Gh0stRAT

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by Gh0stRAT 4y ago
>This does not mean anything more than that the AI has a greater breadth of training background, which is likely. This has nothing to do with Shannon's definition of information. The light from a star going supernova or a tsunami hi
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by Gh0stRAT 4y ago
> In classic Information Theory, information is basically surprise value — how much unexpected info is in the message? — yet these "AI" systems put out the most expected subset in each instance. Forgive me, but isn't this
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by Gh0stRAT 4y ago
These days it seems like management tries to keep a buffer so they can operate for a little while during a government shutdown. That being said, there are a variety of funding sources and it wouldn't be fair for some teams to be allowe
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by Gh0stRAT 4y ago
>It can replace queries like "what's the tallest mountain in France", but that's not really a profitable query for Google. Being able to answer unprofitable questions has value insofar as you become peoples' go-t
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by Gh0stRAT 4y ago
It works both ways though: >ChatGPT, summarize the following bill and be sure to note any unexpected clauses: <text of bill here>
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by Gh0stRAT 4y ago
>Second, I think the "money well spent" part is that you helped her in some small amount, when it was obvious she was suffering, and you didn't expect anything in return. Let's be clear here: the "out of gas&quot
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by Gh0stRAT 4y ago
It depends how many requests (both frontend and backend) each user triggers and the odds of a big latency spike on at least one of them. For single requests, targeting 95% would probably be just fine back in the days of static sites served
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by Gh0stRAT 4y ago
I mean, if we're talking about what might've been then there are easily a hundred million lives lost each year to menstrual cycles in the US alone. Just gone. Think of how many Einsteins, Mozarts, and Davincis have already been lo
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by Gh0stRAT 4y ago
LLM = Large Language Model. Asking it to show its work will cause it to generate more tokens (you could think of it as the logical leaps between each step being smaller the more detail you go into)
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by Gh0stRAT 4y ago
I just paid the US State Department via check for passport renewal. Also, I expect to use my checkbook later this year to buy a car. Overall, I probably average 2 checks per year. (though I do expect that to decrease to 0 in the next 5-10 y
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by Gh0stRAT 4y ago
One of Earth's past mass extinction events is hypothesized to have maybe been caused by a gamma ray burst[0]. I don't know enough to speculate whether it could have been caused by one of these jets instead. [0] https://
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by Gh0stRAT 4y ago
Well it seems like we've detected 3 other jets pointed straight at us as the black hole devoured a star so it seems like a very common event on a geological time scale. The fact that we managed to evolve and are still here is a decent
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by Gh0stRAT 4y ago
I can't seem to find a single site (which would presumably mean a consistent methodology) that lists recent data for average|median use per day for both of them, but I've seen numbers saying people spend 33-50 min per day on Faceb
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by Gh0stRAT 4y ago
Link for those who haven't read it yet: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3008
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by Gh0stRAT 4y ago
The experiment you describe reminds me of a short story "What's expected of us" by my favorite author Ted Chiang. [0] I won't spoil it too much because it's a fun short read, but it revolves around these little toys
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by Gh0stRAT 4y ago
There are costs to onboarding a new employee (not just in money, but also in time and attention from more-tenured teammates, finding good "starter" tickets for them to work on, longer standups, interviewing their replacement after
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by Gh0stRAT 4y ago
There are people on HN working for the big tech companies who are being granted that $15k worth of stock every month. ($180k/year) At the more senior levels and/or with some stock appreciation, it's not unheard-of for >50%
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by Gh0stRAT 4y ago
Probably because the pilots were going to be flying an IFR approach. (flying on just instruments through low visibility near the ground, a worst-case scenario for interference being able to cause a fatal crash)
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by Gh0stRAT 4y ago
Prepaid phones all-too-often can't be used for SMS/phone authentication. Banks in particular seem to dislike them. (when it doesn't work, you'll usually get an error message about the number not being supported or words
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by Gh0stRAT 4y ago
Yeah, "Schemaless" is a total misnomer. You either have "schema-on-write" or "schema-on-read".
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by Gh0stRAT 4y ago
If they want to actually start and collect a few paychecks, then they'll need to pass a background check from HireRight or whoever. This'll probably include transcript checks, verifying past employment, etc. Much easier to just us
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by Gh0stRAT 4y ago
Those full bars of coverage you had at altitude are probably going to disappear the moment you lose line-of-sight. That said, aircraft have ELTs which are supposed to trigger on impact and can be manually activated as well, so an InReach pr
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by Gh0stRAT 4y ago
Slightly apples-to-oranges comparison on the satellite count. Unlike Globalstar, the Iridium network uses polar orbits which means they're covering a larger area and thus need more satellites to achieve comparable service in the limite
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by Gh0stRAT 4y ago
Being able to have a 2-way conversation with search & rescue to explain the situation and get updates is the biggest one. As for other things worth paying for: being able to text your family back home and let them know you're runni
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by Gh0stRAT 4y ago
Perhaps Amazon is FINALLY starting to do something about their rampant book piracy problem? [0] https://mobile.twitter.com/martinkl/status/15511491594026680... [1] https://nypost.com/2022/07&#x
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by Gh0stRAT 4y ago
Yeah, it totally blew my mind when I first heard these performance numbers as well. RE "nearly 100 million requests per second": as of Prime Day 2022, it has actually handled >100 Mreq/sec! >Over the course of Prime Day
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by Gh0stRAT 4y ago
No, I'll apparently have to bump it up my to-watch list!
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by Gh0stRAT 4y ago
That's exactly what I did. I had my checkbook and was there to put in a deposit when I found out. Here's an abridged version of how the conversation went: > Me: I don't want that and won't be paying for it. >
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by Gh0stRAT 4y ago
Hey @TreyGuy (or others from Markup.org) How do you account for dealers which sell for $0 above MSRP but then include a non-negotiable $700 "paint protection" service? As a crowdsourced site, you'll get a ton of reports that
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by Gh0stRAT 4y ago
The plugin my current employer uses is so well integrated that I don't even know its name. (I suspect it may be developed internally) At a past job, we used Entrust [0] and I'm aware of Virtru [1] as well. Edit: I forgot about Sha

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