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571.
by chii 11mo ago
personal increase in satisfaction (such as "work that my boss would otherwise tell me not to do") is valuable - even if only to you. The fact is, value is produced when something can be produced at a fraction of the resources requ
572.
by chii 11mo ago
so the question is should fraud protection err on the side of too lenient, allowing _some_ fraud to go thru to ensure zero innocent users get marked? Or should fraud protection err on the side of stringency, where all fraud gets caught, but
573.
by chii 1y ago
somehow, in the js/npm world, dependencies are updated willy nilly, which is the cause of a lot of that ecosystem's headaches.
574.
by chii 1y ago
> any attempts to do something about it are met with negativity because these attempts have all been poorly thought out, and in fact are following the corporate playbook that only works if the product is producing revenue. It's an a
575.
by chii 1y ago
Site seems to be hugged to death by HN.
576.
by chii 1y ago
> No ordinary user downloads millions of videos. why not? If that ordinary user wants to train their own model? Now you're not allowing such things to be done?
577.
by chii 1y ago
> Karcher opening a megamall to sell all their offering And their mall is monopolistic if it is only for Karcher products. However, because a competitor can easily open a mall next door, it means this Karcher mall is small, and so the en
578.
by chii 1y ago
> a huge staff and they're still losing. that's because these staff are just there for a pay cheque. The yt-dlp maintainers are passionate. You will find that the passion wins.
579.
by chii 1y ago
> this type of user They are undifferentiable from ordinary users. And what about users who do adblocking? They are also "not paying" in the same sense - how come they're not included in your list?
580.
by chii 1y ago
> But the ruling is correct. You can't have it both ways, if you invite competition you're not allowed to be anti-competitive That's just stupid, because being anti-competitive is an emergent outcome, rather than anything
581.
by chii 1y ago
> more people will hit their own tipping point but asserting that it's going to happen all at once and apply to everyone is nonsense. the point of boiling the frog is to make sure it happens slowly, such that the alternative options
582.
by chii 1y ago
This is the new "[placeholder here]" misprint/typos of the LLM era.
583.
by chii 1y ago
> independent researchers don't make money off the projects that they investigate but they make money off the reputational increase they earn for having their name attached to the investigation. Unless the investigation and report
584.
by chii 1y ago
> abandoning the project entirely that is a good outcome, because then the people dependent on such a project would find it plausible to pay a new set of maintainers.
585.
by chii 1y ago
why are the standards and expectation different for google vs an independent researcher? Just because they are richer, doesn't mean they should be held to a standard that isn't done for an independent researcher. The OSS maintaine
586.
by chii 1y ago
you'd assume that a bad actor would have found the exploit and kept it hidden for their own use. To assume otherwise is fundamentally flawed security practice.
587.
by chii 1y ago
which bad actors would have more of, as they'd have a financial incentive to make use of the found vulnerabilities. White hats don't get anything in return (financially) - it's essentially charity work.
588.
by chii 1y ago
nvidia's moat is still pretty strong and deep, while there have been many other models in competition with openAI's.
589.
by chii 1y ago
> At some point, a good VC would have a second winner. but you don't make the same type of deduction for lottery winners - surely a good lottery number picker should get a second win sooner or later!
590.
by chii 1y ago
> so in theory everyone's lives could end up better off over time they did. The innovation that happened in the past 100 years meant that almost everyone (in the west at least, and in a lot of developing nations too) has the access
591.
by chii 1y ago
see, if you only had GOTO's, this would be obvious what is going on!
592.
by chii 1y ago
it is a weapon the music industry wanted, but now has this unintended consequence. I think it's high time google stopped acting as judge jury and executioner in the court of copyright enforcement.
593.
by chii 1y ago
while ostensibly true, the more different types of passphrase/words you have, the less easy it is to remember. You probably only need just one, for authentication purposes. I doubt grandmother can perform this sort of "spycraft&qu
594.
by chii 1y ago
> I am scared and this close to setting up a secret passphrase in case they need to tell me appart from a clone. do that sooner rather than later. Voice mimicry is so much easier now, that you might not be able to tell from the phone. T
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The 100-Year Storm Myth [video](youtube.com)
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596.
by chii 1y ago
all of those situations are the "driver's own fault", because they could've had a check to ensure none of that happened before driving. Not true with an LLM (at least, not as of today).
597.
by chii 1y ago
They (google) could cite the loader being "exploited" to run "dangerous" apps like viruses/malware, and bypass the monopoly issue. I do think having a technical bypass is good - it isn't mutually exclusive with
598.
by chii 1y ago
and the taxi driver has an intelligence that enables them to interpret your destination, even if ambiguous. And even then, mistakes happen (all the time with taxis going to a different place than the passenger intended because the names may
599.
by chii 1y ago
> your car is non-deterministic it's not as far as your experience goes - you press pedal, it accelerates. You turn the steering, it goes the way it turns. What the car does is deterministic. More importantly, it does this every tim
600.
by chii 1y ago
i think a good counter to this sort of argument is : https://launiusr.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/why-explore-space-...

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