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by dougb5 2y ago
I sure don't agree that constitutes extreme activism of any kind, but anyway, my question is for Ancapistani and it's about the personal friends referenced in their message.
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by dougb5 2y ago
> They are also some of the most vocal extreme left-wing activists I've known well. Can you give a few examples of the vocal extreme left-wing activism?
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by dougb5 2y ago
When you say "big hitters", I guess you mean the well-known corporate crawlers like GPTBot (one of OpenAI's). Yes, these do tend to identify themselves --and they tend to respect robots.txt, too -- but they're a small p
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by dougb5 2y ago
Diabolical! But I think the occasional humans that I falsely identify as a bot will not appreciate this.
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by dougb5 2y ago
That is helpful, thank you! I will check it out.
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by dougb5 2y ago
Oh, I've tried captchas, and I can say that they're an awful experience for the humans you accidentally hit, at least for a service like mine that is relatively low value per session (a dictionary website). Within minutes of chan
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by dougb5 2y ago
I'm on AWS and use their WAF service to do some rudimentary bot blocking, but CDNs (their Cloudflare equivalent, Cloudfront) have been too expensive in the past and the bot control mechanisms they offer have too many false positives.
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by dougb5 2y ago
AI is killing my website but in a different way than what's discussed in the article: Content scrapers are completely out of control, spiking my serving costs and degrading performance for human users. There seem to be hundreds of th
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by dougb5 2y ago
USA Today has had something like this for a long while [1], though whether they find the strongest voices on each side is debatable. [1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/01/26/why-does-u..
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by dougb5 2y ago
The a16z article starts with "View this report on Gamma", so I'd assume they're on board with it. Maybe they're an investor?
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by dougb5 2y ago
> Voice agents allow businesses to be available to their customers 24/7 to answer questions, schedule appointments, or complete purchases. Customer availability and business availability no longer have to match 1:1 (ever tried to ca
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Show HN: Pandergram: A slow and gentle word game(onelook.com)
3 points by dougb5 2y ago|0 comments
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by dougb5 2y ago
Could you change your product to only show images that have Creative Commons licenses? https://daminion.net/articles/tips/how-to-use-images-legally...
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Compound Your Joy: Link English Word Pairs(onelook.com)
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by dougb5 2y ago
My complaint is with the article. They haven't done the reporting needed to tell me how much US taxpayers actually spent on this. They are happy to leave readers with the impression that we funded all of it. This is how we get disto
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by dougb5 2y ago
> part of an effort that was financed, in part, by US taxpayer dollars The "in part" here is doing a lot of work. I can't tell how big the part is from the detail provided in the article: > v-Fluence, which also had th
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by dougb5 2y ago
Does the naming scheme they've used for models so far suggest that they care about SEO?
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by dougb5 2y ago
I've never had a human personal assistant. I don't have a sufficiently "busy life", at least in the conventional sense. I appreciate that personal assistants can be useful for other people. And I'm not knocking th
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by dougb5 2y ago
> The mouse and keyboard are definitely dying (very slowly) for everyday computing use. Not to be that guy, but where's the evidence for this? People have been telling us that voice interaction is the future for many, many years,
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by dougb5 2y ago
I'm reminded of Kurt Vonnegut's famous story about buying postage stamps: https://www.insidehook.com/wellness/kurt-vonnegut-advice "I stamp the envelope and mail it in a mailbox in front of the post off
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We Are Dancing Animals (Vonnegut on Automation) (2023)(insidehook.com)
3 points by dougb5 2y ago|0 comments
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by dougb5 2y ago
> We’re collaborating with companies like DoorDash, Instacart, OpenTable, Priceline, StubHub, Thumbtack, Uber, and others to ensure Operator addresses real-world needs while respecting established norms. Are these tasks really complex en
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Why the public should care about the freeze on the NIH(bsky.app)
5 points by dougb5 2y ago|1 comments
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by dougb5 2y ago
Wow, thank you, that means a lot to me! And I'm stoked you found Spruce -- we added that 5 years ago, pre-LLM era, but it never got much traction.
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by dougb5 2y ago
Allow me to plug a dictionary/thesaurus site I've been running for decades called OneLook ( https://onelook.com ). Although it's not specifically aimed at songwriters, it does attract many of them as users. Over t
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Fluoride debate in city council meetings(civicsearch.org)
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by dougb5 2y ago
We had fewer distractions, though, even if we didn't have all the world's information so close at hand. I think I'd pick that struggle again over what today's students go through. But I'm glad to have lived in bot
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by dougb5 2y ago
There's an order of magnitude fewer libraries than that, but I get your point, and you may be right. It's an interesting "Fermi problem". I wonder how these numbers compare to the dictionary, which is much cheaper but wa
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by dougb5 2y ago
Between britannica.com and Merriam-Webster, their sites get 120 million visits per month, per SimilarWeb. That's not ChatGPT level popularity, but it's way better than mere survival. It might even be more "visits" tha
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by dougb5 2y ago
That's encouraging to hear that it's a better writer, but I wonder if "quirks and tells" can only be seen in hindsight. o1-pro's quirks may only become apparent after enough people have flooded the internet with it

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