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by hnfong 2y ago
> likely aren't intending as part of their raison d'être to sow discord and chaos in China. This is so revisionist that it's funny. I vividly recall Facebook management celebrating their role in toppling regimes around the
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by hnfong 2y ago
What's depressing about it?
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by hnfong 2y ago
No, you don't only look at the end result when determining whether a work is derivative of another. The process with which one produced the work has implications whether it is a derivative or not. For one, if you can show that you didn
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by hnfong 2y ago
If we take the logic of your final paragraph to its ultimate conclusion, it seems companies can avoid having friends and family speak up about the harassment if they just hire a hitman.
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by hnfong 2y ago
> Web scraping is legal and benefiting from published works is entirely the point, so long as you don't merely redistribute it. That's plainly false. Generally, if you redistribute "derivative works" you're also
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by hnfong 2y ago
I don't know what it is that make people think of science in an over-confident binary (yes or no) manner. If you read the original article, you'd see that the idea of experiments about quantum supremacy is an important issue. The
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by hnfong 2y ago
There is actually an IOCCC entry in 2019 that does almost exactly this except it’s LSTM instead of transformers: https://www.ioccc.org/2019/mills/prog.c https://www.ioccc.org/2019/mills/h
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by hnfong 2y ago
And that's what the linked article is doing?
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by hnfong 2y ago
That's a bit extreme. While QM and QC theory is well-established, there has been very few experiments that confirm that quantum computing actually works as theorized. There are quantum computers that are "working", but some o
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by hnfong 2y ago
TBH I don't know why the FSF had been pushing for this 'not a contract' narrative for so long either. Maybe bad lawyering. Or some aversion to anything that looks like an EULA or that kind of radical-ideological shit. PS: I f
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by hnfong 2y ago
I didn't say contracts being rejected by the courts. I said the FSF had a legal theory that "GPL is a license, not a contract", which was rejected by the courts. Some reading: https://www.technollama.co.uk/us-
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by hnfong 2y ago
AFAIK, the main issue of the GPL family of licenses is that they are rather poorly drafted. The GNU project has great evangelists but ideological-minded people make bad lawyers. Their licenses are long winded and hard to interpret, and ofte
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by hnfong 2y ago
There are domesticated species that depend on human for their survival. Think crops like maize, pets like dogs (some breeds more so than others), etc.
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by hnfong 2y ago
Violence creates a lot of problems, but it does solve some issues. Morals is a totally different topic, and whether "political opponents" will resort to violence is yet another topic. Heck, even the mere fact that the suspect was
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by hnfong 2y ago
At this point it's not inconceivable that either the US or the EU will fuck up their ads business out of anti-trust concerns.
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by hnfong 2y ago
Matt Levine has recently written a humorous-yet-thorough article on this exact issue: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-12-02/texas-...
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by hnfong 2y ago
They kind of offer this service for free already. Who's going to pay them to do it? :)
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by hnfong 2y ago
What you said is true, but it's much easier to do if you (as the interviewer) have full control over the questions and evaluation of the candidate in your interview. For larger orgs at scale, often the interviewer needs to stick to a s
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by hnfong 2y ago
I mean, dude, take a look at what we were originally discussing -- an app on github that helps you cheat on live interviews in Zoom. FWIW, I've interviewed almost a hundred candidates in the past couple years and I think the number of
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by hnfong 2y ago
I don't see how your method works better than a sieve with noise. Instead of a "noisy" sieve, you're just using the time of application as your sieve. Which, unless your job opening values the skill of submitting lightni
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by hnfong 2y ago
Statistics doesn't work so well on things with unknown unknowns. Actuarial science works super well on predicting life expectancy of an average person, because we have a lot of data on when people die. We might not know when a particul
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by hnfong 2y ago
It depends on what the objective is. Is the objective to ensure people are safe from potential dangers? Sure. Is the objective to maximize profits for capitalist society and minimize costs? Then banning every useful but potentially harmful
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by hnfong 2y ago
It might be a bit early for you, but resources like this would help you on your career later on: https://staffeng.com/ “Software standards” come and go, changing relatively quickly, so don’t sweat it too much. You will lear
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by hnfong 2y ago
A nit - it's not UTF-8 or "multibyte" characters that's the main problem. The UTF-8 issue can be trivially resolved by decoding it into unicode code points. As long as you're fine with the truncated length not alway
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by hnfong 2y ago
> Nothing can be free in this world. All the permissively licensed works posted on the Internet, especially those in the public domain, speaks otherwise. It's up to you to decide whether you want to trade your legal rights to "
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by hnfong 2y ago
I kind of agree with you that in practice very few jobs actually require any implementation of textbook algorithms. The weird thing is that while people keep complaining about the focus on algorithms in the interview context, it seems like
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by hnfong 2y ago
When grepping for filenames print0 is needed only when the files have new lines in them. (Which is quite degenerate.) grep works fine with spaces and tabs in the stdin
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by hnfong 2y ago
It's also a numbers thing. Startups generally hire a couple people, while FAANGs hire in the tens of thousands. (Used to, at least.)
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by hnfong 2y ago
They actually do have to, in a sense. Being the only non-democratically elected branch of government in a democracy, the courts don't enjoy direct approval from the people. So while the structure of the institutions seem to give them p
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by hnfong 2y ago
I think you're using too many suppositions. Do you have an actual example? Or two since you're using plurals?

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