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by sailfast 1y ago
ADM Rickover was no small part of the success of the nuclear program if I recall it right. Rigorous standards and a culture of safety. I also wonder if culturally DODEA is cut from a similar cloth and had a similarly strong founding impetus
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by sailfast 1y ago
And… Stellantis is up 3.5% right now in public trading. Nothing makes sense anymore haha
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by sailfast 1y ago
Sure who cares if we wipe out 15% of everyone’s retirement right as long as it’s got some schadenfreude involved.
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by sailfast 1y ago
The weird part is the _impression_ that $100B is being paid to a hardware company for chips, when in fact zero dollars are being paid to a hardware company and instead they are relying on public markets to spike the stock price based on pot
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by sailfast 1y ago
Personally think this makes a tech bubble a contagion for other parts of the financial industry - especially if institutional investors take the "easy" trade that everyone is doing and add leverage to it. Now once these folks don&
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by sailfast 1y ago
Why would I want to enable OpenAI to collect an Apple Tax from me down the road? Sure, this helps app partners access their large user base and grows their functionality too - but the end game has to be lock-in with a 30% tax right?
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by sailfast 1y ago
Absolutely not. No. Hard pass. Why would I want yet another thing to tell me what I should be paying attention to?
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by sailfast 1y ago
That is correct. The speed at which these are getting deprecated is a constant pain in the rear.
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by sailfast 1y ago
“Winning” lol When will people realize that the money doesn’t mean anything if it costs you your life?
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by sailfast 1y ago
This looks too cool not to mess with - looking forward to some fun projects in the new year.
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by sailfast 1y ago
Greenland wasn’t a joke. Nothing that is said is a joke. It’s all real. If there isn’t push back of a substantial amount it will happen. With some pushback or indication that effort will be required personally on the part of the president t
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by sailfast 1y ago
Fair enough. In reality though they have absolutely committed to “public service objectives” which is a weird way to say “doing whatever the administration asks otherwise they rapidly liquidate their stake” Not sure how many times people wi
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by sailfast 1y ago
I’m confused. Why is equity required when the current loan guarantees were perfectly adequate? The only answer is that the USG wanted more control and leverage than was required to achieve national security objectives. Kinda negates the who
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Silicon Valley is pouring millions into pro-AI PACs to sway midterms(techcrunch.com)
141 points by sailfast 1y ago|121 comments
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by sailfast 1y ago
That’s fair - unless they’re marketing the bot as compliant.
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by sailfast 1y ago
It’s never been shared, FWIW. The rails are mostly privately owned and were built that way too. That said - bullet trains are great but I fully support the ability of individuals to pay to access freight or passenger rail to subsidize the i
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by sailfast 1y ago
Hard disagree. It’s a great habit. Keep going! You’re doing it right.
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by sailfast 1y ago
Correct. It is precisely that a user can ask about someone’s medical history (or whatever else) and not be reported that would be in violation of any heavily audited system. LLM Summaries break the compliance.
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by sailfast 1y ago
One more thing to note here: anybody in this database that is also part of the OPM leaks or holds a federal job (or is a trucker or other non-drug requirement) will now be compromised and subject to blackmail. If the dots are connected they
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by sailfast 1y ago
Kinda incredible - even if they’re not covered providers they are still requesting medical records!
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by sailfast 1y ago
So are people storing these things in a non-HIPAA-compliant way or is this mostly attributable to some other vector that would not have been helped by compliance? What a terrible leak - med records and marijuana use, especially in some circ
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by sailfast 1y ago
I love this. Joined the waitlist.
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by sailfast 1y ago
Because then you don’t have to whittle away, and you’re free to blame someone else if anything goes wrong. Maybe that is more for a general engineer than a Hacker though - hacker to me implies some sort of joy in doing it yourself rather th
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by sailfast 1y ago
Government.
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by sailfast 1y ago
Is this a government run VC firm? Next gen In-Q-Tel? Makes sense for highly classified workloads on-prem and there’s a lot of demand for that. Could be a need for unclassified workloads also… but curious if this is a defense and Intel commu
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by sailfast 1y ago
You’re right! Yet here I am seeing non-citizens treated like dog-sh!t and having those rights revoked like it’s just fine - and the Supreme Court seems to agree. But you’re right - I shouldn’t just cede the point. That’s what got us here in
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by sailfast 1y ago
No, visas are not Hitler. I just don’t agree that “oh it’s just the new normal” is a reason why something is ok or right. That kind of reasoning is how we normalize atrocities until after when we realize it was completely messed up.
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by sailfast 1y ago
Yes. What software are they using at State / DHS to do this? Is it any good? Will it read Arabic? Russian? Do they have access to Llms? The answer is almost always no. I guess I don’t really believe Palantir’s marketing?
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by sailfast 1y ago
They will not spend that much money looking at a Visa applicant. Shit, we barely spend that much time granting high security clearances.
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by sailfast 1y ago
Sure, and shipping those same folks to Alligator Alcatraz will become the “new normal”. And eventually we’ll just start killing them for sport as the new normal. I don’t mean to be that guy, but Hitler also was just a “new normal” guy tryin

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