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ekabod··on Chomsky explains why nobody is a moral relativist
If we consider that a person is a data point with its own properties (family, wealth, education, upbringing environment,...); the idea of a universal framework that handles these properties for ethics is still valid.
ekabod··on Ask HN: I'm a SWE without a CS degree. Will online certs help me get into FAANG?
You are a programmer, not a SWE. To be a SWE, you need an engineer diploma obtained after 5 years of studying.
ekabod··on TikTok fined €345M for breaking EU data law on children’s accounts
Wrong thread or too much wisdom.
ekabod··on PayPal launches its own U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin
I don't think you have been to France. I am french, and I use Paypal all the time because I don't want to give my CC numbers and a majority of online store offer Paypal as an option to pay. Direct Bank transfer to pay online is not widely offered.
ekabod··on Show HN: Marsha – An LLM-Based Programming Language
Can you explain your reasoning? I don't get it at all.
ekabod··on Threads Surpasses 30M Signups
-full of bots.

-full of russian troll farms.

-full of random porn.

ekabod··on Building Boba AI: Lessons learnt in building an LLM-powered application
>[1] https://leanpub.com/langchain

Too short to call it a book.

ekabod··on MiniMit – Bringing Minitel back to life
My parents, when I was a kid, discovered that Minitel had also paid games, billed by the minute. I spent around 100 euros of their money on them.
ekabod··on Algeria cuts internet nationwide during the baccalaureat exams
14 000 dead. How do you call this "something"?
ekabod··on Table Transformer: a model for extracting tables from unstructured documents
If you were asked to extract lists or tables from html pages only, how would you go?

I was thinking: a) use the metric used in TableTransformer to detect the structured data. b) use the Markup LM model, maybe mixed with TableTransformer. c) find a way to work directly with GPT4.

ekabod··on Netflix to invest $2.5B in South Korea to make TV shows, movies
>Honestly, it's time to move on and find some other way to tell stories.

I hope not, I want more 'Barry' or 'Succession' or 'Better Call Saul' even if they share some already seen templates.

ekabod··on Show HN: BTCGPT predicts bitcoin price. (Your Fun Bitcoin Crystal Ball)
How do you know that bitcoin price can be modeled?
ekabod··on Leaving China
>Bangkok is ethnically a mostly Chinese city

Do you have a source for that because that has not been my experience?

ekabod··on Darwinian Gastronomy: Why We Use Spices (1999)
madhur jaffrey
ekabod··on No one wants to have kids anymore
> There’s nothing close to chasing a toddler in a circle for an hour.

I hope this is your toddler.

ekabod··on Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Hacker News
on hackernews, comments appear really as a tree, and that is pleasant. Not so much with this extension. It is not so clear where stands the comment we are reading.
ekabod··on Ask HN: Who else can only fall asleep listening to audio content?
You are surely not a health professional, your link is about Magnesium.
ekabod··on Our brain is a prediction machine that is always active
Conciousness is not learning, it is observing and observing the process of observation.
ekabod··on Show HN: Plasmo – a framework for building modern Chrome extensions
I am interesting to know if a solo developer can make a living, 6/7 figures, producing and monetizing extensions.
ekabod··on Show HN: Plasmo – a framework for building modern Chrome extensions
Can you point to one extension that is making 7 figures?
ekabod··on Paleontologists Are Trying to Understand Why the Fossil Record Is Mostly Males
wrong thread
ekabod··on Tradle
Full of bugs. HN users are not testers.
ekabod··on Ukraine accepted to NATO cyber defence centre
You didn't even mention the name of one european country outside Ukraine and Russia. Your vision is US centric.
ekabod··on France to Build Six New Nuclear Reactors
"France has a relatively good track record on nuclear power"

What does that means?

ekabod··on Magnus Carlsen retains title after winning lopsided match
Saying Nepo has less mental endurance than Carlsen is not the same as saying he doesn't have any as this poster wrote.
ekabod··on Magnus Carlsen retains title after winning lopsided match
Do you really think Nepo would be at that level without mental endurance?
ekabod··on TheNFTbay.org – The Billion Dollar Torrent (All NFT's from Ethereum and Solana)
it would be selling a link to the location of a movie file.
ekabod··on Ireland joins OECD International Tax agreement
Who are these local governments? I don't know any.
ekabod··on France Recalls Its Ambassadors to the U.S. and Australia over a Submarine Deal
France refuses to sell nuclear submarines.
ekabod··on France Recalls Its Ambassadors to the U.S. and Australia over a Submarine Deal
When Merkel decided to welcome one million refugees on german soil, it was about domestic politics?
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