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by why_at 7mo ago
Whenever the Turing Test comes up people always insist that it's been passed because at some point they tried it and fooled at least 50% of the people. But yeah this isn't a very interesting version of it, ELIZA was able to make s
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by why_at 7mo ago
>Only a tiny amount of apps force you into hardware attestation Luckily this is still true, but I'm not confident that it will stay this way. For a few examples, I've been unable to use my phone as a metro card in my city becau
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by why_at 7mo ago
>On the other hand, being cryptographically locked-down is an optional feature. If you don't like it, buy a computer without that feature. But that's the thing, where can I buy a phone without a locked-down operating system? Gr
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by why_at 7mo ago
And even with this there are still apps which require hardware attestation and won't work on alternative operating systems.
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by why_at 7mo ago
I don't really understand, it seems like if this was the main thing preventing people from returning them there would be ways around it. Couldn't they return them anonymously or upload them to the internet or something?
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by why_at 7mo ago
I am not very knowledgeable about this topic, but in my cursory reading of wikipedia I see that there's been some criticism of this study: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana_syndrome#University_of_...
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by why_at 7mo ago
>Personally, I love the "hallucinations" as they help me fine-tune my prompts, base instructions, and reinforce intentionality This reads almost like satire of an AI power user. Why would you like it when an LLM makes things up
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by why_at 7mo ago
I agree. The headline says "all operating systems, including Linux, need to have some form of age verification at account setup", which is pretty inaccurate. It's just asking for some OS feature to report age. There's no
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by why_at 8mo ago
I don't really follow. I've lost touch and reconnected with people since the invention of cell phones, the internet, and social media. Sometimes you just don't talk to someone for years even if you know how to reach them. I g
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by why_at 8mo ago
>The Paris prosecutor's office said it launched the investigation after being contacted by a lawmaker alleging that biased algorithms in X were likely to have distorted the operation of an automated data processing system. I&#x27
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by why_at 8mo ago
It's also interesting how the functionality of the game barely changes between 60k tokens, 800k tokens, and 7MM tokens. It seems like the additional tokens made the game look more finished, but it plays almost exactly the same in all o
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by why_at 9mo ago
It seems weird to me that there's no human readable version on the webpage? Usually what I want the weather for is to choose what to wear, not to put in a bash script or an LLM or something.
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by why_at 9mo ago
This one is neat, I might actually use it. I don't understand why it includes indoor sensors at all let alone by default. Why would I want to know the temperature inside some random building?
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by why_at 10mo ago
Like so many of these articles about how "AI will/won't do X" it just feels like everyone is speculating. The only thing I feel confident about is that people are bad at predicting the future. Why can't we just wait
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by why_at 10mo ago
>(“What’s up?” is one of the most dreadful texts to get; it’s short for “Hello, I’d like you to entertain me now.”) And asking your partner question after question and resenting them when they don’t return the favor isn’t generosity; it’
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by why_at 10mo ago
In the results section it looks like there's supposed to be an image of it but the link "placeholder_rat_playing.png" returns a 404 :(
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by why_at 11mo ago
>a big innovation of HL2 was the extensive use of a real physics engine. The door and the guard are both physical objects, both have momentum, they impart an impulse on each other, and although the door hinge is frictionless, the guard&#
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by why_at 11mo ago
Ok, but if the cashier is stealing they could just have change in their pocket? I'm skeptical that preventing theft is the reason for these prices rather than the psychological trick of looking cheaper.
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by why_at 11mo ago
I don't get it. Why couldn't a cashier pocket $1.99?
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by why_at 11mo ago
Nice work! That was pretty fun. There were definitely some words in there which I had never heard even as a native English speaker. One suggestion I would make if the intent is to teach people a new language would be to limit the word list
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by why_at 11mo ago
Yeah it's true that basing a regulation off of how much any one customer uses the product seems impractical, but I don't think that's necessarily what was being suggested. >Games people spend 1000 hours playing earn a leve
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by why_at 11mo ago
I'm not the OP nor am I advocating for their point, but I believe there are some cases, e.g. with car manufacturers, where different regulations apply depending on how many you produce. It's not too much of a stretch to imagine so
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by why_at 11mo ago
I think their point is that we can either have no seafood and devastated oceans, or no seafood and healthy(ish) oceans.
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by why_at 11mo ago
I'm curious what they use to provide food for the lab grown salmon cells. They need all the same nutrients but even more precisely formulated since there isn't a digestive system. It seems like it will have the same problem with i
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by why_at 1y ago
I'm surprised they didn't mention anything about preventing spam. The biggest thing that deters me from doing something like this is the idea that not long after I opened it up it would get hammered by bots so much that it would m
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by why_at 1y ago
This part from the first try made me laugh: if random.random() < 0.01: logging.warning("This feels wrong. Aborting just in case.") return None
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by why_at 1y ago
I wonder if we need something like Anti-SLAPP[1] laws but for patents. If someone sues for infringing on an obviously BS patent there should be a way for the defendant to quickly resolve the case and recover any costs they incurred from the
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by why_at 1y ago
>it can be run on external hardware that uses a capture card to analyze your video feed and alter your mouse inputs to the computer. I think at some point defeating this becomes impossible. This sort of cheating isn't much different
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by why_at 1y ago
Yeah I don't think this would work for hardcore competitive gamers, but it would be nice to have as an option for those who are more casual. Definitely better than not being able to play at all. It doesn't even seem very hard to i
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by why_at 1y ago
This is one use case where I think the idea of cloud gaming (e.g. google stadia) could make some sense. Having this as an alternative for linux users would be nice. It's much harder to cheat if the game isn't running on your compu

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