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by jt2190 4y ago
I’m actually not convinced that this is a good use case. As the article points out these bots seem to get a lot of facts wrong in a right-ish looking sort of way. A whiteboard interview feels like it would easily trap the bot into perusing
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by jt2190 4y ago
I can imagine many “transactional” interactions between humans that might be improved by an AI Chat Bot like this. For example, any situation where the messenger has to deliver bad news to a large group of people, say, a boarding area full
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by jt2190 4y ago
Yes. From the article: > “The thing that's really insidious here is that [once a person buys] into the WTF idea… they can spread it elsewhere for the duration of their career… Once people get convinced that some deviation is normal,
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> M (… this is maybe the most modern-feeling of this whole bunch) Because it has sound?
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Mozilla's explanation for not supporting Web SQL: "Beyond HTML5: Database APIs and the Road to IndexedDB" (June 2010) https://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/06/beyond-html5-database-apis...
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by jt2190 4y ago
WebSQL was a proposed web standard that all standards-compliant browsers would have to implement. The standard was tightly coupled to the SQLite implementation, which was a problem for any browser that could not just bundle SQLite. Ultima
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> "The [New York] Department [of Financial Services] is monitoring Paxos closely to verify that the company can facilitate redemptions in an orderly fashion subject to enhanced, risk-based, compliance protocols," [1] [1] “Notic
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by jt2190 4y ago
Also see this thread: “Crypto Firm Paxos Faces SEC Lawsuit over Binance USD Token” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34769460 Edit: Coindesk has shared the details of The Wall Street Journal’s reporting: > “Following
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by jt2190 4y ago
> For example, one of the reasons I switched from Java to Go back in the day is that I could actually read the source code of the APIs I was using. What APIs were you using? I haven’t used Java in a while but one of the main attractions
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> We tested Comcast's coverage claims in Hillier's area by clicking nearby addresses on the FCC map and then entering the addresses on Comcast's ordering website at xfinity.com. Our search wasn't exhaustive, but we f
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> … some stated that they cannot pay the salary I was asking, because i don't live in a high-density, high-cost-for-living area, while others argued that they have to respect their local salaries, which are below what I would expect
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Interesting! It seems like you view MVP as the process whereas I view it as a milestone (something like the bare-minimum version of “default alive”.)
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Indeed. Perhaps I misunderstood the general gist of Minimum Viable Product, but I thought it originated as a kind of test to determine whether what you had was actually a Product , and not just a one-off solution, or a piece of software, o
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by jt2190 4y ago
Look through any comment thread about layoffs here on HN and you’ll see multiple comments suggesting that layoffs only hit “low performers”. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34563311
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> … staying on Tcl was unsustainable for developer recruitment and retention purposes… I agree that this is a real phenomenon, and I find fascinating because it illustrates the role of fashion in software development. TCL may have been
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Rabid rail fans, i.e. “foaming at the mouth”
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This is an essay [1] and the paragraphs you’ve quoted are exploring the question set up in the preceeding paragraph: > The classic statement of the problem [that objectivity journalism is a problematic concept] is Walter Lippmann’s book
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by jt2190 4y ago
Make sure to choose “yes” to see the Easter egg > Live flight not found > The flight with callsign GTI747 is currently not tracked by Flightradar24. It's either out of coverage or has already landed. > Do you want to see the f
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by jt2190 4y ago
I think both can be true. Have a look at the SuperGLUE (General Language Understanding Evaluation) benchmark tasks to get a sense of of what these models will have to conquer to reach human levels. Edit: I’m specifically responding to your
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Not sure if your threads contain a lot of images/media, but I find that having images collapsed by default improves performance immensely.
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Just my two cents: Nix doesn’t guarantee “reproducible”, just “repeatable”. (I think it’s helpful to keep these technical concepts distinct, and to introduce the right terminology when teaching, since it makes elaboration easier in the futu
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This interview was posted days ago under a different title: Previous Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34339698 “ Why are there so many tech layoffs, and why should we be worried? Stanford scholar explains”
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by jt2190 4y ago
Short version: Do an internet search for “the hidden job market”. Unlike most people’s “passive” strategy of posting a resume on LinkedIn or sending resumes to job postings then hoping that someone takes notice of you, you’ll develop an “ac
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I think the term “accidental complexity” relates to this concept. The architectural model would be the “accidental” part, that is, in a magical world the business model would execute correctly without any need to tie it into the architectur
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What did your Senator say when you wrote them a letter to complain?
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Some great details provided by a student reporter: > Edward Cenedella, the Director of Facilities and Operations for the Hampden Wilbraham Regional School District, says that the issue is more complicated than just a computer server prob
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Laravel is “linked” together via a combination of Composer dependency manager and Dependency Injection. You can easily customize your setup to remove the dependency on Eloquent ORM and use something else.
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Very well put!
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Right now it feels like the main unsolved problem is creating a “medium of exchange” that is also a “store of value” and at the same time has a very stable price. (Unlike, say, BTC which has been wildly volatile for a while now.) Witho
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The Deep Learning expert, François Chollet, is actually saying something more nuanced, e.g: > Now, seeing [SEO/marketing engagement bait] tweets is compatible with both the bull case and the bear case. If the tech is revolutionary,

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