Is temperature or even temperature variance not a problem for wood?
Readit Newsplayingalong commented on First wooden satellite launched into space phys.org/news/2024-11-wor... · Posted by u/Kaibeezy
playingalong commented on PEP 2026 – Calendar versioning for Python peps.python.org/pep-2026/... · Posted by u/BerislavLopac
I guess I never noticed that they release around once a year.
I guess with project of this importance, one cannot have anything else than fixed release date, even if the scope is dynamic. A bit like Olympic Games hosts are decided several years in advance (Salt Lake City 2034).
playingalong commented on Netflix Europe offices raided in tax fraud probe bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/user20180120
Is there a product allowing for client-side encrypted mounts? Or just use a SAAS outside of the country that doesn't allow for exporting any data under any circumstances?
The whole point (or at least the main point) of the tax paperwork is to be able to produce them to tax investigators.
If you don't want to share anything, then it's easier not to do the accounting. Which I guess is severally illegal globally.
playingalong commented on DeepMind debuts watermarks for AI-generated text spectrum.ieee.org/waterma... · Posted by u/ambigious7777
> the team tested it on 20 million prompts given to Gemini. Half of those prompts were routed to the SynthID-Text system and got a watermarked response, while the other half got the standard Gemini response. Judging by the “thumbs up” and “thumbs down” feedback from users, the watermarked responses were just as satisfactory to users as the standard ones.
Three comments here:
1. I wonder how many of the 20M prompts got a thumbs up or down. I don't think people click that a lot. Unless the UI enforces it. I haven't used Gemini, so I might be unaware.
2. Judging a single response might be not enough to tell if watermarking is acceptable or not. For instance, imagine the watermarking is adding "However," to the start of each paragraph. In a single GPT interaction you might not notice it. Once you get 3 or 4 responses it might stand out.
3. Since when Google is happy with measuring by self declared satisfaction? Aren't they the kings of A/B testing and high volume analysis of usage behavior?
playingalong commented on DeepMind debuts watermarks for AI-generated text spectrum.ieee.org/waterma... · Posted by u/ambigious7777
> It has also open-sourced the tool and made it available to developers and businesses, allowing them to use the tool to determine whether text outputs have come from their own large language models (LLMs), the AI systems that power chatbots. However, only Google and those developers currently have access to the detector that checks for the watermark.
These two sentences next to each other don't make much sense. Or are misleading.
Yeah. I know. Only the client is open source and it calls home.
playingalong commented on Did You Know That Apes Have Never Asked a Question? greatergood.com/blogs/new... · Posted by u/amichail
Interesting. So is this what differentiates us from all the animals?
(See^^^)
playingalong commented on Ask HN: Do you think your life better or worse than it was 4 years ago? · Posted by u/AbstractH24
worse. Lost decade for me.
Don't give up. There are still 5 or 6 years in the decade. We are not even half way through.
I'm from Sweden where we only have 3 things to vote on (national, county, and city). I assumed Denmark was similar.
Europarlament too?
Nice read.
I guess the article could be called Falsehoods Programmers Assume of Programming Language Syntaxes.
However idiotic it may be - people are far more willing to pay $$$$$ to have a broken leg treated than they are willing to pay $ for salt or sand to put on their icy sidewalk.