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541.
by themafia 7mo ago
And Claude can't tell at all.
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by themafia 7mo ago
> at an unknown cost We know the cost. We've conducted that type of warfare before. It's incredibly destructive and barbaric and requires huge amounts of human sacrifice to positively take control of territory after you'
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by themafia 7mo ago
Hardly. They're clearly trying to influence a group at large using a flawed logical tactic. I'm pointing that out with a device that suggests their same futility they expect others to adapt should be primarily experienced by the
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by themafia 7mo ago
xz has dozens of contributors and two active maintainers. It was the actual example I was thinking of. The code was submitted by a third party and not a result of a developer machine compromise. left pad wasn't a security incident.
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by themafia 7mo ago
Yea.. but.. in English only. Fortunately I can swear pretty well in Spanish.
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by themafia 7mo ago
> You'll never win this battle, so why waste feelings and energy on it? Cool. The attitude of a bully. Thanks for the contribution!
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by themafia 7mo ago
> is short-circuiting so many peoples' ability to rationalize about this topic. It appears unfair. That's the extent of my rationale. I've not seen any concrete evidence to draw any further conclusion than this. If you&
548.
by themafia 7mo ago
Are those the ones typically involved in supply chain attacks? There are no perfect solutions; but, let's be reasonable.
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by themafia 7mo ago
Those who write the code have more of a right than those who pay the bills. Anyone can write a check. A select few have the acumen and experience to actually write the code. You can't unilaterally declare someone "sketchy"
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by themafia 7mo ago
> I think this outcome is locked in. That we’re starting to see its first clear indications. Hardly. The linked anthropic paper is extremely underwhelming. It portrays no tectonic shifts. > Practitioners will suffer having to learn
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by themafia 7mo ago
> SpaceX's next Crew Dragon mission (Crew-5) will fly with a different, updated heat shield structure after a new composite substrate failed acceptance testing I don't know what "new" or "different" or &quot
552.
by themafia 7mo ago
Did they demand an unmanned flight just to prove it worked? Or did they accept an entirely new design based on modeling and ground tests and then immediately flew it with crew on board? Then again I'm not one of those people who roots
553.
by themafia 7mo ago
Why not just release escrow? If I try to push a new release version another developer or developers have to agree to that release. In larger projects you would expect the release to be coordinated or scheduled anyways. Effectively we&#x2
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by themafia 7mo ago
"Gee, we can't figure out _why_ people anthropomorphize our products! It must be that they're dumb!" Meanwhile, their products:
555.
by themafia 7mo ago
> if a commercial crew capsule (SpaceX Dragon or Boeing Starliner) returned to Earth with the kind of damage seen on Orion, NASA would insist on a redesign and an unmanned test flight to validate it. Are you sure about that? https:&#x2F
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by themafia 7mo ago
> Not because somehow those ships evaded US vigilance thanks to Iran's cunning skills. Well.. we can't have America look bad. What would that do to the DOW? > because they don't want to antagonise China more than they
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by themafia 7mo ago
> access to APIs It's mostly static data. Just publish it under a URL that won't change. Then we could actually cache and archive it.
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by themafia 7mo ago
> The market can go up and down as can individual stocks Literally the main reason we even have indexes. > "85% of the decline" doesn't make sense 85% of the decline represented by the overall index. > so the "m
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by themafia 7mo ago
It can be used in court _against you_. You're never going to get your statements made in an interrogation into the record as exculpatory evidence. The purpose of the interrogation is to find _other crimes_ you are also guilty of and ch
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by themafia 7mo ago
> Often an acquisition of a company is for the set of customers. That's a merger. You can, not having any business currently, buy yourself into one. In which case the acquisition is purely for the profits. > I’ve just undercu
561.
by themafia 7mo ago
Stealing copyrighted code and calling it your own is not a "skill."
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by themafia 7mo ago
The condition here being she was already arrested. You don't arrest someone first and then try to establish their alibi second. That would be an investigation which would be prior to getting a warrant which would allow you to arrest
563.
by themafia 7mo ago
My theory is that "AI" doesn't really have any long term paying customers and the majority of the "users" are people who have cooked up some clever hack to effectively siphon computing power from these providers in
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by themafia 7mo ago
> Whether it's AI that flagged her It absolutely was. There's no question of this. Now we need to ask how was the system marketed, what did the police pay for it, how were they trained to use it? > anybody bothered to as
565.
by themafia 7mo ago
There is extreme value to be had in astroturfing Hacker News.
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by themafia 7mo ago
> Their only mental model comes from science fiction, plus the simple fact that we possess a theory of mind. That's an extreme downward punch. Have you not observed the marketing these LLM companies are themselves producing? They&
567.
by themafia 7mo ago
Ad supported content industry: "Gee, we just can't figure out why anyone would use an ad blocker!"
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by themafia 7mo ago
With FOIA and Body Worn Cameras I think we're in far better position to demand accountability from local police and sheriffs. Two tools the FBI are not compelled to comply with or deploy and which many state police agencies also resis
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by themafia 7mo ago
> golden period of globalisation The largest upward transfer of wealth in Earth's history. > was able to bring us. A useless race to the bottom. > that can be learnt about what we had Rebadged imperialism. If you constantly s
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by themafia 7mo ago
Meanwhile have a complaint volume of more than 0.1% and they'll consider you extremely suspicious and start actively interfering with your deliveries. Then you get into the forgotten early 2000s era google "postmaster tools"

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