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This seems relevant to privacy-conscious folks here: I just tried to use my existing ProtonMail account as a backup for my Gmail account. Instead of receiving the verification code…

This is really cool. I can see it being extremely useful for reviewing. The numerical citation style of CS papers has always been a pain point for me.

The argument here is that "smart people are worse looking" is actually a case of _of the people you encounter_ smart people are worse looking, but that overall there is no correlat…

This is a great essay, better than some of Paul's other recent writing which has felt less inspiring than his old stuff. This feels in depth and written from the heart.

True, but I think it points to an inherent weakness in the business model. The reason it's so hard to build these businesses without relying on Google (and playing cat and mouse wi…

There is a recurring lesson with these type of threads: don't build a business that is dependent on an unstable, black-box algorithm of a mega-corp. If your business is so fragile …

I find the more important question to be "how do you remember what you read?". I think (at least in my case) remembering more of what I've read would be a better investment in time…

Check that you're getting enough uninterrupted sleep. I think it's a hugely underestimated way to gain mental clarity.

Yeah, this has been going on for a long time. The methods evolve, but the bullshit stays the same [1]. Good rules of thumb: 1. If it praises a product, the article was paid for 2. …

Has anyone noticed a shortage of Pi Zeros recently? It seems everywhere has run out of stock.

The US has a very coveted position in the West, but the reach of this is getting smaller every year. Having root access to FAANG for instance is pretty useless in China, Apple is t…

What are the chances major projects we use today aren't backdoored similarly? It's so easy to do and so hard to detect.

This is fantastic. Way better than the Algolia search which seems to be the most "official" one. I love that you cached the article content too.

Isn't this type of thing usually a civil case - how is it that he can get jail time? Also what ever happened to Kalanick in all of this?

The next logical step of course is to start bumping up "disadvantaged" listings in search rankings.

I'd love to read more about the economics of captchas - what is the "labor" of classifying images worth? What is the marginal cost per captcha of human solver farms, etc. Can anyon…

How can one test GPT-3?

> As for the blackmail and war starting you probably couldn't do much with public tweets Depends how tense the situation already was. A well-timed tweet could be enough to tip thin…

That is just embarrassingly petty - I've just lost a little more respect for the guy.

I think the goal of running native speed compiled-ish code on the browser in a sandboxed way would be great if it worked. CSS and HTML for "apps" has always seemed like a hack to m…

Flutter for web feels like going back to the .net "webforms" days, where you could supposedly build a web app the same way as a desktop one and the whole client-server thing was ab…

Douyin is likely better designed for censorship, data collection and so on, particularly in the context of Chinese language - I'd say the parent comment is right, the goal here is …

> The company has said that TikTok has not shared data with the Chinese government nor would it, a position that would be difficult — if not impossible — to maintain under the new …

The documentation could use some work - I have scoured the website and FAQ but still don't understand how this works. Does it compile into javascript, or it is a Python interpreter…