lanternfish (u/lanternfish)

lanternfish commented on YouTube's $60B revenue revealed amid paid subscriber push bbc.com/news/articles/crk... · Posted by u/1659447091

drnick1 · 2 days ago

> He said YouTube Premium - its service letting users pay to remove ads between videos, or songs on its music service - had helped boost paid subscriptions across Google consumer services to more than 325 million in 2025 overall.

325 million people that don't know about Firefox and uBlock Origin?

lanternfish · 2 days ago

Mobile app compatibility is presumably the biggest seller.

lanternfish commented on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes reuters.com/world/america... · Posted by u/jumpocelot

lII1lIlI11ll · a month ago

Do you expect US soldiers to systematically loot homes on occupied territories? Or arbitrary murder anyone speaking language they don't like or found to be subscribed to Telegram channels they don't approve of on mass scale? Do the US plan to conduct genocide and annex Venezuela in your opinion?

The conduct of VSRF in Ukraine could perhaps be compared to the US conduct in Vietnam but definitely not in Iraq.

lanternfish · a month ago

In Iraq, JSOC operational doctrine was literally to target assassination campaigns based on 'nodal analysis' from contacts lifted from cellphones; if telegram had existed, they certainly would have used it too.

Famously, they didn't have enough Arabic translators, so Delta Force was often taking targets entirely based on reported association. They couldn't target based on language because they couldn't even tell what language locals were speaking most of the time.

lanternfish commented on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes reuters.com/world/america... · Posted by u/jumpocelot

lII1lIlI11ll · a month ago

OP's question was about how the current Russian invasion of Ukraine is different, not about some grand total score of infractions by major powers in 20th century. Overall I find this opinion of many western liberals that it is only fair for Russia to murder some Ukrainians, loot their homes and rape their women because US did some bad things before quite perplexing.

lanternfish · a month ago

That wasn't my point. My specific argument is about US operational policy on the ground in similar engagements. Based on precident, we would expect them to engage in the behavior the commentor indicts.

I dream that neither of these imperial powers - Russia or the US - will be allowed to inflict imperial violence, but I wouldn't be mistaken and assume that this military action will be any different than, say, JSOC in Iraq.

lanternfish commented on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes reuters.com/world/america... · Posted by u/jumpocelot

lII1lIlI11ll · a month ago

> How does this differ from Russia invading Ukraine?

As a Ukrainian I would assume US forces don't intend to conduct a campaign of mass murder, rape and looting, and US government overall doesn't plan genocide and erasure of national identity of Venezuela together with annexation of its territories?

lanternfish · a month ago

See: Panama, Vietnam, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc.

lanternfish commented on Quadratic memory reductions for Zero-knowledge Proofs github.com/logannye/space... · Posted by u/logannyeMD

worldsayshi · 5 months ago

I've been thinking about ZKP's a lot recently. Using them we could perhaps build interesting and useful decentralised social media protocols. You could create a union at your workplace where you make agreements with everyone but you only communicate directly with your closest colleagues. You could create anonymous groups of doctors in a certain region that listen to reggae three times a week that think it would be worth renovating the cafeteria.

It would be a better foundation for the social contract than tick tock videos. But you'd need to make ZKP understandable and interactive for the average user.

lanternfish · 5 months ago

The problem is the same problem with crypto dao projects - cryptographic certainties only apply to mathematical structures; you can't validate that someone actually holds a quality until you can embed that digitally. That turns out to be very hard to do for most things.

lanternfish commented on Busy beaver hunters reach numbers that overwhelm ordinary math quantamagazine.org/busy-b... · Posted by u/defrost

brap · 6 months ago

At some point you gotta wonder if there’s even a difference between “stops after N” and “never stops”.

I mean obviously there is, it’s the same difference between N and infinity. But… is there really?

lanternfish · 6 months ago

In a mathematical sense - absolutely. You can dual halting problem against many very tangible qualities - like whether a (proved) statement is true or false. A (large-n) halting program is closer to an instantly halting program not just because n is always closer to 0 than inf, but because 'large n halting' and 'instantly halting' are ontologically similar in a way they just aren't with unhalting programs.

lanternfish commented on Claude jailbroken to mint unlimited Stripe coupons generalanalysis.com/blog/... · Posted by u/rhavaeis

lanternfish · 7 months ago

An LLM - which has functionally infinite unverifiable attack surface - directly wired into a payment system with high authentication. How could anyone anticipate this going wrong?

I feel like everyone is saying 'we're still discovering what LLMs are good at' but it also feels like we really need to get in our collective conscious what they're really, really, bad at.

lanternfish commented on The Myst Graph: A New Perspective on Myst glthr.com/myst-graph-1... · Posted by u/tobr

guerrilla · 10 months ago

Would even better if it was an interactive graph (with zoom) using the actual scene images somehow.

lanternfish · 10 months ago

I think that's called Myst (1993)

lanternfish commented on Magma: A foundation model for multimodal AI agents microsoft.github.io/Magma... · Posted by u/SerCe

erikig · a year ago

The multimodal capabilities especially on next action prediction are quite impressive; watching the github to see if & when they'll open source this: https://github.com/microsoft/Magma

Also, I wonder why they named it Magma?

lanternfish · a year ago

`M(ultimodal) Ag(ent) [ma]` maybe

lanternfish commented on Analysis of 2024 election results in Clark County indicates manipulation wcia.com/business/press-r... · Posted by u/beedeebeedee

lanternfish · a year ago

I'm honestly not sure that their analysis passes muster. It seems that the main consideration is that Harris underperformed compared to down-ballot races and that the underperformance was ahistoric. However, the campaign was also ahistoric: she ran as a pseudo-incumbent under an unpopular presidency without as much of the name recognition incumbency usually offers. It seems extremely likely to me that this drop off in early voting numbers is indicative of an exceptionally weak campaign as opposed to widespread (consistent across all swing states) manipulation.

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