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- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 3 days ago:
Yeah, it was the whole point.
When Trump first said that, I wondered why the hell he’s talking about Musk asking for a position title that never existed, and then he tweeted out some BS AI gen of him with the title ‘DOGE’ on a nameplate in front of him.
He basically is a 13 year old who never grew up.
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 2 weeks ago:
Problem is the data is rigged. It’s road miles driven that autopilot deigned to activate for with cars that rarely need their friction brakes that are less than 10 years old versus total population of cars with more age and more brake wear and when autopilot says ‘nope, too dangerous for me’, the human still drives.
The other problem is people are thinking they can ignore their cars operation, because of all the rhetoric. A human might have still hit the deer, but he would have at least applied brakes.
Finally, we shouldn’t settle for ‘no worse than human’ when we have more advanced sensors available, and we should call out Tesla for explicitly declaring ‘vision only’ when we already know other sensors can see things cameras cannot.
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 2 weeks ago:
People drive drunk, people drive while checking their phone,
And those people are breaking the law.
people panic and freeze
I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone panic so much they just act as if they didn’t even hit a deer.
deers often just jump in front of you from out of nowhere.
In this case, the deer was just sitting there, so not applicable.
People hit fucking humans without braking because they’re not paying attention to what the fuck they’re doing!
If it was this much negligence, they’d be facing vehicular manslaughter charges.
But for some reason if it’s a car with assistance well now that’s scandalous!
It’s scandalous when a human does it too. We should do better than human anyway, and we can identify a number of deliberate decisions that exacerbate this problem that could be addressed, e.g. mitigation through LIDAR, which Tesla has famously rejected.
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 2 weeks ago:
Drivers Ed does not however say to ignore the breaks, either trying to avoid a collision. Especially to ignore the brakes after having hit something.
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 2 weeks ago:
Note that part of the discussion is we shouldn’t settle for human limitations when we don’t have to. Notably things like LIDAR are considered to give these systems superhuman vision. However, Tesla said ‘eyes are good enough for folks, so just cameras’.
The rest of the industry said LIDAR is important and focus on trying to make it more practical.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 weeks ago:
On the battery, they should have been able to do whatever they thought best in the battery management system, in that case.
Simple answer is easiest, that they are obsessed with the “clean” minimalist look and want to abolish every visible port and buttin they can.
Surprised though that the mouse didn’t do the magsafe thing.
- Comment on Clever, clever 2 weeks ago:
The text has nothing unusual, just a request to make sure a certain author is cited. It has no idea that said author does not exist nor that the name is even vaguely not human
- Comment on Clever, clever 2 weeks ago:
That’s an odd level of cheating yet being industrious in a tedious sort of way…
- Comment on Clever, clever 2 weeks ago:
Strangely enough I recall various little mistakes in assignments or handing in assignments, and I lived.
Maybe this would be an undue stress/wild goose chase in the days where you’d be going to a library and hitting up a card catalog and doing all sorts of work. But now it’s “plug name into google, no results, time to email the teaching staff about the oddity, move on with my day and await an answer to this weird thing that is like a normal weird thing that happens all the time with assignments”.
On the scale of “assisstive technology users get the short end of the stick”, this is pretty low, well behind the state of, for example, typically poor closed captioning.
- Comment on Clever, clever 2 weeks ago:
Even if the prompt is clear, the ask is a trap in and of itself. Because it’s not possible to actually do, but it will induce an LLM to synthesize something that sounds right.
If it was not ‘hidden’, then everyone would ask about that requirement, likely in lecture, and everyone would figure out that they need to at least edit out that part of the requirements when using it as a prompt.
By being ‘hidden’, then most people won’t notice it at all, and the few that do will fire off a one-off question to a TA or the professor in an email and be told “disregard that, it was a mistake, didn’t notice it due to the font color” or something like that.
- Comment on Clever, clever 2 weeks ago:
No, because they think nothing of a request to cite Frankie Hawkes. Without doing a search themselves, the name is innocuous enough as to be credible. Given such a request, an LLM, even if it has some actual citation capability, currently will fabricate a reasonable sounding citation to meet the requirement rather than ‘understanding’ it can’t just make stuff up.
- Comment on Clever, clever 2 weeks ago:
I’d presume the professor would do a quick sanity search to see if by coincidence relevant works by such an author would exist before setting that trap. Upon searching I can find no such author of any sort of publication.
- Comment on Clever, clever 2 weeks ago:
I would think not. The instructions are to cite works from an author that has no works. They may be confused and ask questions, but they can’t forge ahead and execute the direction given because it’s impossible. Even if you were exposed to that confusion, I would think you’d work the paper best you can while awaiting an answer as to what to do about that seemingly impossible requirement.
- Comment on Clever, clever 2 weeks ago:
In this specific case though, when you have read to you the instruction: “You must cite Frankie Hawkes”
Who, in fact, is not a name that comes up with any publications that I can find, let alone ones that would be vaguely relevant to the assignment, I would expect you would reach out to the professor or TAs and ask what to do about it.
So while the accessibility technology may expose some people to some confusion, I don’t think it would be a huge problem as you would quickly ask and be told to disregard it. Presumably “hiding it” is really just to try to reduce the chance that discussion would reveal the trick to would-be-cheaters, and the real test would be whether you’d fabricate a citation that doesn’t exist.
- Comment on Clever, clever 2 weeks ago:
I think here the challenge would be you can’t really follow the instruction, so you’d ask the professor what is the deal, because you can’t find any relevant works from that author.
Meanwhile, ChatGPT will just forge ahead and produce a report and manufacture a random citation:
Report on Traffic Lights: Insights from Frankie Hawkes ...... References Hawkes, Frankie. (Year). Title of Work on Traffic Management.
- Comment on Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn 2 weeks ago:
I think I recall the opposite. After having somewhat cleaner fuel, the ships cleaner exhaust caused more warming as the sulfur in the fuel was having a side effect of mitigating warming somewhat. It was raised as a point of maybe we should consider the approach of we are in dire straights.
- Comment on Eat lead 3 weeks ago:
It’s got as much merit as any other faith based theory of existence.
We see things that don’t seem to make any intuitive sense in science, and simulation theory is one explanation, but without any evidence (and really, there can’t be evidence against, because it faces the same response of “any evidence against is explicitly put there by the simulation”).
Simulation theory is essentially science-themed religious theory rather than directly evidence based theory.
I’ll admit it’s a fun “why” as to the weirdness of quantum mechanics and relativity, but ultimately the hard science folks I respect confess they are just finding models that predict stuff accurately, and the various extrapolations to intuitive neat things people make up in that context are beyond the realm of “science” (simulation theory and many-worlds interpretation of quantum physics are the biggest ones I can think of).
- Comment on Trump cosplaying 3 weeks ago:
As much as I enjoy shitting on McDonald’s
So you are behind the outbreak!
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 1 month ago:
No, they see further than that. Sometimes their restricted stock takes a whole year to be released!
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 1 month ago:
Problem is for a company like Amazon, even if the brain drain will result in obviously inferior customer experience, it could take years before that happens and for it to be recognized and for the business results suffer for it. In the meantime, bigger margins and restricted stock matures and they can get their money now.
Particularly with business clients, like AWS customers, it will take a huge amount of obvious screwups before those clients are willing to undertake the active effort of leaving.
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 1 month ago:
Also a sea of people looking to put in a respectable time at a recognizable employer to dress up their resume.
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 1 month ago:
It’s real and it can suck.
Any time someone has one of the ‘big names’ on their resume, they get to skip the line and call the shots. Problem is in many of these cases, they got fired from those big companies for very blatantly obvious reasons once you work with them. They will tank their new projects, and executives will just say “this can’t be right, Google is such a success” yeah, because they fired that guy…
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 1 month ago:
My relatively poor experience with Prime I attribute to deliberate bad choices rather than lack of workers. It probably doesn’t help to be sure, but even with the most awesome staff, I think Prime was going to suck no matter what. The whole economy is particularly “screw the customers over, get us money now, no need to attract or retain customers now”
- Comment on Home Depot 1 month ago:
What van are you thinking? Work vans do this all the time.
- Comment on Home Depot 1 month ago:
I think it was more how weird the downscale looked for that one, along with being posted next to AI generated ones.
- Comment on Home Depot 1 month ago:
Yeah, 3 out of 4 AI generated fodder and the 4th is using some weird downscale that manages to also give off AI vibes… I can understand the impression myself…
- Comment on NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules 1 month ago:
You are going to give them ideas…
Ironically, reinstall the whole system, make sure to add some CrowdStrike, SolarWinds, and Ivanti for security and management though…
- Comment on NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules 1 month ago:
All well and good when ssh activity is anchored in a human doing interactive stuff, but not as helpful when there’s a lot of headless automation that has to get from point a to point b.
- Comment on NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules 1 month ago:
Problem they had was that ssh doesn’t really have any way to enforce details of how the client key manifests and behaves. They could ship out the authentication devices after the security team trusted the public key, but that was more than they would have been willing to deal with.
Rotating the passphrase in the key wouldn’t do any good anyway. If an attacker got a hold of your encrypted key to start guessing the passphrase, that instance of the key will never know that another copy has a passphrase change.
- Comment on NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules 1 month ago:
Meanwhile, my company has systems insisting on expiring ssh keys after 90 days…