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by Blahah 4y ago
Asimov's robot series explains everything from the basics to the nuances rather well. All the criticisms I've seen in the context of LLMs are clearly not considering the body of work that Asimov produced on this topic.
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by Blahah 4y ago
Surely the people at "the top" are the shareholders in AliExpress/Wish/Uber? The MLM is just a few levels, with everyone invested in making profits for the company that controls the platform.
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by Blahah 4y ago
It's "a thing that you are", as opposed to: "a thing that you have": a key, an ID card, security fob, official uniform, etc. "a thing that you know": a password, PIN, the answer to a secret question, secre
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by Blahah 4y ago
see this comment for a solution: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34542934
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by Blahah 4y ago
because resource inequality, unchecked, creates corruption
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by Blahah 4y ago
"right off the bat" is unfortunately apt for ebola!
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by Blahah 4y ago
That's a styling issue, not to be solved by typing two spaces unless you're using a typewriter. Just adjust the size of a space to the appropriate size when the text is rendered for the reader (in a word processor for example).
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by Blahah 4y ago
I use signal for SMS. Is this an iOS thing? If so presumably it's an Apple restriction? edit: ah, they announced recently that they are removing SMS support in Android. The reasoning is solid IMO, I've accidentally sent insecure m
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by Blahah 4y ago
That difference is visually absolutely vast - for the same height, in most sizing charts, it's approximating a 50% increase in body mass.
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by Blahah 4y ago
I am surprised to learn that this originated in ADHD communities. A huge part of my mental life that sits firmly within my ADHD diagnosis is hyperawareness. If there are people around, I have at least several mental threads running monitori
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by Blahah 4y ago
If someone is looking after my child, I have their number. I block calls from unknown numbers adn and some prefixes, and silence calls from numbers not in my contacts. This is pretty normal I think (because of spam). I've only once ha
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by Blahah 4y ago
And the homeless population of Berlin is able to afford basics by helping sort the recycling - it's a very nice regenerative system compared to most places.
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by Blahah 4y ago
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by Blahah 4y ago
Frontend form validation is not for security, it's for user experience. Backend validation is for security.
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by Blahah 4y ago
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by Blahah 4y ago
The project looks cool! I've built quite a few open academic publishing platforms, we would have a lot to talk about I imagine :) You might be interested in what we're doing at LabDAO, including our publishing lab and the communit
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by Blahah 4y ago
I get no ads at all, only cancer genetics conferences
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by Blahah 4y ago
I really like the proposals at https://attentionsettings.com/ for highlighting and creating agency around interacting with manipulative apps. Last week I installed tiktok for the first time. I lasted one day before deleting
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by Blahah 4y ago
Yes. Only one solving the problem very very well right now. Memex - https://getmemex.com More generally the open annotations standard is meant to address this use case, but it's been stagnant for a while. Older, now obselet
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by Blahah 4y ago
Yes, you're describing some of the problems addressed by the open annotations standard and the tooling in that ecosystem.
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Attention Settings(attentionsettings.com)
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by Blahah 4y ago
I don't think that's accurate at all. It's more like you couldn't tell the difference between a previously unseen, but real, Da Vinci sketch, and a fake one that was drawn to mimic every aspect of his style. There's
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by Blahah 4y ago
Personally I don't really enjoy group or regularly scheduled mandatory hangout calls. What I really enjoy is just pinging someone to say 'hey, free to chat after work?' and then if they are I go for a walk and call them.
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by Blahah 4y ago
I've been working remotely on and off for 20 years, and consistently for the last 10 years. A few suggestions: - Choose to not make every day the same. You're free! Once or twice a week, take a train or bus to a different place fo
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by Blahah 4y ago
It's illegal in many places, but happens everywhere. If the tools allow it, even if it's not the intended use for a feature, people will do it in the worst ways eventually. This applies for school staff managing student emails, st
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by Blahah 4y ago
1. Probabilistic filtering and matching: Since you mentioned bloom filters - other probabilistic data structures like count-min sketches (roughly, streaming bloom filters) are super useful. Approximate kmer methods like minhash and w-shingl
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by Blahah 4y ago
In general, anything that's at the bleeding edge of theoretical understanding and intersects with commercial interest or draws social/media hype has a relatively low probability of standing the test of time. Whether that's re
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by Blahah 4y ago
I dismissed 3 overlays. 1. cookies 2. email newsletter 3. cookies again The constant bombardment was more in reference to the state of the web generally. Popups and overlays that aren't a result of an interaction I've chosen to ma
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by Blahah 4y ago
This article seems like it would be very interesting to me but after dismissing three intrusive popups in my mobile browser I stopped trying to read it. Does anyone know of a mobile browser friendly way to read this kind of site without bei
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by Blahah 4y ago
There are many possible factors, and they might interact. Social interaction might be a factor to some degree for some people. The stresses of a global pandemic that are not about social interaction might also contribute to some degree for

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