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by theptip 2y ago
This has since been edited in OP, and the full quote I think supports my claim more: > Note this is different to what TechCrunch had revealed in 2019 in which Facebook were paying teenagers to gather data on usage habits. That resulted i
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by theptip 2y ago
This is a bit tangled. I think this is new information but it’s all about Onavo. From OP: > Note this is different to what TechCrunch had revealed in 2019 in which Facebook were paying teenagers to gather data on usage habits. That resul
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by theptip 2y ago
From the OP, Snapchat started pinning not long after this program launched.
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by theptip 2y ago
Not in 2020, no. HSTS causes your browser to pin the first cert that it sees (from sites opting in to this scheme), so nobody (even the legitimate operator) can swap it out before it expires. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by theptip 2y ago
So just to be clear on what is being alleged, because the write-ups are omitting this detail: from what I can tell FB paid SC users to participate in “market research” and install the proxy. The way most of the writeups make it sound is tha
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by theptip 2y ago
Quite obviously, minimum wage is many times higher in the US.
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by theptip 2y ago
Very insightful breakdown, thanks. I do wonder if recent (Covid onwards) trends toward increased home schooling blurs the line between 1 and 3, or perhaps manifests a new segment that could be meaningful; homeschool pods seem to be quite ou
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by theptip 2y ago
It could also be that back in the day they were training with a bit more code than they should have been (eg private repos) and now the lawyers are more involved the training set is smaller/more sanitized. Pure speculation of course.
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by theptip 2y ago
Hallucination isn’t really a problem when you can verify the ground truth. For example if you’re using it as a companion to a Khan Academy math problem with immediate feedback.
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by theptip 2y ago
Yep, agreed. We probably need new chemistries to get the seasonal storage potential of pumped hydro. But I’m quite bullish on batteries in general, it seems while folks have been gnashing teeth on how expensive they are, a substantial propo
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by theptip 2y ago
There is zero chance that a mega-project like pumped hydro can be undertaken in the US in the current regulatory environment. NEPA review allows even clearly green projects like solar and wind to get bogged down in environmental review laws
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by theptip 2y ago
Who captures the surplus is dependent on how competitive the market is. In highly competitive markets, any substantial profits get competed away, and captured by the consumer. In monopolistic / uncompetitive markets, profits are captur
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by theptip 2y ago
You would need some coordinating mechanism to ensure that all the p-zombies have the same hallucination. Including some detailed state machine that takes sense inputs, and processes it to produce the qualia present in each waking moment, pl
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by theptip 2y ago
A simple counter-argument to p-zombies that I like (I first encountered from Yudkowski) is: If there was no conscious experience in this identical p-zombie world, it would be impossible to explain why everybody falsely claims they have cons
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by theptip 2y ago
> you ideally want all the jobs to be good That is… exactly the point I made, when I said: > you don’t want jobs that are strictly better Preference optionality is widely stated to be one of the features that gig workers like about th
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GraphReader: Building Graph-Based Agent to Enhance Long-Context Abilities of LLM(arxiv.org)
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by theptip 2y ago
A clear case of adverse selection in the old pricing model. From a game-theoretic perspective in a gig marketplace you don’t want jobs that are strictly better, else sophisticated market participants (workers) will select the best ones leav
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What happened to the artificial-intelligence revolution?(economist.com)
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by theptip 2y ago
Riffing on “if it’s painful, do it more often”, I wonder if mandatory leap seconds every year, but trueing up the delta from N years ago, would be a good compromise? Regularity makes it easier to plan, and 6 months’ notice is not really eno
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by theptip 2y ago
Perhaps some concrete examples would help ground the conversation?
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by theptip 2y ago
> Mitchel Typo, McConnell.
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by theptip 2y ago
> Until recently, they were losing How recently are you talking here? It’s been a conservative majority for over 5 decades. > De-politicising the courts could be electorally advantageous for both sides. Perhaps in the sense that being
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by theptip 2y ago
> The right and left are both railing against our justice system. True insofar as it goes… but this elides the detail that the right just won a generational battle for the Supreme Court. There is zero chance that any Republicans back ref
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by theptip 2y ago
This isn’t what everybody else means when they use the term “embodiment”. It refers to sensing and actuating in the world (or a simulation!) in realtime. It’s explicitly referring to the opposite of a “brain in a jar” scenario.
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by theptip 2y ago
Additionally, I believe you can also get a margin call on your financing if you lower the rent, so there are perverse incentives to keep spaces empty which can push against a correction in prices.
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by theptip 2y ago
No, we know (because of the CMB) that everything was compressed into a dense plasma until ~300kyr (rough estimate from memory) so there was no way for these structures to survive a previous crunch.
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by theptip 2y ago
Open source != open weights != open training set. Of course, GP is ignoring that Meta is far more open than its direct competitors (MSFT, GOOG, OpenAI).
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by theptip 2y ago
That doesn’t solve the problem; how do you decide the ambiguity in the meantime? (Concretely, some court is evaluating a dispute. Does the EPA have the right to decree X, or not?)
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by theptip 2y ago
Sorry, typo, you’re quite right, I meant to say staging->prod is a merge. So your promotion history (including theoretically which staging releases don’t get promoted) can be observed from the ‘git log’. (I don’t think you want to push m
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by theptip 2y ago
I believe the idea is that it makes it very explicit to track provenance of code between environments, eg merge staging->master is a branch merge operation. And all the changes are explicitly tracked in CI as a diff. With directories you

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