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by p-e-w 3y ago
I'd wager you will find far more Westerners who are familiar with (some of) the Eastern classics than the other way round. No idea how you would come to believe that the reverse is the case, or that correction is needed in that regar
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by p-e-w 3y ago
And someone said yes to that. Think about that for a second. The product's global importance is now a tiny fraction of what it was 15 years ago, and the person during whose tenure this happened was recently making 10x as much as back t
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> If a LLM can pass the bar, and has a corpus of legal work instantly accessible, what prevents the deployment of the LLM (or other AI structure) to provide legitimate legal services? The law, which you can bet will be used with full for
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by p-e-w 3y ago
That would not be in the interest of anyone with any real power, so you're going to see tanks on the streets before it happens.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Yup. Because the doctor doesn't have time and doesn't give a fuck. LLMs don't have to compete against the cutting edge of human professional knowledge. They only have to compete against the disinterested, arrogant, greedy, an
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by p-e-w 3y ago
One website that almost always gets mentioned when people talk about jQuery today is "You might not need jQuery" ( https://youmightnotneedjquery.com/ ). That site is the best ad for jQuery I've ever seen. For
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by p-e-w 3y ago
That would be like explaining a baking recipe by starting with protons and electrons. State-of-the-art machine learning architectures aren't actually that complex. Diffusion models and transformers can be explained to a bright high sch
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by p-e-w 3y ago
What do you mean by "of this scope"? The winning solution was produced by students and interns who coordinated over the Internet, in less than a year. The problem isn't scope, the problem is attracting lots of bright individu
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by p-e-w 3y ago
It's all about incentives. $1 million is a lot of money. The vast majority of hard problems don't have much brainpower dedicated to them, because the bang/buck ratio doesn't work out. Machine learning, math, and adjacent
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> the constant attacks against their infrastructure they must defend against (let's be honest, I'm sure Caesars is not defending successfully) If there's any place in the private sector where I'd expect security (incl
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by p-e-w 3y ago
The simplest explanation is often the correct one. Casinos aren't exactly known for having moral qualms. They are, however, known for caring about their bottom line. They probably analyze every single event they host and then shuffle t
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> This kind of no-notice cancellation of a contract is unheard of in the conference business. That's a big claim to make. Can someone with relevant experience confirm whether this is true?
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Did early workstations support hardware cursors?
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by p-e-w 3y ago
I'm honestly not sure any explanation is needed here. Early UX design wasn't always done with as much thought and sophistication as today's software designers (are claiming to) apply. The first Windows systems had plenty of U
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by p-e-w 3y ago
How does that representative prove that they really represent the owners, if the owners aren't known to management? How can they authorize someone without revealing identifying information?
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by p-e-w 3y ago
No advanced civilization would conclude they are dealing with "gods" just because they see someone with presumably better technology than themselves. In fact, if they are anything like humans, they have probably already realized t
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Why would that matter, if source code is protected speech anyway? And why is it more "clear" with a printed book vs. an emailed text file?
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by p-e-w 3y ago
I was going to push back on this, but on second thought I realized you are correct. Microsoft has a reputation, to put it mildly. A reputation that is well known to every software engineer on the planet, and indeed to many laymen. Everyone
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> Some kind of fingerprint block. The block persisted across IP addresses, browsers, incognito tabs, and devices so it can't be based on cookies / storage. Then what is it based on, if it happens across different devices and
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by p-e-w 3y ago
I never understood the story about the book-printed PGP source code. Isn't source code protected speech under the first amendment anyway, regardless of the form in which it is transmitted? All kinds of media receive first amendment pro
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> The company had about 230 employees, had offices in Abidjan, Abu Dhabi, Buenos Aires, Kuala Lumpur, Muscat, Selsdon and Steinhausen, and did business throughout the world. That's a... really strange list of office locations, esp
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by p-e-w 3y ago
I'm curious what you think the "pros" are about publicly exposing someone who hasn't been lawfully convicted?
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by p-e-w 3y ago
No, because I don't trust them. Otherwise I wouldn't have to worry in the first place.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
The iframe embed API is API access, and YouTube can remove, paywall, or rate limit it any time they want. How old the underlying technology is is completely irrelevant to that.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> So I dunno, if you can afford an expensive Apple Vision Pro, I’d really consider treating yourself to YouTube Premium! The reason I don't have premium (and one of the reasons I block ads) is that I don't want YouTube tracking
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by p-e-w 3y ago
I'm amazed that someone who has been this badly burned by a corporation controlling their API access would even think about writing another app that uses third-party APIs, to be honest.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Almost every professional athlete in almost every sport uses tons of "performance-enhancing substances": Vitamins, mineral supplements, refined proteins, painkillers, not to mention engineered diet plans that have nothing to do wi
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Ok... and why is it possible to charge a minor as an adult? That doesn't work elsewhere, does it? When a 17-year-old walks into a bar and the barman gives him alcohol, saying he decided to "serve him as an adult", will that b
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> “It’s shameful,” added a Y Combinator alumnus who, like others, declined to be named for fear of professional retaliation. He has been checking the Y Combinator internal Slack and monitoring their daily email updates, but there has bee
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by p-e-w 3y ago
I think you're confusing mysticism with abstraction. The Cloud is an umbrella term for a collection of technologies and services, and for the way people interact with them. That interaction isn't "mystical", it simply

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