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by romwell 4y ago
Real estate crisis, wage stagnation, ballooning college debt (and a degree required for barely-middle-class living), increasing wealth gap, increasingly unaffordable healthcare, a full frontal attack on civil rights (abortion is just one ex
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by romwell 4y ago
>Go outside and it's more or less the same as it has always been That's because the author is living in a bubble. And also because, go figure, your cashier's depression isn't visible when they're forced to smile
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by romwell 4y ago
So did digg.com for some time after the redesign.
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by romwell 4y ago
> Do you think your spouse or kids can get the data out themselves? No-one will have a clue where the backups are, how the emails are stored, where those pics are etc. As opposed to what, your spouse having no idea which cloud services y
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by romwell 4y ago
I have always been very skeptical about AI being just a pile of hype, but this is the straw that broke the proverbial camel's back for me. I don't know what the AI will or will not be able to do, but what's clear is that th
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by romwell 4y ago
Well, you gotta keep the Muscovites happy to keep them from googling what the conscripts are doing in Ukraine. And you've gotta keep the dictator's ego inflated with something. Military victories aren't on the table, so that
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by romwell 4y ago
And, as this paper shows, it is impossible to reverse-engineer it . It's the purest black-box machinery we have ever created: not only we don't really understand how and why it works, it's also computationally infeasible
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by romwell 4y ago
>They're optimizing for being the first google result for "how to do X in Y language. They're not optimizing for being the best place for an individual to ask "hot to do X in Y language." Great! And the answer t
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by romwell 4y ago
I'm going to try SolveSpace, but I'll look into that Maker license. Didn't know of that, and I can absolutely afford a grande-latte/month for a tool like that. The nice thing about FOSS though is that it's worry fre
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by romwell 4y ago
Same regarding ADHD medication, which had a profound effect[1] on my life when I was late-diagnosed with ADHD[2] at age 34. I did not know anything about ADHD, except being sure that I do not have it, because I can hyper -focus[3] on wha
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by romwell 4y ago
>You (like me) are looking for a parametric modeler. SolveSpace is pretty good for that OpenSCAD is my go-to since you just write code.
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by romwell 4y ago
Thanks for pointing this out! I guess the test I described is the simplest case of detecting appropriation by AI. Still, I think it would be a good start.
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by romwell 4y ago
>However, this is not what the AI is doing. Yes, this is what the people who use the AI are doing. As well as people who release the AI model or a product that uses it.
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by romwell 4y ago
>except if you can tell that the novel GPTx "paraphrased" is a derivative work from yours, rather than transformative, you can either sue for loyalties, or take action. Respectfully, no. The top comment in this thread is saurik
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by romwell 4y ago
>This usage of works for _training_ is not part of that exclusive right, as far as I can tell. Training the AI isn't the problem. Publishing output generated by it (by making it available to anyone else other than yourself), ho
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by romwell 4y ago
>Based on some of the examples they explicitly provided, it is clear to me Stable Diffusion creates novel art. You seem to be taking their word that the examples they explicitly provided are truth. That is, that they show you all the
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by romwell 4y ago
>I'm unfamiliar with US colleges, but could this just be a scheme to allow wealthy or well connected people to get into positions without the grades part? The "grades part"? We are talking about academic positions here, no
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by romwell 4y ago
The luddite solution is a tape recorder. Digital, if you want to go a bit modern; with speech-to-text postprocessing if you want to go modern. As far as selecting salient points from the transcript goes, the ancient tech of "Copy"
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by romwell 4y ago
If you are shooting a movie, and the camera fails during a take, you redo the take. If you need to switch the lens for a better shot, you can do it. If you are broadcasting a football game, and the camera fails during the goal, the football
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by romwell 4y ago
>Some people are legitimately addicted. And some people aren't fit to serve on submarines.
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by romwell 4y ago
>The article throws that in as a minor detail but I'd bet money it's the only reason. For most people, perhaps. After working in Google Geo, I drove across the country and back (CA - NC - TX - CA) using the trusty Rand & Mc
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by romwell 4y ago
First, thank you for sharing. Second, please don't play your life on hard mode, utilize the resources the humanity has for getting out of this hole: * Therapists are walking knowledge bases which have studied all the ways people are
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by romwell 4y ago
>Twitter is run by faceless nobodies and Elon Musk. Mastodon is run by Eugen if you join his instance, or your friends if you join their instance. Yes, and if Elon Musk and faceless nobodies change the content policy that affects which a
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by romwell 4y ago
Don't they make software in a narrow niche (IDE and dev tools)? It seems like the license is saying "don't start selling what we're giving away for free".
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by romwell 4y ago
It's a reasonable default, but if one has gone to the trouble of setting up a NAS and scripts, might as well tick that box.
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by romwell 4y ago
Why wouldn't one download something like that in 720P video/196kbps audio? I mean, there's a time and a place for 4K, but watching the zits on the face of a guy who tells you how to play C Am F G on a guitar isn't it.
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by romwell 4y ago
FSM almighty, how much video are you watching to have that many favorite ones?
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by romwell 4y ago
Then you know why 99.999% of the users won't, and telling someone to do it doesn't address any criticism of either system.
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by romwell 4y ago
>The federation is not like email(besides in the technical details). We are on Hacker News. You can't in good faith ignore the technical details. Especially when they directly affect the functioning of the entire system, and &quot
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by romwell 4y ago
>Social media is not email, not a platform for forming communities, so I will ignore all those questions. That's a non-sequitur, and a rather ignorant one at that.

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