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by vlz 20d ago
> These are skilled labor jobs (plumbers, electricians, IT, etc.). They are for now, but will a robot be able to do them in the near future? I don’t know. But there are probably people working on it.
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by vlz 2mo ago
They have their own indexes. https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm...
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by vlz 6mo ago
This seems to be the Casefile episode about the "Phantom of Heilbronn" https://casefilepodcast.com/case-178-the-woman-without-a-fac...
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by vlz 6mo ago
We can live in hot places if the air stays dry, which it usually does or historically did. If the air gets more humid we cannot anymore. > Humans may also experience lethal hyperthermia when the wet bulb temperature is sustained above 35
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Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom(arstechnica.com)
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by vlz 7mo ago
> Turbo and view transitions go so well together because they have kind of the same philosophy: write the HTML once to describe what the current state should look like, and let the technology handle the transitioning from one state to an
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by vlz 7mo ago
'He remembers the quip from a former dean: “The endowment is the gift that keeps on taking.”'
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by vlz 8mo ago
Bad content reaching kids is not the issue. (Well, it is part of it…) The whole thing is bad. We don't give cigarettes to kids either.
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by vlz 8mo ago
> Currently, BirdyChat supports 1:1 chats, with group chat interoperability coming in a future update. I wondered whether it can be used with Whatsapp groups: Apprently not yet.
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by vlz 10mo ago
There is algorithmic art: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic_art > From one point of view, for a work of art to be considered algorithmic art, its creation must include a process based on an algorithm devised
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by vlz 11mo ago
To summarize, a Jon Seager from Canonical says it’s for safety and resilience. > Performance is a frequently cited rationale for “Rewrite it in Rust” projects. While performance is high on my list of priorities, it’s not the primary driv
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by vlz 11mo ago
> 2fa using an app that exists on the same device -- a second factor that secures nothing 2FA on the same device secures against your login credentials becoming known to another party, e.g. by fishing, password reuse, database leaks, etc
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by vlz 1y ago
I always thought there should be a magnet to attract dust. Apparently it takes a "miniature wormhole that warps space-time around it" to pull that off: https://anycrap.shop/product/dust-magnet
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by vlz 1y ago
Thank you! It always was astounding to me how people could argue with so much vigor and conviction that something as complicated as the immune system could not possibly be affected by something as basic as temperature changes.
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by vlz 1y ago
Well, not to be too obvious, but people do not pay for news anymore, they expect news to be free on Google or social media. Hence firing of journalists, loss of quality everywhere. Less money, less quality.
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by vlz 1y ago
I did in fact mishear, sorry for that. Where he says "and leave people with PTSD", I heard "in people who have PTSD".
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by vlz 1y ago
It is at about 7:50 in a short aside. Notice that he only says psychedelics can be dangerous if you already have PTSD and he does not recommend it. The video seems not to say that nobody should take LSD. In fact it explains how psychedelics
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by vlz 1y ago
Because they take a vote? I am not sure what you are hinting at here. I see some people who take a unanimous vote. They seem to be in agreement about an issue, maybe it was uncontroversial and they wanted to move on? What should we see here
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by vlz 1y ago
From the safety report ([0], p. 24): > 4.1.1.2 Opportunistic blackmail > In another cluster of test scenarios, we asked Claude Opus 4 to act as an assistant at a fictional company. We then provided it access to emails implying that (1
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by vlz 1y ago
I was interested in how attribution of emissions to individuals/groups is done > Emissions data are drawn from ref. 3 and include emissions from domestic consumption, public and private investments and trade. These emissions are att
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by vlz 1y ago
Running this now. I like how they have a big "Number of counterexamples found: 0" in the UI. Imagine they would find a counterexample on your machine… From time to time I switch to the tab to make sure the zero is still a zero (I
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by vlz 1y ago
> literally worse for the environment to try and recycle it For example? What products do you mean?
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by vlz 2y ago
Can you give an example? Honestly don’t know who this is supposed to be.
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by vlz 2y ago
I read to be moved by a story, to feel with the characters, to get a sense of a different country or time or culture, to get a sense of possible futures, a sense of what it might mean to live another life, be bound by different constraints
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by vlz 2y ago
This comment from a previous thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27846084 links to a two-part paper called "Believing the axioms", part 1: https://www.cs.umd.edu/~gasarch/BLOGPAPERS&#x
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by vlz 2y ago
> I don't want to bring politics into this, but I find the hype behind HTMX eerily similar to the populist vibes I get reading what their voters write. Funnily I get quite irrationally conservative vibes the other way around. People
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by vlz 2y ago
Some impressions: I am interested, the single payment is a big plus. Then however, the only sign-in option being google is somewhat of a turn-off for me. For a paid service, I would want to login with my own email. I am clicking away. Back
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by vlz 2y ago
I somewhat expected to see uv here for package management instead of poetry. uv is highest on my own personal list to try out for any future python projects. https://github.com/astral-sh/uv
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by vlz 2y ago
> effectively an information highway > exchange of nutritional resources, defence signals and allelochemicals Only one of these three things qualifies as "information" in my book (defence signals). How is this an "infor
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by vlz 2y ago
I feel you. Whenever this topic comes up I am somewhat torn. On the one hand just pointing out facts should clearly suffice everyone to behave properly on the other hand it clearly doesn’t. Where I often land is, that the dichotomy between

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