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And unfortunately the other way around could be about as bad: “Don’t believe what you just saw — That’s just AI propaganda!”

Gortok is very obviously talking about red/blue team bias, trying to get objective scholarship on the issue that is unbiased in that sense.

We’re also training young people to get used to being surveilled by automated black-box tools, and to accept serious real-world consequences from their judgements. These kinds of t…

I meant that after the Amazon experience, I don't want to buy a HDD online. Would much prefer to get it locally in person.

The premise of this news is that prices are going to climb and availability is going to drop. And I’m not keen on having anyone ship me one of these anymore. Walmart sells what app…

Great. I’ve just returned a WD drive to Amazon after it arrived crushed in a torn-open paper bag. The replacement arrived also in a paper bag and went straight back, this time for …

Don’t understand != don’t care.

> and more recently “So!” by Seamus Heaney in 2000. This is despite the research suggesting that the Anglo Saxons made little use of the exclamation mark Seamus Heaney does not use…

> And you create music without ever having heard music before? Or are you also extracting other artist’s work and using it as inspiration for what you do? This is an argument that …

If people like Rob Pike and Linus Torvalds are on the opposite end of that spectrum, you might be interested in why that is. I strongly suspect the older and more experienced a dev…

I’ve tried in the past to explain/promote/defend my syntax-coloring-free serenity, but I wish I’d thought of this: > Syntax is not the most challenging part of programming. It seem…

Was wondering the same the moment I posted. Here’s what appears to be the prior version from archive.ph, which does align more with the submitted hed: Authorities are now consideri…

From the first paragraph: Earlier reports suggested it could have been something from space but that seems unlikely since the velocity of anything that survived reentry would likel…

> Only folders inside the Documents folder are affected. That's quite a caveat. The reason for it is: > size and position are stored in a hidden .framedata.json file in that folder…

> You can tell Youtube to prefer AV1 only for low-quality videos ( https://www.youtube.com/account_playback ) What option are you referring to here? I don’t see anything that seems…

Why is this issue not caught by regulators? There must be something I don’t know about how that kind of regulatory approval happens.

> Tesla was able to fix this with a software update over the air, something no one else could do for a braking system. That was impressive, but the example presented a worrying que…

Well you, kvdveer, I and likely at least a few other people are reading it, and I hope we're not beneath significantly less than two minutes of effort.

> You can verify my claims in 2 minutes on Google. I'm sure you're right, but presumably this means it would take you significantly less than two minutes to offer some concrete sou…

You're disagreeing with rayiner. I have no position and nothing to say on this. You might wish to reply to that specific comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43311416…

It seems clear that rayiner is referring to this issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43311416 "normalizing relations with Russia and disengaging with the rest of the world …

Buried at the very end of the article: > The models on this list likely reflect a combination of driver behavior and driving conditions, leading to increased crashes and fatalities…

“Stage this hunk!” (As a gay man, I appreciate an extended and detailed discussion of hunks finally appearing on HN.)

“A near impossible literacy test Louisiana used (in 1964) to suppress the black vote”