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by itake 1y ago
The people in the camp of payoff early often highlight the emotional safety of paying off the debt… But that logic never made sense to me, because homes are always callable: if you stop paying property taxes, Thats not your house any more.
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by itake 1y ago
I don't mind people using AI to assist with writing, but when I see the markers of ai assistance, I wonder if the author actually reviewed what the AI wrote(hallucinated?) before publishing the article. Also the ChatGPT writing style i
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by itake 1y ago
> Google does certain things in relation to Tiananmen Square searches in China What does Google do with Tiananmen square searches in China? I can't access google here at all.
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by itake 1y ago
Another interpretation is she regrets being caught and she took full responsibility of not doing a better job to covering things up.
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by itake 1y ago
this seems to fall into the category of Intuit offering AI (RAG/MCP + tuned base model) and not people directly going to chatgpt for half-baked advice (and still needing to fill out all the forms and perform hand calculations themselve
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by itake 1y ago
not really? presumably many people transfer via platforms like Coinbase that use a shared wallet system. You can't just "send the money back where it came from" as those wallets might not actually be controlled by the funds o
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by itake 1y ago
Where do you see that "pages seems to be on the way out"? I use pages for a few projects...
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by itake 1y ago
Reminds me of Ada's Technical Books and Cafe in Seattle
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by itake 1y ago
My gripe with docker vs native code is docker is just slow to build. or maybe im just not using it right.
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by itake 1y ago
PE firms are heavily funded by pensions, sovereign wealth, university endowments, and insurance companies.
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by itake 1y ago
how? crypto trading is illegal in china. where would the RE money go? My understanding is they typically buy RE to get money out of China.
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by itake 1y ago
Fraudsters (may) trick AI by holding up a photo copied version of the original tricking the AI to think its looking at the real thing. Either the fraudster or the true human can request an appeal and the support staff could easily tell whic
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by itake 1y ago
I've spent hours each week on Sora 2 and ChatGPT. I clearly have been enjoying what AI has offered. ChatGPT has largely replaced my google searching.
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by itake 1y ago
we use AI (LLMs) to improve the recall and precision of our classification models for content moderation. Our human moderators can only process so many items per day, at a high cost. AI (LLMS) act as a pre-filter, auto-approving or auto-rej
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by itake 1y ago
yes, I've worked on face recognition databases with 150m and 40m faces for banking and safety. The models are not perfect. Humans should still be in the loop to verify, especially when the consequences of being wrong really suck for th
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by itake 1y ago
neat, but how do users appeal a false positive? Do companies just trust the users or should the company retain the original information so they can manually verify?
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by itake 1y ago
The incentive structure for managers (and literally everyone up the chain) is to maximize headcount. More people you managed, the more power you have within the organization. No one wants to say on their resume, "I manage 5 people, but
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by itake 1y ago
Can you elaborate more? Discord has 656m users. if 10% upload their ID, they'd have 65m ID photos to search through. There are 2 use-cases here: 1/ Safety Bans (lets pretend 0.01% of ID card users have been banned for safety reaso
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by itake 1y ago
How does this help you identify duplicate accounts? If the original photo is deleted, do you just trust the model to be correct 100% of the time when it rejects the newly created account? Or do you keep the original photo and allow a human
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by itake 1y ago
Models have racial biases, can't support aged faces, or look-alike faces.
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by itake 1y ago
Just a guess, but they may store the original ID card to audit duplicate accounts. If their machine learning models, think that two people are the exact same, having the original image, especially a photo of the same ID card could confirm t
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by itake 1y ago
iOS lets you lock apps behind faceID. All my communication and banking apps are protected.
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by itake 1y ago
My understanding is Mastodon requires the server to be complicit with the transfer (online and redirecting requests to the new destination). If your host server is offline or not willing to migrate your data, you can't move. In the AT
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by itake 1y ago
Burner phones are tricky b/c many countries require ID to use a SIM card.
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by itake 1y ago
I wish it actually worked that way, because we'd have safer internet. But the reality is the local police don't have jurisdiction either in other localities or other countries. If it actually worked as you described, toll fraud an
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by itake 1y ago
its definitely a US/CA thing. The penalties of serving alcohol to under aged are high, potentially losing your license to sell alcohol. Regulators perform random checks with plants to verify proper protocols are followed.
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by itake 1y ago
how long does the bar retain access to your ID? how can you trust 3rd party providers?
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by itake 1y ago
letters, phone calls, and sms can come from anywhere, globally. There is no middle man reading every message and blocking anything it doesn't like.
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by itake 1y ago
I’m not sure where they’re getting their data about companies not hiring juniors. In 2021, 104,874 CS students graduated—the highest number ever [0] (1.5x more than the 4 years prior). But the job postings 2022-2025 have certainly not maint
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by itake 1y ago
It’s not for me, but my paying customers. I guess I could ask them if they are ok if the service goes down when Florida has a hurricane

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