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dwild··on Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT
> almost like it is re-doing everything for each command (and that is how it keeps state).

I'm pretty sure it does as when you go on the usage side, you can see the requests and how the prompt keep getting bigger and require more tokens.

dwild··on Trying to get a bunch of GPUs on Google Cloud
> you’d still have customers who wanted their service to stay online past overcharge

Then they wouldn't configure overcharge limit, would they?

dwild··on We Built a Meta Pixel Inspector
Facebook could probably just ask to send whatever you got about the user and they'll deal with the identification. User agent + IP is probably more than enough. Worst case they just build a JS that can be included and give the full fingerprint.
dwild··on How to sell tickets fairly
I don't understands how that system would help, can't you have multiple bank accounts? Except if all the banks transfer some strong common identifier like the social security number (and that sound pretty dangerous to share). Open 5 accounts in 5 different banks (I'm pretty sure you could even do it all at the same bank), and there you go... you will exist, but Ticketmaster would have no idea whether you are 5 different deanc or all the same one.
dwild··on Hans Niemann Suing Magnus Carlsen, Chess.com, and Hikaru Nakamura
He tried, he even suggested to do a match naked...
dwild··on Hans Niemann Suing Magnus Carlsen, Chess.com, and Hikaru Nakamura
He implied way more though :/ is that enough to justify a court case, no idea, but that's way more than enough to break his whole career.
dwild··on I *detest* the crazy industry politics that made ECC memory so “special”
How many people complains about memory corruption? This is a ridiculously rare issue, which impact is minimal, if not null, for so many people. There's an actual cost to provide ECC memory though, there's actually more hardware necessary to cover it. Obviously if more would need it, it may lower the cost because of the scale, but it will still be more. For some it's important, and for sure they will pay for it, so let them pay for it...

It's not like it wasn't available, Linus just forgot to put a reminder to buy some once available (backordering them would have been even more prudent).

dwild··on 87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone to be their next phone
> What is the difference to Nike providing kids with flashy shoes when the sole purpose is class and coolness?

Maybe what Nike is doing is just as bad...

dwild··on Named element IDs can be referenced as JavaScript globals
Curiously the article doesn't mentions it, but theses kinds of vulnerabilities are named DOM clobbering if you want to know more about it!

It's weirdly not that discussed on the web, most probably because it require a pretty specific situation.

dwild··on Magnus Carlsen resigns against Hans Niemann after one move
> Has Carlssen explicitly said "This guy has cheated?"

How would you explain his reaction then?

He didn't explicitly said that, but he certainly implicitly said that, which is essentially the same in this situation.

dwild··on The Ethereum merge is done
> RVN just just saw a decent influx of those ETH miners based on recent spike

That influx won't increase the revenue though... more miners doesn't produce more coins, it's just more secure.

Considering how thin theses margins can be for miners, some will need to stop their production.

dwild··on Bitwarden: Avoid at all costs (outage issue)
> This however is not an easy problem to manage and could only be an extra bonus feature to their service.

Extra bonus feature? For me it's pretty obvious it's a necessity. Failover need to be in ALL case offline access.

> My point was that while their software is extremely convenient, it should not be the only place that stores all the means of accessing a service

I can't have an automatic backup done over each new password stored on it. If I need to do it manually each time, it's no longer really a password manager.

dwild··on IMDB deleted all negative user reviews for The Rings of Power
It did on mine. I'm on Virgin+ and they do giveaway to their members, and movies are usually there. You could argue that this system it's meant to do marketing, but I'm pretty sure the Amazon shopping app is too.
dwild··on IMDB deleted all negative user reviews for The Rings of Power
Theses graphs are always so useful on IMDB. The popular or controversial movies are always like that, usually it's less bad and you can actually see the normal distribution in the general population, but we are lucky to have the top 1000 raters in this case.
dwild··on Click the Paw
I didn't see it and mine is in French, I do see it with "Chat" and "Katze". If I search "Cat" the spot is taken by the company, not the animal, could it be something similar for you? I feel like that's the actual issue.
dwild··on GitHub deleted accounts of people who contributed to Tornado Cash repos
> If you know your product is being used by criminals to do crime and you respond by shrugging your shoulders, I’m not sure what the expected outcome is supposed to be other than getting dinged.

You are aware that criminals use all the same thing as you an me right? They use toothbrush too... should Coldgate not shrug their shoulders? Sure they don't commit crime with them, but they do use them. Want something they use to commit crime? Guns to kill, cars to evade, bags to carry the money, etc... what should all theses companies do? Let's go even closer, about privacy, what about balaclava manufacturer, it's the default thing considered for banks robbers, yet they still sell them!

I don't have all the details in this case, my guess is that Tornado Cash were aware that it was used by theses countries and could have stopped theses specific accounts (it would keep going for sure without their knowledge using alternative accounts obviously, just like many of theses countries still are able to get Windows illegally, but at least they would no longer be aware of theses accounts). In that case it does makes sense and I agree with the direct sanction of Tornado Cash. I would still disagree with the blanket sanction over the open source contributors, as they might have contributed without knowing it was used by sanctioned country.

Writing all that made me think of a question: do you believe contributor to Windows should be sanctioned too knowing that Windows is used in some of the sanctioned countries?

dwild··on Carbon offsetting is just another form of greenwashing
> Are consumers not responsible for the carbon they emit through the gas they buy

Sure we are responsible, but it's not our choice that this gas is emitted... we aren't the ones responsible to make the choice toward theses combustibles on the planes sadly.

Shifting it over the ones that actually have control over whether they use more or less gas, is a great way to incentive them to go toward the one that use less gas, as they only want the cheaper options, not the best options.

At the end of the day, we are still paying for it, but the one that do have the power to change it, now is the one that see it over their balance sheet.

dwild··on Ask HN: Why has quality of YouTube reduced drastically?
I never liked shorts on Youtube, even from the creators that I follow. If I want shorts, I go to Tik Tok.

Except that, the Youtube suggestions for me aren't bad. I do believe they are less good than before, because in the past I was able to find at least one new really good channel per month and now it has been a long time without one. It could also be that I found most channels that interest me, or that the pandemic did affect this quite a bit. I still get mostly good recommendations, a third are channels I already subscribe to (which is redundant on the frontpage as I go to the subscriptions pages for that) and videos I already watched, but everything else is mostly content I may be able to enjoy.

dwild··on Ask HN: Why has quality of YouTube reduced drastically?
> You can't filter those in any way.

You can easily filter it, by unsubscribing to content you don't actually want. If you watch so little content of a channel that it annoys you to see it on the subscriptions pages, then you shouldn't be subscribed to them.

I can't see how adding a filter system would be less annoying at that point, you would take more time by selecting some filter than just ignoring that specific content. Out of my 352 subscriptions, I got 22 videos yesterday, quite fast to skip them.

dwild··on A coding error caused Rogers outage that left millions without service
His point was that you could do that for 911, not for actual roaming service.

I'm no expert but I feel like roaming still require some sort of "authentication" over the original network and obviously Rogers would have failed on that part.

dwild··on I watched a friend of mine pump a shitcoin on Binance by buying billboards
> - 100 people putting up $100 with 100x leverage

You just made me realize how much cash trading platform probably are making using leverage. That explain why they were so quick to add theses coins. I'm curious to know how they manage the risk though.

dwild··on Domino's spent $50.4M on TV ads to brag about $100k donation
That's the thing you fail to understands, your math is wrong.

Here's the correction

> How about $50m in ads with $1m in donation?

> Perhaps $50m in ads with $5m in donation?

> Or maybe $50m in ads with $10m in donation?

The $50m is how many they are going to spend in ads, it's fixed. They want to reach theses eye balls, and increasing the amount donated won't increase the amount of eye balls. They are going to spend $50m in ads. They want theses minutes of airtime... donating more won't pay for more airtime (unless it become news worthy but that's a whole other level).

dwild··on Domino's spent $50.4M on TV ads to brag about $100k donation
> They could have made 10x more of a donation and hardly touched the budget they had for their ads. Or 100x more and only slightly reduced the ads. All while increasing the advertising power of the donation they were showcasing in the ads themselves, so it's not like they'd simply be losing the money to charity.

That $50m is the amount decided to reach their audience. Increasing the donation won't increase the reach...

I remember recently a pizza chain in my province decided to stop all their ad campaign for a month and give the amount they would have spend otherwise to people. Hey if it works for Mr. Beast, it could work for them right? I saw it on Tiktok so a good platform to allow organic sharing, well a week later I started to see ads about it on Facebook... they didn't reach their audience.

So yeah that spending is for their ads, they are going to spend it, it's there for a reason. Believe me, if they could lower it in some way, they would... that's called business. Is there really anyone in the world happy to pay ads and that doesn't do anything to try to lower that cost?

At best they could avoid the bad press from r/antiwork (does it really matters? how many views did that get versus that $50m ads?), but I got a feeling that they would still complains about the fact that they spend more in ads than in the actual donation.

dwild··on Domino's spent $50.4M on TV ads to brag about $100k donation
The $50m is there whether the donation happens or not... it's their advertising budget, they are going to spend it, they advertise their brands...

Why a $100k donation is useful? Well obviously because it's good that they gave $100k... You prefer $50m of ads with 0 donation? You do you, but I prefer the former...

dwild··on A Response
> He has no responsibility to write a detailed analysis of his psychological state and ideological positions to satisfy you.

No one force him to do that... but that's what happens when he doesn't. You aren't forced to wear seatbelt (well bad example, as the law actually force you, but enough doesn't so my point still stand) but once you get into an accident, you'll be happy that you had it.

OP explains what happens when Casper is not specific enough... what Casper does with that information is up to him, but clearly, not wearing that seatbelt is hurting him right now enough to write theses blog spot.

dwild··on At the Bored Ape restaurant, your ApeCoin is no good now
It's no different than doing it over an exchange... The same fields are available on an application wallets and on an exchange. There's nothing convoluted there.
dwild··on At the Bored Ape restaurant, your ApeCoin is no good now
You can build a transaction and sign it in Bitcoin without sending it though. It just that they weren't ready for that, and probably were not interested in doing it that way either.
dwild··on Should GitHub be sued for training Copilot on GPL code?
> Is Copilot the same as a human programmer reading a lot of GPL code and rehashing, in a non-infringing way, the algorithms, functions, and designs used in a lot of FOSS?

It literally can't do it in an "in a non-infringing way" as it wasn't made to do it "in a non-infringing way".

People were able to get copy-pasted code verbatim. It means it does not know whether what it does infringe on the GPL or not.

Let say you find a human that never knew anything about copyright and you show him a bunch of Disney movies and you ask him to make you a movie and he literally copy one of their movie. Does it make it non-infringing? (Funny thing is, even people aware of copyrights does infringe it... so yeah hard to say even a machine could make some non-infringing content).

The solution would be to at least make him aware of copyrights and works with that, but first is it even possible, and seconds, is it even enough...

Sadly nothing will ever be done, at least not until it we feed it Disney movies and it start to affect their bottom lines.

dwild··on Ultra compact GAN ATX power supply delivers up to 250 Watts
To be a fair comparison would need to include the AC-DC power supply that you keep outside to power that thing... it's double the size once you account for that.
dwild··on What happens to TLDs when their country stops existing?
I just tried on a few:

- Gandi : I get "Temporary error" - Regery : Seems to allow it but I don't know how much we can trust that. - OVH : I get "Unavailable" - Netim : "Registrations are currently not possible."

I think it's fair to say that it's not that easy...

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