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by nvy 2y ago
The social/personal risk in dating is way skewed towards women. That policy makes sense if you consider what the real world is like.
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by nvy 2y ago
They have an incentive to keep their algorithms from getting too good , though. It's in the platform's best financial interest if MAU stays high. Matching people so well that they find their soul mates isn't conducive to rec
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by nvy 2y ago
>They're pretty good at generating summaries of text, simple machine translation, generating alternative prose They're not, though. For these tasks they are mediocre at best.
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by nvy 2y ago
The "free market" mostly isn't. LLMs are actively harmful to society and in a way that individuals cannot combat, and spam/fraud is merely the obvious way.
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by nvy 2y ago
What about it doesn't make sense to you? LLMs aren't intelligent and the hallucinations problem is fundamental to the technology, and cannot be solved. Therefore definitionally an LLM will never be fully trustworthy. But it's
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by nvy 2y ago
This current iteration of "AI", by which I mean LLMs, seems only good at enabling generative spam and disinformation. I think regulations are exactly what's required.
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by nvy 2y ago
Okay so we've established there must be a central registry, since it's a certainty that somebody's 65 year old mom will lose her phone and her certs and keys with it. How does your system protect against attackers claiming to
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by nvy 2y ago
Okay so what happens when I lose my keys and need new ones issued? I have to go through the manual verification process and then issue revocation certs for my old keys? How do I know what those keys were without a database of which key belo
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by nvy 2y ago
>Whenever this comes up, the focus is on simply opposing the idea. Well, because the idea is fundamentally unsound. Nobody can keep such a database secure, and certainly not the Canadian government, champions of ineptitude that they are
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by nvy 2y ago
The faux-politeness is one of the reasons HN has a reputation for being arrogant and aloof. I think Sam is a bad person who deserves to be insulted. I prefer to call a spade a spade.
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by nvy 2y ago
This was old news on bsky months ago
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by nvy 2y ago
I stand corrected. I still despise the HN policy of "no criticism of tech CEOs" whether official or otherwise. Try to say something bad about Steve Jobs? Nah that's not "curious conversation". Whatever.
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by nvy 2y ago
You mean the environment? Absolutely. We can't have discussion of that on HN, though, so the moderator has flagged it.
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by nvy 2y ago
Sam Altman is the poster child of the silicon valley techbro (derogatory). He and his orbiters have done real an irreparable harm to the Internet while profiting enormously from unlicensed copyrighted works (aka piracy). "Open" &q
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by nvy 2y ago
Sorry man, your wife isn't a replacement for a doctor. If she was, she'd have gone to medical school.
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by nvy 2y ago
Don't do it. I'm married to a doctor who started in family medicine and bailed out because the work-life balance was awful and the money was mediocre, but she wasn't willing to see 6 patients an hour.
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by nvy 2y ago
>I feel like doctor incentivization and silicon valley's predatory corporate culture aside, this problem does need to be solved if we want to avoid wasting doctors' precious work-hours Your comment presupposes that time spent o
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by nvy 2y ago
Here in BC it's just a lack of political will because physicians are expensive, governments are broke after COVID, and so instead of fixing the system (which would cost money), the absolute morons in the health ministry have decided th
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by nvy 2y ago
The root cause of this is that the billing system (which varies by Province) by which doctors actually get paid is a fee-for-service model. That means the system incentivizes doctors to see patients by only allowing them to get paid for ac
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by nvy 2y ago
Isn't it the ambiguity of the Diamond Problem? Suppose B and C are both children of A, and D is a child of both B and C. If B and C both have methods foo(), which gets called when you do d.foo()? Seems like a real footgun requiring ex
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by nvy 2y ago
>Microsoft's security reputation is so flawed, that some parts simply must be intentional, or coerced. They are a lot better than they used to be. They went through a trial by fire in the 90s and early 00s and came through for the
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by nvy 2y ago
>In Germany, the worker protections make operating really quite difficult and it changes the culture of the company, too. Don’t even get me started about on-call culture. Given how exploitative some US companies are, this sounds wonderfu
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by nvy 2y ago
I believe that the semantics of < > vs "" is actually compiler-dependent but on every compiler that matters, #including with angle brackets is the semantic for "the system header" whereas using quotes gives prefere
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by nvy 2y ago
Could of, would of, should of.
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London Drugs closes stores until further notice due to cyberattack(cbc.ca)
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by nvy 2y ago
>Whereas for Meta, the Quest hardware has always been sold at breakeven or even as a loss leader (a few years ago they actually raised the price of the Quest 2 to cut further losses). Indeed, and that means they'll seek a return on
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by nvy 2y ago
What I'm doing is asking a question, as denoted by the "?" glyph at the end of my comment.
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by nvy 2y ago
Isn't it difficult to exist in modern society without one?
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by nvy 2y ago
I guess I just don't see the value of having a "jack of all trades/master of none" text editor. I'd rather use specialized tools for each task, maybe gluing them together with python or bash if needed.
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by nvy 2y ago
So just to be clear: you think "it is very likely" or "he might" are absolutist statements? Is that what you're saying?

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