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by willprice89 1y ago
> people are either still too afraid of looking like they don’t understand, still too deferential to Silicon Valley’s supposed technological expertise, or still too busy doing other things, to voice any skepticism about blockchain-based
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by willprice89 1y ago
I think the market would punish Apple sufficiently enough for something like that and government intervention wouldn't be required... What about a small, local ISP? Should they be able to refuse to provide service? At what size can&#x2
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by willprice89 1y ago
If I'm the sole owner and only employee of a small business, should I have the right to choose my clients? If so, at what size/scale/level of market capture should I lose my rights?
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by willprice89 1y ago
I agree with your assessment of the current situation. But I think the solution is to break up the duopoly, either by leveling the playing field or creating government-run alternatives, rather than force the duopoly to do certain things.
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by willprice89 1y ago
I had never heard the term "jawboning" before. According to Merriam-Webster it is "the use of public appeals (as by a president) to influence the actions especially of business and labor leaders" or "broadly : the u
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by willprice89 1y ago
I think that's what the default submissions are for. Either an insight I personally had that I want to share, or an insight from someone else that I think is worth sharing.
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by willprice89 1y ago
I guess that will work for the first couple days until, ya know, you run out of electricity... Or maybe the LLM-on-a-stick will teach you how to get the local power plant up and running again before then?
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by willprice89 1y ago
> Marijus Briedis, chief technology officer at NordVPN, told me there's scant data on how often this happens, but it's a real thing. What's with this weird shoutout? What does NordVPN have to do with phone calls?
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by willprice89 1y ago
It would be interesting to trace the memetic growth of this anecdote. I wonder how much is due to its intrinsic characteristics and how much is due to the identity/connections of its participants?
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Pita tunnels are a "pain in the ass" for censorship(wallpunch.net)
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Azure's Inferno: Escape from API Hell(wallpunch.net)
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by willprice89 1y ago
> Unfortunately, the spray and pray method will not work in this job market. I guess the takeaway is if you don't already have a solid network to draw referrals from your top priority while job hunting should be attending networking
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by willprice89 1y ago
dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=10 | nc -N -l -p 12345 Great simple test for network speed on a box without speedtest-cli or other tools installed.
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by willprice89 1y ago
I know it isn't the intended use case but I wonder how this would perform as a censorship circumvention method. The translation alone may be enough of a change to avoid the pattern matching used by firewalls.
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by willprice89 1y ago
B1 then. The point is that there should be some sort of objective measure other than simply "Hey how many languages do you speak?"
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by willprice89 1y ago
> However they differ, the hyperpolyglots whom I met all winced at the question “How many languages do you speak?” As Rojas-Berscia explained it, the issue is partly semantic: What does the verb “to speak” mean? When hearing about hyperp
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Pita Tunnels: A Pain in the Ass for Censors(wallpunch.net)
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by willprice89 2y ago
Interesting. So the entire UI is contained within a single web view? Does it require a local server "hosting" the site?
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by willprice89 2y ago
It's a VPN... can't do that as a webpage as it requires native API access.
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Ask HN: How should I rewrite my UI to be cross-platform (mobile and desktop)?
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by willprice89 2y ago
Wow, thanks for the great resources! Do you know of any real device clouds with Windows OS testing? Browserstack only seems to do web app testing in Windows browsers...
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Ask HN: How can I test my VPN client on more Android and Windows devices?
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by willprice89 3y ago
To clarify, I'm using "understand" in a sense similar to the Turing Test. It doesn't matter if the machine actually understands in the same way as humans (or at all), only that it is able to make humans think it understa
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by willprice89 3y ago
Because translation isn't a one-to-one transformation. A bilingual speaker doesn't have a single abstract thought that they are then able to express in two different languages. Rather the expressions themselves represent similar t
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by willprice89 3y ago
I think LLM's support my theory. The reason they are good at translation is because they are already good at simulating understanding in all of the languages they translate between.
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by willprice89 3y ago
I've always felt the Chinese Room thought experiment was founded on a complete misunderstanding of bilingualism. The only "algorithm" that can effectively transform text between English and Chinese would be one that understan
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by willprice89 3y ago
Curiosity. It's also a pretty significant event if true - a US government agency threatening someone over cryptography.
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by willprice89 3y ago
Good call, I'll try Stack Overflow
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Ask HN: Did the NSA Threaten Jim Bidzos (Of Rsadsi)?
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by willprice89 3y ago
Cool project! I also created a userspace network stack for Wallpunch, a censorship circumvention tool I built. It wasn't clear from the article if you were planning on working on this further or leaving it as is, but if you want to kee

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