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Article is not about global atmospheric or climate phenomena, nor civilization scale industrial processes. It's about the CO^2 levels in your room due to your breathing.

The technology held by private AI companies is warfare-capable technology. Imagine the prompt: "Use all available resources to disable the power grid of ." The resource cost that p…

Addition and conditional bit shifting (which is multiplication by powers of 2).

This assumes that OP would make a different app choice if OP knew this context. And it also assumes OP does not know this context. Neither are supported by the evidence, since HN l…

Yes, it does need to be said. Many people will read this article and miss the satire, which is, in part, the intent of sophisticated satire. The point is that it is outlandish and …

In fact, most states have a large number of elected officials in them, especially those elected officials who hold the legislative power of that state. But if you meant the 500ish …

The effect is going to be on the issuance or not of new warrants going forward in this domain. The police could not have foreseen this ruling. It was not previously known that such…

Mozart is among the most famous Western composers, and, like others of his stature, all his extant manuscripts have been cataloged and studied extensively. To find a previously unk…

Yeah, it's definitely more challenging and fun on a self-imposed "hard mode" where you must employ the information that is revealed.

Nice! I'm not actually sure what its mechanism is for providing the "least information". It could be smart and reply in a way that maximizes the number of remaining consistent answ…

Another great variant is Unfair Wordle [1]. The opponent does not fix the answer upfront but instead evades the player's guesses as long as possible, providing you with the least i…

I once received an internal defect report from my product's QA team. It was long and obvious that what they did was feed the error log into an LLM and ask it to diagnose. It was to…

Your friend's argument holds no water. None at all. That's not how morality and ethics work.

If you believe in the objective truth of the quoted source, then that makes the claim that humans are valuable about as robust as any claim can be. If you do not believe in the obj…

It matters because of the inability to measure up front whether the content is sufficiently good. AI's best skill is making something look right and look good when it is, in fact, …

Article argues that we don't see J-model software companies (or at least they aren't very good) because there's something inherent about software that demands innovation, green fie…

No, I think the government paying is right. It wasn't just the offending officer acting alone that led to the gross mistreatment of this man. The officer was working within the con…

I don't understand the use of the word "actually" in this sentence. The second half does not stand in contrast to the first half. In fact, it explains the first half. And portrayin…

I'm reading the statute this comes from [0] and its associated definitions [1] but I don't see that it's as bad as you made it sound. (I don't love it, still.) The 100 mile "reason…

The most natural reading of "Utah is close to banning VPNs" is that there is a bill working its way through the statehouse that would ban VPNs if it passed. But that is an untrue r…

There are many comments here that are confused about what the bill actually says. Headline very much implies something about a law banning VPNs. But that's not what the headline re…

The headline leaves much to be desired. It has nothing to do with actually banning VPNs. The rule is that age-restricted websites aren't allowed to help you figure out how to use a…

This comment and GP are two of the most concise and punchy descriptions I've ever heard of some of the deepest aspects of modern physics. On the one hand we have principles of loca…

A great argument for why the bloated executive powers should be clawed back by Congress. But not a strong argument for why Congress should stay hands-off. Also, if something like t…

> they're targeting your children Who is the "they" that you refer to? Did you know that many people are in favor of age verification? Like, many parents of children who are at a l…