Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | Xeophon's commentslogin

Important initiave


I love espanso. I live it over AHK as it doesn't have some obscure and hard to learn language, so I can just write some python scripts and trigger them with espanso.


It’s pretty interesting to see both companies copying each other. Bing Chat has GPT4 with Vision, Chat History and some other goodies whereas OpenAI extends towards B2B.



Kagi has such a feature, its called Universal Summarizer [0]

[0] https://kagi.com/summarizer/index.html?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww...


Related work is the planning paper by Valmeekan et al [1]. The gist is that LLMs are incapable of planning, which is due to their autoregressive nature. METAs Head of AI Yann Lecun also talks about this topic in a talk [2]. As RT2 is based on a similar architecture, I think the results will be similar.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.15771 [2] https://youtu.be/x10964w00zk


That arxiv link to the paper is also the same guy I mentioned in my twitter reference. Subbarao :)


Isn't Insomnia the same? The parent company (KongHQ) is also backed by VCs @ 1.2B valuation. Whats the difference/better?


Insomnia isn't as far along the enshittification process yet (emphasis on yet)


KongHQ at least have Kong (the proxy), which I guess they can sell enterprisy support contracts etc for. Perhaps they won't need/want to make Insomnia a subscription nightmare?


But this isn't their main product. As it should be ideally.


I am a beta user and I am seriously impressed if I’m being honest. It works fully offline, is multilingual and is fast, even on the non-latest iPhone (I am using an iPhone 12 Pro Max). It is way better than apples previous version and better than locally installed whisper. They’ve done incredible work. Same with the new, transformer-based keyboard on iOS which is way better. And if you type in English, it sometimes shows word suggestions in the text field itself (similar how copilot works in an IDE).


There are already some instances which are defederating, see [0] for a write-up

[0] https://daringfireball.net/2023/06/more_on_preemptively_bloc...


This instance has a good write-up of their position:

https://about.scicomm.xyz/doku.php?id=blog:2023:0625_meta_on...


Russian-run sites like RT are banned through the whole EU. However, such spikes cannot be seen in other EU countries such as France.


Might also depend on how it’s enforced. The blocks in Austria basically do not exist because they are only done by carrier DNS servers. Use 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8 and you would not know.


The vast majority of people use their ISP’s DNS server, though.


I don’t think that is relevant here. If in one country you need a VPN to bypass blocking but others you only need a different DNS server I would expect most users to go for the latter if given a choice.


I just opened rt.com on my home connection with no tor or VPN and everything worked. I'm physically in the Czech Republic if that matters.


I just read on Al-Jazeera that Putin is back in control, that's why :)


I can open rt.com just fine in Germany. (Not using my ISP's DNS server though. It's true that rt.com won't resolve when using it.)


Source? I’m in NL and I can access it just fine. I use Cloudflare for DNS though


I would say this is the best solution. I live in another EU country where ISPs also block it via DNS.


No excuse for that censorship honestly.


Eliminating enemy propaganda is extremely common and a long running practice. It's less censorship and more self defense.


Looking at it from that perspective it makes a kind of sense, although I think it is less defensible in modern day with the internet.


It's more defensible! Propaganda is far, far, less effective as a blind radio broadcast or air pamphlets than micro-targeted interactive sessions intricately engineered to maximize neurological reinforcement loops. Absolutely insidious.


No, it's far less defensible, because people have the internet to look up and verify things as needed.

This kind of censorship is just nannying, which I'm generally against.

Then again, given how inept people are at thinking for themselves, maybe a nanny state is what's best.


> No, it's far less defensible, because people have the internet to look up and verify things as needed.

Actual it is far more defensible, as I already clarified earlier. Propaganda remains effective regardless if there is the ability to verify it or not - and that is assuming everything can and will be checked by every person, which isn't realistic.

> This kind of censorship is just nannying, which I'm generally against.

It's not nannying at all. It's basic national self defense. Pen is mightier than the sword and all that. Brainworms are an insidious contagion.


> Actual it is far more defensible, as I already clarified earlier.

You didn't clarify, you just gave your opinion. One I disagree with.

> Propaganda remains effective regardless if there is the ability to verify it or not

So you claim. Even so, the correct approach is for the government to fight propaganda with corrective disclosures. Censorship is not the answer.

> It's not nannying at all. It's basic national self defense.

It is certainly the former, even if it is the latter also, something I'm skeptical of. The two are not mutually exclusive.

> Brainworms are an insidious contagion.

You fight them with truth, not censorship.


You're confusing opinion with facts. If I say the sky is blue and you say it is yellow, one of us is sharing an opinion, and it isn't me.

Moderation and removal is the correct action, so are you flatly incorrect. I'm not going to argue with the stubborn child that wants to put their fingers in the outlet. This isn't up for discussion.


> You're confusing opinion with facts. If I say the sky is blue and you say it is yellow, one of us is sharing an opinion, and it isn't me.

The irony and lack of self-awareness in this statement is honestly astounding.

You hoenstly think your opinion is objetive fact, lol.

> Moderation and removal is the correct action, so are you flatly incorrect.

Because you say so? lol.

> I'm not going to argue with the stubborn child that wants to put their fingers in the outlet. This isn't up for discussion.

There is no discussion to be had with someone that asserts their opinion as fact but can't corroborate it as such. Such a person is indeed a stubborn child, and them calling others a stubborn child can be dismissed like any other nonsense a child may say in an emotional state.


Lies. I just tried rt.com on my home connection and it opened without a problem


Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: