jabron

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by jabron 21d ago
There's a reason the owning class is almost always pushing the same kind of narrative, and the reason is that it's serving them, not people at large.
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by jabron 28d ago
> But it feels like if you were to go to Russia and slowly and loudly say "I-ski want-ski a-ski table-ski". As much as it may feel that way sometimes, I don't think IKEAs in foreign countries are sovereign Swedish territor
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by jabron 29d ago
Who is saying that? And by acknowledging that the land was bought pre-war you're also acknowledging that the (explicitly colonial) Zionist project pre-dates the Holocaust. So it has nothing to do with "nowadays", that was mor
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by jabron 29d ago
Similar to apartheid South Africa's with more returning of ancestrally owned land I reckon.
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by jabron 1mo ago
Is it even possible to "hack" an API that has no authorisation for any of its methods?
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by jabron 2mo ago
That would hopefully be a world where every house casually hires 50 burglars to make their house burgle-proof.
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by jabron 2mo ago
Google? Microsoft? AWS?
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by jabron 5mo ago
Huh, not sure where I got the 86 number from, because I did check a primary source. Probably a mixup with a later number that included annexed territory. If you're interested: https://digi.bib.uni-mannheim.de/werksansic
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by jabron 6mo ago
Germany's population in 1938 was higher. Around 86 million.
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by jabron 7mo ago
It's indicative of how little Microsoft cares in addition to the issue of plagiarism. Which shouldn't be a surprise to anyone who's had to read Microsoft documentation recently.
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by jabron 7mo ago
I'd argue that "assumptions", i.e. the statistical models it uses to predict text, is basically what makes LLMs useful. The problem here is that its assumptions are naive. It only takes the distance into account, as that&#x27
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by jabron 7mo ago
So you read the CI result, implement a fix and stage + commit your changes in ~10 seconds? You might be superhuman.
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by jabron 7mo ago
Amazon
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by jabron 8mo ago
What does that mean? You got feedback from the CI within 30 seconds and immediately pushed a fix?
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by jabron 8mo ago
Well that's not true. > I tend to over-comment my scripts out of habit—no AI tools were involved here (nor elsewhere in the code). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46662378
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by jabron 9mo ago
They've used a vision transformer to estimate building heights from monocular aerial photographs, so they're guesses at best. Calling this a map is a stretch.
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by jabron 10mo ago
What do you mean "bounding boxes"? They were talking about captions and embeddings, so a vision language model is required.
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by jabron 10mo ago
Comparing Nazi Germany and the PRC in any way is certainly an interesting choice, considering they're the one major power in the world that actually doesn't have a recent history of invading sovereign nations.
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by jabron 10mo ago
What does this even mean?