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... if you're logged out. Log in so they don't have to lump you in with every scraper you're sharing a subnet with.

The end game of that is no useful content being accessible without login, or needing some sort of other proof-of-legitimacy.

That's already the case (irrespective of residential proxies) because content only serves as bait for someone to hand over personal information (during signup/login) and then engage with ads.

Proxies actually help with that by facilitating mass account registration and scraping of the content without wasting a human's time "engaging" with ads.


Amazon.com now only shows you a few reviews. To see the rest you must login. Social media websites have long gated the carrots behind a login. Anandtech just took their ball and went home by going offline.

this is an energy storage ("battery") system, not a generation system.


ahh that makes total sense lol


That's the consequence of 4 freeways all (I-580, I-80, I-880, SH-24) dumping their traffic onto a bridge, and using metering lights to try and keep the bridge itself working.


Starting at 9:46 is when it goes from wow to WOW. The last 2 minutes in particular are incredible, including the bizarre artifacts in the last 15 seconds before the stream dies.


I'd presume they have the ability to deploy a previous artifact vs only tip-of-master.


Having a front door physically allows anyone on the street to come to knock on it. Having a "no soliciting" sign is an instruction clarifying that not everybody is welcome. Having a web site should operate in a similar fashion. The robots.txt is the equivalent of such a sign.


No soliciting signs are polite requests that no one has to follow, and door to door salesman regularly walk right past them.

No one is calling for the criminalization of door-to-door sales and no one is worried about how much door-to-door sales increases water consumption.


If a company was sending hundreds of salesmen to knock at a door one after the other, I'm pretty sure they could successfully get sued for harassment.


Can’t Americans literally shoot each other for trespassing?


Generally, legally, no, not just for ignoring a “no soliciting” sign.


But they’re presumably trespassing.


And, despite what ideas you may get from the media, mere trespass without imminent threat to life is not a justification for deadly force.

There are some states where the considerations for self defense do not include a duty to retreat if possible, either in general (“stand your ground" law) or specifically in the home (“castle doctrine"), but all the other requirements (imminent threat of certain kinds of serious harm, proportional force) for self-defense remain part of the law in those states, and trespassing by/while disregarding a ”no soliciting” would not, by itself, satisfy those requirements.


> door to door salesman regularly walk right past them.

Oh, now I understand why Americans can't see a problem here.


>No one is calling for the criminalization of door-to-door sales

Ok, I am, right now.

It seems like there are two sides here that are talking past one another: "people will do X and you accept it if you do not actively prevent it, if you can" and "X is bad behavior that should be stopped and shouldn't be the burden of individuals to stop". As someone who leans to the latter, the former just sounds like restating the problem being complained about.


> No one is calling for the criminalization of door-to-door sales

Door-to-door sales absolutely are banned in many jurisdictions.


And a no soliciting sign is no more cosmically binding than robots.txt. It's a request, not an enforceable command.


Tell me you work in an ethically bankrupt industry without telling me you work in an ethically bankrupt industry.


Yes, because most of the things that people talk about (ChatGPT, Google SERP AI summaries, etc.) currently use tools in their answers. We're a couple years past the "it just generates output from sampling given a prompt and training" era.


It depends - some queries will invoke tools such as search, some won't. A research agent will be using search, but then summarizing and reasoning about the responses to synthesize a response, so then you are back to LLM generation.

The net result is that some responses are going to be more reliable (or at least coherently derived from a single search source) than others, but at least to the casual user, maybe to most users, it's never quite clear what the "AI" is doing, and it's right enough, often enough, that they tend to trust it, even though that trust is only justified some of the time.


Perhaps those were different iterations of the technique over time. Start with marking cards to identify face cards, then move on to x-ray table.


That's not the problem. The problem is that you're adding a data dependency on the CPU loading the first byte. The branch-based one just "predicts" the number of bytes in the codepoint and can keep executing code past that. In data that's ASCII, relying on the branch predictor to just guess "0" repeatedly turns out to be much faster as you can effectively be processing multiple characters simultaneously.


I am pretty sure CPUs can speculative load as well. In the CPU pipeline, it sees that there's an repeated instruction to load, it should be able to dispatch and perform all of it in the pipeline. The nice thing is that there is no chance of hazard execution here because all of this speculative load is usable unlike the 1% chance where the branch would fail which causes the whole pipeline to be flushed.


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