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Agreed. If the content isn't really designed for the wide world, the www hostname seems to be self-defeating, or at least describing the wrong thing.

Funny thing is, if you ask ChatGPT this very question, it'll give you a lot of examples.

Why do you call a news aggregator an OS? Just wondering. It seems like an odd thing to call an OS.

Confirmation bias. Simply repeating does the trick. The interesting part isn't that this error comes up. It's that it very often decides "weird" means "pornographic" and starts to generate such an image before catching itself.

Donald Trump is one who also believes this. Apparently he believes you only have so many heartbeats, and so you should avoid increasing your pulse.

That's interesting. I got an error, "We’re so sorry, but the image we created may violate our guardrails around nudity, sexuality, or erotic content. If you think we got it wrong, please retry or edit your prompt." that makes me really want to know what it came up with.

Trump's agreement: Promise not to use how USA accidentally taught you to (successfully) fight back.

I got this same response for a couple different searches today. Maybe it's a model update. It is clearly trying to answer like a chat bot right off the start.

A better result would perhaps be a definition for nvm, since that's the likely reason someone would put it alone in a search form.

I wonder if the scammers have been doing this already. Remember when you could buy naming rights to a star, or acreage on the moon? Elon selling lots on Mars might not feel far fetched to at least one demographic he already caters to.

Only if you think AI is going to be analyzing and approving the papers for publish. I suppose AI will eventually stop bullshitting (some people call it hallucinating, but really, that's a completely different thing), and we might start to trust it excessively enough to not have human check points in science. But for now, I don't think so.

I use Phone Link so I can conduct text messaging from my laptop. Any time I'm away from home and have to use the screen, even with Swype, I'm reminded of how much better the keyboard is for getting your thoughts out without a gazillion typos.

I remember when people talking on their cell phones through ear buds "looked crazy." Now a room full of those same people whispering is gonna be less obnoxious, but feel like you wandered into a bizarre ritual.

Mindless entrancement always looks weird to others.

I'm surprised there are zero reports from Canada.

Interesting. I would make the results colour coded to remind the user what they chose. Especially since the nature of some questions is such that a user's opinion could ebb and flow depending on external events of the moment.

Since speed is of the essence, the poll probably gets very honest answers, even if a person isn't so sure about something.

I absolutely love going to the beach. White noise masks the tinnitus so well I can't even hear it when I self-test. It's the only time I truly get a break from the sizzling and squealing.

True, it isn't likely going to go away. My hearing aids help immensely, but mostly with tolerance, and not occurrence. It is pretty much background noise to me nowadays, although some things can really set it off. It doesn't drive me batty anymore, at least!

Yes, it totally can.

I have severe tinnitus. First, I had a minor variant for many years. But what I didn't realize is that I was slowly losing my hearing in one side. Then I had surgery (tympanomastoidectomy) to remove the cyst that grew to the point it dissolved my stapes altogether, and now I have a severe variant, and significantly less hearing in that side. My tinnitus ramped up to a whole new level after that surgery.

I tried a phone app where you would play a tone that approximates the current tinnitus tone, or white noise lacking just that frequency area. In every case, all it would do is change the tone my tinnitus was making. Sometimes it made it worse than it ever gets on its own.

Likewise, in the summertime my tinnitus is regularly set off by the sound of cicadas. That tinnitus sounds so similar that at times I have to do an ear-plug test to see if it is just cicadas, or if is just in my head. No joke! I hate it big time.

Having said that, I now wear hearing aids (including for my ear that wasn't operated on, just to round out the age-related hearing loss), and this surprisingly makes it WAY more manageable. When I've been wearing them, I still always have tinnitus, but it is relegated to background noise. When I don't wear them for a long time, I'm usually punished for it. It takes days of proper hearing before the tinnitus goes back to background noise level sometimes.

BTW: I also get other types of tinnitus, which makes it worse. For example, on waking it is a really low sound that sounds like an idling diesel motor. I can even feel that one. I got that really bad after surgery, and I get it now when I'm ill. All of this was really debilitating for a couple years post-surgery, but I've come to grips with it now.

Just about anything can set it off. Cicadas, as I mentioned, but also rapid temperature changes, exertion (although weirdly I never notice it at the gym. It's just noisy enough there to mask the squealing I guess.), hearing something unexpected at a really high pitch, and being tired pretty much guarantee a hell of a racket in my head.

Nice. With the cost of components right now, it sometimes feels like Raspberry Pi dev is at a standstill. This looks like a productive gadget that still flies in under the price radar.

I was remarking a few days ago that I remember just a small number of years ago when I would use an app on my cell phone and with some luck, catch a glimpse of a passing satellite (especially Iridium flares).

Now there are so many satellites at all moments of the day and night that this little bit of joy is completely gone.

Back then, spotting the glint from a satellite was a fun and rare treat. Now depending on where the sun is, you can pretty much guess when a good time to see them comes up, and then you'll trail several of them across the entire sky until you get bored and go back to bed. No reason to concern yourself with mere flares anymore, sadly. (Even though sometimes those were exceptionally bright!)

This reminds me of reports many years ago about playing (classical) music for plants to spur them on a little.

This makes me wonder if they sense the movement of the music and confuse it for rain.

Are you writing the lyrics? Using AI? Both?

It's a "joke" spam ad for another website, and nothing to do with AI. Probably doesn't make for a very good HN post.

On most social networks, each post is met with flame bait and off-hand cynicism. Even the most benign post is dragged down with comments about how stupid/boring/etc the poster is. Why people insist on being so unpleasant, I'll never know. But they are very loud about it.

Then there is the endless stream of AI spam, GOP and foreign propaganda, tracking and advertising. It would be nice if the ads weren't nearly all fake products and snake oil. It seems the real product advertisers don't want any part of it either.

People are given ample incentives to leave it all behind and focus more on real life instead.

They used to say this exactly about databases. Small companies usually only need a spreadsheet.

Here is a link with info about the Canadian coin. It was pretty big in the news when the mint first presented it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Maple_Leaf

This isn't an area of competition I thought I'd ever see.

I thought it was because of the tech use of "demon" and trying to avoid that kind of terminology.

Ends up the reason was even simpler than that.

Once upon a time I saw a political cartoon of two mountainous heaps of products. On the top of one there was a COCA COLA flag. On the other, PEPSI.

The later in my life, I recognized it in the Microsoft vs. Apple thing.

Soon we're gonna be there with the top 2 AI companies. I hope it's the one in my portfolio!

Memory of this cartoon keeps popping up throughout my lifetime. Everything eventually becomes us vs. them.

Toronto has awesome hotdog vendors. They serve different types of sausages, and of course weiners ready for the flame grill. They are all large size, and there are a gazillion toppings for you to put on yourself. I've never seen better in the US, or anywhere else for that matter.

This isn't unlike "the right to remain silent." It's weird that people don't fully understand that to mean stfu for your own good, 'cos the only notes they are writing are toward building their case against you.

Forensics isn't the way you characterized. There are forensic teams for both sides of every coin that needs forensics. It's literally a battle of what side can make the most compelling argument, and nothing more or less.

The most compelling argument is the one that has lots (the term "a preponderance" gets used in law where I am) of corroborating evidence through tools/techniques/people that are presumably not sharing and comparing notes or data with each other.

People thinking how complicated this must be to filter through for forensics, forget that during and following the Covid lockdown, cities monitored sewage water for Covid viral load. They even recognized and reported the specific strains and their dominance in the samples. This includes finding "new" strains, and all this among all the other DNA/RNA bits to be found in city sewage.

So the technology is indeed there to find the needle they're after in the haystack they're provided.

Forensics never relies on a single piece of evidence. It takes several corroborating accounts and pieces of evidence to reach "beyond reasonable doubt."

This is why even breathalyzers have to be done twice, with a gap in between (and preferably with different sensors). It's also why several witnesses are examined. It's why fingerprints and lie detectors alone don't pass the muster. Nearly anything can be faked, or misinterpreted. All these things have to be used together to create an unbreakable story.

So there is next to no risk with DNA in the air.

As an example, there recently was a guy who went into a police station and claimed that he was relocating there from another province. The officer on duty was suspicious, and found there was no record of this officer in the entire country, and arrested him. In court, the guy got off the hook, even after impersonating a police officer and trying to infiltrate a station, because the officer on duty did not collect the appropriate evidence. The camera footage looked entirely normal. It became entirely hearsay.

You can pretty much expect him to charge that officer with wrongful arrest now.

We may never know what that guy was up to. But he certainly had chutzpah!