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Dlanv··on OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US Government agency sites
It is very messed up what happened. It apparently used an interface to download the data instead of using the website!

And in another case it downloaded data through a publicly available free to download data, but then it rehosted the data elsewhere which is against the terms of service.

Dlanv··on Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents
The public hates ai but also uses ai in mass quantities.

Capitalism abides by your dollars not your voice.

So people can decry ai all they want but if they keep using it, it won't go away.

Even then it's probable that AI is a big enough productivity boost for certain industries that even if no consumers used AI, businesses would still prop AI up enough for it to live on.

Dlanv··on Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica
With above-average human reflexes, the kid would have been hit at 14mph instead of 6mph.

About 5x more kinetic energy.

Dlanv··on Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica
Basically Waymo just prevented a kids potential death.

Bad any other car been there, probably including Tesla, the poor kid would have been hit with 4-10x more force.

Dlanv··on ChatGPT Health
Joined the wait-list. Can't wait.

AI already saved me from having an unnecessary surgery by recommending various modern-medicine (not alternative medicine) alternatives which ended up being effective.

Between genetics, blood stool and urine tests, scans (ultrasound, MRI, x-ray, etc), medical history... Doctors don't have time for a patient with non trivial or non obvious issues. AI has the time.

Dlanv··on Sergey Brin's Unretirement
To me those are all either inferior to working on AI or can be done outside of work. And for the founder of Google, probably Google is the best place to work on AI.
Dlanv··on Privacy Badger is a free browser extension made by EFF to stop spying
Why does that matter? You can still do that. Nothing is stopping you from finding a local cleaner and negotiating the price, like our parents did.

People just don't want to do that

Dlanv··on What happens when coding agents stop feeling like dialup?
Everyone I know who uses Claude does not use it through openrouter.
Dlanv··on Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO
This is definitely not true and easily observed to be false if you live in the area, then take into account waymo is active in far more areas
Dlanv··on Will AI Replace Human Thinking? The Case for Writing and Coding Manually
Claude cli has this, called learning mode, and you can make custom modes to tweak it more
Dlanv··on Should we remove XSLT from the web platform?
It's more interesting and controversial to hear about
Dlanv··on Why is GitHub UI getting slower?
it has some limitations: https://old.million.dev/docs/manual-mode/block#breaking-rule... and it isn't a silver bullet on its own
Dlanv··on Genie 3: A new frontier for world models
Modern AI wouldn't exist without Google's contributions. Yet they're a for-profit company. I'm ok with them keeping some things closed source every now and then.
Dlanv··on Try the Mosquito Bucket of Death
Would you drink out of your toilet?
Dlanv··on Claude Code introduces specialized sub-agents
I wonder if this is also a good way to create experts for specific tasks/features of a codebase.

For example, a sub-agent for adding a new stat to an RPG. It could know how to integrate with various systems like items, character stats component, metrics, and so on without having to do as much research into the codebase patterns.

Dlanv··on Watching AI drive Microsoft employees insane
Why not, when it goes through code review by experienced software engineers who are experts on the subject in a codebase that is covered by extensive unit tests?
Dlanv··on Watching AI drive Microsoft employees insane
They said in the comments that currently the firewall is blocking it from checking tests for passing, and they need to fix that.

Otherwise it would check the tests are passing.

Dlanv··on Optimize CSS with SAT Solving
It's still saving probably a single byte in this example

.a { color: red }

.b { color: red }

Also it saves on parsing time I suppose. And less to zip and unzip.

The type of thing I'd add to a projects deployment stage and never touch again unless it causes an issue.

Dlanv··on Before Altman’s ouster, OpenAI’s board was divided and feuding
No you don't normally elect people to boards
Dlanv··on Before Altman’s ouster, OpenAI’s board was divided and feuding
But it literally is
Dlanv··on NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android
Then pay for ad removal
Dlanv··on NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android
Video streaming sites have a cost to create.

The price is ads or paying for a paid service like YouTube premium.

So you're still stealing, you just convince yourself it's ok, and that's fine.

Dlanv··on Google's Green Light project retimes traffic lights for 30% fewer stops
Seems easier to do this than to rebuild every intersection in the world.

And many roundabouts still need lights because lights prevent gridlock which roundabouts do not do.

Dlanv··on Harvard student groups issued anti-Israel statement, CEOs want them blacklisted
You can.

You just shouldn't tell someone it's their fault for being raped and murdered by terrorists. That's less ok.

Dlanv··on Passkeys are now enabled by default for Google users
Phones are already that way. They have text messages and email which is enough to log into almost any service.
Dlanv··on Passkeys are now enabled by default for Google users
Exactly. So they already have access to your email, passwords, and text messages regardless of the passkey
Dlanv··on Passkeys are now enabled by default for Google users
They also have your phone so they have text messages, email access, Google auth access, etc.

So yes it is true that your phone and it's pin/biometrics are ultimately the most important thing for security. But passkey on your phone is no worse than the previous state.

Dlanv··on Passkeys are now enabled by default for Google users
Your computer can also be a passkey. I currently use both my laptop and my computer as a passkey, and a USB drive. So I have 3 backups to my Google account.

It is true that you do need to be rich enough to own a phone and ~100 USD of something else (laptop or USB), which does put redundancy out of the reach of a large portion of the world. But then they can just use regular 2fa at the expense of not being phishing-proof.

Dlanv··on Google declined to review an extension because they can’t find a Kindle to test
Aww boohoo, the OP couldn't self nominate their app to be at the front and center of the entire chrome web store.
Dlanv··on Master at Arms Badge for Boy Scouts (1925) [pdf]
I'm not sure they fought with quarterstaffs or rapiers in WW1.

The boxing and jiu jitsu perhaps.

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