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by avivo 5mo ago
I think if it ultimately protects customer data in a significant way, I would be for it. Are you able to share any more detail on how you determined this is the best route? It would be a significant implication for many other pieces of open
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by avivo 5mo ago
Open source is one of the main reasons I recommended cal.com to everyone — I just did so yesterday again in fact! I'm disappointed to hear this especially since I don't think the rationale makes sense, from what I understand of th
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by avivo 6mo ago
They could also buy potentially Zulip, an OSS slack alternative with a much better conversational model.
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by avivo 9mo ago
There is a lot of potential in this. Not just for government democracy, but for also introducing democratic elements into tech/AI policy, when that tech has impact comparable to many governments. I worked in tech, and after some format
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by avivo 2y ago
The FTC also recently put out a statement that is fairly pro-open source: https://www.ftc.gov/policy/advocacy-research/tech-at-ftc/202... I think it's interesting to think about this question of open sou
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by avivo 3y ago
Author here, not of the post, but the linked article, making the case for bridging-based ranking, https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/bridging-based-rank... and the related https://bridging.systems&#x2F
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by avivo 3y ago
If you can provide a script that takes in an HTML file and provides an image ready for rendering, that would be amazing. Then I can automatically take any website and have a cron job that dumps the result into a shared dropbox link where it
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by avivo 3y ago
It's worth knowing that, according to some recent research, taking a topical antibiotic like this might have permanent impacts on microbiome in your nose (and lead to drug resistance.)
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by avivo 3y ago
What is the advantage of this versus running something like https://github.com/simonw/llm , which also gives you options to e.g. use https://github.com/simonw/llm-mlc for accelerated inference?
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by avivo 3y ago
Fascinating, this led to this projects which is pretty interesting. https://www.modos.tech/blog/modos-paper-monitor Seems like a very exciting effort and product but I'm not sure if it's still active.
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by avivo 4y ago
Has anyone gotten this to speak back a response on a Mac? I don't see a setting for this. I'm also curious if there are ways to do this for Google Home and Alexa.
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by avivo 4y ago
How are people creating transcripts like this? There doesn't seem to be a convenient export or save option for conversations.
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by avivo 4y ago
It's worth understanding the community and org better, and their reaction. Relevant links: - https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/421778/how-do-you-p... - https://meta.stackoverflow.com/qu
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by avivo 4y ago
I think this gets almost all the way there but not quite — there is one more vital point: How we act depends on our environment and incentives. It is possible to build environments and incentives that make us better versions of ourselve
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by avivo 4y ago
This is on point > The goal of all this activity is not to debate, converse or exchange information. The goal is to win by being maximally controversial, as that's the behavior that is rewarded. > the real issue: what gets amplif
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by avivo 4y ago
Halfbaked thought: Have it cost half the amount as normal mail to receive email there. Perhaps also gov use is free, and users can whitelist specific domains or subdomains to be free.
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by avivo 4y ago
> It turns out that we like people the best when they respond to us the fastest––so fast (mere milliseconds!) that they must be formulating their reply long before we finish our turn. This might be true; but looking into the linked study
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by avivo 4y ago
Can you install a real keyboard tray?
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by avivo 4y ago
I'm curious if Astro supports git-backed visual editing? I can't seem to find that, but it would rather useful if so! (ala tinacms.io , stackbit, etc.)
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by avivo 4y ago
It looks like it provides out of the box support for Overleaf! (Collaborative LaTeX editor) https://www.overleaf.com/blog/635-languagetool-a-free-browse... This is not true of Grammarly last I checked, you have to hack
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by avivo 4y ago
I think what would be most interesting and helpful is an augmented form of reading that is semantic . I would love to have bold and italics and even section headings and table of contents that are toggleable on and off as I read anything,
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by avivo 4y ago
Fascinating. "Deprank is particularly useful when converting an existing JavaScript codebase to TypeScript. Performing the conversion in strict PageRank order can dramatically increase type-precision, reduce the need for any and minimi
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by avivo 4y ago
Not exactly right anymore. Check out https://www.unepfi.org/publications/investment-publications/... " Large institutional investors are, in effect, “Universal Owners”, as they often have highly-diversified a
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by avivo 4y ago
It is a choice at the software later. And who is making that choice? It's the initial people who actually write that software. But what if that system is now affecting many other people, or the entire planet in a significant way? Shoul
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by avivo 4y ago
It's a good question. There are several kinds of answers, two of which I allude to but don't go into a lot of detail. The answers based off of peer reviewed research can be found in the article in Science that I quote. There is al
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by avivo 4y ago
There is also a rebuttal article by the same fund: https://www.bvp.com/atlas/the-antidote-to-cryptophobia/ That said, I think Adam (the original article) is closer to being right. He doesn't even get into the
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by avivo 4y ago
This is one of those brilliant little things that I just want to see everywhere.
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by avivo 4y ago
This is great. That said, I would love to see this extended beyond just keyword search, to contextualization of a given piece of content. https://aviv.medium.com/contextualization-engines-can-fight-... ( I should note th
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by avivo 4y ago
There actually is a way to give devolve power away from both the government and private companies. Details here: https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/towards-platform-de... Essentially get a representative sample o
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by avivo 4y ago
Ease of access does matter. It only buys time, but that can provide the time needed to create countermeasures and ideally make those very accessible—somewhat similar to responsible vulnerability disclosure. This piece goes into more detail:

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