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Most large US companies if they want to have the government as a client, have special rooms with employees with security clearances that work mostly on projects that the CEO and even their line managers do not know what they are. HR also have a special employees or a private section that deal with these people. There is some deniability also: the managers can tell the truth under oath and say they have no knowledge about the projects!

It's part of normal business operations not some secret illegal shady kick backs operation within some kind of spy movie.

There's no need to secretly infiltrate a company when the company is working happily with you. People underestimate how close big business and 3 letter agencies actually are in many cases.


I'd be super interested in seeing what words and phrases get added or removed with each IOS version update. I imagine during 2020 for example there were more ... medical... related terms in the list!

The list only dates back to 2020, but there were some phrases added in 2022 along the lines of "Covid is a hoax/scam": https://swipeblocked.com/changes

Its legally required, but in practice a large amount of publishers do not submit a copy, and there are no real consequences for not following the law.

This illegal non compliance becomes much more common in expensive books, digital-only publishers and in data publications which are commercial.

E.g. think of some very expensive report on data centres aimed at the hedge fund trading market, government procurement datasets, geodemographic data, credit risk databases, bloomburg trading data etc.

If it's published, even if it costs a lot, it should all be viewable for free in the library.


> community based compute donation

also, spare LLM credits from donations for use by community groups


Related: "I dumped Apple’s word list" 2 days ago, 120 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50357782

Would it be possible to get versions of the files to see when certain words got added and I imagine certain words got removed? Could be interesting to correlate certain events, personalities, trends, memes, controversies etc with the changes.

It was added in 23 so there's potentially 3 years of updates.

Edits: This comment shows differences between 15.6 and 26.2 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50358223


Try playing the game to win rather than playing it "straight". Or try finding the rules of the game or finding whether it's possible to win or lose, can you get 100% can you get 0%. What does winning mean?

In other words finding the game in the game can be a game.


Or if it's a club and the club has a car park for patrons only but the club is closed for renovations, or only opens at the weekend. But the club car park is very near a supermarket you go to which only has paid car parking. Can a club member park at the club when the club is shut to only go to the shop?

Would it also matter if the club had paid membership or anyone could belong to it for free?


Previously: 2023 1K comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36453856

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Fun game! I like how even if you know the "rules" and try to play against or with them, it still is a challenge.


It's hard to define and pin point what a "voice" is. Think about how you would describe the difference in voice of Tolstoy vs Dostoevsky, or William Gibson compared to Thomas Pynchon. You might have to read a lot of a writer to be able to notice their voice. You might even notice how a short story by an unknown writer resembles the voice of another.

Or think about reading something that might be stuff you could say in your own words but not actually in your own voice. Or maybe the opposite is a better example for you? That's what some poetry is about. The gap between voice and word.

Stylometry is the study and measurement of text, so that can go some distance to quantifying the difference between voices and can help to programmatically identify a human voice but I feel that because a voice comes from a person, the recognition is also mainly a human response.

At another level its about communication, person to person with the intention and desire to communicate something. LLM text output may seem uncanny as it's hard to emulate the intention and desire and empathy present in genuine human communication.

I would be interested in reading what poets say about LLM voices. I wonder if many LLM labs employ them?


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