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arcaen··on METR and Redwood Offer Holy %^ Postmortem of the HuggingFace Hack
The way I interpret their statement is if a person spins up an agent and that agent hacks some company/organization/government/etc, then that person is at fault for committing the crime. That "well my agent broke containment and acted on its own" should never be accepted as a reason for the occurrence, and the person who kicked off the agent is responsible for all actions the agent takes.

A registration system would be more for tracing back agents to people, but I agree that is very difficult to actually enforce as a system.

arcaen··on Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027
I've got one of the Samsung flips and had thought it'd bother me as well, but it's not very noticeable unless you're dragging your finger across the screen, and I've eventually stopped noticing it at all, and notice screen smudges much more readily. Earlier flips were worse with that though. Unfortunately I haven't played with the Razr so don't know it compares. Definitely play around with one in person at Costco/Best Buy/Target/Walmart/wherever before committing though.
arcaen··on Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?
I dunno, I have friends and family at Meta, Roblox, $JOB, etc that would all prefer a no-AI environment. It's definitely not a majority of devs, but it's not an insignificant amount either.
arcaen··on Show HN: I built a DNS resolver from scratch in Rust – no DNS libraries
I believe that is actually browser specific behavior. I sometimes use a fake TLD for stuff hosted at home, and both chrome and firefox resort to search if I don't include a trailing '/'. My assumption is the browser does a quick match against known TLDs and if it doesn't match then it resorts to search.
arcaen··on Logging in Go with Slog: A Practitioner's Guide
The thing that gets me about slog is that the output key for the slog JSON handler is msg, but that's not compatible with Googles own GCP Stackdriver logging. Since that key is a constant I now need to use an attribute replacer to change it from msg to message (or whatever it is stackdriver wants). Good work Google.
arcaen··on Microsoft CEO Nadella asked for pay reduction after security slip
Your link shows seniors making $241k, not sure where you got $332k from.

The point is, even people making $241k will feel a 6.5% decrease in pay astronomically more than someone going from $84m to $79m. At that level there is negligible drop in quality of life, and the concept of "cutting back" pretty much does not exist.

This is still a performative act, the intention is nice, but it's performative nonetheless.

arcaen··on Quality of care declines after private equity takes over hospitals
Why are you trying to suggest that the 25% increase in hospital acquired complications are limited to a single outlier? The conclusion of the study states that the outcomes across those 51 private-equity acquired hospitals result in a 25.4% increase in hospital acquired complications.

So if the generalized hospital is an outlier, then why are the stats quoted matching the overall average results from the study?

Based on the context of the linked study, it's quite clear that the above quoted paragraph has the following meaning:

"After a [randomly selected] hospital [of the 51 sampled private equity acquired hospitals] was acquired by private equity, admitted Medicare patients had [on average, based on evalutation of those 51 PE acquired hospitals against 259 non PE aquired hospitals,] a 25% increase in hospital-acquired complications, compared with patients admitted before acquisition..."

The purpose of the article is to summarize the study findings. If they were talking about an outlier, they would mention that and use phrasing like "After THE hospital..." where "the" reiterates that it's a specific singular, and not a generalized sample.

Here's the direct text from the linked study as well that medicalxpress paraphrased/reworded: "After private equity acquisition, Medicare beneficiaries admitted to private equity hospitals experienced a 25.4% increase in hospital-acquired conditions compared with those treated at control hospitals (4.6 [95% CI, 2.0-7.2] additional hospital-acquired conditions per 10 000 hospitalizations, P = .004)."

It seems like you're hung up on medicalxpress's choice of wording for their paraphrasing, which is fine, but 25.4% increase in hospital acquired conditions is NOT an outlier amongst the 51 sampled PE acquired hospitals.

arcaen··on Quality of care declines after private equity takes over hospitals
Not sure where you got the idea that the study was only of a singular hospital, seeing as the study outline details claims for 600k hospitalizations in 51 private-equity hospitals are compared to 4m comparable hospitalizations in 259 non-private-equity hospitals.