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downbad_on I Lost my $2M book deal because people mistook my African dialect for Al I

Jerry Falade's $2.4 million book deal collapses after his own agent pulls it over AI concerns

https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/jerry-falad...

downbad_on Always Go to the Funeral (2005)

What's pretentious about it?

downbad_on Ask HN: Is there any Hacker News but for investing/trading/economics etc.?

Remember, if what you seek doesn't exist, you can always try to build it.

downbad_on Ask HN: Is there any Hacker News but for investing/trading/economics etc.?

I would imagine the subreddits

downbad_on Show HN: Name100Challenge – name 100 famous women in 12 minutes

Nice job.

downbad_on Does every question mark deserve a Betteridge?

No.

Even the often linked Wikipedia article said -

"A 2016 study of a sample of academic journals (not news publications) that set out to test Betteridge's law and Hinchliffe's rule (see below) found that few titles were posed as questions and of those that were questions, few were yes/no questions and they were more often answered "yes" in the body of the article rather than "no".[11]

A 2018 study of 2,585 articles in four academic journals in the field of ecology similarly found that very few titles were posed as questions at all, with 1.82 percent being wh-questions and 2.15 percent being yes/no questions. Of the yes/no questions, 44 percent were answered "yes", 34 percent "maybe", and only 22 percent were answered "no".[12]

In 2015, a study of 26,000 articles from 13 news sites on the World Wide Web, conducted by a data scientist and published on his blog, found that the majority (54 percent) were yes/no questions, which divided into 20 percent "yes" answers, 17 percent "no" answers and 16 percent whose answers he could not determine "

downbad_on Trump administration bans new Chinese humanoid robots

Like they threatened to ban TikTok because it was so good it was sucking millions of Americans in.

downbad_on Ask HN: What Do You Do?

1. Go to the gym daily (which I already do).

2. Watch interesting movies and TV shows (which I already do).

3. Read books (Which I already do).

4. Write code and try to build things to make more money (I already do the writing code part, but I make no money)

Edit: You should preface your submission with an Ask HN:

downbad_on Telegram's t.me domain name is back

For those who might have missed it -

Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended 335 points 17 hours ago 255 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48897878

downbad_on Ask HN: How do you use LLMs for private discussions?

Can't you do it logged out?

downbad_on Ask HN: Please give us an option to hide our username in the upper right corner

Then log out.

downbad_on How Fighter Jets Lock on (and How the Targets Know) (2014)

https://archive.is/OHCwT

downbad_on How Fighter Jets Lock on (and How the Targets Know) (2014)

https://archive.is/OHCwT

downbad_on How Fighter Jets Lock on (and How the Targets Know) (2014)

https://archive.is/OHCwT

downbad_on How Fighter Jets Lock on (and How the Targets Know) (2014)

GPS was originally an exclusively military project developed by the U.S. Department of Defense in the 1970s. It was designed by the U.S. Air Force to assist with precision bombing and troop navigation.

The internet too, or its precursor, was originally built for the US military.

downbad_on Ask HN: How to delete Hacker News profile?

I don't believe you can delete your profile, they'd just change your username to something else. Your comments remain forever.

downbad_on Ask HN: How are you finding work/gigs as a SWE?

I'm not.

downbad_on Ask HN: Why Do AI Credits Expire

Accounting purposes, I guess.

downbad_on Ask HN: What is your #1 practical lesson or "aha" moment from coding with AI?

This is very similar to a recent Ask HN post that made the Frontpage.

Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48406174

downbad_on 91% of plastic isn't recycled (2018)

Recycling was a lie — a big lie — to sell more plastic, industry experts say

https://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/the-passionate-eye/recyclin...

downbad_on Ask HN: How do you find new books to read?

I use Hacker News. I used to use r/books but I stopped because more often than not, what they mention there doesn't appeal to me.

I use Hacker News. How? When you're reading through threads, people often just mention a book related to the topic at hand. And I check it out.

There are lots of smart people here, and it's reflected in the books they read.

But, while you wait to find books to read, here are some interesting threads for you.

Ask HN: What nonfiction books do you keep rereading?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40277933

Ask HN: Mind bending books to read and never be the same as before?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23151144

Good luck. The universe is expanding, read and let your mind expand too!

downbad_on Why Are Human Teeth So Messed Up? (2017)

Some creationists would say that cancer isn't necessarily proof of poor design but a consequence of inherited sin. If we were still perfect the way Adam was, we would not have cancer.

Note, I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with the position, just presenting it as I understood it.

downbad_on I Hate the Weekends (2017)

>I work from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m

That's sad.

downbad_on It's Not Just X. It's Y

Signs? Those are normal ways of writing? What the hell? Is everything AI now?

downbad_on Why Did the Murders Stop in Baltimore?

McNulty: So your boy's name is what?

Man On Stoop: Snot.

McNulty: You call the guy Snot?

Man On Stoop: Snot Boogie.

McNulty': He like the name?

Man On Stoop: What?

McNulty: Snot Boogie. [man shrugs] This kid, whose mamma went to the trouble of christening him Omar Isaiah Betts. You know, he forgets his jacket, so his nose starts running, and some asshole, instead of getting him a Kleenex, he calls him Snot. So he's Snot forever. Doesn't seem fair.

Man On Stoop: Life just be that way, I guess.

McNulty: So, who shot Snot?

Man On Stoop: I ain't goin' to no court. [shakes his head] Motherfucker ain't have to put no cap in him, though.

McNulty: Definitely not.

Man On Stoop: I mean, he could've whooped his ass like we always whoop his ass.

McNulty: I agree with you.

Man On Stoop: He goin' kill Snot, Snot been doin' the same shit I don't know how long. Kill a man over some bullshit. I'm sayin', every Friday night in an alley behind the Cut Rate, we rollin' bones, you know? I mean all them boys, we roll til late.

McNulty: Alley crap game, right?

Man On Stoop: Like every time, Snot, he'd fade a few shooters, play it out til the pot's deep. Snatch and run.

McNulty: What, every time?

Man On Stoop: Couldn't help hisself.

McNulty: Let me understand. Every Friday night, you and your boys are shooting craps, right? And every Friday night, your pal Snot Boogie... he'd wait til there's cash on the ground and he'd grab it and run away? You let him do that?

Man On Stoop: We'd catch him and beat his ass but ain't nobody ever go past that.

McNulty: I gotta ask ya: if every time Snot Boogie would grab the money and run away, why'd you even let him in the game?

Man On Stoop: What?

McNulty: If Snot Boogie always stole the money, why'd you let him play?

Man On Stoop: Got to. This America, man

downbad_on Why Did the Murders Stop in Baltimore?

They stopped Marlo.

downbad_on Ask HN: How much time do you spend cooking every day?

An hour, give or take.

But I'm not a great cook, just a guy with a severely limited repertoire.

It would take considerably longer otherwise.

downbad_on Ask HN: Entrepreneurs, how long did it take you to succeed?

Which is?

downbad_on How far behind are open models?

Deepseek is really good, and I've found it consistently better than ChatGPT. I don't know what the hype behind OpenAI is. I don't know if they were better and got worse, because I could swear ChatGPT was good at some point in the past.

downbad_on Seven Ways to Avoid Losing Your Job to AI

Make yourself indispensable.