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by modzu 7y ago
i also wonder what the real motive is. just expanding surveillance tech? ceo of this company pals with govt officials?
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by modzu 7y ago
edit: the author has since added a disclosure to the top of the post. thank you!
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by modzu 7y ago
this is an ad. notice the referal link at the bottom. if a keyboard actually matters to you, please look for unbiased information. a couple of suggestions that aren't just meant to net me a few bucks: - tenkeyless reduce wrist strain
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by modzu 7y ago
tracking protection != ad blocking. the side effect is more like it blocks some 'targeted' ads, but it seems disingenuous to say it blocks 'most ads'.
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by modzu 7y ago
heres a better new tab page for firefox -- yet another speed dial: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/yet-another-s... (im the author. and its open source of course!)
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by modzu 7y ago
of course, but what makes brave unique is that its blocking is native. only 10% of users have an adblocker (us techies live in a bubble) -- 90% of people have no idea what uBlock is. also ublock could be turned to "acceptable ads"
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by modzu 7y ago
its so obvious that native ad blocking could be that feature. when a non-tech user opens up a browser with ad blocking it blows their mind. they go to youtube and put on a song, and wait! they don't have to reach for the mute first to
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by modzu 7y ago
i duno. the other day i used a friend's computer without an adblocker and searched google for "AWS". i could not see a link to amazon AWS on the results page. it was under 5 ads for azure, gcp, and some other crap. i mean, i
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by modzu 7y ago
well, um, the cathedral doesnt burn down naturally every dry season and then regrow :o
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by modzu 7y ago
linkedin is so gross. just making my protestations known.
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by modzu 7y ago
the actual computation was left as an exercise for the reader, but the issue is not the length of the scales, it is how they can be combined. take 10 notes and combine them in 16 ways. two small numbers, but how long to count to all 10^16 p
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by modzu 7y ago
"generate every possible sequence of notes" do you have any idea how many songs that would be? your computer won't be finished in this lifetime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorial_explosion
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by modzu 7y ago
u mean .org
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by modzu 7y ago
"Although Google's exercise of this power has not been malicious so far, the point is that nobody should have such power, which could also be used maliciously. You might well decide to let a security service remotely deactivate
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by modzu 7y ago
missing: rockers (1978) it might get loud (2008)
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by modzu 7y ago
what is everyone smoking? youre still trying to optimize for a test and not a job. dont give them a fizbuz. give them an example of a real problem your engineers need / are trying to solve. how do they respond? thoughts / intuitio
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by modzu 7y ago
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12813633
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by modzu 7y ago
Littered waste is distinct from 'inadequately disposed' waste in that it represents plastics that are dumped or disposed of without consent in an inappropriate location. Whilst high-income countries tend to have effective waste ma
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by modzu 7y ago
maybe a closer reality is doing this temporarily via TCMS. scan one brain, and impose the neural pattern on a target brain. the beauty is that its temporary. you could plug into someone else, and for a moment experience what they are experi
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by modzu 7y ago
is that argument weakened if the reality is that everything that exists is just ∂²υ/∂t²=c·²∂²υ/∂tx ?
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by modzu 7y ago
aka microsoft windows/office
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by modzu 7y ago
app stores are toxic wastelands. there's on the order of 1000 useful legitimate apps yet the app store is packed with 2,000,000 (ie 99.9% spyware)
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Plastic-Eating Bacteria That Can Break Down PET (2016)(theconversation.com)
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by modzu 7y ago
its a tradeoff for sure; i tend to think the risk of unpatched software outweighs the risk of software hijacked from the author, so i prefer the moz model. iirc, there are automatic checks (ie permission changes, certain api calls, etc) whi
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by modzu 7y ago
i read this as an argument for open source. it's not a guarantee, but it's a good heuristic for an app's trustworthiness
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by modzu 7y ago
these same risks exist with any app. totally agree its a valid concern and deserves more than a footnote, but i don't think that counters anything that the author is praising about extensions specifically. at least extensions exist wit
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by modzu 7y ago
at least in firefox, updates typically roll out immediately while any manual review happens asynchronously
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by modzu 7y ago
here's a shameless link to my small batch of extensions, hopefully some find useful. all open source of course! https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/user/13170802
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by modzu 7y ago
guardrails in terms of policy, if not technical details, are still valuable. the thing is, there are actually lots of reasons to think AGI cannot be constrained in this way. open AI researchers know this. so that means, the promise and th
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by modzu 7y ago
it really is an interesting subject to explore within the philosophy of science :)

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