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by keeda 1y ago
A number of comments point out that OAuth is a well known standard and wonder how AI would perform on less explored problem spaces. As it happens I have some experience there, which I wrote about in this long-ass post nobody ever read: htt
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by keeda 1y ago
What that line of thought misses is that wealth is built off of the backs of labor. The social contract between capital and labor has always been "I'll put in the capital, and I'll pay you fairly for your labor from the wealt
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by keeda 1y ago
It's not even H1Bs, all of Big Tech is shifting jobs in bulk to their offshore development centers. It may not necessarily be overt layoffs and increased hiring there, but simply through un-backfilled attrition in the US while maintain
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by keeda 1y ago
Section 174 was very unpopular when it came out and many people raised the alarm over it (although that seems to have simmered down over time.) If hiring was impacted by that, a lot of execs would be very vocal about it to increase public p
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by keeda 1y ago
I'm not sure about this case, but maybe the assumption here is that these are people from a technical branch of Mossad, such as Unit 8200, which does SIGINT. I've interviewed 3 of them for your typical Big Tech SWE position, and t
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by keeda 1y ago
Charles Stross has also made that point about corporations essentially being artificial intelligence entities: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/01/dude-yo...
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by keeda 1y ago
Sure, and there was a huge antitrust trial about it too, and we all knew how it turned out. The trial surfaced a whole bunch of shady stuff, but that was more related to them abusing their monopoly position (i.e. "throwing their weight
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by keeda 1y ago
This article, and Google's and Bing's AI overviews for "how did microsoft kill off beos", disagree with that premise: https://lowendmac.com/myturn/02/0403.html (Edited to add, another more deta
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by keeda 1y ago
Yep, precisely! But all that was happening on a slow burn. Elon's deliberately public actions at Twitter were a (very intentional, I suspect) match to the powderkeg.
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by keeda 1y ago
Yes, that was the turning point. You have to remember, in addition to the end of ZIRP this also happened after a few years of an extremely strong employee's market. Jobseekers were asking for and getting some pretty wild packages. El
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by keeda 1y ago
Funny incident: A while ago, one of these studies was shared on LinkedIn. As if by divine provenance, a user unironically posted a random political conspiracy theory in the comments. It was completely unrelated too, something about Washingt
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by keeda 1y ago
Having a separate research division being an anti-pattern is an interesting topic! I remember getting into a related discussion almost a decade ago with a professor who left academia to join Google, his point being product-driven R&D wa
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by keeda 1y ago
> Yes, Microsoft is one of the world's biggest companies, and it underinvests in research and development, preferring to hoard cash. I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but: 1. If you're talking about basic rese
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by keeda 1y ago
Assuming performance on the SAT is an unbiased measure of ability is the flaw in this premise. It is well known that SAT performance is correlated with race, family income and gender. For instance, girls reliably score worse on SAT Math eve
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by keeda 1y ago
Given the current administration is slashing so many programs it's clear there is a lot of language in many grants that has "DEI" or DEI-adjacent language. What is not clear is: 1) This is "forced" due to any govern
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by keeda 2y ago
> The article is basically saying "if you don't use Play store and Google apps you'll have to build them yourself". The article says a lot more. A key point about the Open Handset Alliance, OHA (emphasis theirs): &quo
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by keeda 2y ago
If you read the article I linked and many of the criticisms in these comments (not to mention TFA) smartphone vendors need to cede a huge amount of control to Google to have a viable product. As such, the open source aspect of Android is ju
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by keeda 2y ago
Sure a contract was signed, but as has been pointed out many times about Google's heavy-handed control over Android, it doesn't mean it was fair to all parties: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/07&#x2
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by keeda 2y ago
> Open source Android vs. closed iOS https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/07/googles-iron-grip-on... This article lays out in painstaking detail in one place most of the criticisms about Android you'l
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by keeda 2y ago
I think coziness is an underrated aspect of gaming, maybe because gaming is commonly depicted as fast-paced and frenetic. In fact, coziness was also an underrated reason that World of Warcraft was very popular. Unless you were in a top raid
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by keeda 2y ago
I find "human capital" better than "human resources", as it has connotations of something valuable to be invested carefully as opposed to something simply to be consumed and discarded. Of course, in the end it doesn&#x27
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by keeda 2y ago
I have had AI models perform well on obscure use cases. Even two years ago, let alone the latest models, I've had ChatGPT generate correct code for bespoke requirements that I could not find anywhere else on the Internet. I actually sp
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by keeda 2y ago
> Social Justice has yet to put a man on the moon. Here's another way to look at it: For most of history a significant portion -- probably the vast majority -- of the human population has been relegated to economically low-level lab
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by keeda 2y ago
Interesting, my take is that criticizing ideas rather than people leads to better discourse, primarily because it automatically makes things less personal, which tends to keep the tone of conversation neutral. That is not to say that ideas
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by keeda 2y ago
It's a sign of deep thinking to address valid criticisms in your writing, especially if you want to make a compelling case for something [1]. Almost never is somebody completely right or completely wrong. Nuance exists everywhere and i
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by keeda 2y ago
There seems to be some discussion about how this can be squared with the actual reality of poverty in India as perceived by people who live or visit there. One thing to consider is that the work (or similar recent work) by Bhalla and Bhassi
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by keeda 2y ago
That's a strange claim. A quick Google will provide all kinds of data on the aid being sent to India from multiple countries. The recent "USAID kerfuffle" also surfaced all the instances of the current government accepting US
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by keeda 2y ago
When you give Google Gemini "2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental" a valid YouTube video URL and ask about it, it hallucinates very vivid descriptions of entirely non-existent videos with content unrelated to the original video. If you
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by keeda 2y ago
His may not be a familiar name 'round these parts, but Jack Ganssle is a legend in the embedded systems industry. And he's very helpful to boot. Many lifetimes ago, as a freshly baked software engineer, I had a strong interest in
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by keeda 2y ago
Very cool! I wish this existed a couple years ago. I was hacking with LSP and a Java language server for a code migration prototype, and I could not even get past the initialization stage. The server (must have been the Eclipse one) didn&#x

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