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by Terr_ 2mo ago
That rests on a false-assumption that the errors are statistically independent events, and have nothing to do with the shared nature of the judges.
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
> An insect, therefore, is not afraid of gravity; it can fall without danger, and can cling to the ceiling with remarkably little trouble. It can go in for elegant and fantastic forms of support like that of the daddy-longlegs. But there
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
Of such excuses, I would hope that "it's so smart and humanoid that we can't be liable" immediately segues into "then isn't your relationship illegal slavery?" Not because I think these systems are people,
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
I'd caution that some corrections become harder to make over time, rather than easier. A bad architecture now can become much harder to fix once other things have grown up around it. Even as a self-contained unit, you can't step i
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
One thing we could do is abolish the "anti-circumvention" laws, where the government goes after you with criminal penalties for "contempt of business-model" for interfering with how a company wishes it's code woul
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
Rather than "on/off" I think we need to distinguish between at least four things: 1. Connected naively to the internet. 2. Behind a hardened VPN endpoint which is on the internet. 3. Has a separate physical private network. 4
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
I sometimes wonder how much damage (and potential damage) to US infrastructure exists simply because intelligence-agencies prioritize being able to exploit it globally over fixing it on defense.
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
> The technology of today does not enable, or empower To say much the same things stuff a slightly different framing: The promise of "personal computers", and then the internet, making your own applications, etc. was that they
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
It seems like we've got chaos-machines that are just orderly enough to to try all sorts of branching script-kiddie / guess-n-check / research-paper-suggestions in a tireless and parallel way, and it's finding all the thi
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
Yeah, I found it odd that the author started talking about bandwidth and data concerns, but then testing part is only about power-transfer.
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
Between US federal immigration "enforcement" and workplace "AI workflows", I think that style of dystopic game becomes uncomfortably close to real life twice-over...
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
> This allowlisting approach is often defeated See also: https://gtfobins.org/ > GTFOBins is a curated list of Unix-like executables that can be used to bypass local security restrictions in misconfigured systems.
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
Recently I was trying to fix something in the production database, and had called over a co-worker as sanity-check. I ended up telling them about point-and-call because I felt a little silly, pointing to everything on the screen and stating
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
> It was never the 2 lines of code. It's the Adding to that, there's this negative-space of changes that aren't there because some human briefly thought about them and then decided they were a bad idea. Even if my human
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
Yeah, that's definitely the frustrating zeitgeist for me these days, which extends to LLMs. I'd also emphasize that it's not just error rate , but the shape/distribution of errors, and our (in)ability to build control s
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
That reminds me of story where the US Air Force attempted to design a cheaper cockpit and chair that would fit the "average pilot".. but in practice it fit nobody well. They went back to the drawing-board and put in all sorts of a
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
Similarly, I have a rant from last night [0] which connects it to Federal versus State laws and enforcements. > TLDR: Corrupt crooks have sabotaged the normal careful legal-compromise route, so they are partly to blame when American comm
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
177 comments on front-page right now: "Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game run" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49195468
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
I'm not sure which numbers everyone is using, but US usage stat [0]: 82 gal/ day /person Days to years: ~ 30,000 gal/ year /person To metric: ~ ~113.4 m^3&#x2
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
In a rare bit of still-sane news, the US National Highway and Safety Administration staff aren't dumb: Their policy is to consider whether any automation was active in 30 seconds before the crash. https://www.nhtsa.gov/
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
Related: "Accountability Sink", a system which is designed to channel responsibility away from the people making the decisions, e.g. a powerless "complaints department".
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
Dang, I think I lost my Kali [0] license-key. :p [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_(software)
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
> 1 million gallons is how much 33 people in the US use in a year. For a moment I was worried that this might be an average that includes indirect usage through industry and agriculture, but AFAICT no, it's in line with just residen
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
> Evolution has granted this as advantage, because they don’t need to screech and squawk and hide from predators. It could be demand rather than leisure: "I survived" doesn't work to signal fitness, so they develop somethi
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
> (and then maybe optically compositing them on top of other elements) Right: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdHTlUGN1zw&t=3m20s
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
> Here are the six that have made my cut [...] The question is: how do they make you feel? Feel, schmeel, I'd have vetoed Berkeley Mono right away for the very practical offense of making 0 resemble O. Even in my pre-coding youth, I
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
Perhaps less a requirement and more a kind of consistency with prior limitations? For example: 1. I have events in a Calendar service. 2. I want to authorize Reminder service to see upcoming events, so that it can send reminders to attend
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
TLDR: 1. People lawfully protest the federal government government. 2. Government starts surveilling them, recording names, license plates, facial-scans. 3. They sue the government for violating their First Amendment rights. 4. Government
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
Mirror: https://archive.ph/TuoiM Reason: WTF, Wired, I'm reading, I accidentally close the tab, but reopening erases it with "You’ve read your last free article"? No, I didn't read any more articles th

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