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by skybrian 8mo ago
I guess it would be most helpful for websites that can show that they’ve done their part by setting a config flag. If there’s no society-wide standard for what’s kid appropriate then it’s going to be hard to set up a system that satisfies e
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by skybrian 8mo ago
Which Internet standard are you referring to? I’d like to check browser support.
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by skybrian 8mo ago
Maybe that would work too, but “this device has a child lock turned on” seems like reasonable information to send? It’s a lot better than having to check ID’s.
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by skybrian 8mo ago
I don’t know why this isn’t a very simple Internet standard. The browsers on devices that have a child lock turned on could send an http header. People who have websites that are adult-only could configure their web server to check for that
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by skybrian 8mo ago
Wikipedia utterly depends on knowledge found elsewhere, often in newspapers or books. They have a "no original research" rule. They didn't get anyone's consent.
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by skybrian 8mo ago
How far back do you want to go? Programmers have been automating jobs away for a long time. Some historical context: When Craig Newmark created Craigslist (along with Ebay), it was devastating for the economics of newspapers. Lots of jobs s
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by skybrian 8mo ago
I was under the impression that some companies that provide insurance also provide healthcare?
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by skybrian 8mo ago
Installing npm modules seems similar as far as the risks go? The assumption is that you have a semi-trusted source of good libraries that's at least somewhat resistant to supply-chain attacks. A similar thing could in theory be done fo
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by skybrian 8mo ago
WhatsApp would be more direct, but if they're uncooperative then knowing who is betting might provide some clues.
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by skybrian 8mo ago
For my personal projects, any time saved on programming gets used up writing more ambitious programs. For a business, the question is whether you can make more money by doing more ambitious things.
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by skybrian 8mo ago
Yes, I think they should implement KYC pretty darn quick, and perhaps there’s more they can do. But he didn’t make the death threats.
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by skybrian 8mo ago
Towards the end of the article, they do write about some things that MCP does better.
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by skybrian 8mo ago
I think it's important to stay curious and keep learning, but there's a lot to be curious about and all sorts of different skills you could work on improving. Going deep on algorithms or distributed systems are two possible direct
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by skybrian 8mo ago
Yes, I briefly felt like I needed to keep agents busy but got over it. The point of having multiple things going on is so you have a another task to work on.
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by skybrian 8mo ago
Good question. I don't know, but I'll point out that different indexes have different rules, so someone would need to check if a change to the rules for Nasdaq indexes affects the others you mention. (Perhaps they follow what Nasd
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by skybrian 8mo ago
Possibly things are worse, but here’s an argument that we’ve gotten unrealistically ambitious about universal education through college: What People Want From Our Schools Has Never Been Accomplished, Anywhere, Ever https://freddi
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by skybrian 8mo ago
I don’t know if it will work, but here’s a startup that seems to be building an AI-controlled shotgun: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/9-mothers-corporation Given the war in Ukraine, wanting to build such things
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by skybrian 8mo ago
I wonder who the audience is for an announcement about spending a lot of money on something vague?
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by skybrian 8mo ago
I think that might make sense for teams or people working in multiple repos. Maybe less so for individuals working on a side project.
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by skybrian 8mo ago
If it's a remote API, I suppose the argument is that you might as well fetch the documentation from the remote server, rather than using a skill that might go out of date. You're trusting the API provider anyway. But it's put
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by skybrian 8mo ago
That seems worse because it doesn't encourage conservation enough. You want people to be able to keep the gains if they conserve energy, to set the right incentives.
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by skybrian 8mo ago
UBI is not luxury communism, or at least not any of the proposals I've seen. A guaranteed $1000 a month would help a lot of people, but $12000 a year is not a high income and many people will want to keep working to earn more money tha
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by skybrian 8mo ago
Either? Both? The question is too zoomed-out. It's going to be different for each company and maybe different for each round of layoffs.
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by skybrian 8mo ago
Software engineers have been automating away workers' jobs from the beginning. "Computer" was once a job title. There were armies of switchboard operators at the phone company. Companies had typing pools, mail clerks, and fil
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by skybrian 8mo ago
I couldn't tell from the article whether this works as a language model or not. Can it read and write English or is it just a weird program interpreter? If it switches between modes, how do they interact?
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by skybrian 8mo ago
It was able to draw a piano keyboard and point to middle C. It messed up on the bass buttons of an accordion.
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by skybrian 8mo ago
Why let an obsession with writing style prevent you from learning from a reasonably decent writeup?
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by skybrian 8mo ago
Technically true but besides the point.
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by skybrian 8mo ago
Don't just say "no." Tell it what to do instead. It's a busy beaver; it needs something to do.
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by skybrian 8mo ago
The ACA requires 80-85% of health insurance to go toward medical care (medical loss ratio). The way they work around that is to figure out how to charge more for medical care.

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