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by vbo 5d ago
Few conflicting thoughts: Having third party embedded researchers red teaming alignment is OK. The alternative is having a bureaucratic agency like the US FDA testing and vetting models. The government probably couldn't keep pace with
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by vbo 1y ago
I think there may be more to overcomplicated brews than lifestyle or status. It's a desire to get technical in a world where so much of life has been automated away from the consumer's view or ability to affect it. Coffee is a way
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The Divine Discontent(personalcanon.com)
1 points by vbo 2y ago|0 comments
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by vbo 2y ago
I'm working on a tool to generate and host full stack web apps from prompts (just like everyone else). I'm loving it. Using llms to do as much of my coding as possible, so in a way eating my own dog food, although it's a more
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by vbo 2y ago
Looks good, might give it a try. I was looking for something similar to provide a unified interface for gpt and claude and eventually hacked something together myself, as none of the solutions I found could deal with structured output prope
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by vbo 2y ago
I miss the 00s internet. I miss IRC and geeking out for the sake of it. Maybe i'm just missing my younger years, but I think there was a distinct feeling back then, of wonder and being amongst the first to tinker with these promising t
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by vbo 2y ago
Point is we couldn't have a way of consenting to ai training until after we had llms. And I'm guessing we will, pretty quickly.
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by vbo 2y ago
I don't want to defend Altman. He may or may not be a good actor. But as an engineer, I love the idea of building something magical, yet lately that's not straightforward tinkering - unless you force your way - because people rais
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by vbo 2y ago
They're free because they could not achieve network effects if there was a monetary cost involved for users. So basically if they weren't free they wouldn't exist (at scale).
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by vbo 3y ago
With or without EU regulations, client software could decide to discard all cookies once the user has "left" the site. Or it could block cross domain cookies of its own volition. Yes, it doesn't fix the fundamental issue, but
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by vbo 3y ago
and so has the internet. some use it for good, others for evil. these are behaviours and traits of the user, not the tool.
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by vbo 3y ago
So much of the horribly unmaintainable code I've come across was the result of overengineering that whenever I see an abstraction I have a compulsive urge to scream into the void. Some (the simplest ones) are ok, but other times an abs
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by vbo 3y ago
It's a hybrid 20-ish person team and I work from the office 4 days a week (my choice), but yeah, you're right that we fail at async coordination and fall back onto calls. I've suggested alternatives (meet in the office a coup
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by vbo 3y ago
I don't mind working from home, but I find WFH-accommodating calls exhausting; it feels they take far longer than the equivalent in person discussion, in addition to losing the ad-hoc nature of office conversations. The context switch
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by vbo 3y ago
I'm no branding expert but this sounds like a bad idea, yet given Musk's whimsical decisions, I'm not entirely sure he's serious about it rather than trying to reap the benefits of keeping Twitter in the news.
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by vbo 3y ago
They could and they did, the problem is they’re now attempting to get the same access to encrypted communications by outlawing privacy, essentially saying they need to get rid of your freedom to speak privately for our greater good.
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by vbo 3y ago
I feel we've been collectively losing the battle to keep our conversations private. The anti-encryption laws are likely vocally opposed only by a minority, while the majority believes they had no privacy to begin with and governments c
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by vbo 3y ago
My fuck-you-right-back response is I don't sign up and give up using the app. I had an instagram account and deleted it years ago. I don't want a new one. Sadly instagram is sign up only, so good luck to them and good bye.
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GameBoy Crypto Wallet(gamewallet.gg)
5 points by vbo 3y ago|1 comments
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by vbo 4y ago
It seems to me that people are jumping the gun on ChatGPT, Bing, Google and LLMs in general with regard to success and failure when it's still so early in this space. Amusing at times, so, so wrong at others, but we got a functional de
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by vbo 4y ago
Fair enough, though what I meant was really in relation to a class of problems, not this one person’s issue.
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by vbo 4y ago
That’s one answer. But the question also applies to non-cryptocurrency uses of cryptography where you need to guard your private keys (like identity) — ie how to best enable people to use their keys while keeping them safe and also allowin
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The Colors of Motion(thecolorsofmotion.com)
2 points by vbo 4y ago|0 comments
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by vbo 4y ago
Out of sheer curiosity, what's the appeal of threadreader to you? I see a lot of threadreader noise on twitter and I can't figure out why people prefer its (ad ridden) article-ish view to simply scrolling through a thread on twitt
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by vbo 4y ago
> Why should they listen to voices on the internet who aren't even their customers? People tend to exchange and discuss ideas on HN and this is no different.
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by vbo 4y ago
I don't think touting no E2EE is going to get you more users. Fine, don't do it, but I'm pretty sure the people who want E2EE (myself included) are likely very convinced it's what they need and will act accordingly. And
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by vbo 4y ago
What are you going to do with your gpus once the merge happens?
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by vbo 4y ago
I tend to pick up the accent spoken around me (I'm not a native English speaker). Not quite sure to what extent it borders native speaker's accent, but it happens without any training. On a separate note, if you feel you need to c
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Big Tech firms set to face tough EU content rules(politico.eu)
5 points by vbo 4y ago|0 comments
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by vbo 5y ago
I too prefer the office. I also interview people and and tend to look for people willing to come to the office at least once or twice a week. It makes a world of difference when you can ask someone a question across the desk as opposed to s

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