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by Ukv 11mo ago
If the alternative was putting the information in some hypothetical file attribute with similar or greater level of support/availability (like for filtering across various search engines and file managers) then I'd agree there&#x2
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by Ukv 11mo ago
Observing animals' behavior (in the wild and through experiments like the one here) and studying how their brains work to see that they often have the same kind of mental features as us (including whichever you'd classify as consc
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by Ukv 11mo ago
> And it would be far more obvious that an error message is being ignored. Haven't used Go so maybe I'm missing some consideration, but I don't see how ", _" is more obvious than ".unwrap()". If anythin
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by Ukv 11mo ago
> VPNs have something to do with IPs which are necessarily geolocatable The website (which is the party these obligations are being placed on) could geolocate the VPN IP, but that wouldn't tell them where the user is actually from.
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by Ukv 11mo ago
> Are 100% of those exploitable? This single ended statistic is simply not useful. Some more links/statistics (including on 0-days exploited in the wild) here: https://www.memorysafety.org/docs/memory-safety&#x2
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by Ukv 11mo ago
> Certainly not the Linux / open-source crowd At least the local AI features, being able to translate or summarize a page without sending it off to Google, seem like they'd appeal to this crowd the most. I don't really und
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by Ukv 11mo ago
> Governments. Make it a digital passport. Some places don't have a sufficiently functional/digitally-competent government to manage it securely, and others would likely withhold/invalidate identifiers from groups they dis
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by Ukv 11mo ago
> - That a person cannot own more than one of. Exactly one seems hard to implement (some kind of global registry?). I think relaxing this requirement slightly, such that a user could for instance get a small number of different identitie
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by Ukv 11mo ago
> In order to use Privacy Pass for per-user rate-limiting, it's necessary to limit the number of tokens issued to each user (e.g., 100 tokens per user per hour). To rate limit an AI agent, this role would be fulfilled by the AI plat
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by Ukv 11mo ago
To my understanding this bug would affect anyone using ffmpeg on untrusted input. Google may already be limiting to certain codecs in their own use, but should still report the issue (as they have here).
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by Ukv 1y ago
> I give them the time and address of where I need to be [...] That's usually enough to bring them down a notch from "train work" to "sometimes train work" [...] Do you want to play that game with me to get your
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by Ukv 1y ago
> in other words corporate interests cant develop a tech that works reliably so they take over a public chattel To my understanding the idea of the white light is that self-driving cars will at some point be able to coordinate well enoug
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by Ukv 1y ago
Took me a moment too - it's a capital 'D', at about the same angle as the second 'm'. The 'O' just has an extraneous line through it (which was the stem of the P).
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by Ukv 1y ago
Transcription, translation, material/product defect detection, weather forecasting/early warning systems, OCR, spam filtering, protein folding, tumor segmentation, drug discovery/interaction prediction, etc. seem fairly promi
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by Ukv 1y ago
> His comment was worse in that it generalized a whole lot of people The only statement sebstefan made specified "the people who came to interview for the Rust roles of my company" and likewise for Java applicants - groups they
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by Ukv 1y ago
> This kind of generalization is so old. I feel you're objecting to the wrong comment. sebstefan appropriately specified "the people who came to interview for the Rust roles of my company [...]", and was giving it as a cou
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by Ukv 1y ago
> You don't get to exclude every advertiser from any random search string just because you have a domain name with it. To my understanding, Google keywords are already semantic. It's not that it shows ads because it can't
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by Ukv 1y ago
Bad UX is the result, from the combination of disabling text selection and being in a language you don't understand. Ideally both would be fixed - since unselectable text causes UX issues even when in a language I understand (when I wa
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by Ukv 1y ago
A menu with "我的帳戶" in it, and often a generic icon or no icon at all, doesn't really have sufficient context to determine what the button means. If the website is already translated into your language then great, but many web
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by Ukv 1y ago
Worse in what way? For keyboard use, I want text to be selectable, since I'll often use shift + arrow keys while reading.
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by Ukv 1y ago
> Use a mouse to click inside of a word link (like "threads") in the HN header. Try to drag to highlight. Note that the link tries to drag instead of highlighting. This is default behavior for anchors because of the issues that
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by Ukv 1y ago
> I didn't even see that, I guess because I have both popups and cookies blocked The notice is likely EU (+ UK) specific for GDPR compliance, if you're elsewhere. > so it's not like they could store data even if they wa
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by Ukv 1y ago
It'd be ~0.1% of Firefox users that use 32-bit Linux, extrapolating from e2le's statistics, not 2.6%. Have to draw the line at some point if an old platform is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain - websites today aren&#x27
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by Ukv 1y ago
> But obviously that's way too much, same for Nepal, not sure why you're immediately jumping to kidnapping, If legal it's "imprisonment" of the employee - and I feel it's hard to argue that's out of the
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by Ukv 1y ago
If it's just meant to be a contact point/grievance handler, I don't see much issue with them being in another country. If they're meant to be "held accountable" as leverage to ensure the company's complian
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by Ukv 1y ago
> The world isn't new and the obviously unacceptable behaviors have all been forbidden for thousands of years. I don't think this checks out at all. Slavery was only outlawed in the US ~160 years ago, and marital rape only ~40
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by Ukv 1y ago
> Pointing out an egregious case of advertising that does not deliver a net positive does not disprove that point. Coke/Pepsi were your own examples. I don't believe there are just a limited number of bad cases in an otherwise
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by Ukv 1y ago
> Believe it or not, some people do enjoy a sugary drink from time to time But does that mean spending billions in resources on getting people to consume more sugary drinks is a net positive? I don't think so. I think the goal of ha
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by Ukv 1y ago
IMO a lot of this comes from still holding onto the dualist idea of "I" as a separate non-physical entity, and then expecting some region of the brain to act as a link or communication channel to it. > If I could experience oth
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by Ukv 1y ago
> first and foremost informs I'd claim any extent to which ads inform the viewer is downstream of the ultimate goal of having people spend money on the product. The company behind the ad does not inherently care about you being info

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