shiandow

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by shiandow 8d ago
I think it’s pretty unreasonable to use the service.
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by shiandow 8d ago
In what way are those two different? What makes the training data valuable if not to extract valuable information from it? They sure as hell don't need it just to produce English.
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by shiandow 8d ago
If he didn't opt out I'm not sure I'd agree that it was fair game. I'm pretty sure it would be considered plagiary amongst colleagues and it is a terrible precedent if we just let OpenAI steal any good idea they can get
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by shiandow 10d ago
And in all reasonable circumstances the court would agree. Poisoning the water supply is an act of war let alone an illegal act of violence.
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by shiandow 12d ago
The most interesting part to me is the bike. I don't think any of them would actually work, but the mistakes feel somewhat human.
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by shiandow 15d ago
Some of its standards supersede national law (I think it was the regulations that did so, amd standards needed to be built into national law, could be the other way around). And this makes a lot of sense with rules about food safety, produc
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by shiandow 15d ago
If you don't lay down your own roads you can't own a bike.
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by shiandow 17d ago
That's a bit of a touchy subject that exposes the fact that the EU has repurposed a system for designing industry standards (not laws) and has a shaky legal foundation. To some extent countries are bound by EU law, but what this means
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by shiandow 17d ago
Seems like an excellent way to optimize yourself out of a job, both figuratively and literally. So no, I'm not going to assume that's what someone meant. I can at least pretend I consider people to be competent.
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by shiandow 18d ago
This is besides the point, but you do have to marvel at the technology it took to make this comment render just fine in HN.
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by shiandow 19d ago
I'd imagine Microsoft gave them pretty clear instructions to not let them know officially when they're bullying other companies on Microsoft's behalf.
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by shiandow 20d ago
I think all code is technical debt in a way. Good code is a necessary evil, bad code is more evil than necessary. Generating code automatically when you're not even quite sure what it is or even should be doing is insanity.
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by shiandow 20d ago
Even if it adds some complication I really enjoy just having both features available when I need to. But then I'm a sucker for gadgets. In a way both provide answers to the question, what is that light? Performance is the main reason t
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by shiandow 20d ago
I also really like the star chart they added recently. Seems like a minor thing but it's just really handy to have it available for the few occasions you need it.
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by shiandow 20d ago
I think everyone just reads *illion and thinks 'lots of money'. The amounts are incomprehensible at this point. I don't think anyone can conceive of 13 billion dollars accurately, including the people brokering this deal, the
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by shiandow 23d ago
I can spend an hour repairing my bicycle tire and get it working for a few years or I can buy several new tires by working more hours. If everyone did that we would need a lot more bicycle tires. Edit: If you want a more extreme example. I
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by shiandow 23d ago
Hard to tell, but if you were to replace anything when doing so would be cheaper I think people would be throwing away a lot more. If you want an economic argument there's no way to sell my free time for anywhere near the market rate o
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by shiandow 23d ago
You underestimate my willingness to 'under sell' my free time by spending it to fix something I own.
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by shiandow 24d ago
Is it? How would you test an answer? It is probably no coincidence that AI is exceedingly good at finding small counter examples. But for the Riemann hypothesis no such counter examples exist. And likely none exist.
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by shiandow 24d ago
A sense of which writing is better is the very thing that reading lots of books helps you discover. And I don't think only reading "quality" literature is necessary, you just need to not mindlessly read the same thing over an
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by shiandow 24d ago
But less sad! Honestly the main problem is one of efficiency not whether buying happiness with money is a bad idea. Being less sad is more important than having money, but you do need to plan ahead so you don't run out too quickly.
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by shiandow 24d ago
When you put it like that it doesn't sound like the worst idea.
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by shiandow 25d ago
I'm starting to have the same problem with code. It's unbearable for some reason. It's like someone took the LinkedIn writing style and translated into a code style for code that has no business existing in the first place.
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by shiandow 26d ago
For one they've already used the entire library genesis. Anything not in there is going to be obscure in some capacity.
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by shiandow 26d ago
Good point, why waste time deciphering old badly burnt scrolls when anything worthwhile should have been preserved.
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by shiandow 26d ago
Somehow I don't think they're looking for the books that have been copied over and over.
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by shiandow 1mo ago
It still baffles me that it has become normal for an OS to place the wishes of an app above those of the user. Hijacking the screenshot process is a privilege that you ought to be able to revoke, it's insane to allow software to be giv
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by shiandow 1mo ago
I kind of hope it pushes people to use alternatives, because allowing your work to be violated by ads seems insane. But probably not.
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by shiandow 1mo ago
You'll want small o, not big O. Otherwise there's no point in mentioning the constant factor 0.6039. And yes the o(n) is relevant. Though I guess implied to some extent.
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by shiandow 1mo ago
There are other sources of meat. Also dairy is not a meat.

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