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The day I couldn't write a poem
Article URL: https://sunsetdandan.itch.io/the-day-i-couldnt-write-a-poem
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39954871
Points: 1
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Netheads vs. bellheads redux: the victory of SIP over the teleph (2023)
Article URL: https://www.devever.net/~hl/sip-victory
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39954862
Points: 2
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What is the most useful project you have worked on?
Follow up to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39942397
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39954849
Points: 3
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Using Hallucinations to Bypass RLHF Filters
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04769
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39954831
Points: 1
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Show HN: Tie-in, a relational data component library
Article URL: https://github.com/aycangulez/tie-in
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39954827
Points: 1
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Teachers are using AI to grade essays. Some experts are raising ethical concerns
Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/06/tech/teachers-grading-ai/index.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39954823
Points: 2
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How Google Lost Ground in the AI Race
Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/4dfc113f-ccbe-4d11-82b5-761c77fbda24
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39954816
Points: 1
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Have AI-Generated Texts from LLM Infiltrated the Realm of Scientific Writing?
Article URL: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.25.586710v2
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39954802
Points: 2
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Avatars Generator
Article URL: https://getavataaars.com/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39954778
Points: 1
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Popping Under Pressure: The Physics of Popcorn (2005) [pdf]
Article URL: https://depts.drew.edu/govschl/NJGSS2005/Journal/TeamPapers/T3_Popcorn.pdf
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39954774
Points: 2
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Varela National Park map and tour packages
Article URL: https://www.pertourmarket.com/forum/tourist-destination/varela-national-park
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39954543
Points: 1
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Brutalist Hacker News
Article URL: https://github.com/wkyleg/brutalist-hacker-news
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39954541
Points: 1
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Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats facing the GNU Autotools
Article URL: https://www.owlfolio.org/development/autoconf-swot/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39954488
Points: 1
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Loriini.nvim: a color picker plugin for Neovim
Article URL: https://github.com/kolja/loriini.nvim
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39954479
Points: 1
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Will the Gates Foundation's preprint-centric policy help open access?
Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00996-8
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39954474
Points: 2
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The Problem of Piracy
I saw a post on Hacker News that made one of the better arguments against piracy. I want to be upright and give up piracy if convinced but I’m unsure of the soundness of this argument. It went something like this:
1) It is immoral to willfully break an implicit agreement 2) Piracy willfully breaks an implicit agreement 3) Therefore, piracy is immoral
The first premise (it is immoral to break an implicit agreement) is doubtful. Consider the following info about Rosa Parks.
She enters into implicit agreement with Montgomery Buses: You agree to give up your front seat if you ride the Montgomery Buses. She enters the bus with the intent of sitting in the front seats even if they fill up (aka enter with the intent of breaking agreement). She clings to front seat after the section fills up. We celebrate her moral achievement.
And consider the similarity of the situation with me and piracy.
I enter into implicit agreement with Bard Press: I agree not to make copies of books published by Bard Press that I have access to. I enter a shadow website with the intent of making a copy of a book published by Bard Press (aka enter with the intent of breaking agreement). I make a copy of the book. What should be the reaction?
I think if one is freed, they both are freed, on the basis of this argument:
1) One has a moral responsibility to break unjust agreements 2) The agreement with Montgomery Buses/Bard Press is unjust 3) Therefore, one has a moral responsibility to break the agreement with Montgomery Buses/Bard Press
And so it seems to me that wherever the agreement is in the wrong and where defiance is in the right, the defiance is illegal but moral. Suspect the true issue of piracy lies with premise two: “the agreement with Bard Press is unjust”. This is an expression I might hear from the shores of The Pirate Bay and among the leaders of the Copywrite Abolitionists. Pirates denounce today’s agreements unjust while the law prescribes them just. This to me is the crux.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39954450
Points: 1
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Comparison of Android ROMs
Article URL: https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39954435
Points: 1
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DESI first-year data delivers unprecedented measurements of expanding universe
Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2024-04-desi-year-unprecedented-universe.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39954429
Points: 1
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Faces.js, a JavaScript library for generating vector-based cartoon faces
Article URL: https://zengm.com/facesjs/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39954422
Points: 3
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Show HN: Web App) Simple Melody Loop Maker
Article URL: https://lab.aizastudio.com/musicalbox
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39954406
Points: 1
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