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latency-guy2··on "Good engineering management" is a fad
Why misrepresent what someone else said to make your point?
latency-guy2··on Random selection is necessary to create stable meritocratic institutions
> My comment was pointing out that there are multiple possible (probably simultaneous) causes for the jury statistics.

Sure, but this is a non-statement without qualifying anything behind it. You can defeat any argument by claiming its "multi-faceted". Just like how I am doing to you right now, but instead forcing you into the position where you lack evidence to dismiss.

latency-guy2··on Reflections on OpenAI
Very apt, OpenAI's start was always poach-central, we know this from executive email leaks via Elon/Sam respectively.

Any gibberish on any company's behalf of "poaching" is nonsense regardless IMO.

latency-guy2··on Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online
> Secondly, incitement to violence is illegal in most countries. If you think it's not in yours, why not try it and see where you end up?

By all means, if that's the way you want to represent the issue, then there is no discussion to be had.

I will, however, represent it this way:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_the_United_Kingd...

I can be compelled in a few situations in this incomplete list were of the "deserved" type. But you can't convince me on all of them.

latency-guy2··on The death of partying in the USA
The stakes are naturally higher and harsher than at any point in history. The government, all kinds, are reinforcing it, and governments are entirely reflective of society, there is no washing your hands of this responsibility.

Gen-Z is not only completely in the right in being sheepish, their predecessors are entirely to blame, and every attempt to claim they were not a part of the increasing surveillance state is a lie.

Even the older members of Gen-Z can be blamed to a small degree.

There is no cure

latency-guy2··on Linda Yaccarino is leaving X
This is so uninteresting considering the comments that you passed over from the other user:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44510731#44516503

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44510731#44519298

No, I imagine you don't see the blatant disregard. Maybe sagaar is a genuine representation of this community, and as are you. Entirely inflammatory people who seek to poison the well and act like they're not doing it.

latency-guy2··on Linda Yaccarino is leaving X
If you went to a website that consisted of roughly within 2 standard deviation population representative of multiple sides, then maybe you would have a point.

But this is reddit. It is not a population consisting of anywhere near that generous 2 standard deviations.

You know precisely what you're doing and you know you're being dishonest.

Tell me, a website that is not wholly owned and operated by shills on the left would respond with the state of /r/pics any day of the week, and exclaim that is entirely organic behavior, let alone consisting of representative population of the real world USA.

We can go blow for blow in any large sub. In fact, tell me why /r/Idaho, a state that has consistently voted red for decades somehow has "organically" resulted in posts entirely consisting of run-of-the-mill liberal posts? What of /r/Texas which is the same story and out of the question not a liberal stronghold that it presents itself to be.

You can pull the wool over your eyes all day, don't expect anyone else in the world to believe your bullshit.

latency-guy2··on I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models
The safety filter appears on both ends (or multi-ended depending on the complexity of your application), input and output.

I can tell you from using Microsoft's products that safety filters appears in a bunch of places. M365 for example, your prompts are never totally your prompts, every single one gets rewritten. It's detailed here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/copilot/microsoft-365/micr...

There's a more illuminating image of the Copilot architecture here: https://i.imgur.com/2vQYGoK.png which I was able to find from https://labs.zenity.io/p/inside-microsoft-365-copilot-techni...

The above appears to be scrubbed, but it used to be available from the learn page months ago. Your messages get additional context data from Microsoft's Graph, which powers the enterprise version of M365 Copilot. There's significant benefits to this, and downsides. And considering the way Microsoft wants to control things, you will get an overindex toward things that happen inside of your organization than what will happen in the near real-time web.

latency-guy2··on U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites
Not sure what you want as a response, you won't find a friend in me, and you certainly won't be able to convince me if this is your response.
latency-guy2··on U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites
The Middle East is not strongly in the sphere of influence that Europeans have yes.

I promise you that the boots on the ground of the rest of the nations listed by the other person here is far more important here than strongly worded letters by the aging bureaucracy that governs the EU.

latency-guy2··on AbsenceBench: Language models can't tell what's missing
For photo negatives - usually doesn't matter. I am not up to date with what the vision folks are doing at these companies, but images are usually single channel, and more likely than not for regular images in greyscale. Otherwise in complex domain for the radar folks, and those are not RGB based images at all, rather scatterer defined.

Additional channels being recognized in training usually didn't matter for the experiments and models I used to deal with before 2022, and if they were, certainly did not matter for colors. Then again, the work I was doing was on known (and some additional confusers) classes for object detection and classification where the color pretty much didn't matter in the first place.

latency-guy2··on AbsenceBench: Language models can't tell what's missing
At least from when I was still doing this kind of work, look angle/platform angle scatterer signal (radar) mattered more than rotation, but rotation was a simple way to get quite a bit more samples. It never stopped being relevant :)
latency-guy2··on Supreme Court allows DOGE to access social security data
Right, but that's a comment on yourself, even if you meant that for everyone else. Society absolutely trusts 20 somethings for sensitive data all the time.

Don't give me the bullshit about "this situation". Go to your nearest hospital and notices a sea of young nurses handling you and your family's medical data on a clipboard, paper, and a very poorly secured 20 year old workstation.

You are inconsistent, and you will continue to be inconsistent. In fact, your bank account info is known by the teller who has similar qualifications, your purchases and address is known by the customer service representative hired straight out of high school or in a call center in Egypt, and so much more.

This talking point is entirely a political cudgel that only makes sense to the kind of folk that do not think past their favorite politician's tweets. On that fact, wanna know who's been managing your letters/calls that you've been sending your politician? These ones know your phone number, and any modern filter will be looking for your address.

latency-guy2··on The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs
What is "Bloomstink"? Neither of your links references it, there are no references to the thing that makes sense when I do a web search.
latency-guy2··on If you are useful, it doesn't mean you are valued
> That’s strange, because capitalism is the one that thinks infinity is real.

Your rhetoric doesn't pass. You contradict yourself in a single turn. Can't cite "scarcity" and "infinity" powers this fictional economic system you thought of as "capitalism".

latency-guy2··on If you are useful, it doesn't mean you are valued
Didn't know other economic systems beat the fundamental nature of physics and reality where infinite isn't simply a concept. Are you sure you're considering a "charade" in the right direction?
latency-guy2··on At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work
Why is incapability to make progress at work tasks not a valid reason for job dismissal in Germany? Unless I am misunderstanding something
latency-guy2··on How can traditional British TV survive the US streaming giants
Netflix is far more robust and smarter than what you could ever strike them down for. These aren't people who just started a few weeks ago in the industry, and they are far from the people who are equally long lived dinosaurs who can't or won't keep up and dies in the past.

You're just not the target market anymore, and that's more than fine, because there's a few hundred million that are, and that number is growing, not shrinking, in fact they're growing faster than ever.

latency-guy2··on Era of U.S. dollar may be winding down
If you sincerely question, then it should be easy for you to provide samples of what is "beyond the pale". There is no need for narrative building either, it serves no purpose other than aggravating the other person and making them smaller.
latency-guy2··on We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads [video]
Send a pitch to Meta's board or executive suite describing how much you and your cohort would like to pay in aggregate for an ad-free experience for social media, then the rest of the internet based business as you wish.

There are absolutely alternatives, you won't use them because few others that you care about are on them. Similarly, free is the best price next to being paid.

latency-guy2··on We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads [video]
How is that a "step 1" when thats describing something else entirely?

How much would you pay to own an account on social media? If your answer is $0 then you're not addressing anything, you just want someone else to subsidize your entertainment and you want to call the shots on top.

I don't work for free, and I know damn well neither do you.

latency-guy2··on Careless People
Guess there's nothing we can do then. Beliefs are all that matter.
latency-guy2··on Careless People
> Does anyone actually believe

> I firmly believe that it's positive for both.

Alright, setup an experiment and prove it. Should be easy.

Speculation is free. Can't ever be wrong in the land of uncertainty.

latency-guy2··on OpenAI is building a social network?
I actually would love this. I hate having to go to another website to share some thoughts I had using tools in a platform.

I miss the days when experiences would actually choose to integrate other platforms into their experiences, yes I was sort of a fan of the FB/Google share button and Twitter side feed (not the tracking bits though).

I wasn't a fan of LLM and the whole chat experience a few years ago, I'm a very mild convert now with the latest models and I'm getting some nominal benefit, so I would love to have some kind of shared chat session to brain storm, e.g. on a platform better than Figma.

The one integration of AI that I think is actually neat is Teams + AI Note taking. It's still a hit or miss a lot of the time, but it at least saves and notes something important 30% of the time.

Collaboration enhancements would be a wonderful outcome in place of AGI.

latency-guy2··on Googler... ex-Googler
I'm personally seeing quite terrible things on desktop, here is a snapshot of the homepage: https://i.imgur.com/VfNwqi7.png

Here is a snapshot of the post itself: https://i.imgur.com/61b7ADn.png

To note, I cannot click on any of the buttons in the top-right to control what I could or learn more about this person.

latency-guy2··on Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs
> his disaster of a political career.

45th and 47th president of the USA as a disaster seems to be setting the bar unbelievably high for failure.

latency-guy2··on The average college student today
You have stated no facts.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2023/labor-force-participation-...

The demographic across the board works less today than in the past. They might accrue debt, but they're not working it off while at college.

Further, you're even more wrong than you think you are.

The average student at college is now painfully average. This is because the average student is admitted to college at rates higher than ever before.

College participation rate is higher than in the past as well.

> Relatively low inequality and high progressive tax post-WWII funded the new medicine and tech we now enjoy.

You're not even correct about the taxes either. The taxes were TIED to the war.

latency-guy2··on Cross-Platform P2P Wi-Fi: How the EU Killed AWDL
Like the Micro-USB?

Are you sure this will last a decade? The EU has a tendency to demand without thinking. Just like the last time, the modern world will move on, and the EU will pretend like it had anything to do with the next time.

latency-guy2··on Cross-Platform P2P Wi-Fi: How the EU Killed AWDL
> We have the EU to thank for USB-C

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB-C

> The design for the USB-C connector was initially developed in 2012 by Intel, HP Inc., Microsoft, and the USB Implementers Forum. The Type-C Specification 1.0 was published by the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) on August 11, 2014.[1] In July 2016, it was adopted by the IEC as "IEC 62680-1-3".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_Implementers_Forum

> USB Implementers Forum, Inc. (USB-IF) is a nonprofit organization created to promote and maintain USB (Universal Serial Bus), a set of specifications and transmission procedures for a type of cable connection that has since become used widely for electronic equipment. Its main activities are currently the promotion and marketing of USB, Wireless USB, USB On-The-Go, and the maintenance of standards and specifications for the related devices, as well as a compliance program.

> The USB-IF was initiated in 1995[1] by the group of companies that was developing USB, which was made available first during 1996. The founding companies of USB-IF were Compaq, Digital Equipment Corporation, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NEC and Nortel. Notable current members include HP, NEC, Microsoft, Apple Inc., Intel, and Agere Systems.

We have mega corporations to thank for USB-C. Notably none of these companies are European. None.

latency-guy2··on xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B
I don't see any connection to what you're talking about to this. You have to explain.
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