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by txrx0000 7mo ago
I don't think it's a market failure. The reality that password-gating software installation at the OS level can be done on most desktops but not most phones is the opposite sign of a market failure. Mobile OSes have increasingly s
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by txrx0000 7mo ago
The California law is horrible because it forces everyone to let tech companies and governments decide what's suitable for children, rather than let parents decide. It's telling parents to give every app their child's age and
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by txrx0000 7mo ago
I shouldn't have defended the API or age rating solution. It's just a trap in hindsight. That kind of solution must be rejected altogether even if it's the OS checking the app/website's age rating header, because we
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by txrx0000 7mo ago
I'd imagine it works like movie ratings. You don't filter movies from scene to scene. There's just one rating for an entire site or app. But yeah I get the point, API based solutions are complicated and brittle because they r
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by txrx0000 7mo ago
Yes, that's even better. Make apps and websites provide an API that broadcasts the age rating of its content, then let the OS attest the apps and websites, not the other way around. edit: on second thought, there is a trap here. If har
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by txrx0000 7mo ago
The California bill gets it backwards. Rather than Internet services taking the user's age and deciding what content to serve, the Internet service or app should broadcast the age rating of its content to the OS (if convenience is desi
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by txrx0000 7mo ago
We have to separate child protection from Internet control so that the "protect the kids" narrative loses its potency. So here's a counter-narrative: we can implement digital child protection without Internet-wide access cont
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by txrx0000 7mo ago
Code-writing speed is not a bottleneck when the stakes are high. Sometimes, it's better to slow down, plan ahead, and consider the consequences because the cost of a failed iteration is too great. Take the way AI is being developed as
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by txrx0000 7mo ago
Nice project. P2P is not the way to go for DMs though. Both users and servers have to stay anonymous if we want to defeat surveillance and censorship long-term. Ideally, nobody except a single server node of your choice (which is probably t
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by txrx0000 7mo ago
This seems fine as a short-term solution, but human-only is no good as a long-term rule. The AIs will soon surpass human capability. Even in the present, I think some AI comments are already decent quality. It's just most of them aren&
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by txrx0000 7mo ago
The problem with distributed storage is they place too high of a requirement on edge nodes, which people have to host, and they synchronize too slowly for real time messenging. If I upload a 1GB video to my server's chat, that storage
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by txrx0000 7mo ago
I don't think that's true. If there really was a good enough open-source Discord alternative, many would already switched. A big part of the problem is there isn't one. Matrix, Stoat, Telegram, etc are all missing something.
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by txrx0000 7mo ago
If we decentralize messenging and social media, all of those protocols you mentioned will survive.
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by txrx0000 7mo ago
Glad to see more of these efforts. But here's what it will really take to decentralize social media and E2EE messengers: We need something like Discord, except each server is an actual self-hosted server like a Minecraft server. DMs be
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by txrx0000 7mo ago
The smartphone OS market is not healthy precisely because manufacturers lock their bootloaders (among other anti-competitive tricks, like a proprietary IMS stack), which stifles market competition. The desktop OS market does not have this
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by txrx0000 7mo ago
> If you want a better proposal bring technical expertise to the discussion instead of ideology fundamentalism. Fine. All we need is a password-protected toggle in each app that enables child mode, and another toggle in the phone setting
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by txrx0000 7mo ago
Don't give them an inch. The US defense budget is $1T. They can't spend it all on surveillance, but let's say the tech companies and the government spends that much every year combined. Our victory condition is to increase th
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by txrx0000 7mo ago
The idea is to let parents decide which apps are suitable for their child, for each child. Password-gating app installation (just like sudo on Linux) is not only easier to implement and use, but also much more flexible and powerful than a f
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by txrx0000 7mo ago
See also: https://github.com/Orama-Interactive/Pixelorama https://github.com/piskelapp/piskel They're similar pixel art editor programs.
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by txrx0000 7mo ago
Rather than age verification, this is what we should be doing instead: Don't let phone manufacturers lock the bootloader on phones. Let the device owner lock it with a password if they decide to. Someone will make a child-friendly OS i
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by txrx0000 7mo ago
Profit does not drive all. There are other valuable things besides money. A healthy society must regulate shortsighted profit-seeking and power-seeking. That's what these conversations are for.
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by txrx0000 7mo ago
If the goal was to protect the children, there are much simpler solutions. But for whatever reason, companies and governments are avoiding the simple solutions like the plague. Let me explain the simple solutions: Don't let phone manuf
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by txrx0000 7mo ago
Glad to see efforts like yours. I will give my two cents: Decentralizing everything doesn't scale well. Instead of doing that, look at how Minecraft does it. Decentralize at the server level, not client device level. Each node should b
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Ask HN: How do we solve the bot flooding problem without destroying anonymity?
14 points by txrx0000 7mo ago|19 comments
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by txrx0000 7mo ago
The solution to these problems is to make open-source models better and more resource-efficient. Work towards a world where everyone can run an AGI on their own computer. Not with remote API calls, but local inference and finetuning. Right
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by txrx0000 8mo ago
For the weights and temporary state, yes. It doesn't sound like a lot until you remember that your DNA is about 600 books worth of data by the same metric.
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by txrx0000 8mo ago
See this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47189130
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by txrx0000 8mo ago
Scaling has hit a wall and will not get us to AGI. Open-source models are only a couple of months behind closed models, and the same level of capability will require smaller and smaller models in the future. This is where open research can
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by txrx0000 8mo ago
For every person that thinks about creating the HIV-like deadly pathogen, there will be millions more thinking about how to defend people against such pathogen, how to detect it faster before symptoms arise, how to put up barriers to creati
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by txrx0000 8mo ago
It is not easy to create weapons. Why do you think the physical and legal barriers that exist today that prevent you from acquiring equipment and creating nuclear weapons will go away when everyone becomes smarter?

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