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by kalkin 4y ago
A bit more specifically, "misalignment" is super common in existing ML, and models seem to be gaining capability (and knocking down targets that until recently seemed well beyond our reach) much more rapidly than we are gaining th
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by kalkin 4y ago
How seriously have you thought about the arguments for AI risk being more than speculative scifi? My take as recently as a year ago was pretty much exactly yours, but I've had time to read and think a bit more recently and I am much le
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by kalkin 4y ago
That's not actually the argument that the AI Risk people use. It is a possible fallacy for sure but what people actually argue if you read Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nick Bostrom etc is that there is a high probability of building superhuman A
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by kalkin 4y ago
If I was a customer and Stripe (or any other company) started releasing private correspondence and financial details publicly because someone on the internet claiming to be me complained about the company, and the company took that as impli
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by kalkin 4y ago
Are cities with traditional lock-em-up prosecutors doing better at reducing crime? When was the last time a prosecutor got recalled because they failed to reduce crime by locking a lot of people up?
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by kalkin 5y ago
There's quite a bit of irony in the number of HN commenters who are prepared to side with the OP instantly & without any apparent consideration as an innocent victim of... people online instantly & without apparent consideratio
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by kalkin 6y ago
What is the principle that's at stake here?
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by kalkin 7y ago
> Even the supposedly nightmarish engineering director could, from another angle, possibly be seen in a good light: Insisting on proper analysis and design before a project commences, taking a deep interest in the technical part of the p
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by kalkin 7y ago
Seems similar to Veneur (like many other projects mentioned in comments here; didn't realize this space was so crowded!) - down to the first two letters of the name: https://github.com/stripe/veneur Veneur is more
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by kalkin 10y ago
Kettling is very typically used for mass arrests, even if charges are not filed against everyone arrested. This has happened in Oakland, where I live, multiple times in the last five years. And the fact that an arrest without a conviction c
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by kalkin 10y ago
What does "shrink the state" mean, then? Are those not part of the state? If only the FBI or other armed wings of the state are meant, why not say that?
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by kalkin 10y ago
You've watched a lot of them, but you've never seen or heard of "kettling"? Odd. I have seen it and experienced it. (I'm also curious what instances of protests-turned-riot you're referring to. The US hasn&#x27
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by kalkin 10y ago
Getting rid of social security or making our healthcare system even worse won't do anything to shrink the FBI. A stronger welfare state is compatible with considerably less out-of-control police than we have in the United States; witne
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by kalkin 10y ago
Speaking of "guaranteed not to allocate", is there a way that you could express that in a type? Seems like that might be nice to have.
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by kalkin 10y ago
Super nitpicky, but would it make sense in the README then to specify "client authentication per TLS 1.2 or earlier", as the non-feature, or something like that?
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by kalkin 10y ago
I pretty much completely disagree with the implicit critique here. The codebase I work on now has largely transitioned from "semantic" CSS (classnames based on feature) to CSS with classnames that describe what they do , visually
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by kalkin 11y ago
> police doesn't shoot at the crowd "just so" (tear gas, water cannons and beating are preferred) There are thousands of times when this hasn't been true, from Tiananmen Square to Kent State to the Plaza de las Tres C
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by kalkin 11y ago
Interesting. I did a quick search for "GCP spot instances" and didn't find anything. I'd be interested in a comparison too!
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by kalkin 11y ago
Strange to do a whole long section on price-comparison without talking about AWS's spot instances, which are often much cheaper than the reserved instances.
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by kalkin 11y ago
"more broad reaching than anything they could do just within AdSense" ... as long as you don't care about browsers which don't run Google's Safe Browsing service. You know another way to stop these ads? Make availab
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by kalkin 11y ago
You're aware that people view websites through browsers which don't run Google's safe browsing software, right? How is leaving them to get tricked into downloading malware (served via Google) "more sensible"?
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by kalkin 11y ago
I tried to flag a deceptive "Start Download" ad of this kind by clicking on this button a few days ago (which appeared on a site I run, annoyingly). The form I was required to fill out needed me to say where the link in the ad too
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by kalkin 11y ago
Nope. We started experimenting with AdX ads a few days ago and immediately saw exactly these ads: https://www.en.advertisercommunity.com/t5/Ad-Approval-Policy... That post is from 2013. The answer to the question in th
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by kalkin 11y ago
That's not quite what's happening. For most PDFs on the site, we use Scribd's API to provide a nice in-browser display of the PDF, which uses Flash or HTML5 with mangled text under the hood (often separate elements for each c
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by kalkin 11y ago
FYI, the post was taken down because that's what happens to your content when you delete your Academia.edu account. Academia.edu didn't take it down. (Source: I'm an Academia.edu employee.)
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by kalkin 11y ago
Do you think nobody should be making six-figure salaries? Or just that unionized workers shouldn't?
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by kalkin 11y ago
This article tells you basically nothing if you're not already convinced that more automation is always better, or that while "technological disruption... almost inevitably leads to displacement of some segments of the workforce.
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by kalkin 11y ago
I don't think there's any question that a union that lives up to the ideals of the labor movement - solidarity, equality, power for working people over their own lives - has to persuade people that membership is worth it, not coer
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by kalkin 11y ago
Do you think there is no relationship between the state of regulation of banking (which I'd argue is less central to the policy story than tax rates but that's a side note) and the state of organized working-class power? How do yo
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by kalkin 11y ago
Sure, it's not equality in all respects, but they aren't allowed to discriminate purely on the basis of union membership. If they negotiate a pay level for a job classification, that's for everyone. You don't join a unio

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