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teej··on No federal privacy law? After the 23andMe hack, it's time to take action
Their business practice of getting hacked?
teej··on Black currants were banned in the USA (2017)
I stopped into a pub in Dublin, Ireland once and everyone was drinking a pint of Guinness w/ blackcurrant. I had no idea that was a thing.
teej··on Teach your LLM to answer with facts, not fiction
> This approach reduces the likelihood of hallucinations among LLMs.

This has not been my experience. Did you create any benchmarks as a part of this project?

teej··on Big Tech as the New Big Tobacco
Something also not caused by doom scrolling twitter.
teej··on FTC warns board game content creators, publishers to disclose relationships
Classic HN “what about” that’s completely wrong and voted to the top.
teej··on Creating a search engine with PostgreSQL
20% of all Google searches are brand new
teej··on How to build a website without frameworks and tons of libraries
In 2005 maybe
teej··on McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game
The agency who developed the game has a website that nails the Geocities-era aesthetic – https://krooltoys.com/
teej··on Automatic emergency braking should become mandatory, feds say
Theory is great. What has data shown?
teej··on Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing
There was a 15 year period where many websites were only compatible with Internet Explorer. The dream of clients in control is worth fighting for, but it’s never been reality.
teej··on AI Canon
Adam Neuman, with support from a16z, has an excellent track record returning capital to Americans while leaving Chinese & Saudi investors to hold the bag. That is why they invested.
teej··on I stopped worrying and learned to love denormalized tables
It’s complicated. Databases have entities called “views” and “materialized views” that have a specific meaning in that ecosystem. dbt let’s you define views in the abstract sense, but they’re implemented using a variety of different database primitives, like tables, temp tables, common table expressions, and views. dbt calls them “models”.
teej··on Do the weirdest thing that feels right
It's not.
teej··on Show HN: Avoiding Imgur Link Rot
Imgur hosts a lot of porn and was the preferred image host for some popular NSFW subreddits.
teej··on SparseGPT: Language Models Can Be Accurately Pruned in One-Shot
This is a great breakdown. I don’t know much about LLM internals but I could follow this easily.
teej··on Eye Candy
Here's the gif https://i.imgur.com/FqmoBQy.gif
teej··on Flush your Amazon credentials now
Forcing password reset on all Amazon customers will cost them $10s of millions, possibly more. If I were them I'd consider every possible alternative before doing that.
teej··on Flush your Amazon credentials now
Why is this garbage?
teej··on Telemetry in Front-End Tools
Tracking my usage was never part of the social contract of OSS. This post is a reminder of that.
teej··on Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco
Did I miss the vouch window for this? I don’t think it should be flagged.
teej··on Experts warn yearly checkups carry risks and do not reduce mortality
Brought to you by some doctors in Denmark, a country with socialized healthcare.

Can we cut the cynicism for one minute to at least check the source?

teej··on ChatGPT's Chess Elo is 1400
I wanted it to be fun and actually complete games. I started with this, with a few minor tweaks: https://github.com/Tmate6/Lichess_ChatGPT_ChatBot/blob/main/...

This approach sends along the list of legal moves in the prompt if it attempts an illegal move. That seems to work well at getting playable moves.

teej··on ChatGPT's Chess Elo is 1400
I just deployed a GPT-4 powered chess bot to lichess. You can challenge it here: https://lichess.org/@/oopsallbots-gpt-4
teej··on Ask HN: What US bank post-SVB would you recommend?
No, it’s not. DINB exists to sell the remaining assets of SVB, it’s not going to take new deposits.
teej··on Ask HN: What US bank post-SVB would you recommend?
This is not true for FDIC.
teej··on Ask HN: What US bank post-SVB would you recommend?
SVB no longer exists.
teej··on Developer marketing for early-stage startups – what we’ve learned
The fact it has a cartoon of some politician, taking up 15% of my viewport for no reason?
teej··on Developer marketing for early-stage startups – what we’ve learned
This sets a new low for cookie consent banners.
teej··on Vancouver hospital patient loses Netflix access due to password crackdown
JustWatch is a good standalone mobile app that can do this.
teej··on Ask HN: How do you test SQL?
I haven't seen an ORM that handles analytical queries well. I'd rather write raw SQL than use SQLAlchemy for complex queries with multiple joins, aggregations, and window functions.
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