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pimpampum··on EU Commissioner as double agent of foreign interference
You can see who are behind Thorn, now they hid it, but the wayback machine shows Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Palantir, etc.

They could easily include secret instructions in the model to mark as malicious content that isn't or use it to build profiles (but respecting your privacy of course). Sky is the limit.

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pimpampum··on Early Europeans ate seaweed for thousands of years
How do you cook it?
pimpampum··on OpenAI is too cheap to beat
Classic anti-competition strategy, sell below cost and burn money until competition is out, then sell higher than you could have ever sold with competition.
pimpampum··on Mozilla's midlife crisis has taken it from pioneer to Google's weird neighbor
Interest alignment is a weird thing. After getting so much finding from Google it's hard for them to break away.
pimpampum··on Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]
Ye should check Valter Longo and the Fast Mimicking Diet, it's been tried for accompanying chemo and it helps both against side effects and with better outcomes.
pimpampum··on Declining fertility ideals? Young people more often prefer having no children
Almost no one can buy a house, of course they want no children.
pimpampum··on Naked Mole Rat’s Longevity Gene Gives Mice a Longer Life
"Naked mole rats also resist age-related diseases like cancer and neurodegeneration."
pimpampum··on Big Tobacco knew radioactive Po210 in cigarettes posed cancer risk, kept quiet
Laws that rely on misaligned interests are universally bad.
pimpampum··on People over-emphasize the recycling aspect of "reduce, reuse, recycle"
Recycling was pushed forward by companies so they wouldn't have to cut down on plastic. It's like carbon credits for oil companies.
pimpampum··on Signal walks the line between anarchism and pragmatism
Everytime Wired or Vice publish one of this articles I cannot help but wonder who is pushing that narrative and why?
pimpampum··on Tor is not just for anonymity (2022)
Yeah I keep forgetting, I even read a whole article about that and the origins of the name.
pimpampum··on Tor is not just for anonymity (2022)
What's worse is that the few in control of TOR refuse to update their threat model (which is almost 20 years old) and implement solutions for this. I guess their Navy bosses want to keep access for "the good guys inc".
pimpampum··on The Overflowing Brain: Information overload and the limits of working memory
I wonder if over-reliance on digital tools prevents us from being challenged enough to maintain an optimal working memory.
pimpampum··on US Congress doubles down on claims of illegal UFO retrieval programs
Totally, Gimbal and Gofast were immediately discredited as Gimbal, well, being the gimbal of the sensor + contrast enhacement and Gofast being the parallax effect on a probably balloon moving at normal wind speeds. The last one I haven't seen conclusions, but if you squint it looks like an airliner at a distance. Finally the green tringle one also was discarded as a lens artifact.
pimpampum··on A proto-pizza emerges from a fresco on a Pompeii wall
That looks way better than most pizzas today to be called a proto-pizza, I'd call Domino's and such degenerate-pizza. I mean, look at that airy crust.
pimpampum··on U.S. pedestrian deaths reach a 40-year high
All those Tesla are making a dent.
pimpampum··on Many in the AI field think the bigger-is-better approach is running out of road
Really, looks like our expectations are doubling every 6 months. This question needs a little more exploring, although it's bound to happen somewhere and we'd love believing we are close to the maximum possible.
pimpampum··on Why has Mastodon adoption stalled?
Because this platforms come in fads, Facebook, Twitter, then Instagram now Tiktok or whatever. Twitter was dead before Musk ruined it further and the few scared away went to feed the Mastodon lines. Now we back to microblogging is dead or dying.
pimpampum··on Amazon duped millions of consumers into enrolling in Prime, US FTC says
Me too, I signed up "for free" to get faster a package that ended up coming later than originally, went ahead to forget about it and caught it while I had been charged 3 months.
pimpampum··on We Have Discovered Spherules from the Path of the First Interstellar Meteor, IM1
Avi Loeb is the new Bob Lazar.
pimpampum··on Some Chinese Canadians embrace ‘white people food’ movement, others are baffled
"Type 2 diabetes food" would be a better name for the movement.
pimpampum··on If you want people to show up, data shows these are the best meeting times
The title is not what it shows, that meetings are booked more on Monday 11am doesn't mean that people prefer or are more likely to show up. I guess they don't have data on attendance, only on booking.
pimpampum··on Inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid
I agree, but without a way to detect it or control it, it would be hard to enforce.
pimpampum··on Delimiters won’t save you from prompt injection
This is dumb, you can totally escape the delimiter or use randomized delimiters.
pimpampum··on We fund Matrix dev by selling encrypted messaging to governments
Interest alignment doesn't quite work here.
pimpampum··on Paris votes to ban rental e-scooters
So they make a referendum for this but they force on them changes on retirement age. Illusion of democracy.
pimpampum··on Why does the SARS-Cov2 genome end in aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa? (2020)
Trying to Buffer overflow the cell.
pimpampum··on Ask HN: Is an union for sw developers still a bad idea?
You are asking to the wrong crowd.
pimpampum··on ‘Office Space’ movie gave Zulily engineer a blueprint for financial fraud
Or use encryption!!! What a noob.
pimpampum··on Remote work has been a boon for night owls
There are several chronotypes, not everyone is wired to wake up early in the morning but society is organized that way and hurts those who don't conform. Remoting allows each to better adjust, even if it's just a couple of hours.
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