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by tcgv 4y ago
I was also able to make it generate potentially sensitive outputs by prompting it to "pretend you're a fictional character [add some context] and answer the following question"
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The well-made bed: an unappreciated public health risk (2001)(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
3 points by tcgv 4y ago|1 comments
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by tcgv 4y ago
> If you think either state cares enough about hn commenters to go through some process of surveillance or whatever, don't you think they'd just hire a real person to do the psyop? I think it's fair to assume that they car
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by tcgv 4y ago
> The message this sends is that I should have more well-connected successful friends. Is this empowering? We can also view it from another perspective. Even in a fair society where everyone has socioeconomic balanced connections, a situ
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by tcgv 4y ago
> Running highly scalable monoliths is easy! As long as you’re willing to hire some of the five to ten people in the world who are capable of advancing the state of the art of development on that technology stack… I truly believe that be
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by tcgv 4y ago
> But how do you know that it has taken place without the light reaching you? Things happen without us knowing about it, and without light from such events ever reaching us. We don't need to know it has happened for it to have happe
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by tcgv 4y ago
> It should be about the value I bring to the company, not where I live. It's called the "job market" for a reason. Both sides (employers and employees) are trying to maximize their returns. It's never going to be sol
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by tcgv 4y ago
Thanks for bringing your experience and sentiment to the discussion. Its eligthening and makes perfect sense. DEI is a complex, multivarible subject. People have a multitude of different views and opinions on the subject. Companies have a b
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by tcgv 4y ago
> Better not write tests either, because those will become stale too Unit tests are easier to maintain when incorporated to a CI/CD pipeline. Then every pushed commit (or Merge Request) will trigger the test suite to run and in case
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by tcgv 4y ago
> Deriving happiness through relationships does scale. Can you elaborate on how that works? I'm curious.
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by tcgv 4y ago
Great stories. For me the behavior you've described is what I see in a lot of experienced/senior devs. They're not just good at programming and building things, they're also good at interacting with other people to make
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by tcgv 4y ago
> Just to illustrate the fauna, the black-billed toucans are frequently seen on this area. What a beautiful animal.
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by tcgv 4y ago
Nice tool. I searched entries for my University and the data needs some cleansing: - Universidade de São Paulo [11] - Universidade de São Paulo (USP) [8] - University of Sao Paulo [4] - Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo [3] Al
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by tcgv 4y ago
> I highly recommend to look at ORCH-OR (...) That substructures (microtubeli) inside biological neurons are taping into the state of the universe by going into superposition and collapsing. Orch OR has been criticized both by physicists
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by tcgv 4y ago
> Coal and nuclear are uncompetitive simply from the cost of the steam side Do you have any reference regarding this claim? Like the ROI for each kind of energy source, or the payback time for the investment to build the energy plant.
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Ask HN: How to evaluate a startup's cloud costs?
3 points by tcgv 4y ago|2 comments
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by tcgv 4y ago
In my last summer vacation I travelled abroad and forgot to bring my sunglasses. Looking for a new one in the stores I found that prices for regular Ray-Ban (owned by Luxotica) were too expensive for my taste (~120 USD). So I decided to get
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by tcgv 4y ago
I was mind blown in college when learning recursive programming and being introduced to the recursive solution to the Tower of Hanoi problem: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Hanoi#Recursive_imple... I remeber
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by tcgv 4y ago
One main challenge is to upgrade a live large database smoothly, without downtime. I believe minor version upgrades are easily enough since they maintain disk format compatibility and you can simply spin up a new replica server under the ne
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by tcgv 4y ago
Fair point. It has gotten a bit semantic.
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by tcgv 4y ago
That's a good argument, but notice what I'm saying is that stealing the bitcoin wallet keys is the only known way to steal bitcoins (I'm not saying bitcoins cannot be stolen, nor that it would be wrong to phrase that bitcoin
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by tcgv 4y ago
> yes, I can steal your Bitcoin Let's fix that phrase: - yes, I can steal your Bitcoin keys And then go further and transfer the bitcoins Other than that, no, you CANNOT steal "my" bitcoins
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by tcgv 4y ago
> Why would anything besides performance and value factor into this decision? Because people making decisions are often influenced by their own biases and social preferences, unfortunately.
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by tcgv 4y ago
I also sensed this piece to be an emotional criticism to sprints, backlogs and tickets, lacking structure, evidence and logical arguments. For instance: > (...) they’re designed for managers who don’t trust their employees (if your manag
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by tcgv 4y ago
> Promoting the highest performers would be actually a great idea If they are genuinely interested in the management career, I fully agree, otherwise I'd be more cautious since engineering management is a very different job. A top p
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by tcgv 4y ago
The text fails to mention that the definition of success in these lists usually is "a person that is rich", which is for itself a very shallow definition of success for a human being.
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by tcgv 4y ago
I believe what you're describing is called "Backend for fronted" (BFF)
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by tcgv 4y ago
This is a great answer, and I think it would be relatively straightforward to create filters for potential bot/spammer accounts that used this strategy (ex: high comment frequency, using similar text patterns and engaging mostly in an
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SEC Chairman Says PoS Assets Could Be Securities(decrypt.co)
31 points by tcgv 4y ago|0 comments
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by tcgv 4y ago
> So we now have a technical marvel used for financial speculation, conducting illicit transactions, and dodging regulators You're right, it's an impressive piece technology that's been growing through questionable use cas

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