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by akersten 4mo ago
It's actually extremely useful and an apt comparison. I don't think the allowed shapes of formed metal should be regulated either. If you do something bad with your tool (knife or LLM), though, that's the problem. And we have
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by akersten 4mo ago
Yeah, it's clear to see that they'd want to get in front of something like that happening again. My point though is that the pull quote I highlighted is a flimsy reassurance because "it all happens on the device" does no
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by akersten 4mo ago
Sure, what I meant is "without actually taking a stance on what the article is about and opinions on Apple's feature aside, I dislike the particular placation presented within"
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by akersten 4mo ago
> Because the photos and videos are analyzed on your child's device, Apple doesn't receive an indication that nudity was detected and doesn't get access to the photos or videos as a result. Apropos of nothing, I really don
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by akersten 4mo ago
It must be a tricky problem to balance. On the one hand, you as Google want people to create 30 seconds of video per month with your cool Omni, Flow, Gemini, etc. tools. On the other hand, as soon as people share those things on the logic
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by akersten 4mo ago
> they incentivize people with power to manipulate the real world in horribly destructive ways to win a bet. How does the same line of argument not also suggest that stock markets be prohibited?
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by akersten 5mo ago
And the most critical thing about JPG is that the decoding is deterministic . Who's to say this fancy new PICO thing doesn't produce different pixels in a year when the algorithm improves, or the local model changes, etc. Imo, ge
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by akersten 5mo ago
IPOing soon at $11B btw
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by akersten 5mo ago
Personally, having to buy the barely-changed newest yearly edition of half a dozen $300 textbooks per semester of undergrad totally radicalized my view on copyright.
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by akersten 5mo ago
You are very convinced of your position and I don't think I'll un-convince you, but you have to realize that people with opinions different from yours are not "brain damaged so that's why I must be getting downvoted, and
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by akersten 5mo ago
> The code it generated was awful. The kind of garbage that people who don’t know any better would ship: it looked right and it worked. But it was instantly a maintenance dead end. In the Tailwind thread the other day I was explicitly to
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by akersten 5mo ago
Hmm. I think extrapolating from the reddit people who say "I tried vibe coding an entire app from scratch and all I said was fix this and make no mistakes and it didn't work" is a bad data source and will give you the wrong i
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by akersten 5mo ago
> It's totally, and completely, unambiguous. The internet just has collective brain damage The point that continues to be missed is that instead of taking downvotes as validation that people simply failed to comprehend the argument
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by akersten 5mo ago
Man, I wish folks calibrated their E(I am actually wrong|downvotes). Have you considered what that value could be in this case?
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by akersten 5mo ago
> [fighting against the system] is tacitly accepting the barcode. I don't really see it. I think it's important to win on both fronts.
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by akersten 5mo ago
There's an underappreciated comment in the other thread about SynthID and OpenAI [0] that captures what (IMO) the hacker ethos on this should be. We care about privacy, we should not accept tools that barcode our every digital move. (n
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by akersten 5mo ago
This was done in the past, Google saw it, and now either refuses to generate or doesn't emit the SynthID watermark for those images
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by akersten 5mo ago
> That's a lot of hyperbole, there's no cause/effect relationship I can think of here that could realistically produce your slippery slope. Have you been watching the headlines over the last year? It's like there&#x27
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by akersten 5mo ago
My favorite feature of Plex is that it resets the subtitle track to `None` when the next episode in a series starts. I love manually switching on the same named subtitle track every 30 minutes! $749 is actually too cheap for such an amazing
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by akersten 5mo ago
Long time ago TrueCrypt suddenly and abruptly shut down with a vague goodbye message saying "everyone please move on and use bitlocker instead" Prevailing theory is they were pressured to put in a backdoor and couldn't disclo
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by akersten 5mo ago
> Now your first instinct might be to "that’s unreadable", but keep in mind HOW you actually read and write this code. You’re not actually reading it to understand what it does like you do with iterative code. You see how the b
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by akersten 5mo ago
I think the new world cannot be born is larger than just AI. Even before llms we had a whole generation of people going through CS curriculum who call the Internet "wifi" and don't know what a file is. Even if LLMs disappeare
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by akersten 5mo ago
> If the person who wrote this were to be imprisoned for the rest of their life [...] then things would be very different Yes, they certainly would. You wouldn't have smartphones, for instance. I can't tell if this is satirical
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by akersten 5mo ago
Based on the recent comments I've seen around here, selecting whether "Social Media" or "Private Prisons" are worse for society is somehow, inexplicably, a tough decision. Many of the options here are also confusing
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by akersten 5mo ago
I think this proposal does an extremely poor job conveying the problem rhythmic sizing solves and why the solution is better than the "before" screenshot. I really don't understand it. I don't understand how I would conf
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by akersten 5mo ago
> awareness that big tech's stranglehold over our media is a problem. The legacy consolidated news organizations getting a sweet free new revenue stream are glad that they've been able to convince so many people that big tech l
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by akersten 5mo ago
i'm confused, why would you go out of your way to add this tracking info to external links voluntarily? it doesn't benefit you, it just helps other websites segment their traffic?
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by akersten 5mo ago
The other side of the view is "information is real and I don't like some of it ("it's harmful/addictive/blasphemous") so it must be controlled and regulated." I don't think it's an odd thing
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by akersten 5mo ago
How does this specific horrible take rank so highly on HN whenever something adjacent to big tech gets posted. "impartial common carrier" is not even an extent legal concept. It's been argued to death already, I just have to
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by akersten 5mo ago
People discovering "just how the web works" have spawned myriad complaints, misguided laws, and general anger and confusion. I wish there was a test people had to take before they go online or something. Otherwise they'll sti

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