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by lolinder 1y ago
Video games I feel like reverse this general trend, though. Unless they have a major story component (and sometimes even if they do) many games get iteratively 'better' (better for the purposes of making sales if not of making ori
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by lolinder 1y ago
That would help, but who defines which sites are required for the task? If it's the LLM you haven't solved prompt injection because the LLM can be persuaded to open other sites that the user didn't intend.
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by lolinder 1y ago
Alright, I think we can agree on that. I'll see you over in that new standardization discussion fighting fiercely for protections to make sure companies don't abuse it to compromise the open web.
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by lolinder 1y ago
I draw the line where robotstxt.org (the semi-official home of robots.txt) draws the line [0]: > A robot is a program that automatically traverses the Web's hypertext structure by retrieving a document, and recursively retrieving al
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by lolinder 1y ago
https://www.robotstxt.org/faq/what.html > A robot is a program that automatically traverses the Web's hypertext structure by retrieving a document, and recursively retrieving all documents that are referenced.
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by lolinder 1y ago
> If you are using an ad-blocker by definition you are intentionally breaking the intended behavior by the creator of any given website (for personal gain), in that context any discussion about robots.txt or any other behavior that the c
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by lolinder 1y ago
> If your browser behaves, it's not going to be excluded in robots.txt. No, it's common practice to allow Googlebot and deny all other crawlers by default [0]. This is within their rights when it comes to true scrapers, but it&
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by lolinder 1y ago
robotstxt.org [0] is pretty specific in what constitutes a robot for the purposes of robots.txt: > A robot is a program that automatically traverses the Web's hypertext structure by retrieving a document, and recursively retrieving
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by lolinder 1y ago
> I know its not completely true, I know read-mode can help you bypass the ads _after_ you already had a peek at the cluttered version What about reader mode that is auto-configured to turn on immediately on landing on specific domains?
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by lolinder 1y ago
> only reading the content the user would otherwise have gone through. Why? My user agent is configured to make things easier for me and allow me to access content that I wouldn't otherwise choose to access. Dark mode allows me to r
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by lolinder 1y ago
So is Chrome. Very artificial. It's still not a robot for the purposes of robots.txt. What coherent definition of robot excludes Chrome but includes this?
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by lolinder 1y ago
This is a user agent and I would be incredibly frustrated if they respected robots.txt. Robots.txt was designed to encourage recursive web crawlers to be respectful. It's specifically not meant to exclude agents that are acting on user
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by lolinder 1y ago
In the cases we're discussing rich people pay more for increased access , so they're still exchanging money for something of value, not just paying more into the system for the sake of it. They get opportunities and benefits out
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by lolinder 1y ago
> turning ensuring a flat tax into a progressive tax is to spend the proceeds of the tax a way that benefits people equally. How does the math on this work? If a regressive tax affects poor people disproportionately over rich people and
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by lolinder 1y ago
> If you’re poor you’ll use your brain and pay the $2.95 to ride the train, not die in your car waiting in traffic and spending all your money for food on cp tolls. I'm pretty sure this is exactly what op is saying, isn't it? T
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by lolinder 1y ago
I mean, that's fine I guess? As long as you're aware that you're being totally and utterly irrational about it.
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by lolinder 1y ago
I've tried Claude Code repeatedly and haven't figured out how to make it work for me on my work code base. It regularly gets lost, spins out of control, and spends a bunch of tokens without solving anything. I totally sympathize w
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by lolinder 1y ago
And I'm the only one in mine who isn't either a musician or an author. I'm not sure why you believe that being in a creative family gives you some sort of divine authority to condemn the rest of us for our collective sins.
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by lolinder 1y ago
Who is this "they" who have forfeited it? What about the millions of software developers who have never even visited a pirate site, much less built one? Are we including the Netflix developers working actively on DRM? How about th
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by lolinder 1y ago
It rings true but as with many things that seem intuitive it's an illusion. Hacker News doesn't have opinions. Individuals on Hacker News have opinions. Different sets of individuals comment and vote on different threads. There&#x
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by lolinder 1y ago
First, I don't agree that what you just said is at all reflective of what TFA actually wrote. Yours makes it about statistics not individuals. Statistical groups don't have an ass to shove anything up, so TFA pretty clearly was im
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by lolinder 1y ago
Copilot was trained on all public code on GitHub and in the early days it could be made to actually vomit code that was identical to its training data. They've added some safeguards to protect against the latter, but a lot of people ar
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by lolinder 1y ago
> Bikes, and e-bikes, are safer than cars for everyone around them. We want to encourage people to bike more and drive less because they're so much safer. All else being equal, yes. But NYC drivers are exceptionally skilled relati
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by lolinder 1y ago
I'm not buying this. Bikers in bike lanes are not where I've felt threatened by bikes in NYC: they're in a dedicated lane and it's easy for me to check, cross, and get out of their way. Where I feel threatened by bikes i
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by lolinder 1y ago
Anecdotally, I've recently felt far more threatened by e-bikes in NYC than I ever have by cars. Cars in NYC are nuts, but they're a competent kind of nuts. I've never had one get even close to me, and that's with me ja
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by lolinder 1y ago
They know that, but all accounts I've read acknowledge that the unified memory is worse than dedicated VRAM. It's just much better than running LLMs on CPU and the only way for a regular consumer to get to 64GB+ of graphical memor
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by lolinder 1y ago
The second paragraph in OP's comment is absolutely a reasonable paraphrase of your argument. I read your version many times over to try to find the substance and... that is the substance. If you didn't mean it to be then that sect
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by lolinder 1y ago
Bigger org definitely helps, yeah. I'd have loved to have some of these tools available when I was in your shoes!
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by lolinder 1y ago
> That argument, in particular, survived multiple rounds of reviews with friends outside my team who do not fully agree with me about this stuff. It's a deeply sincere, and, I would say for myself, earned take on this. Which argumen
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by lolinder 1y ago
I generally like tptacek, but this piece has major flaws. His dismissal of all copyright concerns on the grounds that some developers engage in piracy is horribly lazy.

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