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Hi all, I wrote a blog post about how "prediction markets" are undeniably gambling. Dodging the label lets them get away with incredibly harmful things, and avoids a harder society…

Hi all, pleasantly surprised to see my own article posted to HN before I did! I did space to push anything out about this for the most part, so thank you to speckx. Anyway, happy t…

Disappointing to see AI used in what otherwise seems to be a well-intentioned project. As an adult I think some of these graphics are confusing at best and I question your familiar…

"Skill" with an LLM is nonsense. It's non-deterministic, so any equal efforts are not to be given equal outcome.

Projects like this are truly baffling to me, the point of journaling is in part the reflection, which you offload to the AI system in this case. You spew what thoughts and feelings…

It seems entirely fair to me that you can't wager against something that you directly had a hand in the outcome of, even accepting the bunk premise that these wagers are legal in t…

Interesting move to have ASCII represented by something that is decidedly not ASCII. All these AI projects disappoint me in how little they care about getting things right, just lo…

The assumption that people's problems with Flock don't extend elsewhere is misguided. There's no reason to assume that people are totally okay with Ring and Palantir especially, ju…

Impressive, I asked it how many r's in strawberry and it was immediately wrong with 2. any further questions I asked it proceeded to re-explain why there were 2 r's in strawberry, …

I'm struck at how brutal it is to be a woman in even pseudo-progressive tech spaces at times. How talking the talk does nothing if HR and leadership quickly and quietly work to und…

This is a really fun project! Makes me feel a bit dumb, but I think that's what good puzzles do! Going to keep checking in on this.

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I do think this is a (late to the party but) good policy overall from them. Monetization is biggest incentive, and then requiring labelling will be good for consumers making inform…

There are a couple different solutions, depending on where you have your music. For organizing, as another user suggested, Picard is your friend. You point it to your collection an…

I don't understand why everyone wants to talk to everything. I've never been reading through a document and thought "Man, I sure wish I could ask this a question"

Seems like a weird project from a bunch of students, feels like a funneling of right wing dark money and another desperate attempt to stave off the American interest in socialist p…

Little bit of number crunching shows that the median increase is 112%, so a 2.12x increase. Median for GER/FIN region is 120%, USA region is 157%, and Singapore is 71%. Worst of al…

The original title is "Agentic Shopping Is Worse for Everyone But Lazy Fucks" but I didn't want to get in trouble for unnecessary profanity or trying to grab clicks. It's how I fee…

Another piece from my blog. I have a lot to say about Suno, but I think their view of human creativity is unfortunate and their view on what "music" is is depressingly narrow. It s…