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Large Language Models as Lobbyists(law.stanford.edu)
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Much like life itself, which is effectively a carcinogen. The longer you are exposed to being alive, the more likely you are to get some type of cancer.
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Oh, that's an old and well established practice. The Spanish Inquisition charged procedural costs for their ... administrations. Usually on the subject's family, because of high mortality rate. Terry Gilliam has even said that thi
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> Is this really unusual? How do people operate for whom Vim gives a productivity boost? Don't think of vim as a magic totem of productivity. You should think of it as a largely distraction-free editor. No messing about with a m
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Slack probably has a lot of large - and very demanding - enterprise clients who absolutely require their non-trivial service suppliers to have infosec policies with a maximum of 72-hour notification window for security breaches. And I can
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Crashing a browser process with CSS is certainly up there in WTF moments. I've had to debug one such situation in the past: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25265708 The call chain from the renderer can be surprisi
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The SGI Indigo ("Indy") workstations looked gorgeous back in their time. Our university had an entire computer class kitted out with them, and out-of-hours access was meted out ... sparingly. AFAIK the class was mostly used for co
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This isn't about unknown unknowns. The blog post made it clear that the team did not anticipate temperatures to change much in their surroundings. That is a very narrow-minded view: places with around-the-year stable temperatures are t
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Sorry, but this is a bit rich: > When you run a hardware startup, you can only hope for an experienced team If you run a hardware startup and fail to acknowledge that places like Alaska or Ontario exist, you fail before even getting
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I recall someone on HN pointing out years ago a curious detail about financial metrics, and how they made food delivery apps look FAR better for VC capital than they in reality are. The underlying reason: pass-through billing. The food de
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My all-time favourite is the dishonourable mention for 2004 Children's Literature: As he entered the room within which so many a wild night of their sweltering love affair had been spent, the White Rabbit regarded her with benevolent e
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Oh cool, this has been my number one complaint about AWS credentials management since early 2016 or so. Over the years I've talked to a number of their project and program managers and until 2019 (that is, before the plague) they all t
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YouTube likely has staying power despite of what the company are doing with the UI and user experience flows, because it sure as hell can't be because of it. And at least their search is not trying to actively work against the user
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There's also the funny angle that some real "premium" stuff is actually awful crap, or at least an utterly crappy experience. Years ago, I bought some very pungent blue cheese, must have been either from SW France or NE Spa
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Yes. I've been involved in a few. Well, the resolution and accuracy were part of the audit scope, certainly. Quite common in real-time sports betting world.
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I'm against pure speculation, but forbidding futures outright would feel ... wrong. Locking prices for contracts up front is a useful thing. However, it might be much more interesting, and societally more beneficial, to require that an
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If you knew that they were wrong, and you still recommended others to make life-or-death decisions based on them? Yes. For corporate murder.
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> Twitter [...] can work on far fewer resources to do more if he runs it like Space X or Tesla Even disregarding the content moderation speed run, the technical problems for Tesla and Space X are fundamentally about four things: physic
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I wish I could remember who said this, because it was a standup saying something ... in an interview. Not performing. "It's a sad state of affairs when the most accurate political commentary is done by comedians, while the country
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The threat model here isn't about trusting one third-party repo and distrusting another. It's about trusting any third-party repository without exceptionally good reasons. I trust Signal, the company, as an author of specific ty
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This threat model was at the heart of Maemo's and later Meego's app store criteria. Both APT and RPM repository trust model is flat: all repositories have the same privileges to make packages available for upload, and can declare
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I'm not entirely sure this is entirely true anymore: > The idea of putting on a headset and "experiencing" a "chat" is a downright Lovecraftian dystopia For the record, I fully believe that to be accurate for h
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Right, I should have tried to inject relevant nuance into my original post. Without trying to be pedantic, I make a distinction between "advertising", and more generic "promotion" activity. A well done piece of intellige
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[Caution: contains strong language.] I can't believe I'm the only one who considers advertising as an active negative signal. That is, if you're pushing ads, you are loudly telegraphing that your offering is not good enough t
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> just send them to the hiring manager Yes, please do. Spotting odd patterns in CVs is a good skill. Even with lots of garbage being funneled my way. The clearly hopeless or flat-out misplaced applications indeed do get rejected in sec
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Yes, but that's not limited to GS. As I understand it, the title inflation is an unintended consequence of regulations, tech, and cross-company contracts. Workers are considered cogs in the machine, and only "sufficiently senior&q
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> Devs hate basically everyone else's code. Including their recent selves'. The gentle way of expressing this is well known: if you are not embarrassed by code you wrote a year ago, you have not improved at all. As far as I a
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> No group wants to compete, they want to have already won. Or to put it another way: a capitalist fears nothing more than a truly well-functioning market.
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Not quite. It says this "may be altruistic". "May" does a lot of heavy lifting there. From an outsider's perspective, a more likely explanation is that the funding is a subsidy. The VC having a stake in this space w
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Let's keep in mind that "democracy", as it was originally constructed, was effectively somewhere between oligarchy and plutocracy. Approximately 3% of the population had the vote. I've been saying for 20 years that we ar

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