thousand_nights

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by thousand_nights 11mo ago
> M&S chair, told MPs that hackers had used “sophisticated impersonation” to gain entry “involving a third party.” 20 bucks says this sophisticated impersonation was social engineering a $5/hour outsourced customer support emplo
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by thousand_nights 1y ago
reason we're benchmaxxing is because there's a huge monetary incentive now to have the best performing model on these synthetic benchmarks and that status is worth a lot of money literally every new release of something point X mo
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by thousand_nights 1y ago
exactly, the "i asked chatgpt" people give off 'im helping' vibes but in reality they are just annoying and clogging up the internet with spam that nobody asked for they're more clueless than condescending
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by thousand_nights 1y ago
this one time when i was young and dumb and into smoking weed, i remember running out of rolling paper so i rolled a joint using a supermarket receipt i had and smoked it this was like 20 years ago, still makes me shudder after i learned ab
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by thousand_nights 1y ago
i think my situation is quite niche - i host a lot of social gatherings for friends at my place and most of the time we like to play music videos on the TV either in the background or actively sharing our music tastes with each other adbloc
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by thousand_nights 1y ago
seriously. there is nothing more infuriating then an app (which you pay a subscription for) gaslighting you into feeding you more slop even if you click "i dont want to see this" a thousand times. nice placebo button. i can imagin
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by thousand_nights 1y ago
except it doesn't whip the llama's ass
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by thousand_nights 1y ago
React has been pretty stable for many years now and is almost ubiquitous. Also, I'm not a huge fan of synthetic benchmarks like in the article such as "render a static list of 25000 elements". This never happens in the real w
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by thousand_nights 1y ago
honestly i don't get the point of leaf blowers, you move the leaves with an extremely loud gasoline powered machine from one place to another for what purpose, to make it someone else's problem and then they can blow them back?
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by thousand_nights 1y ago
i don't think general intelligence is technically unachievable with ML but i think we're still orders of magnitude away from the amount of compute needed to reach it and everyone is in a honeymoon period because of how useful text
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by thousand_nights 1y ago
i experienced the opposite of this, bought tickets for a band i didn't really want to see, and ended up selling it on ticketmaster for a profit shortly before the concert i felt like i accidentally made money on some esoteric stock mar
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by thousand_nights 1y ago
i've noticed recently youtube added a "most commonly skipped to" marker on their videos which is very useful when watching on my TV which doesn't support sponsorblock to skip sponsored segments more and more youtube crea
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by thousand_nights 1y ago
i don't trust companies anymore because every time there's a worldwide outage they use softspeak like "we're observing elevated amounts of errors for a small subset of users", hours after some CTO approves to change
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by thousand_nights 1y ago
because the preachers preach how amazing it is on their greenfield 'i built a todo list app in 5 minutes from scratch' and then you use it on an established codebase with a bigger context than the llm could ever possibly consume a
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by thousand_nights 1y ago
very cool. now let's see the LLM do the laundry and wash my dishes yes you're free to give it a physical body in the form of a robot. i don't think that will help.
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by thousand_nights 1y ago
if i only read HN threads i'd assume 95% of users exclusively use some screen readers to read the web it's become a trope to the point i know i can ctrl-f "screen reader" if literally anything ui related is being discuss
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Police seizes Archetyp Market drug marketplace, arrests admin(bleepingcomputer.com)
7 points by thousand_nights 1y ago|1 comments
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by thousand_nights 1y ago
if my password has not been leaked it's insane that providers think i should rotate it, but this still seems to be standard practice for some completely baffling reason
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by thousand_nights 1y ago
runpod is billed by the minute
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by thousand_nights 1y ago
i feel like surprisingly, front end work which used to be viewed by programmers as "easier" is now more difficult of the two, because it's where LLMs suck the most you get a link to a figma design and you have to use your eye
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by thousand_nights 1y ago
but as soon as you test on your private testing set you're sending it to their servers so they have access to it so effectively you can only guarantee a single use stays private
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by thousand_nights 1y ago
those are some weird oranges
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by thousand_nights 2y ago
tbh i drink a coffee in the morning every day, no sugar, i think it tastes objectively terrible, like bitter dirt, but it's hijacked my reward pathway in the same way that nicotine or ethanol does, that it makes me enjoy the taste some
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by thousand_nights 2y ago
blind people still have other senses including touch which gives them a size reference they can compare to. you can feel physical objects to gain an understanding of their size. the LLM is more like a brain in a vat with only one sensory in
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by thousand_nights 2y ago
yeah it looks like a fancy tech gadget marketed to people in developed countries where you have like one power cut every 2 years
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by thousand_nights 2y ago
reddit tier humor, truly it's just regurgitating overly emphasized cliches in a disgustingly enthusiastic tone
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by thousand_nights 2y ago
good morning!
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by thousand_nights 2y ago
i guess hacker culture is now "just pay for your netflix subscription and shut up"
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by thousand_nights 2y ago
tell that to the people who get letters from their isp threatening to cancel service for downloading torrents vpns have their use case, they're definitely not snake oil
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by thousand_nights 2y ago
> George Hotz is making better drivers for AMD lol

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