UpToTheSky

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by UpToTheSky 3y ago
Why does neither Microsoft nor Google nor Apple take the lead and offer free LLM answers like Google offers free search results? Is that because there are simply not enough GPUs out there to do this at scale? If so, it will become really in
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by UpToTheSky 3y ago
Just to make me understand this: This is about storing data in the form of "Facebook user XYZ looked at a page about travel to Antarctica" and the reason Facebook wants to store such data is to show them travel offers when they re
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by UpToTheSky 3y ago
For example, if a user specifically asks for a URL's full text, it might inadvertently fulfill this request. So this seems to imply two things: 1: Bing has access to text on websites which users don't. Probably b
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by UpToTheSky 3y ago
Congrats! Going full time is the only way to go for a project you love and want to grow. What is the business model? How much visitors does Marginalia have?
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by UpToTheSky 3y ago
There is a subreddit about Reddit alternatives: https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/
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by UpToTheSky 3y ago
That's why I suggested piggybacking on HN's karma points.
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by UpToTheSky 3y ago
Hosting costs: Let's start with text only. Moderation: True, that's hard. But maybe piggybacking on HN's karma points could solve it? Network effects: Do we really need many users to make something useful?
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by UpToTheSky 3y ago
What are some of those Reddit clones? Any of them decentralized, so there is no "one ruler" who can close down the thing in the future?
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by UpToTheSky 3y ago
Do we really need a big part of the community to have a good "forums for everything" site? To me it seems, that 99% of Reddit is just "content fast food" and low quality comments. If we would get just 1000 HN users to us
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by UpToTheSky 3y ago
What is the hard thing about building an open, user-friendly Reddit alternative? Hosting the posts shouldn't be that hard. Storage is so cheap these days. Is it the legal aspects of handling user generated content? Ranking the posts is
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Popular Subreddits are organizing a strike on 2023-06-12 b/c high API prices(old.reddit.com)
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by UpToTheSky 3y ago
Can GnuCash be used to do your taxes in Germany? Any indie makers here doing their taxes on their own? So far, I have always worked with a tax consultant. But I wonder if it really makes sense to pay thousands of Euros just to put numbers i
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by UpToTheSky 3y ago
Going by that logic, no technological progress would take place at all.
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by UpToTheSky 3y ago
Its not just firewalls. Its also all kinds of code that interacts with the internet in all kinds of ways. Extending all that code to two kinds of IPs, writing tests, setting up two types of IPs in development, staging and production, monito
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by UpToTheSky 3y ago
This is one of the reasons I do not support IPv6 anywhere. It would take a lot more work to support two types of network requests. I hope I can ignore it up to the point where I can make a complete switch, use only IPv6 and stop support
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by UpToTheSky 3y ago
Is the world becoming more and more Orwellian? Is this a long term trend? It got pretty much unnoticed on HN, that Europe recently voted to make all crypto payments illegal unless the seller collects the personal data of the buyer. Independ
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by UpToTheSky 3y ago
I think the ads will become even better. Say you put the message you just posted through Google to correct style, facts and spelling. You know how it would reply? Here we go: The text is pretty awesome. I would only suggest changing the wor
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by UpToTheSky 3y ago
Releasing a LLM would not kill Google's revenue. It would increase it. Because more people would use Google than before. And they could still show relevant ads. The big question is if they can catch up with OpenAI. OpenAI is a moving t
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by UpToTheSky 4y ago
Does Twitter have any way to prevent/punish using screenshots instead of the Twitter embed thing when you put Tweets on your website? Twitter can probably not use copyright to fight this, a Tweet probably does not fall under copyright
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by UpToTheSky 4y ago
The combination of your "CPU as undefined, Memory as 8GB, Platform as MacIntel" can still be used to fingerprint you. Independent of whether the values represent your actual hardware or not. And they are probably not even red herr
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by UpToTheSky 4y ago
Someone should also look into the "navigator" variable that websites can access. It provides a strangely open look into the user's machine. For example, it allows websites to know about your OS, your CPU and your memory. The