BasedAnon | 2 years ago | on: Now it's PostgreSQL's turn to have a bogus CVE
is this not itself a security issue?
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BasedAnon | 2 years ago | on: Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator
This is not a good test of translation systems. It's like pointing out that compressing a zip file lead to a larger file, or converting a JPG to a PNG and then saving it as a JPG again lead to more artifacting.
BasedAnon | 2 years ago | on: Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator
Even GPT-3.5's translation quality is overwhelmingly good. I can literally throw chunks of text at it and most of the time it's a reasonable translation. I basically don't use Google Translate anymore except to cross-reference (and even then it's not particularly good at that) along with a dictionary.
BasedAnon | 2 years ago | on: Rob Pike explains why every programmer should know about the array languages
it doesn't seem like he knows much about anything really
BasedAnon | 2 years ago | on: YouTube using antipattern to force people enable history
Search has always worked for me, but I mean the experience of going onto YouTube and then deciding what I want to watch. Instead of seeing a bunch of random stuff I don't care about I can just go directly to my subscription page without any noise.
BasedAnon | 2 years ago | on: Cheems, the Shiba Inu meme dog, has died
samd :(
BasedAnon | 2 years ago | on: YouTube using antipattern to force people enable history
i thought the exact same thing. I've had the the watch history disabled for tiiiime and today i saw that i have no homepage and i went from 'this is strange' to 'wow i feel much better navigating youtube and i'm not feeling very angered or disappointed or distracted'
BasedAnon | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is making a self taught transition to AI/ML related fields possible?
yeah i did this, just work as a software engineer at an AI start up and you'll inevitably have to get your hands dirty with AI stuff
BasedAnon | 2 years ago | on: Peter Pan copyright
it's a feature not a bug
BasedAnon | 2 years ago | on: Paying consumer debts is basically optional in the United States
i have the power to do so, and i like to do so, so i will do so. what's your argument for stopping me?
BasedAnon | 2 years ago | on: Paying consumer debts is basically optional in the United States
I'm kind of tired of this thinly-veiled socialist sentiment.
BasedAnon | 2 years ago | on: Paying consumer debts is basically optional in the United States
The comedian (?) Sam Hyde is famous for doing this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD5anPSzS-0&t=220
BasedAnon | 2 years ago | on: Xitter Broke Nitter Again
BasedAnon | 2 years ago | on: MS Teams channels cannot contain MS-DOS device names
i was going to write a bunch of suggestions for solving the problem but then i remembered i hate microsoft
BasedAnon | 2 years ago | on: Has Google Translate been fixed yet?
I often need to translate Arabic, and I just use ChatGPT for translation now, it's much better.
Google Translate has been very broken for a while now and will often just completely refuse to translate, or only partially translate or translate in ways that are incoherent
BasedAnon | 2 years ago | on: UChicago scientists see first evidence of 'quantum superchemistry' in the lab
Well after supersonic you get hypersonic, so hyperconductors and hyperchemistry
BasedAnon | 2 years ago | on: UChicago scientists see first evidence of 'quantum superchemistry' in the lab
I'm holding on to my papers
BasedAnon | 2 years ago | on: Govt warns kenyans about Worldcoin
>It seems there is nothing good that came out of crypto so far
I think evading taxes and sanctions is pretty good actually
BasedAnon | 2 years ago | on: Compilation of claims/reports of LK-99 replication efforts
it's possible pulverizing it would destroy the structure that allows this to happen in the first place
BasedAnon | 2 years ago | on: E-scooter startup Spin apparently uses RasPi 4s inside their scooters
aside from how high the labor cost for that would be