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by Terr_ 2mo ago
I'm not really concerned about that --all overreach starts with unsympathetic targets.
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
Yeah, I'm less-concerned about seeing an ad than I am about the spyware/surveillance networks behind them. If some magic-genie offered the tradeoff of "You can't install third-party adblockers, but your privacy will be m
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
> laws should be structured as data rather than code There was a submission a while back that might be relevant here: "Why Law Is Law-Shaped" (lawvm.org) [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47945861
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
> The objection is not that the order is lawless, but that the .com registry on American soil hands American courts a switch for the whole internet, and a Travis County judge has now thrown it. > [...] American infrastructure, with it
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
I wonder if this could be mitigated with a daemon that monitors USB devices and disconnects them (or even reboots entirely [0]) when an unexpected kind is connected. A workaround for a lack of permission/control in the OS, as it were.
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
> in the first case, you have to accurately remember the past Right, as a matter of (relatively trivial) cybernetics between man and machine, it rests on the weaker parts of the human. TBF, it'd make a lot more sense if every comm
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
Rather than a sense of "cool" or "useful" somehow I end up just feeling despair at how organically convoluted it is to determine what something on a command-line really does. To be fair, I've always been biased towa
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
> the economic effects, not the technology Into which of those categories do we place "company guts its support-system into uselessness by firing all the people and putting in 'AI' which mainly runs customers in circles&qu
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
I don't think I can make a good ELI5 argument for (or against) that one as-written, because there are multiple differences going on at the same time. For example: 1. When you "lose" shorting a stock your potential loss is inf
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
Due to paywall, went to BBC [0], pasting some excerpts together: > In [November] 2024, Adani was accused of allegedly paying bribes to Indian officials for high-profile renewable energy projects and misleading US investors about it. Adan
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
> said Chairman Michael S. Selig. “Congress did not intend for derivatives exchanges to be regulated under a patchwork of state gaming laws. Ah yes, "derivatives" which are "not intended to fall under gaming laws" suc
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
I would certainly hope that no judge anywhere could misconstrue "waiting to learn X" as "I am telling you X is a known fact", but with the bad trajectory these days... That said, AFAICT at least some of those patents exi
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
Another quantity is "an ass-load, and I wouldn't be surprised if that came first and then butt-load is the toned-down version. https://xkcd.com/37/
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
Almost worse than indiscriminate applications are the fraudulent ones, where the applicant isn't sharing the own answers in interviews, isn't the one in the interview at all, or sometimes never existed.
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
I feel I missed some logical step in-between "corruptive power of money" and the elevator/stairway railing/banister thing. > People will simply offer to buy you out, and that's not limited to founders and creativ
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
Right, there may be multiple waves of people here, and the "thinking their job was marketing" ones aren't necessarily the first.
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
To put a slightly finer point on it, the article lists at least two questions, prefaced with "unclear why" and "unclear where" respectively. Oh, sure, I guess grammatically they are technically statements that some i
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
While I feel it is morally OK for users to access the metadata of their own exchanges, there's something awry with that formulation, (not-)"stealing" is about more than just copyright or ToS. For example, consider my browser
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
> When asked later by reporters why they had to keep their shades shut during the [decoy] flight, Trump said it was because they were “probably on a dangerous flight”. He went onto say: “But if I go, you go. Right?” Is that... "go&
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
> OK, but following this logic, shouldn't we disband the government altogether and have mafias rule us all? Only if "following this logic" means "extrapolate to an unreasonable extreme." Compare: 1. "Just ea
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
It used to be I could always find the quote I wanted from a book. Nowadays I need to keep my own copies...
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
> That is a wild claim. Perhaps we can all agree that usage is very bimodal, between the people who refer to auto-notes constantly vs never?
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
> you'll get the best results with agents from the same tribe, others will trip over the mountain of idiosyncratic metaphors. Good point, there's an anti-competitive incentive, and self-bias in models is a mechanism to do it.
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
Right, of the faster/better/cheaper triad, these things are overwhelmingly being implemented towards cheaper, and the idea that owners can gut the support structure for errors and edge-cases. I realize quoting Doctorow on this i
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
I mean, it's not like they have any massive financial incentive to be anything but scrupulously honest and customer-centered. /s
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
It doesn't matter yet because it hasn't actually happened: Trump's declaration was (unsurprisingly) another attempt to do something dictatorial, in particular usurping the power of Congress to create a tax, making the plan un
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
> so LLMs don't delete data Have we "jumped the shark" yet with sloppy workarounds for a fundamentally flawed process? The code reads to me as LLM-generated, which I think indicates it is, regrettably, not satire.
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
Or people naively assume that the machine is wayyyy more impartial and privacy-isolated than it really is.
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
If simply running things thrice-over was enough to stop "hallucinations" (and not incur other problems) we wouldn't be here talking about it today, it'd have been "solved" months or years ago.
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
I'm hoping that the Big Horrible Realization comes sooner rather than later, when we have less collective damage and pain riding on it. (Plus I'd feel personally vindicated.)

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