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chaosite commented on No adblocker detected   maurycyz.com/misc/ads/... · Posted by u/LorenDB
ainiriand · 3 months ago
If it serves any purpose just today I've published docscandroid.app just because the document scanners out there are really scary and do not really fit my purpose. My app is not perfect but its mine and that is enough.
chaosite · 3 months ago
If you built your own app that does exactly what you want for your own use, kudos and more power to you. But otherwise...

You're competing with Google. The built-in Drive app does document scanning.

chaosite commented on Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers   pistachioapp.com/blog/cop... · Posted by u/Sayrus
krisoft · 4 months ago
> This means Vector databases, Search Indexes or fancy "AI Search Databases" would be required on a per user basis or track the access rights along with the content, which is infeasible and does not scale.

I don't understand why you think tracking user access rights would be infeasible and would not scale. There is a query. You search for matching documents in your vector database / index. Once you have found the potentially relevant list of documents you check which ones can the current user access. You only pass the ones over to the LLM which the user can see.

This is very similar to how banks provide phone based services. The operator on the other side of the line can only see your account details once you have authenticated yourself. They can't accidentally tell you someone else's account balance, because they themselves don't have access to it unless they typed in all the information you provide them to authenticate yourself. You can't trick the operator to provide you with someone else's account balance because they can't see the account balance of anyone without authenticating first.

chaosite · 4 months ago
> You search for matching documents in your vector database / index. Once you have found the potentially relevant list of documents you check which ones can the current user access. You only pass the ones over to the LLM which the user can see.

Sometimes the potentially relevant list of documents itself is a leak all by itself.

chaosite commented on Basic Social Skills Guide   improveyoursocialskills.c... · Posted by u/sogen
chaosite · 4 months ago
I read that as the author, going to the funeral, broke down. That is they felt devastated emotionally, internally and possibly externally as in "broke down crying".

The funeral itself probably continued without any issues. I guess that's another social skills lesson, the world carries on regardless of your emotions.

chaosite commented on Hacktical C: practical hacker's guide to the C programming language   github.com/codr7/hacktica... · Posted by u/signa11
akdev1l · 8 months ago
> Microsoft has unfortunately chosen to neglect C for a long time, its compilers dragging far behind the rest of the pack.

Is this still true? MSVC is pretty good at compiling C++ nowadays

chaosite · 8 months ago
MSVC always focused on C++, and C was treated as an afterthought.
chaosite commented on The Illustrated Guide to a PhD   matt.might.net/articles/p... · Posted by u/chii
anticensor · a year ago
No, a MD is a professional doctorate with novelty and research requirements, it's between a DA and a PhD in terms of difficulty.
chaosite · a year ago
Sorry, I'm having trouble parsing your point.

"Professional degree" is juxtaposed with "research degree". So if you say it's a professional degree, you're basically agreeing it's not a research degree...

In my country at least MDs are not required to be researchers and the degree has no novelty requirements. They're required to be competent medical professionals.

There are countries where the base medical degree is the MBBS and MD is a graduate research doctorate. That's not what I'm talking about here.

I'm not talking about "difficulty", by the way. Just the differences between the degrees.

chaosite commented on The Illustrated Guide to a PhD   matt.might.net/articles/p... · Posted by u/chii
reshlo · a year ago
> It’s not like a bachelor’s because many MD programs start out with or require a BSc

In many countries, the degree you must obtain to qualify as an MD is indeed a bachelor’s degree, the “Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery” (often abbreviated MB ChB or MBBS).

chaosite · a year ago
It's still a 5-6 year degree, as opposed to a 3-4 year bachelor's.

I agree it's not a research degree though... But some master programs don't include writing a research thesis either.

chaosite commented on The Illustrated Guide to a PhD   matt.might.net/articles/p... · Posted by u/chii
ulrischa · a year ago
A phd ist not a phd. A phd in medicine is like a Bachelor thesis. While a phd in engineering can become a 10 year nightmare
chaosite · a year ago
That's not right. A PhD is a PhD.

An MD (Medical Doctorate) is like a master's degree. It's not like a bachelor's because many MD programs start out with or require a BSc, biology is a popular choice but a lot of STEM majors are possible.

But MD+PhD programs exist and those are definitely PhDs.

You are right that an MD is not a PhD, though. Notice how they don't call it a PhD.

chaosite commented on Xiaomi Home Integration for Home Assistant   github.com/XiaoMi/ha_xiao... · Posted by u/coherence73
hypfer · a year ago
You mean exploiting FOSS for personal profit would be a business model?

Yes, yes most definitely it would be.

We see that all the time in the world. Extract money with the easy tasks and leave the hard stuff (actually building things, long-term support, you name it) to "someone else". And it's perfectly legal too; Just a shameful thing to do.

privatize profits, socialize costs

chaosite · a year ago
Um, what?

It's perfectly fine to make a business implementing, installing, or supporting FOSS software. I would even consider that a positive thing. Even if you don't (or can't!) help the upstream development.

chaosite commented on Show HN: Cut the crap – remove AI bullshit from websites   cut-the-crab.streamlit.ap... · Posted by u/muc-martin
lolinder · a year ago
Obligatory warning: a lot of what seems like bloat in legal documents is there for a reason and has a specific purpose that your LLM isn't guaranteed to be able to handle. Sure, some lawyers add bloat just for the sake of it, but in many cases the text is there because it changes or clarifies the meaning of the surrounding document in a way that matters in court.

An LLM can probably help you understand the document if you're using it side by side with the real thing, but in this context it sounds more like you're using it to summarize.

chaosite · a year ago
And in other cases the text is there because it has been used in other legal documents, and might not be needed for this document, but those documents were good and it doesn't cost anything to put that text in so we should keep using it.

In other words it's a cargo cult.

chaosite commented on OpenBSD now enforcing no invalid NUL characters in shell scripts   undeadly.org/cgi?action=a... · Posted by u/CTOSian
chasil · a year ago
I was going to check the status of mksh (the Android system shell), but the project page returns:

"Unavailable For Legal Reasons - Sorry, no detailled error message available."

http://www.mirbsd.org/mksh.htm

The Android system shell is now abandoned? This is also in rhel9 basesos.

chaosite · a year ago
Looks fine here, maybe they're blocking your IP range for some reason?

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