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Shoutout 250m.com, you’re not forgotten

Wait, Panasonic’s headphone jack remote shutter port has an undocumented use of zoom and focus adjust? Does this mean I didn’t need to buy the Aputure DEC LensRegain for my GH4? So cool to learn this either way, I never would have suspected undocumented use.

You’re right, that’s a flourish. But more importantly, the author isn’t claiming no one uses it / finds it useful. Her point is about potential problems that could occur as its real (though flawed) utility drives its broader adoption in particular arenas.

I don’t think that.

“Everybody…except [those advocating for it]” –– rhetoric that borders on tautology but, regardless, the author cites the Gallup poll showing 7 in 10 Americans oppose constructing data centers and alludes to other widely-held sentiment. But it’s not about your feelings (or their feelings).

This piece, by a defense analyst formerly at RAND, expands its concerns out from public sentiment and is mainly drawing attention to major yet-unsolved and generally uncontested issues such as AI output being unoriginal (fundamentally, due to next-word prediction), the output polluting future training (garbage in garbage out), and errors only being caught by experts (cf. the Gell-Mann amnesia effect). The essay, in a political magazine, intends to warn elected leadership about strategic issues that are likely to arise if our government and experts intertwine AI into their decision making without these concerns being solved first.

I agree but there is https://github.com/Dan-Q/ibiblio-icon-archive/tree/main/icon... and then you can put a . (or a .gif) in your OS search box

Like the FedEx arrow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion

This is why the <q> element exists which enables locale-aware quotation marks: https://w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/questions/qa-the-q-element...

  :root:lang(en) { quotes: '“' '”' '‘' '’' }
  :root:lang(fr) { quotes: '«' '»' '«' '»' }
  :root:lang(fr-CA) { quotes: '«' '»' '‹' '›' }
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Other industries wisely self-police before this happens, eg how the film industry adopted the MPA Ratings System

“I have given up on American journalism. The decline of the American press has long been obvious, and my time is too valuable to waste in an effort to supply the ‘man in the street’ with his daily quota of clichés, gossip, and erotic tripe. There is another concept of journalism, which you may or may not be familiar with. It’s engraved on a bronze plaque on the southeast corner of the Times Tower in New York City.”

—Hunter Thompson, letter to William Kennedy, 1959

“An institution that should always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong to any party, always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing news, always be drastically independent, never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty.”

—Joseph Pulitzer, New York World mission statement, May 10, 1883, quote appears on The New York Times bronze plaque

Also the mention of turf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%B3rd_na_M%C3%B3na

Misred the title as YC Winter 2011 batch for a moment

Ambulnz by DocGo

Sanitizing efficacy is total organism count. Hand sanitizers are regulated by the FDA and tested in vivo using ASTM 1174 (Health Care Personnel Handwash / HCPHW test) and ASTM 2755. E1174 tests for Serratia marcescens or Escherichia coli. E2755 tests for S. marcescens or Staphylococcus aureus. ASTM E1174-21 includes a precision and accuracy statement. The FDA explains: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/09/06/2016-21...

generally an allusion to the sophomoric takes of enthusiastic ignorance found on places like Reddit (where The Oatmeal and Cards Against Humanity were popular)

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41756432 and https://hacker-recommended-books.vercel.app/category/0/all-t... and https://ramiro.org/vis/hn-most-linked-books/ – it doesn't exactly mean good but it also doesn't mean nothing

Someone might have said similar about (Systrom's version of) Instagram: if it's only for photos, it's not a Facebook replacement.

author at Random House, angel investor, expert on publishing and digital books, former product designer at Flipboard: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=craigmod.com https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=craig+mod

There’s A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend Them Back by Bruce Schneier

https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393866667

Kind of related is peppercorn leases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppercorn_(law)

There’s a 501(c)(3) dedicated to this too: https://lnt.org/

For an example of Abstract Wikipedia see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23718571 (with discussion)

from https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Examples

This writeup looks at a successful product with a small number of features that was thereby distinguished from a field of unsuccessful products with a large number of features. Accounting for many products, considering both successes and failures (i.e. using a wide selection of data), it argues that the distinguishing factor of less features was related to the device’s popularity.

In the canonical example of survivor bias, the only bombers being examined (for their characteristics) in the original flawed analysis were the ones that made it back; the planes that were shot down (and their characteristics) were not being considered — an error.

I think the NYT might be one detecting them which is funny because their editorial staff have promoted the use of aliases.

I lived in a Hasidic neighborhood in Los Angeles and only have had good interactions with them. Always liked seeing their Hatzalah ambulance staged down the block.

It’s much more complicated and interesting than this. Books have been written about it (eg. Circumventing the Law: Rabbinic Perspectives on Legal Loopholes and Integrity by Elana Stein Hain). One of the ideas is that halachic loopholes are meant to be discovered. It’s also been compared metaphorically to the difference between tax evasion (impermissible) and tax avoidance (legal means to reduce our obligation created by the authority’s design) which is something we all do.

The expectations set for what turns out to be an article without solutions are also raised by the title the author chose. Show us these mythical perfect frames?

For a good example of this (maybe the one you heard?), see WNYC's On the Media segment (aired December 30 or 31, 2004) titled "Pulling Back the Curtain": https://wnyc.org/story/129437-pulling-back-the-curtain/

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I assume you mean a self-driving vehicle but if not: https://www.zipcar.com/cities