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by tadfisher 2mo ago
One answer is that ALPRs have much too high an error rate (John Oliver claims it exceeds 30%) to rely on them for dragnet surveillance. Maybe it makes sense to track specific vehicles, with safeguards such as warrants and also checking make
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by tadfisher 2mo ago
Careful, I was called a "radical" on this site for suggesting a corporate death penalty. Because jobs are so important that when a corporation risks its own existence so it can break laws, dissolving the corporation as punishment
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by tadfisher 2mo ago
The problem here is not the ATC union failing to enforce safety measures, it's the federal agency whose job that is failing to do their job, and Congress for failing to oversee the organization effectively.
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by tadfisher 2mo ago
This deserves about as large of a "[citation needed]" as one could draw. Are you well-studied in neuroscience?
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by tadfisher 3mo ago
Honestly, Linux is so thoroughly Tivo-ized on these things that it is not really worth the effort. You will be forever locked into the official firmware's kernel, nonfree drivers and firmware blobs. Pretty much the same problem as most
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by tadfisher 3mo ago
What does debugging Markdown even mean? What is a Markdown-heavy project? Is this a generated comment?
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by tadfisher 3mo ago
Receipts please. This is counter to everything I've read about the technology.
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by tadfisher 3mo ago
D'oh, they are running the benchmark themselves. Reasonable.
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by tadfisher 3mo ago
In what world is 55.7 the same number as 54.8? What variance is acceptable to publish without a retraction?
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by tadfisher 3mo ago
Are you talking about driver ABIs or something else?
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by tadfisher 3mo ago
Not a blog, but I handwrite presentation slides sometimes. And, of course, pages of notes. I use my ReMarkable 2 for that, so it's pretty easy to import to desktop and run scripts.
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by tadfisher 3mo ago
In case you are paywalled, the complaint is that the OpenAI PBC is controlled by the OpenAI 501(c)(3), thus will be subject to constraints its competitors do not face, and investors aren't sufficiently aware of the risk. Thus the non-p
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by tadfisher 3mo ago
The LLMs themselves are not doing the developing or learning.
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by tadfisher 3mo ago
Then everyone is open source if you have $20 to spend on tokens, I guess.
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by tadfisher 3mo ago
If weights are the source for models then ELF binaries are the source for software.
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by tadfisher 3mo ago
Third-party doctrine.
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by tadfisher 3mo ago
This is pretty funny. You almost had me until the Perl part. Not going to get baited this time!
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by tadfisher 3mo ago
Problem with that is that gathering evidence invariably leads to tracking down the recipient of the provider's service.
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by tadfisher 3mo ago
Who is stopping you? Is it an employment concern?
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by tadfisher 3mo ago
I do like that you mention diminishing returns, because we are hitting them in building out all the external requirements for competing at the frontier. Even if model performance scales linearly with energy input, the top labs are now compe
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by tadfisher 3mo ago
Yes, this ships in basically every smartwatch since the Snapdragon Wear 3100 launched in 2018.
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by tadfisher 3mo ago
Basically every "made in USA" consumer product has a DOD contract. The DOD is mandated by law to purchase from US companies, so there is a huge sector of small-to-medium businesses which only exist because there is a guaranteed or
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by tadfisher 3mo ago
Sure there are, and we worked this out decades ago with telecommunications. We ought to: - Require a judicial warrant before recording anything. Recording with a camera network is now considered a 4th amendment search, and scope must be min
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by tadfisher 3mo ago
Are there different jewelry sizing standards, perhaps?
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by tadfisher 3mo ago
Because they view "unsafe" as an escape hatch instead of a feature. It's a way to encapsulate dangerous behavior, tightly, with clear postcondiitions. Sometimes it's the only way to do things like interact with inherentl
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by tadfisher 3mo ago
There are multiple billions of people alive, right now, who have none of those things.
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by tadfisher 3mo ago
Perhaps. On the other hand, the limiting factor for automation was never human labor, it was energy input. We went all-in on oil extraction and transformed it into energy and plastics and crops, to push the human population to 10x its size.
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by tadfisher 3mo ago
Maybe the loom smashers should have won. I'm not sure we ended up on the better timeline.
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by tadfisher 3mo ago
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by tadfisher 3mo ago
Fairly sure the user whitelist is equivalent to "Unrestricted background usage", which should be visible for user-installed apps like Briar. I have a couple of apps that need this setting enabled, and there isn't an API or ma

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