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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Though, a big catch is that whatever is generated needs to be verified. The most recent story I’ve seen was the AI proposing the hypothesis of a particular drug increasing antigen presentation, which could turn cold tumors (those the immune system does not attack) into hot tumors (those the immune system does attack). The key news here is that this hypothesis was found to be correct, as an experiment has shown that said drug does have this effect. (link to Google’s press release)

  The catch here is that I have not seen any info on how many hypotheses were generated to find this correct hypothesis. It doesn’t have to be perfect: research often causes a hypothesis to be rejected, even if proposed by a person rather than AI. However signal-to-noise is still important for how game changing it will be. Like in this blogpost it can fail to identify a solution at all, or even return incorrect hypotheses. You can’t simply use this data for further training the LLM, as it would only degrade the performance.

  There needs to be a verification and filtering first. Wikipedia has played such a role for a very long time, where editors reference sources, and verify the trustworthiness of these sources. If Wikipedia goes under because of this, either due to a lack of funding or due to a lack of editors, a very important source will be lost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla is recruiting beta testers for a free, baked-in Firefox VPN⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
  • Progressive Web Apps - check the last update, it allows for the browser to create a shortcut to a webpage with minimal ui. (At least, on Windows)
  • Modern Tab Management - Depends on what you want exactly. But tab groups and vertical tabs have landed on stable already.
  • Not sure what you mean by Cross Site Scripting, XSS is usually an attack vector not a feature. If by macros you mean automation features, these do exist but are mostly focussed on developers & testing - you need an external application to use these APIs.
  • History Search - certainly could be improved, but I use it rarely enough as is.
  • (Improved) Privacy Containers - Is already being worked on
  • Granular Permissions - What exact permissions do you wish for there to be more granular? I personally don’t experience this issue as I find a lot of permissions to be quite granular already.

  A lot of Web APIs are proposed by Google, giving them a head start in implementation. Furthermore, some not supported by choice due to privacy implications.

  The CEO pay however: I completely agree, it is insane how much the CEO is paid while responsible being for purchasing and shuttering services like Pocket.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clock logic⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This has messed with me for the longest time. 24h just wraps around at 24, simple modulo 24 arithmetic.

  12h? The hour and am / pm wrap around independently, and hence I am always confused whether 12pm is supposed to be midnight or noon. Zero based would have made more sense (with x pm being x hours after noon…)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My point was solely that human written documentation is far from as reliable as your comment insinuated it to be. Compared to an LLM it is reliable, but it is far from perfect.

  In my view, an (my?) AI is going to struggle, whether or not the documentation is in order: those models already get confused by different versions of the same library having different interfaces and functions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It is concise, contains true information,

  In my experience that is not necessarily guaranteed, documentation is sometimes not updated and the information may be outdated or may even be missing entirely.

  Documentation is much more reliable, yes, but not necessarily always true or complete, sadly enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The virus she told you not to worry about.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The differences between surviving, living and thriving can be pretty big.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Relevant advertising 🤪⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like this is reddit, using /r and all.