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541.
by lxgr 6mo ago
I get that, but how does it serve the generated and cached ones seemingly faster than Wikipedia? (My guess is that single-page applications, which this one seems to be, just need less round trips between navigations or something?)
542.
by lxgr 6mo ago
On the other hand, one could argue that anything that can be destroyed by relatively clearly labeled satire, deserves to be.
543.
by lxgr 6mo ago
Ironically, this seems much faster (for pages already, erm, "researched") than the real one! How?
544.
by lxgr 6mo ago
Are you sure you know what you're talking about here? In the US, regulations on pensions, health insurance etc. are governed by the state that employees physically work in, not by the laws of the state of incorporation.
545.
by lxgr 6mo ago
> I've have personally never seen a good example where a cross vendor account provisioning actually working. That's not what this is though, is it? In other words, isn't the (anti-)pattern you describe an argument in favor
546.
by lxgr 6mo ago
You can always follow the POSSE pattern [1] (except for platforms that actively punish links to your own site of course). That way you get both the reach and remain independent in terms of content moderation. [1] https://www.cita
547.
by lxgr 6mo ago
Yes, this is exactly my hope too. Many hacker/cypherpunk ideas failed or never reached wide adoption because they were just too complicated for regular people: GPG/web of trust, self-hosting websites and email, having your own cus
548.
by lxgr 6mo ago
> Buying a domain is not something you have to do daily to require any kind of automation. Which is arguably unfortunate, as it nudges people towards using centralized services because they simply don't know that they have the optio
549.
by lxgr 6mo ago
People used to say the same about photography a while ago.
550.
by lxgr 6mo ago
Have they not? When I log in, I'm given the option to trade (apparently stocks, futures, commodities) and predict (via Kalshi, I think).
551.
by lxgr 6mo ago
Wow, I thought I was somehow unaffected but my resolver must just have cached the sites I'd tried.
552.
by lxgr 6mo ago
Also, how high are the chances that these two states will never pass similar laws? As far as I can tell for similar laws (e.g. age verification), once one state moves ahead on some controversial issue and gets away with it at the Supreme Co
553.
by lxgr 6mo ago
Couldn't agree more. "I'll just work around it because I know how to" is the hacker's version of "I'll just pay my way out of it because I can afford to".
554.
by lxgr 6mo ago
A nice idea in theory, but would you seriously argue that all the Internet censorship in several countries has been completely without effects? A law doesn't need to be impossible to circumvent to cause great damage.
555.
by lxgr 6mo ago
> The problem is that people are now building our world around tooling that eschews accountability. If by "now" you mean "for the past few decades", I think you've got it spot on, at least per the very interestin
556.
by lxgr 6mo ago
> I do not think any person would freely choose unencrypted messaging. Many people do, e.g. by switching from Whatsapp to Telegram. The market is working alright; people are (uninformedly) voting with their wallets (or rather, their pers
557.
by lxgr 6mo ago
I feel like if e.g. Whatsapp were not end-to-end encrypted, it would have faced significantly more regulatory scrutiny in the EU and other places where it's effectively replaced phone calls and SMS.
558.
by lxgr 6mo ago
GPG doesn't support forward secrecy, which is table stakes for encrypted messaging these days. And that's to say nothing about the slightly suboptimal usabilty...
559.
by lxgr 6mo ago
Many people are absolutely convinced that their phones are listening to their in-person conversations already, yet seem ok with continuing to use them.
560.
by lxgr 6mo ago
I don't think there needs to be any intentional evil scheme for this dynamic to be worth considering and mitigating. For example, there's also no cabal behind memory prices dropping (ignoring the development of the past months, of
561.
by lxgr 6mo ago
This is for unhiding, but do you know of a way to do the reverse?
562.
by lxgr 6mo ago
Finally! An option to override automatic (un)archival of passes is also desperately needed. Some passes just don’t expire based on time, and too many pass creators are too incompetent to put the correct time in even if they do. Airlines in
563.
by lxgr 6mo ago
My bigger concern is actually that, if a company isn't careful, the bloat (complexity, amount of code, other artifacts etc.) will just balloon and largely cancel out any gains. Feedback is often only considered once something is alread
564.
by lxgr 6mo ago
Do you have any benchmark details on the on-device Gemini models? I haven't found a lot of public information on these.
565.
by lxgr 6mo ago
How exactly are we "on the brink of extinction"? ("We" as in humans; many other species are obviously not as lucky.) We are probably on the brink of very bad consequences for a signification fraction of all humans (up to
566.
by lxgr 6mo ago
Just because it's called Gemini doesn't mean that it's somehow automatically as comparable with the frontier of small models as well, does it?
567.
by lxgr 6mo ago
Their voice capable model is several generations behind the state of the art text-only one, as far as I know. I don’t think it even has reasoning tokens, so it’s no surprise that it’s as most as smart as the “instant” models (i.e., not very
568.
by lxgr 6mo ago
That seems to be the issue: VAD is insufficient here. Knowing when to respond requires semantic understanding, which probably only the model itself is capable enough. Maybe it’s hard for them to train it to only respond once it seems approp
569.
by lxgr 6mo ago
Wow, I heard about the weird dual staircase fire regulation thing (effectively requiring these horrible dystopian corridors), but I had no idea these regulations were that intentionally anti-apartment-building.
570.
by lxgr 6mo ago
Maybe in the US. I've never seen a sprinkler in an apartment building in Europe.

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