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by abeppu 2y ago
Yeah the title should reflect the actual headline. Is the current "some words" title selected based on the belief that commenters or bots may be specifically looking for particular words to target abusive speech towards?
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by abeppu 2y ago
This seems like a more timely and targeted revamp of Jailbreak the Patriarchy. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/jailbreak-the-patri...
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by abeppu 2y ago
... is it offline? Is the whole product a use-based API (which might be related to why the voice is slow and she doesn't use it that often)?
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by abeppu 2y ago
I think also a critical weakness is that LLMs are trained on the code people write ... and our code doesn't annotate what was written by a human and what was suggested by a tool. In your analogy, this would be like if your sat nav syst
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by abeppu 2y ago
> I don't think the CPUC will let them get away with "we won't sell at any price" - I think the regulators would force them to sell at some price. Has the CPUC forced such a sale before? Functionally, if PG&E can
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by abeppu 2y ago
The author mentions the cost of buying out the distribution network, and cites SF's failed attempt to do this. The author tries to figure out the price for Walnut Creek's grid based on inflation and population -- but the $2.5B fig
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by abeppu 2y ago
> We would have a new problem of causing a ton of people to be unable to continue living in those areas without some kind of off-grid program. But people in those areas are likely to be able to benefit from solar, so maybe being "of
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by abeppu 2y ago
> Find out why the impact probability is changing over time, and why it is likely to fall to zero: If we can make (without new data) predictions about how future predictions (once we have more data) are likely to differ from the current
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by abeppu 2y ago
IANAL: - to my understanding, qualified immunity of law enforcement or other government officials is from civil lawsuits ; if I get injured while being arrested, I can't sue the arresting officer. It also only applies while they'
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by abeppu 2y ago
Setting aside the recent price increase, I'm shocked that their data shows a price of 0.77 in May 2023. A dozen eggs for less than a dollar, and that was after the worst official inflation had already happened?
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- the FBI itself doesn't control prosecution right? The DOJ more broadly does, but the FBI doesn't pick the prosecution's legal strategy as I understand it. But if the prosecution attempts to overreach, we rely on courts to r
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I dunno, I think it's a real point badly made. In the first Trump administration, people talked about the emoluments clause and all the ways Trump was getting extra revenue from charging the Secret Service for hotel rooms at his proper
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by abeppu 2y ago
But - Responding to the agency-level decision to pursue these doesn't need the info on these 5k staff - The decision to investigate these is part of the FBIs job. Very obvious, visible crimes took place. It doesn't matter whether
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by abeppu 2y ago
Critically, though Japanese American internment was achieved by executive order, it was really popular . "Democracy" on its own does not protect minorities from the tyranny of the majority. We need to preserve "liberal democ
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by abeppu 2y ago
So, learning about the categorical structure is interesting, but is there a specific advantage to seeing these concepts directly informing the implementation vs as a post-hoc way of explaining what autodiff is doing? E.g. Tensorflow is crea
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by abeppu 2y ago
The cognitive dissonance here is at another level. Had FBI staff refused to work on these cases when the Bureau directed them to, would that not have been exactly the "deep state" behavior that the Trump conspiracy fringe compla
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by abeppu 2y ago
> This is the first time the veil of undocumented or secret government payments has been pierced and it's going to shed a lot of light into the corruption behind government spending. ... is there somewhere that DOGE people with acce
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by abeppu 2y ago
Yeah, what's up with that? Does this treasury department payment system not also cover the payments made to bondholders? Every time Congress delays raising the debt ceiling until the last minute, people get anxious and worry about a de
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by abeppu 2y ago
I guess a question becomes, how does dropping these self-imposed limitations work as a marketing exercise? Probably most of their customers or prospective customers won't care, but will a cheery multi-colored new product land a little
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by abeppu 2y ago
Alex Karp has a tendency to say inflammatory things. Now that he's made the press several times for this kind of thing, one has to wonder: does he make these statements because he believes them, or because the press that comes after su
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by abeppu 2y ago
It's kinda refreshing that the "Legality" section is entirely concerned with power and frequencies, and not at all about the IP rights around Swift's music.
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by abeppu 2y ago
I think there's a weird disconnect between the author's experience (the automated tools are good but they induce dependency) and my own experience (the tools are bad, produces code that doesn't type-check, produces explanatio
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by abeppu 2y ago
> requires an instruction booklet with a list of replacements and compatible parts I appreciate this but it doesn't seem like it belongs in a certification about calmness per se. Even annoying tech should be clear about the extent t
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by abeppu 2y ago
> Turns out China (or here, Russia) infiltrated the country, waged an enormous disinformation campaign and succeeded by getting their chosen candidate elected. But in the US, Russia also has waged enormous disinformation campaigns on US-
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by abeppu 2y ago
I think the threshold is way lower than that? The "Covered Company" definition mentions 1 million monthly active users for at least 2 of the 3 months preceding some determination. Also, I wonder who is the foreign-based "revi
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by abeppu 2y ago
The inscription on the Sword of Goujian, the translation for which is displayed in the article, says that the King of Yue made and used the sword himself. How literally do people with knowledge of the period take that? Is it surprising &#x
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by abeppu 2y ago
I continue to be baffled by people who simultaneously believe that TikTok is dangerous because of Chinese propaganda that may happen in the future, but that all the other social media networks are not dangerous despite the mostly Russian mi
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by abeppu 2y ago
If there's an escape hatch, I think it's more likely that Trump directs the DOJ to defer enforcement, first temporarily. Some deal will be made where Trump stipulates some stuff about content moderation, including removing TikTok&
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by abeppu 2y ago
They did try that last year though it did generate a lot of calls in absolute terms and it didn't actually work as political pressure for them to vote against the ban. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024&#
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by abeppu 2y ago
> The outcome of the shutdown would be different from that mandated by the law. The law would mandate a ban only on new TikTok downloads on Apple or Google app stores, while existing users could continue using it for some time. Does anyo

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