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by ascorbic 3d ago
Would college biology have let me into a secret world where you can develop vaccines for viruses that don't yet exist? Ones that cover all possible variants, and where an AI can't tweak a protein or two in an engineered virus to a
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by ascorbic 3d ago
Yes, but it can't preemptively develop and distribute vaccines for any possible pathogen created by AI. Once they've infected everyone it's a bit late
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by ascorbic 3d ago
And in the meantime, every site in the world gets hacked. It takes far longer to fix every vulnerability than it does to find one unpatched one. Mythos has led to huge numbers of reported vulnerabilities on every kind of software. If those
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by ascorbic 3d ago
> A usage agreement between two private companies is not considered public access. Says who? Just write the law so it is. > Under your current definition, Mythos is currently in public access. Yes
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by ascorbic 4d ago
Those are not incompatible. He can still be one of the most hated people on the planet, even if lots of people like him. The same would apply to all of the most hated people in history.
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by ascorbic 5d ago
If any of the orgs that were hacked decided to sue OpenAI they'd probably have a good chance of winning. It's just that none of them has.
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by ascorbic 5d ago
This isn't cybersecurity. You can't use an LLM to create and administer vaccines for all potential bioweapons.
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by ascorbic 13d ago
cf-ray is the Cloudflare ray id, which ends with the airport code for the colo that served the response. They're airport codes, but that's just to show the nearest city.
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by ascorbic 14d ago
> It's Bluesky, they hate AI There is a very vocal section of the userbase who are vehemently anti-AI. Blocklists help avoid them (using them or being on them). However there is also a really good AI community on there. It's ge
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by ascorbic 18d ago
Fishing was a big issue during Brexit, despite contributing less to the UK economy than Warhammer.
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by ascorbic 19d ago
[2025]
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by ascorbic 19d ago
> YouTube support is a convenience for content you have the right to process Seems like a great way to have your project taken down
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by ascorbic 20d ago
So does Street View
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by ascorbic 24d ago
Paying by the token is a much more expensive way of doing it than signing up for the various coding plans when you need them.
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by ascorbic 28d ago
EU law doesn't actually require a monopoly for competition rules to apply, it's a "dominant position". Apple certainly meets that definition for smartphone platforms. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/leg
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by ascorbic 1mo ago
I love picking blackberries, sloes, elderberries, elderflowers, crab apples etc from the hedgerows around me in the south of England. I also love then using them to make preserves etc. Very relaxing and rewarding.
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by ascorbic 1mo ago
The first sentence says she came across it when reading about compression. I didn't read that as her claiming to have discovered the idea or that it was a new idea, I read it as "today I learned". I think somebody who was unf
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by ascorbic 1mo ago
She covers all of this in the post
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Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale(blog.cloudflare.com)
267 points by ascorbic 1mo ago|66 comments
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by ascorbic 2mo ago
None of the previous concerns were true, largely because they came from laypeople who didn't understand the technology. A prominent exception is nuclear weapons, where their creators did worry their creations could end up destroying th
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by ascorbic 2mo ago
There was a discussion about this a few weeks ago, where I discovered KineStop which is an app that does the same on Android. I've only tried it a few times but it has worked every time.
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by ascorbic 2mo ago
The government absolutely can pass laws that ban particular contract previsions. They do that all the time. In your analogy for example while they can require you to wear red, they can't require you to be white.
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by ascorbic 2mo ago
When we bought our house, the only plumbing was in a tiny, asbestos-filled lean-to extension added in the 1940s that contained the kitchen, bathroom and toilet. The way people use houses has changed a lot in the past 100 years
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by ascorbic 2mo ago
This is about businesses, not families.
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by ascorbic 2mo ago
Yes, clothing companies and stores will very commonly destroy clothes if they determine that selling at a discount would undermine the brand value. They do things like cutting holes in the soles of shoes before discarding them.
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by ascorbic 2mo ago
They weren't torn down because there was better technology available. They were torn down because they were falling apart, or were no longer meeting the needs in that location. I love old buildings – my house is 250 years old – but the
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by ascorbic 2mo ago
Unsurprisingly they mostly run trains to places where people live, but there is some influence the other way too. New commuter rail lines have historically lead to more development around the stations (e.g. Metro-land 100 years ago https:&
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by ascorbic 2mo ago
The location of the train comes from trackside sensors and is available as a free API. It doesn't give actual lat/lon – it only shows when it went past a particular checkpoint. The part that needs location permission is the one th
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by ascorbic 2mo ago
> I was a bit confused what this adds other than just standard CDN-Cache-Control page caching that we do now. Until now these cache headers didn't work if you set them in a Worker, because Workers were always run in front of the cac
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by ascorbic 3mo ago
That's not what the article is about. It's about what goes in the ducts when they are connected, and who has access to the infra.

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