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dbdr··on OpenAI Expands ChatGPT Ads with Sponsored Agents
You can already do that without ads.

The point of ads is that one of those services will pay openai so that their services will be more prominent than the others.

dbdr··on Why is privacy so hard? (2019)
There's at least one possible point, which is where the income is taxed. If data is not considered valuable, the German branch of company X can send data to its Irish branch, and the profit realized in Ireland (with very low tax rate), while this value was generated in Germany but the German state gets no income. And if Ireland raises its tax rate, send it to another fiscal paradise.

Potentially, if data was accounted as valuable, the income would be accounted for where it is generated, each country gets its fair share, and tax avoidance gets harder.

dbdr··on Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]
> Levent having received tips that information about our progress had been passed to OpenAI

That seems like a valid reason to contact OpenAI.

dbdr··on Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]
From Buckmaster's text:

    The route to the Clay problem through a
    smooth force, options c and d in Fefferman’s statement of the problem, is the
    route Luis and Diego opened and the one Levent and I had quietly chosen to
    attack. Almost nobody else I know of was working on it. It is not the direction
    one arrives at in a few days by giving a model the problem statement. When I
    heard “forced,” it was a bright red flag.
This is much more than the knowledge than the problem can be solved, it's also the specific, non-obvious approach to solving it. That's much more damning for OpenAI, if confirmed.
dbdr··on We have a year to fix security everywhere
> Invest in formal verification, fuzzing and property testing, and memory-safe languages. LLMs are good at writing Lean and fuzz tests. I don't care whether you use Go or Rust but for the love of god please don't use C or C++ for new code.

How accepted is this thinking in your respective domains?

dbdr··on Arm Mali G2-Ultra NX GPU: desktop-class mobile gameplay with AI-native graphics
Moats are supposed to be obstacles for your competitors, not your consumers.
dbdr··on Why are European countries moving their gold out of North America?
Putin is under an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court for war crimes. Rapes and killings are widely documented as part of the war he started. I don't think the parent comment was overstating the crimes in question in its simile.
dbdr··on Why are European countries moving their gold out of North America?
Visit of the underground vault in Paris, narrated by Stefan Zweig:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txyKenOq5Pw

dbdr··on Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions
Is compriate a typo, a neologism? I could not find a definition.
dbdr··on .name Termination
I'm not convinced the reason is technical. Yes, the total Ethereum chain state is not tiny (a few TB I think). But if you're only interesting in ENS domains, you don't need to store all of Ethereum, you can just receive new blocks, filter the relevant domain change events and only index that.

I suspect the lack adoption might rather be because of:

- DNS being "good enough". Rug pulls as described in this article are sadly possible, but not frequent enough to motivate enough actors to work on the switch

- The stigma attached to crypto. Which is understandable given the number of bad actors trying to make easy bucks with false promises. But it's also a shame, given that this actually seems a perfect use case: the code is simple enough, and as far as I know, only a blockchain can guarantee a specific code will be executed without relying on a third party being and staying honest (in others words, true self-custody of a domain name).

dbdr··on Pre-Release of Polars 2.0
Why?
dbdr··on Just Bury Your Trash
I you emit the methane, you have one molecule of CH₄ for 10 years, then one molecule of CO₂ for x years.

If you burn the methane, you have one molecule of CO₂ for x years.

Burning seems strictly better.

(If you use the heat of the burning to offset other emissions, it gets even better)

dbdr··on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
To add nuance, that article does say one of the two versions does reduce text quality (and the other is worse at detectability):

> SynthID-Text can be configured to be non-distortionary (preserving text quality) or distortionary (improving watermark detectability at the cost of text quality).

dbdr··on Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS
On android, you can use Firefox with ublock origin plugin. Works great, blocks youtube ads too.
dbdr··on Urban Congestion Pricing and the Response Times of Emergency Medical Services
> and how about plumbers (and the like) who need a vehicle to carry what they need to work?

This is literally addressed by the comment you are replying to:

"What about the delivery people who need to bring this into the city?" They should be able to get in and out much faster, and their cargo makes it easy to amortize the cost!

dbdr··on “I just chose words carefully”
This tracks with an old convention in languages like Pascal, which uses begin / end keywords for all blocks, where people would add "end (* if *)" as a comment to make it more explicit which block is being closed.
dbdr··on U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective
An event encouraging people to vote in an election or a peaceful demonstration against a proposed legislation are "actions designed to invoke political change". I don't think any of those are commonly understood to be terrorism, nor should they.
dbdr··on Sovereign Tech Agency invests €500k in Flatpak
Nix offers the best of both worlds on this aspect: each program can depend on the exact version of a library it needs and several versions can coexist on the disk, but if two programs depend on the exact same version, it is stored only once.
dbdr··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
The problem now is that it's the producer that decides what the packaging is, but it's the consumer (or the state) who pays for the collection and recycling. By making the producer pay for it, you give them an incentive to make it more efficient.
dbdr··on Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down
There's a class of americans that didn't benefit from that world order. However, they elected someone who pretended he was going to help them, and actually is making it even worse for them and better for those who were already benefiting.
dbdr··on Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down
Please be aware people reading don't know which country you are from, so using "our" is ambiguous. You could just as well have been Canadian, and it took extra deciphering to guess you're apparently from the US.
dbdr··on Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down
Of course, because Russia spends 7+% of its GDP on its military, and Italy 1.6%. It does say something about the relative capacity though. Russia probably cannot sustain this level of spending forever, and European countries could (continue) raising it if needed.
dbdr··on Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM
Oh, if peak RAM usage is higher, in which scenario do you find that's a significant gain? Maybe I misunderstood, what I got from the blog post is that there will be indexing on save (vs on each keystroke with RA). That would be often enough that lower RAM enough in between would not be of much gain. Is that only an incremental indexing with normally low RAM usage? So you would essentially fully index only once per project, + whenever you upgrade dependencies or upgrade rustc?
dbdr··on Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM
Thanks! Nvim is definitely a good match for the "I care about RAM usage" crowd, I suppose zed as well, compared to vscode.
dbdr··on Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM
Super cool!

In the comparison table, you indicate indexing times. Could you also measure memory usage, since that's the stated goal of the project?

dbdr··on How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
This shows hardware won't be yours unless the software running on it is open source. Asking a company to modify its closed source software might work occasionally, but it's a band-aid and a never-ending battle.
dbdr··on Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires
On the left Panel, change Configuration: Default to Wildfires and press the green arrow. You can then select various fire-related layers.
dbdr··on The Gargantuan Lie That Is Collapsing the Climate
The Guardian is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of The Guardian in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of The Guardian free from commercial or political interference". (wikipedia)

This is highly unusual for a newspaper, most media don't have that kind of independence. The Guardian is also unusual in having made a commitment to covering the climate crisis very extensively. I don't think it's a coincidence.

dbdr··on Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area
> But its so plentiful and demand is so high for beef and soy that we keep doing this

Just to add that about three-quarters of soybeans are used as livestock feed (poultry, pigs, cattle, ...). So really, it's almost all demand for meat and dairy.

dbdr··on Claude Opus 5
> Noted for next time.

Is that just something it says, or will that actually affect how it will behave next time?

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