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by yashap 3y ago
Yeah, in my experience FedEx drivers absolutely LOVE saying they “attempted delivery of my package, but nobody was home,” so I have to go get it from the depot. But I 100% was home, working from home all day, and they 100% never came.
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by yashap 3y ago
Yeah agreed, early detection isn’t a panacea, but it does seem like a pretty promising approach to have a big impact.
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by yashap 3y ago
The idea is basically “MRIs for all, so that we can consistently catch early stage cancer before it spreads.” They don’t go into specifics, but it seems to me like this means making MRIs cheap enough, with low enough false positive rates, t
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by yashap 3y ago
> A way to end cancer What they’re proposing here seems so doable. Certainly not EASY, but POSSIBLE. Companies tackling this problem could legitimately change the world.
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by yashap 3y ago
Nice to see Cloudflare fighting the good fight, but patent trolls aren’t the only issue with software patents. A major issue that people talk about way less is well funded/large companies getting bullshit patents, and using them to sue
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by yashap 3y ago
It absolutely does, and this has been a significant issue when I’ve used GQL.
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by yashap 3y ago
Personally I had no problem with your post being too abrasive or anything like that, it was just hard to understand because it was full of jargon.
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by yashap 3y ago
Hmm wild! I totally believe you, it’s just surprising to me. I’ve encountered these abbreviations constantly over the years, at multiple different tech companies, even though I work primarily as a backend engineer - they are FE concepts, ar
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by yashap 3y ago
That’s an interesting idea, though I’m sure you’d be inviting some scathing blog posts! But you could maybe mitigate that by donating all fees to a charity? Or even a hybrid: - If you’re a “trusted security researcher”, you can submit for f
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by yashap 3y ago
This is a tech specific community, I think it’s perfectly reasonable to use highly common tech abbreviations like a11y, TTL, K8s, DNS, SaaS, PaaS, FaaS, IaaS, i18n, DoS, DDoS, ISP, CRM, API, etc. We all know what they mean, and it saves ty
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by yashap 3y ago
Agreed, and as much as ppl hate it, this applies to a11y too. Ultimately all work that businesses do is only done if it’s a high enough priority for the business. If you have a massive customer base, and/or specific important customers
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by yashap 3y ago
Yeah, a decently locked down program seems like a good idea! At the startups I’ve worked at, the programs have been very open (basically “email us”), and it does lead to a fair bit of beg bounty spam, even without LLMs in the mix.
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by yashap 3y ago
“Beg bounty” ppl have already made it a major pain in the ass to have a bug bounty program, even when they were real people who had to take the time to craft “bug reports” about basically nothing. But if you mix in LLMs, generating bogus re
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by yashap 3y ago
Depends on the quality of the AGI. If it’s legitimately as good or better than humans at almost everything, while being cost effective, it will utterly and completely change society. Humans will be obsolete at almost every job - why pay a h
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by yashap 3y ago
If you keep going, the argument is that car seat requirements stop ppl from having a 3rd kid - you can only fit 2 car seats in the back of a car, while you could fit 3 kids without car seats. I didn’t read beyond that, as it’s an extremely
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by yashap 3y ago
My favourite rant on this topic: https://youtu.be/1BCXJ3yC65o?si=KYISeoi6hS-PmZPh RIP Andre Braugher
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by yashap 3y ago
> There is no way a engineering board has time to scrap every website and every person and see if they call themselves an engineer or not. They actually do! The startup I currently work at, once it got to a decent size, the BC PEng assoc
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by yashap 3y ago
Yeah, I do think it's worth doing both :) As well as at least making 2FA an option for your users - 2FA is the ultimate defence to most of these problems, but depending on the company/use case, not everyone is willing to make it m
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by yashap 3y ago
Besides 2FA, rate limiting your login endpoint (both by IP address and username) is a much more robust protection against this attack. Especially if you include temporary bans (e.g. “20 failed login attempts with the same IP, and/or sa
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by yashap 3y ago
I don’t think middle management are the ONLY cause, but I do agree that once you start getting layers of management, managers “shielding their teams” from the rest of the company, cross-team dependencies that require lots of planning, and e
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by yashap 3y ago
Hah, I asked ChatGPT, and yeah, it nailed it: https://chat.openai.com/share/f1bfed28-4451-4fac-8bac-1386fe...
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by yashap 3y ago
I haven't worked personally at these places, so just going on what I've heard: - Netflix is a poster child for this, I've heard their "culture deck" isn't hot air, but is really how they operate. Combo of high
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by yashap 3y ago
I honestly think it’s possible to have large/mature companies that are still innovative, fast moving, transparent/candid internally, user focused, and low on internal bureaucracy. It’s just really, really, really hard. You need to
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by yashap 3y ago
Yeah, I never worked in a field that did double blind studies - did my MSc in Oceanography, and these were areas I felt bias could (and likely generally did) seep in within Oceanography. I assume each field has its own weak points, but I’d
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by yashap 3y ago
Yeah totally, good example of the somewhat subtle ways bias seeps in.
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by yashap 3y ago
That I would consider fraud, personally. I’m referring to more subtle bias than that - like maybe you’re putting someone through a scenario, then trying to classify their emotional state afterwards. You classify the clear states properly, b
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by yashap 3y ago
I have a slightly inside opinion on this - before I became a Software Engineer, I got an MSc in a mostly unrelated field, and am a co-author on work published in a few (very middling) peer reviewed journals. My gut feel from what I saw is t
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by yashap 3y ago
Eh, a lot of the biggest, most successful/profitable tech companies are still rapidly developing new products, features, etc. For example, Google, Amazon and Apple are all still innovating pretty fast. Lots of others have basically st
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by yashap 3y ago
Yeah, at a CA, fair enough. But there are tonnes of B2B or B2C SaaS type products, that do need new features, bug fixes, performance improvements, UX improvements, etc., but aren’t getting them quickly because dev productivity has declined
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by yashap 3y ago
Will do!

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