Does "recommended" just mean "mentioned" or is this curated?
It's everything mentioned that's then filterable via tags, there's a joe-recommended tag for books that are directly recommended by one of the cohosts.
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No, it did not. Unless you count the Soviet POWs who were murdered in Stalin's gulags.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Finland...
Finland starved thousands to death in it's own camps. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Karelian_concentration_ca...
If I'm reading this right, the playbook was... deleting scam ads ? And the implied problem is they only deleted searchable ads, and not trying harder to get rid of all of them.
It's interesting that Facebook was trying NOT to uncover identities, they're famous for insisting on real names.
All ads are searchable. They found the exact words and phrases that regulators used and then made sure those were clean.
>As a result, Meta decided to take the tactic global, performing similar analyses to assess “scam discoverability” in other countries. “We have built a vast keyword list by country that is meant to mimic what regulators may search for,” one document states. Another described the work as changing the “prevalence perception” of scams on Facebook and Instagram.
Google eats their own with names. Their latest and greatest AI framewofk is Agent Development Kit (ADK). Not to be confused with the Android Development Kit...
I remember a comment on here years ago from someone in GCP who mentioned that they did not control the "Cloud" namespace. So any VP could launch a new project and call it cloud something and make people very confused about why it wasn't showing up in the cloud dashboard and API.
goatsi commented on Using Generative AI in Content Production partnerhelp.netflixstudio... · Posted by u/CaRDiaK
I work in this space. In traditional diffusion-based regimes (paired image and text), one can absolutely check the text to remove all occurrences of Indiana Jones. Likewise, Adobe Stock has content moderation that ensures (up to human moderation limit) no dirty content. It is a world without Indiana Jones to the model
If you ask the Adobe stock image generation for "Adventurer with a whip and hat portrait view , Brown leather hat, jacket, close-up"
It gives you an image of Harrison Ford dressed like Indiana Jones.
https://stock.adobe.com/ca/images/adventurer-with-a-whip-and...
goatsi commented on Becoming a compiler engineer rona.substack.com/p/becom... · Posted by u/lalitkale
Step one: no engineering education, just get a job that a company calls engineering.
>In 2023, I graduated from MIT with a double major in math and computer science.
goatsi commented on Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model book.sv... · Posted by u/costco
Thank you for the compliments :) I used 50-100 datacenter proxies. I just logged requests made by the iOS app with Charles and then recreated the headers to the best of my ability though the server did not seem to be very strict at all. Worth noting though that static residential proxies are not too expensive these days anyways.
Re the API: The model does actually run fairly well on CPU so it probably wouldn't be too expensive to serve. I guess if there is demand for it I could do it. I think most social book sites would probably like to own their recommendation system though.
Speaking of sustained scraping for AI services, I found a strange file on your site: https://book.sv/robots.txt. Would you be able to explain the intent behind it?
goatsi commented on The Nonprofit Feeding the Internet to AI Companies theatlantic.com/technolog... · Posted by u/ForHackernews
This is a biased article which argues in favor of DRM (as paywalls) because it is published in a paywalled magazine.
Further in, the article admits that such content is already free and sits inside the page source but is obfuscated by running code.
US law has the precedent (and a recent case that's about AI training) that training, reading, and transforming are not illegal if the materials themselves are legally obtained. Wholesale duplication of copyright material is illegal, but AI companies have already shown in court that they don't duplicate material but rather transform it at great effort and expense.
The article makes it clear that Common Crawl is ignoring copyright take down requests, and only modified it's search engine to fake having taken down content.
Since there's only 3 or so (google, microsoft authenticator, okta, anyone else?) apps in widespread use, that seems not actually like an obstacle?
They also need to know where in the app the code for each service is displayed, so they are grabbing the code for your bank and not for your World of Warcraft account.
From what I understand, a number of them are Chinese nationals. I suspect that taking Chinese slaves might not be a great idea. China tends to carry a big stick; especially in that region.
Wouldn't surprise me, if the DOJ had some "under-the-table" help from Chinese sources, but not in any way that anyone can prove.
If you don't want to sign up for a podcast, John Oliver did a fairly decent bit about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLPpl2ISKTg
China permitted/sponsored rebels to seize a decent chunk of the Myanmar side of the Chinese/Myanmar border after a number of Chinese citizens (allegedly including some undercover Chinese police) were killed in a scam compound there.