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I cut out Amazon recently and there's something to be said about specialized online retailers. I used to think the idea of having a different retailer for each category was a bygone relic of the past after Amazon, but I'm starting
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They've truly demonstrated something I believed untrue prior, and that's the notion that a company can keep growing while maintaining very strong opinions and principals. I switched to Mullvad after PIA's acquisition, thinkin
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The model that catches erroneous output appears to be an extraneous service that runs as the text is coming from the model. When it catches it, it flags the text red and prevents you from sharing it. I've done this a lot.
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You're invoking an ethos argument (appeal to authority). Basically, it's only valid if you accept US law as supreme, which in the very act of leaking documents showing how legislators and executive agencies abused their positions
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While I don't even agree that Snowden behaved cowardly - which is what you appear to be suggesting - it's really quite appalling to see that used as a way to undercut the status of "whistleblower". Surely, you take great
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> And also the incessent use of the "I smell marijuana" I have a family member on parole who had this happen on a traffic stop the other day. Being on parole, there's no right to decline being searched prior to arrest*, so
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It's a matter of incentive. Sure, the Alphabet Agencies aren't intrinsically good, but they have little motive to protect the misconduct within local police precincts.
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I would love to see an equivalent to cpdp.co for every city. The notion of publicly humiliating authoritarian thugs masquerading as civil servants offers a glimmer of hope for the atrocious state of policing in the US.
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One thought and certainly just my opinion: you should allow users to block scripts from googletagmanager.com. I allowed scripts from your domain, but was still unable to use the page. When you embark on the more compact website, do you inte
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When you examine the most common deaths for Americans, it's either the Hamburglar or cars
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I don't even think it's behind the scenes. It seems plain as day that they're trying to recoup the cost of their shitty website redesign and even shittier app. Since everybody is using third-party apps (which use the API), th
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> Each one garnered the same hundreds of upvotes as the original What's sad is how many of those aren't bots. It's not uncommon for karma farmers to have their bots upvote each other, but it isn't cost effective to
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Or maybe the complete opposite, as it will only be learning patterns created by AI, producing less variance at higher temperatures, ultimately overfitting onto the same bland jargon.
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> the most counterculture thing you can do is to semi-ironically eat a Happy Meal in order to support indie Gameboy devs Like Winston at the Chestnut Tree Cafe
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These are two different modes being conflated. A person committing plagiarism is akin to a how a GPT creates a document. "Okay, this word... and then this word... and then this word..." This is opposed to modeling a concept in you
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We're in accordance.
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> You seem to misunderstand the size of the complexity space we are dealing with here. I don't. The whole point of my job is to understand this exact degree of complexity. The rest of your comment rides on that assumption, and is mo
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I wish they would just open the floodgates. The vultures will realize that their extractive problems won't be solved by a generative model, no matter how "multimodal" its inputs are. Of course, that won't happen, because
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While I agree with the other comment, I'd like to add one thing to help you see the false equivalency being made here: we didn't make the human brain . Now, with that being understood, why wouldn't we understand a brain that
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but in the future it probably won’t be I see this parroted so often, and I have to ask: Why? What is there outside of the world of SciFi that makes the AGI of the future so nebulous, when humans would have presumably advanced to a p
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Astroturfing, psyops, and disruption of general trust (commercially and maliciously, both domestic and foreign) It is disturbing to me how unconcerned everybody is with this over what is still only a hypothetical problem. States and
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The integers represent a position within a vector of "all known tokens". Typically, following a simple bag-of-words approach, each position in the vector would be toggled to 1 or 0 based on the presence of a token in a given docum
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You might be prone to perceiving threats where there aren't any then. The only threat here was reddit's potential loss in revenue - offering to let himself be bought out for half of what they would supposedly "lose" in a
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This Jacob Wohl guy is a real class act. He's certainly nothing short of an aspiring propagandist. Some of his prior "pranks" include trying to frame mostly Democratic politicians for sexual assault and the like, under the ch
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It's amazing I don't see Bisq discussed more on HN of all places. It's probably the best example of how cryptocurrency should be traded. Custodial services have always been bad news. Decentralized, capable of anonymity, and w
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No, I don't. Hitmen being unavailable would make it a non-issue, and conspiracy to commit murder is already a crime. As I mentioned in another comment in this thread, the US justice system (and French, giving credit where it is due) is
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Almost all international bogeymen are real in some capacity. The point is that they're used to invoke fear towards concession of one's right to do what they wish with their acquired capital. The US justice system is designed to pr
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Being a hitman should be illegal. Selling a slave should be illegal. Accepting a bribery should be illegal. Chop the trunk, not the branches.
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Can you make the same argument without invoking international bogeymen? This is basically one of the aforementioned Patriot Act talking points.
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Ad Nauseum clicks ads before blocking them (with uBlock Origin), so it's possible for someone to block ads while providing visited sites with the clicks they need. That aside, what one does with information they've been handed is

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