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by jonathanyc 3y ago
> Apple shareholders on Wednesday rejected a measure asking the company to disclose more information about how it uses artificial intelligence in its business and its ethical guidelines for the technology. > The proposal, which was de
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by jonathanyc 3y ago
Thank you! I’d be very interested in any papers you have the time to dig up. I feel like even one paper would give me a good pointer into the literature from which to start exploring.
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Does anyone know the differences between Meta's application of Precision Time Protocol and Google TrueTime? I was hoping to find some discussion in the article but found none. The 2022 article on the Precision Time Protocol says ( http
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by jonathanyc 3y ago
Now the argument coming from civil society for backdoors is based on CSAM: > Heat Initiative is led by Sarah Gardner, former vice president of external affairs for the nonprofit Thorn, which works to use new technologies to combat child
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by jonathanyc 3y ago
A StackOverflow question I asked 13 years ago (and which someone else answered 13 years ago!) was deleted just last month for being off-topic. All the mods’ accounts were years younger than both the question and answer. Even weirder, the
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by jonathanyc 3y ago
The NYT article is a lot better and has additional key details ( https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/25/technology/cruise-crash-r... or https://archive.ph/GLYF6 ): > During Quinn Emanuel’s
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by jonathanyc 3y ago
Thanks for sharing your honest thoughts. One question I have though—you say the Nest Home on Fuchsia didn’t have any new features enabled by Fuchsia. What specific features enabled by Fuchsia could have been used in Chrome OS? As I understa
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And in spite of the superlatives and exclamations, the author still didn't seem to get the hint that they should maybe go back to the drawing board. See their post which Matt Wilcox is replying to. I've worked in environments wh
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by jonathanyc 3y ago
Hacker News ran on a 2 core machine with 128 GB of RAM :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9222006
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Putting out a housefire and going to the dentist are also orthogonal tasks. GP’s point is very clearly that we should budget limited political will.
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For those of us who aren’t familiar, can you link something in the book to the OP?
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by jonathanyc 4y ago
I don’t feel much empathy for Chrome given that they did the exact same embrace/extend strategy with WebKit. He who lives by the sword will die by the sword…
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I admire how pilots are able to communicate so concisely and professionally. No one swore at each other or ranted over the radio. Southwest didn’t drag their feet because they didn’t appreciate FedEx’s tone. I suspect that higher stakes enc
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by jonathanyc 4y ago
Alice thinks it's odd that Bob budgeted $10k/mo to hire proxy moms to check in on him & cook for him. Do you tell Alice to touch grass?
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I clicked on the "About" page and learned that the author is 21. For a minute that made the experiment make more sense. Then it stopped making sense again.
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by jonathanyc 4y ago
When I reach the ends of your comments, I can't tell where we disagree.
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Your second and third paragraphs contradict.
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The UAE has a much higher GDP per capita than Canada, Germany, or Taiwan. Obviously they need to learn from the UAE how to innovate. Ads are Google's oil.
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by jonathanyc 4y ago
Great post! No complaints at all from me. The mix of your thought process + screenshots + examples is perfect.
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After the Ethereum DAO exploit, the result was two blockchains: Ethereum Classic and Ethereum. Was that better protection against database manipulation than the existing legal system provides?
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I agree. Clickbait titles are not universalizable. Kant would not be pleased.
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> As crucial as software like FORM is for physics, the effort to develop it is often undervalued. Vermaseren was lucky in that he had a permanent position at the National Institute for Subatomic Physics in the Netherlands, and a boss who
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by jonathanyc 4y ago
Given that people are selling reservations for thousands of dollars, I think you deserved something for reporting the issue. But I suppose being a hardcore engineer means never having to say you're sorry.
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The two examples you picked are of incredibly and unusually useful advances in science. I have a friend in grad school who told me he deliberately didn't want to work on anything useful! If you want to steelman the GP's argument,
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Could you make your post more substantive by e.g. sharing rough engagement numbers? Otherwise as an outsider this just reads as pretty mean-spirited. Sad because I am an Ars Technica fan, but can empathize with GP's point about AI cove
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Awesome that the result is backed by benchmarks. The writing style is very clear and having actual code snippets is great. Favorited! My tldr understanding that: - writing a byte code interpreter in C++ is slow, and a big reason is callee-s
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I have heard from a friend who's a doctor that in hospitals there's a very adversarial relationship between doctors and MBAs. The MBAs see the doctors as a cost center, and the doctors resent people without MDs being above them. Y
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TIL Google occupies SGI's former headquarters. A college professor mentioned working for SGI, so I knew they existed and had importance, but I didn't realize their business had collapsed.
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Are people still using this, or some successor to this? It looks very cool, but the last commit was in 2018.
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OP, this reply to your question ought to give you some insight: many people simply can't tell the difference. And if you can't tell the difference, you certainly won't budget resources towards making Apple-quality products. T

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