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by hnfong 1y ago
There's only ONE* Chinese speaking country, at least if you only count those that have a Chinese speaking majority population, or uses Chinese as the official language. * for various interpretations of one.
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by hnfong 1y ago
Personally it feels like every issue gets shoved under the "imposter syndrome" umbrella, but I'd say you are just feeling a bit of cultural shock or cultural mismatch. The other thing is software developed by large teams tend
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by hnfong 1y ago
With that username it's really easy to assume you have a biased view of the situation...
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by hnfong 1y ago
Never gonna give you up… (Sorry I’ll excuse myself now…
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by hnfong 2y ago
I think what you said makes a lot of sense. Can we not argue whether I disagree with you please? :)
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by hnfong 2y ago
There is a huge spectrum between suing village kids for trademark infringement, and allowing everyone to misuse and abuse the trademark to the point it becomes a generic term. I don't think I disagree with you generally, but it must be
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by hnfong 2y ago
Of course you can't enforce your rights if you don't enforce them. That isn't what people mean by "losing" the rights. For example somewhere on the planet somebody is running a pirated copy of Windows 10. But it wo
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by hnfong 2y ago
Grow fast, raise a few billions, deal with the lawsuit in a few years when you're big enough to buy lobbyists in Washingon DC.
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by hnfong 2y ago
> The way copyright and other rights to your IP you claim to have work in practice, is you need to enforce those claims or loose the rights. Generally only applies to trademarks, not copyrights. In most English speaking countries copyrig
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by hnfong 2y ago
If you often use custom fonts that aren't preinstalled on typical systems, I can't help but wonder whether you also painstakingly choose fonts for non-latin character/non-latin based languages? I'll admit opening a can o
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by hnfong 2y ago
Any further details?
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by hnfong 2y ago
> You can read decision here. No mention of search. I count 13 mentions of "Google Search" and 44 mentions of "search" in the linked document. Of course this doesn't mean the monopoly is in "search", bu
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by hnfong 2y ago
To state the obvious, OpenJDK is also an Oracle product.
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by hnfong 2y ago
IIRC, before Google got into ad-tech, they didn't have a business model. Not sure whether "core market: users" make sense in this context.
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by hnfong 2y ago
If we're talking about "fantasy world" vs "real world", the "always run 42 years algorithm" surely is closer to fantasy world than most reasonable Big-O analyses... If you need to pull an example from fant
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by hnfong 2y ago
I'd mentally put this in the same box as "chain of thought", where models perform better when explicitly describing the reasoning steps. The only difference in your case being that the model is undertrained in non-English dat
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by hnfong 2y ago
I don't even agree with the self-proclaimed legal experts in the replies. Employers generally assume liability for torts (civil liability arising from wrong-doings) vicariously. For example if an employee somehow puts rat poison into a
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by hnfong 2y ago
It's not like there aren't disgruntled employees before layoffs. If a single employee could cause billions of dollars in losses, then the company already has a big problem regardless of layoffs. It's very interesting how so m
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by hnfong 2y ago
An IRL Youtuber streamer recently tried one of these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQGAuf0rFLA Might be a bit of a stretch to call these "taxi"s but anyway here's your futuristic flying car from China...
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by hnfong 2y ago
Sometimes you don't want your workflow to be subject to the whims of some LLM API provider.
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by hnfong 2y ago
I never believed any FP evangelist ever since I realized I can't even write quicksort with it *. (* Yes, you can technically write it procedurally like a good C programmer, sure.)
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by hnfong 2y ago
Placates the "stonks go up crowd" at least.
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by hnfong 2y ago
It's not even that. Those showcasing the power of LLMs to code up a whole project should be disclosing their prompts. Otherwise it's quite meaningless.
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by hnfong 2y ago
If I were a lazy incompetent politician I'd do the short sighted thing (kiss the Trump ass to placate my voters) and leave the long term thinking to whoever unfortunate enough to succeed my position.
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by hnfong 2y ago
> And surely "everybody else" is working on alternatives. Well, it really depends on the competence of "everybody else"...
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by hnfong 2y ago
The rest of the world has moved on and no longer using GPLv3. In the early 2000s all the miscellaneous small projects on sourceforge used GPLv2 (v3 was not out yet). These days you'll be hard pressed to find any new projects using GPLv
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by hnfong 2y ago
> the United Kingdom (throughout is its various incantations) and Great Britain are/were unitary states, not continuing unions of constituent parts I don't think the situation is as clear-cut as you assert. Scotland has its own
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by hnfong 2y ago
"Reinventing the wheel over and over" has been a trillion dollar business. Maybe it won't be for long. Is that "bullish on LLMs" or not?
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by hnfong 2y ago
A person who's bullshitting their way doesn't get a 70% accuracy. For yes/no questions they'll get 50%. For open ended questions they'll be lucky to get 1%. You're really underestimating the difficulty of gett
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by hnfong 2y ago
Surely you're not saying everyone is using them wrong. Let's say only 99% of them are using LLMs wrong, and the remaining 1% creates $100B of economic value. That's $100B of upside. Yes the costs of training AI models these

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