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by tdeck 2mo ago
Somehow the standards we have for every other kind of automation go out the window for AI. If it turned out an LLM embezzled funds and spent them at an internet casino, we would have folks in the comments explaining that what really matters
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by tdeck 2mo ago
How were people doing this a few years ago before generative AI? Did the cost of care go down significantly and I just missed it?
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by tdeck 2mo ago
I like OpenRouter. Excited to see where their incredible journey takes them.
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by tdeck 2mo ago
This response always comes up but I think it's not the whole story and gives "AI" a pass. If I report a bug in (for example) Slack that loses messages and cost me a lot of time and headaches, is it an appropriate response to
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by tdeck 2mo ago
There's another option, which is to have the consultation recorded and then transcribed by a third person, or at least have the transcript reviewed while listening to the recording. I think for medical situations it's more than re
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by tdeck 2mo ago
The app icon and name are submitted as part of the app review so there's not really an excuse for this to get through in the first place.
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by tdeck 2mo ago
You can still see it everywhere in Hanoi.
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by tdeck 2mo ago
This is a very Hacker News usage of the word "just".
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by tdeck 2mo ago
Remember Google needs to prevent sideloading for your own good, despite the fact that they can't / won't even keep this out of the Play store.
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by tdeck 2mo ago
I'm curious which governments have spies within CloudFlare.
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by tdeck 2mo ago
> The RUM Diaries: Enabling Web Analytics by Default With that title not many people clicked on it. I'm not surprised.
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by tdeck 2mo ago
I keep wondering when the other shoe will drop on the idea of this one company MITMing a large portion of the world's internet traffic.
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by tdeck 2mo ago
I've never once cleared the cache on this app, and you can trivially find hundreds of other people complaining about this same behavior. Why make such an assumption and write it in such an insulting style?
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by tdeck 2mo ago
Granted that that is indeed the case, surely the quantity of high-quality writing available online (including things like Project Gutenberg) still dwarfs the quantity remaining in obscure unscanned books.
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by tdeck 2mo ago
Why is the textual data bound up in these paper books worth the trouble? These LLM training runs have already ingested essentially the whole public internet. What marginal value is to be gained from scanning and destroying obscure books? Fo
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by tdeck 2mo ago
This reads like one of those kooks who would post so many grandiose claims on a forum that eventually everyone stopped replying to their threads.
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by tdeck 2mo ago
I don't believe this permanent jobs number. Companies always inflate them for projects like this to win political concessions.
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by tdeck 2mo ago
They shouldn't worry, I might step in and cover the rest!
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by tdeck 2mo ago
Today I updated my Claude user preferences to tell it to stop saying "honestly" (and related expressions). The straw that broke the camel's back was "To be totally straight with you". Seems to have had no effect. It
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by tdeck 2mo ago
They actually did build a way to undo enabling backup that removed all the photos added from the enabled device. I guess that's a tacit acknowledgement that people are likely to enable this accidentally. I remember there being a mini s
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by tdeck 2mo ago
I've said "no" to this popup at least 100 times. Under what notion of obtaining consent would it be considered acceptable to ask me again the 101st time?
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by tdeck 2mo ago
It's very simple. Free speech means you should be able to say bigoted things and keep your job and/or highly paid speaking engagement. It doesn't mean you should be able to write an op-ed opposing genocide without being arres
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by tdeck 2mo ago
The classic example of this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_as_She_Is_Spoke > It is widely believed that Carolino could not speak English and that an unknown French–English dictionary was used to translate the
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by tdeck 2mo ago
I think this is a fiction we tell ourselves, but it doesn't function like this in reality. The majority of people just tip according to habit and not are not performing some kind of micro performance evaluation at each interaction. In
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by tdeck 2mo ago
There are science books written for curious children that explain this kind of thing. I remember reading them.
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by tdeck 2mo ago
> Beyond the false answers, the AIs provided specious sources to support their responses to more than half of the questions. In reply to the 400 questions posed to the AIs, they provided 419 sources that included: > 104 webpages t
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by tdeck 2mo ago
The trouble is that a billion people speak Mandarin already and many of them speak very good English as well, so your own skillset as a second language learner isn't very likely to be valuable. Unfortunately learning any language is ra
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by tdeck 2mo ago
I knew someone who got into a good school on a crew (rowing) scholarship. I remember thinking "wait doesn't almost everyone who rows crew go to a wealthy private school?"
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by tdeck 2mo ago
Probably not much. Personally I think it's worthwhile because it becomes obvious exactly how broken the user experience is and makes it more motivating to fix (for me). It's pretty obvius what the problem is when all your buttons
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Give Your Baby a Machete(slate.com)
3 points by tdeck 2mo ago|0 comments

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