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tom910on Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions

Context: this is a reaction for class action lawsuit against Youtube - https://www.classaction.org/news/youtube-premium-is-not-ad-f...

tom910on Mistral Patent for “Code implemented tool calls”

Mistal transforms into a patent troll company? Patents organization is broken if it is possible to do

tom910on Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't

Do we know places when it actually works well? I agree about a small regulation layer, but the issue is that regulation grows over time to the point when it limits free market power. The most problematic markets in the US is over regulated by my opinion

tom910on Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't

I just checked Init7 price for 1gig internet in Zurich and the price is higher than I'm paing for 1gig in Seattle and payed in Bay Area. So, free market kinda works.

But even in this case, the article doesn't provide motivations for companies spent a lot money for building common infrastructure in rural places which usually have an issue with bad internet options

tom910on Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't

> The Free Market Lie

Why is it a lie if Switzerland actually uses a free market and gets bonuses from it? Yeah, the idea with 1 common infrastructure is a positive aspect. It's interesting how they solve an issue with maintenance. But still, low prices and good quality of service are benefits of the free market.

tom910on What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance

Even some bad aspects/issues doesn't justice that we need to support even worse cases

Also want to mark that `surveillance capitalism` companies can not be comparable with totaletar countries which want to control people. This is orders of magnitude worse

tom910on What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance

The main problem is providing infrastructure for a government that can over use it in future if move to ultra right/left/authoritarian spectrum

Just for example Russia build infrastructure for blocks website for child safety, but it started to used much further

tom910on Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran';

As an russians who moved abroad I think sanctions positively affect Puttin so far. Because, he got a lot what he wanted but couldn't get without sanctions: - russian companies replaced majority of international companies. Many of IT companies growed 20-40% year by year - sanctions locked money inside of the country which help to build new everything - sanctions made boost of internal culture and patriotism. Which also increased popularity of government and reduced any alternative options.

And many more similar examples. Sanctions will hurt Russia in long term but not now. Because good sanctions requires to understand the country culture + execute only that hurt countries, which didn't do western countries.

tom910on Lossless LLM 3x Throughput Increase by LMCache

Where can I find more detailed explanations about how it works? A simple key/value solution based on the hash of the prompt will not work because almost every request will have a unique hash. How can I solve this problem and maintain quality?

tom910on S3 is files, but not a filesystem

I think lees. Why AWS need to store 3 times if they can use Reed-Solomon algorithms (or similar) and decrease this number to 2 or 1.5 and save a lot of storage space

tom910on Show HN: Khoj – Chat offline with your second brain using Llama 2

Yes, I confirm. I have many articles in Russian language and the search can not find relative information, but if I try to search in English it works fine and can find documents that use English