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This reminds me of the "I drink your milkshake" scene from "There Will Be Blood." Does the ACM really think LLMs haven't already consumed 90% of the content through other sources?

I'm on Teams and Fable is now usage credit only.

Note to the site author: Using Chrome's translate tool seems to break your UI. Upon first visit, I was prompted to translate from Portuguese to English and accepted. Subsequent vis…

That was an incredible example and I'm frankly more impressed each time I read it at how well constructed it is. You really capture how sensitive the analogy section is to cultural…

Perhaps. I do remember the discussion about whether the SSC consumed so much basic research funding that other areas would have their funding significantly constrained. Basic resea…

I wonder whether the cancellation of the superconducting supercollider was a net positive or negative for science. If it continued to completion, it would have had almost 3x the be…

Have you looked at media ownership recently? The days of a scrappy newspaper or local market newscast are over. Reframe your statement from "People in cities tend to be on the left…

For what it's worth, the most effective propaganda is that which reinforces latent biases. Humans en masse are selfish, self-serving, and tribal, so it's incredibly easy to believe…

Because there is a law against people impeding or trying to influence people within 150 meters of an abortion clinic. Her admitted goal was trying to influence people entering. Wil…

Amazon is still at 5 9's availability, they just shifted the decimal point left once.

Reading the comments, this is both a "nothing burger" and a reason to geoblock California. It does too much, and too little. The costs are too high, and too low. It's an example of…

Same can be said for search. And your statement is provably correct, depending on the definition of "good tool." But it's not only money's influence on the company, it's also money…

Isn't the Iocaine developer from Australia?

A great description was just posted as a comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45068268#45070258

Little known fact: in the late '00s, PGP Corp had developed a free standalone "Viewer" to decrypt email if you didn't have the full PGP email product installed (the onboarding proc…

Yeah, I wish I read the comments before reading the article. Thanks for the heads up. Honestly the article was not worth the read, let alone the spoiler.

FYI, you may want to revisit a couple of your "only me" points on the AVP with the release of the Quest 3S. The 3S has an IR blaster that allows it to work in total darkness. Meta …

Do you know that you can create a Meta account with a one-time email address, fake name, and no connection to any other Meta service but the Quest platform? That may still be more …

I agree that HN etiquette is generally more polite. However, this was in direct response to your comment to him/her: > I don’t think parent knows what he’s talking about. We can al…

> Where did it glow yellow? What time in the video? This is a better view than the sibling comment linked. It's a greater close-up and you can clearly see the yellow glow behind th…

No blog post on this? No further info? No sample output? No way I'm giving this username/password credentials.

A forum thread about an obscure Atari 800 shareware game and the search for the registered version that was presumed lost. The developer appears and gives a lesson on 6502 game eng…

Indirectly related: before visiting Thailand I heard that 7-Elevens were everywhere (they were) and a core part of daily life for locals and tourists alike. I expected them to be m…

Interesting that they chose an 8 meter diameter, probably assuming a launch on the 9-meter Starship as Blue Origin's New Glenn is only 7m diameter. It would be interesting to see a…