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by Cpoll 4mo ago
The argument here is that the AI is a glorified input page. The input field asks for your username and email and sends it to a backend function. Such an input page is working as intended. The problem is when the backend function doesn&#x2
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by Cpoll 4mo ago
They're incentivised because they're offering plans at a loss and/or pricing out potential customers. All these LLM companies are competing on accuracy and price.
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by Cpoll 4mo ago
> another engineering discipline I think we're more like car mechanics in a lot of ways. The same way they might learn cars by working on their own, we learn computers. But I suppose that's still background of a sort.
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by Cpoll 4mo ago
> Such skull-and-dagger behavior by the tech elite is going to provoke a backlash by non-technical people who don't like to be manipulated. You can't tug on the levers of power indefinitely before it starts to annoy other peopl
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by Cpoll 4mo ago
No-one in this thread is talking about layoffs, they're talking about individual firings.
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by Cpoll 4mo ago
> any grant program would need to be “aligned with administration policies and priorities.” From a naive perspective, this sounds a lot like the breeding ground for Lysenkoism (Stalin-approved). In that example, aligning science to the p
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by Cpoll 4mo ago
The industry, on average, approves of responsible disclosure because there's a tacit agreement that making risk-proof software isn't feasible. Though admittedly some companies don't seem to be trying very hard anymore. It&#x2
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by Cpoll 4mo ago
Transforming 'Micro$oft's' name as a form of commentary is a time-honored tradition.
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by Cpoll 4mo ago
IME WiFi always adds ~20ms, which might be more than a server in your city (though realistically 50ms is a good number and 100ms is acceptable). But I expect this number gets worse in a LAN party due to contention.
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by Cpoll 4mo ago
> I kept it at 10 requests per second because I was not trying to DDoS anyone. You can't really DDoS S3 on a $20 node. > AWS does not tell you when your bucket is being scanned. I wonder if that even makes sense; the "scanni
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by Cpoll 4mo ago
I think this is probably a bit selective, but I understand the sentiment. When I'm cycling I keep seeing awful drivers, and when I'm driving I keep seeing reckless and inconsiderate cyclists. The awful infrastructure (poorly consi
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by Cpoll 5mo ago
Trivia: The term is "bellwether," i.e. a wether (castrated sheep) wearing a bell, used to guide the flock.
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by Cpoll 5mo ago
It's more that: 1. The previous paragraph establishes a metaphor between furniture and memories. So you can take that sentence to also be metaphor, not literally about furniture. 2. A sentient animated luggage is a main character in th
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by Cpoll 5mo ago
To me, "deriving from x" means performing a mathematical function operating on input x. By my own definition, I suppose a rainbow table lookup is a derivation, but I wouldn't consider actually computing the table to be one. H
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by Cpoll 5mo ago
I didn't. Can I get the name/quick explanation of the effect?
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by Cpoll 5mo ago
> I'd argue that the mathematical operations themselves are usually not that complicated. More importantly, the whole book seems to be about ways to derive the (probable) input of a hash function from the output. It is not literally
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by Cpoll 5mo ago
> I lost access to literally nothing! SSO binds your email address as the primary account idenitifier in all known to me services. Do you mean that you're setting up SAML/OpenID for every service you use? > Does not matter w
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by Cpoll 5mo ago
The repetitiveness should be a tipoff, if the other tells aren't. The only insight is that no human read/approved the rewrite PR.
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by Cpoll 5mo ago
"Two" probably means "number two" a.k.a. pooping.
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by Cpoll 5mo ago
They had a shared ancestor in Tanx. I also remember Tank Wars fondly.
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by Cpoll 5mo ago
I'm aware of what Korean MMOs were doing years earlier, but it feels different, in a way I can't quite put into words. I suspect there's a psychological aspect to earning the chest and buying the key. But yeah, maybe I'm
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by Cpoll 5mo ago
It's harder to say that when they invented loot crates. Sure everyone's doing it now, and someone else would've done it eventually, but Valve pioneered it. I suppose, yeah, some things would be a lot worse without Steam, so
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by Cpoll 5mo ago
"Boiling the frog" is a common idiom for making a negative change slowly enough that no-one reacts. It perhaps comes from the (incorrect) notion that if you add a frog to water and bring it to a boil very gradually, it won't
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by Cpoll 5mo ago
Not necessarily. When you get to those numbers you're seeing dozens of teams with their own silos and deployment methods. So they might be responsible for the core business that's running 30 nodes and serving 100MM users a day, or
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by Cpoll 5mo ago
I think that's one reading, specifically because of this paragraph: > Or, thirdly, are there two ways of being competent, the conscious way and the unconscious (or zombie) way? Could it be that some life forms on Earth have evolved
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by Cpoll 5mo ago
A week of superintelligence should be enough to take over the world, or at least sabotage your competitors. And even if someone else gets there a week later, they'll be permanently one week behind the curve (until the AI hits some phys
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by Cpoll 5mo ago
The first digital watch was from 1972.
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by Cpoll 5mo ago
Did Hiro even use a keyboard? I remember everything was VR in Snow Crash. I, of course, pretend I'm Zero Cool.
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by Cpoll 5mo ago
A ratio of integers to be pedantic.
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by Cpoll 5mo ago
The article explicitly contradicts this (the site isn't playing nice with C+P, or I'd quote it). What are the laws and consequences, in practice?

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