femto113

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by femto113 4mo ago
For me the distinction is that your rice only needs to be edible once, while your code may need to last for decades. Using AI to code anything I could comfortably throw away if needed is a lot less fraught than letting it make choices that
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by femto113 8mo ago
Users already proven to be trustworthy in one project can automatically be assumed trustworthy in another project, and so on. I get the spirit of this project is to increase safety, but if the above social contract actually becomes preval
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by femto113 1y ago
Unless you know all the terms the valuation is pretty meaningless. For example if I invest $500 for 1 share of your startup with an extra clause saying that I get the first $500 if you ever sell the company at any price then you could clai
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by femto113 1y ago
I share your feelings. What it most brings to mind for me is the infamous StackSort from the image alt text on XKCD comic 1185 ( https://xkcd.com/1185/ )
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by femto113 2y ago
Some additional color: CORS today is just an annoying artifact of a poorly conceived idea about domain names somehow being a meaningful security boundary. It never amounted to anything more than a server asking the client not to do somethi
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by femto113 2y ago
> the AWS team has implemented it poorly by enforcing it This is whiny and just wrong. Best behavior by default is always the right choice for an SDK. Libraries/tools/clients/SDKs break backwards compatibility all the time
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by femto113 2y ago
Potentially unpopular take but I don't think free services linked to physical goods are a good idea in practice. Maintaining such services costs money forever, companies can't sustain that as a business model, so the market is li
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by femto113 3y ago
This is definitely worthy of concern. There's an infamous case where an AI was trained to detect cancer from imaging but all the positive examples included a ruler (to measure the tumor) so it turned out it just was good at detecting
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by femto113 3y ago
Definitely agree liquidation is non-starter here. They don't sign long term deals with their own customers so WeWork's only real asset is the brand. What the creditors will do is take over ownership from the equity-hodlers, then
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by femto113 3y ago
The insurmountable problem is that the practical interests of "consumers shopping on Amazon" don't actually align with the abstract interests of "consumers in general" that the government is purporting to defend. O
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by femto113 3y ago
Since I haven't seen it mentioned I'll throw out the Rails/Merb split in the late 00s as a significant momentum killer for Rails (and, by extension, Ruby). Rails 3 reunified them but I don't feel like it ever fully reco
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by femto113 3y ago
Adding a veneer of security isn't necessarily superior to leaving it out altogether. Systems of this sort are best secured at the network level, i.e. only trusted hosts should be able to connect to it. Redis is a good example of wher
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by femto113 3y ago
Fortunately Meta has chickens and eggs. Bootstrapping the graph from Instagram hopefully means that Threads gets enough critical mass that Twitter->Threads tooling (ala Mastodon's Movetodon or Debirdify) will actually work becauseth
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by femto113 3y ago
Deliberately trying to create an extreme situation in order to find when/where/how a service breaks is inarguably "abuse" regardless of whether the intent was malign.
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by femto113 3y ago
PE already got theirs, through the magic of a "leveraged dividend". There's really no bigger scam going these days. From the S&P rating note a couple years ago: "U.S.-based Instant Brands Holdings Inc. (formerly kn
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by femto113 3y ago
Awkward timing to highlight the Apollo widget...
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by femto113 3y ago
It doesn't really help understand what they are, but for completeness CUDA is an acronym for "Compute Unified Device Architecture" while HIP is "Heterogeneous-compute Interface for Portability"
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by femto113 3y ago
I understand that this sucks for specific merchants like you (or OP's Viahart), but if you consider it holistically (across all merchants and products in a category) I think it's a lot less sinister. Imagine some vendor sources a
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by femto113 3y ago
I'm not sold that it's reasonable to equate "losing Featured Offer status because of violating objective criteria" with "Amazon is suppressing my listings". Amazon does look at off-Amazon prices to decide whet
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by femto113 3y ago
I'm guessing the critical issue is this assertion in the original blog post If we sell our products for less on channels outside Amazon and Amazon detects this, our products will not appear as prominently in search and, if you do find
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by femto113 3y ago
This definitely seems like a significant element of the ask, but for any popular package a list of all the downloaders would be pretty overwhelming in size (and I think of very limited utility). I'm guessing that some versions of some
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by femto113 3y ago
This announcement has nothing to do with physics. As stated, it's just an agreement for Microsoft to buy electricity, and not obviously an agreement to do so at any particular price. And why make this move now? Is Helion afraid that
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by femto113 3y ago
If they are really only 5 years from producing sellable power they are already capable of a science demo that would render this sort of vapid publicity stunt pointless. I’ve set a reminder to check back in 5 years, if the cynicism was genu
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by femto113 3y ago
They definitely have valuable IP already: whatever slide deck/demo reel/kompromat they used to pull this nonsense off is clearly worth its weight in unobtanium.
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by femto113 3y ago
I'm guessing a very small subset of trainers make that much. An awful lot of AI training is done via Mechanical Turk like systems that pay pennies per task. They may work out to more than $15/hour on a per task basis but rarely
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by femto113 3y ago
I wouldn't put it in carbonara, but Marcella Hazan's recipe[1] includes it and she's about as big of a "pasta sauce authority figure" as you're likely to find. [1] https://www.latimes.com/recipe
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by femto113 3y ago
You could try asking it to output the sed/awx/etc. commands needed to do the desired transformation reproducibly. If it's not yet good at that it will be soon.
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by femto113 4y ago
Managers don't actually want estimates. A genuine "estimate" would be a probability distribution over a range of dates, with some point identified as the most likely delivery date and a roughly even chance of being early or
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by femto113 4y ago
I think that in many ways creating a shared, stable namespace for images was actually a bigger contribution than any of the technology. The ability to type somtething like 'FROM python:3' at the top of your Dockerfile and have th
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by femto113 4y ago
There really needs to be another standard class of vulnerability besides "physical access to the device" along the lines of "access to a copy of the on disk data". There are so many paths to this and some never required

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