balder1991
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- Comment on Russia targets WhatsApp and pushes new 'super-app' as internet blackouts grow 6 days ago:
Also if there is constant outages as well, it’s not just about Internet connection. The impact is much larger on everything.
- Comment on AI startup Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5bn to settle book piracy lawsuit 6 days ago:
Yeah, the definition is (or at least used to be) that a startup doesn’t have a business model yet.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 6 days ago:
Some other analysis: jeffgeerling.com/…/youtube-views-are-down-dont-pa…
- Comment on Wikipedia is resilient because it is boring 1 week ago:
“One of the things I really love about Wikipedia is it forces you to have measured, emotionless conversations with people you disagree with in the name of trying to construct the accurate narrative,”
Yeah, I think what makes Wikipedia resilient is that you can’t just go there and say something subjective. You need to find the correct way to state the actual fact, even when it calls for different interpretations. Cause that way, no group can contest it.
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 1 week ago:
I’d love to play around with something like this, as a programmer myself, but unfortunately the cost is prohibitive in my country.
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 1 week ago:
I don’t know, even people here are already considering it a loss of the only way is through ADB, because it’s not practical for everyday usage. But it’s better than nothing.
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 1 week ago:
I think adb can also work over Wi-Fi, just like Android Studio can connect to the phone and build and install without plugging it.
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 1 week ago:
But I guess those don’t have Google Play or anything Google, it’s not like a limited Android.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 1 week ago:
This might be another example of over reliance on AI to judge what’s good or not to show users: news.clownfishtv.com/…/reddit-asks-did-youtube-br…
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg, the Lawyer, Is Suing Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO 1 week ago:
Thank you for saving me a click.
- Comment on YSK that in several US States, it's illegal to boycott Israel 1 week ago:
It’s for State contracts apparently.
- Comment on House Republicans Investigate Wikipedia Over Alleged Bias 1 week ago:
I’m not writing a paper or essay… so my standards are different.
It actually shouldn’t matter in this case. Wikipedia isn’t a “source” of anything, it simply states facts and backs them with sources (though not always, many articles will have a “missing source” for many paragraphs). It’s also public, so anyone can add things without it being peer reviewed.
So if you actually care about whether some information is correct, you should check what is the source. And if something is wrong you can do your part and change the text to be more neutral or better phrased. Edits that improve pages are almost always gonna stick, after all it’s all ant’s work to update/fix the huge number of badly written stuff in there.
- Comment on House Republicans Investigate Wikipedia Over Alleged Bias 1 week ago:
You toll totally misunderstood the comment.
- Comment on House Republicans Investigate Wikipedia Over Alleged Bias 1 week ago:
There’s no problem in citing in that an interview cited fact X. Then if the issue is discussed, some other reputable news sources might say it’s likely not true and you can source them too.
When you present the facts as they are instead of trying to portray them as absolute truths, you’re doing the right work for Wikipedia.
Even scientific facts aren’t “the truth”, but our current understanding of things. Wikipedia isn’t about what’s the ultimate truth, it’s about documenting and organizing information so that people can get a grasp on subjects.
- Comment on How OnlyFans Piracy Is Ruining the Internet for Everyone | Innocent sites are being delisted from Google because of copyright takedown requests against rampant OnlyFans piracy. 1 week ago:
I feel like the problem mentioned is like a drop in the water compared to the enshitification of Google as a whole. Google has been almost unusable even if this didn’t happen.
- Comment on Engineers wanted: Mexico looks to join the global semiconductor race 1 week ago:
Yeah, countries should realize that Brian drain is much more serious issue than is usually portrayed.
But honestly the issues that lead to brain drain are far beyond what one or a few people in power can fix. It’s usually caused by deep societal issues, things that emerge after little dysfunctions snowball all the way to the large system that is the whole country.
For example, I’ve seen articles like this which in my opinion summarize what is the real issue in Brazilian society. But also one could argue this behavior becomes prevalent because society is already dysfunctional and people normalize the current way of thinking. It’s really a chicken and egg problem to solve when you look at the whole country scale.
- Comment on Uber and Lyft drivers in California win a path to unionization 1 week ago:
It’s crazy to me that workers in the US need permission to organize and coordinate actions.
- Comment on I Love Reading 1980s Computer Magazines, and So Should You 1 week ago:
Archived link: archive.is/Urt0h
- Comment on The U.S. is interested in acquiring machine-learning technology to carry out AI-generated propaganda campaigns overseas. 2 weeks ago:
It just happened that Trump discredited all previous US propaganda. So much resources invested to make the US look good, and it’s all gone.
- Comment on ChatGPT offered bomb recipes and hacking tips during safety tests 2 weeks ago:
It is unpredictable because there are so many permutations
Actually LLMs are unpredictable not only because the space of possible outputs (combinatorics) is huge, though that also doesn’t help us understand them.
Like there might be an astronomical number of different proteins but biophysics might be able to make somewhat accurate predictions based on the properties we know (even if it requires careful testing in the real thing).
For example, it might be tempting to calculate the tokens associations somehow and kinda create a function mapping what happens when you add this or that value in the input to at least estimate what the result would be.
But what happens with LLMs is changing one token in a prompt produces a sometimes disproportionate or unintuitive change in the result, because it can be amplified or dampened depending on the organization of the internal layers.
And even if the model’s internal probability distribution were perfectly understood, its sampling step (top-k, nucleus sampling, temperature scaling) adds another layer of unpredictability.
So while the process is deterministic in principle, it’s not calculable in a tractable sense—like weather prediction.
- Comment on ChatGPT offered bomb recipes and hacking tips during safety tests 2 weeks ago:
Not just that, LLMs behavior is unpredictable. Maybe it answers correctly to a phrase. Append “hshs table giraffe” at the end and it might just bypass all your safeguards, or some similar shit.
- Comment on YSK that you can usually tell news site's bias based on how complimentary the picture they attached is 2 weeks ago:
You’d be surprised at the amount of things you don’t know because you never minded it that some people think it’s obvious.
- Comment on OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police 2 weeks ago:
I doubt that LLM queries honestly leak all that much more information.
I don’t doubt it. Search engine queries are just like a one time short query and then you just click on what seems like what you’re looking for and continue from there.
LLMs conversations, on the other hand, go much deeper, exactly to what you’re interested in, clarifications etc.
- Comment on OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police 2 weeks ago:
I suppose the issue isn’t exactly instructions, but the encouragement and justification.
- Comment on Teen killed himself after ‘months of encouragement from ChatGPT’, lawsuit claims 2 weeks ago:
It’s very possible for someone to appear fine in public while struggling privately. The family can’t be blamed for not realizing what was happening.
The bigger issue is that LLMs were released without sufficient safeguards. They were rushed to market to attract investment before their risks were understood.
It’s worth remembering that Google and Facebook already had systems comparable to ChatGPT, but they kept them as research tools because the outputs were unpredictable and the societal impact was unknown.
Only after OpenAI pushed theirs into the public sphere (framing it as a step toward AGI) Google and Facebook did follow, not out of readiness, but out of fear of being left behind.
- Comment on Trump threatens tariffs on countries that ‘discriminate’ against US tech 2 weeks ago:
He was wearing a cap with “Trump was right about everything” in a recent event, right? Who does that?
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 2 weeks ago:
Well, hold your beer because Brazil is just passing a similar law at this moment. Expect other countries to follow.
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, is the next step to ban games like Free Fire, Counter Strike etc.?
- Comment on Cornell's world-first 'microwave brain' computes differently 3 weeks ago:
This seems very useful, I just wonder whether it can interface with other digital components easily.
- Comment on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel, as Trump expands control over private sector 3 weeks ago:
Next healthcare?