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You can tell them you don't need one here https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/topics/t...

It does need abolishing though.

> you can make absolute bank doing overtime.

Not in a third world shit hole like India.

Re:Understanding Social Media Recommendation Algorithms on Friday March 10, 2023 @01:05PM (#35098354)
I don't think I've ever read so much nonsensical word vomit in my life.

And I say that as someone who owns and operates a bunch of (relatively) successful social media websites.

> The set of content processing algorithms is relatively fluid as new types of content become prominent and new algorithmic capabilities emerge. The set of content propagation algorithms is relatively stable.

This is the wrong way round as well. Content processing is stable, but it's the 'content propagation algorithms' that change a lot of the time.

And using the word 'algorithm' more than 200 times literally just makes it lose its meaning.

Re:Ask HN: Are a lot of books just... useless? on Thursday March 09, 2023 @01:04PM (#35084430)
It depends very much what you're trying to read.

Start with the 90 day Harvard classics https://www.myharvardclassics.com/categories/20120622

And also check out Penguins Great Idea series https://www.penguin.co.uk/series/PEN02/penguin-great-ideas

If a book was read 100 years ago and is still being read today then it's worth a read. Most books written a few hundred years ago are just as relevant (if not more so) today.

Re:Ask HN: Are you teaching your kids to use ChatGPT? on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @09:22AM (#35069253)
Teach them how to write their own.

Don't teach your kid how to use a computer program, teach them how to write one.

You can easily build a toy language model yourself, it will give your kid a massive head start and help structure their mental models for life so they don't view this as 'magic' like so many other people do.

Sure, they blew up their own pipeline.

Nevermind the Americans actually admitted to doing it, which amounts to a declaration of war on Europe conveniently ignored by everyone.[0]

[0] https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the...

It's not even an Alexa.

But you can get text to speech libraries pretty easily to try it for yourself.

This is one whiny bitch. If he doesn't like Twitter then why is he still using it?

I think this is the 2nd story I've seen about him in the past few hours. We really need a moratorium on Twitter shit.

See the breakdown of the bicameral mind.[0] What people now call the 'voice in their head' they used to think it was God speaking to them.

It's probably caused by parasites though [1]

The good news is with regular (real) meditation you can remove the voice entirely.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origin_of_Consciousness_in...

[1] https://www.livescience.com/61627-ancient-virus-brain.html

Re:Mastodon: Add support for incoming rich text on Monday March 06, 2023 @11:21AM (#35042853)
This kind of utterly basic 'feature' should have been a day one addition.

Why do people release shit that's not even close to finished? Maybe more importantly, why do people even use it?

"It's not about the nail"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4EDhdAHrOg

People don't want their problems solving, they want to whine.

It helps to start a conversation like this with "do you want me to listen or to offer help"

It's not 'hallucinations', it's garbage in, garbage out (GIGO)

ChatGPT is about as far removed from AGI as it's possible to get. I wouldn't worry about it at all, it's just another tool, albeit a toy one at this point.

Sounds great, I'd like to know too!
Your sacrifice wasn't in vain. You saved me 5 minutes!
Is there a technical name for that 'bubble'?

Like since we've been broadcasting signals out (television and radio etc) and saying they've been expanding at 100% strength in all directions (for the sake of argument) then we have a bubble around us.

And even if we time-travelled back into our past and changed everything, nothing beyond that bubble would be changed because nothing we'd ever done previously had gotten that far out.

Just take the second job and 'work from home' for the old job, what's the worst they can do, fire you?
Re:A Senior Engineer's Guide to the System Design Interview on Thursday March 02, 2023 @02:26PM (#35000563)
There's very little content here, especially nothing that would be considered 'senior'.
Re:What is Chess? What to think and how long for on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @03:12PM (#34987629)
Interestingly this has just come up again recently with the 'dahl' controversy.[0]

[0] https://classicalwisdom.substack.com/p/should-we-update-old-...

Re:Client-side encryption for Gmail is now generally available on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @10:10AM (#34970123)
That's weasel word marketing.

They know the majority of their users are going to think 'generally available' is exactly what it sounds like, not their made up meaning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word

Just because it's a fact of life doesn't mean it's not a curse.
> It's me Tom the author of the post.

It's-a me, Mario

Obvious marketing is obvious.

Re:What If Planet Nine Has Satellites? on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @10:35PM (#34906434)
Planet Nine is Pluto.

You see how the entire conversation was reframed from demoting Pluto?

Babylonians knew about the 'tenth' planet, everyone and their mom knew about it. And there's a lot more in the ancient histories to learn about it.

So 'scientists' decided Pluto was no longer a planet, then the 'tenth' planet now becomes the 'ninth' planet, and we get articles like this.

Re:Ask HN: Why do so many iOS apps require subcriptions? on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @11:19AM (#34897954)
It's easy to do and generates a recurring revenue stream for the app creator.
Re:Why Rumble Is the Only Successful Right-Wing Social Platform on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @01:37PM (#34884915)
It's not even in the top 100 of 'right wing' platforms.
See how many times they write the word 'I'?

They've never meditated properly even once. Teacher my ass, these people do way more damage than help anyone.

They could have done the same with wikipedia articles.
> it’s a bit astonishing how good Cloudflare is at PR and community management

It's really not, look at any cloudflare support thread here and how they crawl out of the woodwork for damage control because they failed in basic customer service

it's a huge red flag, and everyone in the comments always sees it.

cloudflare is cancer and needs to die.

Why do they always do this?

It's a dick. Dicks are funny. That's it. Literally nothing to it at all.

'AI' now is just a completely meaningless buzzword.

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