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by andy99 1y ago
I will say that hiring for remote jobs has gotten to be a gigantic time waste lately. Even though even moderate background checking can filter these candidates out, it's quite time consuming and with the rise of generative AI...
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Quebec to ban cellphones in elementary and high schools(nationalpost.com)
12 points by andy99 1y ago|0 comments
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by andy99 1y ago
did your boss ever have to send you a memo demanding that you use a smartphone? Was there a performance review requiring you to use Slack? I see this is already a favorite quote amongst commentors. It's mine too: I had a job ~
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by andy99 1y ago
See a previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43647143 Tldr (speculative) it's clickbaity and paywalled
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by andy99 1y ago
I don't like this headline that implies something but doesn't say any thing. So? What if anything are the implications on people? I skimmed the article and didn't see anything about that. It sounds bad, any "toxic levels
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by andy99 1y ago
I think in many cases, chatbots may make information accessible to people who otherwise wouldn't have it, like in the OP's case. But I'm more sceptical it's replacing experts in specialize subjects that had been previ
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by andy99 1y ago
They overfit to kicking Trudeau out, and were essentially successful, he left in complete humiliation. But then they didn't have much to fall back on. The liberals adopted much of the conservatives policies and / or there was no d
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by andy99 1y ago
I can't read the page because of the cloudflare blocker. They really are destroying the internet, and anyone who wants people to actually see their content needs to stop using them.
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by andy99 1y ago
Older readers may remeber the Northeastern blackout of 2003 in the US and Canada that was caused by cascading overloading, I believe originally triggered by high loads due to hot weather and poor vegetation maintenance under lines. I was an
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by andy99 1y ago
I'd guess way more Canadians are government employees than most jurisdictions which is why. Also lots of industries with no competitive pressure (banks, telco)
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by andy99 2y ago
It's not really security theater because there is no security threat. It's some variation of self importance or hyperbole, claiming that information poses a "danger" to make AI seem more powerful than it is. All of these
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by andy99 2y ago
This is so irresponsible, it's "misinformation" of the worst kind (in that it's difficult for a layperson to parse and comes from an ostensibly trustworthy source). When "blockchain" was on obvious scam, we all
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by andy99 2y ago
There's a good zen koan waiting to be written with the CEO as the novice and the domain expert as the master. Ironically I tried to use Claude to write one and only got crap.
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by andy99 2y ago
Care to elaborate?
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by andy99 2y ago
The world doesn't owe you a business model. It's not work if someone doesn't value it, just like a street performer isn't working just because they're putting on a show. If people can't make money without the g
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by andy99 2y ago
If my grandmother was a tractor, would she have wheels?
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by andy99 2y ago
The question doesn't make sense imo because it, meaning neural network or other ML computer vision classification, doesn't have a mechanism to be trustworthy. It's just looking for shortcuts with predictive power, it's n
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by andy99 2y ago
No, it's a horrible use, relying on something entirely unreliable to make medical diagnoses. All the AI safety people who pretend to worry about killer robots or whatever should actually be up in arms about these kind of uses, but you
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by andy99 2y ago
99% accuracy in diagnosing benign case This is meaningless. The only thing that matters in this kind of application is false negative rate at some acceptable false positive rate. I assume whoever is working on this knows that, so t
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She was chatting with friends in a Lyft. Then someone texted her what they said(cbc.ca)
98 points by andy99 2y ago|82 comments
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by andy99 2y ago
On 2, it appears to be open source so you could look and see if/what it logs.
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by andy99 2y ago
Yeah this is just a minor example of enshittification, there's no more to it than that. Netflix and other modern software like it aren't written for customer they are written to extract maximum "value" from "users&q
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by andy99 2y ago
Is there an example of how these could be used in LLM prompting?
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by andy99 2y ago
Interesting, I've seen lots of 404 submission [dead] and assumed that was why. I notice that the link you posted above is not paywalled but the dead one is, though I'd be surprised if that's actually detected somehow.
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by andy99 2y ago
Pretty sure 404 media is automatically killed, possibly because it doesn't have a paywall bypass. Same as if you post a link to "the information" - it's something nobody can read so not worth linking.
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by andy99 2y ago
We did a similar (less rigorous) evaluation internally last year, and one of the big things we identified was "purple prose": In literary criticism, purple prose is overly ornate prose text that may disrupt a narrative flow by
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Max severity RCE flaw discovered in widely used Apache Parquet(bleepingcomputer.com)
174 points by andy99 2y ago|78 comments
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by andy99 2y ago
You forgot the most egregious term which is that users have to abide by an acceptable use policy that only allows you to use it for what Meta says you can.
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by andy99 2y ago
Is this a "model" as in a set of transformer weights that inherently does security work or is it a system that has data lookup and or other tools along with an LLM to do the question interpretation, synthesis, and output presentat
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by andy99 2y ago
Anthropic has a definition: Workflows are systems where LLMs and tools are orchestrated through predefined code paths. Agents, on the other hand, are systems where LLMs dynamically direct their own processes and tool usage, maintaini

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