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631.
by astrange 11mo ago
Apple doesn't have an "R&D wing". It's a bad idea to split your company into the cool part and the boring part.
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by astrange 11mo ago
Windows above the first few floors. See the thread. You'd have to break into them, since they aren't required to be openable.
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by astrange 11mo ago
That use of quote marks is Japanese. It's used for emphasis, it gives the thing in quote marks an air of specialness like it's a fancy philosophical concept.
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by astrange 11mo ago
You can easily build them without windowless bedrooms, yes. The problem is you can't easily convert office buildings to housing without these, because the floor plates are too different.
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by astrange 11mo ago
Mainly the minimum size requirements are much larger (requirements related to stretchers). Also, in some/all places the elevator union got basically all manufacturing processes banned so they have to be assembled on site by union worke
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by astrange 11mo ago
Doubtful that's enough for a copyright grant. You'd need a signed CLA.
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by astrange 11mo ago
How do they know that next week it's not going to be one of those 10 page Project Zero blog posts? (Which like all Google engineer blog posts, usually end up mostly being about how smart the person who wrote the blog post is.) Note FFm
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by astrange 11mo ago
The problem with security reports in general is security people are rampant self-promoters. (Linus once called them something worse.) Imagine you're a humble volunteer OSS developer. If a security researcher finds a bug in your code th
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by astrange 11mo ago
If FFmpeg had a commercial operation it would constantly be getting sued for IP issues.
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by astrange 11mo ago
ffmpeg cannot relicense anything because it doesn't own anything. The contributors own the license to their code.
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by astrange 11mo ago
No, the ban is because an architect thinks they're icky, sent in a request to ban it, and the building code people take any suggestion to ban anything that anyone sends them. Safety regulations are written in blood, you know! https:&#
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by astrange 11mo ago
The sentence structure 'inspired by the concept of "thing in quotation marks"' is what's translated.
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by astrange 11mo ago
Palo Alto has its own reality distortion field that makes billionaires pretend they're 1950s middle class families, so he probably did shop at Ace Hardware.
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by astrange 11mo ago
> I donate approximately 47.5% of everything I earn to the French government, is that not enough? It's better to think of pretax money as just not existing. The effect of /everyone/ paying taxes is different from the effec
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by astrange 11mo ago
$1M/year in big tech is like director level? That's not "industry leading" but there aren't that many of them.
646.
by astrange 11mo ago
It's translated from Japanese. It makes more sense there. Especially if you don't leave out the load-bearing quote marks.
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by astrange 11mo ago
Controlling for things is bad practice in general because most variables are not good controls. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collider_(statistics) ) You should instead design the study so it doesn't need massagin
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by astrange 11mo ago
I get a ton of email to my gmail address for other people with similar names. One of them was a director at Google, but I think she retired. Always assumed that meant I'd get a lame work email if I applied there.
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by astrange 11mo ago
Google has been fined ~$180 million so far. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GDPR_fines_and_notices#Fines_a... Plus this $377 million one. https://www.cnil.fr/en/cookie-regulation-cnil-continuing-act.
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by astrange 11mo ago
The point of the EU's tech laws is to find American companies violating them so they can charge them big fines. They're not going to be satisfied, they just want to fine them. This is called protectionism. But it does lead to priv
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by astrange 11mo ago
That's what non-targetability is for.
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by astrange 11mo ago
Having to do it? Why would they want to stop?
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by astrange 11mo ago
> OTOH they gave all the data to China for Chinese users, so YMMV This is true for the same reason that American data is in the US. China is frequently a normal and competent country and has data privacy laws too.
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by astrange 11mo ago
Have you seen GDPR penalties? It's like they fine you 300% of your revenue and then have all your children executed by firing squad. Anthropic in particular is a PBC founded by weenies who thought the other labs weren't being safe
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by astrange 11mo ago
That argument is unreasonably strong. How many other illegal things are you worried about in case they become legal again later?
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by astrange 11mo ago
https://cppa.ca.gov/announcements/ And of course the EU does nothing but fine tech companies bazillions of euros for GDPR violations.
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by astrange 11mo ago
> No current employee of a corporation can promise that data collected today will not in the future be used for any particular purpose. Yes they can, because data privacy laws forbid collecting data for one purpose and then using it for
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by astrange 11mo ago
It is not a useful shortcut because you don't know what the training data is, nothing requires it to be an "average" of anything, and post-training arbitrarily re-weights all of its existing distributions anyway.
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by astrange 1y ago
> So you don't think it's relevant at all? Really? It's relevant if it's not preregistered. I agree this one is not preregistered and they should release their model weights instead of doing random tinkering on it the
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by astrange 1y ago
> the exact same as the harms It actually appears that the alternative harms aren't as bad; that is, recessions aren't caused by prior expansions and we don't get one by "deserving" them. https://eml.b

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