themafia

18 ms·

271.
by themafia 5mo ago
> We’ve been exploring new AI-powered capabilities to help the pointer not only understand what it’s pointing at, but also why it matters to the user. We couldn't quite track you well enough before. So we're fixing that under
272.
by themafia 5mo ago
> engage with AI as much as possible simply to explore what is actually possible "Research" isn't part of my job title. If you don't know what's possible then why are you deploying it? You should be telling _me
273.
by themafia 5mo ago
> and then you were insulting to the parent with the snarky And what did they say to me? "I'm guessing you immediately close the What's New Chrome tab when you update?" If that's not snarky then I don't know
274.
by themafia 5mo ago
Thank you for going out of your way to deny my exact experience. Do you think I'm doing this to rag on Google? And you're this eager to defend them? I'm on gentoo. I have to update chrome manually. I updated it. On updat
275.
by themafia 5mo ago
In this space the "client" may be a hardware terminal with firmware that's difficult if not impossible to update.
276.
by themafia 5mo ago
I've never had a "What's new" tab ever open because I disable the customized home page where that's displayed. I'm guessing you're not aware that's an option. Please show me where in either of those
277.
by themafia 5mo ago
> Somewhere in the depths of AWS some sort of security alarm had been triggered probably by the fact that my mostly dormant account suddenly started doing stuff with an expensive computer. You mean the alarm that shows up with a notifica
278.
by themafia 5mo ago
If it was such a good and laudable idea why didn't they tell me about it before they activated it? It seems to me like they avoided it in the hopes that I wouldn't notice, because, presumably if I had, I would have IMMEDIATELY
279.
by themafia 5mo ago
I named three specific groups. You can easily find the bad actors within these groups. There is no "them." There is a highly identifiable set of individuals that take actions which cause major problems in our society. On this
280.
by themafia 5mo ago
> was about making the jobs as simple and repetitive as possible so humans would basically work like robots. So they make fewer mistakes. Not that they become zombies that you are then able to abuse. > pushing the hours to the limits
281.
by themafia 5mo ago
> I'm not sure what direction to take the onboarding screen. I don't know, maybe, you could just pay people to use it, and see where the problems are, and then be informed by that? We're using LLMs as if human contact
282.
by themafia 5mo ago
> Ford style assembly lines The ones with 10 hour shifts and mandatory overtime? Yea, I don't think it's the _line_ that's making them miserable. > Partially automated cashier did the same thing. I've not once he
283.
by themafia 5mo ago
Technology is simply a technique to leverage and extend human desire. It's a tool. It's in the hands of those who control and use it. You shouldn't blame technology. You should blame the maniacs that have latched on to it
284.
by themafia 5mo ago
> there were already precedents or existing pieces of knowledge, but humans had not thought to connect them We used to call that "low hanging fruit."
285.
by themafia 5mo ago
That's revenue. This article isn't clear at all. Here's their actual tax filing: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/460... More than half the money spent on Conferences and S
286.
by themafia 5mo ago
Perhaps it was the prior quiescent period that was the anomaly.
287.
by themafia 5mo ago
And you see a lot of other languages being used to create operating systems with complicated multiprocessor and locking semantics?
288.
by themafia 5mo ago
> but if you're not doing writes it's really overkill. SQLite is not just a B-Tree+ file format manager. It's also a powerful CLI with tons of built in data manipulation and extraction tools which can all be scripted. Fin
289.
by themafia 5mo ago
Suggested alternative title for the paper: Can American corporate desires finally kill community based open source once and for all? I mean, it seems clear to me, companies hate the GPL, and they're willing to play these games to tr
290.
by themafia 5mo ago
> responsible use of AI to write code You have no clue what went into the training data or how much of the output is covered by someone else's copyright. To pretend this is "responsible" is ridiculous. Then you go on to u
291.
by themafia 5mo ago
> he believes that many agents would worry that if the director offers you a bottle, and “you aren’t on board on receiving it enthusiastically, you are getting polygraphed for loyalty.” You work at a place that can polygraph you for loya
292.
by themafia 5mo ago
> Most visibly homeless people in wealthy west coast cities are severely mentally ill Is that _why_ they're homeless? And are you aware of "drug induced schizophrenia?" > which local authorities are reluctant to do bec
293.
by themafia 5mo ago
We have property tax, sales tax and inheritance tax. We also have mountains of loopholes through all of these. If you can afford a tax attourney your outcomes will be far better than those who cannot.
294.
by themafia 5mo ago
Which would be meaningful if phones weren't remotely controllable. So the net effect is every AI agent will also have and connect to a physical phone.
295.
by themafia 5mo ago
"Alleges." No. Without question it downloads the model without consent.
296.
by themafia 5mo ago
> It's not a copyright violation if courts have ruled it's not Courts can't rule aprioi on civil issues. I would not expect the current status quo to count for anything. > I own the software I build and don't rely
297.
by themafia 5mo ago
That's why I like startup tips. "Did you know that in California all gas stations are required to provide you with free air and water for your car?"
298.
by themafia 5mo ago
False dichotomy. We can obviously have both. We can destroy corporations that rely on copyright to exist and then abuse that system to profit. We can also ignore college students and minor contributory copyright infringement. The differe
299.
by themafia 5mo ago
> Why would this be different? In a concept? Immunological privilege. And you thought CVEs were the worst thing ever.
300.
by themafia 5mo ago
Yes. This is exactly why we have freight brokers. People seem to think that farmers can't or won't own their own trucks and trailers. Almost everyone I know does.

More ›