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by rectang 3y ago
> Even worse is what the lawsuit calls "regurgitation," which is when OpenAI spits out text that matches Times articles verbatim. The Times provides 100 examples of such "regurgitation" in the lawsuit. In its rebuttal
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Copyright lawsuits could kill OpenAI(vox.com)
3 points by rectang 3y ago|5 comments
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by rectang 3y ago
Is it plausible that Boeing has "learned" from software/startup/venture-capital culture with regards to tolerating higher risk to minimize costs? I suspect it's rather a case of parallel evolution between McDonnell
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by rectang 3y ago
All I want for Christmas is freedom from being endlessly spammed by anti-GDPR zealots co-opting Santa Claus.
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by rectang 3y ago
Competing with that naivete is the great delusion of technical people that "If we build it they will come." (Speaking as an technical person who constantly meditates on that problem.)
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by rectang 3y ago
I flash my headlights at cars whose lights are too blinding, under the assumption that the driver accidentally left their brights on. If I’m wrong and their lights are always like that, my assumption is that they would appreciate someone le
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by rectang 3y ago
The principle of spreading the pain upwards extends to making ownership feel the pain of bad management. But that’s a slow mechanism, and in the case of public companies, shareholders are so thoroughly isolated and insulated that it hardly
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Tom Hanks says AI version of him used in dental plan ad without his consent(theguardian.com)
6 points by rectang 3y ago|1 comments
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by rectang 3y ago
I'd cite the Apache Software Foundation. * Unlike many other tech foundations, it's a 501(c)(3) charity, which dramatically limits the ability of industry titans to buy influence — since donations are tax deductible and thus canno
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by rectang 3y ago
GP is correct that I generally prefer memory managed languages, I just think it’s right to emphasize that this preference is informed by experience. I’ve spent large amounts of my career writing C code, and now when I have a choice I’d pre
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by rectang 3y ago
But I don’t? A formative early experience of mine was learning valgrind to track down a Heisenbug for a C project I was working on (which turned out to be an invalid read in a dependency). I’m indeed thinking of this anecdote when generali
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by rectang 3y ago
Heisenbugs are manifestations of whole-system design failings, where projects are not engineered to facilitate troubleshooting, subsystems are strongly coupled, and everything is just barely held together with baling wire and bubblegum. Tha
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by rectang 3y ago
Related,because it’s another human problem: lichess is way better than other free options I used to play (freechess.org, yahoo chess) at keeping comments under control.
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by rectang 3y ago
> My approach is systematic and focused on understanding first and foremost. This is for a variety of reasons, but principally that you need to understand what is going on both to fix it and to be sure it's fixed. Feature-focused
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by rectang 3y ago
The interests of platform vendors and application developers are not aligned. Platform vendors seek to lock in developers and discourage development on competing platforms, while developers wish to leverage their skills portably across mult
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by rectang 3y ago
I once solved worst-case write performance in an open source MVCC data store (Apache Lucy, a “loose C” port of Lucene) like so: 1) Limit the maximum size of an update. This causes gradual degradation of the index, which is ordinarily dealt
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by rectang 3y ago
> banning white supremacy amounts to limiting speech I'm saying that I'm not threatened by the existing constraints on white supremacy: not limitations on speech, but the actual bans on discriminatory practices.
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by rectang 3y ago
> a proposal that many felt was unnecessary and unfairly tarnished the image of the South Asian community I'm white yet I don't feel "unfairly tarnished" by the banning of white supremacy. Nevertheless, plenty of Amer
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by rectang 3y ago
Venus Williams just crashed out of the first round of the U.S. Open, but she was ranked 407 in the world prior to that. She’s plagued by injuries, beset by problems from the autoimmune disorder Sjögrens Syndrome and a shadow of what she on
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by rectang 3y ago
I cited textbooks because I figured their issues were well known, because numerous examples can be found across many political and social axes and thus we might avoid tumbling into a partisan hellhole, and because I knew I could back it u
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by rectang 3y ago
> I let them know who I am It's striking to see an argument from authority, against the dominant narrative, deployed in service of dismissing those who purportedly aspire to "rewrite history to fit a narrative".
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by rectang 3y ago
There's great synergy between critics of non-mainstream historians and the voting apparatus of HN which ensures that unpopular perspectives are rendered unreadable.
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by rectang 3y ago
Here's an article which compares meta-narratives in Texas vs. California: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/12/us/texas-vs-c... Fights over textbook content are ancient and written ab
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by rectang 3y ago
I think that "helplessly in thrall to one of the archetypal narrative forms: Good vs Evil" sums up everyone commenting on this page who claims that their version of history is objective, while that of [insert opponent here] is n
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by rectang 3y ago
This piece does the opposite of acknowledging that history is written by the victors. It it is an attack on the credibility of a particular perspective, striving to paint the author's opponents as fictional story tellers while the a
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by rectang 3y ago
I would find this piece more convincing if it had sampled stories from different sources in service of its thesis rather than focusing on a single work the author finds particularly galling, as there is no shortage of fictional narratives a
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by rectang 3y ago
I've found that people who prefer to receive "direct" critiques don't object to genuine praise accompanying suggestions, and so there's no need to adapt communication styles to omit praise. But I personally can&#x27
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by rectang 3y ago
A sufficient mass of (uncoordinated) HN users responding to a post (by downvoting, flagging and lodging innumerable uncivil replies) until it is removed from the stream of discourse.
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by rectang 3y ago
You're already ensconced in a filter bubble. The "one big silo" approach of HN guarantees homogeneity. Subcommunities cannot coalesce because anything too far outside the zeitgeist gets brigaded and downvoted out of existen
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by rectang 3y ago
Could we use US state ballot initiatives to require the installation of informational noise cameras, similar to informational speed cameras that have become prevalent in recent years? I suspect any such votes would pass by overwhelming marg

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