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TLDR - Why make it harder for people to get help on the basis that some people might get help who don't deserve it? means testing kills the usefulness of these kinds of stimuli. I …

she did. Did you remember to read the article?

what an incredible slop political cartoon around the first paragraph

yes, ha ha ha... yes

After you get some 'credits' by responding as AI, you can swap back to the human mode and throw new stuff into the pile

doesn't matter apparently because this gets removed from the page quickly and with rapid response. It was up on the front page long enough for a few people to see it I guess

A great teaching tool for anyone in the LLM supply chain, be they supplier or consumer https://youraislopbores.me

This depends a lot on where you live. In our area, the minimum internet-only offering from Spectrum is $125 (approximately) after taxes/fees, and the only "competitor" is AT&T, whi…

at last, TrueAnon has arrived at hackernews

[obviously YMMV, take me with a grain of salt etc] I actually tried Fedora first (thinking dev-first workflows) but ended up switching to Ubuntu w/x11 for gaming. A lot of that had…

I was so lucky to land in a CS class where we were writing C++ by hand. I don't think that exists anymore, but it is where I would go in terms of teaching CS from first principles

What does "ban" mean in this context? Like schools bought the book and it was removed, or it was on a "we won't approve this PO" list? At first glance this is a useless list

In the interest of preserving anonymity, let's call him Rob R. No, er, wait, let's do R Reiner. There, that should do it

my favorite part was where the graphs are all unrelated to each other

why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're left-handed?

The hyperbolic "surely a child with a learning disability can't (or shouldn't) go to college!" is very funny post-1950. John Keats wrote the definitive treatise on the subject and …

we asked seventy-four cats and you won't BELIEVE number eight

What a dumb article. My favorite part was 'people are incentivized to make unsafe cars' and comparing that to pizza

Seconding “YouTube ban.” I do it now at the network level. If at some point they alter parental controls to allow list channels I would consider adding it back, but the sheer quant…

The author shoulda written a REPL

how much does the correction here hew to making an AI model just look like standardized API calls with predictable responses? If you took away all the costs (data centers, water co…

Speaking as a parent of young children, I don't see any point in going back to YouTube. It's been blocked in our household basically since our oldest was six, and I don't see any w…

I don't know how we could put limits on gambling that would make sense, though. There's a huge difference in bets that I used to make (which were all black-market sports bets, usua…

I'll defer to people who claim to work there now (avanderveen in the other replies). If you want my perspective, your parenthetical is describing worker abuse. Severance-avoidant l…

Jason Schreier (sp?) is probably the journalist with the best track record on covering EA and it’s generally been rotten all the way down. His recent book Play Nice focuses on just…