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The problem is everyone seems to have forgotten that old adage "always check your sources." This is the same problem Wikipedia had - if you took things verbatim from there, and didn't check the sources, then the mistakes are indeed your fault.

Microsoft Windows EULA has a similar clause as well. Maybe not as broad, but if Windows screws up at a really inopportune moment and it harms people, you don't get to run after Microsoft about it.

If that's your only goal in life, sure.

That sure got circular fast.

In the 80's there was a relatively famous Canadian comedy duo that did a song called Dolly Parton's T*ts. Definitely there was an obsession with them. I still remember David Letterman joking with her about them, too.

I would go one step further with "Name and describe a few candidates that conform to this recommendation" and watch it enthusiastically hallucinate candidates.

I believe it'll get there one day. But it's pretty clear we're still at "incredible toy" stage.

Does that mean you don't even review it to see if it at least matches your expectations?

Exactly. I think of a Meta-like hole that you shout into, and no response comes back. Even for insurance claims. It's inherent to the technology. Google and every other big corp is like that online, too.

I have a theory that Trump not only boycotted the dinners for a few years because he's so fragile about things said about him, but mainly because he is self conscious about this: He has no idea how to make or interpret a joke. That's why he does accordion hands and repeats his quips so very often. It worked in the old movies people laughed at back in the black-and-white days! He doesn't know how dull or stupid he sounds because he very much does not understand humour. He only (fake) laughs when safe people around him laugh. And he is acutely aware of that.

No. But if I had to, then I want to go a bit further back to pre-commercial constant tracking. As long as I get to take a modern LCD monitor with me.

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.