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Poison, Poison Everywhere(loeber.substack.com)
326 points by dividendpayee 11mo ago|208 comments
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Oskar Speck's 1932 Kayak Journey from Germany to Australia(nswskc.wordpress.com)
75 points by dividendpayee 11mo ago|9 comments
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by dividendpayee 1y ago
Given the sheer number of “universities” that have sprung up, in practical terms he is almost certainly right.
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Doge Pilled: Why Luke Farritor Followed Elon Musk to Washington(bloomberg.com)
8 points by dividendpayee 1y ago|0 comments
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Syco Bench, a simple benchmark of LLM Sycophancy(timfduffy.substack.com)
2 points by dividendpayee 1y ago|0 comments
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by dividendpayee 2y ago
This reminds me of another blog I enjoyed -- there's a link shortener called https://y.gy , and .gy is the Guayanese TLD. Venezuela was invading Guyana, so the y.gy owner wrote a whole essay about what it would mean for the
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by dividendpayee 3y ago
I was shocked that even with the free tier gone, there's still some level of abuse. Even the paywall doesn't totally cure the problem.
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by dividendpayee 3y ago
Hilarious read. Wasn’t sure where this was going at first, but the stuff about the ICANN policies and domain continuity were really interesting.
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by dividendpayee 3y ago
There was a good article from John Loeber a few months back about browser extensions: https://loeber.substack.com/p/9-15-years-of-market-gaps-for-... He had the same point, where it feels like browser extensions are a
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by dividendpayee 3y ago
The article suggests heavily that, the way things are going, that's not going to be the case in the future. Right now, Europeans are still living off past prosperity, but if they don't build a real technology industry and innovate
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Europe needs to escape providerism(loeber.substack.com)
70 points by dividendpayee 3y ago|120 comments
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by dividendpayee 3y ago
Yeah that's right. There's a blogger in another post on HN that makes the same point at the very end: https://loeber.substack.com/p/a-timeline-of-the-openai-board
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by dividendpayee 3y ago
No, you are totally wrong. You should not comment on things that you have no understanding of. A non-resident alien is any person in the US who is not a citizen, green card holder, or passes the substantial presence test. There are millions
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by dividendpayee 3y ago
Very interesting. Thanks for posting. Didn't know about all the B&N litigation. In some sense it's a big landmark against software patents. Huge amount of blowback, and now it's much harder to get a software patent. That&
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by dividendpayee 3y ago
Did anyone do worse than me? I got 11/24 :S
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by dividendpayee 3y ago
Besides the point, but why would you abbreviate "Downloadable" as "D/loadable"? The confusion vs. two extra letters trade-off doesn't seem worth it at all to me.
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Ask HN: How are you using your datasets with LLMs?
5 points by dividendpayee 3y ago|2 comments
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by dividendpayee 3y ago
Can confirm. We were spending $1000/mo on Twitter up until earlier this year, when we realized that the ad impression quality had become total garbage. We were still getting clicks and impressions (at least according to the Twitter Ads
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by dividendpayee 3y ago
They're often -- but not always -- touched on in advanced undergraduate classes, e.g. after real analysis and abstract algebra. Not every math undergraduate takes number theory these days.
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by dividendpayee 3y ago
This is neat. I hadn't seen it before. I'm still convinced that the internet -- and young, first-time programmers -- lost a really valuable tool with Flash. It's a shame they could never get the security paradigm to work. Fla
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by dividendpayee 3y ago
Postal mail isn't encrypted because it's not viable for ordinary citizens to encrypt physical mail. However, tampering with mail, or opening someone else's, is a federal crime with harsh penalties attached. The message is cle