alexvoda

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by alexvoda 4y ago
Legality of hacking does not matter. The only big relevant cases are across borders and often with the endorsement or the permission of the home government. Small scale hacking is only prosecuted when someone did something very very stupid
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> The government could literally take any power at any moment for any reason at any time that they wanted to. It can but there is a process to follow and the process might take time. It is the same with Russia conscripting and officially
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by alexvoda 4y ago
I argue that in this context money spent on a one time feast can be interpreted as money spent on drug rehab. Rehab after all is meant to be a process, even if lengthy, that results in one no longer being dependent and hopefully not relapsi
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by alexvoda 4y ago
> Widely accepted, shamelessly overconfident, bus still potentially gibberish generator. I believe such a generator can be very harmful in our society that has not yet figured a way to scalably teach critical thinking. Harmful at societa
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by alexvoda 4y ago
I think you (last few people on this thread) are focusing on the wrong threat. There is no need for AGI, no need for the AI to feel or want or desire anything. Non-AGI AI at the level of GPT-4 is already plenty dangerous. If we can agree th
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by alexvoda 4y ago
I fully agree with you that many people misunderstand what AI does. As advanced as GPT-4 is, it is still a fancy autocomplete and nowhere near AGI. But I think the bigger picture is that there is no need for AGI in order for AI to be incred
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by alexvoda 4y ago
> Sure we could do drug treatment for less money and more social benefit, but how does that punish the baddies? If we give them free treatment and forgiveness, what does that say about me? I was good and they did the bad thing, and yet
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by alexvoda 4y ago
Not surprising. The primary activity when programming is problem solving. The solution is then expressed in a programming language. This is unlike writing prose, poetry or miscellaneous text where the form of the text is important. Compared
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I was about to post exactly what you wrote.
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And while Lotus may have declined in part due to poor strategic decisions, Microsoft is known to have engaged in anti-competitive practices against WordPerfect in the same period.
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by alexvoda 4y ago
> The current crop of AIs will be very useful but it won't lead to the scary AGI people predict. I argue that this won't matter. I think Generative AIs will be much scarier than any sci-fi AGI. And this is because while sci-fi
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by alexvoda 4y ago
Maybe not, but competition will put pressure on Apple to improove and offer more options for business models other than 1 and 3.
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This is just one more reason 3'rd party stores should exist.
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Like what FirefoxOS was doing.
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And spending some money in order to not destroy an important knowledge resource may be the right choice especially if the alternative means burning some good will.
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by alexvoda 4y ago
When people start doing that the media and corporations will call it an epidemic of quiet quitting. It's sad but society is truly diseased.
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by alexvoda 4y ago
You are using them wrong. The intended solution is to buy another set of headphones. /s
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by alexvoda 4y ago
If the schema is not backwards compatible it either means you will have to do a data migration or it means you want to keep track of the schema version along with the data. In both cases it is much easier if the json columns are split off i
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by alexvoda 4y ago
What I detailed, I do in real life because I don't like waiting, because waiting in the station is far less comfortable than being in the vehicle and because timetables are reliable enough that I do not worry about missing a connection
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by alexvoda 4y ago
As I said in a different comment, I think this is simply the wrong optimization. When you are running to your stop you better know already what train you want to take. Plan the route then go to the platform instead of get to the platform an
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by alexvoda 4y ago
I have even taken this strategy to a bit of an extreme for simple cases intentionally complicating switching in order to gain time or comfort. Let's assume: - I want to get from B to G. - Line 1 goes A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H. It is an obvious c
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by alexvoda 4y ago
I think optimizing for that O(1) lookup is the wrong optimization. Someone who knows the target station well most probably already knows what arrives in the target station and therefore is not helped by this. Someone who only knows the name
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by alexvoda 4y ago
The very big and dangerous difference is that while SDCs need approval in order to be allowed on the streets, there will be no quality control rules for reliance on LLMs. Corporate incentives to raise KPIs will mean that LLMs will be used a
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by alexvoda 4y ago
I would argue that it should not be a minority of people for a community (HN) which values curiosity as claimed by the guidelines: "the primary use of the site should be for curiosity" "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers wo
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by alexvoda 4y ago
Fair, but we were not discussing providing definitions using laymen terms. We were discussing using words in reformulations of titles of articles posted on HN. I expect people on HN to be able to deal with a title containing an unfamiliar w
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by alexvoda 4y ago
What is wrong with laypeople learning the words "phylogenetic" and "anthropoid"? I am not a biologist, and my knowledge in the field is limited to what I learned in high school plus afterwards self study out of curiosity
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In other words, F-Droid but for iOS.
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> As for electronic music, I'd like to imagine that composers are free to share their samples alongside their sheet music - like source code samples to a computer science textbook - but I doubt it. Tracker music is exactly that. Als
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by alexvoda 4y ago
Or maybe you can have opinions that mainstream culture finds repulsive without being "sexist, or racist, or transphobic, or smell bad". Just because the US media landscape has split the people into 2 camps engaged in culture war d
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by alexvoda 4y ago
Maybe video game music might catch your interest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKWgLe-jQjc

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