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matart commented on Cloudflare Announces Firewall for AI   blog.cloudflare.com/firew... · Posted by u/rpgbr
ipython · a year ago
I guess I just don't understand this 'no rules' mentality. If you put a chatbot on the front page of your car dealership, do you really expect it to engage with you in a deep political conversation? Is there a difference in how you answer a question about vehicle specification based on whether you have a "right" or "left" lean?

Yes, that car dealership absolutely needs to censor its AI model. Same as if you blasted into a physical dealership screaming about <POLITICAL CANDIDATE> <YEAR>. They'll very quickly throw your butt out the door, and for good reason. Same happens if you're an employee of the car dealership and start shouting racial slurs at potential customers. I'm gonna say, you do that once, and you're out of a job. Did the business "censor" you for your bigoted speech? I think not...

The purpose of the car dealership is to make a profit for its owners. That is literally the definition of capitalism. How does some sort of "uncensored" LLM model achieve that goal?

matart · a year ago
I feel like people are responding emotionally about censorship but this is a business product. I don’t want my chat bot doing anything I don’t want it to. There are court cases in Canada saying the business is liable for what the chat bot says.
matart commented on Cops still take more stuff from people than burglars do (2021)   thewhyaxis.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/wahnfrieden
breakpointalpha · 2 years ago
Nope.

You can't just walk into any bank branch you have an account with an expect to withdraw 10s of thousands of dollars without notice.

Also, there are tons of people with online only banks. No physical branches at all!

matart · 2 years ago
I think the idea is that you would need to call ahead to any branch. Why not use one closer to the transaction.
matart commented on An Architectural Overview of QNX (1992) [pdf]   cseweb.ucsd.edu/~voelker/... · Posted by u/lproven
lhoff · 2 years ago
Blackberry 10 was so nice. I bought a Z10 at launch, UX-wise the best phone I ever had. Used it for I think 3 years and would go back instantly with a modern device and better app support. It had gesture control years before Android and iOS introduced them (it was copied from MeeGo though) and the unified inbox is still miles a way from everything else.
matart · 2 years ago
I was recently talking about the Z10 being the best phone I have owned. It lacked app support otherwise I would have used it longer. Unified inbox is what I miss most about it.
matart commented on Ask HN: Branching strategies for monorepos, what is your approach?    · Posted by u/floppydisc
jstx1 · 2 years ago
Have short-lived branches for whatever change you're making, merge into main, repeat.

Is there a problem with this? Seems too obvious to even call it a strategy.

matart · 2 years ago
This is how I have done it at multiple companies. Anything else has always felt too complicated.
matart commented on Entrepreneurs who regret starting businesses   bbc.com/worklife/article/... · Posted by u/pmoriarty
qgin · 2 years ago
I think it's more useful for second guessing your past choices.

You're absolutely right that it's worth weighing the chances looking forwards because it can guide your future choices.

But when looking back and thinking "if only I'd done this or that differently, everything would have gone well," that's torturing yourself with a imaginary timeline that never happened and for which there is a non-zero chance could have been worse.

matart · 2 years ago
While you shouldn’t torture yourself with past choices, you do need to recognize them so you can learn. They were a participant in the past it didn’t only just happen to them.
matart commented on Ask HN: Will Google ever launch a successful new product again?    · Posted by u/CM30
dudus · 3 years ago
I use albums pretty heavily. Never really missed the ability to create folders.
matart · 3 years ago
The fact that I can search for anything I want means I don't need to really organize it besides albums.

The search is amazing and scary. I was looking for some pictures I took mid renovation and searched `wood` and they came up. I can search for lakes and trees. Quite impressive.

matart commented on I no longer grade my students’ work, and I wish I had stopped sooner   theconversation.com/i-no-... · Posted by u/CapitalistCartr
asoneth · 3 years ago
> Conversely, if someone was a math wiz, they could use the extra time not spent studying math to study literature, or whatever else.

If a math wiz can ace their math class without studying I'd question why they're not taking a harder math class. Alternately if the math wiz want to focus more on literature (or whatever else) this semester wouldn't it more efficient to skip the math class entirely?

Maybe in high school or mandatory undergraduate courses I could imagine a rationale for deliberately taking easy courses, but I've encountered students in graduate-level courses at an expensive private university that could have passed the final exam on the first day.

I can't fathom why anyone would waste so much of their own time and money on a class that isn't going to teach them anything.

matart · 3 years ago
When I was in university for engineering I didn't get a choice which classes I took. You took the classes that were part of your degree. You also didn't get a ton of flexibility in when you take a course. Courses were generally offered once per year as all students would progress at the same rate.
matart commented on Reddit announces revamped blocking experience   old.reddit.com/r/blog/com... · Posted by u/ummonk
AutumnCurtain · 4 years ago
Looks like it's down, I get a 504 gateway error.
matart · 4 years ago
All of reddit is down for me right now
matart commented on ‘Lord of the Rings’ at 20: Why It Was One of Hollywood’s Riskiest Projects Ever   variety.com/2021/film/new... · Posted by u/snowytrees
panick21_ · 4 years ago
> Nor Glorfindel helping Frodo escape the Ringwraiths

They replaced Glorfindel with another character that makes just as much sense and made it so the movie was not even more male dominate then it already was. It also improved the romantic relationship considerably. In some ways its actually an improvement from the books.

Overall I think that is just complaining on an incredibly high level. Sure, lets make a new set of Lord of the Rings movies every 5 years, I'm in. But given the history of Fantasy in Movies, LotR pulls of the nearly impossible.

matart · 4 years ago
Almost all the comments that are unhappy with the LoTR trilogy are upset that they didn't add every single thing from the book. Tom Bombadil adds nothing to the story. Glorfindel can and was easily swapped. I believe the books have ~160 different characters with speaking roles. If they were accurate with the books it would cost way too much and they would need 30 hrs of runtime.
matart commented on Facebook Is the AOL of 2021   zdnet.com/article/faceboo... · Posted by u/afrcnc
subpixel · 4 years ago
Facebook might not be the place to find high-end furniture, but it is everything that Craigslist was, and before that newspaper classifieds were, especially in rural areas.

I've recently purchased these items via Facebook groups and marketplace, all of which were listed no place else:

- the exact boat I had wanted for years

- a ton of home brewing gear

- lightly used children's shoes, at $75 off list price

- a chest freezer

- a 4k monitor

I'm not saying this is a good thing, but it is outrageously effective.

matart · 4 years ago
I agree about high end items.

We started some home renovations recently and used FB Marketplace to get rid of everything. We got rid of a vanity, toilet, light fixtures, oven, skill saw, media center, and more. We usually list it for ~$20 (except the oven) and if the person doesn't do anything weird we give it for free. It's way better than throwing things out.

u/matart

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