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jabron

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    Comment #49107997

    That would hopefully be a world where every house casually hires 50 burglars to make their house burgle-proof.

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    Comment #49004021

    Google? Microsoft? AWS?

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    Comment #47776043

    Huh, not sure where I got the 86 number from, because I did check a primary source. Probably a mixup with a later number that included annexed territory. If you're interested: http…

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    Comment #47599320

    Germany's population in 1938 was higher. Around 86 million.

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    Comment #47060409

    It's indicative of how little Microsoft cares in addition to the issue of plagiarism. Which shouldn't be a surprise to anyone who's had to read Microsoft documentation recently.

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    Comment #47034083

    I'd argue that "assumptions", i.e. the statistical models it uses to predict text, is basically what makes LLMs useful. The problem here is that its assumptions are naive. It only …

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    Comment #46883844

    So you read the CI result, implement a fix and stage + commit your changes in ~10 seconds? You might be superhuman.

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    Comment #46872696

    What does that mean? You got feedback from the CI within 30 seconds and immediately pushed a fix?

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    Comment #46872621

    Well that's not true. > I tend to over-comment my scripts out of habit—no AI tools were involved here (nor elsewhere in the code). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46662378

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    Comment #46218464

    They've used a vision transformer to estimate building heights from monocular aerial photographs, so they're guesses at best. Calling this a map is a stretch.

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    Comment #46046556

    What do you mean "bounding boxes"? They were talking about captions and embeddings, so a vision language model is required.

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    Comment #46032598

    Comparing Nazi Germany and the PRC in any way is certainly an interesting choice, considering they're the one major power in the world that actually doesn't have a recent history o…

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    Comment #45932387

    What does this even mean?

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