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by djoldman 5mo ago
TIL: > eCall was made mandatory in all new cars approved for manufacture within the European Union as of April 2018. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECall
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by djoldman 5mo ago
France.
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by djoldman 5mo ago
> The thing is, the cost of discouraging the wrong kid -- the one who ends up curing cancer or otherwise innovating in an extremely useful area -- is unbounded. > The cost of encouraging the ones who fail can be heavy, but at least it
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by djoldman 5mo ago
Many PHD programs might best be described as cults: Most of the people in charge (faculty) are true believers and the acolytes (grad students) are as well. They believe that a PHD and the years spent in pursuit of it will: 1. get the st
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by djoldman 5mo ago
A rare anti-Betteridge's law of headlines article. Yes, there are laws that, if passed, would stop or slow or even reverse the increasing price of real estate. Would they pass? Hard to say and probably not quickly. As has been repeated
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by djoldman 5mo ago
This was interesting and sent me down a research hole. General conclusion: Corporate litigation is mostly just a series of self-investigations so that both sides can learn what both sides actually know, given that neither side knows much ab
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Profiling.sampling – Statistical Profiler(docs.python.org)
89 points by djoldman 5mo ago|23 comments
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by djoldman 5mo ago
This is sound advice but isn't really about AI: Humans must not anthropomorphise {non-humans} Humans must not blindly trust the output of {anything} Humans must remain fully responsible and accountable for consequences arising
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by djoldman 5mo ago
From the corporate POV, the lesson remains: never ever ever conduct research that could lead to a conclusion that your product/service can harm in any way, unless you know how and intend to fix/change it. The most important eviden
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by djoldman 5mo ago
Looks like it comes into play for telemetry and here in actual commits: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/4e312e3c3a18d13c26d...
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by djoldman 6mo ago
Cloudflare went down this road a bit: https://github.com/cloudflare/svg-hush
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by djoldman 6mo ago
> We have incorporated these findings into our recent evaluation efforts. In the last months we’ve chosen to report results from the public split of SWE-Bench Pro. We recommend other model developers do the same. SWE-bench Pro is not per
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by djoldman 6mo ago
100%. They might as well quote the Quadrillions changing hands in the OTC derivative package markets.
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No one can force me to have a secure website [pdf](tom7.org)
1 points by djoldman 6mo ago|0 comments
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by djoldman 6mo ago
Just for context, Amazon+Microsoft+Alphabet+Meta+Oracle total revenue for the 5 years ending in 2025 was... ~$6.5 trillion
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When Should AI Step Aside?: Teaching Agents When Humans Want to Intervene(blog.ml.cmu.edu)
2 points by djoldman 6mo ago|0 comments
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by djoldman 6mo ago
Additionally, one can argue that the state of the world has changed enough that assumptions made by the USC at the time of precedence require reversal.
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by djoldman 6mo ago
TFA is perhaps another consequence of the cost of information/data distribution going to zero. It seems that when given the option, folks don't choose traditional media for curated books-to-read lists or literary criticism. Just l
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by djoldman 6mo ago
> I find myself holding back private research because I don't want to provide free R&D for a value-extraction machine that is already efficient enough. If someone wants to release technology in a way that makes it publicly viewa
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by djoldman 6mo ago
If someone doesn't like Amazon using software they write, they can just outright disallow Amazon from using it in the copywrite license. It's perfectly legal to say: "except for Amazon [and whoever], anyone can use this for a
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by djoldman 6mo ago
It's interesting how restricting the commercialization of recorded sex acts (by consenting actors) has had more success over the last few decades than restricting the commercialization of recorded violence (by consenting actors). Addin
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by djoldman 6mo ago
From the bill text establishing a council to figure it out: > The council shall evaluate issues related to data centers located or proposed to be located in the State, with the goals of protecting ratepayers, maintaining electric grid re
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Primesieve: Fast Prime Number Generator(github.com)
2 points by djoldman 6mo ago|0 comments
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US, Iran say they have agreed to a two-week ceasefire(apnews.com)
11 points by djoldman 6mo ago|1 comments
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by djoldman 6mo ago
True. I amended my response. There are exceptions. Also, curiously, some things require older hardware like faxes and do not accept newer hardware like smartphones.
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by djoldman 6mo ago
> Screen Time gives you a report card. And if the grade is bad, the design makes one thing clear: > That's a you problem. > It measures your usage. Tracks your behavior. Gives you a weekly report card. If the numbers are too h
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by djoldman 6mo ago
Yes, that's true for population. But all except 9 US states are larger in geographic area and only 5 have a higher population density. Those are pretty salient statistics when you're talking about infrastructure that links houses.
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by djoldman 6mo ago
Have you tried turning up temperature in those cases where it circles back? I have been meaning to.
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by djoldman 6mo ago
Seems like if it were possible to implement end to end encryption where google had no way to decrypt a communication, google could avoid liability for facilitating transmission of CSAM? Shouldn't this big liability be pushing the big t
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by djoldman 6mo ago
In IL, a "shopkeeper" can definitely detain someone: > (a) Detention. Any merchant who has reasonable grounds to believe that a person has committed retail theft may detain the person, on or off the premises of a retail mercant

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