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I took a 250k-mile minivan through Germany's rigorous car inspection(jalopnik.com)
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by probably_wrong 4mo ago
My theory is that doing so would cannibalize their user base. I think that those who buy a pro camera nowadays do it because they care about photography itself. For that public post-processing is a touchy subject: besides the philosophical
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by probably_wrong 5mo ago
Location: Germany Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: for the right job Technologies: Python, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning, Linux System Administration. Résumé/CV: https://7c0h.com/cv_villalba.pdf (
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by probably_wrong 5mo ago
Leaving aside the reductionism, the difference is that we are already seeing the effects of the "bad weather" and we all lived through [1] (and, to a point, are still feeling the effects of) the "flu". No "ifs"
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by probably_wrong 5mo ago
What about the opposite situation? I'm not installing an app without first having taken a look at what the network has to offer.
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by probably_wrong 5mo ago
> There isn't much difference between giving this data to 20,000 researchers all over the world and simply publishing the data on the web. As a researcher who regularly deals with such data there is a MASSIVE difference. Yes, I ha
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by probably_wrong 5mo ago
The console knows all that, but does the game know all of that too? I'm not a console developer but perhaps the game doesn't have permissions to know which devices are on, only which devices are sending key presses right now.
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by probably_wrong 5mo ago
> There seems to be some implicit feeling that everything ought to be getting better and cheaper than it used to be. But so many things did become cheaper and better: computers, availability and quality [1] of the music I can physica
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by probably_wrong 5mo ago
I uploaded a picture of me from Halloween wearing a katana. It classified me as asexual, atheist, interested in crime, vandalism, and with a racial bias against immigrants. It also suggests that I should be offered ads for black market weap
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by probably_wrong 5mo ago
I think people here may enjoy John Oliver's report on how bad the situation for air traffic controllers currently is. Jump to minute 18 for a discussion on floppy disks or, appropriately, to minute 25 for an "honest recruitment ad
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by probably_wrong 5mo ago
> Incendiary and false headline aside The text of the bill literally starts with "Creates the A.I. Safety Act. Provides that a developer of a frontier AI model shall not be held liable for critical harms caused by the frontier mod
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by probably_wrong 5mo ago
10 hours ago a post made the frontpage here [0] about how OpenAI is backing a law that "would limit liability for AI-enabled mass deaths or financial disasters". Now he's here saying he believes that "working towards pro
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by probably_wrong 5mo ago
By the time a train is delayed enough to be canceled the mandatory compensation applies anyway, and I'm not sure how much DB cares about bad press. I can see the cancellations as a means of stopping a cascade of delays, but it's a
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by probably_wrong 6mo ago
> One day after this piece went up, Chaotic Good made significant changes to their website — including pulling the “Narrative Campaign” section completely. I checked the Internet Archive but I cannot access any of the archived versions
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by probably_wrong 6mo ago
I don't remember Age of Empires having an atomic age?
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by probably_wrong 6mo ago
No one speaks for everyone, but when TiVo used the GNU license in a similar one-sided way the free software movement reacted by creating a new GNU preventing exactly that. And, again, the Creative Commons license I'm using was designed
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by probably_wrong 6mo ago
> Isn't this what the free software movement wanted? Code available to all? But this is not that. The current situations is closer to "what's yours is mine and what's mine is mine". I have been releasing my wri
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by probably_wrong 6mo ago
I'm saying more and more "if you don't have the time to write it then I don't have the time to read it". Therefore my first impression is: if the process is so formulaic that you can automate it, then the content it
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by probably_wrong 6mo ago
The link is missing an e: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2013/06/14/glasshole
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by probably_wrong 6mo ago
If you remember the old OkCupid blog they used to post interesting articles about online dating. I know their article about whether you should smile on your profile picture was eventually debunked [1], but it was nonetheless nice to have ob
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by probably_wrong 6mo ago
I don't think your example works because in the book case there's a clear author whose ideas are being reproduced without permission. The LLM in your example is not the author but rather the printing press, and no one would argue
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by probably_wrong 6mo ago
I'm surprised it took this long but two weeks ago I saw my first live streamer at a flea market. He was wearing some type of camera on his head (can't tell which one) and had his phone mounted like a wristwatch to read chat notifi
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by probably_wrong 6mo ago
No. Plagiarism applies to people, not tools.
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by probably_wrong 6mo ago
No, we really can't send something like that now. Or at least not if we want it to be useful on arrival. I'll make an educated guess that, as of this moment, there are zero functioning swarms of humanoid robots recharging on such
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by probably_wrong 6mo ago
I think you are missing the parent comment's point. The point is not "this guy is a genius" but rather "this war was so predictable, even this weird guy could pinpoint with frightening accuracy how this war would happen
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by probably_wrong 6mo ago
While I understand the importance of "trusting your gut", I feel uneasy about telling people to just go with it because that's how you entrench confirmation biases: you don't know what's driving your judgement, you
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by probably_wrong 6mo ago
I don't think that's a fair framing of the problem because it focuses on empathy towards the animals while forgetting the empathy towards the humans. Going vegan is not a zero-cost choice. It can be difficult, expensive, and in so
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by probably_wrong 6mo ago
Isn't that what the "flag" option is for?
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by probably_wrong 6mo ago
I've been sharing this HN comment with anyone who mentions how good the articles in digg V2 were: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39046023 Apparently the reason why their articles were interesting was because... t
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by probably_wrong 6mo ago
It's hard to take your argument of "removing capitalization has made my writing better" seriously when your comment history shows that you do capitalize your written text. But leaving that aside: Capitalization makes it eas

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