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by hackermatic 5mo ago
There's at least one company that straight-up reverses a pacifistic cultural reference: a Ukrainian autonomous weapons company called The Fourth Law, as in Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics to prevent humans from coming to harm. A
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by hackermatic 5mo ago
I've run into one government website that required email addresses to come from gmail.com, outlook.com, or another common domain, and several websites that won't let you change your email address once registered. It also makes i
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by hackermatic 6mo ago
How do you fix that data has already leaked and been copied somewhere else under someone else's control? That damage has already been done, and it's not restorable like rebooting a crashed system.
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Welcome to the Quake Brutalist Game Jam(theguardian.com)
3 points by hackermatic 8mo ago|0 comments
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by hackermatic 8mo ago
What about finding them through the records of their citizen children? Edit: cael450 has already offered a specific example of this threat vector: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46758387
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Declining Accessibility in Pokémon Games(everything2.com)
3 points by hackermatic 10mo ago|0 comments
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by hackermatic 2y ago
That has not been the case in the three cities and health systems (edit: in the US) in which I've had transgender care over the past decade.
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by hackermatic 2y ago
I hope commenters will dig into the author's citations' data, in line with HN's discussion guidelines, instead of just expressing a negative opinion about the thrust of the article. The quantifiable impact of genAI on code pr
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by hackermatic 2y ago
As counterintuitive as it seems, that was my experience living in one of those neighborhoods and visiting others over several years. A handful of small stores on one block or corner every half-mile really doesn't induce that much traff
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by hackermatic 2y ago
I think people in the US overestimate how much upzoning "has to" affect most neighborhoods, especially infill development or removing default single-family home zoning. I used to live in Minneapolis, which has lots of century-old
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by hackermatic 2y ago
Honestly, yeah -- it's not a cheat code, it's facing two sets of pressures from discrimination, not seeing many like you in your field, what you deal with outside of the workplace, etc. And it helped me to see how many people befo
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by hackermatic 2y ago
Local hosting/processing is a good thought, but it only helps in limited circumstances, because partners you haven't separated from yet are likely to have physical access to your devices. It's one of the big criticisms of Mic
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by hackermatic 2y ago
A lot more people are vulnerable to abusive partners than you may think, and that's a threat model most of these products never consider.
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by hackermatic 2y ago
I don't think the Big Three record labels will want to stop this, even if it's massive copyright infringement, because it's not a threat to their business model. Labels create a whole ecosystem around a limited set of artists
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by hackermatic 2y ago
Edit: Other commenters report that Android will silently re-enable cell data under various conditions, so this isn't a surefire solution, either. The Grugq created a tool for this a decade ago (sadly unmaintained): https://g
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by hackermatic 2y ago
People have been anecdotally reporting and investigating similar problems since at least last year[0], and it's entirely possible that changes to improve one aspect of a model could make it much worse at other aspects without careful r
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by hackermatic 2y ago
We used to say the same about Eclipse!
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by hackermatic 2y ago
Could you explain what you mean by that idiom?
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by hackermatic 2y ago
I encourage people to look for a variety of opinions on this bill -- and its various parts -- so you can better figure out which parts you actually want to keep, change, or remove, and give your legislators that specific feedback. Alliance
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by hackermatic 3y ago
I'm surprised that wind is such a small part of the US's projected future energy mix. Does anyone know why? Wind power works overnight, it leaves a lot more usable land than solar does, and there's a lot more capacity to be e
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by hackermatic 3y ago
Some important businesses are just terrible investments. Airlines come to mind; they always seem to be one minor downturn away from insolvency.
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by hackermatic 3y ago
It's always a bad time to be an actor, between long hours, low pay, and a culture of abuse, but this will definitely make it worse. My writer and artist friends are already despondent from genAI -- it was rare to be able to make art fu
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by hackermatic 3y ago
If you or another reader has a Lobste.rs account, would you mind sending me an invite? I've been curious to join for a long time. My email is in my bio.
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by hackermatic 3y ago
People and governments really need to start asking if the results of the current generation of FAANG-size LLMs are worth the costs, in additional chips, power, and cooling water -- especially in locations that are constrained for any of tho
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by hackermatic 3y ago
Because, as the article goes on to say, the problem isn't that genAI repeats copyrighted material. Rather, its automation and massive scale upends the labor incentives that copyright is intended to provide, in a way that a human synt
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Pitchfork Hit with Layoffs as It's Folded into GQ Magazine(thedailybeast.com)
4 points by hackermatic 3y ago|0 comments
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Substack is going to remove five Nazi newsletters(theverge.com)
7 points by hackermatic 3y ago|0 comments
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Tea and Famine(tinyletter.com)
1 points by hackermatic 3y ago|0 comments
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by hackermatic 3y ago
You're right, but Wikipedia says that Cox Enterprises (which owns the ISP) retains a 29% stake in CMG.
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by hackermatic 3y ago
The marketing company is owned by Cox, an ISP, cable, phone, and general media conglomerate. This capability is apparently already active and being sold. The full article title is: "Marketing Company Claims That It Actually Is Listenin

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