parliament32

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by parliament32 6mo ago
To the web? It's fantastic for the web, these are the kinds of fun projects that make the web a worthwhile place to be. To slop generators? Yes, absolutely harmful, and that's for the best.
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by parliament32 6mo ago
> We don't need weekly 1:1s to check on feelings Hard agree. One-on-ones are one of the silliest fads in our industry lately. Why would you wait until a weekly scheduled meeting to bring something up? Your manager's job is to b
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by parliament32 6mo ago
> it's an entire lifestyle You might be overthinking this, although I understand how it can appear that way for someone on the outside looking in. Your local gym probably costs less than your Netflix subscription, if you don't
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by parliament32 6mo ago
No, all the issues are symptoms of trying to slop-code a functional product. Anthropic has admitted they dogfood heavily, and issues like [1] from the article could only be caused by a text generator.. I refuse to believe Anthropic employ
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by parliament32 6mo ago
> Going to the gym... artificial replacements for human activity that is missing Compared to what? Even the ancient Greeks and Romans spent a significant amount of time in gymnasiums. Or are you comparing modern times to cavemen?
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by parliament32 6mo ago
I think it's because the general public figured out they'll die in their 50s if they don't. Modern life is too easy -- a substantial portion of the population spends their white-collar lives flying a desk, "socializing
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by parliament32 6mo ago
This piece might be a record for how quick it took me to smell the AI-tone and close the tab.. one paragraph! I'm sure it's an interesting bug but I can't stomach reading any more slop.
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by parliament32 6mo ago
Sounds like a good use case for that new Copilot button you see on newer keyboards.
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by parliament32 6mo ago
Because it would break all setuid binaries? Same reason the Linux kernel doesn't set no_new_privs ( https://docs.kernel.org/userspace-api/no_new_privs.html ) by default. As an operator you are responsible for config
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by parliament32 6mo ago
allowPrivilegeEscalation is unrelated to user namespaces. Many vendors do not yet have kernel patches available, but yes that'll eventually be the proper fix.
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by parliament32 6mo ago
The k8s remediation is setting allowPrivilegeEscalation to false, which you should have already been doing if you follow the in-tree Pod Security Standards at the Restricted profile.
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by parliament32 6mo ago
Note that in kubernetes, setting `allowPrivilegeEscalation` to false (which you should be doing already, it's in the Pod Security Standards Restricted profile) mitigates this.
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by parliament32 6mo ago
So... systemd is AGI now?
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by parliament32 6mo ago
To be fair, it feels like the DNS service has been the most reliable part of our Azure infra. Never really had issues with it, whether with traffic or API calls.
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by parliament32 6mo ago
A whopping 100km per month for the low price of $199.99!* * with a quota of 138 meters per hour, overage charges may apply
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by parliament32 6mo ago
Why would a text generator ever be conscious? Was this really worth writing a paper about?
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by parliament32 6mo ago
I narrowly avoided tonsil removal as a child and I'm glad I did, it sounds like the science rotated around to them having a rather important immune function after all. I suspect the next round of backpedalling will be around the curren
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by parliament32 6mo ago
I remember unpacking their builds a while ago out of curiosity, and it was based on LFS with a few spec files borrowed from Photon and Fedora. I wonder if switching the base to actual Fedora will increase bloat, it's super lightweight
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by parliament32 6mo ago
> Labs are routinely sent to third-party companies Labs are real businesses that do real things, and would have actual impact for a breach. Meanwhile any idiot can vibe-code a thin shim between a microphone and ChatGPT in a weekend, prom
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by parliament32 6mo ago
HIPAA enforces nothing other than a pinky-swear-promise of compliance. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of middlemen who sell SaaS like this to medical professionals. If one suffers a breach then shuts down, your doctor will just switc
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by parliament32 6mo ago
Good, I'm glad. Now find a way to do it in-house. Shipping our conversation to some random-ass fly-by-night SaaS who pinky-swear-promises they're HIPAA-compliant is a non-starter for a medical professional I'd actually want t
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by parliament32 6mo ago
Secrets in a mount or in env is "acceptable" but still pretty amateur-hour. Typically you want the application to have to make a request out to a token exchange endpoint of some sort (using its own identity to authenticate), then
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by parliament32 6mo ago
To be clear, I'm talking about subscription pricing. API pricing for Anthropic is probably at-cost. I dare you to run CC on API pricing and see how much your usage actually costs. (We did this internally at work, that's where my &
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by parliament32 6mo ago
Self-hosted models are the one true path.
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by parliament32 6mo ago
Sure it is. They're well aware their product is a money furnace and they'd have to charge users a few orders of magnitude more just to break even, which is obviously not an option. So all that's left is.. convince users to bu
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by parliament32 6mo ago
> AI-powered tools may be used to assist with editing and workflow I'm glad they're declaring outright that they're (as we suspected for a while now) a slop factory. Onto the blacklist they go..
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by parliament32 6mo ago
If you retire in 30 years, and invest that $50k in the S&P500, you'll end up with about $872k (given the S&P makes about 10% annually[1]). The difference is, in the non-registered scenario, you only pay 50% of the marginal tax
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by parliament32 6mo ago
Not sure if there's a US equivalent, but in Canada, "having the pretax money to grow before paying taxes on it" is a worse deal. In an RRSP/401k you pay full tax on any investment earnings. Meanwhile a normal non-registe
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by parliament32 6mo ago
Very cool. I'm Canadian (which is why I mentioned RRSPs above), and I don't think an equivalent exists for us. Our alternatives to an RRSP (which is equivalent to your 401k) basically boil down to: TFSA: you pay standard income ta
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by parliament32 6mo ago
Yeah exactly. This is what makes RRSPs/401ks the absolute worst place to park your money. You are locking away your funds, and deferring taxes to 1) the stage in your life you probably want to pay the least tax possible, and 2) a time

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