quatrefoil

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by quatrefoil 2y ago
Guest mode does not honor your settings. It mostly defaults to install-time configuration. Incognito mode is fine. It doesn't persist data, it doesn't give websites access to existing main-profile data (cookies, etc), and it actua
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by quatrefoil 2y ago
I don't think your comment is accurate. The formulas appear to be DFT and IDFT, in line with: https://home.engineering.iastate.edu/~julied/classes/ee524/L...
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by quatrefoil 2y ago
If the exploit wasn't baing used, the odds would would be pretty low. They picked the right place to bury it (i.e., effectively outside the codebase, where no auditor ever looks). That said, if you're not using it, it defeats th
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by quatrefoil 2y ago
You're comparing to medians; is this a median crime?
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by quatrefoil 2y ago
A browser is one of the most consequential attack surfaces in the lives of billions of people. Redis isn't. Having proofs where said proofs don't matter much in the first place is not a particularly good use of our time. And FWIW,
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by quatrefoil 2y ago
That's a pretty cynical take. I think a more profound problem is that formal specifications for software are fairly intractable. For a bridge, you specify that it needs to withstand specific static and dynamic loads, plus several other
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by quatrefoil 2y ago
Request deletion from backend brokers? Many have some mechanisms for opt-out, either in general or for people in specific states (e.g., California).
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by quatrefoil 2y ago
Not really. There's a fairly small and stable number of companies that actually collect and resell information about you. There is also about a zillion ephemeral web front ends that republish this data, however. I suspect this is done
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by quatrefoil 2y ago
There are commercial influencing operations on Reddit, but I think what you're describing doesn't really affect the usual user experience. I suspect that the objective of these bulk spamming operations isn't to promote stuff
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by quatrefoil 2y ago
Scraping is a lot more dicey than using an official API. Why did Google enter that partnership? They have the data in their index. The only conceivable reason is that they prefer to pay Reddit to avoid the risk of litigating it and ending u
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by quatrefoil 2y ago
The API situation seemed baffling to me at the time. The timing wasn't coincidental and it was clear that they were responding to people training LLMs on the Reddit corpus. But here's the thing: prevailing HN sentiments notwithsta
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by quatrefoil 2y ago
I'm guessing the plan is to cast a wide net, then hope that you can dredge up some incriminating or morally ambiguous quotes during discovery. When you have a company of 100,000+ people, there's probably some "haha we're
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by quatrefoil 2y ago
Right, and from all my friends who did take VC money: it's an incredibly demanding period of your life, a large proportion of which isn't about delivering on your vision. You're gonna learn a lot about office space leases, ac
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by quatrefoil 2y ago
I mean, we had this stuff for pets for a long time. The basic idea is that yes, it's a lipid-soluble neurotoxin. Because it is fat-soluble, it spreads throughout various tissues and lingers for a good while, which is these pet formulat
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
It feels like you're picking apart an argument I didn't make. But I would note that most people don't see this so unambiguously as the position you're defending. To give you an analogy: doxxing is "fair game" t
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
It takes deliberate effort, but I was actually able to get pieces of my writing out of one of the leading LLMs (not ChatGPT). This is not particularly unique, a number of folks demonstrated the same.
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
You make a lot of categorical assertions here, but I don't think they're really all that watertight. If any individual "economically harmed in an intellectually honest sense" if PG&E overcharges every subscriber five
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
While a lot of attention has been given to books3, another large component of this dataset is the deceptively-named "OpenWebText2". What's that? It's a scrape of 15 years' worth of third-party websites that were lin
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
Kafka was virtually unknown during his lifetime. It's unlikely that there was any expectation of profit. They probably just liked the writings and thought it would be a shame to destroy them.
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
It still boggles my mind how we managed to make it so politicized. I mean, there's really no clear reason I can pinpoint. I was wearing a mask early on in the SF Bay Area. Back when the health authorities were saying that there's
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
My first thought: gosh, these knobs don't seem at all comfortable to operate.
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
Missed opportunity for a metaphor... "we're gonna need you to walk the plank". But fundamentally, I don't think this is an indefensible stance. There are many industries that hire seasonally or for specific projects, and
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
Here's the thing, though: we, the general public, did this. Up until the mid-2010s, the prevailing dogma within Google and at most other Big Tech companies was this spirit of "information libertarianism". We make all informat
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
I find it perfectly possible to be concerned about some aspects of the US penal system without implying its equivalency to the terror endured under one of the most oppressive political regimes in the world.
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
I don't think it's really about "the people in charge of deadlines". When you, as a senior engineer on the team, work crazy hours, all the junior folks on your team who look up to you (even simply because they also want
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
USPS owns and maintains some cluster mailboxes at apartment complexes and HOAs.
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
Religious norms and laws were the same for much of history. You could get stoned for adultery for a good while... The decoupling of the two is a pretty recent phenomenon. For a while after, religious and secular norms still provided a fairl
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
Appliance repairmen existed in the 1980s, we probably had more of them per capita than we do now, and they had their hands full. The idea that it's often easier to toss out an appliance than to repair it is a newer trend...
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
Have you honestly tried? Product reviews were never the right place to look, because they don't get published after 10 years of use. But unlike in the 1970s, 1980s, or 1990s, you are one search away from appliance repairman forums that
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
I mean, it's cool to pin it on manufacturers trying to increase margins, or on "planned obsolescence" - but a lot of it is our doing. We're willingly enabling it. There are manufacturers that make simple and serviceable

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