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Amazon is still at 5 9's availability, they just shifted the decimal point left once.


Reading the comments, this is both a "nothing burger" and a reason to geoblock California.

It does too much, and too little. The costs are too high, and too low. It's an example of corruption, but also a good first start at regulations. It will drive AI companies out of California, but also attract more companies with a lower bar for edge innovation.

Can anyone link to an actual informed and nuanced discussion of this bill? Because if it exists here, I haven't found it.


I think all of those outcomes are possibilities and I don't think we'll know until we see both how the government decides to attempt to enforce this and how the courts allow it to be enforced.

The language of the law is so vague to me that I could see it being either a sledgehammer or absolutely inconsequential.


Same can be said for search. And your statement is provably correct, depending on the definition of "good tool."

But it's not only money's influence on the company, it's also money's influence on the /data/ underlying the platform that undermines the tool.

Once financial incentives are in place, what will be the AI equivalent of review bombing, SEO, linkjacking, google bombing, and similar bad behaviors that undermine the quality of the source data?


Isn't the Iocaine developer from Australia?


A great description was just posted as a comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45068268#45070258


Little known fact: in the late '00s, PGP Corp had developed a free standalone "Viewer" to decrypt email if you didn't have the full PGP email product installed (the onboarding process walked you through initial key generation and publication on a keyserver).

The decryption process showed the encrypted PGP Message block and used a similar Sneakers-inspired animation to transform it into your plaintext email. It was incredibly cool and I remain sad that the product never saw the light of day.


Yeah, I wish I read the comments before reading the article. Thanks for the heads up.

Honestly the article was not worth the read, let alone the spoiler.


Why would you read it if you have not finished it sorry I should have put spoilers, great show I loved it.

But hey I was just playing with my imagination connecting some dots while watching a video.

I wrote it one year ago and suddenly said leme post it on hk because why not.


I had no clue what "Steins;Gate" was. I presumed it was some pair of physicists writing papers on some clever quantum simulation.


I mean now you know what it's and you can watch and enjoy it it's way more complex than what I wrote (although I guess I fked up):)

Haha, no no I just read about Quantum physics to learn the buzz words. And this article does not make a clear conclusion. I only wanted to connect that hamming part with it.


I don't see how that could provide an alternative to Novikov fixpoints. You can't control the initial conditions well enough, so the Novikov fixpoint you get is one where no observable time travel has ever occurred.

I think you're getting too attached to fixpoints and worldlines, it would be better to think through the actual computer program the simulation uses.


Good point, but I believe that this is what the anime intended. Because if you look at it, this is what Okabe does, changes the past with the least effects. You are totally correct this amount of changes is actually a lot


FYI, you may want to revisit a couple of your "only me" points on the AVP with the release of the Quest 3S.

The 3S has an IR blaster that allows it to work in total darkness. Meta also enabled a travel mode[1] a couple of OS revisions ago (back in June or so).

[1] https://www.meta.com/help/quest/articles/in-vr-experiences/o...


Do you know that you can create a Meta account with a one-time email address, fake name, and no connection to any other Meta service but the Quest platform? That may still be more connection to Meta than you prefer, but to many "Meta integration" implies an automatic linkage to Facebook or Instagram.

They only recommend your real name in case you need to recover your account.

From https://www.meta.com/help/quest/articles/accounts/account-se...:

---- To create a Meta account using your email address, you will need to provide:

Email: You can only create one Meta account per email address.

First and last name: We recommend using your real name in case you need to recover your account or manage your store purchases.

Birthday: You need to be at least 13 years old (or the applicable age in your region) to set up and manage your own Meta account. If you are between 10 and 12 (or the applicable age in your region), then you need a Meta account that’s managed by a parent or guardian.

Password: This must be at least 8 characters. Avoid passwords that someone could easily guess.


Presumably this also links to your shadow profile and all of the traffic to the FB tracking pixels from your IP.


I agree that HN etiquette is generally more polite. However, this was in direct response to your comment to him/her:

> I don’t think parent knows what he’s talking about.

We can all do better.


that's different. Not knowing what he's talking about is different from a comment about character. But no point in arguing about this.


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