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Dude I loved CDBaby. And yes, even 4 years is kind of a short time to be successful (profitable, sustainable).

Came here to say this. The Space Trilogy is one of the best series I've ever read. That Hideous Strength reminds me a LOT of what's happening these days. Even moreso than 1984. Would love to see a great director tackle it as a film.

An idea I'd like to see: 100 ways to think about God. Book and/or podcast. Bring on expert biographers. Research how Aristotle, Pascal, Lincoln, CS Lewis, etc thought and wrote about God.

This is so full of holes I don't even know where to start. But the main one is that you have a false dichotomy in assuming that individual success and "helping everyone do better" are mutually exclusive. For example, see the free market economy of the past 250 years.

False positives would be way better than worthless. They'd give AI bot mods a fighting chance. If you don't think AI generated writing is detectable, ask Google how they were able to filter spam. Layered signals works.

Horrific events happen almost every hour of every day. This is political, and the events that are upvoted are always from the same political perspective. If you don't see this, you're blind. But from my perspective, mods do see it, are ok with it, and that is unfortunate. There are few places left online without explicit political bias. HN used to be one of them.

The best fix I've made to any voice-mode AI is giving it a "done" word. So it has to listen for "pineapple" before it's allowed to process what I said. Just like radio comms (over and out).

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Came here to say this.

I'm sure someone's working on a way to tell the difference programmatically. Maybe a combo of tone, grammar, and some way of telling how fast it was typed using metadata (which may not exist). Even if there was a "probable AI" filter, that would be helpful because it would be a starting point to improve upon.

I don't think that one's even on the list of top 1,000. It's incredible how hard we try to avoid hard things.

Who built it?

This comment thread shows how feminized and weakened our language has become. Modern terms like “serviceman” and especially “service member" are mostly 20th–21st century bureaucratic jargon.

Soldiers were just called soldiers. The word soldier just means a member of an army and has been used for centuries.

Warfighters is probably more accurate for their intended job description.

Also the original commenter does not understand the word "Orwellian" and uses it just to mean "different than what I'm used to" which is a common mistake.

There is another, deeper level of happiness, not mentioned in any of these comments. Around 62% of the US population has found it. That number used to be higher. In the tech world it's much smaller percentage. The powerful love you feel as a father or mother can actually be compounded, even when didn't think that was possible. It comes from first principles and historical truths. There is a book about it - it's the best selling book of all time.

A member of Governor Walz’s staff is the publisher of that newspaper.

Steve Grove has been the CEO and Publisher of the Minnesota Star Tribune since April 2023. Prior to that, he served as Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED)—a cabinet-level position—under Governor Walz from 2019 until early 2023. Walz appointed him to that role, and Grove's departure from state government was publicly congratulated by Walz when he transitioned to the newspaper.

https://adamcquirk.com/videos/ - I made videos on the internet 20yrs ago.

A recent X thread by UK MP Andrew Bridgen compiles quotes from 16 scientists who previously worked with or contributed to IPCC reports. The statements accuse the IPCC of: deliberately downplaying uncertainties excluding or minimizing solar/climate natural variability politicizing the process and suppressing dissenting views producing misleading press summaries that diverge from the underlying science cherry-picking data on sea-level rise, extreme weather trends, and model performance

Among the named scientists are several well-known figures in climate skeptic circles (Judith Curry, John Christy, Richard Lindzen, Richard Tol, Nils-Axel Mörner, etc.).The post has attracted significant engagement in certain political/climate-skeptic communities and is being used to question the IPCC's scientific integrity and the legitimacy of its policy-relevant conclusions.

Why is this on hacker news?

Is Harvard the top university for mining research though? I assumed it would be Texas A&M or Purdue or something like that.

The fact that they are using Wikipedia for a primary data source exempts them from any further serious consideration.

Notorious for dropping packets.

Curious if anyone reading this has explored the alternative theories to Darwinian evolution. I only recently started looking at it, so don't want to share links because I don't know what is believable. But it seems there are major flaws that even Darwin knew about. He considered Origin of Species an abstract, and was promising the full "big book" for the rest of his life, but never was able to pull it together.

If any of this ever happens, their party can claim that they did it.

Yep came here to recommend this. Incredible story.

I think the key word in this is "choice", which is what D voters did not get. They got an attempted installation. Installation failed. See error log.

I loved Squarespace Note, and this seems like a close relative. Downloading now.