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by maxrmk 2mo ago
Very cool Dan, thanks for the details!
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by maxrmk 2mo ago
Thanks Dan, this is very interesting. From someone deeply involved in privacy I see the benefits of the auditability and risk mitigation in cases like SQL injection. What does the risk profile look like in a full leak of the encrypted datab
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by maxrmk 2mo ago
I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around what guarantees this does and does not make. If you can run “select * where secret_col == 10”… why does it matter that the column is encrypted?
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by maxrmk 3mo ago
Right! Everything from word to the calculator app uses .NET these days. Even many games!
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by maxrmk 4mo ago
I ran into this (or a similar service) when cancelling comcast a few weeks ago. It worked _really_ well. It was slightly uncanny, but I think most people wouldn’t notice anything. It was only some awkward phrasing that made it obvious to me
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by maxrmk 6mo ago
It’s easy to opt out of being indexed by Google.
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by maxrmk 6mo ago
I don't think this is a correct explanation of how things work these days. RL has really changed things.
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by maxrmk 6mo ago
Fair enough. It reads as extremely AI generated to me. But that isn’t completely reliable.
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by maxrmk 6mo ago
Ironic coming from the Guardian. One of their journalists consistently publishes ai slop and the paper is in denial about it. https://x.com/maxwelltani/status/2023089526445371777?s=46
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by maxrmk 6mo ago
If a company relies on self reported ages, they don't "know" it well enough to satisfy COPPA. Probably. I'm not a lawyer but I do keep up with the latest in privacy enforcement and I think this is the way things are head
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by maxrmk 6mo ago
Those exist! People choose to use gmail because of the scale, stability, and feature set paid for by targeted advertising.
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by maxrmk 6mo ago
My desire is to be able to use those products without paying for them. And to use them with friends and family members that can't pay for them.
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by maxrmk 6mo ago
The bill bans making access to a service contingent on consent. This would kill Gmail, Google Maps, Facebook, Instagram and basically every other ad supported service. Making subscriptions the only consumer business model would be bad imo.
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Seldom: An Anonymity Network with Selective Deanonymization(dl.acm.org)
2 points by maxrmk 6mo ago|1 comments
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by maxrmk 9mo ago
Yeah fair, I was being a bit lazy here when writing my comment. I've used nosql professionally quite a bit, but always set up by others. When working on personal projects I reach for SQL first because I can throw something together and
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by maxrmk 9mo ago
How often are mongo instances exposed to the internet? I'm more of an SQL person and for those I know it's pretty uncommon, but does happen.
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by maxrmk 9mo ago
Google (currently) pays Mozilla $400-500 million a year to be the default search engine in firefox. edit: in 2023 they took in $653M in total, $555M of which was from Google. They spent $260M on software development, and $236M on other thin
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by maxrmk 10mo ago
Took more than a minute to load on my macbook. Ouch! I really love C# and the .net ecosystem, but they just haven't made it work for web.
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by maxrmk 11mo ago
What do you see as net negative about it? I’m familiar with the product but not that aware of how it’s been used.
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by maxrmk 11mo ago
Do you think there _should_ be a legal mechanism for enforcing the kind of rules they're trying to create here? I have mixed feelings about it.
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by maxrmk 1y ago
Evil feels strong? Small companies benefit from having the basic feature set subsidized by big cos. It's kind of hard for me to imagine a scenario where pricing of a saas product could be _evil_. you can just choose not to do business
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by maxrmk 1y ago
Do you work in devdiv at Microsoft? I can see the org chart in this comment haha
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by maxrmk 1y ago
Very cool. Do you do anything to mitigate ordering bias in the evaluation function, or do you just expect it to average out over time?
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Nurses Charge $40/Hour to Copy from Medical Records. LLMs Cost Pennies(talc.ai)
2 points by maxrmk 1y ago|0 comments
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by maxrmk 1y ago
> While the specific internal workings of DeepSeek LLM are still being elucidated, it appears to maintain or approximate the self-attention paradigm to some extent. Totally nonsensical. Deepseeks architecture is well documented, multiple
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by maxrmk 1y ago
I love to hate on google, but I suspect this is strategic enough that they wont kill it. Like graviton at AWS its as much of a negotiation tool as it is a technical solution, letting them push harder with NVIDIA on pricing because they have
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by maxrmk 1y ago
I used to use one but when I started working on ads it felt hypocritical. I want to support the sites that I use, especially those that don't paywall content. I don't work on ads anymore but have stuck with it.
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by maxrmk 1y ago
Yeah I think about this model weirdly often.
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by maxrmk 1y ago
I think it could show up in those other places, but probably isn't fully captured? Imagine an airbnb that's great for most guests but absolutely terrible for 1 in every 5, so bad that they quit airbnb. Maybe it's next to a mu
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by maxrmk 1y ago
I feel like this is missing a really important factor: how likely are guests to use airbnb again after staying at a listing? A listing could look great online and receive a lot of bookings (so high LTV), but ultimately drive users away from

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