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by transcriptase 11mo ago
Bruh
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by transcriptase 11mo ago
“Deep-space radar telemetry is the cover story used by Captain Samantha Carter, and presumably the other members of Stargate Command, as a cover for their actual duties within Cheyenne Mountain.” :D
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by transcriptase 11mo ago
> People are told that the authorities have it all under control and the experts can be trusted. Then they discover that the experts are human, fallible, and sometimes incompetent or corrupt. Try People are told that the authorities have
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by transcriptase 11mo ago
I went from using voice mode near-exclusively for brainstorming and planning out projects to giving up on voice altogether because of this very thing.
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by transcriptase 11mo ago
McDonald’s is still a burger joint, even if the soda and fries are far higher margin.
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by transcriptase 11mo ago
That group will never be Microsoft, and if it is, that model won’t be the one they’re shoehorning into every enterprise product for free.
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by transcriptase 1y ago
That’s not fair. I also saw a creepy cat in the hat breaking into someone’s home and take a shotgun round to the chest.
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by transcriptase 1y ago
Worse when you find out there’s a couple dozen of the same moderators running nearly all the top 500 subreddits.
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by transcriptase 1y ago
ChatGPT does the same thing, to the point that after several rounds of pointing out errors or hallucinations it will say things like “Ok, you’re right. No more foolish mistakes. This is it, for all the marbles. Here is an assured, triple-ch
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by transcriptase 1y ago
I think there’s something to it. Part of me thinks that when they do their “which of these responses do you prefer” A/B test on users… whereas perhaps many on HN would try to judge the level of technical detail, complexity, usefulness…
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by transcriptase 1y ago
You’re overlooking the fact that it still says that when you are, in reality, absolutely wrong .
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by transcriptase 1y ago
Well knowing the state of the tech industry they probably have a different, legal-team approved definition of “reducing model quality” than face value. After all, using a different context window, subbing in a differently quantized model,
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by transcriptase 1y ago
Exactly why should anyone pay attention to anything Microsoft says when it comes to AI, when their flagship product that they’re shoehorning into all their software could best be described as a high-latency ChatGPT wrapper with the virtual
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by transcriptase 1y ago
>AI companies Like Google? >scraping YT without paying YT let alone creators for training data Like Google has been doing to the entire internet, including people’s movement, conversations, and habits… for decades?
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by transcriptase 1y ago
Nah to get you to give the “share location” permission while pairing, so they sell that telemetry to data brokers.
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by transcriptase 1y ago
Imagine what the draw is for opening some bloated electron monstrosity like Teams or Discord these days.
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by transcriptase 1y ago
Explains why the enterprise copilot ChatGPT wrapper that they shoehorn into every piece of office365 performs worse than a badly configured local LLM.
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by transcriptase 1y ago
Meanwhile the vast majority of people in real world don’t consume a steady diet of r/politics et al, has actually spent an appreciable amount of time in the U.S., and has come to a different (nearly opposite) conclusion. I wonder which
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by transcriptase 1y ago
Illuminati, mole men, lizard people.
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by transcriptase 1y ago
I mean there is that one group.
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by transcriptase 1y ago
And even more to enforce it if granted. You can have all the patents in the world but with without being able to file against infringing parties they’re just documents.
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by transcriptase 1y ago
For as long as it takes for a bigger fish to implement, which I’m sure would be hastened without any need to consider legality of doing so.
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by transcriptase 1y ago
I’m sure modern slaves appreciate the fact that their situation, while in practice virtually indistinguishable from past eras, is no longer institutionalized.
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by transcriptase 1y ago
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but humanity has not abolished slavery. Most recent stats estimate ~28 million people worldwide in the forced labour category that most would mentally associate with the term. That rises to nearly 50 mil
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by transcriptase 1y ago
Here’s one of many articles about the phenomenon: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/11/17/meta-disciplined-or-fire... A related scheme is the existence of brokers who will, for a fee, recover banned or locke
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by transcriptase 1y ago
I’ve had the same thought about crypto. The anonymous p2p financial system where the only realistic way for the average person to participate is to send photocopies of government issued IDs to one of the few remaining large exchanges who wi
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by transcriptase 1y ago
Unsurprising given it’s been an open secret for over a decade that Meta employees will (if you have the right contacts or amount of money), orchestrate banning or seizing long-standing active accounts with desirable usernames and giving the
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by transcriptase 1y ago
If outages make headlines and stop whole companies in their tracks worldwide, that’s critical infrastructure, not just network effects.
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by transcriptase 1y ago
Hard to say. I’m not sure who the target segment is for “dozens of superficially descriptive blocks of text that say absolutely nothing paired with dramatic photos of adults with trust funds”, but apparently I’m not in it.
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by transcriptase 1y ago
Imgur was a simple image host for forums and Reddit long before there was anything resembling a feed or even “users”. The interface was an upload button that gave you a URL that nobody else would have unless you shared it or someone guessed

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