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warkdarrior

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    Comment #49249579

    No, no verification. From the post: > "Nothing in the bill requires a passport scan or a face scan at setup. It’s self-declared, the same way most apps ask your birthday today, jus…

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    Comment #49202283

    And what is this Congress going to do about it? Nothing.

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    Comment #49202270

    This is about over-the-air/broadcast stations (e.g., ABC/NBC/CBS affiliates), not cable stations like CNN.

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    Comment #49202252

    Correction: > The reason is simple. Short sentences are punchy. They hit hard. But they carry emotional weight.

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    Comment #49200599

    It's a big enough problem in Brazil that the government has an official app to report incidents of phone theft: https://www.gov.br/pt-br/apps/celular-seguro-br https://www.gov.br/p…

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    Comment #49192509

    > You can't plant trees in a rail yard. Why not?

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    Comment #49192344

    Can't you use an open-source wallet app? F-Droid seems to have a bunch of them.

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    Comment #49187933

    The change is that it'll be owned by the top 0.0000001% who control the LLMs that will be your new boss.

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    Comment #49174332

    They tried to roll out in New York City, but the city did not approve. https://www.twu.org/twu-tech-newsletter-waymo-no-mo-in-nyc-f...

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    Comment #49172011

    If you know all this, can you explain how these models produce advanced mathematical proofs? (as recently done by OpenAI, for example) I tried to generate the next word to the best…

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    Comment #49171737

    Ehmm... offering "consulting" should come with a contract specifying scope of work, data/device access, and expectations.

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    Comment #49148401

    Yep, it's AI slop through and through. > "The working bias is fat artifacts + fat context."

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    Comment #49148345

    I don't know what is the right amount of management, and I'm sure there are some management roles that add no value, but it seems to me that you cannot have UPS function with just …

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    Comment #49128740

    Not sure this does anything for data portability, since apps will just store the data as encrypted & signed BLOBs.

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    Comment #49127056

    They specifically ask not to create/submit a formal proposal. I do not see any restriction on the use of AI otherwise.

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    Comment #49126612

    > At Amazon we have many forums [...], but none to share AI failures or disappoinments. I come to HN to read about AI failures and disappointments.

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    Comment #49126586

    We KNOW AI is bad, so why would we have a use for "concrete evidence that it can help"??

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    Comment #49126418

    Yes, the second option gives me an easily inspectable list of results (as I can see all the tool calls the model made). The deterministic script is probably overly complex and hard…

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    Comment #49118528

    I always say "Bring out the Gimp".

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    Comment #49115265

    > Soccer is by far the most popular sport on the planet, the fact that it makes a lot less money than hockey is insane. Maybe fans would prefer that it stayed that way.. making jus…

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    Comment #49112182

    My guess is that the formal spec for a basic TODO list app is the same size as the source code of the app itself.

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    Comment #49112049

    And these Discord child exploitation reports are sent to Google? And Google enforces them by locking down the user's Android phone?

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    Comment #49111974

    Is there an open-source alternative to Android Auto? It cannot be a regular tablet app, its UI has to be adapted to car driving (bigger buttons and simplified UI, at a minimum) and…

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    Comment #49111856

    I thought Google Search is dead, everyone is using ChatGPT now to find information.