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Freebytes··on Show HN: Ki Programming Language
What would you suggest instead? Please do not say Python. Using spaces for syntax is madness.
Freebytes··on Show HN: Ki Programming Language
That is the IDE, but it is not required for compiling. You should actually use C# .NET 6 and see what they are doing to prevent null exceptions. You must explicitly require the assignment of null or you will get warnings in the IDE and compiler. Here is an example:

public MyClass Students { get; set; }

You will need to create a new object before you leave the class or you will get an error. Or, you can use MyClass? instead, and it will give warnings any time you try to use Students without checking for null first. This is done before compiling so you can check for these null references through the IDE. This is a big change for C# and can effectively eliminate null references (object reference not set to an instance of an object) exceptions throughout your application.

Freebytes··on Cargo Cult AI
I had thought about a translation system that sought to translate into a different, more coherent language, pass that into an AI model, get a response in that language, and then translate the results back into English. Early OpenAI responses did not seem very impressive to me; however, that was before ChatGPT came along and blew me away. And GPT-4 gives even better responses! I am not sure if the intermediate language solution is necessary or viable at this point because you would need a powerful LLM to perform the translation. But, there might be value in symbolic logic being part of the machine learning vernacular as part of the early tokenization and training process.
Freebytes··on Cargo Cult AI
You hit the nail on the head, especially about the time-consuming aspect. People confuse honesty and respect. You can always be truthful while still maintaining respect and appreciation of others.

"Did you like my singing?"

Option A: "No. You sounded like an animal being slaughtered. If this is a hobby of yours, I would recommend a different one."

Option B: "Not really."

Option C: "It is not my style, but you sounded like your were enjoying yourself."

Option D: "You really had a lot of passion. There were times you struggled, though, so you should record yourself and practice on those points. When you have everything ironed out, I would be happy to offer an honest critique again."

This is going from rude responses to respectful responses. Option B is actually more honest than Option A, but is less 'brutal'. However, if a person is truly seeking a critique, you can offer one in detail, but it is probably better to ask if they are seeking your actual preferences or your critique in that type of situation.

Freebytes··on Cargo Cult AI
The definition of life involves many scenarios that do not need to be related to artificial intelligence. I think you were suggesting the term sentience. However, we should likely devote our energies to AI tools that do not attempt to mimic or achieve sentience. We can make tools that are far beyond the capability of humans while not requiring sentience as part of that equation. Machine sentience and intelligence are independent.
Freebytes··on What happened with ASUS routers this morning?
Plus, if you cannot get online, you cannot get the instructions to fix it.
Freebytes··on Show HN: Pinbot – An extension to privately search one's browser history with AI
I would like something similar to VoidTools Everything that allows a person to search their own computer using AI to generate answers instead. (But it should not send any information to third parties such as OpenAI.)
Freebytes··on Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
I just cancelled my ChatGPT Plus subscription. I do not want to support monopolization of this technology. Companies apparently learned their lesson with the freedom of the Internet.
Freebytes··on Apple is now worth more than the entire Russell 2000
Any company could come along and make a better product, but there is a huge barrier to entry in terms of the operating system side. Because of its ubiquitous nature, Android based systems have a bad reputation to many people. However, one of the greatest barriers to entry are the software patents (which in my mind should not exist).
Freebytes··on Don’t use sugar substitutes for weight loss, World Health Organization advises
I am the opposite. For some reason, I want to eat immediately after using mouthwash, but maybe that is because I always want what I cannot have.
Freebytes··on Google Bard blocks all European Union countries
Interestingly, if you use Bard, there are buttons that direct people to use the Google search engine to find out more information about subjects. Google has a problem that their search results absolutely suck nowadays, though. One of the worst search features on any website is on YouTube which is owned by Google. They seem to value revenue generation techniques more than functionality, but it is going to eventually bite them. We are seeing that now with many people finding better results using Bing or by simply asking ChatGPT.
Freebytes··on Google Bard blocks all European Union countries
"it's outright malignant"

That sounds like a complaint.

Freebytes··on The Epic Stack
Hello, Beginners! Try out an entire ecosystem of tools and then discover that you made a mistake...

Or just install Visual Studio and create a C# web application using the recommendations in the IDE and a 20 minute video on YouTube.

This article might be some kind of parody, though. I really cannot tell.

Freebytes··on Reflected Diffusion Models
What you demonstrated as the "bad example" is closer to what mathematicians have been doing recently, but they would use natLog, ratCir, and im as variable names instead inside of a function called gnl() and offer no comments as to what any of it means.

From what I have seen, they should likely be putting their code into ChatGPT and asking it to clean it up because it does a better job of writing functions with properly named variables.

Freebytes··on The Andy Warhol Copyright Case That Could Transform Generative AI
And could theoretically cover the vector space of all 'reasonable' interpretations of 'art' within a small 32x32 image space. (That is, it would not need to cover all 32x32 pixels. Simply a subset of these that are within the realm of what humans might recognize as art.) Then own the copyright on all art that could ever be generated.
Freebytes··on Pinecone raises $100M Series B
Do you know of anything similar available for SQL Server 2019?
Freebytes··on Incognito ChatGPT with no account required
While all of those proxies might anonymize the visit or the request, it does not anonymize the requests themselves. OpenAI keeps those API requests for 30 days. Therefore, no matter what any of them say, it is not really anonymous for this reason and never can be unless they are running their own models.
Freebytes··on Incognito ChatGPT with no account required
It should start with "No. We understand how..." That is, answer the question and then explain the details.
Freebytes··on Show HN: SiteGPT – Create ChatGPT-like chatbots trained on your website content
Many people think that simple projects have no market because they are simple, but Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and so on are all simple projects. People do not want to build their own [insert literally anything]. People that value their time will pay for services such as this, and I wish you luck.
Freebytes··on SETI@home is in hibernation
Excellent. I will check that out and see if I can contribute.
Freebytes··on SETI@home is in hibernation
That is actually a great idea. One of the issues with a network, however, is how the output would be produced in such a scenario and how the dictionary would be controlled and how the training data could be managed. The transformer model allows different RNNs to be separated, but it would be challenging to 'put it all together'. Furthermore, bad actors could intentionally poison the network during the training process.

Furthermore, how would upgrades work? When new techniques are discovered, it would be hard to upgrade it. We see these challenges already when it comes to major changes in cryptocurrency networks.

Freebytes··on Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?
They also have a tendency to edit, remove episodes, etc. And it does not even need to be for political correctness either. It could be licensing rights to music in shows. They will sometimes edit a show to remove the music or remove the episode altogether. (This happened with Scrubs.)

They will remove content that involves people talking about suicide. They will remove content that is offensive. They have even gone back and edited previous episodes and content. This has happened in Stranger Things (actual edits with no notice) and Arrested Development (a redesign of the fourth season that is far worse than the original version of it). (I could not watch the fifth season. It was way too terrible.)

Freebytes··on Tell HN: Doing a chargeback against Google will get your account banned
I lost the ability to use adwords. It has always been denied. I was never given a reason, and any attempt to appeal the decision were declined. I used my own email account to set up an account for a business, and the traffic may have been unusual because it was banner ads on the website of the local ISP. So, the ISP owned all of the IP addresses even though they were uniquely different people. And the office had multiple people in it so there is a chance that someone in the office may have, at some point, clicked on a banner advertisement themselves. I have no idea.

I have not tried in a few years, but I was nearing the 10 year mark previously, and they still would not allow me to use adwords. I am not sure if it is a lifetime ban or what.

Freebytes··on Htmx in a Nutshell
While I am just now discovering it so have not used it, I personally love this approach because it keeps the HTML syntax. It is like programming in two different languages when you only need one. Normally, you would add an onclick event handler to the element to call a function. Then, you scroll up to the function and back down to the anchor. Back up to the function. Back down to the anchor. This puts everything in one place with cleaner syntax.
Freebytes··on Rackspace Exchange hosting down ~18 hours; “solution” is to start over on O365
Ransomware was actually my first guess as well.
Freebytes··on FTX to file for U.S. bankruptcy, CEO resigns
If so, then he will be facing jail time. If not, then he is fine.
Freebytes··on <i>: The Idiomatic Text element
Absolutely. Leave HTML as is and focus on actual accessibility features. They could even add screen reader specific elements and indicate that all other page elements should be ignored. So, you would show one presentation for visual purposes and the other for audible purposes. (Or even braille for feedback purposes.)

Add something to the document that tells it to ignore screen readers as long as a <screenreader> tag is present that puts everything in one place.

Freebytes··on <i>: The Idiomatic Text element
If they wanted people to use a different tag for such text, they should have created an idiomatic tag instead of attempting to repurpose existing ones. Adding alternative elements is usually the better solution.
Freebytes··on Functional programming should be the future of software
The goto statement exists in most modern languages. Even C# has a goto statement, and while I have only used it once or twice in the past 10 years, it still has a purpose -- effectively breaking out of multiple loops if you are within more than one. That is, break will only break out of the inner most loop. It can save a lot of resources sometimes to break out of both. Normally you would not want to put yourself in such a position, but it happens and comes in handy.
Freebytes··on Paul Graham Is Wrong (2005)
I assume this comment is satire, but I am not actually sure. And by this comment, I meant this comment not the comment to which I am replying.
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