Sorry if this is not the place to do it. I live in a city that has bat at nights, so if you live above 6th floor and you leave your windows open, there are chances some confused bats go into your apartment.
Even worse, they can go into the blind box of your rollover. After two traumatic events where I had bats going into my apartment (and it took me 5 days/nights where I didnt sleep at all to take them out alive), I put something in the opening of the blind box to avoid them getting into it.
However, I don't feel safe. I wake up in the middle of the night with any sound thinking they are trying to get into.
All this introduction is to ask if there is something that detracts bats going near my window. Maybe some kind of ultrasound (that I could play with some kind of speaker), or odor? I don't know, but I'd like to try something that could make me sleep more relaxed.
I asked about this to people who put meshes but they said the mesh goes into the window (it's mostly for mosquitoes), and the open would be outside the mesh, so it wouldn't cover it. I would be OK but I can't find anyone who would be willing to put the mesh on the outside of the window.
Not sure if people interested, but since I use sqlite in a lot of my own projects, I am working on a lightweight monitoring and safety layer for production SQLite.
The idea is pretty simple: SQLite is amazing, but once it’s running in production you basically have zero observability. If something weird happens (unexpected writes, schema changes, background jobs touching tables, etc.) you only find out after the fact. It tries to solve that without touching application code. It's a Rust agent that runs next to your sqlite file, and connects to the server where everything is logged in. My current challenge right now is encryption and trust, mostly.
Curious if others here are running SQLite in production and if you would be interested in something like this.
This may not be the post, but there is something I hate about wifi on airplanes. I don't fly that often but when I do I pay for wifi.
Most airlines redirects you to a website to pay for the wifi, and it seems they block all requests to different domains. Problem is, these platforms suggest to pay with Google Pay / Google Wallet, but if you try to do that, Google Pay DNS are blocked, so the request fails and you can't use your card with Google Pay. So I need to take my card from my physical wallet and type all the digits.
Yeah, I've experienced this as well. It's frustrating. Wish I could offer a fix for that here. It is becoming more of a standard that airlines offer free wifi - e.g. United went from ~$8 low-quality service to free Starlink. So, hopefully you encounter this less often as time goes on.
> I definitely get this. The thing that gives me hope is that you only need to poison a very small % of content to damage AI models pretty significantly. It helps combat the mass scraping, because a significant chunk of the data they get will be useless, and its very difficult to filter it by hand
It'd be great if the code returned by this project is code that doesn't work. Imagine if all these models are being trained with code that looks OK but in the end it just bullshit. I'd be amazing.
Miasma is just a wrapper around the "Poison Fountain". You can check out the explanation and sample some of their content here: https://rnsaffn.com/poison3/
It's pretty much exactly what you're describing: content that looks correct but is deeply insane.
This is wonderful but I feel bad for all the people who doesnt have the resources to go through the same. For 99.9% of the population, a diagnostic like his means a really different outcome. I know he is trying to fix this with his investments and companies, but sharing this story could be seen as "boasting"... "I went through this and I survived, while your loved ones wouldn't"
While that is just a natural reaction to "unfair" world where not everyone gets the same level of access to the best level of care, I'd also say that it's a reminder that money can't and won't solve all problems people are hit with in their lifetimes (or he'd not be facing cancer diagnosis in the first place).
This story is of someone with resources putting them to good use to save themselves, but also have that benefit others: medical research is expensive and for good reason restricted, and just like lots of open source was driven by individual's need, so lots of good stuff can come out of this. I suggest to see it that way.
The novel part of his post is the summary of what worked. That information you cannot get except from him. You need his experience.
But this extra text you want can be obtained from LLM so if you require this “decoration” on top of information why not simply write yourself Chrome extension that reads page and adds that text to it at the bottom?
Oh c'mon. Here's what Sid's done to help others in the process
* Started 10 companies to enable access to others
* Detailed policy proposals to make this easier process for others
* Open sourced the entire process and all of the associated data (25TB)
and probably other things I missed.
But nah, what would reaaally help is an acknowledgement.
Even worse, they can go into the blind box of your rollover. After two traumatic events where I had bats going into my apartment (and it took me 5 days/nights where I didnt sleep at all to take them out alive), I put something in the opening of the blind box to avoid them getting into it.
However, I don't feel safe. I wake up in the middle of the night with any sound thinking they are trying to get into.
All this introduction is to ask if there is something that detracts bats going near my window. Maybe some kind of ultrasound (that I could play with some kind of speaker), or odor? I don't know, but I'd like to try something that could make me sleep more relaxed.
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