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by alwa 2y ago
Related discussion about the Shipt case that the Register’s interview refers to (2 days ago, 272 points, 149 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40845628
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by alwa 2y ago
I feel like I’ve been seeing more and more of this lately. Most recently somebody talked to me about a genAI video firm, which doesn’t need to be mentioned by name but which had an elaborately produced brochureware kind of landing page—aspi
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by alwa 2y ago
Aren’t these export controls rather than import controls? That is, if a company in their bloc does succeed at developing cryptographically-relevant quantum computers, they’d just as soon that company not sell that tech on to the adversary?
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by alwa 2y ago
This “Shipt,” though, involves an opportunity for some degree of relationship to make a difference, right? Your mail carrier must deliver your package, the package is the package, it’s either delivered or not. Maybe there’s a small margin a
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by alwa 2y ago
It sounds like they were parsing screenshots that workers submitted by SMS
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by alwa 2y ago
I’m curious: would you have felt better if Uber had just rejected your ride request upfront (“Sorry, we can’t offer rides that far” or something)? Or is this attitude of “hey, it’s a long shot, but let’s give it a try and see if anybody tak
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by alwa 2y ago
Although as far as that graph reflects the the study’s results, the new distribution looks almost perfectly balanced: even more people experienced a “10%+” bump than a 10%+ reduction post-update. By what mechanism do you suggest the worker-
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by alwa 2y ago
If the whole point of the algo change is to correct an unfairness by which a strict fee+cart value approach doesn’t reliably reflect the amount of work somebody’s being asked to do, isn’t this exactly the outcome we expect? That the people
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by alwa 2y ago
Maybe not cut in stone, but if the data are derived from the workers’ payout receipts, it would seem likely that this was the amount that was paid out by Shipt. Or do you mean that third parties might be skimming something off after the com
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by alwa 2y ago
Sometimes this type of guest network can provide device isolation: devices can talk to the open internet, but not to anything else on the LAN.
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by alwa 2y ago
Although sometimes, rarely, the victim confesses their embarrassing actions as a warning to others in a well-written firsthand perspective in a national newsmagazine [0] [0] https://www.thecut.com/article/amazon-scam-ca
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by alwa 2y ago
Do the black-market consumers know that? Fentanyl and xylazine come to mind: not many drug users intend to get those, they can get many batches of what they do want before they get an adulterated batch, and they often don’t find out the
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by alwa 2y ago
From your perspective, has this shift reduced the number of options you’re comfortable feeding to your allergic child? I guess what I’m asking is, was the previous situation (label indicating the mere possibility of cross-contamination) e
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by alwa 2y ago
That seems like a sensible point to me. At some level, let the Bimbos of the world have the sesame-agnostic mass market—that only strengthens the case for niche competitors who serve this specific market. If sesame is in fact poison for a
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by alwa 2y ago
That seems to be the problem. New regulations [0] would require expensive measures to prevent cross-contamination if your label says that your product carries a risk of cross-contamination. But it's not "contamination" if it&
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by alwa 2y ago
Like everything in this piece, this example seems to overlook major aspects of human experience and preference in its rush to draw smug “one little trick” conclusions. Independently of cost and space considerations, why would you want such
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by alwa 2y ago
It says the company claimed that the credential leak was discovered and remediated 18 months ago, meanwhile the leaked credentials were still working as of a month ago. Is this level of governance and sophistication really typical of vendor
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by alwa 2y ago
The last I heard, ”expediter” services game the passport offices the same way.
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by alwa 2y ago
Out of curiosity, was your correspondence in reference to navigating the federal government’s services, or were you corresponding to share your concerns about political matters? It seems like the congressional offices can be useful for brin
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by alwa 2y ago
I believe part of it is about measuring quantitative indicators of program quality, but they also seem to go for the more fraught project of trying to put a dollar figure on the value of the outcomes. Or a “quality-adjusted life years” figu
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by alwa 2y ago
I’m suspicious over the scant detail in this claim. I feel like when this has come up in the past, it’s turned out that the training scrapes obeyed robots.txt, but the agents browsing in direct response to user conversations were retrieving
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by alwa 2y ago
Although we have to admit the moral hazard element too: by altering the risk calculus, it does seem to have helped weaken cultural norms around condom use and risky sexual behavior. Business is booming for bacterial infections. Personally I
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by alwa 2y ago
The people responding to this seem to assume you’re doing so for funsies, which might be true. But that’s not what you said. So for their benefit, it’s worth pointing out that daily doxycycline is a pretty normal therapy for a range of chro
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by alwa 2y ago
This all feels really general—precipitated on the idea that there’s one Right Way for everyone to use these drugs, about which the doctors and public health professionals recommending doxyPEP are somehow uninformed. Suppose you’re immunocom
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by alwa 2y ago
You don’t, but people do. And even if they “shouldn’t,” the cost of contracting HIV—which very few people set out intending to do—adds up to an eyewatering sum over a lifetime, no matter who’s paying for it. Not to mention rendering someo
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by alwa 2y ago
It seems like the tagging standards accommodate a wide range of approaches to communicating provenance information. To address this author’s grumps, it seems like more specific tagging, rather than no tagging at all, might serve the interes
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by alwa 2y ago
Of course in this case, the author appears to be reacting to tech that literally just reads the content credential metadata that Photoshop embeds when you use its generative AI features. The complaint seems to be more that “made with AI” im
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by alwa 2y ago
Physical pools do also turn an ominous shade of green from algae when they’re not maintained, as apparently a Google review indicates happened at one of the property complexes mentioned in the piece. I read it as trying to imply that the pr
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by alwa 2y ago
I am also confused by the allegation of “inflating toxic property bubbles.” After reading I’m still not sure what that means, but yeah—monopolized rent fixing and a shift to prioritizing rent increases over occupancy rates.
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by alwa 2y ago
They did mention that someone was apprehended and punished under the law by 3 AM on the first day the law came into effect. Maybe it’s a case of starting with the most egregious and noncontroversial cases and considering broader approaches

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