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Ukv
2y ago
A disengagement may be equivalent to a potential crash (or, just a mistake on behalf of the human doing the disengaging), but not to one actual crash. That someone intervenes to prevent a dodgy overtake does not mean that car was definite
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2y ago
> (the video itself was blacked out when capturing the screenshot). I already disliked DRM like this, where the user's device acts against them, but something about the form factor makes me extra uneasy about it. Maybe the fact that
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2y ago
> Why? What percentage of speeding, for instance, do you think materialises into a crash? Even the most dangerous unsafe actions like running a red light won't cause a crash most of the time. So if a 17y/o crashes every 70,000
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2y ago
> Intervention every 122,000 miles is the average 17 to 18-year old. Your source says a crash every 70,000 miles for 17 year olds, to my understanding. Number of unsafe actions that would warrant a disengagement, but didn't happen
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2y ago
Candidates would increasingly be making their case to a brick wall - companies running "just in case" or "may as well keep a pulse on the market" automated interviews in the same way they post ghost jobs positions on lis
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2y ago
I think it's probably inevitable that something like this will happen eventually, but I worry that it makes the cost of an interview too asymmetrical. Companies could "interview" effectively all applicants, since it requires
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2y ago
> Autoformatting: Boon to readability. Not present by default Is this not an IDE feature opposed to a language one? PyCharm does have auto-formatting (can be configured to run on save) and PEP8 lints. > Complex API: Asking students to
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2y ago
I'm interested in the concept of treating 3D worlds like the web treats documents. Make a world, host it on your server, and place portals (links) to other worlds hosted by other people. VRChat and similar have interconnected user worl
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2y ago
"human intentions are not a generalisation of visual information" is a bit confusing category-wise. Question would be to what extent you can predict someone's next action, like running out to retrieve a ball, given just what
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2y ago
I don't see an issue with the notification having a summary opposed to the truncated text - seems useful so long as it works well. Feels like a fairly low bar for dystopia, even if it is summarizing bad news.
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2y ago
> the number of things that can potentially happen is far greater than the number of training examples we could ever produce Models don't need to have been trained on every single possibility - it's possible for them to general
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2y ago
> WeirdGloop also runs wikis for the biggest, most active games and communities in the world Most of the costs are those that scale up/down by activity - MediaWiki itself is free/open-source and the wiki's content is contr
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2y ago
WeirdGloop is supposedly profitable despite having only a single, non-intrusive banner ad. It's perfectly possible to run forums/wikis/etc. on even just the free tier of Cloudflare/Oracle OCI. The issue is that Wikia
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2y ago
> The statement that Rust has no UB does not make sense because Rust has no specification I don't think it was claimed that Rust has no UB in this conversation, only IFNDR. From what I can tell, Rust does document a set of "beh
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2y ago
I found their comment an interesting contribution to the discussion, pointing to a couple of specific pitfalls in C++. It's not just an empty "C/C++ bad, Rust good", and I don't see why it'd give the impression
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2y ago
> That’s because high prices are an essential way to ensure that resources get where they are desperately needed. [...] In a vacuum, if all else is fixed, it would be true that those willing to pay more for a resource are those with grea
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2y ago
> [...] typing in "over 600 prompts"... That's a lot closer to commissioning an artist than it is producing art At 600 prompts, I think it's at least worth considering whether that similarity is just a superficial mat
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2y ago
> The article title is pretty unkind, but the test they used pretty clearly shows what was going on. I believe this article is around the same misunderstanding - it doesn't appear to show any evidence of their crawler , or web scra
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2y ago
> Why would anyone think they can own, boss around and rent out an intelligent entity? Do we not already do this with existing biological intelligence, like horses? > It can't be goaded with threats of starvation and exposure I t
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2y ago
> Technically, robot.txt isn't enforcing anything, so it is just trust. There's legal backing to it in the EU, as mentioned. With CommonCrawl you can just download it yourself to check. In other cases it wouldn't necessari
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2y ago
The EU's AI act points to the DSM directive's text and data mining exemption, allowing for commercial data mining so long as machine-readable opt-outs are respected - robots.txt is typically taken as the established standard for t
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2y ago
CommonCrawl[0] and the companies training models I'm aware of[1][2][3] all respect robots.txt for their crawling. If we're thinking of the same reporting, it was based on a claim by TollBit (a content licensing startup) which was
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2y ago
It makes sense that this prohibits doubling an item's price briefly then putting it back down and advertising it as 50% off But if I'm understanding, this also means: 1. If you decrease a price incrementally you can only advertise
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2y ago
I think you're getting them mixed up. WP Engine's slogan is: "Most Trusted WordPress Hosting and Beyond" What the WordPress foundations trademark policy specifically allows is: "the world’s best WordPress themes&quo
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2y ago
> It is very difficult to come up with a materialist argument for what about that 'certain arrangement' makes cognition I'd claim it's not necessarily harder than it is to argue certain arrangements make a computer. W
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2y ago
I feel Reddit blocking search engines that don't pay and killing off archives and third party clients is a far more worrying long-term threat to information accessibility than the moderator blackouts that were protesting the former (un
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2y ago
> > Weston argues that this design protects against malware and unauthorized access through rate-limiting, [...] > What about "authorized access", who defines that. I don't think the intent is that they distinguish b
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2y ago
> when a company that built all its value on an open-source project decides not to give anything back [...] As far as I've been able to tell, WP Engine have contributed back. Before this spat they were noted on WordPress.org as co
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2y ago
From the given before/after example[0] I can see the utility. Not sure that it necessarily needed to be a conversational agent. [0]: https://b2c-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/HP-per...
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2y ago
The "Five for the Future" page is still up. Wayback machine shows that the contributor/hours numbers seem to have been revised downwards last week, possibly suggesting that WP Engine contributes less than it used to (or that
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