly typing/data entry/data manip
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If "the bridge collapses and people die" because the team has a 1min26 "downtime" on a specific day, which is what you are arguing, then you have much bigger problems to solve than the performance of AI agents.
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Generally speaking, low quality posts don't spend too much time on the front page, regardless of their topic.
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> Production systems need 99.9%+ reliability This is not remotely true. Think of any business process around your company. 99.9% availability would mean only 1min26 per day allowed for instability/errors/downtime. Surely your h
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Have you read the article? The source of the attack is an inbound email received in the logged in user's mailbox and read by the logged in user's Claude Desktop app.
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What does being rich have anything to do with this? You seem to think SMB rejecting you is only a problem for them, have you considered that them rejecting you also means that you don't get service from them?
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No it does not. Twice already you've written false information, and thrice already you've been corrected by others. Why not read the actual texts before posting?
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That's incorrect. See: > THESE TERMS DO NOT APPLY TO YOUR ACCESS AND USE OF THE CLOUDFLARE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES THAT ARE PROVIDED UNDER THE SELF-SERVE SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT, THE ENTERPRISE SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT, OR OTHER WRITTEN
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An LLM is gonna convince you to treat your wound with quack medics instead of seeing a doctor, which will eventually result the limb being chopped to save you from gangrene. You can perfectly use an LLM to attack someone. Your sentence is v
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An interesting comparison. Table saws sold all over the world are inspected and certified by trusted third parties to ensure they operate safely. They are illegal to sell without the approval seal. Moreover, table saws sold in the United St
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Can someone knowledgeable about the state of this conflict give a few pointers on how much of this post is cope vs actual fact? It certainly seems like we've been hearing about the near depletion of russian armor for 2.5 years...
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That is really not how the insurance seller's business model works. Think about it this way: on a given year, they are collecting "Sales" amount of money from their pool of customers. For the insurer to make a profit, the amo
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Interesting. Can you expand a bit on what your reasoning is so we can understand where you come from?
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What car you want to buy is just one tiny part of the transaction. The salesman can and will manipulate you on everything else from price to warranty, from payment schedule to cross-sale rebates, from maintenance subscription to registratio
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Or this one: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1031280/
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The point is the scientist didn't know it was until after blowtorching it.
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More ominous: > It’s not some boat-feasting life form like whatever had been eating away at steel pilings in Duluth Harbor a number of years ago
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No need to do that. The provenance does not matter as long as the content is interesting, which is the case here. This is the original hacker's ethos: put something out there for others to use, and let the people make their own opinion

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