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by bjourne 4mo ago
The spam filter does both. You can verify for yourself that flagging a comment most of the time is not enough to kill it.
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by bjourne 4mo ago
That doesn't mean the spam filter isn't culpable here - esychology is still a relatively new account.
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by bjourne 4mo ago
Nope. Many comments from green accounts get flagged and then auto-killed unless vouched for.
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by bjourne 4mo ago
It's the stupid spam filter going haywire: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48321198
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by bjourne 4mo ago
I found your previous work here: https://distill.pub/2020/growing-ca/ For someone (like me) who wants to understand the basics its probably better. It's very well written.
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by bjourne 4mo ago
Wikipedia and text bots are unreliable sources for the exact same reason---they are anonymous. The point of a citation is stating that "I know this because X told me". The validity of that argument entirely depends on the authorit
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by bjourne 4mo ago
Sorry, I haven't had time to read your papers in full yet. Have you considered that LUTs on many FPGAs aren't 2:1 but instead, say, 6:3 and also may contain flip-flops and muxes? FPGA synthesis may not be as easy as "just&quo
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by bjourne 4mo ago
Regressive consumer tax due to tariffs?
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by bjourne 4mo ago
RMS' C language tutorial.
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by bjourne 4mo ago
Yes, it does. Breadth of search is exactly what the effort setting controls.
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by bjourne 4mo ago
LLMs work by generating the most likely continuation to a prompt. But they can also generate multiple likely continuations. This create multiple branches which in turn can generate even more branches. The LLM can then evaluate the branche
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by bjourne 4mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48321198
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by bjourne 4mo ago
One problem is that people trust the bot. To give you an example. If you submit articles for scientific publication you will get reviews that are at least co-authored by the bot. People defer their own judgement to what the bot says.
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by bjourne 5mo ago
I told the bot I liked Steely Dan, Eagles, Bob Seger, and Roxette and asked it for music recommendations. It replied with Toto. Exasperated, I wrote "Oh, shit, you stupid bot, you don't know ANYTHING about music!"
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by bjourne 5mo ago
PAP has exploited Singapore's strict libel laws to bankrupt opposition parties by suing for defamation. It is not so difficult to retain power when the opposition has no money for campaigning.
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by bjourne 5mo ago
For starters, Singapore wasn't founded by a group of ethno-national colonists who drove out the indigenous population...
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by bjourne 5mo ago
Well, I don't know you, your teacher, or even what subject we're discussing but you wrote that you did "not have to bother with homework and assignments". Perhaps you would have learned more if the instruction had not fa
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by bjourne 5mo ago
> I did, however, have a teacher who taught an advanced subject and I found his instruction so good that I did not have to bother with homework and assignments if I was happy with B grades This comment made me roll my eyes. :) Giving stu
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by bjourne 5mo ago
Namespaces as first class objects. Janet namespaces symbols by renaming them. It's not the same thing.
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by bjourne 5mo ago
The author cites 50-year-old education studies. It's exactly like citing 50-year-old papers about cancer research. They seriously need to update their views on what the state-of-the-art in pedagogy is.
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by bjourne 5mo ago
Damn it, Janet. No proper namespaces. Hard pass.
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by bjourne 5mo ago
How do you fit 256 distinct values into 255 bins?
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by bjourne 5mo ago
Copyleft is about republishing . You can't prevent anyone from using your compiler or text editor to develop non-free software.
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by bjourne 5mo ago
Sure, Free Software hasn't been the vehicle for societal change that RMS and others certainly hoped. I remember being flamed out in a user group for suggesting that our conference shouldn't be held in a "non-free" countr
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by bjourne 5mo ago
People taking your work and not giving anything back was ALWAYS the risk you took when writing free software. LLM training doesn't change that much. That the us military no doubt is using gcc to compile embedded software for their icbm
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Ask HN: Please fix the spam filter it's killing lots of legit comments
5 points by bjourne 5mo ago|2 comments
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by bjourne 5mo ago
Eternal September was never a problem for SO, it was an asset. Duplicate questions was never a problem for those asking or answering questions (I did both), only for a relatively small group of loudmouthed moderators. Now they hardly have
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by bjourne 5mo ago
Ime, math.SE had a much friendlier vibe than most other SE sites. Primarily because you could ask about a problem you were struggling with and get help. No moderator would instantly show up and close the question as a dupe of a ten-year-old
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by bjourne 5mo ago
I paste my text into the box and tell it to "critique my writing". Sometimes it generates useful feedback.
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Babble hypothesis, key factor to becoming a leader(bigthink.com)
3 points by bjourne 5mo ago|0 comments

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