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by neilv 1y ago
> it's made with gawk. gawk is always best when served live. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXHuygyyulE&t=53s
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by neilv 1y ago
No matter how this turns out, I'm sure GrapheneOS will make a smart effort. https://grapheneos.org/ But long-term, Android is such a massive code base, and was designed more for surveillance and consumption, than for
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by neilv 1y ago
> Another disappearing form of deviance: people don’t seem to be joining cults anymore. I guess it's not deviant if it's a large percentage of the population.
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by neilv 1y ago
> 1. If you're threat model is surveillance state, are things like this helpful or harmful? Good question. I don't know the answer, but I've been operating on the assumption that Tor Browser gives you more privacy from
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by neilv 1y ago
A lot of outrage in HN comments, but it's kinda ironic, because if you had to point at the single biggest concentration of people who built out surveillance capitalism and other facets of our digital dystopian future... Maybe the peopl
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by neilv 1y ago
What is the reason that the current LLMs work better with XML than with JSON? Is it the names in the element tags?
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by neilv 1y ago
If you instead put parentheses around the lexical sequences, then you wouldn't need syntax like `[3]` to denote length. You also wouldn't need indentation levels to be syntactically meaningful. You could also get rid of LLM tokens
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by neilv 1y ago
Looks like you have a potentially great business for corporate compliance, if you can answer with plausibly high confidence (or indemnify?). I only occasionally research companies, and it's from an engineering&product perspective,
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by neilv 1y ago
> We prefer a handful of companies - because the fewer apps that have our data, the less exposed we feel. Is this sentiment significant in the US?
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by neilv 1y ago
True. Small outfits can be a pretty big category of companies that don't have a fully locked-down enterprise security environment with clout who can insist that everything like that racked and put under their control. Homelabbers tend
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by neilv 1y ago
Provenance and trust are relevant for a remote KVM. But I can't find any information on their Web site about who runs the JetKVM company, not even a partial name or handle of anyone, nor even what country they are in. Which seems odd
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by neilv 1y ago
Something to keep in mind, when sharing code you've written... to promote the Mac or Windows platform you use, and putting it on GitHub to endorse that, and starting a Discord for community around it.
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by neilv 1y ago
I suspect that the majority of people who are shoveling BS in their blogs aren't doing it because they actually want to think and write and share and learn and be human; but rather, the sole purpose of the blog is for SEO, or to prom
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by neilv 1y ago
> My lightly optimized Markov babbler consumes around ~60 CPU microseconds per request. What about taking valid "content" that some dumb AI scraper would process (e.g., literature, how-to instructions, news), and filtering it
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by neilv 1y ago
> Their reaction was notably disturbed! I apologized, saying I had a pitch coming up, and would really like their opinions. Well, they were much more negative toward my idea than I thought they would be! Because you interrupted their s
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by neilv 1y ago
This is a big problem, though I would be slow to trust anyone purporting to address this problem. (Though, to their credit, this Books by People team is more credible than the bog-standard pair of 20yo Bay Area techbro grifters I expected.
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by neilv 1y ago
> "A dolphin is using its fluke to discipline a mermaid by paddling it across the backside." If this one were shown in a US work environment, I might say a collegial something privately to the person, about it not seeming the
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by neilv 1y ago
It's a start, but we're going to need a powered full exoskeleton, with armor, for fighting Nazis.
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by neilv 1y ago
Good insights. 1. Do you think that getting the legal advice was a good defensive measure? (Something to point to, to establish that they were being responsible, if ever challenged.) 2. And do you think that publicizing it was a good idea?
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by neilv 1y ago
Agreed, many people do that, and that's great. Maybe we should think of the Principal role as complementary? If you're working on a compiler, you're going to be interacting cross-team with hardware engineering team, etc., an
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by neilv 1y ago
Can we assume that Apple will continue to fail to secure the iPhone against these spyware companies?
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by neilv 1y ago
This is much like real Principal Engineer roles I've seen. The skeptics of the role might not have seen how easily and badly a large multiple-team effort can go astray, and the value of someone spotting the problems, and making sure th
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by neilv 1y ago
I'm hoping for a really great IP lawsuit against a corporate code LLM user. Until then, the emergent behavior of most corporations' incentive structures will be to get away with it in the short term, due to everyone pursuing their
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by neilv 1y ago
> 1. If is were possible for an ordinary mortal to impose arbitrary curses on the god of death and justice, the world would quickly descend into utter chaos. Opportunity myth? Mortals are simply temporarily embarrassed gods?
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by neilv 1y ago
> Prior to the most recent update, some Knives, like a Doppler Ruby Butterfly Knife, could fetch around $20,000 on third-party storefronts like CSFloat. How many whales are buying an in-game cosmetic for $20K for their own use? How muc
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by neilv 1y ago
I think you're onto something, for a kind of second-chance review function, but instead of "with an Ivy League education", perhaps you most want people knowledgeable about both judicial process and society. "Ivy League e
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by neilv 1y ago
> Did the Democrats make anything better? No. Exactly. Which is related to why I said "my current socioeconomic peers [...] let huge swaths of the nation be thrown under the bus" with a straight face. > How can you live t
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by neilv 1y ago
There's a loosely related joke, which might apply a little... A person discovers a genie in a bottle, and is given 3 wishes, but with the condition that their worst enemy will receive double the wish. "For my first wish, I would l
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by neilv 1y ago
How YouTube Shorts get me is that I will navigate to one from a link someone posts, or a search hit, and (if I'm not on guard), 10-30 minutes later I will realize I've been in shorts-scrolling zombie mode. And IME video shorts alm
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by neilv 1y ago
You have good points. I wanted to highlight a couple bits: > Google is no better if [...] Google has significant differences from Amazon, from everything I've heard. And in some ways a better cultural fit for me. Two Google prob

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