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NoahZuniga

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NoahZuniga··on Cryptocurrency lawsuit: Ethereum Foundation required "suicide pledge"
I dont understand why you have all these requirements. A suicide pledge in a contract is unenforceable (both socially and legally), so signing it or not doesn't really matter.
NoahZuniga··on I'm not convinced the AI bubble exists
Highways are also heavily state subsidized.
NoahZuniga··on Kalshi court losses pile up as judges refuse to block state gambling laws
They do: polymarket.us
NoahZuniga··on OpenAI seems to be silently re-enabling model training on Codex chats
I thought that if you used an api key data wasn't trained on in AI studio
NoahZuniga··on OpenAI seems to be silently re-enabling model training on Codex chats
It was dismissed because it was passed the statute of limitations, so the fact that the case was thrown out doesn't really say anything about weather it happened.
NoahZuniga··on Birdwatching rewires the brain and slows cognitive decline
It's those darn spy pigeons watching back.
NoahZuniga··on Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads
The most charitable interpretation is that gemini might get your pictures as context by connecting google photos, then comment on the content of said pictures in its output, and then the output is used to personalize ads (like what chatgpt is doing rn). This indirectly uses google photos data to personalize ads so they have to add this rule to their privacy policy.
NoahZuniga··on Canadians are running out of time to oppose Bill C-22
You won't be able to convince representatives with facts and logic. So many people want their attention that they can't pay enough attention to your arguments to be convinced. Contacting them is about showing that you care about it.

If they receive 100 calls of people saying they're strongly against a bill and no for they might reconsider their position.

Also calling is a better signal of showing you care then emailing.

NoahZuniga··on eMudhra ignored Mozilla Root investigation deadline; blames social media
I don't think any really. The root that did the cross sign was already removed (not trusted) from the chrome and mozilla root stores before they did the cross sign.
NoahZuniga··on PHP2Shell: AI uncovers critical RCE in PHP
Wiz is a google company...
NoahZuniga··on Simons Foundation launches $15M effort to help mathematicians navigate AI era
Terrence Tao can't decide to keep the money and pay himself more or something though. He _has_ to spend it
NoahZuniga··on New Apple TV 4K
Apple has their own ad targeting program, and they only need to seem to deliver privacy.
NoahZuniga··on Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend
node!=npm, and microsoft doesn't own the development of node.
NoahZuniga··on Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS
Their instance is self hosted right, so this doesn't apply I think.
NoahZuniga··on F-Droid 2.0
Running a malicious build script is just as bad as running a malicious app, so I don´t see why you want that? Also F-droid has fully reproducible builds, so you can be sure you'll get the same binary.
NoahZuniga··on Show HN: Scry, programmable internet search w/ congestion pricing
I was actually able to find something with this that I would have never been able to find with traditional search! This is great.
NoahZuniga··on Chopping up books when they're physically too big
This post isn't aimed at people that read a physical book for "nostalgia". They read a lot of books and have already decided that they prefer physical books to an ereader.
NoahZuniga··on For AI leaders Doom is a form of hype
> I do not doubt that these people are sincere in some private, psychological sense ... . As a media scholar, what interests me is not whether Hubinger believes his own number. What interests me is what this genre of utterance does in the world ... . My complaint is not that these statements are alarming. It is that they are apocalyptic in form, hypocritical in structure, and strategically productive in effect — and that they crowd out almost everything else we could be discussing

Strange to say that you think the people that are worrying about doom in public are being sincere, make no comment on whether you think the worry is valid, and yet still complain that its hype.

Like if its true it can't be hype

NoahZuniga··on Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)
443 is just the default https port, so not really? It doesn't add anything as browsers use that port by default when the scheme is https.
NoahZuniga··on Kimi K3-256k
No, the main issue is that it's hard to communicate pricing where token price increases as token count increases, and they figure they can approximate the parabola well enough with two lines.
NoahZuniga··on Scanning for Pangram Errors
> I have seen several cases where Pangram had some false negatives

Yep, Pangram says they think false positives are way worse than false negatives, so if their AI isn't sure enough they prefer a "not ai" output to an "is ai" output.

NoahZuniga··on What did SFFA vs. Harvard reveal about admissions?
> We make enough to not qualify for need based aid

Are you sure? If you're household income is <$340k (depending on details) you'll still get some scholarship, and as long as your household income <$200,000 tuition is free.

[1]: https://college.harvard.edu/financial-aid/net-price-calculat...

NoahZuniga··on Michigan spent $1.8B and only created 602 jobs
> Hohman examined eight major projects—"those that offered $100 million in payments and received significant media attention"—totaling $2.7 billion in promised incentives

> All told, the governor said that her major subsidy projects would create 20,595 jobs in Michigan

Even using these numbers that works out to $135k/job, which is bonkers!

NoahZuniga··on Google AI overview for "keynesian economics" is written in Korean
for me its all in english.
NoahZuniga··on SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible
probably enforceable via patents.
NoahZuniga··on Dutch Railways offers unlimited off-peak train travel nationwide for €49/month
Usually days. I've had one take ~5 working days and another one ~3.
NoahZuniga··on Dutch Railways offers unlimited off-peak train travel nationwide for €49/month
Yes you need a card (ov-chipkaart or ov-pas) but you don't need to be a local to get one. You just order one online for 7.5/5 euros. You do need an address for it to be delivered to, but its valid for 5 years so if you visit the Netherlands again you can reuse it.
NoahZuniga··on Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
I didn't say if LLMs are allowed do that, I said that humans are allowed to do that.
NoahZuniga··on Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
Yes!

Creating personal copies of copyrighted works are allowed. (Also, libraries really don't mind if you take pictures of the content of works they have.)

NoahZuniga··on Ask HN: Favorite text heavy blogs that are a joy to read?
I really like https://dynomight.net/
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