munchler

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by munchler 3y ago
Crypto based on proof of work is wasteful by design, but there are other approaches that might benefit humanity in the end.
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by munchler 3y ago
These days IMDb user reviews are the most reliable source. It’s easy to scan a few dozen to see what most people think and discard outliers if you want. The wisdom of crowds is unmatched.
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by munchler 3y ago
How would you propose to list calories, if not by serving size?
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by munchler 3y ago
So "inter-nostril comparison" is like stereo for the nose? Apparently, we can use the slightly different inputs to each nostril to determine the direction from which a smell is coming. Cool!
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by munchler 3y ago
This is a poor analogy. Most of the infected computers that the FBI accessed aren’t even located in the US. The FBI has no jurisdiction in those countries.
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by munchler 3y ago
I liked that page too, but did a double-take when they said that the skin of a pomegranate protects it from "predators".
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by munchler 3y ago
As a programmer with little crypto experience, the thing that jumped out at me about the first solution is that it only supports searching for a predetermined set of keywords. That makes the problem much easier and seems like a pretty major
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by munchler 3y ago
The legal charges don’t seem to match the quotes from customers, so it’s a bit difficult to tell what’s actually going on here.
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by munchler 3y ago
“Cruise said one of its self-driving Chevy Bolt EVs entered an intersection on a green traffic light at Polk and Turk streets when it was struck by an emergency vehicle that appeared to be en route to an emergency scene.” Hard to imagine a
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by munchler 3y ago
Maintaining a controlled fusion reaction for eight freaking minutes seems like a pretty worthwhile accomplishment in and of itself. The only other place this is known to occur is in the center of a star. Doing it here on Earth is pretty min
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by munchler 3y ago
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/882/
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by munchler 3y ago
I understand your frustration, but what does this have to do with the article?
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by munchler 3y ago
Here's a quick example of the kind of trouble you can easily get into when calling idiomatic F# from C#: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1952114/call-a-higher-or... It's been a few years, but yes, I&
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by munchler 3y ago
True, but for any serious integration the F# library should expose an API that's designed to be more idiomatic for C# callers. When I see `ListModule.OfSeq` being called from C#, I cringe a little.
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by munchler 3y ago
I love seeing F# mentioned on Hacker News, but this article in particular is a bit dubious. Yes, you can use F# from C#, but it gets frustrating quickly. Fortunately, almost anything you can do in C# can be done better in F# anyway, so ther
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by munchler 3y ago
The reason this bothers you is because you're trying to apply your imperative experience to a functional language. Once you stop doing that, F# will make a lot more sense. For example: let a: int = 1 This isn't assignmen
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by munchler 3y ago
F# is similar in that it supports lazy sequences but is mostly eager otherwise, and often handles errors using exceptions. One does have to be careful, but the benefits far outweigh the risks in my experience.
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by munchler 3y ago
It doesn’t have just one opinion on those things, though. If you prompt it to be for eugenics, you get an opinion that is socially unacceptable. But if you prompt it to be against eugenics, you get a much nicer response. I suspect the quest
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by munchler 3y ago
They’re “surgically” corrupting an existing LLM, not training a new LLM with false information. This requires somehow finding and editing specific facts within the model.
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by munchler 3y ago
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by munchler 3y ago
Yep. There are very few true villains in reality. Just a lot of people with different values and priorities. Even Vlad Putin probably thinks he’s on the side of the angels.
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by munchler 3y ago
Texas cherishes freedom of expression so highly that only right-thinking people are allowed to have it.
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by munchler 3y ago
I had the same reaction, but I don’t think they mean “operating system” in the computer science sense. (E.g. Windows, Linux, etc.) I think they’re actually talking about 45 different systems they developed internally to run their business.
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by munchler 3y ago
What? No. No one wants to fare poorly on an objective measure like health, education, or income.
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by munchler 3y ago
I'm scathing about Josh Hawley because he encouraged a coup against the US government, not because he's some sort of "outsider".
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by munchler 3y ago
For anyone wondering (like me), MVCC means “multiversion concurrency control”, which is used to ensure isolation in databases.
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by munchler 3y ago
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2347/
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by munchler 3y ago
I think a lot of these bloated houses are extremely impractical to actually live in. For example, I live across the street from a McMansion that I fondly call “The Hotel”. It has an ornate front entrance on the main street that the owners n
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by munchler 3y ago
I think you’ve missed the point. Copyright laws prevent others from copying your work without permission. (Hence the name.) Copyright laws say nothing about who can read your work. If you want to prevent a web spider from scraping your
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by munchler 3y ago
Anyone who reads your blog is "ingesting content" from it. That is presumably the purpose of your blog in the first place. Whether that content is used to train a human mind or an artificial one is probably not up to you as the au

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