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Re:EU to consult on making Big Tech contribute to telco network costs
on Sunday September 11, 2022 @04:08AM (#32797743)
It would be easier to accept if dishwasher and washing machine companies were already being made to contribute to munincipal water system costs.
Re:It's time to scrap wax seals on wine bottles
on Saturday September 10, 2022 @12:05PM (#32791834)
Can we discuss if it's time to scrap paper-based media first?
Buying a whole newspaper for a subset of interesting articles is so 20th century.
The curated portfolio sale business model (magazines, newspapers, albums, etc.) is far more irritating than wax on a bottle.
Re:DALL-E Diversity Filter completely breaks certain prompts
on Sunday August 28, 2022 @12:03AM (#32625645)
A bit of a bait-and-switch title. Why not use the actual "DALL-E Unleashes Natural Stupidity to Fight Its Own Artificial Intelligent Racist Robots"?
The tone seems unreasonably harsh, and the essay does not provide any insight on how OpenAI might have otherwise addressed issues on provision of intelligent tools trained on generally available, but sometimes flawed data.
Re:A deceptive curing practice in hunter–Gatherer societies
on Monday August 22, 2022 @06:16AM (#32549491)
Tell me I am not the only one who clicked on wondering how old societies had a fake bacon problem.
Re:An Old Medicine Grows New Hair for Pennies a Day, Doctors Say
on Friday August 19, 2022 @05:59PM (#32526476)
Same story, no paywall https://news.yahoo.com/old-medicine-grows-hair-pennies-12061...
Re:I Went Viral in the Bad Way
on Thursday August 18, 2022 @11:23PM (#32517313)
If he, and others in his profession before him, had written on typewriters, the typewriter company employees could still be working at typewriter companies.
Re:Nowhere on Earth where rainwater safe to drink – study
on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @09:30PM (#32420574)
Not to dismiss the real issues raised, but the title seems to imply that rainwater is dangerous in any quantities, while the report reads that rainwater does not match safety requirements for as a regular long term drinking water source.
Re:Carlos Ghosn’s Brazen Escape from Japan
on Sunday August 07, 2022 @10:51PM (#32382016)
A popular narrative is that the choice is between Ghosn being guilty or a victim of a Nissan management coup d'etat.
This is a false dichotomy, it is also quite possible that illicit activity by Ghosn provided convenient ammunition to people with incentive to have him removed.
People pushing the binary narrative focus on how the Japanese prosecution seems over the top for what is essentially a financial reporting law violation. However, the reporting issues are only two of the allegations.
The other two seem more serious, breach of trust in getting Nissan to cover collateral for FX losses, and misappropriation of funds in which $15 million was sent to a Nissan dealership, a portion of which was then transferred to a company controlled by Ghosn.
Adding to these the French arrest warrant on charges of money laundering and abuse of company assets, which seem to include misuse of company funds to allegedly pay for a lavish personal party at Versailles, one must wonder if online Ghosn supporters are organic or reputation management staff.
Re:UN warns of ‘Total Societal Collapse’ due to breaching of planetary...
on Monday July 11, 2022 @07:32PM (#32063559)
Reading this first helps.
Re:Show HN: ReadHN, A Hacker News reader with some nice little functio...
on Thursday July 07, 2022 @10:49PM (#32022465)
Nice. If you had an option to hide selected domains (I would blacklist pay-walled sites), it would be compelling.
Re:San Francisco is the most childless major city in the U.S.
on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @06:37PM (#31498370)
The use of the term "childless" implies more is better. If one does not subscribe to cornucopian infinite growth, "childfree" would be preferred.
Re:MAME 0.242
on Saturday April 02, 2022 @06:25PM (#30892213)
Living in Japan, I have always said "ma-me", but it turns out that it should be "maim":
"On December 24th, 1996, Nicola Salmoria began working on his single hardware emulators (for example Multi-Pac), which he merged into one program during January 1997. He named the accomplishment by the name of Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, or MAME for short (pronounced as the word 'maim' in English, other languages may differ). ..."
Re:Ask HN: What is the most unique website you’ve come across on the i...
on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @09:30AM (#30441330)
http://radio.garden/
Map-based internet radio tuner.
Re:Some Thoughts on Vegetarianism and Veganism
on Monday February 14, 2022 @10:54AM (#30333501)
For anyone else wondering, EA = Ethical Altruism
Re:‘Trading is gambling, no doubt about it’ cryptocurrency dealing fue...
on Saturday January 15, 2022 @12:07PM (#29948048)
There is another important distinction. For some of these (equities, fixed income) risk taken may be compensated by the risk premium. Others (FX, cryptocurrencies) have no risk premium, so risk taken is uncompensated. Finally, sports betting, casino games, lotteries), there is a house edge, vig, such that the buyer pays to take risk and has a negative expected return.
Re:Fish sausages: Ugandan CEO taps into demand
on Sunday December 19, 2021 @05:16PM (#29619010)
Fish sausages are sold in Japan, and these are a finely emulsified sausage of fish with pork fat.
Run the Japanese Wikipedia page through a translator for more background: https://ja.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%AD%9A%E8%82%89%E3%82%BD%...
This is a graph of fish sausage production 1953-2020 https://www.jca-can.or.jp/~sausage/tokei-htm/ in Japanese, left axis is tons.
I've translated a 1939 paper on fish sausage and whale ham production methods, comment if interested.
Re:A diet of essential amino acids could keep dementia at bay
on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @10:44AM (#29095378)
This is the paper
"Neurodegenerative processes accelerated by protein malnutrition and decelerated by essential amino acids in a tauopathy mouse model"
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/355523308_Neurodege...
Re:Nearly 40% of adults from 25-54 are unpartnered [Pew Research]
on Thursday October 07, 2021 @12:03AM (#28781698)
Unpartnered or partner-free?
Re:I just don’t want to be busy anymore
on Sunday September 26, 2021 @07:38PM (#28665628)
YMMV, but on Android in Chrome app, long press and "open in incognito tab" made it readable for me. Also, seems poster is not OP. In a side note, I would love it if HN links were color-coded or otherwise marked as free, closed-garden, soft paywall, or paywall.
Re:Unauthorized Publications (New Jersey Department of Corrections) [pdf]
on Saturday August 14, 2021 @01:17AM (#28178213)
Very interesting, thanks. For reference, these seem to be the standards:
New Jersey Administrative Code ... §10A:18-4.9 - Disapproved content in publications https://regulations.justia.com/states/new-jersey/title-10a/c...
Risky but Raw: On (Not) Regulating One of the Most High-Risk Dishes in Japan
Re:Ask HN: How to deal with coccyx pain while sitting?
on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @11:48AM (#28143517)
Is the seat pad a normal seat pad or a donut pad? If not the latter, worth a try, very helpful when I had a broken tailbone.