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Software never had that status. I was disgusted by the decline I could see in the 90s even, and I was a teenager, I had no clue and still don't. I cannot imagine how it must be for…

And the cops just shake them a bit, waiting for the case to fall out naturally.

And intellectually honest people don't engage in circular reasoning and then rather than acknowledging it just repeat it, yet here we are.

> it wasn’t superfluous; it literally was what happened. Yeah, so I gave that sentence to ChatGPT in a new context and asked it to make it longer without saying anything additional…

it was a show HN once: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25245740 I'm not a regular user atm, when I used it my experience was great, and the owner is a really nice guy. I vague…

Nonsense. The "weights" in "models" refer to probabilities. Even the implicit claim that they could deterministically produce "the" correct answer with 100% certainty doesn't withs…

> Which creates some bizarre incentives, minors get rewarded for signing up for the platforms that are harming them in the first place. Oh please. Was the whole "calculation" just …

Labour is having to eat and clip your fingernails, having to sleep and repair the roof every year. All animals have to do it, humans always will have to do at least a bit of that, …

That sums up nothing, and parroting it some more doesn't make it more true, it just shows us the mindset and intellectual horizon of detractors. Brexit, Thiel's drooling over "balk…

> anybody who was okay with the original cameras Who cares about those people? I would argue even they themselves hardly do. And sure, they'll be even more okay with even worse stu…

well yes, you can't help but have your own taste, and like the taste of others according to your taste of taste(s?). And I think taste is subjective by definition, it doesn't compe…

just wait for the loot boxes, mark my words

> You really think a throwaway quote when Zuckerberg was a college student applies nowadays? What does "nowadays" mean? What changed? > You really think Meta would risk getting a m…

That's circular reasoning, how would there be a lawsuit if customer have no way of knowing?

does the contract enable the customer to monitor/search Meta to ensure they are honoring the contract? if there is no mechanism for that it means very little. Though I bet/hope som…

"they 'trust me'. dumb fucks." The only difference between students doing it then and professionals doing it now is the students had no positive, glaring reason to mistrust.

I also love how it first notices "that's lethal", and only then "hotter than a sauna". And much later: > Another thought: 72 F is nice. 72 C is death. and then > Or maybe I should …

> You may also remember browsing the web using Opera Mini, which wasn't a direct user-agent but used Opera's backend systems as a proxy that stripped, minified and compressed HTML/…

> How is it that sign language association learning is different from spoken language learning? Huh? The article doesn't claim anything like this.

If someone lacks the time and energy to stand behind their views, how much of that is a result of those views? If you care about the world and justice, if you love life and living …

> Technologists don't drive decisions though. The shareholders do. Yes, but technologists get sniped into identifying and defending them. They're the mouth pieces and the hands. Sh…

I've been positively surprised by the result of a (overly?) thorough description, but at least to me as a math layman, this conjecture stuff is less impressive to me than a to-do a…

I'm playing/experimenting with a harness and just tested how well various models follow the instructions, and how they react to the tool claiming a local temperature of 72°C here i…