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Very cool Dan, thanks for the details!

Thanks Dan, this is very interesting. From someone deeply involved in privacy I see the benefits of the auditability and risk mitigation in cases like SQL injection. What does the …

I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around what guarantees this does and does not make. If you can run “select * where secret_col == 10”… why does it matter that the column is …

Right! Everything from word to the calculator app uses .NET these days. Even many games!

I ran into this (or a similar service) when cancelling comcast a few weeks ago. It worked _really_ well. It was slightly uncanny, but I think most people wouldn’t notice anything. …

It’s easy to opt out of being indexed by Google.

I don't think this is a correct explanation of how things work these days. RL has really changed things.

Fair enough. It reads as extremely AI generated to me. But that isn’t completely reliable.

Ironic coming from the Guardian. One of their journalists consistently publishes ai slop and the paper is in denial about it. https://x.com/maxwelltani/status/2023089526445371777?s…

If a company relies on self reported ages, they don't "know" it well enough to satisfy COPPA. Probably. I'm not a lawyer but I do keep up with the latest in privacy enforcement and…

Those exist! People choose to use gmail because of the scale, stability, and feature set paid for by targeted advertising.

My desire is to be able to use those products without paying for them. And to use them with friends and family members that can't pay for them.

The bill bans making access to a service contingent on consent. This would kill Gmail, Google Maps, Facebook, Instagram and basically every other ad supported service. Making subsc…

Yeah fair, I was being a bit lazy here when writing my comment. I've used nosql professionally quite a bit, but always set up by others. When working on personal projects I reach f…

How often are mongo instances exposed to the internet? I'm more of an SQL person and for those I know it's pretty uncommon, but does happen.

Google (currently) pays Mozilla $400-500 million a year to be the default search engine in firefox. edit: in 2023 they took in $653M in total, $555M of which was from Google. They …

Took more than a minute to load on my macbook. Ouch! I really love C# and the .net ecosystem, but they just haven't made it work for web.

What do you see as net negative about it? I’m familiar with the product but not that aware of how it’s been used.

Do you think there _should_ be a legal mechanism for enforcing the kind of rules they're trying to create here? I have mixed feelings about it.

Evil feels strong? Small companies benefit from having the basic feature set subsidized by big cos. It's kind of hard for me to imagine a scenario where pricing of a saas product c…

Do you work in devdiv at Microsoft? I can see the org chart in this comment haha

Very cool. Do you do anything to mitigate ordering bias in the evaluation function, or do you just expect it to average out over time?

> While the specific internal workings of DeepSeek LLM are still being elucidated, it appears to maintain or approximate the self-attention paradigm to some extent. Totally nonsens…