siegecraft

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by siegecraft 9d ago
The authors could have provided concrete definitions of successful outcomes instead of asking it to resolve overloaded and sometimes contradictory terms into the "right outcome." Getting an LLM to display bias is a singularly unim
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by siegecraft 3mo ago
I also felt the definition of lethargic was kind of silly, especially since I had already gotten lethargy as a word in tier 1.
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by siegecraft 4mo ago
> Most things we historically do with computing are not well approximated by extruding synthetic text. I don't understand this point. I feel like almost everything associated with computing is extruding synthetic text.
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by siegecraft 9mo ago
Does Reddit require sms verification? The last time I made an account it didn't even require a valid email (but you got the "validated email" badge if you did it)
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by siegecraft 10mo ago
I think it's uncharitable to jump to the conclusion that just because there was a config-based outage they don't do phased config rollouts. And even more uncharitable to compare them to crowdstrike.
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by siegecraft 10mo ago
what do you use instead and what does it give you that you can't get from datadog? as someone who's been locked into datadog for the past few years i'm wondering what i've been missing.
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by siegecraft 1y ago
It's frustrating that their entire analysis is based on the claim that cheating occurs in maybe 1 out of 10,000 games; they got this from a quote in an interview with the deputy president of the World Chess Federation after he had been
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by siegecraft 1y ago
> the father of the child narrator’s son this was confusing but I think it's supposed to just be "father of the child narrator." Also kind of weird they (the original parent link, it is in the bbc article) didn't name
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by siegecraft 2y ago
people are starting to realize they don't have any significant technical advantages over other AI companies. so all they have left is hype or trying to build a boring enterprise business where they sell a bunch of AI services to other
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by siegecraft 3y ago
Constantly updating geyser to keep it up to date with the most recent bedrock versions is quite a pain. Maybe paper has tools to automate these updates (I use fabric) but it seems unlikely.
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by siegecraft 3y ago
The Supreme Court ruled that apple must allow users to purchase from vendor websites. Apple takes a 27% cut instead of 30%
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by siegecraft 3y ago
Almost every so-called bloated editor has a vim plugin (I guess that's an upside of their bloat): vscode, intellij and friends, even vimium for the browser. And although I wouldn't argue that vim (or, to be precise a subset of vim
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by siegecraft 3y ago
does this article not qualify as "meta discussion of how to game them"?
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by siegecraft 3y ago
Why not? Give a bunch of people actual placebos, half are told it won't work, half are told it will, see what happens?
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by siegecraft 3y ago
I really doubt you could buy pseudoephedrine via taskrabbit, but then again I've never tried it.
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by siegecraft 3y ago
In my experience, the ultralight gear is the most expensive of all
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by siegecraft 3y ago
I've been a user of BirdNet (also from Cornell, but apparently a different group?), looking forward to checking out Merlin. With Birdnet you have to record a sound, pick out the specific portion of the audio and click identify.
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by siegecraft 3y ago
I don't have specific examples as I am not a regular reader of lit, but I can comment on "it doesn't look to my eyes notably different from reddit." The anonymity, lack of up/downvotes, non-hierarchial layout, lack
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by siegecraft 3y ago
If you assume no one knows the context of your reference, why would you use it? Regardless, I included the details because they're interesting and one sometimes learns interesting things on HN. Anyway, the lesson of the hot hand falla
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by siegecraft 3y ago
Not sure what point you're trying to make here, since I don't know if you're referring to (a) the initial, intuitive belief that basketball players who had made several shots in a row were more likely to make the next one (b)
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by siegecraft 3y ago
Can you not just physically disconnect or shield the network antenna (assuming you own the car outright, i suppose if it's financed it might be trickier to do that legally)?
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by siegecraft 3y ago
I wonder if there's a marketplace or active efforts for bad actors to buy popular vscode extensions so that they can inject malware into formerly trusted extensions? If you have a popular vscode extension do you get people reaching ou
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by siegecraft 4y ago
This is a common use case and many reader / annotation apps either support it natively (polarized and marginnote 3 are two that I have first hand experience with) or have third party tools available to copy annotations into anki.
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by siegecraft 4y ago
how would they know it's explicitly criminal though? i doubt most devs have enough understanding of their business domain, much less the regulatory frameworks to be able to confidently refuse to implement something because it's il
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by siegecraft 4y ago
There's a type of man that has plenty of time to watch children's movies: a father. (Or you could just watch them because you enjoy them and not worry about what people think).
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by siegecraft 4y ago
You can do this with karabiner-elements ( https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/ ) by remapping cmd-l to cmd-d. I believe you can even add a condition to make the mapping only active in firefox, but I haven't tested that.
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by siegecraft 5y ago
I enjoyed the short (30 minute) documentary about him and two of his projects: _Places For The Soul_. It used to be free on amazon but sadly no longer is. https://www.amazon.com/Places-Soul-Tries-World-Transforming/...
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by siegecraft 5y ago
I wasn't aware of this paper before now and am excited to read it. The 15 properties of life were, I believe, his attempt to find the universal rules underlying the design patterns he described in A Pattern Language . I've long
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by siegecraft 5y ago
I assumed from reading the excerpt in the github issue that each emoji represented an actor or asynchronous action to make it obvious which parts of the story corresponded to technical concepts, but the documentation wasn't 100% consis
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by siegecraft 5y ago
Kirkland batteries were very leaky to the point where I didn't even finish using the pack I bought. I was quite dismayed since Kirkland usually has quality products.

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