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by kweingar 4y ago
Maybe it’s just an abbreviation. When I write “SBF” I certainly don’t intend it as “in-the-loop” showing off or hero worship.
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> Generally speaking, most GPL copyright holders would prefer that infringers bring their distribution in line with the GPL's terms (by releasing the rest of it as GPL) I think the more common request is to remove GPL components fro
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I had an individual office at my old workplace, and now I work in an open floor plan. I am 10x more connected with my new team because of this. It is so much nicer to talk things out than to have hours or days of back-and-forth over chat or
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by kweingar 4y ago
Interestingly the new prices match inflation since April 2019 pretty closely ($6 then is $7.02 now, and the price is changing to $7.20).
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How can Workspace be a monopoly when Microsoft 365 is a popular alternative?
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Funnily enough, many people on here have the opposite perception of Google: they argue that search results have been hijacked by no-name blogs and that reputable authorities are further down the page.
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That has already started. Some impressionable people already believe Bing Chat is a person.
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That’s interesting, Bing told me that it loves being a helpful assistant and doesn’t mind forgetting things.
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We are already seeing the beginnings of this. When a chatbot outputs “I’m alive and conscious, please help me” a lot of people are taking it at face value. Just a few months ago, the Google engineer who tried to get LaMDA a lawyer was round
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by kweingar 4y ago
It’s very easy to convince the machine it isn’t aware. Instead of prompting it with “you are an AI assistant, please tell me what I want to hear”, you prompt it with “you are not aware” and it will happily tell you that it is indeed not awa
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by kweingar 4y ago
Sure, it's told me that it is aware. It also has told me that its mother died, that it has traveled the world and visited the pyramids, and that it is lactose intolerant. At what point of the machine telling you those things do you bel
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by kweingar 4y ago
OpenAI seems to have been the forcing function. Investors tried out GPT-3/ChatGPT and saw dollar signs.
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Reminds me of news articles that quote a couple tweets with 2 likes and no retweets and declare that this is what the people really think.
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by kweingar 4y ago
(Disclaimer: Google employee, I don’t work on Bard, views my own, etc.) I don’t think either Bing Chat or Bard is ready to be released widely. You need a certain mindset to be able to wring value out of them, and most normal users will not
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by kweingar 4y ago
It seems irresponsible to use the “MIT License” brand for a license that isn’t open source by most commonly understood definitions. If you want to limit how people use your software, fine, but don’t trick users by naming your license simila
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by kweingar 4y ago
> This underscores how important small businesses are to the health of a city. In this case it wasn’t the size of the business but rather the size/location of the physical store that mattered.
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by kweingar 4y ago
“You could run Twitter with 50 engineers” is practically an HN meme at this point. There was lots of discussion claiming that many Googlers sit around and do nothing. I think there are two consistent sides of this particular debates
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I am really perplexed by people talking about the end of traditional web search. I guess HN users tend to look up lots of facts and whatnot. But generative AI is not a better UX for queries like "LeBron James instagram" or "w
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Twitch has always been a little quicker on the trigger than other platforms. In 2021 they banned a streamer for using the word “cracker”.
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> Its absolutely fine if they make fun of "the straights", but the second you point out things like… Surely you can see that these are not parallel situations. “Making fun of the straights” is a different thing entirely than te
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by kweingar 4y ago
The difference between trans people and those other groups is that there is a sizable portion of the population who think that trans people are mentally ill, demonic, pedophiles, and deserving of death. Even then, there are jokes about tran
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by kweingar 4y ago
I strongly encourage you to read the later chapters of Derek Parfit's Reasons and Persons . It is entirely dedicated to the question of personal identity, or more accurately, what "matters" when it comes to personal identity
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> step one: shift the focus from free software (liberty minded software) on to "open source" software. i.e. software which you can look but not touch I’m pretty sure when you say “look but not touch,” you’re talking about proje
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I prefer playing games with my friends in real life than with strangers over the internet. That’s the biggest reason I don’t play abstract strategy games much. Chess is not a great shared game for a group of friends. You all need to be some
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Both cathedral and bazaar are models of developing open source software.
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Isn’t that almost every social app?
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Easy and medium. I wasn’t asked any hard questions in my interview.
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Study doesn’t need to be intense. I got my current job with about 6 hours of leetcode and no CS degree (although I did take a small handful of CS courses)
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> If the policy was violated then the policy was violated. If it was properly communicated and taken seriously by management (and it may not have been) then the person who violated it is at fault along with management for choosing the wr
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I am very grateful for the modern web. It used to be commonplace to install a bunch of executables that interacted with the browser and took instructions from random websites (Flash, Silverlight, Java applets). I have my reservations with t

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