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by achrono 2y ago
And a prominent study on dishonesty was itself found to have fabricated data [1]. Like too much refined sugar, this is too much refined irony. What is going on? 1: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023&#
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by achrono 2y ago
>Somehow I can tell instantly that it’s a chatbot [...] because of that I find it harder to use than just typing to it. That to me is precisely the reason to still use it without hesitation, because once it starts getting very-much-human
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by achrono 2y ago
Did Apple start their company by saying they will be selling apples?
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by achrono 2y ago
That's fallacious. It's a problem of popular use (and sales incentives), not of definition. "Open-source" represents a cluster of concepts but at the core of it there is a specific definition in spirit at least -- you ca
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by achrono 2y ago
Sure, but I think you get my point.
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by achrono 2y ago
>All one will be able to say is that somewhere out there in the computational universe there’s some (typically computationally irreducible) process that “happens” to be aligned with what we want. >There’s no overarching theory to it i
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by achrono 2y ago
The opposite.
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by achrono 2y ago
> not actually sure if Meta does share all that Meta shares the code for inference but not for training, so even if we say it can be open-source without the training data, Meta's models are not open-source. I can appreciate Zuck&#x2
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by achrono 2y ago
What a massive irony and a cruel joke. The headline should really be "Google Drive scans your files for copyright infringement", because this is copyright for me not for thee, at its absolute finest. I'm not even talking ab
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by achrono 2y ago
>Perhaps openai.com has been added to a blocklist on HN? Really now? That's your primary suspicion here? For comparison, one of Mistral's new models (mathstral) didn't make much of a splash either, despite being genuinely
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by achrono 2y ago
Interesting that The Guardian is leading the way in finally having non-gendered headlines, i.e. not saying "Female physicist recognized 75 years after discovery" or "Rosemary Fowler, 98-year old physicist, recognized 75 yea
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by achrono 2y ago
Sure, but is causing a little damage to a tiny part of the body acceptable? Exposure levels and durations -- common sense would suggest those are going up with people using more devices for more time every day. I was not inclined to bel
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by achrono 2y ago
Distance decreases the intensity of exposure. I'm not trying to achieve complete avoidance, just a decrease of risk. To those who down-voted (actually or even as a psychological reaction) my original comment: consider for a moment that
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by achrono 2y ago
Yes, but this way of ensconcing it reduces the radiation exposure since the device now likely won't be kept constantly in contact with the body.
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by achrono 2y ago
> it's of course very silly Beg to differ -- this is quite valuable as a new kind of paging device that you want to keep around instead of your higher end iPhone's battery constantly draining, and more importantly, for people w
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by achrono 2y ago
The author's point is very different -- it is that happiness can really only be pursued , as opposed to it being possible to obtain and retain happiness in an ever-lasting way -- but that it should be pursued nevertheless. "hug
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by achrono 2y ago
pdf24 does not appear to be open-source, just free (as in beer). Were you thinking of PDFtk?
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by achrono 2y ago
Neat work and more power to you to build further. This reminded me of Joplin. What's the direction you're looking to take this in?
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by achrono 2y ago
> We have opensourced the models in Hugging Face and ModelScope to you We are unfortunately now in a place where this falsehood has travelled the world while the truth is probably still half-asleep in its underwear. It is a shame that pe
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by achrono 2y ago
If Snowden and Assange have taught us one thing, it is that state-sponsored surveillance is not a topic you want to have a very high evidence threshold for. The available evidence is always going to lag the actuality and even what we previo
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by achrono 2y ago
It has become a hallmark of Western civilization to first of all Cover Your Ass, and where it gets exposed, to Pretend It's Covered, but when its photos get published, to Sincerely Apologize, and when pressed even more, to come out afr
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by achrono 2y ago
This is rightfully the top comment on this page (at least as of this writing). These people need to be called out relentlessly until they stop misleading the public. So much for the Altmanian infinite progress of humanity. They can't s
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by achrono 2y ago
I agree, 'but' is the wrong conjunction here and 'still' the wrong adverb. It should've said: Amazon made record breaking profit because (among other things) they laid off more than 18000 employees (2023)
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by achrono 2y ago
Even if so, that metaphor was not executed faithfully, and for a company like Apple that is bad. But more so there is an unmistakeable 'destruction is cute' aspect to the ad that is uncalled for, that is what the reaction is towar
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by achrono 2y ago
Next: due to an issue with primary key mapping, all cities in the US are now required to have a unique name, so all affected cities must work together to come up with new names. Start with the Springfields.
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by achrono 2y ago
Maintenance needs to become sexy (again?). Assuming you don't have near-infinite money, the misery averted by maintaining your car well is greater than the joy obtained by buying a new one, because you can really do both at the same ti
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by achrono 2y ago
LLM mediocrity is just a reflection of human mediocrity, and my bet is on the average LLM to get way better much faster than the average human doing the same.
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by achrono 3y ago
Would be really neat to extend this to have Doom on an LLM. Much of AI has been enabled by gaming, and this could be the crowning synergy.
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by achrono 3y ago
Until they shut down Play Books while educating us that customers actually prefer summaries via Gemini instead of using Play Books, so actually now book purchases are being migrated to Gemini because that is such a better customer experienc
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by achrono 3y ago
This is useful to know, but why not just virtualize via UTM esp. if it's only for "daily driving"?

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