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Re:Watching the Greatest Hits from the Last 120 Years on Monday December 12, 2022 @05:37AM (#33953166)
"Watching the subjects of the most successful promotional campaigns over the last 120 years"
Re:Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020) on Sunday December 11, 2022 @06:06PM (#33948612)
Yes, my eyes don't hurt anymore, my vision has improved, and I sleep better. I won't go back. Reading condescending insults and "reasons" (in dark mode...) that flatly contradict direct experience won't change that.
Whataboutism is whataboutism.

Attempting to invoke the thankfully largely-discarded concept of "whataboutism" is actually just a kind of backhanded ad hominem used to avoid making a real argument and instead try to make people "look the other way".

Criticism of the existing financial system in the context of discussing a proposed replacement for it is about as related a discussion as possible.

Simply stating that all crypto is bad/criminal adds nothing of value to the discussion.

The truth is that there are (as there generally is with new technologies), useful and practical purposes to which they are applied. Indeed, the majority instances so far of "crypto" having caused harm has actually been the result of an ordinary centralised trust-based fraud donning the label "crypto" to draw in victims to loot.

The #1 mantra of crypto has always been "not your keys, not your coins". Had it been followed, instead of perverted into its opposite and mislabelled "crypto", the most heinous of these scams would not have been enabled.

The thing most actively facilitating crime and fraud in "crypto" lately is the profoundly misguided belief that giving your money to someone you've never met you saw on TV is safer than keeping it in your own wallet.

Crypto is not to blame for that belief, it was invented to provide an alternative.

Re:Talking About Large Language Models on Saturday December 10, 2022 @12:27PM (#33934491)
Thank you for this interesting insight I haven't seen before.

Are there any datasets out there that provide the full edit stream of a human from idea to final refinement, that a model could be trained on?

Re:Can Duolingo actually teach you Spanish? on Saturday December 10, 2022 @09:21AM (#33932829)
Couldn't ChatGPT? As-is, this seems almost a good prompt...
Re:World Cup Daily, Day 25 on Saturday December 10, 2022 @08:54AM (#33932623)
Where is the line? One could equally then argue use the number working on only the one construction site. Eventually a point can be reached where 1 death may "seem" improbable. A wider view reveals a context people seem to have missed.
Re:EU-wide maximum limit of €10K for cash payments on Saturday December 10, 2022 @07:45AM (#33932136)
Why is it a pity? Over time it will be revealed which group was thinking with the most clarity and prudence.
Re:World Cup Daily, Day 25 on Saturday December 10, 2022 @07:25AM (#33931993)
There are 1+ million migrant workers in Qatar. Roughly, the average human mortality rate is about 1% per year. In a given population of 1 million, you could expect about 27 to die, on average each day. (0.01x1000000)/365 = 27

Sure, more elderly people make up the 1%, and if accounting for the workers ages maybe you'll have half that figure. Or a quarter. The point is, in context, one worker dying out of a million on any given day is unfortunately expected.

It doesn't mean it's not sad, or that the persons life was worthless, or that the death should not be investigated to determine the cause. It does mean that out of 1 million, thousands will ordinarily die during any given year.

How many times per day would it take for an authority to issue a statement like the above before such statements begin to seem trite and meaningless?

Re:Show HN: Domain Name Search with AI on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @07:11PM (#33888973)
So could someone, say, cajole the AI to output a fuzzer with the goal of finding a path to executing arbitrary code?

If so, then any similar user-input powered AI applications might run this kind of risk.

Re:Interactive text game of surgery in early 1800s on Sunday December 04, 2022 @04:29PM (#33858099)
Trigger warning, it's described as a "text game", but there are also images.
Re:An embeddable and customizable fiat-to-crypto onramp on Thursday December 01, 2022 @06:42PM (#33824728)
But, doesn't TCP/IP also fundamentally power and enable almost every conceivable ostensibly "bad" thing happening on the internet?

Like, for example, "crypto"?

Re:Extism: Make all software programmable with WebAssembly on Thursday December 01, 2022 @09:33AM (#33816704)
This page needs a working example use-case.
Re:Estimated cumulative excess deaths during Covid, World on Thursday December 01, 2022 @09:13AM (#33816437)
About 1 in 10 die each year in the US as a result of medical malpractice. The oft-cited 2016 John Hopkins study has it at ~250k (of 2.7m all-cause).

For 2016 that's 1 in 1300 people in the US, a first world nation with world class medical infrastructure.

I wonder what's the worldwide figure? And what % of it overlaps with that 1 in 400?