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by johnnyo 3y ago
I don’t think so, because their are always ambiguities with CSVs Do they have a header? Is the data properly escaped? How are blank values at the end of the row handled? Etc, etc
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by johnnyo 3y ago
Amazon shipping in my area used to be 2 days, but no longer. Now it’s generally 4 working days, sometimes more. Almost all the services I’ve used Amazon for in the past keep getting worse. Prime shipping, video, Amazon music, etc
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by johnnyo 3y ago
More specifically, the total revenue of ads + the people willing to pay $3/month is greater than the revenue lost when people cancel their service due to ads
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by johnnyo 3y ago
Because it’s more profitable to have something that is paid for AND has ads. Same thing happened with cable TV when it first came out, it was advertised as ad free. Then it filled up with ads, and the streaming services came along promisin
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by johnnyo 3y ago
The article mentions the ads are expected to bring in $3 billion annually. Even if the lawsuit is successful, I suspect it will cost Amazon much less than what they are projecting to make.
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by johnnyo 3y ago
So, the model is bad at helping in this particular task. How does this compare with a control of a beneficial human task? Like someone in a lab testing blood samples or working on cancer research? Is the model equally useless for those typ
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by johnnyo 3y ago
My understanding is this is why some old TV shows aren’t streaming despite interest. “WKRP in Cincinnati” has so much music in the episodes that the licensing costs to stream it today would be prohibitive.
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by johnnyo 3y ago
I think the interest here is less about how it was used in the past, and how it might be used in the future. With changing landscape of laws related to things like abortion and transgender rights, people are rightly worried that a zealous p
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by johnnyo 3y ago
I had a similar problem with Nvidia drivers. My boss purchased some laptop with 3D glasses and drivers and wanted me to get our custom software working on it for a cool demo. I read the docs, implemented the right calls, but no matter what
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by johnnyo 3y ago
How is data secured and protected? Is the company collecting all my prompts and responses? I don’t see a privacy policy or anything like that linked on the main page.
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by johnnyo 3y ago
You absolutely do collect identifying personal information, which is why I gave up and deleted the app. It’s not anonymous when you know where I live, my birthday, and gender. There is only one person that matches those three data points.
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by johnnyo 3y ago
And setting up an account on Apple with a privacy address asks me for my birthday, my gender, and my home address Certainly doesn’t feel anonymous
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by johnnyo 3y ago
Good luck when the govt subpoenas your records chatting with an AI lawyer, since it’s likely not protected by Attorney Client privilege.
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by johnnyo 3y ago
I wonder if the whole family sharing a thermometer increased transmission. I doubt it was fully sterilized between uses.
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by johnnyo 3y ago
To be clear, its not a sudden change. It's been written into the law since 2017 that it was sunsetting. People incorrectly assumed that Congress would extend or repeal the sunset. But its not like the tax law was changed on Dec 30th
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by johnnyo 4y ago
The headline is a bit misleading. It's nothing the AI did, it was a misconfiguration of the website itself.
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by johnnyo 4y ago
I guess this is the answer to this post from 3 months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33735503
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by johnnyo 4y ago
"Wi" was An early player of the game that was the a victim of the bug. His character's name was Wi, and the bug was named after him. I remember people theorizing it was due to a short name (only 2 characters), and so would c
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by johnnyo 4y ago
One reason door close buttons don’t work is because many places have a minimum time the doors have to remain open under ADA guidelines. Once that time has passed, the door close. So there is no window in which the button would be useful.
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by johnnyo 4y ago
Yes, Warhammer tries to give their stuff unique names for copyright reasons. They aren’t Space Marines anymore, they are Adeptus Astartes. And the Imperial Guard? Those are Astra Militarum.
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by johnnyo 4y ago
Assuming the US, if someone dies without a will, their estate goes into probate, which is a legal process to determine who inherits. I suppose it would depend on jurisdictions, but I’m not aware on anywhere where an employee would inherit a
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by johnnyo 4y ago
The article actually defines it as $100 profit per superfan (after expenses) Quoting from the article: > First, you have to create enough each year that you can earn, on average, $100 profit from each true fan.
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by johnnyo 4y ago
The focus of the article is on a parent complaining they didn’t get notified about a certificate their kid received.
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by johnnyo 4y ago
Yup, their complaint is that they wanted a separate email to *parents*. Its kind of ridiculously petty when you see what the actual complaint is here. I have a lot of sympathy for school administrators and school board members. They deal
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by johnnyo 4y ago
You missed the even dumber part > National Merit hadn’t included enough stamps on the package, but nevertheless it got to Bonitatibus by mid-October The parent is basically complaining that the school didn’t drop everything and make hand
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by johnnyo 4y ago
The argument doesn’t stand on the merits. They begin their article with the thesis that the school is “withholding awards” from Asian families. When you read what actually happened, the school gave certificates to all student in mid Novembe
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by johnnyo 4y ago
I was a National Merit scholar, FWIW. It’s not really a “prestigious award”. According to the article, 240 kids at the school got the same thing. At my large high school, lots of kids got it too.
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by johnnyo 4y ago
Yeah, if you drill down into the actual sources, that appears to be what happened. The school got a stack of certificates. They sat on the principals desk for a while, then they sat with the guidance counselor or homeroom teachers before b
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by johnnyo 4y ago
As a parent, the chances a piece of paper given to a kid in homeroom makes it to the parent are probably 50% at best. Probably lower. I know when I was a student, it was probably below 25%
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by johnnyo 4y ago
The opening paragraphs seem to imply that the awards were withheld based on race. When you get into the meat of the article, though, it makes it more clear that the school just forwarded a paper cert to the kids, and didn’t make a big deal

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