mikeiz404 · HackerTrans

vor 8 Monatendiscuss

It’s interesting that only GET calls are metered. Is this a common thing to do?

I wonder if this is also being done to limit marketplace data being scraped with the API or limit how this data gets used by limiting low margin business models. Increasing the fees will have these effects.

mikeiz404

vor 8 Monatendiscuss

The DOI address is working now

mikeiz404

vor 8 Monatendiscuss

It’s been some time since I have dealt with web scrapers but it takes less resources to run a regex than it does to parse the DOM (which may have syntactically incorrect parts anyway). This can add up when running many scraping requests in parallel. So depending on your goals using a regex can be much preferred.

mikeiz404

vor 8 Monatendiscuss

Two thoughts here when it comes to poisoning unwanted LLM training data traffic

1) A coordinated effort among different sites will have a much greater chance of poisoning the data of a model so long as they can avoid any post scraping deduplication or filtering.

2) I wonder if copyright law can be used to amplify the cost of poisoning here. Perhaps if the poisoned content is something which has already been shown to be aggressively litigated against then the copyright owner will go after them when the model can be shown to contain that banned data. This may open up site owners to the legal risk of distributing this content though… not sure. A cooperative effort with a copyright holder may sidestep this risk but they would have to have the means and want to litigate.

mikeiz404

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

I think the post's argument is that we are on the way to something akin to China's social credit system (but not there yet).

> What we have aren't unified social credit systems…yet. They're fragmented behavioral scoring networks that don't directly communicate. Your Uber rating doesn't affect your mortgage rate, and your LinkedIn engagement doesn't determine your insurance premiums. But the infrastructure is being built to connect these systems. We're building the technical and cultural foundations that could eventually create comprehensive social credit systems. The question isn't whether we have Chinese-style social credit now (because we don't). The question is whether we're building toward it without acknowledging what we're creating.

mikeiz404

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

> It is obviously social media

I get why social media could possibly be the cause but what makes you so certain it is the cause or the largest contributing factor?

mikeiz404

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

Anyone know where to find the paper?

The DOI in the article is being reported as invalid. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2517530122

mikeiz404

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

Yea or also:

    Social Media getting big → larger perceived friend groups

    Social Media getting big OR
    screen time increasing OR
    phones preferencing more limited forms of communication OR
    … → more polarization

Maybe I missed it but it would have been helpful to know which confounds had been ruled out.

It could be due to a change in the PEW polling or the polling questions staying the same but the definition of terms shifting over time which caused the perceived increase in polarization. Or even the researchers’ definition of polarization which was stated as an increase in people stably identifying as either liberal or conservative. It is worth noting the article did say the PEW polling is supposed to be a stable source of data.

mikeiz404

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

- The IOC is a cleared shutdown log.

- The update now clears the shutdown log each boot.

> This led to the conclusion that a cleared shutdown.log could serve as a good heuristic for identifying suspicious devices.

> With iOS 26 Apple introduced a change—either an intentional design decision or an unforeseen bug—that causes the shutdown.log to be overwritten on every device reboot instead of appended with a new entry every time, preserving each as its own snapshot. This means that any user who updates to iOS 26 and subsequently restarts their device will inadvertently erase all evidence of older Pegasus and Predator detections that might have been present in their shutdown.log.

mikeiz404

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

It is unfortunate.

I think one must have a chat with our gods of capital in order to correct it. But I'm not sure they are listening.

mikeiz404

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

Not sure if you saw the demo video but the blue "Trailer" button at the bottom of their page pops it up to watch.

https://sky.app/

mikeiz404

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

The tribunal judgement documents are here...

https://www.catribunal.org.uk/judgments/14037721-dr-rachael-...

mikeiz404

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

I haven't dug through the linked documents but it's probably in here some where... https://www.catribunal.org.uk/judgments/14037721-dr-rachael-...

mikeiz404

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

> Enjoy a pay as you go model… No matter how big or small your business is. HP SitePrint has bundled a comprehensive support contract into a pay as you go usage rate, so you only pay for what you use.

It sounds like HP is continuing to go the subscription route to use one of these “printers”.

mikeiz404

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

> "brain rot", "Thought-skipping", "primary lesion", "Cognitive Declines", ...

In general using these medical/biological metaphors doesn't seem like a good idea in things like computer science research papers and similar.

Their use forces many inaccurate comparisons (when compared in detail) and they engender human qualities to what are already forgotten to be just computer models. I get this may be done with a slight tongue-in-cheek but with research papers there is also the risk that these terms start to be adopted. And undoing that would be a much taller order in either the research community or general media.

Maybe I am just yelling at clouds.

mikeiz404

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

Ah now that's the kind of authentically human response I was hoping for!

(It's a joke: The parent uses the same writing style they described as being indicative of LLMs)

mikeiz404

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

Hey "vercel security checkpoint", I'm repeatedly getting a code 99 "Failed to verify your browser" on an iphone with a VPN exits in California and Canada via proton VPN and Firefox Focus.

What gives?

``` sfo1::1760587368-8k6JCK3uO27oMpuTbnS4Hb3X2K9bVsc ```

mikeiz404

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

Paper: A Framework for Understanding Market Crises (1999)

https://www.risknet.de/uploads/tx_bxelibrary/Bookstaber-Unde...

mikeiz404

vor 10 Monatendiscuss

Or your car insurance rates go up because of what a model has inferred, rightly or wrongly, about your driving habits. But as the driver you are unaware of this because 1) the car insurance company doesn't tell you 2) your car manufacturer buried it in the legalize jungle of the TOS which no one can reasonably be expected to read.

https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics/personal-informa...

mikeiz404

vor 10 Monatendiscuss

> Is it inconceivable that people actually see lower savings in exchange for tracking shopping habits is a beneficial transaction?

I would argue that the vast majority of people are unable to fairly evaluate this tradeoff due to the intentional lack of transparency in what is collected, how it is used, and who it gets shared with (and how they use it).

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