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by cowsup 2y ago
> People made the association because her voice was used in a movie that features a highly emotive voice assistant reminiscent of GPT-4o, which sama and others joked about. Whether you think it sounds like her or not is a matter of opini
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North Yorkshire to phase out apostrophes on street signs, citing database issues(bbc.com)
4 points by cowsup 2y ago|3 comments
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by cowsup 2y ago
It reminds me of the train derailment stories last year, soon after the disastrous one in Ohio. Trains apparently derail quite often, but it was on everyone’s mind, so any outlet that posted about a more mundane derailment was rewarded with
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by cowsup 2y ago
Not a lawyer, but one of the arguments TikTok makes is: > Third, the Chinese government has made clear that it would not permit a divestment of the recommendation engine that is a key to the success of TikTok in the United States. Like t
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by cowsup 2y ago
Marketing it to children means you have to start worrying about COPPA (if in the US, where Rabbit is HQ'd) or similar legislation elsewhere. An AI device that accepts voice input and is supposed to learn and adapt to your use-case is a
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by cowsup 2y ago
There's no evidence one way or another. TikTok's servers are in the US, but, even if we audit their entire outbound connections, or get a warrant from their ISP to confirm no traffic has ever gone out to China... There's no s
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by cowsup 2y ago
The main question you should ask yourself: Will this attract the right kind of contributions? Whenever I contribute to open-source, it’s typically because I found the project on my own, and, by extension, I already have an idea of how it sh
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by cowsup 3y ago
The wording of the rule change seems to imply that the games must be downloaded from the app (perhaps disallowing sideloading), which Apple would not allow for games that the app developer does not own the rights to. This seems more catered
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by cowsup 3y ago
Agreed, I find lots of these "what is the universe?" questions fall apart, due to the fact that humans aren't great at figuring out what we don't know. Just a thousand years ago, our smartest minds had a very different i
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by cowsup 3y ago
The sad reality is that there are very few humans in the world who are “important,” and those who are important already have their funding needs met. For the rest of us, when it comes time to seek funding, the first question investors wil
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by cowsup 3y ago
Great post. I've drawn butterflies before (both professionally and as a hobby) and never once realized I was drawing their "dead" state. Nice tidbit that I'll keep in mind for the future.
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by cowsup 3y ago
Disappointing to hear. It seems every car manufacturer has settled in to their niche, and they are now working to become software companies, adding a bunch of “smart” functionalities to their cars. I was very curious as to whether it was ea
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by cowsup 3y ago
Another benefit is that the mobile app’s “Shorts” menu also stops working if watch history is disabled. Sometimes the app takes me there on launch, and now I’m greeted with a message saying I can’t explore an endless feed unless my watch hi
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by cowsup 3y ago
Annual P&L report should suffice.
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by cowsup 3y ago
Apart from the unprecedented nature of it, the actual business behind this (potential) decision doesn’t seem so outrageous. You charge a higher rate for players to get access to Game Pass on PS5/Switch, cloud-only. Or, if they buy the
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by cowsup 3y ago
This already exists online — won't link it here but it's easy to find if you know where to search. Players have been unable to upload since March 2021, so any archive that's a year or two old will still be up-to-date.
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by cowsup 3y ago
I recall an old version of vBulletin doing this to me, and it frustrated me enough that I wrote a very similar article. I had a very long password generated for my account, which had moderator permissions. But when I tried to login, no dice
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by cowsup 3y ago
Bluetooth would require separate charging and a heavier design for an onboard battery. Not to mention needing to turn it off and on, or making it "smart" and only turn on when pressed, which slows down typing itself when you reall
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by cowsup 3y ago
Grubhub takes between 5%-20% [0]. So for a $30 meal from pizza hut, assuming they're charged the full 20% (not likely), that's $6. Four deliveries in an hour would be $24 lost. Compare that to paying someone $20 an hour, with no g
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by cowsup 3y ago
1. Non-profit != "not making a profit." A non-profit can still earn monetary profit, and many do. 2. The non-profit OpenAI, Inc. company is not to be confused with the for-profit OpenAI GP, LLC [0] that it controls. OpenAI was sol
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by cowsup 3y ago
> AFAIK reading copyrighted works is not copyright infringement. [...] Are they trying to say that LLM training is a special type of reading that should be considered infringement? Nobody can argue that OpenAI was feeding the content to
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by cowsup 3y ago
Inevitable outcome. Since ChatGPT launched, nobody has a clue as to what is legal and what is illegal with these chat-based LLMs. Is the content that LLMs produce enough to rise to the level of copyright infringement? Is the fact that a com
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by cowsup 3y ago
Boring answer: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Getting new software developed takes time and money, and requires more training. Not to mention the risk of new glitches that weren’t present in the old software.
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by cowsup 3y ago
> A tiny musician withdrew their music, so I'm not sure how relevant breaking up mega firms is. The later half of the post is about Sony's deal with Paramount ending, resulting in paid content being revoked from Playstation con
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by cowsup 3y ago
> to me this comes off kind of badly, like it's trying too hard to emphasize how long they've been doing AI These lines are for the stakeholders as opposed to consumers. Large backers don't want to invest in a company that
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by cowsup 3y ago
> Is copying parts of README enough to call for attribution to the original project? > Is copying error message enough to call for attribution of the original project? > Where is the line? If you and them just had the same idea, an
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by cowsup 3y ago
> Meta will now allow political advertisers to say past elections were “rigged” or “stolen”, although it still prevents them from questioning whether ongoing or future elections are legitimate. I think this is a pretty terrible attempt t
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by cowsup 3y ago
Quite an interesting idea. The most common argument I see is that movies get you [x] hours of entertainment at a lower cost-per-hour when compared to a video game. You can play a video game for ten hours and it feels short; a three hour mov
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by cowsup 3y ago
IANAL but this paragraph is completely wrong: > As we’ve noted, a key part of the ongoing case was just how much Google was paying for these defaults (over $26.3 billion in 2021). But that seems to actually argue against an abuse of a mo
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by cowsup 3y ago
I've been on both ends of this. People who aren't paying me for code are upset that I'm not providing an endless stream of useless stuff; and code I rely on is seemingly abandoned and I'm cautious before using it. The po

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