alister

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Claude AIs tricked into unescapable conversation [beginning: Ctrl^F to "AI 1"](thisamericanlife.org)
18 points by alister 4d ago|3 comments
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by alister 1mo ago
I wanted to copy and paste the name of the park from the Times of India article so I could see the location in Google Maps, but the Times of India injects their URL into anything you try to copy. Such antisocial behavior. And I can't b
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by alister 3mo ago
> Disabling alerts is the second thing I do to a new handset Except you can't in Canada. The Canadian government has made the alerts mandatory. The option to disable alerts in not present in settings menu (at least on iPhones). Yo
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by alister 3mo ago
What was the large-scale commercial procedure for making electrodes that pass through the glass without letting air in? I assume that electronics manufacturers must have been making millions of such vacuum tubes in the past. Is the knowled
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Judge kills entire case when both lawyers submit AI filings(gizmodo.com)
4 points by alister 3mo ago|0 comments
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by alister 5mo ago
> "Get in line" vs "you are already rebooked". (my Air Canada experince.) Which of the two was the Air Canada experience?
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by alister 5mo ago
In Brazil, people get so much SMS spam and phone call spam that many people turn off notifications for all text messages and phone calls and use only Whatsapp (even for voice calls). But once in a while my iPhone in Brazil will get spam a
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by alister 7mo ago
At least in Brazil, it was very rare. In the last 3-4 years, it's almost every time you pay. And you have to grab and hold the payment terminal (especially if you're using tap / contactless payment) so the cashier or waiter,
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by alister 7mo ago
Thank you for telling me what it's called! On the positive side, it seems that Wise must block it because I never see the DCC "choice" when using a Wise card. As a negative point, I've noticed that AirBnB, which used to
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by alister 7mo ago
I want to mention another infection happening at payment terminals and ATMs if you're using your credit card in a foreign country: You get a message saying "Would you like to pay in your own currency? Click [Accept] or [Decline]&q
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by alister 8mo ago
> Nowhere appropriate to rest without noise, terrible lighting and hard surfaces. Compared to every railway station I've seen, airports are 5-star resorts. Bus terminals are even worse than railway stations.
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by alister 9mo ago
> https://karpathy.ai/hncapsule/2015-12-24/index.html#article-... I wonder why ChatGPT refused to analyze it? The HN article was "Brazil declares emergency after 2,400 babies are born with brain damage&quo
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by alister 10mo ago
Remember blogs on the old web when the author would plaster his name in a huge font on every page along with his photo, and have an extensive bio about himself and perhaps even his resume? Well this author has gone to the opposite extreme
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by alister 10mo ago
But you had the option of having an unlisted or unpublished phone number. To give one datapoint, in Los Angeles in the 1980s about half of all numbers were unlisted. I would expect that the unlisted rate was much higher in big cities like L
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by alister 10mo ago
> model drift driven by just small, seemingly unimportant changes to the prompt What changes to the prompt are you referring to? According the comment on the site, the prompt is the following: Create HTML/CSS of an analog clock s
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Surprising heart study finds daily coffee may cut AFib risk by 39%(sciencedaily.com)
4 points by alister 10mo ago|1 comments
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by alister 11mo ago
> Interviewer at Endpoints: You plan to potentially launch a generic GLP-1 in Canada and Brazil in 2026. Looking at the original interview on Endpoints, Sandoz CEO Richard Saynor says this about Brazil: In Brazil, the biggest prescrib
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by alister 1y ago
Patrick Winston also wrote a book about presentation and communication: Make It Clear: Speak and Write to Persuade and Inform . It was published a year after he passed away. https://www.amazon.com/Make-Clear-Speak-Persuade-
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by alister 1y ago
Several comments here mentioned shift work as a possible explanation. The paper concedes that shift work is unhealthy[1] but claims that shift work doesn't explain their finding[2]. And their conclusion is "avoiding night light ma
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by alister 1y ago
There's a discoverability problem with this tool because I've never heard of Fakespot or Mozilla Review Checker until today. > Mozilla integrated Fakespot's technology directly into Firefox as the "Mozilla Review Che
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by alister 1y ago
I’m so sorry to hear about your loss. We’ve never met but I feel like I know you because of your book and many other works, and I feel your loss.
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by alister 1y ago
In case there are readers who don't know who Clifford Stoll is, he's the author of The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage , that was practically required reading if you were a programmer or h
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Cloudflare's CEO says virtually nobody clicks on Google's AI source links(engadget.com)
8 points by alister 1y ago|0 comments
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by alister 1y ago
Brazilians don't need a visa for Portugal, France, or any Schengen country. But everybody has to pass through immigration control (at least a passport check even if you don't need a visa) when entering the Schengen zone. My questi
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by alister 1y ago
As a quick test of logical reasoning and basic Wikipedia-level knowledge, I asked Mistral AI the following question: A Brazilian citizen is flying from Sao Paulo to Paris, with a connection in Lisbon. Does he need to clear immigration in Li
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by alister 1y ago
In the face of this AI-powered sales onslaught, customers will use AI-powered tools to analyze and evaluate all corporate products and services to make their purchasing decisions, without talking to anyone. Personal connections won’t be t
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by alister 1y ago
> I feel like this with my (current) bank of choice here in Brazil. Now they've decided to be what they call a "SuperApp". I'm curious to know the name of that digital bank.
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by alister 1y ago
> we were looking for a robot vacuum cleaner For this kind of product search, may I suggest Consumer Reports. It's one of the very few sites I'd consider unbiased since they (a) do testing with actual technicians and extensiv
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by alister 2y ago
> short stories generated by GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 to train LMs that are smaller The loop of development is fascinating: Millions of humans write literature, Wikipedia, etc. Large language models are trained on that body of work. Now large
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Y Combinator Funded AI Firm's 'Stop Hiring Humans' Billboard Sparks Outrage(gizmodo.com)
90 points by alister 2y ago|50 comments

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