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stevarino
·mese scorso·discuss
This is ignoring the fact that the government is the foundation of society (I know some will disagree with that, but the end result is just government with more steps).

Private models in a low trust society means the government will come and seize the models. Competitive business will only be allowed through cronyism.

The better option is to opt for high trust. Yes the Gman can rip your servers apart, but they know they'll face consequences, legal and political. Laws and regulations are the answer, not locking down into smaller fiefdoms.
stevarino
·mese scorso·discuss
Also this falls into the "right to bear arms" thing: if LLMs are limited legally, then illegal LLMs will be the superior choice. This is pretty much the plot of Cryptonomicon and Corey's take on I, Robot
stevarino
·mese scorso·discuss
It's honestly not the worst strategy: make the dangerous move when you have the most tolerance, and then everyone can figure stuff out and make the landing on Sunday.
stevarino
·2 mesi fa·discuss
I personally don't have strong experience here , but I would treat them similar to BUILD files and the like - probably in the root directory of a repo but nowhere near the bin/ or build/ directories.

Also it looks like there's a compilation step to these files, which is interesting. The raw file was included, not the environment specific file.
stevarino
·3 mesi fa·discuss
A bit more complicated, as the aircraft itself was unable to detect the stall conditions due to icing of the pitot tubes so the warning itself was in and out several times. Clearly the copilots did not understand the situation so an inconsistent alarm could be seen as spurious or a secondary effect.

> At the same time he made an abrupt nose-up input on the side-stick, an action that was unnecessary and excessive under the circumstances. The aircraft's stall warning sounded briefly twice due to the angle of attack tolerance being exceeded

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> The crew's lack of response to the stall warning, whether due to a failure to identify the aural warning, to the transience of the stall warnings that could have been considered spurious, to the absence of any visual information that could confirm that the aircraft was approaching stall after losing the characteristic speeds, to confusing stall-related buffet for overspeed-related buffet, to the indications by the flight director that might have confirmed the crew's mistaken view of their actions, or to difficulty in identifying and understanding the implications of the switch to alternate law, which does not protect the angle of attack.

Its a complicated interplay of systems, where autonomous control systems are changing modes and receiving bad information during a complex, raplidly developing situation.
stevarino
·8 mesi fa·discuss
Its clearly propaganda. "Your data belongs to you." I'm sure the ToS says otherwise, as OpenAI likely owns and utilizes this data. Yes, they say they are working on end-to-end encryption (whatever that means when they control one end), but that is just a proposal at this point.

Also their framing of the NYT intent makes me strongly distrust anything they say. Sit down with a third party interviewer who asks challenging questions, and I'll pay attention.
stevarino
·anno scorso·discuss
Yeah this. Cooling towers work by maximizing evaporation rare, transferring energy into the atmosphere via water molecules.

Other heat sink strategies could involve refrigeration systems, but those are significantly more energy intensive and a lot more complex.
stevarino
·2 anni fa·discuss
I imagine waymo has a government relations team, including traffic control relations.

So do cops receive training on these situations? Its only going to get worse (probably).
stevarino
·2 anni fa·discuss
Throw on taxes, administrative overheads, etc, they are probably looking at 30-45 sales per month. Which is likely not realistic.

On top of that, this is a continuous payment. Even if I was looking at 5-10x rate of return, I would be very hesitant as that's the rate-of-return today while the sales are forever.

I've been wondering how realistic microsubscriptions are... Say $1-2 dollars a month per user to maintain an app, perhaps limited to just power users, would support a lot of infrastructure.
stevarino
·2 anni fa·discuss
Security patches, assuming it has some network access.
stevarino
·2 anni fa·discuss
That sounds like it would create resolvable dichotomies and other problems.

As Segal's law states: A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.
stevarino
·2 anni fa·discuss
I think those are called career coaches.

They don't actually do this I believe, but they totally should. Canary various strategies and see which pay off.
stevarino
·2 anni fa·discuss
I'm still confused why Windows 11 is even a thing, as Windows 10 was advertised as "the last version of Windows": https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/what-h...

Actually the source I linked lays it out pretty clearly:

> That (in)famous statement was actually spoken by Jerry Nixon, a developer evangelist at Microsoft, whose job is to get developers excited about developing for Microsoft Store, at the 2015 Microsoft Ignite. Nevertheless, the technology media blew it up, and soon everyone was accepting it as gospel. But it never was.

But still, I just want stability. Also the lack of support for older hardware - I just built a PC four years ago and am being told its not good enough for 11? No thanks.
stevarino
·2 anni fa·discuss
That's an interesting "what-if" though... How would a future generation be affected if they have a parasocial relationship with Lincoln? Or any historical figure? Or a currently running politician?

I feel sci-fi authors have their work cut out for them...
stevarino
·2 anni fa·discuss
I suspect that military aviation has a different certification path. Especially for R+D such as this.
stevarino
·2 anni fa·discuss
Yeah. I joined Reddit pretty early and loved it for the longest time. It was my main social media place.

But anytime a small community would grow in popularity and hit somewhere threshold, it would be overrun by the greater reddit population The subreddit would quickly lose what made the community special and core users would migrate or just stop.

And volunteer moderation is bothe best idea ever and the worst. When it works it's awesome, but it feels as if it's only a matter of time.

So when the API changes hit last year, I saw it as Reddit handing me my hat. The old reddit was no more. I couldn't use it how I wanted to use it, at least not without paying. And given that my reddit usage was more habit than value, I made the decision to accept how things are.

I miss it. This PG post felt more like a eulogy than a promise, despite the closing. But I think I'm better without Reddit. At this point it seems to primarily be a content farm for AI agents, both producing and consuming. So maybe the dark-forest Internet is starting to arrive.
stevarino
·2 anni fa·discuss
I've totally copied php http headers into non-php backends just to see what happens. It costs nothing and gets a trifle more security.

(Not really but it makes me giggle at least)
stevarino
·3 anni fa·discuss
Yeah it was when I was going through a university class based on CEH about ten years ago. It includes war chalking and a bunch of other questionable subjects (BlackBerry Bluetooth stack attacks?). The whole experience left me feeling the certification is a waste of time unless an employer is asking for it (I'm on the swe side so certs are not applicable to me thankfully).

When I looked into war chalking and how it's discussed, I found that most of the news at the time was based on an FBI notice to businesses, which was picked up by the media as the ridiculous story it was. I honestly doubt it actually happened, beyond the two or three Usenet posters that inspired the notice.
stevarino
·3 anni fa·discuss
California Prop 22 comes to mind, unfortunately: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_California_Proposition_...

There was so much uncertainty around it and who wanted what that a lot of people voted against their best interests. I'm still meeting people who thought they were voting against Uber and Lyft with that proposition.

The ads were constant and incredibly misleading. And that was one issue. Every time these propositions come up, I can usually find 3 or 4 that are not what they seem (the Diveta props are similar but very different tactics afaict).

If all state business was done this way it would be overwhelming to filter through it all.