doublescoop

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by doublescoop 12d ago
But markets can make doing those things financially worthwhile.
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by doublescoop 3mo ago
But they sure seem awfully worried about other companies distilling their models. The irony is rich.
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by doublescoop 3mo ago
I was referring to "Lower ability to perform cybersecurity-related tasks," which is newspeak for hacking.
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by doublescoop 3mo ago
This is code for "this model can't be used to hack other systems as effectively as Opus or Mythos."
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by doublescoop 3mo ago
LLMs have an original sin: training data was not legally or ethically licensed. Getting anyone to believe that the result of that process should be protected by the laws that were ignored when it was created is never going to work.
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by doublescoop 3mo ago
Crediting the origin of the idea is the whole point of citing sources. Learning something from someone doesn't mean the idea is yours now. It means that when you repeat that idea, you should cite the original source of the idea. This i
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by doublescoop 4mo ago
I had a buddy in high school that was notorious for doing the same thing. (He's now a senior director at a Big 4 consultancy. :) )
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by doublescoop 4mo ago
Best practice in writing about technical concepts is to spell out acronyms like this on their first use. There is a ton of stuff I learn about here on HN that I didn't know anything about before. It doesn't help that the linked ar
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by doublescoop 5mo ago
If copyright law doesn't extend to the works being used for training, why should it extend to the model that is produced as a result? AI model creators have set up an ethical scenario where the right thing to do is ignore copyright law
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by doublescoop 5mo ago
As someone with 20 years in the industry, it seems absolutely plausible. Stupid, but entirely within the realm of possibility. The people making these calls have no loyalty to their company; they have loyalty to their own career. And if doi
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by doublescoop 1y ago
Hybrids are the only choice for the vast majority of the country that doesn't have the needed infrastructure to support EVs. If you never leave your urban enclave, then sure, EVs are great. But hybrids are perfect for _right now_, even
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by doublescoop 2y ago
This wasn't a case of the estates of dead authors trying to hold onto rights. Working authors were actively being harmed by the activities of the IA through the CDL. Working authors were met with refusals to meet to discuss this issue.
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by doublescoop 3y ago
This is a theater that has waitstaff that take orders and bring food and drinks to your seat as you watch the show. Don't want to tip, even though it's baked into the wage calculation? That's fine. The author is just pointing
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by doublescoop 4y ago
Aside from theft from motor vehicles, other forms of crime have been on the decline in SF over the last decade. (1) There is no surge in crime. (1) http://www.cjcj.org/news/12756
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by doublescoop 5y ago
ERP systems like Netsuite may or may not be good, but a huge portion of the bad experiences most users have with them has to do with configuration rather than the system itself. There's an argument to be made that great systems can&#x2
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by doublescoop 5y ago
No states enforce federal laws. The federal government does that. If there is no state law criminalizing cannabis use there it's legal in that state.
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by doublescoop 5y ago
The company reportedly had 100,000 DVD titles in their catalog, so yeah. Remember how old this contest was.
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by doublescoop 8y ago
I think you're misreading Musk's reputation outside of tech circles. If they're aware of him at all, he's more or less viewed as a Bond villain at this point.
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by doublescoop 8y ago
The internal transfers is much broader than just SWE to PM, as well. UX designers, technical writers, QA testers, etc. Anyone working on a dev team might start picking up PM responsibilities and make that transition at some point.
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by doublescoop 8y ago
That particular definition of racism has been in use for at least 25 years. You might recall it as a key plot point from the first season of MTV's reality show, The Real World, for instance.
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by doublescoop 8y ago
Check the Monsanto Wikipedia page for more details, but the short version is that Monsanto patented its genetically engineered seeds and then sued farmers for patent infringement if they were found to be growing crops from that seed without
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by doublescoop 8y ago
You know how developers feel their managers never listen to their input before making big decisions that have drastic impact on their day to day work? That happens between managers and executives just as often. As a manager, I have never be
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by doublescoop 9y ago
> certain amount of work This is the crux. How does the business decide what's a reasonable amount of work to get done in a sprint? If the dev in the OP has time to work on his own stuff, why shouldn't the business ask for a bi
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by doublescoop 10y ago
If you think that Fantasy is just for entertainment and imagination, you're giving the genre short shrift. Imagining the world as different than it is has tons of philosophical implications that apply directly to our experiences of our
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by doublescoop 10y ago
This is why written music exists.
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by doublescoop 10y ago
A djembe is played with rhythm and tone, but the rhythm itself doesn't have any tone color. Rhythm is time. Notes are wavelength, and in Western music we use a 12 note system to denote them, and musical theory is a shorthand used to de
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by doublescoop 10y ago
So, an employee was doubling as a full time care giver for his children while remote working? That sounds like exactly the kind of practice that gives remote work policies a bad name in the first place. If I found out one of my employees wa