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by Terr_ 1mo ago
The idea of that data ending up in new undetermined hands may-or-may-not be a worse thing, but it reminds me of this bit from Making Money , by Terry Pratchett: > 'Vetinari, are we to believe that you knowingly put the most importa
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by Terr_ 1mo ago
What if the work output was bound to a particular source IP? That'd stop most "theft" at the expense of discards when your device switches networks.
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by Terr_ 1mo ago
Hmm, so rather than a virus, a flawed version of some resource or assistance which resembles the real thing. Like food with no essential vitamins, or carbon monoxide.
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by Terr_ 1mo ago
It's kinda-crazy the degree to which legal data--which you need for a fair trial under the law--is locked up by monopolistic brokers. FFS, we're already at the edge of having to pay to know what the laws even are. [0] [0] https:&
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by Terr_ 1mo ago
> To add a little pizzazz, I constructed a cat’s head silhouette from an ellipse and two triangles, then randomly scattered them Ooh! A scattering that avoids overlapping punching might benefit from another recent item on Poisson Disk Sc
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by Terr_ 1mo ago
You can tell it's sarcasm because I have a second paragraph stating that it's wrong to dignify the pearl-clutching histrionics with a lot of concern. > $5k car from China which they do actually sell at that price Which will be
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by Terr_ 1mo ago
"Oh, being bribed/extorted by the government we took control-of doesn't count , because internally the lügenpresse still has unreasonably-biased employees who keep accusing us of being bad people who'll abuse government
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by Terr_ 1mo ago
Two imagined executive responses: 1. "Nonsense, if it was a code-quality issue from the AI stuff, we'd have seen problems sooner, like in the first few months or a year. Oh, sure, some engineers complained, but that was just an a
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by Terr_ 1mo ago
How I view "labor shortage" complaints by default: "What's with this shortage of new cars for $5,000!? As a hard-working consumer, I simply can't find enough of what I want at the limited price I am willing to offer
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by Terr_ 1mo ago
> What is scary about it is the same thing that's scary about the AfD in Germany... Without downplaying or excusing the US' problems, I hope everyone in other countries thinking "that can't happen here" realize t
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by Terr_ 1mo ago
> cutting off a bunch of trade Given the last 19 months of tariff chaos while Republicans control all branches of government, I don't see any reason to think they're concerned about that. Plus the whole "assassinate the Ir
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by Terr_ 1mo ago
Plus even on a less-than-wartime level, nobody wants wants their own national assets to be held-hostage or used for extortion, whenever this Republican administration next demands a "favor" for domestic bragging or kowtowing-humil
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by Terr_ 1mo ago
I won't pretend to understand the code involved, I just know it happens occasionally on HN, and that my own comment is being shown as 3-days-younger than it actually is.
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by Terr_ 1mo ago
> It shows that the government isn't concerned about what the public thinks Similar to the "Death of a Euphemism" [0], where some politicians decide they don't have to cloak their proposal in the trappings of reasonab
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by Terr_ 1mo ago
PSA: This was posted 4 days ago and seems to have been given a "second chance", so take all the HN timestamps with a grain of salt.
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by Terr_ 1mo ago
As somebody who prefers to browse with JS off whenever possible, there's something absurd about the balance everyone takes for granted between (A) your personal safety against a devastating hack by malicious code and (B) surveillance a
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by Terr_ 1mo ago
> Well what that 16 digit code might be I am unaware. They're probably talking about buying a subscription with a credit card, but I'm less certain where it lies on the shared-joke versus snide-insult spectrum. That said, not a
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by Terr_ 1mo ago
> I don't know if it's readable, I haven't checked, but it feels comforting. I've been meaning to get back to tinkering with a Immich on a docker container, as a Google Photos competitor I can self-host.
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by Terr_ 1mo ago
I think in this context the concern isn't that you'll lose the money , but your loss of all legal/practical authentication mechanisms. In other words, you leave the bank-branch with a big sack of cash... And then your car is
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by Terr_ 1mo ago
If everyone has the same "Use X or else Y or else Z" cascading list... That reminds me of "The Power of Two Choices in Randomized Load Balancing" (1991) [0] paper, where writeups and visualizations occasionally get poste
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by Terr_ 1mo ago
> Banks can't just ban you They kinda can. https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/seeing-like-a-bank/
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by Terr_ 1mo ago
Yeah, I find it... not incomprehensible, but perhaps deeply misguided the way many people are using LLMs mostly to bulk things up. 1. They generate a lot of fluff that people are accustomed to thinking of as a "sign of work" or
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by Terr_ 1mo ago
> USPS is the government The wrong government! Voter rolls etc. are state responsibilities, not a federal ones. And please, don't spend a second entertaining any crocodile-tears and pearl-clutching from Republicans about how &qu
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by Terr_ 1mo ago
To go beyond the understatement of "bad idea" (and likely make the subtext into text): This thing is unmistakable malice , not mere incompetence. There's no "oops I didn't know" or "oops I timed the proje
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by Terr_ 1mo ago
The idea that that LLM reliability or bias can be solved with more LLM is... infuriatingly persistent.
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by Terr_ 1mo ago
> I find Paramore playing in my head. > > “See, it’s easy to ignore trouble, when you’re living in a bubble.” With respect to the problem of trouble in bubbles, my mind goes to a very different song... If you're livin&#x
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by Terr_ 1mo ago
> Consider when the algorithm places a point p and then samples its annulus to get a new point q . I was confused for a while thinking p and q were swapped here, relative to the visualization below. [0] However I now think what I
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by Terr_ 1mo ago
Tangentially related in terms of "old stuff from other things I read", this 2006 critique [0] by Derek Lowe: > Later in Kurzweil's article, he says: > > "So what does the future hold? By 2019, we will largely ov
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by Terr_ 1mo ago
I'm convinced all of Kurzweil's predictions through the years can be simplified as (and originate from) "whatever least-implausible dream scenario allows a man of Ray Kurzweil's exact age and health to barely avoid the h
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by Terr_ 1mo ago
> This seems as acceptable as asking a human to do the same. I wouldn't be surprised if self-bias in the model weights and imperceptible grammar/word/punctuation choices could cause it to duplicate more information than a

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