dpkirchner

Have you tried reaching out to companies offering relevant products? Sometimes they have referral plans and don't require the same level of tracking.

I think this rule is quite unfortunate. Wouldn't we all be better off if sites that hijacked back buttons were just banned or at least had their posts hidden until they're fixed?

Sure, they're somewhat common issues, but so are ads for malware served by Google. Surely we should call those out?

I don't know, but I suspect the battery drain would be substantial. I wonder if there is a different explanation: maybe one of your friends searched for information on the topic while you were on the same hotspot/in the same location and that (along with existing relationship graphs?) allowed them to target you? That's how I'd do it, I think.

The Republican party looks about the same as it has my whole adult life -- the leader is a lot louder and the racism is less hidden, that's about it.

> Now, that still leaves open the question of who you can trust. If you can trust a business run by people then that allows you to trust a bank, sure, but it also allows you to trust a tech company

Banks are subject to much stricter regulation than any tech company is or ever will be (IMO, I could end up surprised).

I trust my bank to know who I am and keep track of my money. I trust big tech to lose or misinterpret my data, to close my account for no reason, etc, and to face zero consequences for those failures -- not even fines.

> You may trust them with your money, but does not equate to trusting them with any other personal information.

How do you expect that they will give you your money when you walk in to a branch and ask for a withdrawal? Or that they'll replace a lost card? Surely you'd expect them to verify your identity.

Worse, Substack promotes nazi content via push notifications to people that haven't subscribed to those nazi accounts.

This is the new Republican mainstream, the same mainstream that brings us AI generated videos of the Obamas as apes. They have no shame and are likely irredeemable (certainly their behavior is inexcusable).

And ultimately these statements aren't for the normal citizens. They're for the truly strange, the racists, and the trolls.

I'd wager most of us are OK with it taking a few days. There's a (relative) few weirdos that get upset if they see the numbers change as votes continue to be tallied.

Hopefully they're embarrassed.

Turning this around a bit: Businesses should be required to accept cash. We shouldn't need to have a relationship with a bank just to buy food or gas or what have you.

There are smart toilet devices that have cameras, so, it's about as bad as one could imagine.

Of course, that's how LLMs work. It's still amusing, at least to me.

If you ask it why it uses the term honest so much it'll tell you it was actually trained not to. lol

Try generalizing the argument without changing it substantially, then we'll talk.

The methods are described on the official docker website, not just random blogs or SO pages. There are caveats about security, of course, but it's not truly discouraged.

A year and a half is a long time to cause a lot of harm. Way, way too long.

And do you drive a car? Car owners get a (relative) free pass because "accidents happen".

It takes months or years for courts to intervene and even then they often set aside rulings because they expect appeals. All the while the abuses continue. How many years do you suppose we'll have to wait to see the Trump family subject to tax law?

Here's what I don't get about this: Trump's main campaign promise was to raise prices for American consumers (via tariffs) and to harm the lowest wage earners the most (tariffs as sales taxes are regressive).

Going against "business as usual" resulted in higher prices, as predicted and promised.

Nearly everyone here benefited from lower prices afforded by reduced trade barriers. This isn't some obscure hidden fact.

Before engaging, let's get this settled: do you believe that the US economy operates on a zero sum basis?

The coin is to decide which terrible person he is going to listen to. And his weirdo followers love him for it.

Google shopping is a great tool to use when you don't care if the items are truly in stock or are sold at the price listed.

It is 100% impossible to secure the system and its use sufficiently to provide reasonable privacy for the public.

An error no frontier LLM would make, eh

I'm ok with Google having that information. Where is the checkbox to enable including useful details in emails?

The fact is that Amazon has at least two customers here: you, the user trying to find an item to buy, and advertisers, likely trying to convince you to buy a lower quality product. Who wins? I'm guessing the advertiser. They are far more likely to have a sales contact, anyway.

Are all of those specialists "in-network"? Have you tried contacting them to see if they truly have availability? It's common for providers (or the insurance carrier), at least in my area, to claim they take new patients when in fact they do not.

(For those not in the know, out of network means costs to the patient are much higher).

I figure if they can't make a functioning website, the odds they can make an app are basically zero.

TIL the prompt cache lasts 1 hour. I thought it was reduced to 5 minutes.