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by advael 7mo ago
Police unions aren't the same thing as other unions. Most unions exist to equalize labor negotiation through collective bargaining, and police unions tend to include and align with the leadership in the organization that a union would
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by advael 7mo ago
Yes, now they involve calling the cops to enforce a law that microsoft lawyers wrote and then sent lobbyists to bully or trick most of the world into signing. The corruption of the rule of law in modern nation-states into effectively brutal
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by advael 7mo ago
This might be my new favorite hn comment. At the very least it captures the zeitgeist perfectly
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by advael 8mo ago
Those are the same thing. The whole point of saying "too big to fail" is to evoke the moment in the housing crash where governments largely threw most of their citizens under the bus by bailing out banks rather than homeowners for
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by advael 8mo ago
I can use ssh as the transport and authentication layer over any internet connection through a fairly easily learnable set of ssh flags that can be further simplified through aliasing. As a bonus it's e2ee. The overhead from that affec
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by advael 8mo ago
The LLM being able to generate random games is kinda expected behavior. It's trained on sequence probability distributions that include the code for a great many games and nudged toward doing so by the human user. I'm disappointed
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by advael 8mo ago
Dam, I really thought this would be much more interesting than it is People have been doing some cool stuff for like a decade with giving dogs buttons to use human language, something they can seemingly get decent at communicating effective
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by advael 8mo ago
Yea I've noticed that most things made by a company are worse and less reliable than things that are free and maintained by volunteers
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by advael 8mo ago
Weird all these companies struggle so much to support remote services, ssh has been working for me pretty seamlessly for like the 20 years I've been using it and has allowed me to remote-control any computer I own with relatively relia
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by advael 8mo ago
Keypairs are fairly easy to use if you're on a reasonable unix-like OS and if you're not then frankly nothing is easy to use. Unfortunately this does mean that your statement is true for the majority of devices people use to acces
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by advael 8mo ago
Yea, the pervasiveness of this analogy is annoying because it's wrong (because a compiler is deterministic and tends to be a single point of trust, rather than trusting a crowdsourced package manager or a fuzzy machine learning model t
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by advael 8mo ago
I think robust crowdsourcing is probably the biggest capital-A Advancement in humanity's capabilities that came out of the internet, and there's a huge disparity in results that comes from how that capability is structured and use
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by advael 9mo ago
I can't parse what distinction you're trying to draw here. When I say "collective action" I mean exactly things like exerting political pressure toward objectives like expanding rather than reducing healthcare coverage p
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by advael 9mo ago
To "decenter [one's] self worth from [one's] job" would presumably require the fact that one's "access to basic rights is intermediated by a corporate job", no? This is a policy problem that needs to be so
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by advael 9mo ago
I think system package managers do just fine at wrangling static library dependencies for compiled languages, and if you're building something that somehow falls through the cracks of them then I think you should probably just be using
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by advael 9mo ago
One is an operating system maintained and run by a diffuse community of people, (albeit a flavor of linux with the explicit backing of at least one large company), whose primary goal is to create and maintain a functional operating system t
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by advael 9mo ago
It's probably not worth it to say more than that my experience simply differs from yours. I've found it incredibly unproductive to quibble with people who have jumped to the conclusion that some difference of opinion must stem fro
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by advael 9mo ago
I feel vindicated by this article, but I shouldn't. I have to admit that I never developed the optimism to do this for two years, but have increasingly been trying to view this as a personal failing of closed-mindedness, brought on by
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by advael 9mo ago
My days of not believing people's gushing praise about "just works" about any proprietary technology are certainly coming to a middle
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by advael 9mo ago
That seems a hell of a lot better than repealing section 230 altogether. I also agree with the rest of this argument. Either the editorial choices made by an algorithm are a neutral platform or they're protected speech. They certainly
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by advael 9mo ago
I think by now roughly half of us grew up in a world where global reach has been simply taken for granted. I don't think it's particularly onerous to say that there should be some oversight on what a business can and can't do
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by advael 9mo ago
Yea I think my own preference for self-hosting boils down to a distrust of a continuous dependency on a service in control of a company and a desire to minimize such dependencies. While there are FOSS and self-hostable alternatives to tails
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by advael 9mo ago
I dunno, I spend less time fighting with any of my several linux systems than the macbook I'm required to use for work, even without trying to do anything new with it. I choose to view this charitably and assume most of the time invest
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by advael 9mo ago
We live in a world with the internet and distributed version control, so essentially every piece of software in the world has a tradeoff where the people maintaining it might push an update that breaks something at any time, but also those
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by advael 10mo ago
I like it, though I do notice that like most LLMs it seems to take criticism of LLM rollout kinda personally (actually circa 2023 this was considerably less true across every popular model) I also think the predictions section seems kinda g
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by advael 10mo ago
That sounds about right to be honest
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by advael 10mo ago
In many moral frameworks, inconsistency isn't the only wrong someone can commit. The argument constructed in this article is essentially utilitarian, making the claim that the mechanisms of surveillance and privacy make this behavior h
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by advael 10mo ago
This quote gives me such pause. I came back to read it again several times today. Conversations about echo chambers and filter bubbles are everywhere, and it's hard to sort into real data-driven arguments that there is an upward trend
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by advael 10mo ago
I think a major problem with advice for a general audience is that different people need different advice. I agree with you that a path to mastery usually involves putting in a lot of effortful practice and then learning to operate without
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by advael 10mo ago
From my experience riding in them and news reports I've read, any tesla fits the bill Sadly, the most reliable signal american tech companies send is that they are primarily concerned with building a surveillance state. Whether this is

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