I have horrible news for you. Google had it, then they killed it
https://www.reddit.com/r/GoogleMaps/comments/1737ft9/google_...
Woah I remember this. Totally forgot about the feature.
Readit Newsjohanyc commented on How Google Maps allocates survival across London's restaurants laurenleek.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/justincormack
johanyc commented on How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM blog.pixelmelt.dev/kindle... · Posted by u/pixelmelt
johanyc commented on How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM blog.pixelmelt.dev/kindle... · Posted by u/pixelmelt
> I've been "obtaining" ebooks for years. But this ONE time, I thought: "Let's support the author."
ugh. The right thing to do is buy and THEN download the no drm version from "other sources." You should always support the authors.
I don't get how this works after watching the video. is it still accessing the pixels from the authenticator app even after you switch to another app?
johanyc commented on What GPT-OSS leaks about OpenAI's training data fi-le.net/oss/... · Posted by u/fi-le
Google Books is not transformative. It shows you all the same data for the same purpose as they were published for.
A better example is Google Image Search. Thumbnails are transformative because they have a different purpose and aren't the same data. An LLM is much more transformative than a thumbnail.
It's more lossy than even lossy compression because of the regularization term; I'm pretty sure you can train one that's guaranteed to not retain any of the pretraining text. Of course then it can't answer things like "what's the second line of The Star Spangled Banner".
Google Books is transformative. It's a decided case. And it's the same as Google Image, i.e. for search.
johanyc commented on What GPT-OSS leaks about OpenAI's training data fi-le.net/oss/... · Posted by u/fi-le
> There's nothing new about being able to copyright something that's a transformation of another work
There is something novel here.
Google Books created a huge online index of books, OCRing, compressing them, and transforming them. That was copyright infringement.
Just because I download a bunch of copyrighted files and run `tar c | gzip` over them does not mean I have new copyright.
Just because I download an image and convert it from png to jpg at 50% quality, throwing away about half the data, does not mean I have created new copyright.
AI models are giant lossy compression algorithms. They take text, tokenize it, and turn it into weights, and then inference is a weird form of decompression. See https://bellard.org/ts_zip/ for a logical extension to this.
I think this is the reason that the claim of LLM models being unencumbered by copyright is novel. Until now, a human had to do some creative transformation to transform a work, it could not simply be a computer algorithm that changed the format or compressed the input.
> Google Books created a huge online index of books, OCRing, compressing them, and transforming them. That was copyright infringement.
No. It's a decided case. It's transformative and fair use. My understanding why it's transformative is that Google Books mainly offers a search interface for books and it also have measures to make sure only snippets of books are shown.
johanyc commented on Jules, remote coding agent from Google Labs, announces API jules.google/docs/changel... · Posted by u/watkajtys
Do people really find Jules useful? I find it needs babysitting much more than Cursor.
johanyc commented on In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information blog.burkert.me/posts/in_... · Posted by u/curioussquirrel
I love RSS. I literally just bought an app on itch.io, and to my surprise the devlog page for it, which lists all the new updates, supports RSS. I love when it happens. [1]
RSS didn't stick for me until:
1. I decided to quit most social media, so without RSS I would miss stuff I actually care about.
2. I unsubscribed to all news sites. RSS fatigue is a thing. Don't subscribe to sites that make money the more they post. I used to subscribe to Phoronix, the top HN frontpage articles, OSNews, LWN, etc.: bad idea, you don't want to wake up to 50 unread posts per day and get overwhelmed. Now I mostly follow personal blogs, and I have one new post per day to read. Much more manageable and higher signal-to-noise ratio.
3. https://fetchrss.com/ is genius for everything else that doesn't support RSS. It allows to turn any website into an RSS feed, and the free plan is generous enough for my needs.
I pay for Feedbin, and it's great.
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1: I wish Firefox still showed an RSS feed icon when a page has one. These days I have to "view-source" and search for feed or atom or rss to tell.
> Don't subscribe to sites that make money the more they post.
That's an interesting tip. Never thought about it this way.
johanyc commented on In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information blog.burkert.me/posts/in_... · Posted by u/curioussquirrel
My biggest gripe with RSS is that it is a page that is changing continuously. If I want to read what was on that page 6 months ago, I cant seem to find a way to do so. Do you have any ideas how to go about doing this? or find what I can RSS historical data
Two options
- visit the website
- use a hosted RSS reader like feedly or inoreader that stores historical rss feeds
- https://github.com/omer-faruq/assistant.koplugin, which is forked from:
- https://github.com/drewbaumann/AskGPT
The first one even has prompts for quick recaps, summarize, translations, and more.