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by baobun 1y ago
The privacy aspect and other security risks tho? So far all the praise I hear on productivity are from people using cloud-hosted models. Claude, Gemini, Copilot and and ChatGPT are non-starters for privacy-minded folks. So far, local experi
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...in absence of inheritance
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userContent.css https://superuser.com/questions/318912/how-can-i-override-th... You need to enable it in about:config these days https://www.userchrome.org/firefox-changes-userchrome-css.ht...
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So how would we expect the same student to handle a situation later in their academic career faced with the perceived choice between fudging a study or losing funding for their lab? Properly aligned incentives need to be enforced from day 0
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While .eu exists the European Commission went with .dev (operated by Google). This does not make me optimistic about interoperability, sovereignity, and effective privacy considerations.
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With ony 1/4 members being from Automattic, I wonder if they will be able to achieve internally sustainable Matt-alignment...
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I guess it's a regression fix (perhaps Windows-specific) where it used to work and broke at some recent version? Because the feature as described is indeed nothing new in Firefox. From the linked bug: > Firefox now supports adding y
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by baobun 1y ago
OpenAI and Microsoft, OTOH, define it as a system with >100B USD profit. Keep that in mind when you hear Satya or sama talk about "AGI progress". So it follows that the US $500B investment needs to yield >20% returns to have
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I think most of us agree with Searle that a Chinese room does not understand Chinese. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
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According to samaltman the defining characteristic is literally $100b of profit. Nothing more or less. Keep that in mind when you hear OpenAI and Satya talk about "AGI"
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> If you don't, that person might lose their faith later and end up in hell, and it would be your fault Have you read the Bible? Jesus would disagree with this take very hard. Or do you have any support for this moral argument from
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> Such is our character that asking how many times you'd push it is far more interesting than asking if you'd push it. Is that a royal "Our"? I don't think you are speaking for anyone but yourself. People like Tr
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by baobun 1y ago
So assumimg we have 1. Physical reality (e.g. how many years has earth existed) 2. Metaphysical reality (is there a creator? If so is your "soul" or life in any way relevant to them?) 3. Moral reality (Is killing other humans in c
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Been suggesting to a non-technical OpenOffice-using writer friend to at least give LibreOffice a try but it ain't happening. The name is a lot stickier than the actual product or people behind it.
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Measure, analyze, optimize. You should be able to deploy your app locally, access it via a logging proxy, (say mitmproxy), and observe the logged HTTP traffic to identify what's going on. Pay attention to HTTP cache mechanisms. Rinse a
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Make those dependency interfaces dynamic enough to be practically untyped, introduce arbitrary implicit ordering requirements, and we have now invented Middleware.
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They don't have it mixed up. There were two separate cases with mutilated hands in the news recently, both France. You speak of the Ledger co-founder while GP of another.
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Get into farming. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pDTiFkXgEE
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Really wish they'd properly decouple the creeping "Remote Settings" from anything triggered by the address bar. Getting increasingly harder to disable phone-home without inadvertently breaking something the way some of these
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It looks like HN trimmed away the t=19517s part of the video link :/ https://youtube.com/watch?v=gnB76DQI1GE&t=19517s
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Overview of Firefox's CRLite implementation, which is replacing OCSP for revocation checks. Related paper from speaker on the clubcards data structure (pdf): https://research.mozilla.org/files/2025/04/clu
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Toward revocation checking that works (Mozilla at RWC) [video](youtube.com)
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Any lessons learned from the 2024 incident? Was/is it possible to put in place internal controls to prevent future compromise? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38897363 And I guess related to the section and post o
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Soundcloud, Spotify, Klarna
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I'm guessing a 32GB version could sell well even without scaling anything else at 4x the price or so. So is it like the DoD who decided we can't have too much VRAM in widely available GPUs and influencing AMD/Intel/nVidi
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https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1925029185052917791.html
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It's been one day? There is some possibility of extraordinary circumstances (of which you can't possibly be aware at this point) explaining the situation that could paint things in a very different light. Would you send a similar
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We really don't need a unique "Ask HN: When will AI replace" for every product, service and profession out there.
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> The French supplier of the devices – a company called Oportik – has been stopped from trading and three staff members arrested. It is believed to have sold about 5,000 of the phones > While they are themselves perfectly legal in Fra
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That's not the issue here. VSCode and FireFox are false equivalents. Even if you'd rebrand the fork, Signal forbids non-official clients/builds from connecting to their servers. Enforcement has been selective but the last off

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