almatabata

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by almatabata 1y ago
> So I'm assuming Europe's goal is not to compete or break American moat but to force them to be polite and to preserve national sovereignty on important national security aspects. When push comes to shove the US company will a
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by almatabata 1y ago
> There's a strange DEI phobia some folks have picked up The shitty half-assed way companies implemented it, helped make it really unpopular.
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by almatabata 1y ago
I did not say to trust it. I do not need to trust it. If I run my own tests on my own codebase I will definitely use some objective time measurement method and a subjective one. I really want to know if there is a big difference. I really w
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by almatabata 1y ago
> Interestingly the developers predict that AI will make them faster, and continue to believe that it did make them faster, even after completing the task slower than they otherwise would! In this case clearly anecdotes are not enough. I
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by almatabata 1y ago
Aren't most of those lawyers the select few that can afford to go into politics?
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by almatabata 1y ago
> But radar and ultrasound did not cost a lot and he got rid of those too, suggesting it was more than cost that made him go vision only. They did get rid of the radar at a moment when there was a shortage of parts. They had the choice,
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by almatabata 1y ago
It is a gift to foreign security agencies as well: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/suspected-chi...
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by almatabata 1y ago
Back when they started, lidar cost a lot of money. They could not have equipped all cars with it. The issue came when he promised every car would become a robotaxi. This means he either has to retrofit them all with lidar, or solve it with
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by almatabata 1y ago
thanks for clarifying.
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by almatabata 1y ago
I know, but the article mentions that a separate ruling will be made about that pirating. quote: “We will have a trial on the pirated copies used to create Anthropic’s central library and the resulting damages,” Judge Alsup wrote in the dec
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by almatabata 1y ago
If a publisher adds a "no AI training" clause to their contracts, does this ruling render it invalid?
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by almatabata 1y ago
Here are a few examples of people getting unreasonably dragged: Low wage worker fired over a misinterpretation of a snapchat: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-social-media-po... 9 year old getting
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by almatabata 2y ago
They can definitely hire 2-5 people to do something, and at least try to crack down.
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by almatabata 2y ago
Just because you cannot "solve" an issue, does not mean you should do nothing. By that logic valve should not implement VAC, because after all, cheaters will always find a way. They play the anti-cheat game of cat and mouse, becau
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by almatabata 2y ago
I am not even sure this administration is cutting it with the goal of causing populations to rebel against corrupt politicians. > I think history has shown you just end up starving the powerless (folks in power don't care) and chang
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by almatabata 2y ago
I remember reading the argument in the "dictators handbook" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dictator%27s_Handbook ), that foreign aid helps corrupt regimes. "When aid funds are used to substitute for g
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by almatabata 2y ago
And with skin sales. Remember that Valve charges a Tax on every item sale. Every time you sell an Item like a skin on the steam market, valve takes a cut. If they crackdown on the gambling it will impact their bottom line. As you say, Valve
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by almatabata 2y ago
There must be a publisher out there that forbids you from training an AI on the copy you buy from them by now.
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by almatabata 2y ago
Can't it communicate the opposite as well? You could read it as, I take this seriously so I will invest money into looking my best?
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by almatabata 2y ago
That is assuming everyone has a working survival instinct. Religious fanatics notoriously do not have this instinct. You just need one country with a religious fanatic at its head, who thinks that it is better we all go to heaven than to le
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by almatabata 2y ago
> the UUIDs could also be service specific, so they cannot be cross referenced across different sites in case of leaks. Assuming services play nice. What if they start sharing UUIDs amongst each other, for example for advertising purpose
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by almatabata 2y ago
The scale is also completely different. In terms of storage Wikipedia is not that big. Around 10TB for the English version. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia ). That is relatively small potatoes
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by almatabata 2y ago
> WHICH BY THE WAY IS NOT SOMETHING YOU WILL DO A LOT IN BIG TECH BECAUSE WE HAVE CODING ASSISTANTS NOW FFS! Even if we take that point as fact. The whole point of the exercise, is to check if you can write it yourself unassisted. If you
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by almatabata 2y ago
They do not specify the use-case, but if you are charitable, its probably the fallback mode if the self-driving stack cannot handle the situation. Waymo has the same thing as well, so not exactly unexpected.
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by almatabata 2y ago
Imagine what happens when the company gets hacked and they start selling your voice online? Sophisticated Phishing attacks, blackmail, destroying someones public image
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by almatabata 2y ago
Honestly I would have thought that 5 years ago. But given the latest news on what they are doing, and how they treat security, I honestly have lost all faith that they can handle that data with care. Laundry list of breaches: https:/&
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by almatabata 2y ago
When reading the article I do get the impression they try to downplay the potential risks. quote 1: “These puberty-pausing medications are widely used in many different populations and safely so,” McNamara says. quote 2: “From an ethical an
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by almatabata 2y ago
> Your assumption is that there exists an "apolitical truth" that science should aspire to. There isn't. You can definitely try present different theories on a given topic, citing different papers that defend different vie
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by almatabata 2y ago
> Also, the article specifically mentions Chrome, NOT Chromium (which again, is open), so what incentive would Google have to maintaining the project without their own version of it? Would they be bared from starting a new one? I wonder
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by almatabata 2y ago
> without resorting to the usual low-effort solutions, such as using some sort of algorithm that bans automatically based on keywords or number of reports. Or you prioritize reports from accounts with a proven track record. If I consiste

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