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meghan_rain

796 karma · joined February 9, 2023

None of my posts are GPT-generated, except those that are.

the password to this account is meghan_rain

curious visitors who tried out the password: 22 (last on 2023-07-16)

And cats are better than dogs!

Pet-free person disagrees.

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meghan_rain··on Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs
aka bookmarks
meghan_rain··on When LIMIT 9 works but LIMIT 10 hangs
tldr?
meghan_rain··on Why won’t Google give an answer on whether Bard was trained on Gmail data?
_must_ tbqh lmao
meghan_rain··on Nvidia chief says with AI everyone now can be a programmer
ESL but the sentiment is right
meghan_rain··on Software bugs that cause real-world harm
Sorry, I don't understand what happened?
meghan_rain··on Software bugs that cause real-world harm
> Thankfully, Android now has “bedtime mode” feature, which allows me to make it so that phone calls won’t cause my phone to ring between 10AM and 8:30AM. If my mom happens to die in a hospital in the middle of the night, I’ll just have to find out and be sad the next day.

wtf

meghan_rain··on Din 1450, recommended for barrier-free reading
This entire thread is peak HN lmao
meghan_rain··on Ask HN: Why do so many assume we’re on the cusp of super-intelligent AI?
> It’s all very clever, yes, but at bottom it’s just a brute force approach.

which, as history shows, is the only ML approach that actually works, and therefore it's scary

meghan_rain··on OpenAI CEO's threat to quit EU draws lawmaker backlash
Regulatory capture
meghan_rain··on A novel the CIA spent a fortune to suppress
sure, haha, i'm sorry for the troubles.
meghan_rain··on Social media can be a ‘profound risk’ to youth, surgeon general warns
thanks
meghan_rain··on Launch HN: Common Paper (YC W23) – SAFEs for Commercial Contracts
Why the ceremony around signing with on-screen mouse movements, if the resulting digital signature could be copy-pasted into any other draft?
meghan_rain··on Social media can be a ‘profound risk’ to youth, surgeon general warns
did you notice any advantages of the kids that had delayed exposure to social media? ie smarter, better focus, better motivation, better emotional iq?

it would be HUGE news if this were the case, very curious about your reply

meghan_rain··on GirlfriendGPT – OSS AI Companion
> using GPT4

stopped reading there, not gonna send my intimate stuff to a US megacorp (Microsoft)

meghan_rain··on Modern work requires attention – constant alerts steal it
Underrated comment
meghan_rain··on Why Are We in Ukraine?
> Self-reflection and even self-critique are important.

Agreed 100%

meghan_rain··on Why Are We in Ukraine?
Whats the point of posting an article whatabouting a flawed, but successful liberal democracy (us) with a cleprocratic shithole?

Also, why do so many bloggers have the need to be "contrarian" to common sense? for clicks?

Imagine aliens are attacking us. One would still find people defending the alias and finding arguments to do so...

meghan_rain··on Meta fined $1.3B over data transfers to U.S.
These numbers should be written as "hours of revenue".

Then people would notice how laughably small those fines are.

> Meta was fined 12 hours of revenue for violating your fundamental human rights for years of profit.

meghan_rain··on Having a 20GB file that lets you ask an offline computer any question is amazing
Around 159 GB, it's surprisingly small.
meghan_rain··on AI boom could expose investors’ natural stupidity
No as journos are all talk and no do (else they wouldnt be journos)
meghan_rain··on AI boom could expose investors’ natural stupidity
Denying reality even after being proven wrong
meghan_rain··on France is fighting to save your iPhone from an early death
> the EU has a committee to approve camera software changes

shudder

meghan_rain··on BLOOMChat, a 176B parameter, Multi-lingual, fine tuned chat
Would sythetically generating millions of calculation examples and adding that to the training data help?
meghan_rain··on Visa and Mastercard agree to lower average credit card interchange fee below 1%
> Net revenue was $29B. Opex was $9.3B. Net income was $16B.

This, people, is what a duopoly looks like.

meghan_rain··on Inject My PDF: Prompt Injection for Your Resume
> protection is trivial

How?

meghan_rain··on Show HN: Do not chat with your pdfs alone. Let others join the fun too
Warning: Yet another vectorize-and-prompt-as-a-service website that simply forwards the entirety of your data to OpenAI.
meghan_rain··on Google Colab will soon introduce AI coding features
then i take it all back, thanks for your work, the outcome looks very useful, looking forward to using it :)
meghan_rain··on Google Colab will soon introduce AI coding features
> Democratizing machine learning for everyone: Anyone with an internet connection can access Colab, and use it free of charge. Millions of students use Colab every month to learn Python programming and machine learning. Under-resourced groups everywhere access Colab free of charge, accessing high-powered GPUs for machine learning applications.

Ugh, cringe. Just say this is a panic swing at an existential threat (OpenAI) and you're trying to commiditize them.

meghan_rain··on Real-Time Full-Text Site Search with SQLite FTS5 extension
> sqlite cloud

lmao

meghan_rain··on EPFL cancels Stallman's lecture citing “the situation regarding” his persona
What was the title originally?
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