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AI is quietly being used to pick your pocket(businessinsider.com)
10 points by lulzury 2y ago|0 comments
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by lulzury 2y ago
> often done by crews of questionable immigration status; for sure Spanish is the primary language used Put directly, it seems like housing is subsidized by the use of underpaid, disenfranchised, often exploited undocumented immigrant la
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by lulzury 2y ago
If you want a non-simulated memoir of someone's PhD, I highly recommend reading "The PhD Grind" by Philip Guo.. [0] I read it in my last year of college. It was a page turner, and helped me think about whether I wanted to do
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by lulzury 2y ago
If you have a small site or just don't want any requests to Google for privacy reasons, consider just straight-up downloading the video and embedding it in a video tag. There are yt_dlp wrappers for most popular languages (even js). I&
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by lulzury 2y ago
Thank you! This is exactly what I was looking for. I hope these become part of the web platform APIs! With Google pushing this effort, it might be highly likely. I hope Apple will follow suit with some of their small models ( https:/&
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Ask HN: Browser-Based LLM Models?
4 points by lulzury 2y ago|5 comments
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by lulzury 2y ago
“Modularity based on abstraction is the way things get done” --Barbara Liskov Something as big and complex as the internet, which covers technologies from email to fiber, is held together by layered abstractions. Also, software has gotten
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by lulzury 2y ago
What you stated makes intuitive sense, but it does make me wonder why the RFC states the following in the security considerations: > Implementations SHOULD NOT assume that UUIDs are hard to guess. For example, they MUST NOT be used as se
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by lulzury 2y ago
That's what the RFC states: > Timestamps embedded in the UUID do pose a very small attack surface. The timestamp in conjunction with an embedded counter does signal the order of creation for a given UUID and its corresponding data b
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by lulzury 2y ago
I went down this road and it's mostly a lose-lose situation at the moment. There's just too many things to consider. My personal and most practical take: (1) install an adblocker, and if you have the energy: (2) message your repre
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by lulzury 2y ago
Yes, the Bill of Rights primarily restricts governmental powers and doesn't apply directly to private companies but federal powers such as those granted by the Commerce Clause [0] have been used to defend and pass laws that protect rig
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by lulzury 2y ago
These companies would love to have you believe these rights have been eroded enough to not matter. Human rights represent the most profound shift in human consciousness in modern history. These rights can only be eroded if people allow them
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by lulzury 2y ago
Not only Google search, but also other Google products like Google Maps! Today while I was driving to a time-sensitive appointment the app all of a sudden changed it's estimate to one that would be 5 minutes late, asking me to do a dan
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by lulzury 2y ago
I don't like Discord as much as the next person, but people use Discord because it's convenient. Why do people prefer Discord to IRC when the latter is free, open source, and indexable?
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by lulzury 2y ago
God help us if you ever get into any sort of relevant position of power. I bet you would beat your household bot, if you ever got one.
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by lulzury 2y ago
https://archive.ph/QQL3j
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by lulzury 2y ago
Assuming they train newer models using output from older versions, isn't that data they collected from "books1" and "books2" still encoded in the weights of their current models? This also begs the question, does Op
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Donald Knuth – Writing a Compiler for the Burroughs Corporation [video](youtube.com)
3 points by lulzury 2y ago|0 comments
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by lulzury 2y ago
Unfortunately the conveyor-belt educational system in the U.S. creates a perception of rule-based linear progression as a path to success. It makes you believe that if you get good grades, engage in extracurriculars, follow the rules, and w
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by lulzury 2y ago
> A friend I’ve met through my Discord, Denys, told me that his friend has this theory that every few years, half of your dreams die. People give up on their dreams because they realize that they can no longer achieve them. > I disagr
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by lulzury 2y ago
> Being content doesn’t mean being blind. It means knowing the difference between a good fight and a selfish one. I recently watched the movie Perfect Days (2023) and found a similarly resonant theme of contentment and simplicity in life
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by lulzury 3y ago
Consider getting in touch with your senator or representative [0] and also the FCC [1]. The recent changes we're seeing in other areas of the federal government give reason to stay a bit hopeful that the treatment of these kind of brea
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by lulzury 3y ago
This is amazing news, but as is often brought up when discussing PFAS, will something else that we don't yet know is harmful replace the function these substances were serving?
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by lulzury 3y ago
You can actually easily find this information online [0] > PFAS compounds, used since the 1940s for many purposes, from stain and waterproofing to firefighting, continue to be a concern. Tests of MWRA water show only trace amounts of the
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by lulzury 3y ago
Sharing an archive.org link to read about media’s existential crisis? We're not just observing the iceberg but offering the ship a speed boost.
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by lulzury 3y ago
Wow this website is buttery smooth even on my older machine. Even the speed test ran extremely fast.
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by lulzury 3y ago
It really depends on what you mean by prefix. Most likely your router is running a NAT, and doing this: > As traffic passes from the network to the Internet, the router translates the source address in each packet from a private address
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by lulzury 3y ago
The actual fix seems even simpler than that! It really is just adding this check: !doc->HasFocus(IgnoreErrors())
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by lulzury 3y ago
This is really great! Sometimes the titles of stories are very generic and the comments are very specific, and this bridges the gap.
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by lulzury 4y ago
Beware clicking anything on this website! It will open a billion tabs!

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