jordanb

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by jordanb 3d ago
I think Cal's point is that while dogs may do these things it reduces to a set of behaviors where maybe 90 percent of them are beneficial to the dog-weedwacker system and the remaining 10 percent are really unfortunate. We can't r
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by jordanb 3d ago
Cal Newport has an analogy to "putting a weed wacker on a dog's back to mow your lawn." The dog will wander around the yard and it may mow the lawn, but the dog will also chase after birds or run up to visitors for pets and t
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by jordanb 4d ago
OK understood. But you understand this makes them sound like the type of person who doesn't believe any of the "worldly concerns" are worth addressing because "the end is near" right?
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by jordanb 4d ago
Yes El Niño creates sheer in the tropical Atlantic inhibiting tropical cyclone formation in that area
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by jordanb 4d ago
The problem is the "AI Safety" people seem entirely focused on a sci-fi "the computer is a vengeful god" plot and not at all on the AI talking people into suicide or ruining children's educations. This makes them se
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by jordanb 4d ago
They can get a "government mandated freeze" on the grounds that "ASI is at hand" then they IPO promising to deliver right after the freeze ends and you, lucky investor, will be able to take advantage of the pause to get
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by jordanb 7d ago
Dragnets have been constrained on both fourth and fifth amendment grounds. It's not merely the inconvenience of being stopped and questioned that makes a dragnet illegal, it is also an illegal search.
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by jordanb 7d ago
The other thing that's going on is that Flock is essentially an always-on "dragnet." A "dragnet" is when you set up police checkpoints everywhere and essentially put entire cities under watch to find a fugitive. Thi
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by jordanb 8d ago
This kinda reminds me of the guys who decided to industrialize digging up dinosaur fossils, in order to feed the dinosaur fossil collector market. They were amazed that paleontologists were so "inefficient" at finding and digging
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by jordanb 8d ago
I feel like this is a submarine ad for the glasses by Meta.
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by jordanb 9d ago
But can I pay in dogecoin?
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by jordanb 9d ago
They invented a Forbes 30 under 30 bot.
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by jordanb 11d ago
Depending on the density of debris in LEO it might be very difficult to launch through to the higher orbits.
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by jordanb 11d ago
I think there would be a Kessler Syndrome within a few weeks of an anti-satellite campaign at which point trying to launch replacements wouldn't make any sense.
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by jordanb 13d ago
> Google (and its defenders) initially tried to pretend that they were just helplessly and clinically adhering to US Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) data. Something journalists later found out was a lie, because Google adopted
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by jordanb 14d ago
That "Lake America" is doing a hell of a lot of work for Google
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by jordanb 14d ago
The thing is this was the pitch for buying clothes online: worried it won't fit? Just return it. No questions asked! We'll even pay return shipping! It's interesting how companies are now redefining things they explicitly enc
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by jordanb 16d ago
My mind was blown when I realized that the way tftp works is that as the machine is booting it asks the network if anyone has some software for it to run.
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by jordanb 19d ago
The data canters are using gas turbines and diesel generators.
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by jordanb 19d ago
I'm trying to build a torment nexus and these negative ninnies complained that it used up all the electricity, so I made a machine that turns breathable air into toxic smoke to power the nexus and they don't like that ether!
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by jordanb 20d ago
The first key feature of the Panopticon is that the guards can observe the inmate at all times and he can't hide. The second key feature is that the inmate can't observe the guards. He can't know who they are and can't e
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by jordanb 20d ago
The guy gives me unhinged stalker vibes whenever he does an interview.
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by jordanb 21d ago
The point of the video is that intermediary companies like Driscolls or Taylor Farms focus their efforts on building "accountability sinks." They give farmers a 500 page document describing in detail how the produce must be grown,
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by jordanb 22d ago
Yep if a hiring manager wants to open a req for a junior, before AI he'd get praise for being tight with budget and hiring someone cheap and trainable. Now he gets asked: if a junior can do the work why aren't you using AI? So ins
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by jordanb 23d ago
I'm glad HN can be counted on to defend Blackstone's good name.
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by jordanb 24d ago
"Good enough for Australia" is a phrase I frequently heard from Aussies. There seems to be this attitude there that they're a frontier country where one improvises (half asses?) everything.
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by jordanb 27d ago
Anyone who designs such a system should know to use an exponential backoff to avoid the thundering herd. Maybe copilot missed that while it was reviewing its own PR
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by jordanb 29d ago
You'd have to ask the guys putting flock cameras in playgrounds. Flock apparently know how to sell this stuff to cops because not only did they film children's gymnastics they used the footage as part of their sales pitch to polic
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by jordanb 29d ago
Louis Rossmann likes to point out that the "CC" in "CCTV" means "closed circuit." Traditional security cameras are displayed maybe in a security booth in real time somewhere, and then recorded onto an on-prem h
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by jordanb 29d ago
"De-identified" data is trivially easy to re-identify, especially by google. https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/09/technology/a-face-is-expo...

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