cvoss

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by cvoss 22d ago
Common sense cannot be trusted on matters like these. Common sense is calibrated for reasoning over matters encountered in daily life. The further away we get from that, into more and more exotic phenomena, the less common sense can apply.
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by cvoss 25d ago
It's one thing to argue, even vehemently, that this should not be a felony (either as a matter of fact in this case, or as a matter of just law). But granting that it is or is liable to be prosecuted as such, I strongly recommend again
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by cvoss 25d ago
> Neither the prestigious degree nor the good proficiency in algorithmic problem-solving guarantee a career success. They are factors that make statistics work in the favor of the candidate. I think the article takes a more nuanced view
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by cvoss 1mo ago
> knowing full well that [Delilah] will betray [Samson] It is not clear from the text that Samson is aware of the presence of Philistines the first three times. We are told they are lying in ambush in an inner chamber. We are not told th
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by cvoss 2mo ago
Article is not about global atmospheric or climate phenomena, nor civilization scale industrial processes. It's about the CO^2 levels in your room due to your breathing.
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by cvoss 2mo ago
The technology held by private AI companies is warfare-capable technology. Imagine the prompt: "Use all available resources to disable the power grid of <COUNTRY>." The resource cost that prevents scaling up such a war machi
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by cvoss 2mo ago
Addition and conditional bit shifting (which is multiplication by powers of 2).
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by cvoss 2mo ago
This assumes that OP would make a different app choice if OP knew this context. And it also assumes OP does not know this context. Neither are supported by the evidence, since HN links are posted without OP commentary. Not everybody cares s
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by cvoss 3mo ago
Yes, it does need to be said. Many people will read this article and miss the satire, which is, in part, the intent of sophisticated satire. The point is that it is outlandish and foolish and ridiculous and yet still resembles some serious
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by cvoss 3mo ago
In fact, most states have a large number of elected officials in them, especially those elected officials who hold the legislative power of that state. But if you meant the 500ish elected federal officials, most of whom are not Virginians o
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by cvoss 3mo ago
The effect is going to be on the issuance or not of new warrants going forward in this domain. The police could not have foreseen this ruling. It was not previously known that such warrants were unconstitutional. Now we know. Now judges are
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by cvoss 3mo ago
Mozart is among the most famous Western composers, and, like others of his stature, all his extant manuscripts have been cataloged and studied extensively. To find a previously unknown manuscript is a major event in that scholarship.
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by cvoss 3mo ago
Yeah, it's definitely more challenging and fun on a self-imposed "hard mode" where you must employ the information that is revealed.
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by cvoss 3mo ago
Nice! I'm not actually sure what its mechanism is for providing the "least information". It could be smart and reply in a way that maximizes the number of remaining consistent answers. Or it could be greedy and try to report
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by cvoss 3mo ago
Another great variant is Unfair Wordle [1]. The opponent does not fix the answer upfront but instead evades the player's guesses as long as possible, providing you with the least information it legally can give (according to the usual
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by cvoss 3mo ago
I once received an internal defect report from my product's QA team. It was long and obvious that what they did was feed the error log into an LLM and ask it to diagnose. It was total nonsense. I reported it to my manger and stated tha
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by cvoss 4mo ago
Your friend's argument holds no water. None at all. That's not how morality and ethics work.
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by cvoss 4mo ago
If you believe in the objective truth of the quoted source, then that makes the claim that humans are valuable about as robust as any claim can be. If you do not believe in the objective truth of the quoted source, you must still reckon wit
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by cvoss 4mo ago
It matters because of the inability to measure up front whether the content is sufficiently good. AI's best skill is making something look right and look good when it is, in fact, not right. It does this all the time, as opposed to hum
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by cvoss 4mo ago
Article argues that we don't see J-model software companies (or at least they aren't very good) because there's something inherent about software that demands innovation, green field work, blue sky ideas, etc., and that those
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by cvoss 4mo ago
No, I think the government paying is right. It wasn't just the offending officer acting alone that led to the gross mistreatment of this man. The officer was working within the context of a system of local government that ought to have
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by cvoss 4mo ago
I don't understand the use of the word "actually" in this sentence. The second half does not stand in contrast to the first half. In fact, it explains the first half. And portraying oneself as having independence and grit whe
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by cvoss 4mo ago
I'm reading the statute this comes from [0] and its associated definitions [1] but I don't see that it's as bad as you made it sound. (I don't love it, still.) The 100 mile "reasonable distance" is used to defi
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by cvoss 4mo ago
The most natural reading of "Utah is close to banning VPNs" is that there is a bill working its way through the statehouse that would ban VPNs if it passed. But that is an untrue reading. Another reading of "Utah is close to
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by cvoss 4mo ago
There are many comments here that are confused about what the bill actually says. Headline very much implies something about a law banning VPNs. But that's not what the headline really means. So it's misleading.
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by cvoss 4mo ago
The headline leaves much to be desired. It has nothing to do with actually banning VPNs. The rule is that age-restricted websites aren't allowed to help you figure out how to use a VPN.
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by cvoss 5mo ago
This comment and GP are two of the most concise and punchy descriptions I've ever heard of some of the deepest aspects of modern physics. On the one hand we have principles of locality and finite propagation speed, which limit the comp
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by cvoss 5mo ago
A great argument for why the bloated executive powers should be clawed back by Congress. But not a strong argument for why Congress should stay hands-off. Also, if something like that happens, that's a blatant 1st Amendment violation a
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by cvoss 5mo ago
> they're targeting your children Who is the "they" that you refer to? Did you know that many people are in favor of age verification? Like, many parents of children who are at a loss for how to protect them from early acc
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by cvoss 5mo ago
Because it is the moral responsibility of adults to care for not just their children but all our children. Occasional surrendering of rights is appropriate in that endeavor.

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