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In general, that term is mostly used outside of the borders of a country looking in. After all, "illegitimate leaders" tend to be authoritarians who take power and quell dissent wi…

Entirely different, from an American perspective. Afghanistan had the context of 9/11. All Americans knew about 9/11, and most cared strongly about it. I doubt most Americans know …

I have seen a very similar example with someone who quit their tech job to pursue th solution to quantum gravity with bizarre likely Ai generated mathematical work, and posted to H…

>If you want to get rich, build roads first; have fewer children, plant more trees That's funny, because the supposedly widely repeated quote that I heard in the past that stuck wi…

At first I had some suspicion that perhaps the findings were partly a result of interpretation of the question. After all, I don't generate a crystal clear image of what I'm thinki…

That's true to an extent - LLMs are trained on an abstraction of the world (as are we in a way, through our senses, and we necessarily use a sort of narrative in order to make sens…

Seems strangely out of touch as well. First of all, 20 years ago porn proliferation was also rampant, and the stuff online was, I'd argue, considerably "worse" that the Onlyfans fl…

>what should instead happen is the AI try to guide them towards making their lives less shit There aren't enough guardrails in place for LLMs to safely interact with suicidal peopl…

So... everything I thought I knew about last week's AWS outage is right? Aside from a few tangential rants, this seems to match the coverage I had read. >Widespread issues trend to…

It's not uncommon at all to see the cash spent on buyback... And many CEOs lead because they like the fact that they get paid millions in stock options that are neutralized through…

>Interest rates only go down to stimulate growth The Fed targets price stability and employment, not growth. Of course that is largely correlated with stimulating growth as a deriv…

>When businesses, governments, and individuals increase their borrowing, as they are now, that means that the cost of borrowing, the interest rate, is too low. That's not necessari…

You know, now that I think about it, I have seen an actual ticket short squeeze before - when the airline is overbooked and has to run a reverse auction to buy back their ticket.

This article downplays the extent of Kramnik's online harassment campaign. The first thing that it is important to note in articles covering this is that Kramnik's cheating allegat…

It's subscription lists that do it for me. Such an improvement.

Target literally just let 1800 people go, so they probably have an internal initiative to fill the gap with... That.

LTSC is all that's keeping me from a complete switch.

Additionally, even if the "self-funded" aspect was enshrined into the process on all levels, you're looking at a program that dwarfs any other program of this type, worldwide. It w…

This is why HN is great. An immediate pivot to the technicalities and semantics of the French judicial system, off of a pithy comment. eats baguette

I propose any company that flagrantly violates the intent of a ruling like that is sent to a special judge who operates in the same manner - bring forth a penalty while explicitly …

This is probably one of those scenarios where if someone wants to fake it they're going to fake it (or at least it will be a never ending arms race, and I expect AI to keep close c…

Seems odd there's still doing old school tests like sit-ups (which from what I've read is a poor exercise even for a casual gym goer). I assume that there's some tradition in "army…

I read a quote today that was quite striking, in regards to an argument that the consumer focus stimulus was ill-advised (it was focused on Big ticket purchases like appliances, wh…

Hesgeth is quite radical and arguably unhinged, even among peers in the administration (which is saying something). I wouldn't be surprised if there is more to come from the Depart…

FX necessarily trades in pairs. To buy a peso one needs to sell something against it, and the US will sell dollars if acting in the FX space. Since the USD is one of the core curre…