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by lucb1e 1y ago
Huh? Try it, since like ten years it requires validating the account with a phone number, which in many countries requires going through government verification. That alone takes a while to set up if you want a new account that isn't l
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by lucb1e 1y ago
Thank you for clarifying! No worries about the delay of course, we all have more things to do. Do I understand correctly that a 'booster comment' is about steering the conversation / making the product look well-liked to thos
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by lucb1e 1y ago
It's apparently obvious to you that "hey Gemini, can you message Mike that I love him?" means the text is first sent to Google and then back to your phone and then by your phone to Mike. This isn't the case for everyone,
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by lucb1e 1y ago
I'm also wondering if it's an automatic classification. Wouldn't expect that on HN, but the posts in there are so random that it almost must be. As for that specific comment, to be fair, I could actually understand: promoti
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by lucb1e 1y ago
> There's no login required since the app uses Google Play Billing ...so it requires logging in with a Google account. That means I won't be able to buy the app on my phone A one-time purchase for an offline privacy-friendly ap
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by lucb1e 1y ago
The article from the other day for context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44473135
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by lucb1e 1y ago
Note that the discussion continues in the collapsed comment by tomhow: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44499848 It says "stub for offtopicness" but, skimming them, literally all comments are on-topic. Not all
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by lucb1e 1y ago
> But if you only have tens of thousands of users or less Even on HN#1, you get like two requests per second for maybe 18 hours. That's three orders of magnitude below 200M/day. Shifting the argument to say that no hobby projec
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by lucb1e 1y ago
I had presumed you had off-site backups from where you could restore. If that's not the case, the cloud premium might be extremely good value comparing to losing all data sooner or later indeed!
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by lucb1e 1y ago
The PHP interpreter (+mods) don't take anywhere near 400ms to start up, even on very old CPUs, though? Not sure what you mean
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by lucb1e 1y ago
> If a drive fails while I'm traveling I'm SOL [...] My conclusion is that cloud providers are actually a great deal You realise you can always still restore that backup onto someone else's server? When you need to restore
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by lucb1e 1y ago
> and yet we pay so much to cloud providers Not all of us we don't
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by lucb1e 1y ago
> If your CGI script takes a generous 400 milliseconds of CPU to start up and your server has 64 cores, you can serve 160 requests per second ...and then you're wasting a 64-core server at 100% CPU load on just starting up and tear
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by lucb1e 1y ago
How the heck is 0,0 still available! Was nobody interested in this position before for any purpose? Is there a way to list what's all in geostationary orbit (either stationary at the equator, or at which longitudes they commonly cross
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by lucb1e 1y ago
I enjoyed The Martian even more, but perhaps only because I wasn't prepared for how good it was. I was bored in Stockholm airport and thought "haven't I heard of this book oh HN?", flipped a few pages, and decided to buy
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by lucb1e 1y ago
Or sticking with awk, I have this bash alias to remove excess whitespace that is just: awk '{$1=$1};1'
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by lucb1e 1y ago
Thank you!
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by lucb1e 1y ago
Oh, that could be. So this is the first on-device model that Google releases, that's the news?
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by lucb1e 1y ago
Huh? I'm pretty sure I ran Gemma on my phone last month. Or is there a difference between downloadable (you get the weights because it's necessary to run the thing) and "open" weights?
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by lucb1e 1y ago
I read the general parts and skimmed the inner workings but I can't figure out what the high-level news is. What does this concretely do that Gemma didn't already do, or what benchmark/tasks did it improve upon? Until it goes
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by lucb1e 1y ago
I guess that can be spam but I'm not seeing a ton of that either, so it's still not obvious to me we're losing this or that war The thing we're losing is the open web where anyone can view any page and buy any product th
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by lucb1e 1y ago
If you let good old spam bots loose on a forum, it will outnumber legit messages ten to one easily. If someone uses an LLM to argue about certain topics, that's not spam. It's manipulative, and clearly abusive if there is no human
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by lucb1e 1y ago
I'm not sure what e.g. showing one one's own change answers. Do you manually review submissions or how does get one out of this initial "put everyone in quarantine" state? I'm also not sure what "we" are d
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by lucb1e 1y ago
How does one graduate from probation, while being hellbanned / having your contribution quarantined? Since I'm certainly not wasting my time doing a second contribution so long as the first one isn't getting approved, it soun
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by lucb1e 1y ago
I had a security manager at a big bank (one of my first clients) tell straight to my face that the website decides whether to let me in before I even start typing the password(-equivalent) and that the password is just a formality not to sc
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by lucb1e 1y ago
Oh... that I regularly see these pages working on a challenge probably says something about my humanness
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by lucb1e 1y ago
I don't see how that contradicts the parent post. Computer vision wasn't as good when reCAPTCHA was still typing out books, but machine learning has (per my expectation, having worked with it since ~2015, but the proof would be in
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by lucb1e 1y ago
> but [PoWs] still rely on accurate bot detection. No they don't, that's the point: you can serve everyone a PoW and don't have to discriminate and ban real people. This system you're enthusiastic about is what tries
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by lucb1e 1y ago
And so what am I supposed to do if a false positive happens? I use keyboard navigation on many pages. Using the firefox setting "search when you start typing", I don't have to hit ctrl+f to search on the page, I just type wha
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by lucb1e 1y ago
Oh you mean that it's a website and not downloadable software, right

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