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> He just authenticated with his own device’s token and discovered that the system had absolutely no concept of which devices that token was supposed to be allowed to access. Privacy thru ubiquity? (this is a dumb joke) But do you want
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When "the best way to predict the future is to invent it" is combined with crime it seems clear that betting on crime is acting as an accessory. A business facilitating betting on crime is a criminal enterprise, in the sense of RI
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by _wire_ 7mo ago
This article has a lovely premise: that as AI continues its incursion, its very prominent failures, are being institutionalized into a lower class of humans who have to take the blame for all the crazy ways AI screws up. AI is a failure mag
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by _wire_ 7mo ago
Previously posted to HN... One Battle After Another Review by Mark Cira https://letterboxd.com/markcira/film/one-battle-after-anothe... This review is literate, historically aware, personal and very insightful; fr
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Spielberg: As everyone in my business knows and expects, hype is everything to the box office. I'm risking a spoiler here but, ever heard of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion? (Whispers) Aliens
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Enjoyed that final sentence. Truly "wow-ed"... Or worked at all? > "Oh you just have to use that other page and copy the ID from X with Y and we will get back to you about that other bug" There was a little-known pr
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Ezra Klein show
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by _wire_ 7mo ago
This article is miraculous for willingness to utterly damn AI agent technology as a bragging point for slavish obsession with it! The opening: > The agent works, sort of. It does things. But three months in, it’s making the same categor
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by _wire_ 7mo ago
I think these user-contributed links to a single archive site are goofy: HN could generate these references automatically, or keep a FAQ-- OMG how radical! It's like modern-day samizdat! This strange caveman presentation of HN where th
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Dr. President prides himself on guessing people's shoe size and gifting them shoes. Rubio is stuck wearing the gift: https://www.aol.com/marco-rubio-pictured-145-trump-144634261...
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The straight stays closed? This can never happen! Dr. President has thought of everything: as long as the bombing continues, morale stays high, and as long as morale stays high, the straight stays open. Elementary. And if the straight stays
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by _wire_ 7mo ago
> "...increasing the power of working-class men." Who vote Republican. You know, class warfare. Nothing to see here, move along
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by _wire_ 7mo ago
Thx for heads up!
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by _wire_ 7mo ago
This test is subject to the display regime on which it's presented. A given display may hide or amplify differences due to lack of conformance with the color space for the test data.
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by _wire_ 7mo ago
Marshall McLuhan was interested about this in the late 60s and his observation was that electronic media can obviate literacy as the phonetic alphabet, and so literacy, was a technology, not an essential human trait. Language is media, not
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by _wire_ 7mo ago
Men at Work "It's a Mistake" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I0AxrOUJ62E
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by _wire_ 7mo ago
Looking back at Apple's products, 3/4 of them are impressively bad; very very bad. But the stuff they get right...
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by _wire_ 7mo ago
Nothing... But this is because the advances are so fantastic they can't be explained. We need AI to explain how incredible these advances are... Oh wait, this backwater forum of advanced hyper-aware technologists with billions at stake
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by _wire_ 7mo ago
When your fridge fails, you will typically find a pool of cold water on the floor... If you choose to regard this as your fridge is cooling better than ever, that's your prerogative. This observation is the essence of the effects we se
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by _wire_ 7mo ago
My observation neé suggestion is to examine your expectations and what you think it means to be a nice (or good) colleague. First principle: social milieus run primarily on instinct, so the first rule is know thyself: what are your instinct
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by _wire_ 7mo ago
Interesting that lack of engineering discipline in LLM design has industry vernacular veering into medically pathologized forensics and remediation. From a C.A.R. Hoare perspective, this looks like a horrible development: Human bias in trai
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by _wire_ 7mo ago
A drill press doesn't spontaneously turn into a table saw that ejects its blade because although you secured the bit in the chuck you didn't secure the blade on the arbor.
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"Codex, File My Taxes. Make No Mistakes" (clank clank) "Codex, File My Taxes. Make No Mistakes. I really mean it!" (whirr)
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Doctorow begs questions in the manner typical of self-hosted and/or expatriated journalists, who must be evangelists, but religious work tends to disregard the labor of research as it's hard work that doesn't pay and it might
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Like bombing a building full of little kids? Oops too late...
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> because the time will just go into tests that wouldn't otherwise have been written Writing tests to ensure a program is correct is the same problem as writing a correct program. Evaluating conformance is a different category of co
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by _wire_ 7mo ago
What's weird is the stats are all manipulated. The measures and the ground are disconnected.
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Conclusions from studies on monkeys: //Behavioral alteration was characterized by decrements in response rate but not by changes in reaction time, yellow light errors, and postreinforcement pause time. There are two distinct expla
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Guns don't shoot people... Oh, wait, now they do
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by _wire_ 7mo ago
Can't this be done by AI?!

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