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by dlenski 3mo ago
My suspicion as well. I don't see any crystal clear evidence for it, but I'm sure looking for it.
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by dlenski 3mo ago
Thanks. (4) is the critical piece here.
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by dlenski 3mo ago
> I work at ngrok, and this is not how our freemium plan works. Free plans limit based on usage alone, not on machine IDs. Thank you! This is not only good to know as an ngrok user myself, but it's also more informative than what&#x
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by dlenski 3mo ago
And then what? Does the Microsoft store imprint an identifier into the network traffic of all the binaries downloaded from it? And if so, how? All of ngrok's traffic is TLS encrypted which means that only the client software and the se
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by dlenski 3mo ago
And what I'm saying is that it's probably unlikely that this "one" exists.
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by dlenski 3mo ago
Yeah, this is what's glaringly missing from the article. Exactly how does Microsoft's device identifier get associated with the ngrok session (normally initiated via its closed-source CLI)? I can't tell from the article whe
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by dlenski 3mo ago
Interesting read. Canada would be even more US-skewed. Canada is lacking in large domestic cloud providers and Canadian companies often use the default US regions of public clouds (e.g. AWS us-east-1) rather than Canada regions (e.g. ca-cen
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by dlenski 3mo ago
There are not too many mentally-sharp, fully-employed, terminally-ill people that I have met. Even fewer at tech companies. And even fewer who are single and childless. (Google would likely go after the estate of anyone who did this.)
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by dlenski 3mo ago
I didn't see the word "try" in the headline, did you?
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by dlenski 4mo ago
I read about 60% of it and skimmed the rest and my conclusion is: Man, I just. don't. care . Why should I worry about this hypothetical future dystopia, which seems to me incredibly unlikely to come to pass, rather than the glaring an
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by dlenski 4mo ago
I have been a major LLM skeptic and "late adopter." I had never actually used LLMs for anything at all (either in work or personal life) until about two months ago, although I had followed their development with interest and skept
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by dlenski 4mo ago
Quite honestly, this is the most interesting and useful thing that I have ever read, directly responsive to the question of "how good are LLMS at doing difficult tasks , in terms of both bang-for-the-buck and in terms of raw perform
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by dlenski 4mo ago
Got it, thanks. I believe that the version I have might be a later printing of the 1978 version, but actually the book I'm remembering most clearly was a later 1986 book by Ahl with a similar title of "Basic Computer Adventures&
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by dlenski 4mo ago
My copy is at my parents’ house so I can't check the exact date now, but it's from the mid-to-late '80s and targets 8-bit home computer BASIC (e.g. Commodore 64) and IBM/Microsoft BASIC. So I presume there were several r
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by dlenski 4mo ago
What is the point of this? I had this book when I was ten years old. I learned a lot from typing and trying to modify the BASIC games in it. I went on to learn C and many other programming languages, and to use them professionally and other
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by dlenski 4mo ago
A nice illustration of the homogeneity of LLM responses. Another way to describe this effect would be… If you ask humans to write 1,000 books, you're asking 1,000 different humans with different experiences and different skills a
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by dlenski 4mo ago
I've just refused to install such things on my phone. You want me to have email and teams/slack on my phone? Sorry, I won't install the spyware. Want to pay for me to have a second phone with it? Okay. No? Well then, I just w
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by dlenski 4mo ago
Yep, on older phones it was certainly possible without an Internet connection. On the Nexus 5, you could just `fastboot oem unlock` right out of the box, install TWRP (custom "recovery") and install CyanogenMod/LienageOS, wit
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by dlenski 4mo ago
> if we need popular sentiment to get companies excluded for being obvious grifts. I don't understand this argument. SpaceX is not being "excluded" for any exceptional reason. S&P has stated, essentially, that SpaceX w
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by dlenski 4mo ago
> The further the S&P 500 strays from reflecting the actual market, the more useless it becomes. Here I once again agree with you in part, and disagree in part. The S&P 500 should reflect the actual market. That is, the actual
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by dlenski 4mo ago
I'm with you on this part: > Because the index needs accuracy. If a company is 1-2% of the total US market cap and not included in the index, then the index is wrong right now. The longer this company is not in the index, the longe
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by dlenski 4mo ago
Yes, this is one of the benefits of a cap-weighted index fund. It doesn't eliminate the need for the fund to rebalance, because of companies moving in and out of the index criteria. But it certainly vastly reduces the need of the f
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by dlenski 4mo ago
This is just a copy-paste of the article text, is it not? https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-urges-global-pause-in-...
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by dlenski 4mo ago
Also in this post from a few minutes earlier, a copy-paste of the article text: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48403770
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by dlenski 5mo ago
> The pathology of generative AI is that it too easily allows substantial form without discernible intent. That mistake is harder to make when creating by hand. There's an obligatory xkcd about this: https://xkcd.com&#x
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by dlenski 5mo ago
Great article. It's been almost 20 years since I've used Gnutella, but I seem to recall that, as flexible and resilient as it was, it had some pretty major issues with speed of queries and scaling to millions of users. I think Bit
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by dlenski 5mo ago
> So does Samsung have a union? Are you being sarcastic? It's literally mentioned in the first sentence of the article, as well as the subheading.
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by dlenski 5mo ago
> "AI" is just glorified search Even aside from out-and-out spam one of the extremely frustrating things about Google's AI overviews, compared to traditional search, is that the results are presented as coherent vergi
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by dlenski 5mo ago
Love this. Gonna add it to a few of mine that are quasi abandoned because I'm too burned-out to wade back into them in any detail, per one of the categories described in the article.
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by dlenski 5mo ago
This is a great article and a great taxonomy, but I dislike the title. These seem like the normal ways that an open-source project fades and dies. There are also several routes by which a project can be revived and reinvigorated. One of m

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