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Comment #48677184
an unhealthy diet will literally wipe out your life.
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Comment #48641617
The burger ad is also getting people addicted and destroying lives. But with burgers most people blame the victims. In my opinion it's all the same. Gambling, junk food, drugs, gun…
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Comment #48538834
Still doesn't work for me. Maybe it's line endings or something. I'm on Safari on macOS.
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Comment #48538311
Even with the stats it doesn't work. Maybe hacker news comments don't preserve whitespace or something.
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Comment #48538246
I tried to verify your text and your website says "DOES NOT MATCH THIS RECEIPT"
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Comment #48105250
"Mainstream" people will also look at past evidence that A, B and C did Y, and say something like "that was N years ago, surely nobody would do this today".
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Comment #47832621
Even if you assume the cost of lodging was 1000€ (which it isn't) then the au-pair would still be significantly underpaid. A normal full time employee costs at least 2000€ a month …
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Comment #47593264
giving each of our kids their own room reduced our families stress level significantly. it's not 100% necessary, but i really don't think that making kids share a room helps them g…
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Comment #47109250
If a blocklist doesn't get updated it is outdated in a week. Some tools are useful without updates. A blocklist for AI content farms that are sprouting like crazy is not helpful if…
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Comment #46286328
I've worked with an organisation that was on the receiving end of a popular charity, and they definitely got something (new playground equipment for disabled children). Can't say h…
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Comment #46286272
I'm still waiting for the tech world to wake up and realise that the online ad machinery and user tracking software that the brightest minds of our generation have been working on …
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Comment #46286243
Pretty impressive work. I always wondered what all those correspondents do that news organisations employ all over the world. I guess that's one of those things.
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Comment #46230796
Corporations aren't people, but in the end it's still people that are responsible for this crackdown on liberal content. It's someone at Facebook making these decisions, someone wh…
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Comment #46230114
> fringe networks that are off the radar and will take them to very dark places very quickly Soo... we already have a problem with some youths running into extremist content on Fac…
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Comment #46215158
The jokes are not new. If you read Philip K Dick or Douglas Adams there's a lot of satirical predictions of the future that sound quite similar. What's amazing about LLMs is how th…
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Comment #46110361
I think it means encoded in such a way that you first have low res version, then higher res versions, then even higher res versions etc.
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Comment #46108434
> Where do you collect feedback? Using every possible channel. Feedback button in the app, email, Github issues, ... I make it as easy as possible for people to tell me what they w…
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Comment #46085347
Can you expand on that? Do you have any knowledge about those parts except their part numbers?
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Comment #45993957
My son started walking at 8.5 months. He's got a 3.5 month head start on those 12 month walking late bloomers. I have very high expectations. I wonder where his walking skills are …
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Comment #45963309
And performed by researchers that received free education in their home country before moving to the US because they hope for a better career there...
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Comment #45911542
Might be a result of using LLMs to evaluate the output of other LLMs. LLMs probably get higher scores if they explicitly state that they are following instructions...
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Comment #45873862
You are missing inertia! The state of each ball can be described by 9 parameters: the current location of the center of mass (x,y,z), the current linear velocity (vx, vy, xz) and t…
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Comment #45873591
> Is everything 3% cheaper in the eu? No, because in Europe sales tax is higher and included in the displayed price, so stuff is generally more expensive. But obviously everything …
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Comment #45864012
Credit card rewards are not good for consumers. Low fees are good for consumers.