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2 years ago
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on: Financial systems take a holiday
Bunting just means decorations, the value is true when the government recommends decorating for the holiday. It's reserved for celebrations, so events like the queens funeral have it set to false.
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2 years ago
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on: Is Northern Ireland a failed state?
They weren't implying anything other than that the phrase may be less common outside of Great Britain
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2 years ago
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on: How I Made a Heap Overflow in Curl
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2 years ago
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on: OpenAI and Jony Ive in talks to raise $1B from SoftBank for AI device venture
Interestingly there's already an AI powered earbud [0] on the market that claims to do that; whether it's any good or if OpenAI can do better remains to be seen.
But how long before it's capturing audio from your conversations to use as training data?
[0] https://www.timekettle.co/
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2 years ago
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on: Finetuning of Falcon-7B LLM Using QLoRA on Mental Health Conversational Dataset
I did see one attempt[0] at creating a doctor from an LLM on Github. From their ReadMe.MD overview: "This is an open-source project with a mission to provide everyone their own private doctor"
Hard not to agree with your edit0 as well; search engines often give doomsday diagnosis, how long before we're all hypochondriacs under the latest LLM cult?
[0] https://github.com/llSourcell/DoctorGPT
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2 years ago
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on: Leo Tolstoy on why people drink (2014)
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3 years ago
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on: Show HN: Doxx Me – See how doxxable your phone number is
That’ll be so you can’t put someone else’s phone number in and start doxxing people
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4 years ago
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on: G7: Rich nations back deal to tax multinationals
If I buy online and have it shipped to the UK, is it sold in the UK, in another countries warehouse or wherever they have a web sever?
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5 years ago
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on: ISO Standard for Preparing Tea
It came from the 17th and 18th centuries where the china cups weren't quite as strong. The heat of the water would often crack the cups, milk was used to cool the tea and stop the cups breaking.
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5 years ago
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on: UK to launch taxpayer-funded high-risk tech research agency exempt from FOI
Politicians as a whole are known for lies, deciet and corruption. It's not limited to one specific party nor country. The visibility of corruption may change, but its presence never will.
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5 years ago
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on: Trading Time for Money
Surely Bezos would adjust his prices as well, increasing his profit and leaving the playing fields very similar to what they are now
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5 years ago
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on: UK and EU agree Brexit trade deal
Being replaced with a new scheme (The "Turing Scheme") which will be very similar to ERASMUS but will be worldwide instead of limited to Europe. [1] Sounds like British students will have a little more mobility, not sure if it'll benefit the British universities themselves though
[1] https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1342138413831630849
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5 years ago
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on: Squad Wealth
With the amount of memes used throughout and constant informal langauge i'm not sure if this is a serious post or if i'm missing out on a joke. Not really sure if it was trying to put specific point across either
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5 years ago
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on: Facebook fired an employee who posted evidence of preferential treatment
They've suggested that there's a variety of ideas that are no longer discussable for fear of being seen as hateful or evil. You've chosen just one of their many examples and immediately jumped to Nazism and Hitler, in doing so you're proving the parents point.
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5 years ago
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on: Facebook fired an employee who posted evidence of preferential treatment
Baffled that you’re being downvoted; there’s plenty of arguments for and against those ideas. It’s difficult to come a consensus when the debates surrounding them increasingly turn to shouting matches, Internet rumours and “cancellation”
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5 years ago
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on: TikTok and Microsoft’s Clock
I imagine Microsoft would also be tasked with tying up the security risks before publishing it anywhere near the Windows start menu
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5 years ago
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on: Turns out half the internet has a single-point-of-failure called “Cloudflare”
Solutions can’t be implemented instantly; a work around is needed until that ramp is installed. As much as the lack of audio solution sucks, you can’t expect half the internet to just give up on a piece of technology overnight
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5 years ago
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on: Smokers quit in record numbers amid Covid fears
You draw it into your mouth similar to drawing liquid through a straw; once in your mouth you'd have to actively inhale through your mouth to draw it into your lungs
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5 years ago
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on: Giant flywheel project in Scotland could prevent UK blackouts
Wasn't aware blackouts were a significant problem in the UK. Great device for moving away from fossil fuels though
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5 years ago
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on: UK’s Investigatory Powers Act is set to expand
