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by piotrkaminski 2mo ago
> Given what we have already seen of AI, we can be confident that its widespread adoption will create a less free society, a less virtuous people, and a degraded culture. I think this claim needs stronger evidence than "we can be co
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by piotrkaminski 4mo ago
I thought this was the weakest argument in the article. Yes, non-determinism is inherent to LLMs. It's also inherent to human brains, yet somehow we still manage to call (some) people reliable. The bit about backwards compatibility d
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by piotrkaminski 7mo ago
By and large we do. Unfortunately, the losers don't care unless you identify them personally. For them, the thrill of cheating and griefing others easily overcomes some generalized cultural zeitgeist.
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Google failed to warn 10M of Turkey earthquake(bbc.com)
41 points by piotrkaminski 1y ago|25 comments
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by piotrkaminski 1y ago
That certainly used to be the case in Canada 20 years ago, don't know if they've standardized since.
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by piotrkaminski 2y ago
> I prefer to call them Low Information High Satisfaction theories If you called them Low Information Excessive Satisfaction theories instead you'd end up with a much more satisfying acronym! :)
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by piotrkaminski 2y ago
> brand that emphasizes safety or enjoyment of experience (like Hondas and Toyotas) This is plausible on its face, and yet the Honda CR-V Hybrid ended up higher on the list than the Model Y. No idea how to explain that...
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by piotrkaminski 2y ago
What in the world is the Honda CR-V Hybrid doing so high on this list?! That doesn't seem to fit any of the theories I've seen spun up so far.
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by piotrkaminski 2y ago
We do three things: First, we use Missive to integrate email and chat. This way everything's in one place, properly threaded, and we can easily discuss emails internally in context. Much much better than GMail + Slack. Second, I run
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by piotrkaminski 2y ago
The "cute dogs" in the title is obviously clickbait but at least one cute dog does show up in the article: > Vermeulen produces a popular YouTube series starring his dog, Sir Willie the Wiener, riding on his back. Not the video
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by piotrkaminski 2y ago
I'm building an open source implementation of the Firebase RTDB server, that will be wire-compatible with Google's. This means that all the (already open sourced) SDKs will work pretty much as is, over REST or websockets. Securi
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by piotrkaminski 2y ago
What I get out of this is that even for teams that prioritize trust and velocity and eschew the use of pre-commit code reviews, there's a strong argument to be made for putting all new hires on an approval-required list for the first f
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by piotrkaminski 2y ago
Yep, Git's semantics are seriously lacking (see also renames). In Reviewable, we work around this with heuristics: we use Change-Id if it happens to be available, and otherwise do best-effort loose lexical matching on the commit mess
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by piotrkaminski 2y ago
Agreed that their API is the most important thing, but IMHO they're not doing a particularly great job of it. You've got two separate API systems (REST and GraphQL) that overlap but with neither a superset of the other, two separ
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by piotrkaminski 2y ago
To be fair, they did improve several things in the PR flow over the last decade but there's definitely a lot more that could be done. I just hope they keep their API team well-resourced so that code review tools like Graphite and Revi
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by piotrkaminski 2y ago
> Sports stadiums add culture to cities in the same way that aquariums, museums, music venues and art galleries do. Citation required.
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Geometers Engineer New Tools to Wrangle Spacecraft Orbits(quantamagazine.org)
62 points by piotrkaminski 2y ago|8 comments
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by piotrkaminski 3y ago
Discussion of the original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39324491
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by piotrkaminski 3y ago
One simple trick helped us a lot: we have a rules transpiler (fireplan) that adds a default "$other": {".read": false, ".write": false} rule to _every_ property. This makes it so that any new fields must be a
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by piotrkaminski 3y ago
Our experience has been very different. Our Firebase security rules are locked down tight, so any new properties or collections need to be added explicitly for a new feature to work — it can't be "forgotten". Doing so requi
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by piotrkaminski 3y ago
I'm no billionaire, but if there's a legal way for me to avoid paying a tax, of course I'm going to do it. Why should billionaires be held to a different standard? Tighten up the laws for everyone instead.
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by piotrkaminski 3y ago
> if you want to reverse the car, you have to use on-screen controls! So? If you're switching to reverse then by definition you're stopped (or nearly so) and can afford to take your eyes off the road. The control is no furthe
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by piotrkaminski 3y ago
If they intend to go straight through Earth at relativistic speeds (to establish a hyperspace bypass, perhaps?), then there's really not much we can do about it anyway. :p
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by piotrkaminski 3y ago
That would actually make them easier to spot, as they'd need to flip around for a breaking burn roughly equal to their acceleration burn, pointing their engines straight at us. (Assuming they want to stop by and say hi, of course. If
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by piotrkaminski 3y ago
Heartily seconded. Also don't forget the docs: Google Cloud docs are generally fairly sane and often even useful, whereas my stomach churns whenever I have to dive into AWS's labyrinth of semi-outdated, nigh-unreadable crap.
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by piotrkaminski 3y ago
Not necessarily. Speaking for myself, I like the convenience of SSO, and I generally trust Google to keep my account secured more than a random web site (if they even offer OTP!). As long as I know there's an escape hatch.
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by piotrkaminski 3y ago
This assumes you're using a consumer Gmail account, I guess? If so, yeah, you're SOL. But I think as long as you have your owns domain you should be fine, even if you hook it up to Google Workspace for email, since you can alway
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by piotrkaminski 3y ago
Wouldn't any sane SSO implementation let you recover and switch to a password simply by proving ownership of the email address via a challenge email?
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by piotrkaminski 3y ago
> Also Mercedes is accepting 100% liability while their cars are in self driving That's what I thought too, but apparently it's not that clear cut. Their manual says that the driver must be ready to take over not only when pro
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Four Magic Words(fortressofdoors.com)
1 points by piotrkaminski 3y ago|0 comments

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