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Reddit seems to me like the worst example for this. Reddit does not create the content on their site, the users do. If anybody’s going to get compensated for that content, it shoul…

Given Pete Hegseth’s history, this could be a huge national security issue.

This. What everybody keeps forgetting over and over again is that software is super complicated even if it can be changed from a keyboard without the use of physical morphing tools…

Wow! That chair costs about $2000. https://store.hermanmiller.com/office-chairs-ergonomic-chair... Nice back you've got there. It'd be a shame if anything happened to it.

There’s a long history of using various organs from dead animals as parts/tools in agricultural and industrial processes. This is one of the smallest scale cases I’ve heard of, but…

It's definitely a cult for elected officials who join (according to your discriminating criterion)

Why did the original post for which these are the discussions disappear from HN? I cannot even find it with a word search and it should not have been displaced from the top 30 yet.…

I suspect this was an easy way to test it without having to build a rotatable optical bench. A practical device may be an array of light sources and telescopes on a rotating mount …

This is truly terrible. What happened to a new JS front end library every week? If this keeps up, we won't get to completely throw away all of our old code and retool every two yea…

I guess this signals the end of focusing on testing to prove one's "rank" as a student and actually start focusing on educating students rather than evaluating them. The whole prob…

Waldorf schools work. There is no testing, there are no grades until high School. Lots of the silicon valley elite send their kids to Waldorf schools. Are they all completely unawa…

This document is conduct unbecoming of a congressional committee.

Can you guys add huggingface transformers as one of the public demo repos? I have some very specific use cases where I've seen ChatGPT with GPT4 totally fall on its face Dunning-Kr…

So specifically, you are saying that LLM coding assistant currently gets confused when working on a large source file but if it had room for more context, you could get better help…

No specific practical problems though? Looks to me a lot like "it's amazing. we want more amazing" rather than "if we had it, we could solve this specific practical problem people …

I see that lots of folks are working on building LLMs that can handle more context without breaking the bank on GPU. Is there a real practical reason for that right now or is it ju…

This is just one case the general rule of ambiguity. At one of my jobs, a product manager came up with the idea of categorizing explicitly delineating everybody's selection criteri…

I agree that humans are a blight on the planet. We need fewer of them and more resources for the benevolent AI overlords, I mean buddies. Fortunately, naturally declining populatio…

To all the folks who are so concerned about bad actors trying to develop organisms that will harm people: Have you forgotten that the world is full of bad actors who are literally …

At first when I started reading this it seemed rather compelling but the further I went along the more I could see they were making use of innuendo and psychological manipulation t…

Assholes who actually can learn to hide the fact that they are assholes are probably a lot less annoying.

The vast majority of people are unwilling/unable to think deeply enough about the system to understand it. Thus, the simplified rule of thumb that generating electricity reduces yo…

This is approximately half the plot of Terry Gilliam's movie "Brazil"

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