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anubiskhan··on Grokipedia is the antithesis of Wikipedia
I suspect soon there will be laws to protect the LLM proprietors in the name of AI arms race/national security
anubiskhan··on Anubis Works
I approve.
anubiskhan··on Why it's so hard to build a jet engine
Hell yeah something new to learn about today, thank you.
anubiskhan··on Facebook LLAMA is being openly distributed via torrents
I assumed I knew what `and get charged extra if they want them to act a certain way or do certain things` meant, but maybe not. I thought it was along the lines of acting romantic/sexual/etc. Maybe I'm way off but I'd think otherwise it would just be an AI friend. I didn't know AI girlfriends were a thing until I clicked on this post today.
anubiskhan··on Facebook LLAMA is being openly distributed via torrents
Seems like at that point one might as well just pay onlyfans? Although I suspect it is not far off until gpt and deepfaking get combined to produce completely generated onlyfans (or some other competitor if this is against their ToS, I have no idea).

On a similar note I very much look forward to the day when entertainment providers leverage these so I can say to Netflix, et al, "I would like to watch a documentary about XYZ, narrated by someone that sounds like Joe Schmoe, and with the styling of SomeOtherShow".

anubiskhan··on Anxiety can be created by the body, mouse heart study suggests
I would argue that the verb forms of calm and sooth connote stimulation, whereas the adjective form of calm might be a lack of stimuli. I'm not sure there is a present tense adjective form of sooth? But certainly one might say, "this music is very calming" so in that case the stimulus is causing the non-stimulated (by my definition) state... Offsetting the anxiety causing stimuli? I am neither a linguist nor a medical professional, but you got me thinking! Thanks.

Someone smarter than me please let me know :D

anubiskhan··on Apple to allow outside app stores in overhaul spurred by EU laws
Doesn't that suggest that Apple, a large tech company, will force users to use whatever is best for the company, not the user?
anubiskhan··on Ask HN: Developer abused “sign in with GitHub”?
Is "Sign-in with your Hacker News account" a thing?
anubiskhan··on Ask HN: Developer abused “sign in with GitHub”?
Hopefully OP can recover any lost work(Or simply get unbanned), but I will venture a guess that buried in GH's TOS is something that amounts to "You agree to these rules, and if you violate them and get banned that is on you" and they can point at this/these clause/s and say, "Hey, OP broke the rules and that's that"
anubiskhan··on YouTube confirms that it has removed the “sort by oldest/newest” option
Ah man, i hate this. It also used to (may still) randomly end the loop in the playlist and kick you to some suggested video instead. Absolutely awful UX
anubiskhan··on Super apps are proliferating across emerging markets
All things I can do in my browser
anubiskhan··on How and why I stopped buying new laptops
Mine died last year and I upgraded to the 16" m1max. I was not happy to spend the money, but I think I can easily get another decade out of this new beast
anubiskhan··on Walmart lists a 30TB portable SSD for $39. It is, naturally, a scam
"Knew a thing or two about negotiations"

Is this like, "Nice boxes you're packing there. Be a shame if something happened to them..."

anubiskhan··on Nocturnal bottleneck
Dolphins and whales as well https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-do-whales-and...
anubiskhan··on I won a suit against a party that sent me an unsolicited text message
"Judge in LOCATION blocks new phone tax"
anubiskhan··on Ask HN: Why is the Facebook desktop website so bad?
And god forbid you want to use Reddit via the mobile browser. It's laughably bad
anubiskhan··on My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll
Reminds me of Always Sunny, "Sickness, BEGONE!!"
anubiskhan··on Times are great for programmers now. How does it end?
> It was replacing very competent drivers having a perfect knowledge of the town and of the optimal paths with drivers with absolutely no competence needed

So the drivers were replaced with organic hardware (other, non-knowledgable humans) and their knowledge was replaced with software (google maps, or whatever Lyft/Uber use for maps)?

anubiskhan··on 1Password for SSH and Git (Beta)
Is that Firefox specific? I am still able to use 1password with Brave on ios 15.3.1 (iphone 12 mini)
anubiskhan··on Confessions of a Bitcoin Widow
Reading this comment makes me wonder, "How long until Facebook lobbies for prisons to give inmates access to FB?"
anubiskhan··on Pelosi defends stock trading by lawmakers. ‘We are a free-market economy’
"We will put together a panel to put together a committee to review these technologies. Upon sufficiently reviewing said technologies we will institute new rules. Current target is by 2050"
anubiskhan··on Buried in Infrastructure Bill Is a Mandatory Backdoor Kill Switch for Your Car
I hate you for saying these things that I now believe will come to pass. And here I was thinking the ads that autoplay at gas pumps were bad... :'(
anubiskhan··on Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central District of California
I thought google collects everything put into Gboard anyway? (Maybe just if swipe is enabled)
anubiskhan··on AirPods Max
I love mine. Really wish they had the option to turn off the noise cancelling while on BT though.