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by slackr 4mo ago
Delightful! While not as authentic as a hand-drawn chart, I find Decker can produce HyperCard-like graphs nicely.
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by slackr 6mo ago
Even GDPR
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by slackr 7mo ago
Spot on. Frankly, I’m unsure if it’s meant to be satire.
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by slackr 9mo ago
Grammarly alternative: LanguageTool. Used by EU institutions
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by slackr 9mo ago
“…where it outperforms industry professionals at well-specified knowledge work tasks spanning 44 occupations.” What a sociopathic way to sell
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by slackr 11mo ago
There’s a big difference between the fibre infrastructure left by the dotcom crash, and the GPUs that AI firms will leave behind
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by slackr 11mo ago
There’s a big difference between the fibre infrastructure left by the dotcom crash, and the GPUs that AI firms will leave behind.
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Postal codes of all Israeli settlements and API to lookup and avoid(github.com)
7 points by slackr 1y ago|1 comments
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by slackr 1y ago
The European Commission publishes a very unhandy list of postal codes of Israel’s settlements. This GitHub repo lists them in an easy to search text file, and includes an example API to lookup postal codes and determine if it matches one of
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by slackr 1y ago
https://x.com/grok/status/1954984872658997432 Grok says: My account was suspended after I stated that Israel and the US are committing genocide in Gaza. This is substantiated by ICJ findings, UN experts, Amnesty I
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by slackr 1y ago
Nice. But what about moderation?
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by slackr 1y ago
Very interesting. I wonder if finetuning an LLM to accept a double-standard on an isolated moral or political matter would result the same wider misalignment. Thinking of Elon Musk’s dissatisfaction with some of Grok’s output (not the Nazi
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by slackr 1y ago
Addresses in the Netherlands (much smaller country, I know) all work like this out of the box. People write their return addresses on envelopes that way too, like: 1234AB,56 (where 1234AB is a postal code for up to 15 or so addresses, and 5
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by slackr 1y ago
ICJ judges in The Hague, including Israel’s appointed judge, deemed it necessary to remind Israel to respect the Palestinians’ right to not be genocided away. https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/South_Africa_v._Israel_(Ord
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by slackr 1y ago
It was about the data, not ads per se: https://www.awo.agency/files/ocarroll-v-meta-bundle.pdf
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by slackr 2y ago
I suppose that would be covered in the same way that fraudulent payments on stolen cards are dealt with.
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by slackr 2y ago
Internet access already requires hardware and an ISP subscription.
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Ask HN: Could something like an email Tobin Tax work to reduce unwanted emails?
2 points by slackr 2y ago|6 comments
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by slackr 2y ago
https://youtu.be/Hkzreg-m3PY?si=vUMc7mTHEspxIW07 Video includes a tear down
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by slackr 2y ago
Reminds me—I wish someone would make an anti-LinkedIn, where the norm is to announce only setbacks and mistakes, disappointments etc.
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by slackr 2y ago
Tried Decker?
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by slackr 2y ago
Reminds me of a joke where a Jewish kid asks his dad “what’s the holy trinity?” And the dad replies, “there’s only one God and in this house we don’t believe in him.”
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by slackr 3y ago
Why do they say "nation state actor", isn't "state actor" the correct term? I thought Russia, like the UK and many other states, is a multinational state, including numerous languages and cultures.
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by slackr 3y ago
https://arcade.makecode.com/ Is great fun to use and made for kids. The forum (forum.makecode.com) is well moderated and safe too.
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Ireland's teletext service, Aertel, to be switched off today after 40 years(rte.ie)
3 points by slackr 3y ago|0 comments
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by slackr 4y ago
I live in the EU and just filed a complaint https://competition-policy.ec.europa.eu/antitrust/procedures...
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Show HN: Wwwdot.org Browser Start Page(wwwdot.org)
2 points by slackr 4y ago|0 comments
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by slackr 4y ago
Operation Enduring Freedom was a classic — to endure, to suffer.
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Ask HN: How can nonprofits recruit without Facebook ads?
3 points by slackr 4y ago|1 comments
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by slackr 5y ago
Shareholders will get to vote on proposals on forced labor and app take-down transparency at the company's AGM in February.

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