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kanzure

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About kanzure

Genetics and programming. Creator of webcash.org, co-founded Custodia Bank, etc.

email: kanzure@gmail.com

irc: irc.libera.chat #hplusroadmap

More: https://diyhpl.us/wiki/hplusroadmap

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48580104

    There's no reason that ultrasound imaging equipment needs to be expensive. Overall the parts are pretty cheap. I think everyone should have one next to their toothbrush. Whole body…

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    Comment #48580095

    > your body forms and kills tumors all the time. The false positive rate is ridiculous. Um, that's still a tumor.

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    Comment #48149261

    I haven't found that to be an issue. Just say what revisions you want. Once you're done, paste it into an LLM to clean it up into a usable prompt.

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    Comment #48148613

    It's a lot easier to write long messages on a phone with something like Whisper.

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    Comment #47489828

    I've always been worried about their backend changing and somehow named tags with a previous commit hash working for an attacker to give something you didn't expect for the commit …

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    Comment #47413859

    I like the idea of donating money instead of tokens. I think django contributors are likely to know how to spend those tokens better than I might, as I am not a django core contrib…

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    Comment #47241254

    It would be nice if more businesses embraced email instead of requiring phone calls for basic tasks. Imagine how much more productive we could be if we could just send off a quick …

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    Comment #47239316

    Anyone can generate an alternative chain of sha256 hashes. perhaps you should consider timestamping, e.g. https://opentimestamps.org/ As for what the regulation says, I haven't loo…

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    Comment #47168105

    Having multiple different distribution channels can solve that problem. Advertisers cannot monopolize all distribution channels simultaneously because of the costs involved (it wou…

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    Comment #47158189

    Another option instead of using identity is to use proof of work or hashcash such that anyone who thinks a comment is valuable can use some hash rate to upvote it. It doesn't matte…

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    Comment #46731165

    Another project simply paused external contributions entirely: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46642012 Another idea is to simply promote the donation of AI credits instead of…

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    Comment #46642012

    That's interesting; another project stopped letting users directly open issues: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46460319

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    Comment #46617228

    Wait, is abliteration actually just a branding trick? That doesn't sound correct.

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    Comment #46460989

    I proposed something similar for bitcoin: https://gnusha.org/pi/bitcoindev/CABaSBax-meEsC2013zKYJnC3ph...

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    Comment #46282857

    Oh it's much older than 8 years... here is one such proposal from 2011: https://groups.google.com/g/enzymaticsynthesis/c/6GZT8zFNOfo... I myself was bitten by a radioactive grad st…

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    Comment #46223837

    To me this sounds like a computer-generated voice for obvious pro-privacy reasons for this kind of project. If it bothers you, then maybe work on better voice synthesis tech! I ass…

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    Comment #45823301

    You can also switch between models with aider https://aider.chat/

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    Comment #45659212

    Why stop at software? Open-source software is a good idea in election systems. The principle could be better generalized as an "open" (copyleft licensed) process for the entire sys…

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    Comment #44882138

    Here are some other anti-lesswrong materials to consider: https://aiascendant.com/p/extropias-children-chapter-1-the-w... https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2023/02/06/ineffectiv…

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    Comment #44378344

    Huh, weird. I don't think I have ever wanted to login to Stripe and take manual actions. Usually I hook up Stripe events to actions in my applications, like "The user subscribed, w…

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    Comment #44368428

    Hi, your docs say that users don't need state syncing, but when using Stripe you do need state syncing or to ingest the Stripe events. I also don't see any information in the docs …

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    Comment #44024048

    possibly something like https://github.com/romansky/dom-to-semantic-markdown could also help for this use case.

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    Comment #43188314

    > How do you know it's not selected because it's the one with the most paid ads? Or reddit fake reviews? Or llm generated seo articles about it? These questions apply to any review…

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    Comment #43187810

    You can also directly pull in the emulation state and map back to game source code, and then make a script for tool use (not shown here): https://github.com/pret/pokemon-reverse-en…

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    Comment #42622444

    Generally speaking, when it comes to _Brave New World_, the answer is no - people did not read the same book: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/crispr.2019.0046