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Apple's idea of magic sometimes seems to be making decisions for you and hoping they guessed correctly
I really hope the next treatment works
That last point is probably the hardest one to actually follow. When someone you love is sick, I imagine it's easy to turn every waking hour into researching treatments, chasing appointments and etc. It probably feels…
It's pretty sobering that one of the most important cancer survival skills seems to be knowing how to navigate bureaucracy...
My concern is that poisoning the dataset doesn't really stop the scanning. The device is still poking around your network
This is why I'd really like to see a packet capture or at least some interface-level counters
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I can understand a buggy device flooding the network. What's harder to justify is why a coffee maker needs to know anything about the other devices in your house in the first place
The keyboard layout issue sounds nastier than the reconnect bug to me. Input forwarding gets surprisingly weird once keycodes, layouts, modifiers and the target OS's interpretation all get involved
A lot of good software starts with refusing to tolerate one tiny annoyance and it's amazing in a way :)
That's an interesting wrinkle. If anything, externally funded international students seem like exactly the case where you'd still want the interview, since the funding answers "who pays for this?" but not "does this…
I think this is true of defenses as they exist today, but that may be partly because the thesis currently does most of the signaling.
The tricky part is that live review is much more expensive than async review. But maybe that just means we were getting away with a cheap proxy because it happened to work reasonably well.
The key shift seems to be from "can you produce mathematics?" to "do you understand mathematics?"... Those used to be correlated strongly enough that a thesis or paper could serve as evidence of both. If AI breaks that…
A phone is a pretty bad proxy for what someone is actually doing with their attention
The first rule reduces platform power. The second potentially requires platforms to build even larger classification and moderation systems. I'm very much in favor of the first, but I don't think they belong under the…
And the incentives are arguably worse than QA: you get little credit if the result replicates, and potentially a lot of grief if it doesn't. Novel results build careers. Checking them mostly doesn't
I'd be pretty wary of stretching wire fraud law to cover this. Prosecutors deciding whether scientific results are fraudulent sounds like it could create its own set of ugly incentives
This is the classic difference between testing whether the software works and testing whether the system works
That does make the 10 million figure more meaningful but I still think it is doing a lot of work rhetorically
I mostly agree but I think the bar for the software still has to be unusually high when the failure mode is "you are not allowed to enter the country you legally live in"... The human fallback is essential, but it…
IKEA Poland missed an opportunity here
This is exactly why the names work
I always assumed the names were mostly random Swedish words picked for the vibe. The fact that there's a taxonomy behind them makes it much funnier somehow
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Apple's idea of magic sometimes seems to be making decisions for you and hoping they guessed correctly
I really hope the next treatment works
That last point is probably the hardest one to actually follow. When someone you love is sick, I imagine it's easy to turn every waking hour into researching treatments, chasing appointments and etc. It probably feels…
It's pretty sobering that one of the most important cancer survival skills seems to be knowing how to navigate bureaucracy...
My concern is that poisoning the dataset doesn't really stop the scanning. The device is still poking around your network
This is why I'd really like to see a packet capture or at least some interface-level counters
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I can understand a buggy device flooding the network. What's harder to justify is why a coffee maker needs to know anything about the other devices in your house in the first place
The keyboard layout issue sounds nastier than the reconnect bug to me. Input forwarding gets surprisingly weird once keycodes, layouts, modifiers and the target OS's interpretation all get involved
A lot of good software starts with refusing to tolerate one tiny annoyance and it's amazing in a way :)
That's an interesting wrinkle. If anything, externally funded international students seem like exactly the case where you'd still want the interview, since the funding answers "who pays for this?" but not "does this…
I think this is true of defenses as they exist today, but that may be partly because the thesis currently does most of the signaling.
The tricky part is that live review is much more expensive than async review. But maybe that just means we were getting away with a cheap proxy because it happened to work reasonably well.
The key shift seems to be from "can you produce mathematics?" to "do you understand mathematics?"... Those used to be correlated strongly enough that a thesis or paper could serve as evidence of both. If AI breaks that…
A phone is a pretty bad proxy for what someone is actually doing with their attention
The first rule reduces platform power. The second potentially requires platforms to build even larger classification and moderation systems. I'm very much in favor of the first, but I don't think they belong under the…
And the incentives are arguably worse than QA: you get little credit if the result replicates, and potentially a lot of grief if it doesn't. Novel results build careers. Checking them mostly doesn't
I'd be pretty wary of stretching wire fraud law to cover this. Prosecutors deciding whether scientific results are fraudulent sounds like it could create its own set of ugly incentives
This is the classic difference between testing whether the software works and testing whether the system works
That does make the 10 million figure more meaningful but I still think it is doing a lot of work rhetorically
I mostly agree but I think the bar for the software still has to be unusually high when the failure mode is "you are not allowed to enter the country you legally live in"... The human fallback is essential, but it…
IKEA Poland missed an opportunity here
This is exactly why the names work
I always assumed the names were mostly random Swedish words picked for the vibe. The fact that there's a taxonomy behind them makes it much funnier somehow