I haven't heard the podcast. Did they make the distinction between "lab created" and "accidental release?"
Some of Wade's ideas are interesting, but I don't like his guilty-until-proven-innocent tone regarding lab creation.
On the other hand, accidental release is a different matter with clear precedent. It is generally accepted that SARS-CoV originated in animals, yet it also generally accepted that SARS-CoV was accidentally released from multiple laboratories in the early 2000s, resulting in pocket outbreaks:
The point isn't about Nvidia graphic cards, but rather, the Nvidia-backed website that is being used to generate false personalities on the fly (and what people can do to avoid being tricked by the technology): https://thispersondoesnotexist.com
That website isn't "Nvidia-backed". It's created by a private individual—Phil Wang[0]—who happened to leverage a piece of free software Nvidia produced called StyleGAN2[1]
Furthermore, "false personalities" is something of a stretch for fake photos. There are plenty of "real" photos of people that haven't appeared on the internet, and even for the photos that have, most people will be fooled regardless. Generated photos don't change this: those making false representations are the only ones at fault here. Technology doesn't change this in any way.
There are also plenty of these ___doesnotexist.com websites, and they would continue to exist without Nvidia.
I like playing around with "Million Short" - https://millionshort.com. It's a search engine that lets you logarithmically filter-out the top websites. It isn't perfect, of course, but its a fun way to discover things.
Of course some of those top sites, especially the blogging and self-hosting platforms, can still contain obscure stuff that might be just what I'm looking for.
The web wasn't mob-like at all in the beginning. Most of the content was created by reasonably educated people who were publishing because of passion, not profit or other motives.
I think it depends what you're looking for. I realize this is obscure, but I can't find any reference online to a big Facebook Platform developers' conference that happened in 2007. It drives me nuts because I was there at Chelsea Piers with 1,000 people, but it's like it never existed.
Apologies for hijacking thread but anyone know if google mesh will work in China? It really depends on if the device calls back to google services remotely since almost all google apps are banned here.
The spirit of the idea is that Google will see the 304 status and move onto the next page more quickly than if it received a 200 status and reconciled that version of the page with the version that was previously crawled.
Thanks for clarifying. I guess that makes sense from a crawl efficient/budget standpoint, and in helping preserve server resources.
For context, I've only come across a HTTP 304 status once in 9 years of SEO and crawling websites on a daily basis. I've no first hand experience of them being deployed in this way at scale on a live website and so haven't seen any server log analysis that demonstrates the efficacy of their usage etc. But it's an interesting idea nonetheless.
304 has a specific use case, which is that if the crawler says, I have version X of the page already, give me a 304 if that’s still current or a 200 with content otherwise.
With dynamically generated content you’re more likely to just see 200s, but I think Nginx sets Etags automatically on static content so it’s common to see 304s there.
I’m pretty surprised you haven’t seen it often, but I’d guess it’s more to do with whatever crawlers you’re using (they’d need to be caching content and headers), rather than the scarcity of the status code.
Some of Wade's ideas are interesting, but I don't like his guilty-until-proven-innocent tone regarding lab creation.
On the other hand, accidental release is a different matter with clear precedent. It is generally accepted that SARS-CoV originated in animals, yet it also generally accepted that SARS-CoV was accidentally released from multiple laboratories in the early 2000s, resulting in pocket outbreaks:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3323155/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC416634/