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by anonymars 5d ago
Don't forget that same party is also able to change them at any time, Darth Vader style!
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by anonymars 5d ago
> extremely legalistic society Food for thought (not specifically relevant to this case): I wonder how much would go away if the US had universal healthcare, or to put it another way, how much of its legal system is spent figuring out wh
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by anonymars 5d ago
That's not the case in this situation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T_Mobility_LLC_v._Concepc...
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by anonymars 5d ago
> Without providing even a basic definition of intelligence you can't proclaim "this is intelligence". You seem to have settled on "Artificial Intelligence" but than disunite that from "reasoning". This
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by anonymars 6d ago
This is some truly farcical shit: > The plaintiffs don’t object to the companies individually deciding to slow their own progress in favor of safety. They instead argue in the complaint that antitrust laws forbid them from taking the “sh
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by anonymars 6d ago
I have to admit, my life would be a little more boring without some of the hot takes I find here sometimes Like, maybe I can just buy you a cheeseburger instead of totalling my car
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by anonymars 7d ago
Live Mesh also didn't require you to sync everything to the cloud, in contrast to offerings today. The cloud was just another optional target. Edit: the best replacement I could find that still exists is "Resilio Sync"
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by anonymars 7d ago
Without providing even a basic definition of intelligence you can't proclaim "this isn't intelligence". You seem to have settled on "Human Intelligence" but then incorrectly conflate that with "reasoning&
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by anonymars 8d ago
In the Hugging Face attack, their assigned task was not to invent a message board and hack Hugging Face. That they did all that in pursuit of the actual task strongly indicates goal-oriented behavior
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by anonymars 8d ago
> It's funny, because I literally didn't give any definition. Quoting the consensus from the "Definitions" section of the Wikipedia article on intelligence and then claiming "I didn't give any definition&quo
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by anonymars 8d ago
Do mice satisfy your definition of intelligent?
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by anonymars 8d ago
> ability to understand complex ideas, to adapt effectively to the environment, to learn from experience, to engage in various forms of reasoning, to overcome obstacles by taking thought. So, like the HuggingFace attack? https:/&#
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by anonymars 8d ago
> Nobody said it was I responded to a post that merely linked to the Wikipedia article for exponential backoff (in response to "I'd be interested to hear other strategies in [protecting against retry storms]") The submitte
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by anonymars 8d ago
My point was that just throwing exponential backoffs at the retry problem is not a magic solution I don't follow how being cautious about avoiding multiplicative layers of backoffs is trading a good developer experience for a bad user
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by anonymars 8d ago
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20051107-20/?p=33...
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by anonymars 9d ago
I should have known better than to try an analogy here
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by anonymars 9d ago
The analogy is "just because most X are caused by Y, doesn't mean you can easily test for X by looking at Y" I don't think your first point (how specific/precise are the symptoms of X) changes things, and I think yo
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by anonymars 9d ago
If your C code causes a segfault, is it fair to reason that there's a memory management error in the code? Does that make it practical to find where, so that you can just add a check for it?
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by anonymars 10d ago
"Move fast and break things" is probably going to break things I remember there was a recent discussion about "how complex systems fail" and there are usually many "proto-accidents" before the catastrophe ( htt
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by anonymars 10d ago
That might be debatable https://ij.org/the-ij-database-of-alpr-abuse/
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by anonymars 10d ago
> "One [software fault] was when the operator incorrectly selected X-ray mode then in 8 seconds quickly changing to electron mode, which allowed the electron beam to be set for X-ray mode without the X-ray target being in place&quot
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by anonymars 10d ago
Why does that guarantee this open dataset contains the requisite level of detail?
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by anonymars 11d ago
By shooting at or thinking it is something other than a passenger airplane?
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by anonymars 11d ago
You're asking why they couldn't completely change the product from a full-fledged VR machine into a headset in roughly a year, especially when they already sell a regular VR headset for $1,000?
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by anonymars 11d ago
All the fun of headcrab jump scares and skulking through the dark but now with complete immersion!
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by anonymars 15d ago
There's even a song! https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ccq30minme8
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by anonymars 15d ago
This interview aged well... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bIFdbd6dmKg&t=275s (4min 35sec) Anyway, this is the opening scene of Season 2 and it feels eerily spot on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDu0b6n
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by anonymars 15d ago
> Pilot Monitoring (PM) was a 38 yo first officer, also not very experienced on B767 But importantly, the first officer had almost a year more experience in the 767, which sets the stage for an almost textbook imbalance: having to speak
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by anonymars 15d ago
> these types of things are better left to elite minded people who are capable of these types of discussions In a world of eye-poppingly hot takes, I commend your ability to somehow raise the bar Bonus points for dismissing things like &
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by anonymars 16d ago
Probably a perfect example of why it's so useful for developers to talk to users Not only to understand the usage of features, but also use cases perhaps to design even better features

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