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People talk on the phone all the time on every US metro I’ve tried. Seems fine if they’re not on speaker or raising their voice

It is marketing, they are a shady company, and yet, if someone had access to these results before today's modern AI tools, they could get tenure at any university in the world.

So this is a bit of a hot take for HN, but while my life is dramatically more convenient due to smartphones, “better” is actually not obvious to me. Some things are better, some ar…

I agree with some of your characterizations here, but I don’t think it is fair to say that if you are not currently a professional artist, you were never a true artist. People get …

Sure, this mirrors history, technology is always transforming economics. I guess my point is that there is a decent sized middle class of creative professionals right now, and I ex…

It was already bad, but I think there is still room for it to get a lot worse unfortunately.

They are not always the same but there is more overlap than you would think. One place that I know is being hit hard is Nashville (no comment on what this implies about the state o…

AI is destroying the economics which allowed for a sizable middle class of artists. The issue is that many are paid for their art mostly for its aesthetic rather than artistic valu…

I think shade is a big factor here. Trees can really cool down a neighborhood.

I found replacements for the Chrome extensions I was using and switched to Zen, which builds off of Firefox and closely resembles Arc (RIP). It might not be the best security idea …

Round brackets are standard in the US but that notation is used in France and some other places.

I think there is still an implicit restriction on the complexity of the operator for this to be interesting. Otherwise you could design an operator which accepts a pair x,y and per…

There are certainly no other causal factors... I'm not saying that it couldn't be true, but we have no way of concluding that from just comparing such rates. There are many differe…

The choice was to review using AI or not, they can just say no? And review like we’ve done for years without AI tools. Are you objecting to ICML’s reciprocal reviewing policy? The …

What? Why is that a false choice? The only way you got caught here is if you literally gave an LLM the PDF and used its response verbatim. And they didn't give a permanent ban or a…

Banned for life is a stretch but the actual response is completely fine. They can just resubmit to the next conference. Words mean something, if you promise to uphold a contract an…

Loads of researchers have only used LaTeX via Overleaf and even more primarily edit LaTeX using Overleaf, for better or worse. It really simplifies collaborative editing and the ve…

Our democracy is clearly disfunctional. I believe corporate money has played a big role to make it worse.

https://noambrown.github.io/papers/22-Science-Diplomacy-TR.p...

I see. You seem quite sure that Iran is not doing this - do you have some local source of information? My friends there said the government does shut down the internet at times (bu…

They did shut down the Internet. I cannot communicate with some Iranian friends right now.

You think many are built without any assistance for coding? My impression was that people were mostly concerned about game assets like graphics and music

It is nicer to state theorems that hold for all vector spaces, so mathematicians like to invoke AoC. However, in any applications that are practically relevant, you can obtain a ba…

Netflix wasn't buying CNN.

I don’t think many researchers take peer review alone as a strong signal, unless it is a venue known for having serious reviewing (e.g. in CS theory, STOC and FOCS have a very high…