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Not to mention that Proton relies exclusively on US-based companies for payment management (Strip, PayPal, ...). Transitive dependencies are always a worse problem than direct dependencies, because they are out of your view and control. But
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LLMs also take away the motivation from students to properly concentrate and deeply understand a technical problem (including but not limited to coding problems); instead, they copy, paste and move on without understanding. The electronic c
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> managers were generally evaluated in that period based on their ability to hire, retain and motivate teams. The current market doesn’t value those skills particularly highly, but instead prioritizes a different set of skills: working i
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Could be that Snowden took it to The Guardian, a foreign and international news outlet. The story how British intelligence folks showed up at the Guardian HQ and symbolically destroyed a hard drive, and the way Guardian management used thei
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Where are today's technicians that are prostituting themselves for the communications companies around the world that this can still be happening? Man up and remove those splitters, cables, show us the drawings, reports and PPT slides!
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I wonder what lessons were learned that could benefit others who want to port command line tools from C to Rust, e.g. particular idioms or re-usable functions (error handling, logging, defaults/dot-file management, command line option
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I've emailed DEK to point out that the first person to break Enigma was not actually Alan M. Turing (as stated in one of the recent pre-fascicles) but the Polish mathematician Marian Rejewski (Turing's contribution was to automate
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LinkedIn is useless for managing your contacts. Try finding out who you met a year ago today at a particular event, or try exporting everyone's vCard including email addresses. It has degraded to a social media spam site where people s
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Stay tuned for Ladybird.
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How about starting with something like this: CREATE TABLE email( id INTEGER AUTOINCREMENT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, s_id INTEGER, r_id INTEGER, subject VARCHAR, header VARCHAR, body VARCHAR );
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Does anyone have good experience with a particular pipeline for OCR-ing C source code?
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It's neither about icons nor strictly speaking "text" labels, but I'm bothered by the spread of menus titled "+" or "..."; they are a new thing, and they make stuff harder to find. In the 1990s, &quot
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I will pay $500/500€ for a 500g subnotebook with a proper keyboard (a la ThinkPad), A5/11" b/w e-Ink screen and a battery that lasts for a week. No hires graphics card, no GPU, 1 CPU (1-4 ARM cores, possibly RasPi-based)
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In linguistic terminology L1 and L2 refer to your native tongue versus second language, respectively. So the process of declining performance in your native language is known as "L1 attrition", but it's an extremely under-res
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You can go in deeply enough that you won't forget it even if you pick it up later in your life, but the trouble is you cannot know whether (or not yet) you have reached that level. If you were to pursue that as a personal project, spen
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Edinburgh. Turin. Valencia. Vienna. But a lot of that depends on factors like budget and language skills, and of course, where your next of kin live, assuming you want to be close to them.
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There should be an Augmented Reality app for London that shows you how it was around 1,800 years ago, whereever you are standing, mobile phone in hand. On the top of the Shard, there is an AR telescope that shows you what is in some of the
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Good read, thanks.
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As much as I love REUTERS, this one is incomplete: what about the monkey? And can we have a photo?
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In this Lex Fiedman video, they talk about how life is short, and a visualization as a spreadsheet is shown that makes one very concerned: Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #440 htt
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What is called "Evaluation-Driven Development" (EDD), I called "evaluation first" approach: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.07725 Thinking about evaluation at the beginning, not at the end of a project,
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This was a tough story, and the comments show an ocean of additional human suffering on top of the OP's. After reading a hand full of the comments, I am scrolling over the rest, thinking "wow", it's HN, which I read it a
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There can be different views on this, I guess. Apple is known to like to exercise control and to keep their ecosystem closed (recall that Jobs was initially AGAINST the AppStore concept entirely, which was invented by someone else and now m
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I think this is a great idea for a startup. As a scientist, I would definitely be a paying customer, and on top I could deduct that membership from my taxes or have my lab pay for it like we (like many others) are paying Overleaf just under
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Doug McIlroy is still alive, so if anyone knows him they can ask him. There was just another piece on HN the other day where he clarified some internal data structure he used in the spell(1) command. > the problem of indexing and finding
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Applying copyright law more and more to things like software - and now to AI models - in other words, the status quo, makes little sense. What is needed instead (I doubt politicians read HN, but someone go and tell them) is a new law that r
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Your definition of "generative" as a statistical term is correct. However, and annoyingly so, recently the general public and some experts have been speaking of "generative AI" (or GenAI for short) when they talk about l
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Note this case is explicitly NOT about large language model type AI - Ross' product is just a traditional search engine (information retrieval system), not a neural transformer a la ChatGPT. About judge Bibas: https://en.wik
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There's a decent chance that his code was seen during the model's training, given that https://github.com/kylekaba/alma_dynamicalmodeling is open (world-wide readable). The OP may have accidentally used GPT a
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I doubt AI has much to do with it. But it may be given as "excuse" by CXOs to explain why the cuts have been made. To add AI functionality, you will first need more developers, and a different kind (those that can train/evalu

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