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Comment #49199181
Maybe instead of "easy" what they really meant that axis to convey is something more like "low stress" or "not frustrating"
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Comment #48931555
It could also be because the headline of that post is more generic (and IMO more clickbaity, less informative) – "Mark Zuckerberg's biggest legal nightmare yet could cost Meta $1.4…
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Comment #48864826
A US administrative labor law judge judge found that software maker Atlassian had illegally fired an engineer after she pushed back against manager layoffs and other policy changes…
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Comment #48836975
> Why not just say "Irresponsible use or agentic-based PR's will be auto-rejected"? ... tools like Github Copilot can just act like fancy autocomplete. For what it's worth, this is…
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Comment #48836110
Larger discussion (400+ comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48743472
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Comment #48836105
Larger discussion (400+ comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48743472
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Comment #48296231
The open letter, signed by over 500 faculty from various UC sites, says "current admissions practices do not provide a sufficiently reliable check on mathematical readiness for STE…
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Comment #48183962
But if the flip side (getting compensated) wasn't also an important concern then maybe far more software would be OSS in recent decades...
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Comment #48173780
For the 'don't want to live in transit-dense cities like London' crowd, beating the economics of taxis may not be enough since that's not what you're competing with out in the subu…
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Comment #47932007
- When GPT 4 was asked to evaluate resume executive summaries, it preferred ones written by GPT over human-written ones > 93% of the time. - Similar "bias" was exhibited by other m…
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Comment #47860121
Intercepting a meteor falling to Earth may be not too unlike intercepting a ballistic missile in its terminal descent from high altitude.
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Comment #47646898
TLDR: The majority of teens surveyed by Pew Research talk to AI chatbot characters/companions. Teens were aware of cases of suicide blamed on them, and told the NY Times they know …
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Comment #47591905
And in fact wasn't a popular Python library just compromised very recently? See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47501426 . So Python's clearly not "batteries included" enough …
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Comment #46932227
Also what is the capitol cost to stand up a golf course vs. a solar farm of equal size? I would imagine solar requires locking up a much larger investment.
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Comment #46932216
Your main point still stands, but aren't both of them renewable? Corn is a renewable resource, thus ethanol derived from it is too. It's just seemingly a much less efficient renewa…
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Comment #46916338
But in this case, isn't the whole pitch that the agent has access to all your data (and the network!) so it can fluidly perform any task you ask of it? Either the agent needs to be…
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Comment #46892671
Some highlights from the abstract: - Analyzes fact-check requests on X (Grok and Perplexity) - "exposure to LLM fact-checks meaningfully shifts belief accuracy" comparable to the d…
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Comment #46892451
The 3D printers don't generate the plans for the gun for you though. If someone sold a printer that would – happily with no guardrails – generate 3D models of CSAM from thin air an…