dare944

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by dare944 6d ago
For some reason I read this in James Burke's voice and I could swear I was teleported back to the 80's watching a hitherto unseen episode of Connections. Interesting stuff.
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by dare944 9d ago
> I am of the school of thought that even if Broadcom gives VMware Standard away free for a year, it would be hard to convince customers that they need to stick with the platform Yep. They're building the cage around you. Why woul
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by dare944 12d ago
"THIS IS A TEST This country is conducting a test of the Emergency SAIfguard System. THIS ONLY A TEST In the event of a real emergency you would have been given instructions on how to grab your ankles and kiss your butt goodbye. ... Th
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by dare944 20d ago
I think it would be fine if more people used "add color to". I think it's a great turn of phrase. "Load bearing", not so much. Ick.
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by dare944 20d ago
The idiom "added color to" as an expression of adding detail or nuance to something goes back much further than the AI era. I've certainly used it at various times in my career spanning 4 decades now.
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by dare944 21d ago
Sorry. I meant, is there any way to block stories on HN that link to Twitter posts?
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by dare944 22d ago
Won't be reading any twitter post on HN. Is there a convenient way to block them?
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by dare944 23d ago
I use seccomp filters on linux in my AI sandbox.
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by dare944 1mo ago
Not if they designed the algorithm right.
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by dare944 1mo ago
As I understand it, the current watermarking methods rely on a secret key, making the detection schemes a black box to anyone not in possession of the key. This means organizations like Anthropic are free to make any claim about authorship
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by dare944 1mo ago
> If they had no useful purpose, why did we think about them for years? I don't see a 'we' here. By your own admission you didn't spend years thinking about complicated math topics. So maybe you simply don't see
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by dare944 2mo ago
You can insist otherwise, but I suspect that so long as the government continues to ignore people's basic need for privacy, things will continue to get broken.
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by dare944 2mo ago
There's no question that, in general, people expect businesses to provide a valuable service that does not harm society in the process. Of course, the consensus as to what things are valuable and what things cause harm changes over tim
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by dare944 2mo ago
Social contract also includes the expectation that, over all, businesses work for the benefit of society, not its detriment.
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by dare944 2mo ago
> Why would Hanwha Vision need anything remotely related to the DoD? Is it possible that their CI is provided by some centralized team at their parent company Hanwha, where the needs of their sister company Hanwha Aerospace cause the sha
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by dare944 2mo ago
In the controversy over AI and intellectual property rights, the notion of asymmetrical enforcement of those rights is presently an active and dynamic rhetorical position. If you suppress responses espousing that position, how am I to judge
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by dare944 2mo ago
I feel the exact opposite. I feel that the documents I've collected but only lightly recall form an extension of my mind. I routinely collect electronic copies of technical documentation and white papers which I broadly organize by top
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by dare944 2mo ago
Did you miss the 'prepare' in the title?
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by dare944 2mo ago
Well, a large swath of both sides are wrong in that they insist theirs is the only valid perspective.
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by dare944 2mo ago
> It is also the story of something larger: how powerful people and institutions failed, one after another, to keep their AI ethics promises in the face of pressure. I've worked at Google. These weren't promises, they were dece
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by dare944 2mo ago
I don't see much confusion
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by dare944 2mo ago
People have settled on the term DSL to identify those languages whose domains are highly constrained as compared to more general purpose or broad domain languages. This usage exists whether or not you think the term itself is stupid.
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by dare944 2mo ago
> it suggests that these tools might actually be better at delivering the perception to the user of increased productivity while real productivity gains are lower, or maybe zero, or maybe negative in some cases. Or that the gains are in
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by dare944 2mo ago
Lol, no. We discourage her from using the computer because she's been scammed* so many times. Generally speaking AI is not uniformly perceived as this awe inspiring boon to those of her generation. Often it invokes fear - fear of inst
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by dare944 2mo ago
> You would expect only people who have a very high opinion of themselves to not feel the need to use AI. Please explain why my 82 year-old mother-in-law needs to use AI. Is it just so you won't consider her arrogant?
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by dare944 3mo ago
Ex-googler here as well. I'm not sure the distortion was worse outside of the core business. In the peripheral businesses (if one can call them businesses), I think you had more of an opportunity to ponder the larger implications of yo
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by dare944 3mo ago
You mean as a distraction from the point being made?
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by dare944 3mo ago
I said "harkens". Of course that structure never appeared on a punched card, and was designed with the unix block size in mind.
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by dare944 3mo ago
> The code, but not the function, occurred in multiple places in the V6 kernel and userland. Yep. The code is essential given the design of the direct structure, which harkens back to the fixed-width data fields of punched cards.
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by dare944 3mo ago
> No other data structure works like this. You can't mess this up in an array, because no function that manipulates arrays is just going to keep going until there is a null. This is patently false. Sentinel markers are used widely i

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