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- Would you mind if we took this out hn? I'd love to go through this a bit more. I feel we may have reached the limit of scope for the conversation topic to be fair. I'll put my mail in my profile.
- I know very well and I absolutely am not advocating for removing TLS. I am only saying that there is no need for them to remove it as IsP's can already access your traffic if needed through a lawful intercept. These are part of ISP certification. You're very naive if you believe there is no way for the ISP to view your traffic just because you're over an Https connection.
The ISP has "Intercept Access Points" withing their infra that will just clone you're data. Without you knowing. This is a feature. Turned on with a warrant always I'm sure.
Making my point of your ISP not being there to defend your privacy. It's not their mandate. Their mandate is to provide an internet service to you, and a mechanism to intercept to law enforcement.
Nobody is talking about passing around plain text over the wire here.
- This looks interesting, and will try it out to see what it can do, I like the idea of using temporal values as a significant weight, but one thing isn't really clear to me.
> Traditional Vector DBs require extensive setup, cloud dependencies, and vendor lock-in:
Is this really true ? What's wrong with running your own local Redis vector db? They have their open source version that's separate to their hosted offering..
> https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/oss_and_stack/
Am I missing something ?
- Exactly my point. They don't need to 'ban' https
- No need really, your ISP are not going to go to bat for your privacy.
- "The arrests will continue until privacy is removed"
- This was my first exact thought.. "That payload that went over the wire looks like gibberish, send in the SWAT team".
These arguments are so ridiculous. Privacy is now a weapon of terror apparently.
- It has reappeared on mine after mandatory windows updates which is frustrating and also it looks like it will be arriving on my TV soon too without the option to remove it.
> https://www.tomshardware.com/service-providers/tv-providers/...
So it's not a stretch to assume they will continue to force it in their OS.
- > Most jobs for women are basically daycare.
I didn't realise we still had jobs specific for only women. This is such an out of left field comment that I have to ask for some of your references where you got this. Please tell me one job offer which says "Women Only".
- > We have real costs"
Am i wrong or didn't they have a bug in the action runners that would basically cycle the CPU infinitely ?
> https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/2380
> https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/3792
Didn't they take years to fix this ? Or its unrelated ?
- > GitHub stated that it has canceled the price increase after reviewing developer feedback. It added that it will take time to listen to customers and partners.
I get the feeling they got the feedback that their runners are not as indispensable to developers as they thought and realized they would lose a significant amount of users. Now if only they would listen to the feedback about windows 11 and their forced copilot we might be onto something.
- This is huge, actually I have used this before the free version, is this a 'side-project' or do you have some staff because it seems a big operation. Nice job.
- This isn't a "who had it worse"
My point is the UK decided to rebuild at home after significant damages in their capital city, and I agree with them.
A lot of EU was destroyed and had to rebuild, the US wasn't and was able to boom.
- > and the Blitz failed to inflict any meaningful damage on it
c. 40,000[1]–43,000 civilians killed[2]
c. 46,000–139,000 injured[2] Two million houses damaged or destroyed (60 percent of these in London)
Sure.. Okay.. France was worse, France is also no longer a world influence it was once.
- > They ran out of money, 2 world wars bankrupted them.
With the second war destroying a lot of the country and calling to rebuild at home. This is a fundamental difference with the US. I don't blame the UK for focusing at home for a while to rebuild.
- > which is a shame because I'm a real human being using the internet as intended.
This is the main issue here, the web has become actively hostile to normal people in the quest to monetize every second of online activity.
- I have to say I'm surprised at the sentiment here that the companies shouldn't be taxed a higher rate than currently.
It's disingenuous to claim that companies are paying the fair amount of taxes on their earnings.
Plainly speaking, the human labor who will be replaced pay a higher percentage of their income in taxes that corporations.
https://observer.com/2024/11/sam-altman-openai-salary/
Simple well known and preventable accounting tricks make the rich never need to pay a fair share. Yet regular people are now even seeing their electricity bills go up because they're using the infrastructure to such an extent.
Yet the sentiment here is : Well don't be silly, they're making profits so they're paying taxes.
They're not making a profit, yet they're reducing employment, increasing services bills for everyone else.
https://www.iea.org/news/ai-is-set-to-drive-surging-electric...
- > Corporations should be taxed on their profits
Hold on now, how will 'trickle-down' economics work then ? Think of the poor companies trying to provide a living for all those AI. /s
- > These work well with local LLMs that are powerful enough to run a coding agent environment with a decent amount of context over longer loops.
That's actually super interesting, maybe something I'll try investigate and find the minimum requirements because as cool as they seem, personalized 'skills' might be a more useful use of AI overall.
Nice article, and thanks for answering.
Edit: My thinking is consumer grade could be good enough to run this soon.
I guess it's the AI driven approach. These things, critical infra, are always done better with a few eyes in it.. introducing irresponsible ideas of "I'll just remake it with Claude without knowing the underlying infra" can hit a few nerves, also add a few lower level bugs, exploits etc.
I don't think it's fair for the downvoted but I think it's worth discussing where we draw the line.
Edit: I think AI is a tool not a replacement.