nathanlied

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by nathanlied 5mo ago
I can live with the tears of Google and Elon, frankly. The adtech industry has, time and again, proven they cannot self-regulate to any decent capacity. At this point, the only reasonable course of action is to shackle them down with such h
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by nathanlied 7mo ago
China is being very careful to provide enough support not to be seen as abandoning their trading partners/allies, while keeping the support at a low enough level to not get entangled in conflict or create expectations for future confli
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by nathanlied 8mo ago
Some laptops had them, and came with IR remotes. Some of the marketing was around using those laptops as "media centres", and you could control them from the sofa while it was plugged into a TV.
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by nathanlied 8mo ago
Football is extremely popular, and football clubs (and their owners) are quite influential (socially and politically). But it's a little bigger than that. EU is pushing for measures against live-event piracy[1], because they frame this
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by nathanlied 8mo ago
Thank you for your openness here - and yes, it would be nice to see this kind of reasoning in the changelog, even if it's tucked a little out of the way! Those of us who care will read it. Also very welcome is to separate it into a sma
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by nathanlied 8mo ago
Your comment highlights some tensions in deterrence theory, but it also oversimplifies over a few things. If you notice, most countries with nuclear weapons also have published and publicized nuclear use policies. These documents usually hi
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by nathanlied 9mo ago
As someone who suffered from deep depression, but never alcoholism - the way alcoholism is described by alcoholics always rings true with how I experience (and hear described by others) depression. I am no longer suffering from depression a
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by nathanlied 9mo ago
There was a lot of inter-community conflict in the years (decades) preceding the formation of Israel, so it wasn't exactly peaceful. That there were some groups (on both sides, though the Jewish ones were far more effective, well-train
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by nathanlied 9mo ago
When Iran directly, materially, and openly, supports groups or organizations that have as an overt stated goal to destroy Israel, and actively work towards it (both with indiscriminate attacks against civilians, and building infrastructure
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by nathanlied 9mo ago
I'm by no means defending throwing the baby out with the bathwater - which is what's happening when someone abandons a less-aligned company for a completely unaligned one - but I have a somewhat different perspective on what, exac
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by nathanlied 10mo ago
This has been my experience, effectively. Sometimes I don't care for things to be done in a very specific way. For those cases, LLMs are acceptable-to-good. Example: I had a networked device that exposes a proprietary protocol on a spe
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by nathanlied 10mo ago
Just the UK? Not, say, Iran? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_R._White_(U.S._veteran... Or maybe China, for a US citizen who posted while on US soil, in a US website? https://www.reuters.com/world&
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by nathanlied 1y ago
There are Jewish communities within Iran, yes. But peacefully? https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/iran/2025-06-27/ty-... (archive: https://archive.is/0qEg9 ) One could blame this crackdo
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by nathanlied 2y ago
Frankly? I think this is a whole mix of things. There isn't a "real" reason, there's a smorgasbord of them. Why do "FAANG"s RTO? Because they're massive people-movers, and cities that host them likely hold
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by nathanlied 2y ago
This is already the expectation from our leaders. It is the belief of a good % of EU leaders that, if Russia were to push into Poland and the Baltic states, and Article 5 was invoked, the US would not respond. Or at least not without some V
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by nathanlied 2y ago
Could we not - for the sake of argument here - surmise that, since these AIs need prompts, and usually a few rounds of refinement, and then a selection for uploading to (in this case) YouTube, that the -human- in charge of prompting/re
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by nathanlied 2y ago
>I predict we’ll see other vendors removing similar bonehead “features” very very quietly over the next few months. If indeed this happens, I'd hail this event as a victory overall; but industry experience tells me that most of thos
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by nathanlied 3y ago
>the EU government, as well as our own, wants to eliminate encryption, VPNs or add back doors into systems to some degree. This is a continuous concern - some sectors of the EU indeed want to do that. So far, they've been mostly uns
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by nathanlied 3y ago
I believe "code" here is being used in the sense that you retrieve YouTube (the website - made of code) with the intent of watching X video. But you don't want some parts of YouTube's code (the bits that display ads) to
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by nathanlied 3y ago
It is an unfortunate reality of how the Internet is built. There's quite a few people like you, that are fine with self-hosted analytics, either because you believe the principles of the websites you visit, or because you've done
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by nathanlied 3y ago
When was it not? Telemetry - the act of collecting logs/"metrics" and reporting them back to a remote (tele) station - how could this not be considered telemetry?
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by nathanlied 3y ago
You should vote to join the EU, maybe it'll work!
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by nathanlied 3y ago
I'm not saying we should discount Putin's viewpoint and others like him, it is after all one of the very few tools we've got to analyse what he'll do. But just because we acknowledge Putin's viewpoint doesn't m
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by nathanlied 3y ago
>But couldn’t you argue the same thing is happening to Ukraine under a US sphere of influence? Isn’t that bad too? I fully agree with you - NATO -is- the US Sphere of Influence made manifest. The difference (in my view, anyway) is that t
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by nathanlied 3y ago
The problem there is that you (and Putin) are viewing NATO's expansion as a curtailing of "Russia's sovereignty". Doing this probably means you take the view that the Spheres of Influence concept was correct: big blocs (
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by nathanlied 3y ago
Or maybe the AI is sufficient to act as a filter, but insufficient to surpass it itself. It stagnates. After all, an AI that can destroy a civilization isn't necessarily "intelligent" in the same way humans are. Or even capab
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by nathanlied 4y ago
Or us Portuguese - up until 1974 we had PIDE (translated: International and State Defense Police); so within living memory of many in power today. They did all the things any "good" oppressive police force of a semi-fascist to ful
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by nathanlied 4y ago
While that's true, and I feel you do well in calling it out, I also think it's because in my anecdotal experience HN is mostly pro-WFH. When looking at the wider pool of people commenting on this issue outside HN, I see antagonism
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by nathanlied 4y ago
It's always an option, I believe. You must vote, but you're not forced to vote for any candidate.
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by nathanlied 4y ago
I presume from showing something they've worked hard to discover and research. Even if their work may be used maliciously, it's better to be out in the open so that our communications systems can be made more robust, than to leave

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