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by lacker 6y ago
Good point. I just bought a leatherman instead of the knife that I thought I wanted. Thanks ;-)
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by lacker 6y ago
For me, the way I thought about it was a bit different. When I did YC I had already worked at Google for a while, and the question I was asking myself was less "do I want to be a founder?" and more "is starting a company some
963.
by lacker 6y ago
That’s true. In general, if you customize the prompt for a specific type of question, GPT-3 will be better able to handle that type of question. Prompt size is limited, though, so if you are attempting to create a general-purpose chatbot ou
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by lacker 6y ago
Rather than “buckets”, I bet they just have a flag on each tweet in the database for whether it’s deleted. So if you delete the most recent 3600, next time they do a query to see recent tweets, it retrieves 3600, but they’re all deleted, so
965.
by lacker 6y ago
I have never interacted with "knife nerds" before, but I sense their presence here. I want to get a good knife to take camping, anyone have a recommendation?
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by lacker 6y ago
Companies that are helping China carry out its genocide of the Uighurs, that seems like a difference of kind rather than degree.
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by lacker 6y ago
I got a ticket for going 74 in a 70 mph zone Durham, NC. “I bet you’re a Duke student, huh? I went to UNC. Speed limit’s 70 and you were going 74. Here’s your ticket, have a nice day.”
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by lacker 6y ago
This deal was signed in May 2019, before the questions about Chinese control over TikTok had really come to the forefront. There's a decent chance that it's simply about Google giving TikTok a better deal, or other infrastructural
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by lacker 6y ago
You have to read to paragraph #17 before you get the information the story is really about. Uber delivered shares to its employees on the day of its IPO in May 2019, meaning employees would be taxed at the price of $45 a share. But the emp
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by lacker 6y ago
Maybe you could let people put bounties on issues, and pay the developers.
971.
by lacker 6y ago
I found Detroit: Become Human to be quite thought-provoking.
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by lacker 6y ago
I personally don’t but there’s a DIY robocars event near me where people compete in races using little self driving cars. Some people were using the AWS one but more popular in the “stock” division was the Donkeycar - https://diy
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by lacker 6y ago
It's one of those things that looks blindly obvious in hindsight and makes you wonder how it took so long for someone to think of it. Multiplayer Bomberman had this back in the 90's! I loved that game in high school. But yeah, c
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by lacker 6y ago
New genres appear reasonably often. For example the “battle royale” genre, e.g. Fortnite, was only developed in the past few years.
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by lacker 6y ago
Blake said last year to Forbes that development would take about 6 billion dollars. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeremybogaisky/2019/01/04/boom-... So yeah it’s gonna take a lot more money. I hope t
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by lacker 6y ago
You don't have to depend on badly-written untyped third-party libraries, just because there are a lot of them out there. Many projects and companies will avoid doing so. This is especially reasonable if your comparison is switching to
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by lacker 6y ago
[TypeScript] does not actually ensure that the data you are manipulating corresponds to the type that you have declared to represent it. For example, the data might contain additional fields or even incorrect values for declared types. Th
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Giving GPT-3 a Turing Test(lacker.io)
3 points by lacker 6y ago|1 comments
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by lacker 6y ago
There are no edits here. After the first couple lines which are prompt, I typed the “human” lines and GPT-3 generated the “AI” ones. But I also wouldn’t say that it’s very close to passing the phone screen. It isn’t actually getting a corre
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by lacker 6y ago
It’s ironic to read an article about how it’s a shame the internet is so full of distractions, when that article has multiple inline video advertisements.
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by lacker 6y ago
Obviously it would be a win for the Olympics to include Fortnite. After all, Fortnite makes more money than the Olympics and is more popular than almost all Olympic sports. It would provide inroads to the more valuable younger audiences tha
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by lacker 6y ago
My guess is phone number matching. Your friends use Facebook on their phone and added your contact information recently. That’s enough for Facebook to figure out that it’s a potential match, given that you already have some friends in commo
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by lacker 6y ago
The tough thing is that a common failure mode of many of the modern AI solutions is some output that looks superficially correct, but doesn't actually map correctly to the real world. When you want a table of data, it seems like the da
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by lacker 6y ago
It doesn't seem to work quite as well. For single sentences, GPT-3 output usually hangs together pretty well. For longer stretches of text, often there are internal inconsistencies that are jarring when you read it, or parts that don&#
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by lacker 6y ago
At $50 for a 1TB hard drive, that 100MB is costing you half a cent. It doesn’t get sent to users over the network so it doesn’t affect performance. Why does that matter again?
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by lacker 6y ago
Income is also an order of magnitude different between the US and Ecuador. So the cost is pretty similar between the two options in terms of peoples' ability to pay.
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by lacker 6y ago
Something seems wrong about this analogy. Scarcely any U.S. city can compete with Quito—a place I was told would be poor and dysfunctional—in the ease of getting around on public transit. The network of these informal bus lines has not bee
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by lacker 6y ago
Don't read the Amazon reviews. Read long-form reviews written by bloggers or book critics. Those reviews are generally better than those written by the staff at a bookstore.
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by lacker 6y ago
Personally, I love reading books, but I find browsing in a bookstore to be a bad way of finding books to read. Most of the information you get about books is their promotional marketing copy, and looking at the cover. Maybe you get a small
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by lacker 6y ago
25k doesn’t seem all that relevant. Yeah it’s slightly better to have another 25k in the bank, but it just seems like normal fluctuation with the economic times, to me.

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