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541.
by lacker 5y ago
I think the problem here is calling something "better than human" because it manages to avoid some accidents. If a car avoids one accident for every 100,000 times it intervenes, that isn't really a good thing. It just means t
542.
by lacker 5y ago
Automatic braking doesn't get much attention, but it seems like something that could be incredibly valuable if it got to the "clearly better than human" level. This is purely anecdotal, but I find the automatic braking system
543.
by lacker 5y ago
It only applies to apps that let you create an account from within the app, so third-party client apps like this could just not handle the account signup. (I think they already tend not to handle it.)
544.
by lacker 5y ago
Personally I felt like the best education in money management was the sort of video game where you are managing money. For me in the 90's it was Civilization. Money in this sort of management video game has a lot in common with managin
545.
by lacker 5y ago
Here's an example, let's say you're developing GPU code that needs to work with different CUDA versions on different machines. Look at the `cupy` install instructions for example: https://docs.cupy.dev/en&#x2F
546.
by lacker 5y ago
I feel like bubble sort is simpler. repeat n times: for i = 1 to n-1: if a[i] > a[i+1]: swap(a[i], a[i+1]) It's true you have to add and subtract 1, but you only have one variable, and of course the rational
547.
by lacker 5y ago
It seems like you still need fire trucks though even if only 20% of your incidents are fires.
548.
by lacker 5y ago
I mean, conda is installing another version of Python, and it provides a switcher to switch between environments. Conda and rvm are very similar to use.
549.
by lacker 5y ago
It's still a mess, honestly. They tried to standardize on venv but since it doesn't deal well with Python libraries that depend on non-Python components, conda is still better for many purposes.
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by lacker 5y ago
You wouldn't want to put up cell towers near the radio telescopes. Green Bank has a 10 mile zone where radio activity is restricted, and on the moon you could probably get much more space dedicated to telescopes for a long time. But ev
551.
by lacker 5y ago
My concerns about Effective Altruism are different. One is that by routing money to locations with corrupt governments or dictatorships, you are essentially funding these governments. A lot of NGO money just replaces the budget of the local
552.
by lacker 5y ago
Great news for mobile developers (and for Stripe). Everyone doing in-app purchases has a huge incentive to quickly find some drop-in replacement that charges 3% instead of 30%. I would be surprised if Apple ends up keeping the fee at 30%. I
553.
by lacker 5y ago
It's almost always the other party in the lawsuit who is subpoenaing your past communications. Your employer is being forced by the court to retrieve these; it isn't their choice. It is in fact possible for your personal communi
554.
by lacker 5y ago
Don't work on ads then if you don't like ads. There's thousands of different roles within FAANG companies that all pay well, is there really none of them that you would find more meaningful? Give it a try, don't just sta
555.
by lacker 5y ago
Quant finance is notorious for being extremely unmotivating and depressing to work on. You say: I'm interested in computers and programming in general, but doing it for a living ruins the joy. Well... maybe. But maybe it's just
556.
by lacker 5y ago
When interviewing, tell the team's manager that you're really interested in working somewhere that you can have a big impact. Ask about the most important projects they have upcoming and about the biggest problems the team is faci
557.
by lacker 5y ago
The depth in the T does not have to be technical. The word "political" is often not specific enough and people think "well I'm not political so that isn't me" so maybe I can give some more detailed example sc
558.
by lacker 5y ago
When you are trying to become a good junior engineer, or a good senior engineer, it feels more like "checking off the boxes on the checklist". There are many skills that are expected of you, and you should gain them. But you are k
559.
by lacker 5y ago
Can anyone give me one good reason a programming language should bother with dependency management? When a programming language tries to ignore dependency management, like Go and Python did for too long, an ecosystem will soon spring up o
560.
by lacker 5y ago
Their Wikipedia page doesn't mention anything about union-busting. If you are "notorious" for something in this day and age, it should at least show up in ten paragraphs of Wikipedia. The main controversy mentioned there is t
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by lacker 5y ago
I am convinced that Jeanne Calment was actually two people. She is a fairly strange outlier in the record of the oldest people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_verified_oldest_pe... The oldest person on recor
562.
by lacker 5y ago
To me, it is just the nature of large groups of human beings that sometimes there is an impending disaster, but people do not agree on what to do about it, and humanity stumbles into disaster. Look at Europe before WW1 or WW2, how many peop
563.
by lacker 5y ago
The second kind is "You can't compete with us while you work here". It's just semantics, but these restrictions are usually not covered by "non-compete agreements". They are more often called something like a
564.
by lacker 5y ago
Because FAANG is a cool, somewhat-evil sounding word, and GAFAM is a boring nothing.
565.
by lacker 5y ago
Github (and by extension Microsoft) is gambling on the fact that their license agreement granting them a license to the code This is incorrect. First of all, GitHub isn't even the people building the model. It's built by OpenAI,
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by lacker 5y ago
I don't think it should be infringement. You can't copyright an algorithm, and Carmack's function is like six lines of code. If you just read Carmack's source code, then rewrote the same algorithm with different variable
567.
by lacker 5y ago
Copilot is actually not trained just on GitHub data, and the model is owned by OpenAI, not Microsoft. It relies on fair use, not any particular terms of service. source: the faq at the bottom of https://copilot.github.com/
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by lacker 5y ago
You can restrict some activities, but not all. In particular you can't restrict using code as an AI training set. To be fair the law isn't totally clear here though. For example see https://blog.adobe.com/en/p
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by lacker 5y ago
No, you cannot charge GitHub for using your code in Copilot. It's the same as you cannot charge all humans that read your code for reading it. You are free to make your code private, and charge people who want to read it. But you can&#
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by lacker 5y ago
According to the discussion at this link, you do not need permission to use copyrighted data to train AI models. Copyright prevents you from copying data, it doesn't prevent you from learning from it. https://twitter.com&#x2

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