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How long until Cloudflare is the data broker for websites like this? “For a low $/GB, we’ll give you everything from this site and 1000 others as (structured data/a database)!” (ye…

If being shown or admitting to their mistake was something they were cool with, this post wouldn’t exist

I think you’re making another good point as well: Specific traces for specific inferencing will mean that some generations get deprecated. Look at H265.

Movie and music studios are far more litigious

Actually, I think your argument is almost entirely about P2P tech inspired by BitTorrent. We’ve had good be the enemy of great here. No, no high-traffic sites actually uses P2P hos…

I believe we’re all struggling with the downstream effects of the attention economy that’s fed by leveraged debt. Online, the most money being made is by people who get attention. …

The tricky part about “layer 2 sarcasm” is that it has a tendency to inspire exactly the wrong people in to making it true

Honestly, I’ve never donated bc “keeping Wikipedia up” could be a solved problem by now. Not just cheaper processing and bandwidth costs, but p2p hosting, etc. Every time I see tha…

Fuzzy is usually faster. Grab the fuzzy results then exact match within them, no second index needed

Worst part is I understand that fuzzy search is faster, and the easy next step is fuzzy search > exactly match in the results > only show those (or at least show them first) Elasti…

“NAS” itself is an enshitification

Super cool and seems to have a depth of historical knowledge I’m shocked to see that LORD can’t be used because of licensing. Legally I know that’s how it is, but it Just Feels Wro…

Indeed. Vital to the solution yes, but if it was all that was needed then the surveillance systems would have been dismantled and prevented each time enough people became aware. Th…

I’d even say that YouTube autoplay is “watching TV”

You’ve missed the point: each addition can (and likely will, based on history) be the way to bring more patents into the market. It rarely has anything to do with objective quality…

Any chance you’ll be adding diarization of known speakers? For example: from audio samples tagged with names

Through all this I kept wondering (and excuse the question if it is inappropriate): what’s the benefit of a transcription of the sounds since the ideal is a 1:1 IPA representation …

You may be underestimating the desire to earn through differentiation. Assuming the product companies accept the plateau on resolution (I agree it’s likely), there are many ways to…

Definitely curious about the breakdown of data-broker relationship for each link in the chain. Unencrypted data is easy to store and share so it’s reasonable to assume that even th…

This has always been true to some extent: some have used weaponized security tools against competitors. It comes with legal risks (as it does with AI) but overall it doesn’t really…

It’s systematic “6-12 mo to shaky profitability + ability to quickly iterate” is a business that has a good chance of surviving while “However long it takes to be fully secure” is …

The current reigning social script is that drone enthusiasts are piloting all the drones. I know this will change as articles like this come out but for now the police are in a ver…

Palantir helps everyone fight everyone

As someone with a long-time interest in Tim Ferriss I’d say he’ll probably go most places he’s invited out of pure curiosity. He’s also attended TED and has been in many VC spaces …