acoustics

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by acoustics 12d ago
Lots of people are saying agentic cyberattacks are a marketing hoax. The argument is that either AI is not capable enough to carry out these attacks, or that it would not carrying out these attacks without nudging from the labs, or even tha
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by acoustics 16d ago
Really? I thought Maps was pretty constistently up to date with GNIS changes.
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by acoustics 16d ago
What would be a valid basis for relabeling a shared body of water for US users? Would it be based on popular usage? The procedure by which it changed? Maybe we distinguish between bicameralism and presentment, an executive order, and the di
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by acoustics 5mo ago
jj has made me much more comfortable using non-linear DAGs in my trunk-based development workflow. Several changes with the same parent, changes with several different parents, etc. I used to have a habit of imposing an unnecessary ordering
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by acoustics 7mo ago
At internet scale, this would roughly be equivalent to not doing any warning or detection at all. Scalable systems need to use heuristics to catch threats. Needing concrete evidence in every case means that an enormously higher amount of ma
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by acoustics 7mo ago
How is any kind of antivirus or threat detection software supposed to operate on this standard? Libel suits can be financially catastrophic, so even a tiny false positive rate could present risk that disincentivizes producing such software
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by acoustics 8mo ago
It seems that many people lean into the "community" aspect of open source. In real communities there are webs of mutual responsibility. If you use open source to fill the role of community in your life, it makes sense psychologica
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by acoustics 8mo ago
> RISC-V doesn't make sense to 99% users at this stage. Agreed. Boards like this are helpful for getting RISC-V to the next stage, where it could make sense for more users.
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by acoustics 8mo ago
I'm not sure if it's true that the leader is less powerful. In many countries, it seems that the leader has near total control over candidate selection, and dissent is punished ruthlessly. In the US, it's easier for a member
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by acoustics 8mo ago
I thought QPR2 and QPR4 were the only releases anyone cared about regardless.
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by acoustics 8mo ago
I agree that we should not provide targeted subsidies for Twinkies, Mountain Dew, or cigarettes. The whole premise of food stamps is flawed. We should provide cash instead. If there is an objection that giving cash is equivalent to subsidiz
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by acoustics 8mo ago
Mountain Dew and Twinkies are bad for your health regardless of your income level. We should tackle unhealthy eating by going after the supply, not by going after a class-segmented group of consumers. Like many Americans, I grew up in a tow
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by acoustics 8mo ago
People should be able to get cash transfers to buy goods on the general market. There shouldn't be food stamps. The success of SNAP comes despite its inherent inefficiency, friction, and the indignity of its limitations. We structure t
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by acoustics 8mo ago
> I am a firm believer that the very notion of IP ownership needs to die a horrible death, something that AI may very well make happen in short order, yay. The leading AI labs are not killing IP. They are taking IP and reshaping/com
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by acoustics 9mo ago
ChatGPT dominates the consumer market (though Nano Banana is singlehandedly breathing some life into consumer Gemini). A small anecdote: when ChatGPT went down a few months ago, a lot of young people (especially students) just waited for it
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by acoustics 9mo ago
I don't understand the disappointment expressed here in the maintainers deciding to WONTFIX these security bugs. Isn't this what ffmpeg did recently? They seemed to get a ton of community support in their decision not to fix a vul
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by acoustics 10mo ago
I think people are confusing the bubble popping with AI being over. When the dot-com bubble popped, it's not like internet infrastructure immediately became useless and worthless.
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by acoustics 10mo ago
Don't self-promote without disclosure.
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by acoustics 10mo ago
Microsoft hasn't been very quiet about it, at least in my experience. Every time I boot up Windows I get some kind of blurb about an AI feature.
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by acoustics 11mo ago
jj has been fantastic for my productivity, but most of that comes from its alignment with the particular SWE practices on my team: trunk-based development, small atomic commits, quick review turnaround. Getting rid of the staging area and a
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by acoustics 11mo ago
It depends on the nature of the code and codebase. There have been many occasions when working in a very verbose enterprise-y codebase where I know exactly what needs to happen, and the LLM just types it out. I carefully review all 100 li
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by acoustics 11mo ago
This is tricky to get right. If the false positive rate is consistently 0.0%, that is a surefire sign that the detector is not effective enough to be useful. If a false positive is libel, then any useful malware detector would occasionally
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by acoustics 11mo ago
Notably this post did not examine whether any of the sites it was hosting on this domain was malicious/misleading.
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by acoustics 1y ago
If religion had been the cause of a lasting difference, I would have expected it to go in the opposite direction. Articulate, persuasive, emotive public testimony done in a declamatory style is part of the fabric of historical American Chri
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by acoustics 1y ago
iMessage is extraordinarily popular in the US. Its userbase dwarfs Signal by over an order of magnitude
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by acoustics 1y ago
This might not be charitable, but my perspective is that some of the advocates want it both ways. I would be interested in seeing an MIT/BSD licensed project saying, from the beginning, something like "This project is available un
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by acoustics 1y ago
I haven't been following this conflict: have the terms of the GPL been broken?
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by acoustics 1y ago
> We're made to feel like we should open source things and not retain exclusive rights to commercialization. Who is telling you that you have to write open source software? Millions of programmers around the world make a living writ
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by acoustics 1y ago
Permissively licensed software is intentionally designed to be used by anybody for any reason with essentially no restrictions beyond attribution. Advocates of permissive licenses explicitly reject the argument that commercial users ought t
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by acoustics 1y ago
Democratic Party voters seem to be more aligned with Euro-style socialist policies, but among elected Democrats this is a small minority view. European socialists usually advocate for direct state ownership of certain industries, sector-wid

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