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by wzdd 1y ago
> I can't think of a scenario where you'd need to deconstruct their front-end to mimic the calls. The article mentioned that important API calls are signed. So you would need at least partially to deconstruct their front-end to
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by wzdd 1y ago
The front page of the site links to "Shapchat is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale" ( https://www.afterbabel.com/p/industrial-scale-snapchat ) so I'm pretty sure it's about all of them. And at a
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by wzdd 2y ago
This won't help you if you're looking for Android apps, but for anyone else interested using iOS, play:Sub works with Navidrome and has pretty good local cache support: you can explicitly download stuff locally and there's a
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by wzdd 2y ago
> somehow the "intellectual elite" cannot wrap their heads around a very simple negotiating tactic This is extremely disingenous. Throughout this thread you've been arguing on the basis that hiring people simply to fit a p
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by wzdd 2y ago
You don't with f-strings because they're substituted eagerly. You could with the new t-strings proposed here because you can get at the individual parts.
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by wzdd 2y ago
The Bitter Lesson says "general methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective". That doesn't seem to rule out symbolic approaches. It does rule out anything which relies on having humans in the loop, bec
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by wzdd 2y ago
I don't understand your comment. Apple seems to be engaging with the order in the appropriate way under a functioning democracy, i.e. by challenging it in the courts.
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by wzdd 2y ago
I'm a big fan of Douglas Adams, but there is a reason he was (best known as) a comedy writer and not, for example, a sociologist. Trotting this out adds nothing to the conversation and just comes across as vaguely ageist.
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by wzdd 2y ago
> The models still _generate_ response token-by-token, but they pick tokens _not_ based on tokens that maximize probabilities at each token. This is also not how base training works. In base training the loss is chosen given a context, w
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by wzdd 2y ago
I was curious about this too and looked it up. The quote is: > At 17, if you don't think Lord of The Rings is the greatest contribution to literature there's something wrong with your head. If you still think that at 50, there&
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by wzdd 2y ago
> so effective as bird killers that wind-turbines were even acknowledged officially as "top predator" This is using "top" in the sense of "apex", because turbines have no natural predators. The paper says yo
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by wzdd 2y ago
That is the sort of quote which gives psychiatry a bad name. Of course people want (and achieve) things, label-referrent-object wordplay aside, and of course people come to learn things, despite there being an infinite level of skill achiev
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by wzdd 2y ago
> Decompilation, seen as a translation problem, is by any means a job that suits AI methods. Compilation is also a translation problem but I think many people would be leery of an LLM-based rust or clang -- perhaps simply because they&#x
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by wzdd 2y ago
The stuff about copyright seems irrelevant. OpenAI's future investments -- billions -- were just threatened to be undercut by several orders of magnitude by a competitor. It's in their best interests to cast doubt on that competit
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by wzdd 2y ago
Nice analysis, and cool to see how simple it is to get quite a satisfying effect. Also quite fun to see that the level symmetry was indeed exploited multiple ways to save space. If the author is here, they write '"@123" are t
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by wzdd 2y ago
Apart from the lack of sophistication regarding background saving, the two main reasons were a) writing to disk was inherently dangerous: file systems of the time were not robust, so anything going wrong while updating metadata (in particul
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by wzdd 2y ago
Reading the associated issue ( https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/510 ) about the lack of "set -e" was interesting as it highlighted how weird Bash, and shell scripting in general, is fro
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by wzdd 2y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42465374
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by wzdd 2y ago
> If Babbage was fit to be so smug, he is fit to be called an idiot Please become familiar with the British sense of humor and the context of the writing before taking it at face value. If that is too much work, at least be prepared to g
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by wzdd 2y ago
> one of the unique things the CHERI-based architecture permits is a single, flat, shared address space Although a hardware-optimised take on this is interesting, CHERI is not unique in allowing a flat, shared-address-space operating sys
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by wzdd 2y ago
Same. Some of them are neither obviously blue nor obviously green, so what the test was measuring for me was what I was thinking about at the time, the decision I'd previously made, whether my mouse was currently hovering over "bl
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by wzdd 2y ago
The final result looks great, but I found it even more convincing limiting it to about 15 FPS: https://jsfiddle.net/9mksgbe6/1/
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by wzdd 2y ago
Some alternatives include merchandise, sponsorships (Patreon etc), tipping, and organic engagement / sharing so that more people can find them and give them money.
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by wzdd 2y ago
> The majority of people, however, are extremely responsive to advertising & marketing, or it would not exist. This doesn't follow. Plenty of things are not effective for what they're claimed to do but still exist, have act
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by wzdd 2y ago
> how is it any more secure than https? Using a VPN doesn't expose the domain names you're viewing (via SNI) or the IP addresses you're connecting to to your ISP. It also (therefore) doesn't expose to the ISP the volu
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by wzdd 2y ago
"Where they shouldn't be", i.e. in a hotel room? Of a hacker conference? Along with USB drives, breadboards, and a soldering iron? Whole thing makes no sense. If someone's going to hack the hotel they're not going t
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by wzdd 2y ago
The article covers this extensively. For example: """OnlyFans’ terms of service say that only individuals can be creators, but they can choose a third party to operate their account and remain “legally responsible” for its co
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by wzdd 2y ago
I had a quick look but didn't find a reference to how much each country tests, what exactly they test for, and what constitutes a definition of "cancer" per-country (for example, do countries both classify and report non-mali
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by wzdd 2y ago
Even in your own examples 0 means different things. It’s not an approximation, it’s wrong.
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by wzdd 2y ago
You obviously do not believe that, or you would have written “men and men are equal”.

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