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by wizzwizz4 1mo ago
Well, it's certainly impenetrable.
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by wizzwizz4 1mo ago
The user agent can refuse to store cookies, but it can't do much against supercookies (cookie-like features not knowingly implemented by the user agent programmers) or fingerprinting: you need something like legislation to curb practic
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by wizzwizz4 1mo ago
Without further violating privacy. I would say that the data these companies are already collecting on people (including children, who many believe should be afforded extra protections from such companies) is a major, systematic privacy v
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by wizzwizz4 1mo ago
Mathematics is to hallucinatory mushroom people as the flap of a hummingbird's wings is to the scratches on a lens.
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by wizzwizz4 1mo ago
Yes. All the time the rest of the organisation spends on mandatory ethical training, the ethics board spends on martial arts.
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by wizzwizz4 1mo ago
I have a camera. Suppose I rub course-grained sandpaper all over its lens. Now the camera sees scratches, instead of the outside world. But those scratches are real! We can see their physical counterparts if we study the camera. Clearly, th
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by wizzwizz4 2mo ago
I may not be personally familiar with the latest and greatest moving target in agentic AI, but I am familiar with AI-generated "slop code". What I see is consistently defective, to the point where I would not trust an AI-generat
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by wizzwizz4 2mo ago
> Try some context engineering. Try customizing your harness. Try having the harness improve itself. These are AI 101 lessons If AI is really that complicated, it sounds like it would be easier to write an ordinary computer program to
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by wizzwizz4 2mo ago
Wishing for something doesn't make it happen. So we should consider the effect that this wishing has on you : does wishing for vengeance make you a worse, or better, person? I'd try to avoid it, myself. If you're in a positi
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by wizzwizz4 2mo ago
> HN pretends there's nothing to discuss here. Have you read the discussions on vaccine stories? See, for example, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26629234 – chosen arbitrarily using the search box at the b
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by wizzwizz4 2mo ago
Does your television not take 10 seconds to start, 2 seconds to respond to button inputs, request internet access, try to sell you things, and exfiltrate your personal data? If not: where are you getting your televisions?
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by wizzwizz4 2mo ago
This kind of market shopping is common in grant-funded domains. There's a project that you know is a good, but nobody wants to pay for it… but grant body X will pay for component A, which can be slightly modified into component A&#x2
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by wizzwizz4 2mo ago
It annoys me, though, that there's a prescribed method of estimation, which is hard to remember. I always used to get the "wrong" answer because I picked easier-to-add approximations, even though my estimates were generally b
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by wizzwizz4 2mo ago
I have finally remembered which slur has been used! Not the slogan, though, even though I do remember that it's uncreative, so there are only three or four possibilities. It still doesn't come to mind in any context other than me
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by wizzwizz4 2mo ago
Derek Lowe has a very distinct voice.
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by wizzwizz4 2mo ago
You're getting your book dirty for what is, as far as I can understand, no real reason. Why not read your book after washing your hands? (If you have a severe chair shortage, then sure, I can sort of understand: sitting to read is plea
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by wizzwizz4 2mo ago
Everyone's gut is different, but one minute isn't unreasonably short, especially if you have something like a bidet for fast cleaning afterwards. Are you sure you're not constipated?
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by wizzwizz4 2mo ago
But you're actually capable of thought. These AI systems aren't: as far as they're concerned, they're predicting the next part of an incident write-up narrated in first-person limited perspective, like the children in
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by wizzwizz4 2mo ago
I'm not trying to act smug. Open Connect (Netflix's telco CDN system) doesn't seem like it'd take "massive DCs" to maintain: per [DG], each Open Connect Appliance (OCA) draws between 350W and 750W (depending on
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by wizzwizz4 2mo ago
Wouldn't need datacentres if we had IP multicast routing. And actually, Netflix doesn't need that anyway : anycast and telco CDNs get most of the advantages, albeit at the cost of only being available to established players. Netf
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by wizzwizz4 2mo ago
This site only recently (a few years ago) got multithreading . I'm pretty sure it could run off a second-hand laptop. It doesn't require a datacentre: just the two(?) moderators' salaries, and some rounding-error electricity
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by wizzwizz4 2mo ago
It is interesting to be reminded of this every time I open the thread. By this point, I remember my original comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49183711 ) and s-daveb's comment ( https://news.ycom
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by wizzwizz4 2mo ago
They're most certainly not silent! If you're standing right under one, you can hear it over car traffic and the breeze! (Well, unless the wind is blowing really hard: then the wind might be louder than either, considering th
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by wizzwizz4 2mo ago
Datacentres are a resource sink that serves private interests, not a resource source that serves public interests.
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by wizzwizz4 2mo ago
Update: no part of this stuck with me after all, not even the part I found annoying.
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by wizzwizz4 2mo ago
So, you're trying to upset (former) bullying victims, while having the people you're trying to criticise dismiss you as a mere bully? I don't see how this is an effective strategy. > “That movie was so developmentally d
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by wizzwizz4 2mo ago
The literal meaning of the word is "delayed", which seems less descriptive than the words you rejected in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49183728 . Do you understand why this word is "forbidden"
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by wizzwizz4 2mo ago
It mildly upsets me, because I think the impulse to denigrate that which we oppose is a harmful one which, if cultivated, we can all too readily turn on people who don't deserve it. But it's not a real slur for real people. (Note
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by wizzwizz4 2mo ago
No, we're worried about contributing to a hostile environment for people who have nothing to do with this complaint. To illustrate: replace the slur with a racial or sexist one, and see how it reads. If you want to insult people, tak
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by wizzwizz4 2mo ago
Please don't use human slurs for computer programs you don't like.

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