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by zmmmmm 3y ago
Reminds me of power assertions in Groovy - one of my favorite features!
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
if the alternative is moving straight to enshitten ..... i guess i'll take it? Seems to be basically how technology progresses these days. We just have to keep forking from the point before enshitten to build the next thing each time.
843.
by zmmmmm 3y ago
It's an exciting time and I think we are in a lag where all the tremendous progress in microbiology and related tech is starting to kick into high gear in delivering results. Basic things like being able to sequence whole human genomes
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
thanks It sounds bad but it does still sound primarily like neglect and not some kind of genuine active involvement, as I hear frequently suggested.
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
I feel awful saying this about an article about a genocide, but can someone tldr it? What is the substance of the issue?
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
Just struggle to be interested in glasses that have no display at all. That is really the future I'm waiting for.
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
"Just use X if you don't like Y" works up until the point where the choice carries significant cost to the user. For example, "choosing" not to use iPhone means you can't Facetime or iMessage with your friends.
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
Wouldn't grate so much if i didn't get such incredibly poor service every time I go in there. The few times I've actually dared to ask them for information about what they just dispensed me they looked at me like I'm an
849.
by zmmmmm 3y ago
> Tools that make generative AI safer and more transparent. And, people-centric recommendation systems that don’t misinform or undermine our well-being. This has nothing to do with Mozilla's core mission. It's verging on abus
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
> On *ix, threads don't use up file descriptors Thanks - this caused me to dig into the specific scenario where creating threads was exhausting file handles in my experience and you are correct - consuming a file handle is indeed
851.
by zmmmmm 3y ago
An awful lot of pre-packaged meals designed to be heated in the microwave come in (and sometimes, be eaten from) plastic trays. They couldn't really come another way. You can say people shouldn't use those but if that is their lif
852.
by zmmmmm 3y ago
I think virtual threads are huge. The problem with regular threads is (a) multi-kb memory stack per thread and (b) consuming a file handle. Either of those severely limits the scalability of the most "natural" parallelism constru
853.
by zmmmmm 3y ago
you can also frame it around correlation vs causation
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
What I hate most about this is that it puts unbounded liability onto developers. They can't control how often their game will be installed in the future. The outcome will likely be that the minute a game falls below a certain rate of s
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
I think it's unnecessarily unkind to Marl. The reality is, your core user base is always your easy-to-get captive market that intrinsically want what you do. A corollary of that is that gradient towards more users is always going to be
856.
by zmmmmm 3y ago
it's an interesting counter narrative then to the currently in vogue idea that you can stop individual ad targeting and instead target people based on their high level interests. Reddit is like a distillation of that, the logical end p
857.
by zmmmmm 3y ago
It probably makes most sense if you have a middle-tier-less application where the UI IS the application, and effectively it just dumps the whole application state out through APIs anyway. We have ended up with this scenario playing out and
858.
by zmmmmm 3y ago
which is the main step on the pathway to hell At the point where you have to write an API call instead of simply joining to a table, you have introduced orders of magnitude more complexity, failure points, testing challenges, race condition
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
> Someday someone may find themselves stabbed and killed by an LLM piloted robot because of something they said or did. Something that would predictably get someone killed by a system with "real" intent. So what, Are you going
860.
by zmmmmm 3y ago
Yes I pretty much stopped reading the article properly there. It starts by first redefining intentionality to be something LLMs can do, and then effectively has 18 paragraphs of flowery language recapitulating the definition they started wi
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
it's interesting because it's sort of quintessential ChatGPT: the content and information is there, it's doing a good job - but it's lifeless and dull, all the sharp edges are rounded off. I realise I come to HN precise
862.
by zmmmmm 3y ago
I'm honestly surprised how brazenly they are doing exactly the thing they had 10 years of legal trauma from previously again. I mean, something different, sure. But exactly the same thing????!
863.
by zmmmmm 3y ago
this is sort of the bigger picture observation I have about LLMs in general: that they seem to be massively over-parameterised, which in a classical statistical world would suggest they will readily over fit and it will be hard to get them
864.
by zmmmmm 3y ago
that was the most interesting part in the last paragraph to me: > The gas giant is considered to play a big role in protecting the inner solar system from asteroids and comets by attracting and absorbing impacts or flinging potentially d
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
I hate it
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
> The alternative seems to be “anything goes”. Seems like a huge false dichotomy. You really can't imagine anything in between total shutdown of AI training on public data sources and no rules at all? I think we should try a bit har
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
it's definitely a big change in attitude from previous governments (conservative and otherwise) - i still remember Labour trying to introduce mandatory internet censorship a decade ago.
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
People do seem to vastly under estimate the time span over which Zuckerberg thinks and the end state he is going for. His vision is for a Facebook-like ubiquity of the tech. He sees AI as the pathway there because it means he can remove so
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
I don't think Ruby is really even in the ballpark for comparison. It's almost a domain specific language for webapps while Python spans every single field and domain. Now I really despise Python. It's the source of probably 8
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by zmmmmm 3y ago
> I, personally, don't have interest with this tool, I prefer proper programming stack. However I can suggest this kind of tool for someone with lacking programming skills (however it's expected that you understand some SQL, so

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