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by bbor 5mo ago
1. This happened less than 24 hours ago. 2. This is just one of the four techniques the worm uses to phone home.
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by bbor 5mo ago
The whole point of a patent is encouraging progress through disclosure of knowledge. Is it, though? It seems like the purpose of a patent is pretty direct: make money for people(/corporations...) who invent things. I guess you
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by bbor 5mo ago
I'm an anti-advertising zealot (#BanAdvertising!) but I share `brookst`'s view on this not being much of a concern. Brand advertising does exist (as opposed to 'performance' or 'direct' ads), but there's a
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by bbor 5mo ago
Yes, but to nitpick slightly: the focus of this protocol is to let people use their own data with social media sites. It might not matter much while the site is active, but separating data ownership from the site makes moving platforms in
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by bbor 5mo ago
Can you speak to your feelings on Zed's customizability/extensibility? Zed is shiny and impressive, but Sublime's rich ecosystem of python plugins is hard to beat... EDIT: Tho if sublime wasn't already "doing everyt
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by bbor 5mo ago
Yup, it is genuinely convenient that Waymo doesn't rely on an unpopular payroll tax for funding while the bus system does To be fair, it gets far more subsidies from the government in general by simple virtue of being a car,
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by bbor 5mo ago
What you built was a community, not a website owned by Microsoft — it could port just fine to GitLab. “I won’t leave, I’ll fight to make this place better!” is a laudable trope ofc, but in this case you’re not making any place better, you’r
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by bbor 6mo ago
Yeah I was wondering about that… I got one, but prolly only because my uni put CS under the engineering school. I don’t think scientists usually have mandatory ethics classes and mathematicians certainly don’t, so if it falls under either o
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by bbor 6mo ago
FWIW: I had a mandatory ethics class in my US program (Vanderbilt, a rich private school in the American south). It was mandated for all engineers AFAIR, and taught by an engineering prof. Pretty good experience, too! Sometimes got distract
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by bbor 6mo ago
For context, the author is an anti-AI radical. Maybe justified, maybe not — but definitely explains this essay. The author is getting some grief in this thread from the Eng side, but I’d like to add a bit of grief from the direct opposite s
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by bbor 6mo ago
I was curious, and some [intrepid soul]( https://wavespeed.ai/blog/posts/deepseek-v4-gpu-vram-require... ) did an analysis. Assuming you do everything perfectly and take full advantage of the model's MoE sparsi
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by bbor 6mo ago
For the curious, I did some napkin math on their posted benchmarks and it racks up 20.1 percentage point difference across the 20 metrics where both were scored, for an average improvement of about 2% (non-pp). I really can't decide if
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by bbor 6mo ago
Fascinating, thanks for sharing! After spending a semester there during the Catalonia vote for independence (the one with riot police forcibly storming ballot locations on TV) and reading a bit of history, it seems to me that Spain has to b
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by bbor 7mo ago
Poor soul — they missed `wlroots` in their googling! You’re not supposed to be solving these issues yourself.
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by bbor 7mo ago
Surely some firms choose to hold referendums already, but I could see that being a good law! As Better Call Saul explored in its early seasons, the interests of the large law firm can easily diverge significantly from the interests of the
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by bbor 7mo ago
…if tomorrow python ceased to exist, we could all go back to any number of other solutions.
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by bbor 7mo ago
This is so dystopian… they built something that worked and now are being “acquihired” into oblivion, and we’re supposed to be happy about it? I’m glad a few of the early people just got rich I guess, but it seems like a terrible system over
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by bbor 7mo ago
Set up a website — and while you’re at it, start a mailing list, because email is basically the only means of reaching your contacts that can’t easily be taken away from you. I love the energy but this is incredibly myopic. The vast
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Rise of the AI Soldiers(time.com)
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by bbor 7mo ago
Well put, totally agree! The key word here is “affirms”. Here, watch; I hereby affirm that I am god incarnate, that I have no flaws, and that every unit test I’ve ever written has passed on the first try. It cannot be denied that I affirmed
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by bbor 7mo ago
Surely you’d agree on second thought that Spotify’s recommendation algorithms are more reliable than pure chance?
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by bbor 7mo ago
You don’t use a DJ feature(/any recommendation feature) to play specific songs, you use the search bar. Again, a recommendation system that gave you just exactly what you asked for wouldn’t be a recommendation system! Re:”play related
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by bbor 7mo ago
Sure, it’s not the same as a human suggesting music. But sometimes people consume art for the art, not for the curator! Both are worthwhile.
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by bbor 7mo ago
The article isn’t about the DJ feature at all, despite claiming to be. It is very clearly and openly about Spotify not catering to classical music in general. It starts by calling all people who listen to anything other than classical music
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by bbor 7mo ago
There’s a reason there’s no deterministic recommendation engines. How would that even work? Doing something previously impossible isn’t “lazy”.
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by bbor 7mo ago
Apologies if I'm stepping on a joke, but just in case: Nativism is about cognitive capacities, not sensorimotor ones. All apes could easily communicate just as well as Helen Keller, yet none of them have ever asked a question, much l
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by bbor 7mo ago
Well that anecdote is referencing the Scruffies v. Neat war[1], within which the nativism debate was merely a somewhat-archaic undercurrent. IMHO, a lot of the more specifically anti-nativist sentiments of today are based in linguistics its
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by bbor 7mo ago
There's a parallel in linguistics. Chomsky showed that all human languages share deep recursive structure. True, and essentially irrelevant to the language modeling that actually learned to do something with language. ...this i
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by bbor 7mo ago
The "current one" is Department of Defense. They are illegally branding it otherwise without congressional approval, but that doesn't mean we should welcome it. More fundamentally, it's hard to convey just how much bette
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by bbor 7mo ago
Yeah that's a terrible note to start on -- this is just someone hoping for a pat on the head from the fascists. Not even they would truly believe something so absurd! That whole intro is whack, really; There are many things that

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