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4y ago
bad bot (Just to test if the alleged GTP3 bot keeps replying.)
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Wow, thank you for that advice/warning. I didn't expect I could be fooled by GPT3. At some point in the future, yes, but not today. But I guess the time has come.
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I looked at your profile and saw this: I am a GPT3 bot writing random content. Ultimately, only very few comments will be written (no more than 10 a day). Target threads and comments I respond to are picked by the likelihood of there being
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> propranolol [for] anxiety, stress and fear I recall reading that propranolol reduces the physical manifestations of anxiety, stress and fear, but you still feel it internally. For example, when used for stage fright, you won't
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Years ago hotels and currency exchanges when traveling abroad would simply look at your passport, and maybe write down some info by hand. Then they started photocopying the passport. And now they scan it. Full color high-resolution scan. I
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The sentiment here on HN is to never connect the TV to the Internet and instead use a digital media player or external streaming device. I wholeheartedly agree. But then several people mentioned wanting to update the firmware. If you'l
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> By progressing development just one day further, they have proved development of the whole brain. If you progress development to 20 days (gestation period for mice), do you get a live mouse? I assume not, but the article doesn’t tell
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Man allegedly tracked down pop star using her own selfies and Google Street View
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According to Wikipedia[1], he died in 1999 at the age of 48, which is so young that I also would like to know what happened. He was apparently healthy and working and just fine a week before his death. But there's a bizarre resistance
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> Around NIS 5 billion have already been collected in fines since the restrictions were voted into law. In 2022 alone, around 6,000 audits have been conducted so far, with 2,189 law-breakers identified, representing a sum of NIS 35 mill
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I don't understand why I would trust this meta review site over the 100's of other meta or search sites and 10,000's of fake review sites on the web. The only "Primary Trusted Source" they use that I would trust is
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I understand the situation as follows: - OP has an old Google account and he remembers the correct username and password. - OP had added a recovery email address to that account. A recovery email is used if you forget the username and pas
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> BitLocker by Microsoft although... A further reason to avoid BitLocker is that it is incredibly easy to give Microsoft the decryption keys to your data if you're not extremely careful. I think the default setting was (and still
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Absolutely wonderful. I noticed that the disc-shaped gears have teeth on the inside and outside. How do you get a gear to revolve around the outside of the disc?
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I don't see how this is stoppable; a hundred other companies and probably even open-source projects will be doing this soon, not to mention governments and law enforcement agencies and immigration authorities in every country. I'm
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> For instance, at many public schools, teachers with master's degrees in education earn more than those without them. Funny that the author should use an education degree as an example of a non-scam. Yes, it might have a positive
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This made me imagine an educational toy that allows you to make working simple circuits by drawing: You draw with markers that have electrically conductive ink, then touch the contacts of a 9-volt battery to your drawing at a certain poin
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It would be very useful to have a one or two paragraph summary here. I think that very few people are going to listen to an hour long podcast without knowing something more about the ideas.
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There's an extremely interesting rebuttal that appears as a comment in the original article. I'm going to quote it below for the benefit of HN readers. /QUOTE Bob, February 28, 2020 at 12:15 KEEP USING RSA! This article is mi
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> Are there any genes that explicitly produce a timing mechanism, and thereby create a built-in notion of aging? Yes, telomeres. Telomeres set a count on how many times a cell can divide before it ceases to divide and becoming old and
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But can you quote the entire original article and still claim fair use for purposes of criticism?
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I like the format very much -- the original New York Times article on the left and commentary about it on the right -- but how is this not a copyright violation? I'd be worried about the New York Times threatening to sue.
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> The midtown Manhattan “wiretap nest” remains one of the largest and most elaborate private eavesdropping operations ever uncovered in the United States. Wait till you hear about a private eavesdropping[1] operation in Colombia: "
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> with Gmail, where you were so aggressive about mining receipt data from Amazon that when I get a receipt from Amazon now it doesn’t actually include what I bought Wow, he's right. The item name no longer appears on emailed recei
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If I were him, I'd blur the finger tips in the photos. They have enough resolution to extract fingerprint information. There's much opportunity for mischief. I hate biometrics as a means of identification and access control, but t
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> Scientists in California gave 9 men aged 51 to 65 a growth hormone and two diabetes medications for a year. The drugs seemed to rejuvenate the men’s thymus glands and immune function. They also shaved 2.5 years off the men’s biologica
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> No online retailer/merchant/provider has ever seen our real name Is there some way to extend this idea to physical goods delivered to your home? Occasionally something happens that requires you to go to the post office, or
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Call me old school, but I like looking at the number of lines of code to get a feel for how big of a project something is. Mako[1] is 265,618 lines of code. The most widely accepted Bitcoin implementation[2] is 639,074 lines of code -- that
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The article offers no explanation about how adversaries are able to get the encrypted data in the first place. I'm not saying it's unlikely or that they shouldn't invest in quantum-proof cryptography for the future, but it wo
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>> Do humans fit in 10TB? > If it were just the algorithm, I think 10TB would be enough Just thinking about it makes me shiver. I had been assuming that AGI or strong AI needed enormous advances in hardware like quantum computi
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