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4,967karma·1,427submissions·May 30, 2021
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Me neither, but it does explain why AI is so popular…
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Tangentially related, I did a project (forked, but fully rewrote) to be able to avoid the Package.swift file for single file projects like these. [1] The general idea is a bit like uv if I have unders…
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Did you use it recently? I used it to translate a Chinese website to English and was surprised to see everything made sense. Even the texts on the images were translated (in Safari).
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Looks very good! I don’t have feedbacks wrt what you asked, but I like the app.
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How many lives have been saved by AI? How many lives have been lost because of it?
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I, for one, love programming (and passionately hate AI). Note I also think AI is bad for philosophical/ethical reasons.
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No, LLM evangelists will not be willing to admit this in general, or no, you, as an LLM evangelist, are not not willing to admit this?
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AppleScript: First appeared 1993. COM: First appeared 1993. Yup. Catching up. I understand the rage, but get your facts right. Also, FYI the interesting part about the post is getting the extracted co…
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Oh no. Raw AppleScript in a Swift program. Don’t people know stuff anymore? I’m especially disappointed since it’s coming from Steipete… Anyways, that’s how you do AppleScript in Swift (it’s even type…
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> the risk of being rejected entirely I would have phrased it the hope of being rejected entirely, but to each his own I guess.
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> I think there is a section of programmer who actually do like the actual typing of letters, numbers and special characters into a computer, and for them, I understand LLMs remove the fun part. Ex…
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Except this was posted because the situation is akin to the original context in which this phrase was said. Initial postulate: you have a perfect tool that anybody can use and is completely magic. Som…
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Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=46548904
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There are many types of intelligence. If you want to go to useless places, using certain definitions of intelligence, yes, we can consider AI “intelligent.” But it’s useless.
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> Also, that "it's not really intelligence" horse is so dead, it has already turned into crude oil. Why? Is it intelligence now? I think not.
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So basically “you’re holding it wrong?”
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Funny you should mention that, I literally today asked Siri on my HomePod: “Siri where’s my wife?”
It worked (once).
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I fail to see how “hosted on Github Pages” has anything to do with the user’s privacy… This is not a snark, I really would like to understand.
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I had to truncate and got pissed because titles on HN are too small (it’s not the first time I was forced to editorialize a title because of HN limitations), so I just cut at the end. The all caps par…
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idk…
If I had a job where I could put 5 to 15 hours a week and get a pay, I’d fill all my time with something else! (Side projects, sports, etc.)
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Original title: “Duolingo Used iPhone's Dynamic Island to Display Ads, Violating Apple Design Guidelines”
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I was talking about the parent comment, which has spaces inside the parenthesis (I do prefer no spaces inside brackets and braces in my JSONs, but that’s another story).