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New comment by tsbinz in "U.S. is investigating Meta for role in drug sales"

tsbinz — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 13:37:03 +0000

I'm in Europe too and at least obvious finance scams turn up on Instagram pretty regularly ("completely safe" investments with astronomical returns if you invest at least ~$10k, etc ...)

New comment by tsbinz in "Velato: A programming language where source code must be a valid MIDI music file"

tsbinz — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 12:44:42 +0000

Fun :) The point of esoteric languages isn't to be practical, another example of a "strange" language is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_language#... / https://esolangs.org/wiki/Piet

New comment by tsbinz in "Apple reverses course on death of Progressive Web Apps in EU"

tsbinz — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 23:23:52 +0000

Look at some overall browser/os usage stats and say again that the web isn't relevant on mobile, and look at browser usage stats for desktop and android and claim again that firefox would have a relevant market share on ios if browser choice was free. Those claims seem pretty disconnected from reality.

New comment by tsbinz in "Apple reverses course on death of Progressive Web Apps in EU"

tsbinz — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 18:14:27 +0000

As absurd as it is, Apple forcing people to use Webkit/Safari is, at the moment, good for the browser landscape. You already have websites that say browsers that aren't chromium aren't supported, if iOS didn't force Safari on people this would be way more common as people would flock to chrome and websites decide it isn't worth it to support other browsers.

I use Firefox on my non-work machines ... in an ideal world, enough people would do that to prevent the "best in Internet Explorer" web of the dark ages, but I'll take getting forced to use Webkit on my phone over that, even if I'd prefer a "true" Firefox.

New comment by tsbinz in "Over 100k Infected Repos Found on GitHub"

tsbinz — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 10:04:21 +0000

Big employers (at least the ones I know) aren't regarding work, I guess with smaller ones it maybe is, especially with BYOD?

I think the issue probably isn't uncommon for freelancers/contractors too.

Hobby and personal stuff I think a lot of people mix, I don't use the machine where I do bank/tax/etc stuff for hobby work, but I'm not sure that's common.

New comment by tsbinz in "Universal Basic Income Has Been Tried over and over Again. It Works Every Time"

tsbinz — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 19:18:46 +0000

> We expanded the M1 money supply from $4T to $18T and largely handed it out in a diffuse way.

This is often quoted and either comes out of ignorance or is intentionally misleading. Assuming it's the former, M1 in the US is not a good measure over the time span you are quoting, because there has been an accounting change that significantly expands of what kind of accounts are considered to be in M1.

See the description below the graph of https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL and the notification in https://www.federalreserve.gov/feeds/h6.html#2746 (the item from December 17, 2020 in case the anchor doesn't work properly).

If you want to make arguments about monetary supply in that time period, it's better to use M2.

New comment by tsbinz in "Macs can now inform Apple if any liquids have been detected in the USB-C ports"

tsbinz — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 08:53:45 +0000

That is a questionable statement, as there were phones with removable batteries and phones without them on the market for quite some time and the phones with removable batteries were simply not successful enough.

New comment by tsbinz in "Now add a walrus: Prompt engineering in DALL-E 3"

tsbinz — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 09:12:41 +0000

even more amusingly, it is a computer program demanding that of another computer program

New comment by tsbinz in "Keystroke timing obfuscation added to ssh(1)"

tsbinz — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 16:34:50 +0000

That is not the only time you use passwords over ssh, e.g. I don't use a password to remote into my desktop from my laptop, but I do use one when using sudo on the desktop.

New comment by tsbinz in "iOS 17 will reportedly set the stage for sideloading apps on iPhone"

tsbinz — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 15:28:07 +0000

If the company is big enough (e.g. not using whatsapp is not an option for a lot of people), or if the app comes from a state that can force you to install it by law, yes it can be.

New comment by tsbinz in "Firefox Android now supports Tampermonkey"

tsbinz — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 09:34:26 +0000

If you own the rights to software, you previously releasing something under the GPL does not mean you have to make derived versions of the thing you released under the GPL available under the GPL too. If you take someone else's code under the terms of the GPL you have to do that, but that does not seem to have happened here.

New comment by tsbinz in "The five-year engineering feat Germany pulled off in months"

tsbinz — Sun, 11 Dec 2022 16:01:24 +0000

His speech also came after Europe already realized that in 2014 when the Crimea was annexed [0], and countries didn't want to go too hard with sanctions cause of the dependency. The obvious motive for the speech was a desire to sell US gas to Europe.

[0] For example see a policy brief from the european parliament in 2014: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2014/5364...

New comment by tsbinz in "Prompt Engineering Is Hard"

tsbinz — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 12:37:04 +0000

That is not how copyright law works. If someone uploads an image as public domain, or code as a BSD license, without having the right to do so, that doesn't give others the right to use those things.

New comment by tsbinz in "Prompt Engineering Is Hard"

tsbinz — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 12:32:50 +0000

And yet, every time GitHub Copilot comes up, people on HN are in arms about their code being used to train a model.

New comment by tsbinz in "Player of Games"

tsbinz — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 17:45:49 +0000

I obviously read it, otherwise I wouldn't have known which version they are using. They are banking on others, that do just skim the figures and tables, not noticing their usage of outdated baselines.

New comment by tsbinz in "Player of Games"

tsbinz — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 13:15:23 +0000

It does have the option to use a neural network (nnue) in its evaluation, but it is very different from what AlphaZero/Lc0 do. You can choose not to use it, so you still could have a "traditional" evaluation (which would still blow Stockfish 8 out of the water). Also, Stockfish 8 isn't the last version before they merged nnue ...

New comment by tsbinz in "Player of Games"

tsbinz — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 11:25:45 +0000

Comparing against Stockfish 8 in a paper released today and labeling it as "Stockfish" is bordering on being dishonest. The current stockfish version (14) would make AlphaZero look bad, so they don't include it ...

New comment by tsbinz in "Y Combinator’s European founder intake continues to grow"

tsbinz — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 12:47:43 +0000

If you have "contractors" in Germany, what you are describing is social insurance fraud. I would be surprised if France doesn't have rules like that.

New comment by tsbinz in "JSON for Modern C++ version 3.10.0"

tsbinz — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 07:25:26 +0000

Uh, it has plenty of methods for more compact encodings? https://github.com/nlohmann/json#binary-formats-bson-cbor-me...

New comment by tsbinz in "England’s reopening: ‘The world is looking at us with disbelief’"

tsbinz — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 19:59:35 +0000

Death rate considerably lags behind infection rates especially at the start of a wave, for multiple reasons (for example, it does take take a while until people get admitted to the hospital, where they are often for multiple weeks before they die, or that in a wave first active people with lots of contacts get infected and only later it spreads to older people who often have fewer contacts). So might be too early to say that.