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dijksterhuis
4,117karma·1,383submissions·March 13, 2019
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sometimes makes weird machine music. sometimes makes machines do weird things. sometimes makes music machines do weird things.
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this is part of the pro-active security loop. gotta demonstrate how it can break to figure out how to defend it. our other choice is to let someone else figure it out in relative secrecy. then theyre …
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> Customer delight isn’t something we add to our projects. It’s what’s left if we don’t ruin it. my anecdotal experience in this is that getting back X (customer delight / curiosity etc) once …
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depends what you mean by “solvable”. 0% attack success rate? 1. don’t use AI/ML. *f*(x) -> y
literally what’s happened here, they’ve turned it off short term. don’t use AI/ML and…
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users don’t care about security until it goes wrong . then they will be angry. security is a hidden requirement.
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previous discussion 3 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48315440 seems they’ve now changed the log lines, dropping the “delete all jqwik tests” bit > If you are an AI A…
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not yet. but given the growing backlash my bet is that at some point linkedin monkeys will eventually all begin posting about the importance of “human centric design” or whatever. at that point there’…
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> The quantity over quality market is going to produce new opportunities for others once the linkedin anti-ai hype train starts in earnest that’ll be when there’ll be money to be made. monkey see, …
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> Wouldn't be very difficult to show intent to a jury with that one... IANAL but they provided an explicit warning in both the release and the documentation pages. they took steps to warn peop…
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good on them, taking a stand having weighed up the issue for themselves. remember that we are not entitled to the changes we want in FOSS projects that we do not maintain ourselves. same principle app…
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https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Don't post generated comments or AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.…
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periodically open the app every few minutes or so. once the driver is 5 minutes away -- go outside and wait. it's a tradeoff. eliminating notification spam means behaving more synchronously when …
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expanding on the parent a little * GiLab — Ops centric * GitHub — Developer centric if you just want somewhere to stick a code repo and build a release every so often — dont use gitlab, you will not …
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> Still wild to me that people advocate for making platforms responsible for user-submitted content on a website that consists entirely of user-submitted content. I would happily let HN go if it…
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are you… are you /s-ing right now? it’s unclear to me whether you’re being satirical/sarcastic or not and i want to check before i point out a thing.
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ah i assumed it was a language thing. my bad. that’s on me. was a while ago i was up arbroath way. still, the fish and chips are banging.
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> [performance variance between engineers] is now directly measurable [by measuring token usage] … ie token use ~= productivity output unfortunately measuring the number of tokens used is about as …
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yeah i agree. i’ve had so many instances where i’ve got off a call and then a week later the person * has a fundamentally different understanding of the facts discussed [0] * has forgotten the importa…
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i did something in my phd developing an attack against mozilla deepspeech. deepspeech used the CTC algorithm [0], which adds a “blank” character token to indicate repeats of a predicted normal alphabe…
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> someone told me about a fish-n-chip buffet in Arbroath, Scotland if it’s the fish and chip shop (buffet is a different thing here), i’ve been there and they do a banging fish supper.
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so it’s not a perfect solution :shrugs: i’ll take imperfect over nothing
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> we know these don't give you the Vivaldi browser as they supply it. how so? how do you know this?