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I Wanted to Stay in Canada So I Learned French(macleans.ca)
9 points by cvhc 22h ago|1 comments
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by cvhc 13d ago
I don't think a hand-crafted app necessarily estimates things more accurately, but a sensible pre-LLM developer would probably not list so many dubious citations to trick people into believing it's accurate.
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by cvhc 17d ago
(Speaking as a former international student in the US) I don't know about other fields, but most CS (and STEM) graduate programs I know don't require internships. So students use CPT for summer internships. The other option, pre-c
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by cvhc 2mo ago
Words like cedar/robin/linen come from either the physical or cultral environment that I (as a Chinese) wasn't exposed to when I was a child. Cedar and robin are all species native to Europe, and I guess they also appear in m
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by cvhc 5mo ago
I switched to Chrome (from Firefox) and tried again. Now it's " https://www.meta.ai/?error=Invalid%20CSRF%20token " :facepalm:
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by cvhc 5mo ago
Can't login. No error message in the UI. But the URL changes to " https://www.meta.ai/?error=Token%20exchange%20failed ".
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by cvhc 6mo ago
I can reproduce when downloading https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/download/2026.03.1... . But it did provide a line of explanation: Dangerous download blocked yt-dlp_win_x86.zip is not commonly d
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by cvhc 6mo ago
Well, I'd appreciate Karen is willing to talk and explain whatever inconvenient policies they have. A faceless bureaucracy is even more desperate. My wife and I had many troubles (delays due to additional security checks, endless reque
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by cvhc 6mo ago
You have a point. Though I suspect that average parents are either too lazy or not tech literate enough. I do want to note that this California law alone doesn't say anything about content restriction. I won't be surprised if ther
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by cvhc 6mo ago
That's not my understanding. This is what the bill says: Provide a developer who has requested a signal with respect to a particular user with a digital signal via a reasonably consistent real-time application programming interface tha
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by cvhc 6mo ago
TBH California one doesn't require age verification (while many other states do). It only requires the OS to provide a mechanism for the user to indicate their age group and apps should use the information (instead of asking for PII th
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by cvhc 6mo ago
> Testing workloads that take hours to run still take hours to run with either a human or LLM testing them out (aka that is still the bottleneck) Actually I had some terrible experiences when asking the agent to do something simple in ou
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by cvhc 7mo ago
You can check their GitHub profile. If they are in https://github.com/googlers , then they are internally verified.
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by cvhc 7mo ago
1. This California law doesn't require IDs. (Some states like TX do, but mainly for websites "harmful to minors"). 2. If I have to think through your examples -- purchasing cars and arms requires strict ID checks that go furt
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by cvhc 7mo ago
If you actually read this law, it does exactly the opposite to avoid every random app/website from having to do age verification (like traditional age verification laws requires). It requires that only the OS to ask the user's age
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by cvhc 7mo ago
And "not for use in Texas": https://legiscan.com/TX/text/SB2420/id/3237346 And "not for use in Louisiana": https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=1428944 And mayb
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by cvhc 7mo ago
Repost my comment in the other thread: I know this sounds absurd. But let me try not to be cynical and explain how we got here, according to what I understand: First, let's admit the push for age verification laws isn't a partisan
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by cvhc 7mo ago
No. Age verification law is not a partisan or ideological thing. It's a global trend. This law is sponsored by both parties: https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab... , and Texas has a newer
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by cvhc 7mo ago
I know this sounds absurd. But let me try not to be cynical and explain how we got here, according to what I understand: First, let's admit the push for age verification laws isn't a partisan or ideological thing. It's a glob
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by cvhc 7mo ago
Searching also works. Actually it seems only the recommendation system is down, which I'd say isn't completely a bad thing.
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by cvhc 7mo ago
See the other comment. > did you fight it? I talked to university lawyers (and LLMs) regarding another issue with DHS. For the sake of national security, they have the legal authority. There isn't much I can do. Unless I can prove t
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by cvhc 7mo ago
I dunno. Maybe because I used to do research at a Chinese lab when I was a student? That was my impression when I was once questioned for many hours by DHS at the airport. It's impossible to get an answer. They are granted broad legal
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by cvhc 7mo ago
Google discloses stats about government requests via FISA / National Security Letters: https://transparencyreport.google.com/user-data/us-national-... I was in one of these published NSLs issued by FBI a few years
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by cvhc 8mo ago
I've been paying for the pro version for a while. It's templating is really powerful and easy to use. For my vocab deck, I set up a input field (e.g., word) and a bunch of derived fields (dict definition, AI-generated example, TTS
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by cvhc 8mo ago
What amuses me about this hype is that before I see borderline practical use cases, these AI zealots (or just trolls?) already jump ahead and claim that they have achieved unbelievable crazy things. When ChatGPT was out, it's just a ch
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by cvhc 8mo ago
It's technically trivial. It's probably already happened. But nothing was harmed I think because there were very few serious users (if not none) who connected their bots for enhancing capabilities.
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by cvhc 8mo ago
49 as ESL speaker. Fun little game to practice English words :)
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by cvhc 8mo ago
Well, before talking about harm, I just don't think there are many real users trusting the bots to do serious things, and even fewer would allow their bot roaming free. My relevant post: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite
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by cvhc 8mo ago
As a native Mandarin speaker, I always think the most difficult feature in English (and a few other European languages, like French) are the rich vowels. Like done vs down, beat vs bit, trailing dark l vs -ou/-u sound, and frequent vow
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by cvhc 8mo ago
Could you share some of the useful tasks it has successfully done?

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