Cakez0r

It's not a premature optimisation to use a hashset instead of a list though!

I also sent a physical letter to Lucasarts when I got stuck as a kid. They kindly sent me back a full walkthrough! I wonder how many other kids must've done this...

Why doesn't Uber just let Californian drivers set their own rates? Would it really be such a huge deal to their business model if drivers could set their own price per mile, or similar? Uber still takes a percentage cut and I assume the free market cost would work out to be in the same ballpark as Uber's pricing model.

No, but they might drive a couple of hours a day for some extra pocket money on top of their UBI

Would the contractor be an employee of the contracting agency in this scenario?

If the police are defunded, I'd bet that private security companies would fill the void and we'd be well on our way to "Stephensonion" being the next "Orwellian"!

Countries are competing in a market for tax revenue too. If a country wants more tax revenue from a business, they can either close the legal loopholes that allow the business to reduce the amount of tax that they pay or make their tax laws more competitive with those of other countries.

It's possible

I think it's a bit more like going on to a shop and trying to open all the doors, cupboards and drawers to see which ones are locked ;)

Was the bot nonsensical without the fine tuning, or just subjectively a worse conversational partner?

But toxicity and quality is subjective. The technical achievement is undeniably brilliant, but the quality of the personality is subject to opinion - as I mentioned, I did not personally enjoy the agreeability of the bot. What's toxic today may not be toxic tomorrow and vice versa.

It's just a matter of time before a model of this size can be run on commodity hardware and somebody will take the brakes off and/or attempt to run experiments that aren't just "can this thing pass the turing test?". I'd be really interested to know the thoughts of the team, given their expert knowledge and experience with the matter.

I was really blown away by the results you achieved. Amazing work! My jaw hit the floor when I saw the witty farewell "fun guy" quip, and I was in stitches when I read the song about baking. I look forward to the day I can take the model for a spin - unfortunately I don't have the requisite $18,000 hardware ;)

I have a few questions: Could this be used as a tool to get a feel for public sentiment? For example, could you ask the bot what it thinks about gun control and have it spit out a policy that appeals to the common public? If you ask the bot what it thinks about how a company will perform, how accurately does it predict? I know that the model will contain the biases of the data set, but I'm curious if you've run these types of experiments. What do you think the results would be if you had an even bigger, more diverse corpus? (devil's advocate, for the sake of discussion: perhaps everyone's fb messenger and WhatsApp chat history)

Finally, you have clearly gone to great lengths to make the bot pleasant to interact with. What sort of results to you get when you train such a huge model on an uncurated corpus and don't try to tweak its personality? I find myself wishing that you didn't try to do this as the bot seems to be hyper-agreeable. I. E Too many responses like "You like watching paint dry? That's super interesting! I love watching paint dry!".

I've got a company to sell you!

Could hashtags just be rooms too?

The majority can end up oppressing a minority. Better to just err on the side of "live and let live", no?

I think there is still a lot of room for improvement with camera UX. It boggles my mind that all cameras don't have 3 dials as standard - one for iso, one for shutter and one for aperture.

Have you ever changed the way you behave with money in order to affect your credit score? Then you already know what it's like to alter your behavior to appease an algorithm.

Imagine if you had an employment score. A payscale score. A threat-to-society score. Imagine if the systems that generate these scores are all connected together and can share information with each other. Imagine that these systems are fed information by a growing network of sensors - facial recognition, voice recognition, location tracking. Imagine all the ways that it could affect the way you behave and how such a system would try to optimise away dissidents by denying them services. This is one way that we can go from multiplication to becoming enslaved (or as good as killed) by algorithms. I'm sure there are other plausible paths.

My experience is that SIM card providers (at airports) will take a scan of your passport before giving you a SIM card, so they are probably already in compliance.

They are referring to blockchains, not cryptography.

Vim was before my time, but I learned how to use it after seeing in videos how blazingly fast people could edit text inside vim. I had already put hundreds of hours into Visual Studio by this point, so I installed a vim emulation plugin and haven't looked back since. I've never used vim-proper as my daily driver, but I can use it well enough thanks to cutting my teeth with vim emulation plugins in more modern editors.

Ah, nuts! I had no idea Norwegian was struggling. I have a long-haul flight booked with them for Christmas :(

Following that line of reasoning, isn't a bank incentivised to accrue as much debt as possible because the fed will just bail them out if they can't pay it back?

The government could fund educational programs to teach people to think critically about the content they see on the internet, then they wouldn't have to censor it.

Why can't law enforcement take a more active role in policing this site rather than leaving it to corporations? It's a known catalyst of terrorism at this point, so they know exactly where to look and surely have the resources to investigate suspicious posters.

Disappointingly, the last time an incident like this happened, an FBI agent accidentally revealed himself to be actively fuelling the fire by participating in a smear campaign against Russia (https://ceinquiry.wordpress.com/2019/06/17/fbi-8chan/). Looks like law enforcement are watching, but are just making problems worse? Baffling.

Under the bus they go!

If they succeed in getting mass adoption for this thing, I feel like the companies on-board have basically bootstrapped themselves to sovereignty. It'll be interesting to see how that plays out, if nothing else!

Does Uber not already require drivers to start their own company? I can definitely understand all the outrage if Uber is trying to classify workers as independent contractors and those contractors aren't even registered businesses (and thus effectively being paid money under the table and avoiding taxes).

I'd say the issue is that DO is shutting down servers for any reason at all (legal issues aside). If DO sells a product with a particular capacity, why should they intervene at all if a user is using all of the capacity they're paying for?

Depends what server software you're running and how it's configured. The specific configuration element you want to look for is usually called the "bind address". If it's set to something other than "127.0.0.1" then it will probably accept external connections.

If you know the port number your server is running on, you can also open up command prompt / terminal and check with "netstat -an". Look at the local address column and make sure your web server is listening on 127.0.0.1.

... Based on?