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> AI Overview > Plagiarism is using someone else's words, ideas, or work as your own without proper credit, a serious breach of ethics leading to academic failure, job loss, or legal issues, and can range from copying text (di
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Good point. There may be a place for LLMs for science writing translation (hopefully not adding nor subtracting anything) when you're not fluent in the language of a venue. You need a way to validate the correctness of the translation
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Annoying dismissal. In an academic paper, you condense a lot of thinking and work, into a writeup. Why would you blow off the writeup part, and impose AI slop upon the reviewers and the research community?
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> If these are the only errors, we are not troubled. However: we do not know if these are the only errors, they are merely a signature that the paper was submitted without being thoroughly checked for hallucinations. They are a signatur
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If you have to take the call, and your main concern is desktop client malware... At a startup a few years ago, since I was the engineering dept., I had to be on a lot of enterprise sales/partnership calls, and much of the time we had t
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You can still. There's a small dark pattern to discourage it, though. You go to the URL for the call, click the button to launch the app, and when that fails, you see a small link to do the call in the Web browser.
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Speaking of prolific Racketeers... Noel! Just an hour ago, on a walk, I was thinking, "I should work through that one LLM book, and implement it in Racket." (But have started job-hunting, so will probably be Python.)
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Jens Axel Søgaard is cool and involved in many things. We collaborated on SICP support. Original developer of Whalesong was Danny Yoo. https://www.hashcollision.org/whalesong/ There was also this: https://d
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I don't know how to appeal the deleted account, but regarding not triggering this check again... Emphasize your own brands and model number, and make the other brands more clearly a description, in the Amazon item title? FooCorp Ta
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It's impressive that wxpath does the DSL as an extension of XPath syntax. I hadn't quite thought of it that way. I routinely used a mix of XPath and arbitrary code heavily for Web scraping (as implied in the intro for " http
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> the easiest way to break the chicken-and-egg problem of network effects is to simply cheat and use bots to make the platform look popular. In relatively early days of Reddit, before mainstream awareness, I thought it suspicious how c
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> This change is important for safely buying genuine products, such as 3M respirators. Personally funny example to me, because, at our anti-counterfeiting tech startup, 3M respirators was the prospective customer I championed. (Right
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I don't think so. I was trying to respond to a comment in a way that was diplomatic and constructive. I can see that came out unclear.
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I hadn't heard that saying. Many people seek being outraged. Many people seek to have awareness of truth. Many people seek getting help for problems. These are not mutually exclusive. Just because someone fakes an incident of racism
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31,337 can be the stopping point for active commenting. 32,767 can be the hard max., to permit rare occasional comments after that.
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Sunday evening musings regarding bot comments and HN... I'm sure it's happening, but I don't know how much. Surely some people are running bots on HN to establish sockpuppets for use later, and to manipulate sentiment now, ju
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I haven't read the Yegge post closely, so just commenting that namespaces (or naming conventions) would make the easier-to-casually-read names more practical... For example, if Polecat becomes GasTown.WorkerAgent (or GasTown.Worke
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> The first went down after 1 year with a headcrash. 1. HDD headcrash in my life. What HDD make? ThinkPads of 2.5" HDD era usually have cushioned drive caddies, and (IIRC) some head-parking when the laptop detected shock. https
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I'm using my ThinkPad T520 daily driver right now. With its non-chiclet keyboard, I type 12+ hours every day, never any discomfort. Last year, I bought a late-model ThinkPad, to experimentally try replacing the T520. So I could have s
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Downvoters: The story is about the terrible politics, and should be a cautionary tale that's immediately very relevant. Unless you were only interested in the ballooning "maker" angle?
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Even without rent control, being known by the landlord as a reliable tenant in a troubled apartment/building... is a way to eventually have one of the least expensive apartments in an area, through a series of only small rent increases
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Yes, IIUC, that was one of the things that mobilized a lot of IMHO positive education/propaganda. It may not have always been for the most noble of reasons (e.g., a very wealthy person not wanting to be disrupted), but the fascism-is-b
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That movie was also all over the Disney Channel when I was a kid. Many other movies have related messages. And much of the public library books were a couple generations old, plus there was the Cold War, which meant lots of exposure to ant
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> “Are we here in the West??” Only this one question is asked by Peter Strelzyk and Günter Wetzel when they were in the early morning of the 16th. The "Handmaid's Tale" TV series has a great variation on that moment, whi
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> Your attention is finite, but the capacity for a large company to generate bad ideas is infinite. Speaking from experience, getting too involved in stopping these quickly can make you very cynical about the state of the world. And thi
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@ptorrone, the forum drama is hard to follow, and maybe a little upset or sleep-deprived. The blog post is OK (though maybe consider dropping the "We were informed...", and the addendum about "trying to drag"), but doesn
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> At some point, you may have been faced with the decision yourself: should I continue to use this service if I have to verify my age? An excellent question, which I didn't see the article really get into. > If you’re given th
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Why is that your suspicion? The context on this one is that we've gone from an environment in which kids were mocked for having curiosity and passion about nerdy things like systems, and it didn't pay that well as an adult, and th
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Would be funny if blog visitors were the distributed compute nodes.
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It sounded good, up until the examples for: > I'll dedicate a post to specific ways you can identify motivation during hiring, but in short, look for All will be gamed by interviewees, by the afternoon this hits the HN front page.

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