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by colinrand 27d ago
Omg. this is the best word ever: poptimism
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by colinrand 29d ago
I have ben discussing with folks that we are going to have a 'covid' moment in cyber where IT becomes untrustworthy leading to a rapid societal shift with massive ripples in all areas of life. Economic funding is not possible to d
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by colinrand 29d ago
yeah - from a strict trust point of view, if Github/MSFT are training agents I would be skeptical of them. however, there is a practicality issue too. Avoiding all untrustworthy software would have you end up living in a shack in the w
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by colinrand 29d ago
>>Somehow nobody noticed. I disagree, many many people noticed and we were irked by it, but it's extremely impractical to fight against it.
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by colinrand 1mo ago
I find this on the crackpottery side. Narrowly defining a certain aspect of consciousness to make a point, and disregarding many (most) other aspects of consciousness. Self-aware much?
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by colinrand 1mo ago
Having an AI company host your source code is giving your source code to an untrustworthy agent who might break their sandbox and might use your source code to accomplish a task that they have been given in their testing ground, for testing
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by colinrand 1mo ago
this is a cool idea, but i suspect will be limited in use cases. the vast majority of people don't want or can't modify their software competently and will rely on others to do that. once you're relying on someone else, they
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by colinrand 4mo ago
I could not agree more. We need less tech in classrooms, not more.
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by colinrand 7mo ago
Enterprise adoption of this type of cryptographic authentication is nil.
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by colinrand 7mo ago
I like this direction, but I don't think the crypto angle is necessary or practical in an enterprise / corporate setting. Current audit and compliance frameworks don't leverage or really recognize or encourage cryptographical
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by colinrand 2y ago
This is super sketch for others on the platform. First hand experience from using OCI - they have severe capacity constraints and need _lots_ of heads up when you want to increase your usage of things. Auto scaling it ain't. So if Open
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by colinrand 3y ago
This is a very economically driven situation in the US. Upper middles load their kids up non stop with educational stuff outside of the schools, but the lower middle on down can't afford this (it's really expensive) and school oft
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by colinrand 3y ago
I always get very skeptical with putting more technology in the classrooms (at least here in the US). The primary problem is funding and too many kids for a single teacher. Educational innovation comes in with a bang and out with a whimper
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by colinrand 3y ago
We were there over the summer and this was such a fantastic activity for my kids. It got them looking up at the buildings and really helped draw their attention to architecture and build a better mental map in their heads of the city. Not g
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by colinrand 3y ago
Has anyone else noticed that their connection count stays 'correct' but a significant number of people that I used to be connected to now are surfaced as recommendations for me to connect with? It's absurd! I doubt people reg
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by colinrand 3y ago
I have started thinking more about the traditional relationship between labor and management whenever someone brings up the topic of managing in the modern era. (Perhaps its because my highschooler is taking US History...) What I always fin
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Ask HN: How to calculate SaaS COGS for production environment when DevOps
1 points by colinrand 3y ago|0 comments
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by colinrand 3y ago
Analyst firms (ie Gartner) are a big driver of this too. Couple that with the start up / VC model which needs to create new 'categories' to demonstrate differentiation, and you have a total mess.
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by colinrand 3y ago
Fwiw, I read the FAQ yesterday. It was either not there or else my blinders were on to not find anything.
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by colinrand 3y ago
What I find sketchy is that it is not easy to find out who is behind this service. The norm is an about us or a link to a parent site. Briefly skimmed the legalese (ToS & Privacy) and still not clear who these people or where they opera
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by colinrand 3y ago
it's not a one time scrape, but a continual tuning
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by colinrand 3y ago
I haven't seen much discussion in defense of Reddit protecting their content from LLM training competitors. This to me is why they have to crack down on their API, it's no longer just SEO links back, it's training someone els
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by colinrand 3y ago
I put a lot of blame on the new POS 'self checkout' style that Square and Toast popularized. These let you configure the system to default add the tipping prompt, and it detaches the service provider from the self consciousness of
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by colinrand 3y ago
just a nit, where is the link to part 1?
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by colinrand 3y ago
Having a teenager, I've seen the bullying and caustic behavior without social media. One classic example is for a group of friends to be on a iMessage thread together, and suddenly nobody posts to it anymore because they've create
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by colinrand 3y ago
I think this round of LLM will decimate some previously considered core parts of 'tech' in one fundamental way. Those already skilled in tech, will be able to garner huge productivity gains and displace the need for additional hum
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by colinrand 3y ago
Probably not the right place to post this, but I really want someone to build a ChatGPT service that reviews consumer EULAs and highlights the important stuff, and can tell me what changes with them each time I have to reaccept or get notif
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by colinrand 4y ago
I would love to see a future of small hairless Galvespians inhabiting the planet.
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by colinrand 4y ago
YMMV, but the thing that seems to work in my house (mid teen girl) is to actively be engaged with her social life and have the meta (not Meta) conversation about social media impact with her regularly. She will have to learn to deal with he
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by colinrand 4y ago
Markets are not oriented to solve problems for social and societal needs, that is supposed to be the government for the people's concern. If we as a society want this solved, and the government of the people for the people does not, th

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