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by jxf 3y ago
$290/month? If those cashiers are working 100 hours a month they're making about a third of (US federal) minimum wage.
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by jxf 3y ago
Q: Why is the optimal lower bound zero and not "at least as long as you waited last time"?
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OpenAI-generated Amazon product names(amazon.com)
10 points by jxf 3y ago|2 comments
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by jxf 3y ago
Amazon's quality control standards seem to be allowing sellers to name their products whatever they like, including names that were clearly generated by OpenAI. In case this is later taken down, in this example, the product is named &q
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by jxf 3y ago
Try opening a 100 MB file in your text editor and report back.
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by jxf 3y ago
Not disagreeing with this premise, but if Carta were implemented the same way with open source, nothing about Carta being open would have stopped the events from unfolding. It was a cultural and behavioral decision to abuse the platform&#x2
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by jxf 3y ago
"Moral crumple zones" is an incredible description.
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by jxf 3y ago
It's funny that a significant fraction of human effort goes to counteracting that humans (as a whole) are pretty gross — constantly shedding a fine, moist mist of dead skin cells and waste products wherever we go.
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by jxf 3y ago
IMO, the Job Objects API was not really suitable to use in production settings; it had many weird edge cases, so although it looked similar to cgroups it often broke in strange and unpredictable ways.
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by jxf 3y ago
The author would also conclude: * Collision avoidance systems are terrible at forecasting collisions because they almost never result in a collision. (The point of the system is to help you avoid an upcoming collision.) * The prediction tha
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by jxf 3y ago
He's saying that he got some author's copies from Amazon, some of which he returned for being damaged. Rather than scrap those, Amazon resold the damaged copies as new. This robbed the author of a sale.
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by jxf 3y ago
It's a children's book, but I bet Sally Snowman would love Hello Lighthouse [1], winner of the 2019 Caldecott Medal. It's a huge hit with my kids and adults who read to them, including me. [1] https://en.m.wikipedi
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by jxf 3y ago
There are 100% people who will treat a sufficiently human-acting AI this way. The movie _Her_ was a documentary, not science fiction.
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by jxf 3y ago
It's here: https://maxima.sourceforge.io/project.html
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by jxf 3y ago
> The green bubble blue bubble story is really tired. Yea it’s real, but it’s not a technical problem it’s a social problem. It's both. For example, Apple degrades the experience for "green bubbles" even though it doesn&#x
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by jxf 3y ago
Never overestimate the intelligence of someone willing to jump out of a moving plane for clicks and views.
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by jxf 3y ago
I wonder what the total amount of wasted CPU is for displaying and fetching advertising.
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by jxf 3y ago
Ah, thanks! I was trying to copy-paste some examples and they didn't quite work -- it looks like ShaderToy exposes a mainImage(out vec4, in vec2) function with a different signature than the simulation-Sphere site wants. For example th
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by jxf 3y ago
That's super cool! What shader language is this using?
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by jxf 3y ago
No; this is a different noninvasive technology.
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by jxf 3y ago
It respects the normal RoR toolchain parameter filtering, so anything that you say is sensitive (or everything by default, if you'd like) also doesn't get sent to CallStacking.
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by jxf 3y ago
But a number of those other employees have said they'll leave if Altman isn't rehired.
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by jxf 3y ago
You should read the rest of the review: > Devon Rodriguez is almost certainly the most famous artist in the world, at least on one level. Almost no one I know has ever heard of him. It's clear that the author means that in _popular
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by jxf 3y ago
I attribute a large part of my technical leadership success to being able to communicate clearly through diagrams, and I think the post gives some good entry-level practical advice. One more piece of advice I'd have is to either make s
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by jxf 3y ago
Confirming that I'm seeing improvements on this. Tunnels weren't working for me before but they are now.
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by jxf 3y ago
For another accessible introduction to p-adic numbers, check out Eric Rowland's overview [1]. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gyHKCDq1YA
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by jxf 3y ago
The test is about being in a uniformly white-lit environment, like a very hot furnace. It's just a mnemonic.
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by jxf 3y ago
Why is this a counterexample to being one binary?
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by jxf 3y ago
> There are two main mediums for digital documents: PDFs and web pages. PDFs were designed to mirror physical documents, so they impose the real-world constraints of paper: page breaks, fixed width, and immutable styling. Web pages, by c
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by jxf 3y ago
There is a "playground" that's basically just a thin veneer on the OpenAI API and has a conversational interface, where you pay by the token, and it doesn't include any of the ChatGPT capabilities.

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