PeterisP

6 ms·

1.
by PeterisP 5mo ago
AFAIK the transponder kind of turns itself on when powering on the plane, you'd have to explicitly disable it but then you'd have weird discussions with the airport tower guiding you to a free timeslot on the runway which would ju
2.
by PeterisP 6mo ago
I mean, it's an obvious difference in the primary use cases - if you explicitly want an isolated answer, you might clear context and start from scratch, and if you explicitly want a discussion with a persistent companion (as these peop
3.
by PeterisP 6mo ago
The key missing step which breaks the loop is that while indeed a larger and larger portion of the web is written by language models, that data isn't being used to train new models - at the beginning of LLMs people did indeed want to u
4.
by PeterisP 6mo ago
The Iran war was one of the biggest economic boons Russia could hope for; the disruption of oil and gas exports from Middle East with the associated spike in global prices brought Russian economy back from the dead, as now their exports are
5.
by PeterisP 6mo ago
The root cause of identity theft in USA and some other places is the lack of "proper" national identity and the associated use of various personal "secrets" (not that secret) for identity verification because there are n
6.
by PeterisP 6mo ago
The current bills (e.g. NY one at https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S8102/amendm... ) require age assurance that goes beyond mere assertions, so when creating your (adult) user account it
7.
by PeterisP 6mo ago
That would be a violation of the copyright law or the GPL licence - you aren't permitted to take GPL code and redistribute it with some extra restrictions added on to it. If it's not (fully) your code, you aren't free to set
8.
by PeterisP 6mo ago
What I'm confused about is how the proposed bills would apply to servers. Like, in general, a software change to add an "age class" attribute to user accounts and a syscall "what's this attribute for the current use
9.
by PeterisP 7mo ago
The key parameter for swap size is "how memory-hungry things you want to run", which isn't easy to measure, but paying for installed RAM is a somewhat usable proxy metric for that. If you were happy with 8gb, it's some e
10.
by PeterisP 7mo ago
where do you see this goal post moving? From my perspective, it never was "The AIs will never do this." but rather even before day 1 all the experts were explicitly saying that AIs will absolutely do this, that alignment isn'
11.
by PeterisP 11mo ago
Abstractions are inherently a tradeoff, and too much abstraction hurts you when the assumptions break. For a major example, treating a network resource like a file is neat and elegant and simple while the network works well, however, once y
12.
by PeterisP 11mo ago
If you discard all major video streaming sites (including adult entertainment) then you probably can get most of the way there; you're probably mostly interested in text communication and actual user data, not the video content which i
13.
by PeterisP 11mo ago
The "Keep America Beautiful" ad campaign with a Native American character (played by an Italian actor?) who's sad about the polluted environment.
14.
by PeterisP 11mo ago
This shouldn't be a major issue because of Forward Secrecy ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_secrecy ) principles built into modern TLS protocols, which ensure that even if the public/private key scheme i
15.
by PeterisP 1y ago
It's just that out of these two claims only one is interesting and worth talking about (and that's the one mentioned in the title). Thank you for your testing! That's a bunch of effort which I didn't do - but checking th
16.
by PeterisP 1y ago
One report ( https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/27/america_ad_blocker/ ) indicated that more than half of Americans use an ad blocker.
17.
by PeterisP 1y ago
It's interesting that I just read an inteview with YouTube CEO ( https://stratechery.com/2025/an-interview-with-youtube-ceo-n... ) who mentioned that YouTube fully intends to start getting a cut out of that sponsors
18.
by PeterisP 1y ago
I'd probably be OK if all the content which doesn't get made without sponsorship wouldn't get made at all, and the people who work as content creators stopped doing so. There is an overabundance of new content, having 10x les
19.
by PeterisP 1y ago
Well in your example it didn't write less secure code (wich is the core claim of the article, and something new), it refused to provide an answer about Falun Gong, which the article also claims, but that's not the interesting part
20.
by PeterisP 1y ago
Technically (and legally) the USSR also had the same three branches of government; just all controlled by the same party.
21.
by PeterisP 1y ago
All the US megacorps tend send me emails saying "We want to change TOS, here's the new TOS that's be valid from date X, and be informed that you have the right to refuse it" (in which case they'll probably terminate
22.
by PeterisP 1y ago
At least historically it used to be the case that you don't ever want to use the browser API directly for compatibility reasons but always through some library that will be a do-nothing-wrapper in some cases but do a bunch of weird stu
23.
by PeterisP 1y ago
FHE solves privacy-from-compute-provider and doesn't affect any other privacy risks of the services. The trivial way to get privacy from the compute provider is to run that compute yourself - we delegate compute to cloud services for v
24.
by PeterisP 2y ago
The parent point isn't that shitty code doesn't have defects but rather that there's usually a big gap between the code (and any defects in that code) and the actual service or product that's being provided. Most compani
25.
by PeterisP 2y ago
If a LLM (or any other tool) makes so that team of 8 can get the same results in the same time as it used to take a team of 10 to do, then I would count that as "replaced 2 programmers" - even if there's no particular person
26.
by PeterisP 2y ago
Intent makes all the difference in the eyes of law. If a jury of your peers decides that you configured that firmware to protect your data from thieves, then it is not a problem. But if a jury of your peers doesn't buy your assertion o
27.
by PeterisP 2y ago
Your IT system may need to handle entries linked to people who don't have names, for example, recording that some treatment was given to a baby who died soon after birth before being given a name.
28.
by PeterisP 2y ago
I don't get why I would choose a dataclass in cases where I've already decided that an ordinary tuple would be a better fit than a normal class (i.e. "anywhere you're tempted to use a namedtuple") To me, namedtuples
29.
by PeterisP 2y ago
Those farmers with second jobs would need protection from local megafarms who are outcompeting them, not other countries - it's not about location, it's about size of the operation.
30.
by PeterisP 2y ago
The general principle is that "pipelines" impose a restriction where the errors of the first step get baked-in and can't effectively use the knowledge of the following step(s) to fix them. So if the first step isn't near

More ›