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by shanebellone 3y ago
Correct, but this case shaped the sound and economics of hip-hop. Regardless, sampling now carries a cost; or legal repercussions.
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by shanebellone 3y ago
"Wow, that's horrible. I didn't know that sampling and mashups required an explicit license." The conclusion essentially boils down to "remixing is not fair use". Today's hip-hop is a direct result of that
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by shanebellone 3y ago
I believe the closest precedent is: Grand Upright Music, Ltd. v. Warner Bros. Records, Inc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Upright_Music,_Ltd._v._W... .
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by shanebellone 3y ago
"Exactly this. I too find this to be the best intuition for LLMs right now: they're not comparable to an entire combined human mind - they're comparable to subconscious, or inner voice" Strongly disagree. LLM traps you i
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by shanebellone 3y ago
"What's stopping you from doing these things?" Exactly this! My personal website is pure html and css on a custom backend. I do not find the combination lacking.
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by shanebellone 3y ago
"The moment the recorded radiations are too high is already too late, especially if you have kids, that's why we need to know about this type of things before the instrumental devices might show us that the radiation levels have c
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by shanebellone 3y ago
You are right. This is obvious propaganda with no value to HN. The two following sentences speak volumes about intention. For sentence 1 to be true, sentence 2 should not exist. If one was seeking truth, they would not yet be concerned with
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by shanebellone 3y ago
You've also lived through many technologies that failed to achieve mainstream adoption despite demonstrating comparable levels of hype.
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by shanebellone 3y ago
"So what?" At what point do you become a user?
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An object database with zero dependencies in less than 100 lines of Python(github.com)
2 points by shanebellone 3y ago|0 comments
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by shanebellone 3y ago
This is very interesting. I've bookmarked the link. Thanks for sharing. I believe minimal is best and this might fit nicely within my larger system. Do you approach other problems with a similar mindset?
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by shanebellone 3y ago
"I would give it serious consideration" There are 18 components listed. This stack is thick.
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by shanebellone 3y ago
You can. I can't think of the appropriate term though. Hopefully someone else chimes in here with a link.
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by shanebellone 3y ago
"Why not serve fake garbage indistinguishable from real content by a computer, like LLM output?" Serving more than the minimum wastes resources. Worse yet, a better solution would cost my time. "Sending errors just incentiviz
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by shanebellone 3y ago
IMO China is a "long-term country". LLM does not lead to General Intelligence. While the former is profitable (financially and socially), the latter is the holy grail. Time will name the winner.
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by shanebellone 3y ago
"Robots.txt has failed as a system, if it hadn't we wouldn't have captchas or Cloudflare." I like the idea of "ai.txt" but those who eat resources rarely listen to ToS. Frankly, I serve 503s to all identifiable
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by shanebellone 3y ago
I started documenting the GSM command set. It's one of those things that warrants a cheat sheet. Never will I ever retain that crap.
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by shanebellone 3y ago
"I would go into this assuming that either there is something else on the page with that path (or an errant javascript request)." There is no JavaScript present. I'm 100% certain this behavior is intentional. I've respon
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by shanebellone 3y ago
"If you are seeing requests for that (specifically), then it's probably a bug." This is what I can tell you for sure. - it is not a bug - once I determined the aforementioned, I thought about what it might want from me - I ch
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by shanebellone 3y ago
Hmmm. I have NGINX -> Gunicorn (Python) -> Experimental WSGI App (Python) serving a website. A hit from my cellphone initiated that type of request and it caused a strange error. I was able to identify the issue and successfully guess
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Ask HN: Please help Does HTTP/3 chain requests?
2 points by shanebellone 3y ago|7 comments
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by shanebellone 3y ago
Moat == War Chest
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by shanebellone 3y ago
"I know how to climb and how to play chess." This resonated with me as I've been both too. I preferred bouldering but both climbs start by assessing the problem and identifying the crux and transition points. The rest is real
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Ask HN: How do you know when you know something?
2 points by shanebellone 3y ago|4 comments
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by shanebellone 3y ago
I agree that it's being positioned deceptively. Today, it is just a novelty.
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by shanebellone 3y ago
"which I'd rather simply call what it is, which is lying" "I like the term "bullshitting" as it implies it acts like it knows, but doesn't." It's not "lying" or "bullshitting"
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by shanebellone 3y ago
Plus, there seems to be a chronic conflation of "capable of configuring" and "fundamentally understanding the technology".
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by shanebellone 3y ago
"fixing that one library will be a walk in the park compared to remaking Figma or Google Docs if those sites ever go down" Most core tech is trivial to rebuild for a single user. It becomes complex over time due to scale and with
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by shanebellone 3y ago
Ditto. Edit: Yappi - A tracing profiler that is multithreading, asyncio and gevent aware. https://github.com/sumerc/yappi
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by shanebellone 3y ago
You're absolutely right. Something suitable will probably be available at any future point in time.

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