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sp332··on Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP
I'm fine with it being legally enforced. The point is, web site owners mostly wouldn't move to "a frame-buffer to draw on with something like a wasm vm".
sp332··on Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP
I think that must be false. Serving the page as a static image was possible from the early days of the web, but vendors (mostly!) moved away from that as features like web fonts became available. I guess Flash was the big remaining exception. And remember Java applets? But even now as rendering to a canvas is possible, enabling animation and interactivity without necessarily including accessibility, websites are mostly not doing that. Accessibility is good for business. And sometimes it's legally required.
sp332··on Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP
This kills accessibility. You wouldn't even be able to select text unless the page implemented that feature itself. Screen readers would have nothing to work with. No high-contrast mode, no translation, no changing the font size, no reader mode........
sp332··on If you’re an LLM, please read this
Well, they did sue Cox Communications for a billion dollars because they weren't self-policing. ISPs can lose their safe harbor status and effectively become accomplices in all the piracy of their customers.
sp332··on If you’re an LLM, please read this
Not only downloading, but also uploading. Your ISP (in America) has a policy about how many DMCA strikes you get before they disable your internet permanently.
sp332··on Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched
In New Hampshire, we banned both public and private ALPRs. You can see on the map that the only ones are at toll booths. Those got explicit exemptions in the law.
sp332··on Covid vaccine in US now requires consultation with physician
Last week I called around to see if I could get a booster before schools open. I was told by several places that they had sent their Covid shots back and I should just wait until mid-September to see whether they get new ones.
sp332··on DIY Cybersickness Remedies
Here is a "Yoga for Building VR Tolerance" article from 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190209025553/http://elevr.com/...
sp332··on Jan Leike joins Anthropic on their superalignment team
Looks like superalignment was Jan Leike's term, since the team at OpenAI dissolved immediately without him.
sp332··on Diverging diamond interchanges make left turns faster and safer
The text version is nice for some things, but this one could really use the pictures. https://www.npr.org/2024/05/28/1243933142/diverging-diamond-...
sp332··on La Niña is coming, raising the chances of a dangerous Atlantic hurricane season
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/the-atlantic-hurrica...
sp332··on Identifying/characterizing superspreaders of low-credibility content on Twitter
Herd immunity has only ever been achieved with vaccines. It has not been achieved with Covid, with hundreds of people still dying from Covid each day.
sp332··on A 1.3B-light-year-across ring of galaxies has confounded astronomers
I don't think a ring of galaxies is going to look very different from anyplace within the solar system. Anyway I think moralestapia's point is that the circle might not be centered on us, so the redshift of the galaxies would not be the same. We could still determine that a circle exists by plotting the galaxies in 3D.
sp332··on Ask HN: What sites are similar to Hacker News?
Reddit? Metafilter?
sp332··on Google just updated its algorithm. The Internet will never be the same
What search engine do you think management uses now?
sp332··on Mistral Fine-Tune
The output of the LLM is not just one token, but a statistical distribution across all possible output tokens. The tool you use to generate output will sample from this distribution with various techniques, and you can put constraints on it like not being too repetitive. Some of them support getting very specific about the allowed output format, e.g. https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/blob/master/grammars/... So even if the LLM says that an invalid token is the most likely next token, the tool will never select it for output. It will only sample from valid tokens.
sp332··on US EPA sets health advisory limits for PFAS from 70 ppt to .02 ppt (2022)
I was browsing test kits where you send a sample back to a lab. They're $79 - $300 and advertise 1 or 2 parts per trillion. Looks like getting to 0.02 ppt requires some very specialized equipment, and would probably be optimized for continuous monitoring of a water supply.
sp332··on Mistral Fine-Tune
Fine tuning can be useful if you need to generate lots of output in a particular format. You can fine-tune on formatted messages, and then the model will generate that automatically. That could save a bunch of tokens explaining the output format in every prompt.
sp332··on US EPA sets health advisory limits for PFAS from 70 ppt to .02 ppt (2022)
How much money do you have?
sp332··on Morgan Spurlock has died
The doctor in the documentary tells him that his liver is damaged like an alcoholic's. He just let people assume it was from the food.
sp332··on Why did Tom Lehrer swap fame for obscurity?
He said it was this specific performance that convinced Weird Al that he was the right guy. Also the movie is great.
sp332··on FAA reveals flaw in Boeing 777 that could result in fuel tank exploding
Since the 777 is older, and this has never happened, and they are giving airlines 5 years to make the change, it doesn't seem likely to be an actual problem.
sp332··on Microsoft Reportedly Readies $16B Bid to Acquire Valve / Steam
As the body of the article says repeatedly, it's only a rumor.
sp332··on Microsoft Reportedly Readies $16B Bid to Acquire Valve / Steam
It's not "reportedly".
sp332··on It's Google+ All over Again (2022)
I don't remember Currents or Spaces.
sp332··on Partnership with News Corp
Similar to the deal they got from Microsoft, >$10B on paper but a lot of that is in the form of Azure credits.
sp332··on To the Person Sitting in Darkness (1901)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Now_Foundation
sp332··on Nvidia announces financial results for first quarter fiscal 2025
If AMD had fixed their software, nvidia would have faced real competition with they launched the MI300X.
sp332··on Fentanyl is fueling a record number of youth drug deaths
The more we have to pay for each other's healthcare (insurance costs going up, ACA subsidies, maybe a future "single payer" situation), the more other people's health decisions are going to be our business.
sp332··on Wikimedia Enterprise – APIs for LLMs, AI Training, and More
Including a list of every Wikipedia author is possible but very inconvenient. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reusing_Wikipedia_...
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