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Does this read a bit incoherent and hard to follow for anyone else? This pluralistic website itself seems a bit chaotic..

This seems like something that would be great to open source; I can see it being a good building block for other globally distributed services.

Someone found a fossilized T-shirt that had the DeCSS code on it.

I don’t think there’s anything definitive. 400IU/day from one study is nothing if you’re deficient. 2000IU from another study is better, but even then we don’t seem to know much about absorption from these studies. For example, did it actually raise serum levels by 10ng/ml after a year, and how did THAT correlate to positive or negative health outcomes? K2 also seems to play an important symbiotic relationship with D, and seems notably absent from these studies.

Has anyone done a RCT of D3+K2? K2 seems to be important in the absorption of D3. Another aspect that bothers me with these studies is that we’re simply supplementing the vitamin D, seemingly without measuring the change in blood levels. I took 2000IU (+K2) a day for many years in between testing my blood levels and still had <30ng/ml and had to go up to 5000IU/day. I’d like to see some further study.

I tried to use it but I got tired of “tap to continue” after about 4 taps without knowing what this even was

At this point, it’s just you misusing the word. You WERE correct; it did mean the builders rather than the breakers. But to greater society outside of the tech industry, hacking is hacking, they don’t need a word to describe builders, and crackers sounds dumb and no one outside the tech industry would know what you were talking about. A cracker is a snack and a dated slang word to refer to white people.

As you’ll see from my comment history, I’ve been consistent on how horrible this forcible TikTok acquisition was, and don’t forget that Biden was banning TikTok just the same before Trump got into office (and that Trump started this anti-TikTok action in his first administration before that). Yes, this administration is a special kind of awful, but the last one sucked too.

https://archive.is/BeICs

In so far as bracing for draconian tracking, I already would have never worked for Meta and especially wouldn’t now. I think we can vote with our feet and not work for companies that do this.

Sounds like something we should study more rather than dismiss.

What struck me though is that OP did so much work to migrare the server with zero downtime. The _single_ big server. Something’s off here.

To give them some credit, they support both positions because they were told to support them by the same people and never put much thought into it.

And I’m so glad they did. Tiktok has brought so many positive changes to my life, and it never would have happened if they hadn’t built a product so good that it’s literally addictive. I don’t want the government to be my parent.

Additionally, Instagram and Facebook have tried their best to make their products as addictive as possible, yet their recommendation algorithm is so absolutely terrible (not to mention their ads) that I barely stay on the platform for five minutes when I use it.

Then why is he listed in that table? I don’t get it.

I hadn’t, and your article lost me there to be honest. You didn’t explain the what, why, or when behind it, and it didn’t make sense to me at all. That said, I’m abnormally horrible at math.

As always with these types of things, it starts off well and I think “wow! finally someone is explaining math in a simple and straight forward way I can understand!”. And once again, they already lost me at Gaussian elimination.

Powerful stakeholders are typically so stupid and dysfunctional that it’s effectively impossible for you to identify their needs and deliver solutions to them

I’m sorry, WHAT? How old is this author? “I fail to communicate effectively with anyone who isn’t an engineer because I lack the required empathy and perspective” is very different from “the average stakeholder is stupid and dysfunctional”. I stopped reading at this point because author is clearly someone who doesn’t take responsibility for their own failures in communication.

Really impressive work :)

But it would have been more interesting if an IQ test was developed specifically for AI.

Isn’t that basically what the ARC tests are?

It’s also really good for me as a very senior engineer with serious ADHD. Sometimes I get very mentally blocked, and telling Claude Code to plan and implement a feature gives me a really valuable starting point and has a way of unblocking me. For me it’s easier to elaborate off of an existing idea or starting point and refactor than start a whole big thing from zero on my own.

This may be true, but what I said remains true and it’s a vulnerability that the world needs to fix. Too much power is centralized in the US.

That’s a big flaw. The US needs to stop being at the center of everything, and now we can really see the vulnerability it causes. I hope this becomes an impulse to diversify research funding more.

My coworkers/partners and I haven’t stopped talking about it for weeks. I’m one of them I guess, but we’ll see. The ARC graph I saw, if accurate, is really incredible.

I recently created a new Cloudflare account for a project I’m working on and moved two domains into it, and the settings were both on by default without asking me about it at all. The original press release specifically mentioned enabling it by default.

Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the leading connectivity cloud company, today announced it is now the first Internet infrastructure provider to block AI crawlers accessing content without permission or compensation, *by default*.

Huge revenue sure, but at what cost? Models should be able to be trained on anything a human can read and see without paying.

I hope they realize Cloudflare opted them in to blocking LLMs.

Ah TIL. These are tiny models though but maybe it’s a good sign.

They hate AI it seems. I don’t see them offering any AI products or embracing it in any way. Seems like they’ll get left behind in the AI race.

Well Cloudflare doesn’t even block Google’s AI crawlers because they don’t differentiate themselves from their search crawlers. Cloudflare gives Google an unfair competitive advantage.