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by smitop 3y ago
The FDIC almost only does bank closures on Friday (see https://www.fdic.gov/resources/resolutions/bank-failures/fai... - there were a few non-Friday closures after the SVB failure but none before), the gues
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Lodash Migrates to Bun(github.com)
3 points by smitop 3y ago|3 comments
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by smitop 3y ago
The bigger news is that Lodash is migrating from Node.js to Bun: https://github.com/lodash/lodash/commit/97d4a2fe193a66f5f96d...
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by smitop 3y ago
The (relevant parts of the) legislation haven't come into force yet - most of the sections of the Online News Act don't come into force until the "a day to be fixed by order of the Governor in Council". Facebook is preem
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by smitop 3y ago
In a legal context "highway" has a broader meaning than in everyday use. From the link above: highway "includes every road, street, lane or right of way designed or intended for or used by the general public for the passage o
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by smitop 3y ago
Reverted: https://github.com/easylist/easylist/commit/5deb8021949ef225...
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The case of the jump into the middle of an instruction from nowhere (2023)(devblogs.microsoft.com)
2 points by smitop 4y ago|0 comments
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by smitop 4y ago
What happens is you'll write a paper titled "The first SHA-256 collision: SHA-256 is broken in practice", since there are currently no known collisions (despite Bitcoin miners computing exahashes per second). The chances of y
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How to average hues(iter.ca)
1 points by smitop 4y ago|0 comments
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Why posting GPT and ChatGPT generated answers is not currently acceptable(stackoverflow.com)
37 points by smitop 4y ago|13 comments
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by smitop 4y ago
That's not ChatGPT, you were chatting with the plain GPT-3 model. You can't use ChatGPT from the playground, you have to use https://chat.openai.com/chat to chat. ChatGPT is better than just plain GPT-3 for chatti
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Credit Cards as a Legacy System(bam.kalzumeus.com)
3 points by smitop 4y ago|0 comments
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by smitop 4y ago
This happens because Discord has a system bot also named Clyde that mostly tells users when their messages fail to send (among other system messages).
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How to average hues(iter.ca)
5 points by smitop 4y ago|0 comments
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How Federated Learning Protects Privacy(pair.withgoogle.com)
1 points by smitop 4y ago|0 comments
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Google Chrome Is Already Preparing to Deprecate JPEG-XL(phoronix.com)
62 points by smitop 4y ago|20 comments
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by smitop 4y ago
Viable on-device speech recognition is becoming reality. Apple is apparently processing some speech recognition on-device now: https://www.engadget.com/ios-15-siri-on-device-app-privacy-1... So far there aren't any par
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by smitop 4y ago
I've seen impersonation bots that add random noise to the profile picture of the user they're impersonating, so it's possible that Twitter is already doing something like that (just with a similarity threshold too low).
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The Unicode Standard, Version 15.0(blog.unicode.org)
17 points by smitop 4y ago|1 comments
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Technicalities Behind Image Relighting(clipdrop.co)
1 points by smitop 4y ago|0 comments
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The branch banking model(bam.kalzumeus.com)
107 points by smitop 4y ago|128 comments
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Impact to DigitalOcean customers resulting from Mailchimp security incident(digitalocean.com)
168 points by smitop 4y ago|83 comments
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by smitop 4y ago
It looks like that GUID is specific to training data for Google's BIG-bench model? I haven't seen any indication that it's supported anywhere else, it doesn't seem to be any sort of industry-wide standard.
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by smitop 4y ago
Decentralised stablecoins, such as Dai, do exist, and the price of Dai does manage to maintain its peg pretty well. Not all decentralised stablecoins have done as well (most notably TerraUSD) though, it's definitely hard to design an a
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The Alchemy of Deposits(bam.kalzumeus.com)
9 points by smitop 4y ago|3 comments
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Generating graphs that look like stock charts(observablehq.com)
2 points by smitop 4y ago|1 comments
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by smitop 4y ago
Android supports "verified SMS" wherein the sender proves their identity to Google, tells Google the hashes of messages they send, and Google can tell recipients if the message hash is legit or not: https://developers.g
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HTML markup Google Sheets adds to the clipboard(smitop.com)
1 points by smitop 4y ago|0 comments
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by smitop 4y ago
Note that Lsjbot is only active on certain language editions; it doesn't edit English Wikipedia. There are a lot less bot-created articles on enwiki.
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New DigitalOcean Pricing(digitalocean.com)
267 points by smitop 4y ago|1 comments

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