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by gwd 2y ago
> At this point, I have to wonder what is even the point of missives like this. ...It's all just mindless blather unless you're actually talking about ways that software vendors will be held liable for bugs in their products. I
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by gwd 2y ago
Thank you for the explanation -- when I'm speaking foreign languages I appreciate this sort of explanation. But in this case, as a native English speaker, I was well aware of the idiom, and was trying to subvert it. :-) The original i
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by gwd 2y ago
> Reacting fast is the least the vendor could do. It's certainly the least a vendor should do, but it's absolutely not the least a vendor could do, as we see the vast majority of vendors do far, far less. It's worth h
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by gwd 2y ago
On the other hand, this is pretty impressive: aug 25 5:48pm: got initial contact over signal (encrypted) with arc co-founder hursh aug 25 6:02pm: vulnerability poc executed on hursh's arc account aug 25 6:13pm: added to s
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by gwd 2y ago
> The "problem" you describe is your US citizenship requires you to pay tax on earnings from outside the US No, I think you're missing the issue. Suppose the company (let's call it XYZ Ltd) is owned 100% by my spouse.
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by gwd 2y ago
You seem to think that the IRS doing that just for a laugh, or just because they hate rich people, and that Big Tech companies are the only ones playing shell games with their revenue in order to shirk paying their fair share to support the
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by gwd 2y ago
> The obvious loss is to government revenue, but the more subtle and still very real loss is the diversion of high-powered talent from what could have been gains in efficiency and productivity to focus instead on corporate reorganization
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by gwd 2y ago
> Science makes me feel stupid too. It's just that I've gotten used to it. When I started my PhD program, a group of us were given a little talk by the department secretary. She told the story of how she went to audition for Je
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by gwd 2y ago
A sociopath would certainly have knowingly put other people's lives at risk, but would never put his own life at risk knowingly. As sibling said, Stockton wasn't a sociopath, just a fool.
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by gwd 2y ago
Not too late by a long shot. Just keep insisting on the actual meaning; same for "terrorist", "facist", etc.
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by gwd 2y ago
> But now, as usual, everyone has overindexed on everything, so we're sitting here comparing Aaron Swartz to Sam Altman as if either of them would be successful parachuted into the median immediate-post-PMF company. Yeah, my take wa
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by gwd 2y ago
> Presumably they don't want to release this so that it is raw and unfiltered and can better monitor for cases of manipulation or deviation from training. My take was: 1. A genuine, un-RLHF'd "chain of thought" might
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by gwd 2y ago
> If anything, something not being in a try-catch block says that it will be handled higher up I don't think you get what I'm saying. Some functions will always succeed. Some functions fail in obvious ways. Some functions fa
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by gwd 2y ago
The thing missing from this analysis is how hard things will be to change later. If it's an internal function called in just one or two other files maintained by you our your team, then no need to spend a lot of time thinking too hard
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by gwd 2y ago
> It's the same with, for instance, email retention policies. Indeed it is. The intention and moral purpose of email deletion policies is to reduce the risk of embarrassing or incriminating emails being turned up as part of a l
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by gwd 2y ago
> incorrectly, that the exit node operators are being intentionally unhelpful I mean, exit node operators are being intentionally unhelpful? They're intentionally helping people who don't want to be tracked. "I don&#x2
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by gwd 2y ago
If they accepted contributions without a CLA, then no they can't make closed-source modifications (without some major surgery to get rid of the code not owned by them). If they wrote all the code in the first place, then that's h
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by gwd 2y ago
> The AGPL isn't used to uphold OSS values, it's used as a defense against competition. It's only a defense against competitors who want to use it and not give back -- just like the original GPL. If you prefer the BSD e
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by gwd 2y ago
> ...AGPL [is] basically a poison pill... Bill Gates from the 1990's called, he wants his FUD back. To be more specific: What arguments can be used to show that the AGPL is a "poison pill" in the SaaS space, which couldn&#
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by gwd 2y ago
> But so far, I haven't seen any actual data (or even arguments) OK, here's an argument. - In order to write resilient software, programs must handle not only the "happy path" when things succeed, but the path where t
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by gwd 2y ago
I think you got it backwards: his Dad's current hearing aids cost over $750.
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by gwd 2y ago
Ah. Another reason Twitter's new name is kind of dumb.
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by gwd 2y ago
You are exactly wrong. X is what Paul calls "Manager Mode": > The theme of Brian's talk was that the conventional wisdom about how to run larger companies is mistaken. As Airbnb grew, well-meaning people advised him that
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by gwd 2y ago
> I really think PG would benefit from revisiting his article to provide what he actually means to the rest of us. I read PG's article as explicitly saying, "I'm not going to talk about what Founder Mode is yet because no
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by gwd 2y ago
It sounds like his model was: "Make a non-profit org to do something useful for society, get funding from orgs that have money and want useful things done"; and it sounds like the problem he had was that orgs that want useful thi
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by gwd 2y ago
> Ballmer could also change the number he's thinking of as you make guesses, so part of the game would be guessing what he's thinking. If I were to take the bet with him, I'd make him write down the number first hide it (t
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by gwd 2y ago
> The point is if you get _one round_ to play - essentially all or nothing - should you play? No. On the contrary, in general yes you should, because life as a whole will give you a variety of these sorts of risks. Steve Balmer's o
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by gwd 2y ago
> So I found myself correcting her again and again and ironing out the actual facts so she had them right. And I came to realize that her mistakes were probably not accidents, but she was intentionally prompting me to reinforce the same
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by gwd 2y ago
> It violates the golden rule: don't create a role with two bosses. Right, but on the other side, in the military they told us: "You can delegate authority, but you can't delegate responsibility." If part of the CEO
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by gwd 2y ago
Imagine if you told your boss you were only going to actually write code or investigate bugs from 1pm-5pm on Fridays, and the rest of the week you were going to practice "fundamentals". Your boss would think it completely ridicul

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