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Furthermore, a bunch of functionality was entirely deleted, and the effect on the quality of discourse has been... Profoundly negative.

The smokers who DON'T get lung cancer still have more heart and lung problems (like emphysema, COPD, etc.), and those get significantly worse late in life.

Hmm. Every time I've been in a similar scenario (breaking a fall, warding off an incoming projectile) it has been my wrists that broke.

Don't forget that the dishwasher also uses less water and the dishes get sterilized by the steam.These features may or may not be important for a particular user.

But doesn't that mean that ranking the ideas to find the ones most worth testing is a useful problem to solve?

If I understand what's been published about this, it isn't just ideation, but also critiquing and ranking them, to select the few most worth pursuing. Choosing a hypothesis to test…

For a while, anyway.

People are using these models to generate candidate molecules for specific purposes. According to some estimates I've seen, their hit rate is about 50% instead of 25-33%, and doesn…

Um. How are you measuring that productivity?

Are the training costs (CapEx) and inference costs (OpEx) being lumped together?

I spent a moment with my brain froze up apparently trying to remember when the first Terminator was supposedly deployed in one of the timelines. Then I realized the reference was t…

It's written in second-person.

If you're working from the markup rather than the appearance of the page, you're probably increasing the incentives for metacrap, "invisible text spam" and similar tactics.

That's the same thing, the credible "chance to unseat" becomes "motivation to acquire", leading to a much faster and more certain exit. Of course, that's exactly the pattern of beh…

... which ignores the hazards of pencil shavings in a zero-g environment, especially the graphite, a good electrical conductor.

If by "pirating" you mean distributing copies, probably not. But if you mean downloading copies, probably yes. Consider the case of the film student studying the entire ouevres of …

The "U" in UBI is for "Universal". There is no means-testing. Everyone gets it regardless of assets or income, which means there is no need to spend any effort on checking whether …

This is HN. The canonical example for that is pg's Viaweb.

An "Editor".

But the site isn't a .com anyway...

> What is the top 10% of the Internet that isn't part of some publishing arm of existing media? Why does that even matter?

It's true that the quantum mechanical influence amounts to randomness, but you're missing that this (weak) randomness is constantly being injected into biological processes and amp…

> Obviously this wasn’t Kinko’s official stance. Just one obstinate, over zealous employee. You might think that's obvious, but you'd be wrong. Software publishers were cracking do…