brainwad

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by brainwad 4d ago
Human growth has already been exponential, so it seems absurd to assume it would be only polynomial.
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by brainwad 4d ago
Musk being in the conversation is a great justification for Anthropic accelerationism. Who wants to live in the world where _Musk_ controls the AGI?
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by brainwad 4d ago
It's not misinformation. By default Google has been able to click track with JS. If you disable JS, they don't serve you search ( https://serpapi.com/blog/google-now-requires-javascript/ ). Yes, if you ar
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by brainwad 5d ago
Unfortunately copyright law allows them to give something to one person without giving it to others _and_ to sue to the former person to block them from giving it to the others.
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by brainwad 5d ago
Well, that's rather the point, right? Kagi and other micro search engines sell a product that just resells Google search results while telling people it's a premium product better than Google. Obviously Google isn't pleased a
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by brainwad 5d ago
Didn't Google take it down because of copyright? With the rise of paywalls it became a backdoor around them, but Google doesn't actually have a license to republish the copyrighted text they scraped.
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by brainwad 5d ago
Adding -ai to the query works fine. Or like the other responder said, use the web tab instead of the all tab.
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by brainwad 5d ago
That flag is the result of clicking on the "Web" tab of the results page, so it kinda is a documented feature. All the tabs have their own udm value (e.g. image search is 2, AI mode is 50, etc.).
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by brainwad 5d ago
Because Google search isn't a hypertext document, it's a web app that presents dynamic ephemeral content to the user. There's no need for stable hyperlinks, since either you will click them within a few seconds, or they will
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by brainwad 5d ago
It seems feasible for state actors, at least: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNSS_spoofing#Ocurrences
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by brainwad 5d ago
He wasn't the one who merged ads and search into the same org. The blame has to fall on Sundar, surely. > promoted to a cushy do-nothing role The people who this happens to are not perceived as successes. Everyone knows they are gen
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by brainwad 5d ago
They own the JS on the page, they don't need the redirects to know where you clicked...
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by brainwad 5d ago
Like the OP says, it's being hidden form scrapers. Like you I don't see a reason for normal users to be concerned.
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by brainwad 5d ago
Well, they already know your credit card issuer, it's not that wild. Really Visa/MasterCard should offer age verification on their network... They have all the necessary components.
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by brainwad 6d ago
GNSS signals can be relatively easily faked because the original signals are very weak so overpowering them doesn't require much broadcast power.
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by brainwad 7d ago
And only 1852m at sea level; since it's an angular distance it's a bit longer in the air and a bit shorter underwater (~ 29 cm per km of elevation change).
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by brainwad 7d ago
Mercator is also useful for tiled maps, which is why web Mercator is a standard. The tiles always have nice north/south and east/west bounds and there is no difference in rendering depending on longitude or latitude. For software
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by brainwad 8d ago
Allegations that the model plagiarised itself, while reflecting poorly on humans, don't make the AI any less impressive. It was the one doing the breakthrough on both sides, after all, not the human prompters.
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by brainwad 8d ago
I mean... none of these humans have priority. The result is due to the team of LLM agents.
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by brainwad 8d ago
Yes, but the value of local presence is only the marginal value of the local advertisers over foreign ones. It's not all the revenue from the country, and it can be possible to be not worth having a local presence but still worth opera
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by brainwad 8d ago
BTW, Australia has shown the limits of sin taxation with our very high tobacco taxes. They got so high we induced a criminal black market in tobacco, that now is very hard to eradicate and is causing gang warfare, etc. Given we now have the
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by brainwad 8d ago
Facebook already has a "friends only" feed - https://www.facebook.com/?filter=friends&sk=h_chr . It's the only thing I still use, and unfortunately it's cluttered with events that people I knew 15 yea
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by brainwad 8d ago
They could still book global advertisers, in particular other foreign companies that also pulled out of the relevant jurisdictions.
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by brainwad 8d ago
Australia is and always has been a nanny state. It's cultural.
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by brainwad 8d ago
Well, I don't watch shorts... but I do open my phone and read HN sometimes, when I don't want to actively participate in the (current) conversation. Which also shows that "curated" feeds will not solve this particular pr
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by brainwad 10d ago
Their custom software probably runs fine under Wine? Also, if it's actual custom software, they might have the source and could even recompile it. And also, the software of the Swiss government is usually surprisingly good quality, so
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by brainwad 10d ago
I don't understand how that's supposed to work - then you can't distribute under the compatible license; only under a weird hybrid of that license and non-conflicting EUPL terms. Seems to defeat the purpose of the compatibili
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by brainwad 10d ago
Why? MIT license or public domain helps the most people, because anyone can use it. It being usable by corporations is purely additive, it can't subtract from the number of people you'd help with a copyleft license.
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by brainwad 11d ago
The causality is wrong here. You chose to work for free with no reward, and _then_ companies found your work and used it. Presumably you started out working for free because it was intrinsically rewarding (otherwise: stop doing work you hat
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by brainwad 11d ago
But the EUPL itself says that derivative works may be distributed under the LGPL instead, as long as those works are derived from both a EUPL and LGPL parent. This seems kinda trivial to abuse and the author should have noticed this clause

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