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by foob 6mo ago
Amusingly, they deprecated it with a message of "Unpublished" instead of actually unpublishing it [1]. When you use npm unpublish it removes the package version from the registry, when you use npm deprecate it leaves it there
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by foob 1y ago
That's a fascinating paper, but you're editorializing it a bit. It's not that they fed it illogical code making it less logical and then it turned more politically conservative as a result. They fine-tuned it with a relativel
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by foob 1y ago
I've been pretty happy with the python package hns for this [1]. You can run it from the terminal with uvx hns and it will listen until you press enter and then copy the transcription to the clipboard. It's a simple tool that do
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Solving Wordle with uv's dependency resolver(mildbyte.xyz)
2 points by foob 1y ago|0 comments
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by foob 1y ago
your data can be used UNLESS you opt out It's even more nuanced than that. Google recently testified in court that they still train on user data after users opt out from training [1]. The loophole is that the opt-out only applies to
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by foob 1y ago
I signed up to give it a try, but when I click "Go to Levels" it takes me to https://vimgolf.ai/levels and I get a 404 error.
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How will age verification work in Australia's new social media ban?(sindri.app)
5 points by foob 2y ago|0 comments
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by foob 3y ago
It's also important to take any corporation's explanation for increasing their own margins with an extremely large grain of salt. I'm not doubting in the slightest that consumers had some confusion around the fractions, but
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by foob 3y ago
That's quite the broad brush you're using to paint the Left as accelerationists who favor Trump over Biden.
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by foob 3y ago
I mostly agree with this in principle, but an important point is that, when you squint, the technology behind blocking ad blockers starts looking very similar to the technology behind blocking web scrapers. If you're capable of program
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by foob 3y ago
My pet theory is that the only reason we didn't see a copyright extension act this year, like we've seen every time Steamboat Willy was about to enter the public domain in the past, is that Disney ended up on one side of the cultu
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by foob 3y ago
Does it always mean that in Australia, or does it depend on how you say it? I think both usages are actually pretty common in the US, but you tell the difference based on the inflection. If you emphasize "too" and go down in pitch
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by foob 3y ago
What about the less convoluted scheme of "I forgot it?" The "I do not recall" answer in high profile trials is so common that it's essentially become a meme. How can you possibly be compelled to reveal anything when
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by foob 3y ago
I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure. - Clarence Darrow Not the only war criminal to ever win a Nobel Peace Prize, but he's surely in the running for the one with the most blood on his h
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by foob 3y ago
There are a lot of interesting things in this announcement, but the "less refusals" from the submission title isn't mentioned at all. If anything, it implies that there are more refusals because "Claude 2.1 was signifi
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by foob 3y ago
you have to show how a significant faction of the consumers are being harmed. You're going to have a tough time with that one. I'm not a lawyer and can't speak to what qualifies as anti-competitive behavior in a legal sense
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by foob 3y ago
As I said, the decisions are locally reasonable. However, if not supporting Firefox potentially exposed my company to scrutiny over anti-competitive behavior, then, yes, I would absolutely invest in testing procedures to mitigate that. It&#
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by foob 3y ago
I use Firefox, and Google's sites are literally the only ones where I consistently have issues. There was a period of about a month this summer where Google Maps was just completely broken for me, the map wouldn't update at all wh
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by foob 3y ago
For reference, Equifax leaked the personal information of 147 million people (myself included). Multiplying that by $50k is over 7 trillion dollars. In actuality, they were ordered to pay up to $700 million in total which works out to about
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Ask HN: At how many stars did you qualify for free GitHub Copilot access?
2 points by foob 3y ago|0 comments
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by foob 3y ago
> it works slowly over thousands of years This isn't always the case; evolution can happen relatively quickly in response to rapid changes in the environment [1]. There are plenty of people alive today who have particularly strong u
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by foob 3y ago
I'm not against selling developer tools either, but I do have a problem with EEE as a strategy. As far as I know, JetBrains has never engaged with this behavior and they have coexisted in a healthy way with fully open source alternativ
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by foob 3y ago
This is separate from the telemetry, but I suspect that part of the roadmap is for LSP extensions to become monthly subscription services eventually. We currently see hints of that from two directions: 1) the introduction of GitHub Copilot
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by foob 3y ago
You can switch the extension marketplace, but Microsoft uses DRM in their extensions to prevent them from running with non-proprietary builds [1]. Pylance, their Python LSP, is one notable example [2]. Their earlier Python LSP was open sour
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A compute-based framework for thinking about the future of AI(epochai.org)
1 points by foob 3y ago|0 comments
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by foob 3y ago
hey, you just bought a vacuum cleaner? I know what you would really like! MORE VACUUMS! This is a common refrain, but I would be amazed if it weren't backed up by data and I anecdotally fit into the mold. If I buy a product that I re
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by foob 3y ago
Did you have the newsroom angle and monetization plan in mind when you started working on Datasette? Or did you start working on it first and then come to the monetization strategy after you realized that it resonated with people?
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by foob 3y ago
I agree, but it's worth mentioning explicitly that the main driver of accessibility has been generalizability. The fact that LLMs are so effective at zero-shot and few-shot learning tasks is what made out-of-the-box API access practica
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by foob 3y ago
I use Firefox for nearly everything, but I need to keep a Chrome window open because Gmail and Google Meet will max out my CPU and barely work in Firefox. Google properties are literally the only sites where I experience this issue. Does an
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by foob 3y ago
This is frankly disgusting behavior. There's zero indication on the homepage that your questions and interactions will be published and indexed on Google, and I think it's an obvious expectation that they wouldn't be in the a

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