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by maccard 4mo ago
I’m not in favour of Chat Control; > the evidence is that people already pretty firmly against things like chat control and the will to push it through tends to come from the political circles more than popular belief it is a good idea.
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by maccard 4mo ago
By that logic, all problems are solved by LLMs. If that was true, then there's no reason for any products to exist for anything anymore.
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by maccard 4mo ago
> One of the risks of LLMs is that a lot of tasks go from "an expert could do this easily given a few weeks" to "anyone who thinks to ask an LLM can do this easily and get results the same day" By that logic, all prob
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by maccard 4mo ago
What LLM can I get and feed hundreds of hours of video into that will give me the position of a specific vehicle alongside when that happened? An LLM isn’t going to help you here, but basic Computer Vision and a SQL database has been a solu
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by maccard 4mo ago
EBay has dozens for <£12
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by maccard 4mo ago
Have you a source for that? Because everyhthing I've read tells me that they paid out a settlement but no mention of deleting the training data or the models that were tainted, e.g. [0] [0] https://www.theguardian.com/t
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by maccard 4mo ago
Imagine you told your boss you slept 8 hours a day like everyone else, so your productivity is the same. Except you sleep during working hours and everyone else is awake!
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by maccard 4mo ago
> That's why Anthropic switched to scanning paper books. After they threw away all the tainted data from the pirated books, right?
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by maccard 4mo ago
One reason for doing it is that download servers will be absolutely slammed on release. A pre-order will often times come with the bulk of the download happening a few days in advance, and then a very small download at release that contains
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by maccard 4mo ago
Secure Enclave on a mobile phone, or an NFC smart card both work fine. It could be your passport, drivers license, national ID, whatever.
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by maccard 4mo ago
When that downtime happens is way more important than the amount of it. Imagine if your payroll system was down for 8 hours a month, but it just so happened to be the day payroll do their calculations?
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by maccard 4mo ago
I don’t disagree with you but it’s still an emulation layer.
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by maccard 4mo ago
It got messy but pretty much all ps4 games work on ps5, and all ps5 games run on the ps5 and ps5 pro. On Xbox, everything runs on series S and series X.
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by maccard 4mo ago
A steam machine is running wine as a comparability layer, fwiw
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by maccard 4mo ago
I’m not in the businesd of keeping tethers out just in case. The way we do it is leave the role open for 1-2 weeks, choose our top 10 or so, and start proceeding through initial screen, hiring manager call, panel, director call, and done. I
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by maccard 4mo ago
Are these games supposed to be a good example of quality output? If this is the product, I don't really want to play _either_ of them.
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by maccard 4mo ago
So apparently the UK and Europe are sleepwalking into an identity collection en masse by the state and yet…
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by maccard 4mo ago
Yeah id never actually hire like that in real life. People’s lives are at play, and it’s more important that we don’t wreck someone’s life IMO.
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by maccard 4mo ago
The problem is - that’s unlikely to be true. If we make a miss, or the candidate(s) pull out we don’t want to re-list and re-funnel. So we keep the job open while we’re hiring. Usually we close it out once we have anyone at the final stages
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by maccard 4mo ago
I’ve been hiring for remote game programmer jobs. We got 300 applicants in 6 weeks for the last one.
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by maccard 4mo ago
Nobody is using AI to auto reject candidates. ATS’s are “scoring” candidates but I don’t know of any that are sending rejections on application. As a hiring manager, all the applications come to my inbox (even if it’s 300 in a day), and I’m
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by maccard 4mo ago
You don’t have 100 candidates though - you likely have 90 applicants that just fail to meet the basic criteria. I hire for games and every single job posting we make for programmers we get about 10% of applicants who have literally never pr
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by maccard 4mo ago
Hiring manager here - the last job I posted was open for 6 weeks. We waited 2 weeks for initial applications, and it took 4 weeks to schedule interviews with our shortlist and get to an offer, including a very unfortunate 2 week holiday fro
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by maccard 4mo ago
IME the only way to make them feel the pain is have them responsible. Panel gets yes/no and hiring manager makes final decision. It’s not a consensus.
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by maccard 4mo ago
> The problem with trials is that people often have a current job of some sort and having things not work out puts them in a difficult situation. May happen anyway but, generally, a new job is assumed to be at least a somewhat stable sit
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by maccard 4mo ago
> High performers tend to have more options and will not jump through infinite hoops. Biases are a strange thing. “High performers” aren’t one homogenous group; take a staff engineer at a FAANG and plop them in a role at a startup or vic
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by maccard 4mo ago
I’ve worked with places that have had HR bungle the hiring and places that haven’t. The only difference is whether it’s HR or Engineering bungling the hiring. Writing a job description that actually matches what you want is hard work. Sifti
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by maccard 4mo ago
But if you have credentials and physical access you can just ask for their phone and straight up read their messages/apps.
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by maccard 4mo ago
Get your hands on a random selection of 10 iPhones and look at the apps installed. I suspect you’d be horrified. As an example - any parent who has installed a free game for their kids likely has all of this info, plus more via tied in logi
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by maccard 4mo ago
I don’t think an app should have access to that (without some sort of very special permission).

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