HillRat

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by HillRat 1mo ago
I find it telling that Volokh fails to link to the original complaint ( https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nvd.176... ), which gives you a pretty good sense of why the court went down the route of forec
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by HillRat 2mo ago
Chronicles is the OLTP MUMPS instance; Clarity is the EHR OLAP DB; Caboodle is the data warehouse for SlicerDicer, all separate systems within EPIC.
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by HillRat 3mo ago
A middle ground (which wouldn't clog up an overburdened court system) would require a US attorney to draft and sign a complaint for a takedown request, putting their accreditation on the line.
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by HillRat 3mo ago
The journalist later admitted that he failed to provide the appropriate context and nuance, which comes down to "red team pen-testers who already had high-side network access were able to more quickly and effectively compromise systems
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by HillRat 3mo ago
If that's the article's metric, surely they note that corporations have executed literally trillions of dollars of stock buybacks over the past few years, right?
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by HillRat 4mo ago
Removing the airbag impact sensor and then rewiring it to bypass the fault detection, without triggering the airbags, is also indicative of someone who has extensive experience in something no one should normally have experience in.
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by HillRat 5mo ago
Say you take out a mortgage, then rent the house to a series of meth dealers to extract the rent while devaluing the property, and then default: you're still personally on the hook for any post-foreclosure deficiency judgment. One issu
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by HillRat 5mo ago
Have there been any meaningful changes in denial rates, processing times, or petitioning processes for L1 visas?
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by HillRat 5mo ago
It's pretty common for hydrocarbons to migrate down from source rocks down into basement along fracture lines or surface weathering, no abiogenesis required.
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by HillRat 5mo ago
That's really the key problem facing US universities, from land-grant colleges to the Ivies: everyone depends at least in part on closing budgetary gaps with global students who pay full freight. Current Administration policies, both s
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by HillRat 6mo ago
Having spent a long time in the consulting world and adjacent (national security particularly) spaces, I think the most pernicious thing about "jargon" is not that it serves as a social in-group bonding signal (which is part of th
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by HillRat 6mo ago
Contemporaneous reporting was that DOGE people demanded root-level access across multiple systems (disallowed by federal policy, so political appointees had to demand the access) and without background checks or onboarding, after which they
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by HillRat 7mo ago
I find myself distinctly unimpressed by the idea that slapping a nice UI and some TS/SCI controls on top of a graph database — the latter being something that NSA did, with considerably more sophistication, years prior in a Neo4J fork
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by HillRat 7mo ago
It takes quite a bit of chutzpah to lament that "classic programming such as Schoolhouse Rock! is now only found in online archives" when this same administration defunded the CPB, previously responsible for developing just that k
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by HillRat 7mo ago
That's a model that works with SpaceX, which holds a unique grip on American orbital launch capability and capacity; less so for Anduril, which has been rather unsuccessful so far in its big-ticket drone-warfare efforts but has, to its
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by HillRat 7mo ago
In general, I would expect an identity verification firm that I'm hiring to secure and then physically delete any sensitive records my customers are uploading, unless I explicitly opt-in otherwise. My guess is in this case that Disco
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by HillRat 7mo ago
Update: DoD’s pushing back on the story, saying that Border Patrol and ICE were the agencies using high-energy weaponry to shoot down party balloons, much to the consternation of NORTHCOM.
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by HillRat 7mo ago
Recent updates say this was a unilateral call by FAA because DOD was refusing to coordinate with them for creating safety corridors for DOD drones and/or HEW usage. Issues came to a head after DOD shot down a highly threatening mylar p
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by HillRat 7mo ago
If you see it on the DC metro, the buyer is a Hill staffer or a Pentagon action officer; if you see it at the Super Bowl, the buyer is you (assuming you're an American taxpayer), to help maintain a certain amount of public political ca
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by HillRat 8mo ago
Traditionally you use a lot of paper and experiential prototypes to iterate on, which doesn't cover everything but helps refine assumptions (I sometimes like starting with mocking downstream output like reports and report data, which i
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by HillRat 8mo ago
Design thinking, at least in its formal STS approach, is essentially applied sociology; it's about using various toolkits to build a sufficient understanding of a domain from the "inside out" (using desk and field research) s
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by HillRat 8mo ago
It's not settled law as it pertains to LLMs, but, yes, creating a "statistical summary" of a book (consider, e.g., a concordance of Joyce's "Ulysses") is generally protected as fair use. However, illegally acce
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by HillRat 8mo ago
Man, back when I was doing Big Consulting (including gov't/defense) I had to affirmatively declare every year to Legal that I wasn't directing any investment purchases or doing anything that could be construed as improper use
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by HillRat 8mo ago
Should go without saying, but since the media is doing a terrible job of reporting this, it's not at all clear what authority OSD/SecNav has to do this, given that even if there were something objectionable under the UCMJ about h
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by HillRat 9mo ago
The cargo-cult shibboleth of "never put business logic in your database" certainly didn't help, since a lot of developers just turned that into "never use stored procedures or views, your database is a dumb store with in
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by HillRat 9mo ago
You have the same problem that you have with legal LLMs; an LLM is incapable of providing legal or regulatory-involved advice, and anyone using an LLM for such purposes (even leaving aside hallucinations) forfeits any justifiable reliance d
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by HillRat 10mo ago
That’s not because of the FDA, that’s because of CEPS. If the USG negotiated drug prices the way France does, there’d be far less disparity in average pricing. (Given the continual litany of safety, efficacy, and dosage control issues with
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by HillRat 11mo ago
Even now, the newspaper's reporters do so as a matter of routine. Reporting and editorial are separate units in newspapers; the point being made is that, while reporting continues to properly disclose potential ownership conflicts of
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by HillRat 1y ago
It’s basically sifting through ore; 99% of the people who see it aren’t the target, it’s the 1% of viewers who are buyers or funders who you otherwise couldn’t directly advertise to. Same reason you see defense contractors putting up ads fo
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by HillRat 1y ago
Sign the package with hard keys and signature. That's really the core issue. Developer-signed packages (npm's current attack model is "Eve doing a man-in-the-middle attack between npm and you," which is not exactly the

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