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by nxobject 2y ago
Of course, this applies mass data collection by private entities too [1], and entities seeking to cross-reference commercially-available data sources together – even governments (thanks, Palantir!). There are plenty of ways to harass people
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by nxobject 2y ago
https://archive.is/tnE37
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Elon Musk Lackeys Have Taken over the Office of Personnel Management(wired.com)
25 points by nxobject 2y ago|4 comments
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by nxobject 2y ago
That presumes that the intent of this effort – regardless of how it's spun – is to make government more efficient. It's hard to take spin like this at face value: voluntary departures may equally make programs less efficient since
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by nxobject 2y ago
Ironically, some good 'ol ML may work to classify bots from humans.
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by nxobject 2y ago
My favorite example is PG&E: convicted for 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter after the Camp Fire, the punishment was… a $3.4 million fine, because you can’t incarcerate a corporation. https://www.abc10.com/article&#x
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by nxobject 2y ago
Spoiler if you don’t want to read through the (wonder but many) paragraphs of exposition: the instruction is `vp2intersectq k, zmm, zmm`.
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by nxobject 2y ago
Re: iPhones - these suggestions are really good, AND it shows how hard it is to keep track of the attack surface of all of modern iOS features. I wish Lockdown Mode also set these hardening features on: it seems useless to harden your phone
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by nxobject 2y ago
As another Portlander, disagree with exceptions: surveillance footage made it harder to identify people from top down angles, and it meant that a lot of people had their charges dismissed because of that. (I will need to look it up.) The bi
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by nxobject 2y ago
I stand corrected, thank you!
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by nxobject 2y ago
I wonder how relatively portable Elite is to non-6502 platforms with byte-addressable instructions – the idea of a 68k Elite sounds fun. Presumably we would need an implementation for a platform with few banking + memory mapping shenanigans
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by nxobject 2y ago
The author notes in their Twitter announcement [a] that their model’s reasoning abilities are only validated within the domain directly within their the domain of their Countdown training material. They admit that the real test of this trai
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by nxobject 2y ago
Pepperidge Farm remembers a time where ChatGPT 2 made no claims about being a useful information lookup tool, but was a toy used to write sonnets, poems, and speeches "in the style of X"...
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by nxobject 2y ago
Re: proof-of-humanity... I'm looking forward to a Gattaca-like drop-of-blood port on the side of your computer, where you prick yourself everytime you want a single "certified human response" endorsement for an online comment
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by nxobject 2y ago
Another trick I do is to scroll to the end, and see if the last paragraph is written as a neat conclusion with a hedge (i.e. "In short...", "Ultimately..."). I imagine it's a convention to push LLMs to terminate tex
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by nxobject 2y ago
Depressingly enough, I would pay good money for a miniaturized version to put in my office/workspace – or some simulacra of the weather outside on plants etc. Imagine astroturf with flowers rippling with the winds.
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by nxobject 2y ago
I know a lot of servers exploited that as well to play music in the background... in retrospect, the idea of a web view hanging around while you're in a game is terrifying.
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by nxobject 2y ago
I'm sure the behavioral economics people at Activision and EA trying to get kids to buy more cosmetics would have a lot to say about that...
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by nxobject 2y ago
Watch out for 1/2-hour ish capture-point campaign style maps, though... I wasted so many Fridays in my early 2010s doing that.
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by nxobject 2y ago
I do think as well that some deeper scrutiny of semantics with the tools of PL research might have helped ahead of time - some of the most glaring warts like the perfect forwarding problem, or the need for reference collapsing, would have b
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by nxobject 2y ago
As someone who cares about government efficiency, I hope it’ll service as an escape hatch to help agencies avoid the worst impacts of this policy. But I’m sure it’ll be a a way to reward political appointees with perks that career civil ser
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by nxobject 2y ago
Not to mention the friction that getting a contractor who barely knows your jurisdiction does, or the contract and fiscal bureaucracy involved.
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by nxobject 2y ago
> Maybe government roles do not need high performers at scale like the private sector does. As a taxpayer, I respectfully disagree; as someone who wishes the government was more efficient, I disagree; as someone who complains about poorl
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by nxobject 2y ago
I stand corrected! Thank you.
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by nxobject 2y ago
This comment isn't intended as an opinion on RTO, but one of the things that's helped me with ADHD has been to go for frequent walks after short bursts of work – I've actually thrived at remote work for that reason. We'v
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by nxobject 2y ago
And by "optimized", I'm sure the corporate raider playbook of selling off real estate and then leasing it back will happen.
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by nxobject 2y ago
How ironic that, at the time, she was in a professorship endowed by Boeing.
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by nxobject 2y ago
Re: reservations - Google had an Assistant feature for that 5-ish years ago. I think it only really worked in a limited number of domains though (restaurants, restaurants, and more restaurants…) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v
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by nxobject 2y ago
Did you get a bounty payout for this? I got the impression that Apple wasn't particularly on the ball with those.
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by nxobject 2y ago
Hilltoppers isn't alone in the market as well – there are no-name kits with the same target market of people who are handy with a spanner; Swytch [1] also offers kits, but their emphasis is on compatibility with the widest amount of bi

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