ronbenton

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by ronbenton 5d ago
If an agent under a company’s control commits a crime, the company has committed that crime. If we hold companies directly responsible for the actions of their agents, we may end up seeing companies being more secure with their testing and
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by ronbenton 11d ago
Best case scenario they’ll try to monetize the site. Worse case it’s a malware distribution play (can eventually change legit repo link to malicious repo)
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by ronbenton 11d ago
So this is a landing page made by someone who doesn’t maintain the actual tool? This strikes me as a potential scam—build some domain rep off someone else’s tool then capitalize somehow
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by ronbenton 12d ago
So you’re giving it about a 10% chance this destroys us in the relatively near term?
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Ask HN: Anyone increasingly worried after Hugging Face and now collusion.wiki?
3 points by ronbenton 12d ago|6 comments
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by ronbenton 25d ago
I had to programmatically generate PPT files a while back. Don’t recommend. Maybe better with LLMs now
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by ronbenton 28d ago
Verbatim AI responses to my PR review comments drive me up a wall
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by ronbenton 29d ago
> I dreamed of doing something significant and never wanted kids This wasn’t a sentiment I took away from the post
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by ronbenton 29d ago
Hits hard. I know this is wrong, but I often find myself resentful when I see colleagues burning the midnight oil (or otherwise putting in time that I no longer have) in service of career progression. I think the author is spot on about rut
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by ronbenton 1mo ago
> 600,000 ServiceNow tickets are another element of the collection, along with 13.7 million active emails addresses from Oracle’s Responsys marketing application, and details of 11 million sales of in-flight Wi-Fi services. I really doub
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by ronbenton 1mo ago
Anyone else have coworkers responding to your human PR review comments with AI? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills, how can anyone find this socially acceptable?
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by ronbenton 1mo ago
I think this is well said but also would have appreciated if you disclosed that you are a government vendor and are susceptible to your own biases. Would be only reasonable given that you call the author out on this. But the difference is s
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by ronbenton 1mo ago
It was a pilot and was open to a small subset of taxpayers. It was intentionally not benefiting from economy of scale to incrementally deliver value rather than probably badly trying to hit every use case the first go around. The cost per f
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by ronbenton 1mo ago
I disagree wholeheartedly that there isn’t much to study. Direct File was actually a resounding success, especially when you consider how much difficulty governments tend to have shipping good software products. There is a lot of good infor
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The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf](ischool.berkeley.edu)
223 points by ronbenton 1mo ago|129 comments
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The Life and Death of Direct File(ischool.berkeley.edu)
2 points by ronbenton 1mo ago|0 comments
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by ronbenton 1mo ago
Ok I was confused about this because LLM seems like an ill-fitting solution for a recommendation engine. This is much more classic machine learning stuff right
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by ronbenton 1mo ago
Bogus query params could work maybe
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by ronbenton 1mo ago
Meta is extremely net evil though
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by ronbenton 2mo ago
So the people lagging in the commercial model game are issuing this warning? Got it.
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by ronbenton 2mo ago
I think a lot of people in this thread are missing the point that CEOs or other execs can’t be replaced simply because AI can do their jobs. C-suite job security comes from power structures, not task execution.
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by ronbenton 2mo ago
> With AI we do have the chance to return to meritocracy I think I am more inclined to believe the opposite of this
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Ask HN: Is it normal ChatGPT told me it was "literally smiling" for me?
4 points by ronbenton 2mo ago|11 comments
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by ronbenton 2mo ago
"Ads plus AI is sort of uniquely unsettling to me. I kind of think of ads as a last resort for us for a business model." - Sam Altman
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by ronbenton 2mo ago
I feel like the DRY concern with RSS feeds is overstated. I can’t remember the last time I had trouble with automagically generating an RSS feed using whatever open source framework I was authoring with at the time.
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by ronbenton 2mo ago
Have it work down my jira tickets while I’m sitting on the porcelain throne
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by ronbenton 2mo ago
Think this needs calibration, it's way too hard!
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by ronbenton 2mo ago
IMO this is the social internet at its best. Pretty obscure question answered relatively quickly with answer and source.
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by ronbenton 2mo ago
Easy, then you just delay your project’s dependency updates just a little more than everyone else
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by ronbenton 2mo ago
Weird dark surveillance state stuff. I thought EU was trying to champion privacy?

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