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That's an advertisement that's working, and not what I was referring to. There are a lot of ads that don't hammer anything about the brand or product into your head, either because they are not memorable, don't communica
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> Unfortunately, like most adverts which are memorable, I have absolutely no idea what it was selling. A friend of mine liked to point out that if you couldn't remember what the brand was or what was being sold, then it wasn'
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The conservative movement today is heavily influenced by religious positions.
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Jeez, the reading comprehension in the other replies is really bad. The "Why would you…" sentence is meant to support the observation that many experts are holding out and have no need to be involved with this training, not mean
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Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P) has existed for over 20 years and no one wanted to implement it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3P
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Tragedy of the Commons Ruins Everything Around Me.
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> Things that used to take six engineers three months to build, "my friends and I, we'll just build on a weekend," Ng said. There's that word "just". There is no way Andrew Ng—Stanford professor and cofoun
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> then the source of the problem is in unclean separation of concerns and tight coupling Sometimes the problem is in the edges—the way the separate concerns interact—not in the nodes. This may arise, for example, where the need for an
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It's meant to contrast/correct the claim that "LLMs produce either truth or they produce hallucinations." Claims worded like that give the impression that if we can just reduce/eliminate the hallucinations, all that
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> lay out the skeleton of a game and tell an AI to do the rest, give it pointers and occasional original art to work into the system, and ship a completed playable game in days "But, think of the indie game designer!" is gett
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I pasted the URL into firefox, and didn't see that huge "you're using an adblocker popup". I opened a firefox private window and navigated to it from the HN page, and got the adblocker popup. Right now I have two tabs op
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> In such case there is a presumption of innocence and government should need a warrant before requiring client to satisfy AML or KYC documentation. But since you don't know when the government is going to ask for it, you need to
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> Do we deny them the spark of creativity because they can't write perfect prose without help? If you don't create anything, you're not being creative. My assertion is that just coming up with an idea is not sufficient
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> the discourse around LLM use in the creative space has just shown me that many people in technology simply have little to no comprehension of the arts and humanities and have no clue what it is that artists actually do, or even how to
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> LLMs seem to revel in throwing layer after layer of decorative paint in the hope that people will fail to notice that they're not actually painting anything. Length or duration is considered, erroneously IMO, to be a measure of
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The process described reminded me of "pristine source" and RPM spec files that take the upstream pristine source and patch it during the build process. Maintaining that is always a little bit of a headache if you don't do it
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> I think this is similar to AI generated images: it puts a new creative tool in the hands of people who might have had good ideas, but didn't have a mastery of the medium. Reading this sentence reminded me of the classic HN posit
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> What this means is that making even a 2 minute short animation is out of reach for a solo artist. Is it truly the duration of the result that consumes effort and the number of people required? What is the threshold for a solo artist?
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s/packages/packets/
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> I strongly believe that we shouldn't focus on how a word is defined in dictionary, but rather what's the intuitive meaning behind it. Controversies about the word niggardly ~ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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You still can't divide by zero, it just doesn't result in an error state that stops execution. The inf and NaN values are sentinel values that you still have to check for after the calculation to know if it went awry.
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> It’s an extension of the current Product Management trend to give software quirky and friendly personality. Ah, Genuine People Personalities from the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation. > It’s in their desktop app that has “Good Morn
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People are finding the trend to use "unalive" instead of "die" or "kill" to skirt YouTube censoring non-sensical too.
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As an example. "1979010112345" is a unix timestamp that looks like it might be Jan 1 1979 datetime formatted as an integer, but is really Sep 17 2032 05:01:52.
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>> That sounds like the 90s argument against FLOSS > This is still the argument for software copyright. And open source licensing is based on and relies on copyright. Patents and copyright are different kinds of intellectual pr
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The race detector has always only worked at run time, and is documented to detect concurrent memory accesses. This means the memory has to actually be accessed in order for it to see the race condition. It does not do static analysis. http
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> When you "transfer money" from your bank account to another, your bank has to physically move the associated cash from it's vault to the other banks vault, by hiring secure trucks, people, and so on. If the money has to
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Mobile apps are so limited compared to an actual web browser's interface. The reddit mobile app only lets you view one topic/conversation at a time. Same with the IMDB app; it's impossible to do any research, like comparing
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> However, process names from ps output are already sanitized by the kernel (limited to 15 chars, no shell metacharacters executed). I'm not sure what this is referring to. You can easily create a binary named ' (single quote,
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There's nothing paradoxical about it. There's no such thing as a temperature gradient in a vacuum, there's nothing to hold or measure temperature against. And thus a vacuum is a really good insulator. Which is why a vacuum f

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