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“ TL;DR: For a journalist, IMHO, think of your chatbot as a combination of an intern, a first-pass editor, and a fact-checker. It's job is to do grunt work and help you turn in cle…

Flock helped catch the Boston/Brown shooter.

Cosma Shalizi has a great article on these themes, arrives at similar conclusions https://crookedtimber.org/2012/05/30/in-soviet-union-optimiz...

You can’t have the former without the latter unfortunately. Freaks make the world go round. Nice guys merely shuffle after them.

You might find this interesting: Metaobject Protocols for Julia https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2022/16759/pdf/OASI...

Community Notes?

This is too insignificant for a “take”. It doesn’t change anything substantial for me or most existing Twitter users.

>fireworks Usually this is too vacuous of a criterion for comments on any other topic on HN. For some reason any post on Twitter has pages and pages of “yikes” “derp”, people gossi…

Example? Who are these people forced to use Twitter?

Have you considered looking away?

Have you considered looking away?

>For example, if you’re looking at static inequality, Europe appears to be more egalitarian than the United States—their wealth is more evenly distributed across the population. Bu…

The problem is decline in elitism(in the arts, in politics, in the academy..) but nobody wants to hear that in these populist times. Democracy+markets are working extremely well fo…

"On the startup bailout. It is claimed that the startups who put all their cash in SVB will now be forced to close, so get going with the bailout now. It is not startups who lose m…

>Hilary Allen, a law professor at American University, thinks crypto is inherently susceptible to boom-and-boost cycles and manipulation by insiders, and thinks it should be banned…

Message from the PM: https://twitter.com/rishisunak/status/1668174629695832064

That’s the point I think: these west coast companies are moving/hiring elsewhere

>I now believe the future will be far more irresponsible and stupid than I once did. >I am increasingly worried that human success and failure are ruled by taste — the demand side,…