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by nsagent 5mo ago
I also hear from people I know at Meta that there is a very strong push to use AI to speed up developer work. One person I know complains that their velocity is slowed down because they have to fix some of the slop that gets checked in as c
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by nsagent 5mo ago
I learned that lesson nearly two decades ago when I first started as a game dev straight out of school. I had much less free time and began appreciating shorter games with focused experiences that ended relatively quickly (6-8 hrs). This al
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by nsagent 5mo ago
I think velocity is a real risk to stability, dogfooding or not. That's what made me swear off the python transformers library. It's doubtful that LLMs will change that calculus for the better.
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by nsagent 5mo ago
Just for any future mea culpa, I'd recommend not hedging with comments like this one: > As folks mentioned here - many similar tools do this as well. It's really doubtful they have the same behavior people are complaining about
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by nsagent 5mo ago
There is no equivalent exit ban in the US that can be instituted on a whim for regulatory or business disputes. If you want to know more, you can read up on it in this Stanford Journal of International Law publication: "Legal Strategy
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by nsagent 5mo ago
The first case makes sense: ex-CIA officer explicitly outing CIA officers. Naturally, the government is going to step in and it's a false equivalence to compare to restricting random citizens. As for your second case, US schools teach
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by nsagent 6mo ago
I really only started drinking coffee at my first real job after grad school. They had free coffee in the kitchen, so I'd occassionally have one. Maybe once or twice a week. I was like that for several years, and would occassionally go
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Kasane: New drop-in Kakoune front end with GPU rendering and WASM Plugins(github.com)
53 points by nsagent 6mo ago|6 comments
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by nsagent 6mo ago
I noticed a post on Reddit that claims Apple Maps only briefly had small towns listed. It's possible when I showed the town off in Apple Maps it could have been during that window. I looked through my texts and found when I recently sh
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by nsagent 6mo ago
I can only verify #1. I make no claim to issues #2 or #3. See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47744840 Edit: I've replied to my previous post with a bit more context. Seems it's possible it w
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by nsagent 6mo ago
My family name comes from a Christian town in the mountains of Lebanon. I'm positive it was previously on Apple Maps (I've shown it to people before), but now has no label. It still exists on other mapping services and if I search
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Research Shows Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in LLMs(cauchy221.github.io)
4 points by nsagent 6mo ago|0 comments
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by nsagent 10mo ago
Hopefully this gets slapped down hard just like Apple recently did. Both Apple and Google want to continue business as usual despite the court rulings.
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by nsagent 10mo ago
They screwed me in a different way. I simply didn't log into Amazon for a couple years as I've tried to minimize my use of Amazon. When I went to log in, they locked my account without any way to unlock it. Talking with support mu
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by nsagent 10mo ago
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by nsagent 10mo ago
I'll be honest and blunt: I try to avoid his blog posts and comments as much as possible because I do find his contributions to be super spammy. It's about the frequency of his self-promotion (as a researcher in NLP it's tire
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by nsagent 10mo ago
Agreed. That's how I got my start in ML, through Andrew Ng's course a little over a decade ago. I then went on to get my PhD in CS focused on NLP.
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by nsagent 10mo ago
https://xcancel.com/iclr_conf/status/1994104147373903893 https://safereddit.com/r/PhD/comments/1p85o3j/openreview_bug... https://safereddit.com/r/MachineLe
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All OpenReview Data Leaks(twitter.com)
6 points by nsagent 10mo ago|1 comments
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by nsagent 10mo ago
Oh wow. That's just egregious. Considering the widespread use of Auth0, I'm surprised this isn't a bigger story.
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by nsagent 11mo ago
It's clear Claude adapted code directly from the OxCaml implementation (the PR author said he pointed Claude at that code [1] and then provides a ChatGPT analysis [2] that really highlights the plagiarism, but ultimately comes to the c
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by nsagent 11mo ago
Because it goes hand-in-hand with the euphemism treadmill. I defer to the late great George Carlin's words on the subject: I don't like euphemisms, or euphemistic language. And American English is loaded with euphemisms. Cause
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by nsagent 11mo ago
As a bright student who was never challenged in K-12, I can unequivocally state that this ultimately hurt me in the long run. I seriously didn't know how to study and didn't care to try learning when I actually needed it in some o
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by nsagent 11mo ago
I literally just came across this resource a couple of days ago and was going to go through it this week as a way to get up to speed on Zig. Glad this popped up on HN so I can avoid the AI hallucinations steering me off track.
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by nsagent 11mo ago
> Ideas are easy. Let's not get into absolutes. Ideas can be as hard or harder than execution. Not many will claim ideas like Special Relativity are easy to come by. It really depends on the idea and what you're executing. Ofte
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by nsagent 11mo ago
I was previously using Wipr 2, but got tired of the fact that it would block things I didn't want and there was no recourse except disabling it wholesale (for example, I noticed it blocks any element with an id of 'privacy_policy&
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wBlock: The next-generation ad blocker for Safari(apps.apple.com)
2 points by nsagent 11mo ago|1 comments
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Recommended Practices for NPOV Research on Wikipedia(arxiv.org)
2 points by nsagent 11mo ago|0 comments
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by nsagent 11mo ago
You might be interested in reading about the minimum description length (MDL) principle [1]. Despite all the dissenters to your argument, what your positing is quite similar to MDL. It's how you can fairly compare models (I did some re
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by nsagent 11mo ago
Maybe you mean it's too much effort, because I'm sure you could. I was taught touch typing on a QWERTY keyboard in the summer between 6th and 7th grade. Last year I switched to Colemak after nearly 30 years of QWERTY.

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