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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
Because it's Salesforce and people love schadenfreude, especially when it's inflicted on a villain. And Salesforce isn't exactly well loved in the industry.
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
Now this is the kind of high quality, well thought out, insightful commentary I look for on HN. Thank you for your contribution.
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
No. That's not how the law and the legal system work. The law was written prior to the existence of digital computers. That law, as written, made copying a program into computer memory to execute it illegal. The law was dumb. But judg
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
The human brain has synaptic pruning. The exact purpose of it is theorized but not actually understood, and it's a gigantic leap to assume some sort of analogous mechanism between LLMs and the human brain.
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
> Anyone with two brain cells should know that one should review outcome with a little bit of common sense? Have you not met people? First, technology companies have spent decades marketing their solutions as magical and perfect. And no
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
> This isn’t an LLM story, it’s the story of putting an unprotected blade into a children’s toy. But what if knives were a brand new technology no one had seen before and so had no familiarity with the risks, while the knife manufacturer
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
One of the big ones for me was Wayland support in neovim-gtk ( https://github.com/Lyude/neovim-gtk ), which therefore, unlike gvim, fully supports fractional scaling.
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
> I suggest you go back and look at your first reply to me. Do you think it was crafted to elicit good mannered conversation? Yup, that's fair, I came out swinging because I read this: > They only ridicule it because they don&#x2
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
> But not Haskell, right? "Be honest". I absolutely have worked with Haskell and written a number of non-trivial programs in it, including a bytecode interpreter for a toy virtual machine. I also spent quite a bit of time writi
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
Great non-answer. Meanwhile, no honest Haskell developer can claim to have never been surprised by a space leak at one time or another. Why? Becauze laziness is simply harder to reason about. It's a lot like coding in something like Pr
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
So you've never had a space leak? Be honest...
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
I don't think I disagree and I don't think Matt does either. The point is that from a bank employee perspective, a hallway conversation, a text message, and a WhatsApp chat might seem pretty similar, and no one expected face to fa
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
Basically every major bank is being fined for this behaviour. WF is a truly, uniquely terrible bank, but this incident is not proof of that.
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
To the surprise of no one, Matt Levine has written about this a few times (there's some other linked issues in here as well): https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-08-08/don-t-... His is a pret
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
> I don’t think you should be telling others to “get a grip,” because their experience differs from your own, but here we are. You tried to attached the American cultural norm of manners and courtesy to their history of black slavery. &q
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
> as though everyone at HN becomes disinterested in discussing subjective viewpoints once disagreement occurs. Except you didn't present your viewpoint as subjective, did you? No, like many of the other folks participating in this t
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
I take it you've never heard of Amazon? You know, the company this article is about? The largest online retailer in the world? The one that typically offers free two day shipping?
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
Well you have clearly missed the point of my comment. Yes, it's "forced" on them, in the same way that many many other behavioural expectations are "forced" on a worker. They're "forced" not to abuse
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
Yes, because this is about relative cultural norms . At what point did I claim otherwise? Unlike everyone disagreeing with me, I'm not the one claiming my values and expectations are in some way universal or superior (though I can se
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
> “Unsmiling” is not “unprofessional". And now we're back to cultural norms and expectations, and there's no point in arguing about something so very subjective. The original complaint was about "weird" Americans
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
And I'm glad that, for those more introverted among us and/or find those social conventions difficult or tiring, that you have that option!
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
Great! Delivery fees are already unsustainably low. Getting a product to my door cannot possibly be free ! That cost is simply being borne somewhere. And since the cost of products isn't rising (or wasn't until COVID), then tho
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
> That's literally his point, the whole friendly-service-with-a-smile thing is forced on them by their managers/corporate, Courtesy with customers is forced on them? My god! The next thing you'll tell me they're ex
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
> This is such a weird American fixation. Here, take my money and hand me my burger and receipt, there's no need for a conversation or a fake smile. You don't care how my day is going, I don't really care about yours. Let&
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
I have the same reaction every time I look at modern C++.
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
> Strong disagree. Yes, neural nets are blackboxes, but the generated code can be idiomatic, modular, easy to inspect with a debugger, etc. I think you missed my point. If I'm inspecting code from another human, I'm going to ma
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
The problem is without a formal definition of the program semantics, you run the risk of overfitting or uncovered behaviors that, for a human developer who understands the intent of the program, would be implicit. And given how hard formal
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
Let me guess, you were never a Perl programmer? Trust me, if you have a Perl background, a lot of that syntax looks pretty familiar (the @ sigil in particular denotes an array).
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
No, the unspoken preceding clause for that sign is "if you are speeding". i.e., "if you are speeding, then speed limit will be enforced." That's why I formulated my silly example the way I did, but I guess I was be
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by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
> There must be vetting at multiple levels of the process, or these use cases are negligent at best and malicious at worst. You've got it exactly. The problem is modern AI systems cannot be vetted because neither their creators nor

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