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by praptak 9mo ago
The rage should be dependent on the contribution. You mention a third party software vendor who produces tools that aren't even "dual-use" with respect to the abuse by ICE, they are specifically tailored. That's not the
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by praptak 9mo ago
That's not my experience from the time I worked for Google. The popular sentiment was actually "We now work for a company that dropped 'don't be evil' and that sucks". See Manu Cornet comics - they are a pretty
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by praptak 9mo ago
Yes, this is how market economy works. For every organization doing horrible things, literally everyone is a small number of payment-handshakes from it. No, it doesn't mean that "mr gotcha"[1] argument is valid. You don'
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by praptak 9mo ago
GP didn't say greedy devs caused it, they (we?) are only enabling it. Obviously there's always the cop out of "someone else would have done it anyway" but it doesn't really change the (un-)ethical side of your cho
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by praptak 9mo ago
"If the architecture of my code doesn't enforce privacy" This is still techno-optimism. The architecture of your code will not to that. We are long past the limits of what you can fix with code. The only action that matters i
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Malaysia and Indonesia block X over failure to curb deepfake smut(theregister.com)
10 points by praptak 9mo ago|2 comments
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Bellingcat: Positioning of the Agent's Gun at the Shooting in Minneapolis [video](youtube.com)
18 points by praptak 9mo ago|1 comments
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by praptak 9mo ago
He shot her multiple times through the driver's window. How can anyone claim it's self defense?
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by praptak 9mo ago
Yeah. The US government blatantly excusing a murder in broad daylight? Not intellectually interesting at all. Better discuss another article about using AI for coding.
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by praptak 9mo ago
They first tried to manage it by putting the blame 100% on their pedophile users and obviously absolving themselves of any reponsibility (cue tired analogies with knife makers not responsible for stabbings). Fortunately this narration did n
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by praptak 9mo ago
There is no blanket ban on politics. The guidelines only say " Most stories on politics" are off topic. The top guideline is that if it "gratifies intellectual curiosity" then it is okay. Even the tech angle is not mand
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by praptak 9mo ago
To me the most horrible thing about this is the reaction of government officials. I'd imagine that in a civilized democratic country it would be something along the lines of "Let's make sure there's a fair investigation&
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by praptak 9mo ago
Maybe programmers should become cuddly to avoid being replaced by AI.
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by praptak 9mo ago
Dog level smell is pretty useful, as evidenced, well, by actual dog usage. OTOH maybe dogs are cheap enough not to create strong incentive for automation.
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by praptak 9mo ago
Yeah, it might be interesting to run some profiling of both algorithms and see how they perform dependent on the size of the blocks being swapped (which doesn't even have to be equal to the size of the object in the array).
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by praptak 9mo ago
I think this was discussed in Jon Bentley "programming pearls"? Also in the same book it was mentioned that the disjoint cycles method (also mentioned in the article) was worse for paging/caching than the three reverses metho
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by praptak 9mo ago
If censoring Grok output means legal liability (your question), then the legal liability is there anyway already.
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by praptak 9mo ago
And when it's CSAM suddenly they "only provide the tool", no responsibility for the output.
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by praptak 9mo ago
They already censor Grok when it suits them.
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by praptak 9mo ago
> "tool-maker is responsible for tool-use" You left out "who controls the output of the tool", which makes it a strawman.
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by praptak 9mo ago
I don't buy the "I only provide the tool" cop out. Musk does control what Grok spews out and just chooses not to act in this case. When Grok stated that Israel was committing genocide, it was temporarily suspended and fix
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by praptak 10mo ago
My Ukraine-based colleague had to ping friends with real-time questions like "is bridge X still unbombed/passable? Do you know someone who lives nearby and can check?" while he was fleeing from the invasion. Fortunately, enou
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by praptak 10mo ago
Therefore invasion on Sweden is 100% consistent with US logic.
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by praptak 10mo ago
No, it's tech people you don't like for a specific set of reasons : it's mostly hubris and its implications like downplaying the damage the tech does to society and environment.
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by praptak 10mo ago
Well, "not winning domestically" can happen as likely today as it did in the sixties. If anything, the US society is more divided today.
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by praptak 10mo ago
"What is the purpose of the American sanctions mechanism? Initially, it was created to address human rights violations[...]" Yet here we are: it's being used to harass judges who address human rights violations.
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Humanist Plumbing(tbray.org)
1 points by praptak 10mo ago|0 comments
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by praptak 10mo ago
I'm disappointed by HN snickering at his work for Google. Seriously, it's a "Mr Gotcha"[0] argument. Yes, everyone supports capitalism this way or the other (unless they are dead or in jail). This doesn't mean they
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by praptak 10mo ago
"Line worker dies because CEO decided security is bad for the bottom line. Company gets a wrist slap" is a "dog bites man" story. When CEO dies for the same reason it's "the universe randomly hands out some jus
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by praptak 10mo ago
Stability of icebergs is tricky. They don't "become" top heavy as the article states, they are constantly top heavy. The center of mass of the iceberg is above the center of buoyancy 100% of the time. What prevents the flip i

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