ViktorRay

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by ViktorRay 9d ago
It’s interesting how monopolistic corporations can fall prey to the same dynamics as authoritarian countries with centralized economies.
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by ViktorRay 9d ago
But doesn’t Taiwan use the traditional script? And over in Taiwan they don’t seem to have issues with literacy or using smaller screens?
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by ViktorRay 10d ago
Glad they were able to get legal help and are back. It’s frustrating to me how it’s so hard to access so many websites nowadays without being logged in. Ridiculous that so much of the web nowadays is just a handful of websites almost all of
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by ViktorRay 14d ago
Some more good advice: Turn off your YouTube watch history. This disables video suggestions when you open the website or the app.
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by ViktorRay 15d ago
One could make the argument that "just do it and ask for forgiveness later" is what the entire LLM industry is based on. They swallowed up all of society’s copyrighted texts without really asking for permission from anyone. This
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ChatGPT and Reddit now face EU's toughest online safety rules(arstechnica.com)
5 points by ViktorRay 16d ago|0 comments
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by ViktorRay 19d ago
This is insanely cool. Incredible.
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by ViktorRay 19d ago
This article makes me feel guilty of my growing backlog of books. Will read through some of them this weekend.
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by ViktorRay 21d ago
The government should not be doing inhumane things to people. This should not be a controversial statement.
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by ViktorRay 21d ago
I had never heard of this story before. Thank you for sharing it.
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by ViktorRay 21d ago
What are some good books or websites where one can read these stories? I am interested in learning more about them.
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by ViktorRay 21d ago
Because it will make it more expensive for people or groups of people to run open source models to do work on their own hardware. You would be taxing people or groups of people to run a program on the computers they own. This is contrary to
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German airport worker dies of malaria after 'mosquito arrives on plane'(bbc.com)
5 points by ViktorRay 21d ago|0 comments
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by ViktorRay 21d ago
Fascinating. Can't help but wonder how things will change over the next decade or so.
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by ViktorRay 21d ago
This essay kind of rubs me the wrong way. Starting from the very beginning. During my entire life I’ve only had two jobs. In the first one, I played a role in developing software to empower people through my work at Microsoft. Yikes. We a
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by ViktorRay 22d ago
When all this crashes, future historians will look back and wonder how so many got hoodwinked by AI. Some of these future historians might even be reading this Hacker News thread. To any future historians reading this, many of us did know t
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by ViktorRay 22d ago
Reading about tech has become gradually less and less fun for me over the past 16 years. Does anyone remember the awe that was felt the first time we encountered an iPhone. Or an iPad? I remember those days I would read tech news and sites
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by ViktorRay 23d ago
Gotta shout out to the city of San Fierro in Grand Theft Auto San Andreas. San Fierro was based on San Francisco of the 1990's. Lots of good memories playing GTA San Andreas and exploring 90's San Francisco.
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by ViktorRay 26d ago
Probably nothing if the wall was lead lined. And then there’s the inverse square law too.
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by ViktorRay 26d ago
Cancers rates among Orthopedic surgeons are also much higher than those faced by non surgeon doctors. This is due to exposure to the radiation from intra operative x rays.
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by ViktorRay 28d ago
No I think you’re looking at this wrong. They thought too much sun was bad for you because back then tanned skin was considering a mark of being poor and pale skin was a mark of being wealthy since rich people didn’t have to work outside. T
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by ViktorRay 28d ago
When statements like this are made usually it’s because studies would have been done comparing sleep depth at different temperatures and there would have been a statistically significant increase in sleep depth at 18 degrees Celsius in the
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Too much Chinese science is ignored by the West(economist.com)
6 points by ViktorRay 29d ago|2 comments
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by ViktorRay 29d ago
Worth mentioning that Google has the same tax in Google Maps. It is bad for the same reasons that the Amazon Tax mentioned in the post is bad… Many times I search for a restaurant like McDonalds and the top result won’t be the one nearest t
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by ViktorRay 1mo ago
Wait isn’t there actually the opposite HN guideline? In that LLM generated content is not allowed here?
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by ViktorRay 1mo ago
You know is peculiar how discourse evolves on the Internet. So many folks have been posting Twitter links from this exchange in separate threads here on HN and arguing about them. I’m sure these threads are being argued about in other forum
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by ViktorRay 1mo ago
What I find interesting is that these kinds of arguments are being made now for AI….were similar arguments made back in the 90’s during that era of American tech dominance? Microsoft had over 98 percent market share at one point. In the 90’
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by ViktorRay 1mo ago
Also the American Board of Medical Specialties didn’t officially approve Emergency Medicine as its own speciality until 1979. Emergency Medicine is a fairly new speciality. Many people are surprised by this but it’s true.
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by ViktorRay 1mo ago
Wait after reading the article it simply says that many of these hired people also play video games. Their definition of “video gamer” is literally just somebody who says they play games. I don’t see what the big deal is. Lots of young peop
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by ViktorRay 1mo ago
Comments here are surprising to me. I get folks don’t like Zuckerberg and his company and don’t trust his intentions… I don’t either. But this is an unquestionably good thing right?. The more open source software out there the better. And t

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