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by fn-mote 4mo ago
I read the first page and they were excellent. Each was clearly written by an experienced dev who knows how to substantiate their claims and propose an acceptable fix that could just be merged. Your comment, on the other hand, would be impr
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by fn-mote 4mo ago
I would say that the US has had enough destruction of institutions and few enough institutional protections of individuals. I can dislike someone’s stance while at the same time recognizing that others benefit from the same protections. If
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by fn-mote 4mo ago
I love the illustration of the same-ness of AI. One question / quibble: > if a hundred “authors” give their favorite AI tool a similar prompt Do we really believe there are 100 different people generating those? When I saw the books
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by fn-mote 4mo ago
In my ideal world, explaining this stance would be a part of democracy. It’s an uphill battle vs a tribal mentality, though.
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by fn-mote 4mo ago
How hypothetical is this situation? Even if you have the ability to remotely enable new features: 1. You shouldn’t use the same ability to disable existing features. 2. You shouldn’t enable them, either! It should be opt-in. Any kind of cha
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by fn-mote 4mo ago
> Modern LLMs routinely beat human doctors at diagnosing "extremely rare edge cases". There is a selection bias here. Not saying it wouldn’t work, but right now you hear about exceptional cases, not when the LLM wants to amputa
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by fn-mote 4mo ago
> Currently, in the US, money is an infinite resource. […] Try harder to engage in dialog. Basic economic theory contradicts your claim. You need a much stronger logical argument to have any credibility.
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by fn-mote 4mo ago
Yes, if you don’t believe the board ever exercises effective restraint or holds effective responsibility. Which I understand people believe, but at least consider the possibility of the CEO being fired (and staying fired) by the board.
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by fn-mote 4mo ago
I don’t think it’s psychosis if the ground level people are using it effectively. That’s just the reality of having / wanting good tools.
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by fn-mote 4mo ago
I hate to second the grandparent, but perhaps the install process is the most difficult part for the instructor because it is at a stage where the instructor feels 90% responsible for the outcomes. A criticism like “I didn’t understand re
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by fn-mote 4mo ago
Surely this would just create an industry of ways to dodge the “$100m tax”. Just waiting for my company’s top 10 shareholders to be anonymous entities owned by other companies based in the Cayman Islands.
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by fn-mote 4mo ago
> Are there other reasons to not like Ubuntu other than the windowing manager? Snap applications are still not “equal enough” to installed apps. They have gotten better, but it’s not seamless and when you get burned it’s 2 hours debuggi
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by fn-mote 4mo ago
Come on - at least make one substantive criticism in your post putting down Ubuntu. I came to Ubuntu because Wine worked on it with no effort. Yes, this was a long time ago. I have certainly cursed some of their changes since then, but I do
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by fn-mote 4mo ago
> Moving really old and unused code out of the kernel just to get less AI-assisted bug reports Obviously, the parent is /s, but when I read this, I thought Linux was removing exploit paths that exercise rarely-used features. On phon
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by fn-mote 5mo ago
> much more profitable I think you made this up. Right now, I don’t believe any LLM company is profitable at all. Unless you meant “more profitable” to mean “not-as-badly-negative profit”.
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by fn-mote 5mo ago
I won’t downvote this thread but … the first paragraph of the article explains how Tao won some $3m award. Unless the going rate for AI-shilling is much higher than I can believe, the amount of money just is not going to be enough to get
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by fn-mote 5mo ago
The current commentators are surely missing the fact that this comment is sarcastic.
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by fn-mote 5mo ago
I think we can learn about the extent to which this is an adversarial relationship from fighting email spam. By that, I mean the attackers adapt to exploit loopholes in the system, and different attackers have different profiles (eg obvious
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by fn-mote 5mo ago
Modern OS exploit chains should give you a good sense of how far people can go. (Eg, phone OSes are relatively hardened.) We’re not even at the “ASLR” level of protection for LLMs yet.
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by fn-mote 5mo ago
I’m a point where I expect everything I do will be retained indefinitely. I’m having a really hard time believing some weak reason for a 30 day retention policy.
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by fn-mote 5mo ago
The bar for finding them is higher, though. Tbh, I think people feel more comfortable asking an AI. Even though I “know” it’s all smoke and mirrors, I still prefer the human-like interaction to the grind of watching video after video and bu
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by fn-mote 5mo ago
I think GP is talking about cracking, not pen testing.
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by fn-mote 5mo ago
> tertiary education is where a lot of real learning takes starts to happen Hilarious assertion. Absolutely false in my experience. Someone who just starts to learn in college will be years behind the students who began in high school. T
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by fn-mote 5mo ago
> Let the students use the AI tools they like […], but test regularly and early on the skills/knowledge they're meant to be gaining offline and in person. I very much doubt there is any agreement on what those skills are. Creat
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by fn-mote 5mo ago
When was the last time you remember a company being sued into oblivion for a security breach? The cost in the US is more like “one year of credit monitoring”.
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by fn-mote 5mo ago
I was surprised they didn't publish the text of the demand letter verbatim.
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by fn-mote 5mo ago
At least he had the honor to resign when caught, instead of doubling down on his innocence.
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by fn-mote 5mo ago
With a lot of care for the details, otherwise you just made account hijacking possible for $20. Those 7-Eleven & Western Union jobs are very low wage in the US (if not worldwide?). Cheaper than paying an insider to do something for you.
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by fn-mote 5mo ago
> [login.gov] if its good enough for ~342M Americans I am very curious about the actual number of users of login.gov. I am a US citizen and my experience was … negative to the point of actively avoiding it.
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by fn-mote 5mo ago
HtDP is an introductory textbook. It shouldn’t have new material for someone who has 2 years worth of experience. That said, while I didn’t learn content from it, the exposition of their process was excellent. It really influenced my “per

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