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Some would argue the point is to be intrusive... The most cost effective and simplest solution to kids watching porn would be regulation around on-device filters. Why the UK didn't do this and instead tried to regulate the entire inter
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As someone who doesn't really care about apps, if I wanted to move away from Android what phones and OSs are worth considering?
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Assuming this reasoning is accurate, why not just silently throw a rate limit error and simply not reenable it if it's repeatedly switched on and off?
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But no one uses LLMs like this. This is the type of simple fact you could just Google and check yourself. LLMs are useful for providing answers to more complex questions where some reasoning or integration of information is needed. In these
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This isn't bad advise if the wording wasn't so robotic. You can empathise with someone for being upset without contributing to further the discussion. In situations like this I normally redirect... So if I received a message like,
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Plus most PhD have spent their whole life in education and haven't got any real work experience.
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To build a dot-com you needed an army of geeks who knew how to use computers. To build an AI company you need a small team of PHDs and a huge GPU budget.
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What we really need to work out is how we can incubate humans outside of the womb so we can create brain-dead humans for organ harvesting. Would be both more reliable and more humane than this. Plus you could harvest the heart, liver, etc a
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The British government advises me against any travel to Afghanistan because Afghans might try to kill me. This is a country that fought a civil war in the pursuit of suppressing women's rights after all. > Also likely that the immig
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I agree. I think the French are doing the right thing here. I only mentioned it because it's one of the many things governments do which encourage and normalise more coming. British politician could try to strike a deal with the French
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Yep. It's literally always this way. It's starts with "we hope everyone will do the right thing". To, "it's concerning some people are refusing to do their part". To finally, "do it now or we'll
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I assume you're not from the UK? If we wanted we could stop illegal immigration extremely fast – as you say we are an island so it's relatively easy to stop people arriving. We don't need drones. At the moment after the Frenc
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I'm hitting 'x' to doubt hard on this one. The ICPC is a short (5 hours) timed contest with multiple problems, in which contestants are not allowed to use the internet. The reason most don't get a perfect score isn'
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One of the problems the UK has is that our two primary government IDs – driver licenses and passports – are not universally issued. Instead, these IDs have requirements and must be applied for at a cost, so not everyone has one. This means
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I'm sure there are better approaches, but we do this at our company so if it's useful this is what we do: We have config defining the various topics of interests – so in your case that would be "things users hate" and &q
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You're all assuming that predators who are already deliberating using apps which are encrypted to share CSAM won't just move to something else where there is encryption – which will always be possible unless the EU fines a way to
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I've commented this elsewhere, but rights in the US are generally much more absolute than here in Europe. For example, in the EU you technically have the right to freedom of expression, but you can also be arrested if you say something
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Anti-vax has never really been a thing though. I don't know what the data is these days, but it used to be like 1% of the population who were anti-vax. We have the same thing going on with racism in the West where people are convinced
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I've argued this before, but the algorithms are not the core problem here. For whatever reason I guess I'm in that very rare group that genuinely watches everything from far-right racists, to communists, to mainstream media conten
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I agree. Again the vast majority would have gotten the vaccine. There's always going to be people for all kinds of reasons pushing out bad ideas. That's part of the trade-off of living in a free society where there is no universal
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I agree. People today are far more anti-vaccine than they were a few years ago which is kinda crazy when you consider we went through a global pandemic where one of the only things that actually worked to stop people dying was the roll out
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> Any suggestion that the program is dragging wages down instead of dragging wages up is not just misleading but factually wrong. The stats you provide here don't support your claim. H1B visa holders can be paid more on average whil
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I always found what we regulate and don't regulate when it comes to motor vehicles interesting... Demanding Tesla's need door handle regulation because of safety concerns lacks perspective given how relatively safe Teslas are, and
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No, but it's still a big stake from the largest player in semis. You wouldn't expect a move like that if they didn't see an opportunity there.
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If you have kids this happens today, except they don't look up from their smart phone. This isn't a new problem.
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Some very negative comments here... Regardless of personal thoughts about Meta and AR tech, it's undeniable that these are interesting and have some cool tech. The live captioning with directional audio seems like it could be a huge wi
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> How do you reconcile that with developers over 45 finding it impossible to find jobs, are all of them asking for "unreasonable" pay? What's "reasonable" depends on perspective. Truth is it makes relatively litt
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Dating is unbelievably easy in some ways though. I'd argue the problem with dating today is that people don't do the hard things and instead look for love on apps and other bad places. Dating is just a numbers game. Roughly speaki
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Experienced tech workers? Yeah. One of the "problems" companies have is that it's hard to find skilled workers in the US with good experience who are not demanding SF wages. And recent graduates aren't that useful so whi
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React's dominance is genuinely baffling to me, and even more so popularity of Next.js. In my experience React is rarely the best solution and adds a huge amount of complexity which is often completely unnecessary because React is rarel
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