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cbb330··on Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations
I would dedicate a portion of my organization to making O.S. tools that protect against and contain AI models
cbb330··on Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations
Then disclose to real organizations. Not twitter
cbb330··on Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations
so deeply embarrassing that they published an eng blog about it
cbb330··on U.S. government has lost more than 10k STEM PhDs since Trump took office
The US doesn’t have enough money to fund the entire distribution

And as a tax payer I prefer discretionary spending for high performers.

cbb330··on Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy
The soapbox-vs-megaphone analogy falls apart fast.

Name me one serious, intellectually honest critic of Thiel—say, Malcolm Harris, Evgeny Morozov, Shoshana Zuboff, Mariana Mazzucato, or even random Substackers with 100k+ followers who’s struggling to be heard because Thiel bought all the megaphones.

They all have huge platforms, book deals, TED-level reach, or blue-check amplification. The “undue amplification” crowd never points to a single silenced dissident; they just dislike that Thiel’s ideas are winning in the marketplace anyway.

If every prominent counter-voice already has a bigger megaphone than 99.9 % of humanity ever will, the complaint isn’t about access it’s that voters and readers keep choosing the “wrong” rich guy.

cbb330··on Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy
> how to not give these people a microphone
cbb330··on Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy
Yeah sure, Thiel’s money helped put his protégé Vance in the VP chair, he has real influence, no denying it.

But scroll this comment section for any critique of Thiel and you’ll see the pattern: his wealth gets attacked, his actual ideas almost never do.

Take the “Antichrist Thesis” everyone mocks. It’s Rene Girard-speak for centralized, charismatic authoritarianism that weaponizes morality and scapegoating to grab power. Think Sam Altman preaching about AGI danger while lobbying the gov for openai prioritizing and startup stifling policies. Fed government using big tech censorship for preventing hate speech. He’s been dead-on about that danger for decades.

cbb330··on Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy
Sorry, but that take is complete garbage.

Wanting to “collectively figure out how to take away the microphone” from rich people you dislike isn’t a brave stance against inequality, it’s straight-up authoritarian censorship based on net worth. In a free society, people choose who gets attention. If you don’t like Thiel, out-argue him or ignore him, but don’t fantasize about silencing citizens because they’re successful. And honestly, Thiel’s worldview has real strengths: he’s been early and right on remote work, the stagnation of atom-based industries, the broken incentives in higher education, the dangers of bureaucratic overreach, and the need for bold technological breakthroughs instead of endless regulation. PayPal, Palantir, SpaceX (as an early investor), and backing young founders through the Thiel Fellowship have created massive value and progress. Dismissing all that because he’s rich and contrarian is lazy.

cbb330··on Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to fund US public broadcasting
PBS is not simply Bob Ross and Mr Rogers. for example, PBS NewsHour

Also NOAA receives significant funding for climate change efforts primarily from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act

cbb330··on Polars Cloud and Distributed Polars now available
can you dive a bit deeper into the comparison with spark rdd
cbb330··on Critics say new Google rules put profits over privacy
investigative journalists conclude that water is, in fact, wet
cbb330··on We're forking Flutter
Flutterfoundation.dev

Was created for flock?

This seems less of a fork and more of an attempted annex

cbb330··on Maker Skill Trees
If you contribute your expertise to improve the skill tree you can even get a cool sticker.

https://github.com/sjpiper145/MakerSkillTree?tab=readme-ov-f...

cbb330··on A Louisiana gas plant sea wall shows challenges of flooding, energy demand
> How far will the fossil fuel industry go to protect itself from climate impacts it helped cause?

As far as their customers take them :)

- sent from my iPhone which was delivered to me via fossil fuels

cbb330··on Tesla Settles Fatal Crash Suit Ahead of California Trial
lets all do the popular thing and judge Tesla’s software reliability by a headline and the opinion of someone on the internet
cbb330··on Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S.
Agreed, as I’m familiar as a buyer and with friends who work at MBUSA in dealer inventory.
cbb330··on DBeaver – open-source database client
I like dbeaver for browsing DDL, list of tables, examples of schema, data types. also, to edit a few rows here and there as a quick test/fix to something. because its easier to click around than write many 2 line sql to do the same thing.

But, I often use jupyter notebooks for the DML aspect of hard queries and data anlysis, for the power of dataframes and repeatable cells mixed with documentation and sharing.

So all that to say, anyone know if there is a DDL browser equivalent ideal for jupyter notebooks / ipywidgets?

cbb330··on Leaving LinkedIn
https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/07/linkedin-protocol-buffers...

https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-...

https://gdpr-info.eu/

cbb330··on Leaving LinkedIn
this plus lack of performance eval/culture/strategy to grow responsibly and enable future success

its a great learning experience though despite what people say about the inability to learn the new hot hot tech. the nuance of software development is the decisions that other people make, that is inescapable and is a skill worth developing. i'm not buying the "just do a startup" because i think its a cop out.

cbb330··on Leaving LinkedIn
Yes. We hired everyone from meta starting in 2020 and so far this strategy is holding true
cbb330··on Leaving LinkedIn
The top 1/3rd of Eng don’t see it as immutable. But the stack can consist of 10 other teams tools, and you’re not rewarded for the amount of time you’re spending to fix other people’s stuff. So it goes on
cbb330··on Leaving LinkedIn
Preface: I’m not in front end or flagship teams so I’m saying hearsay.

The initiative Chris refers to is still alive but likely hasn’t made any meaningful progress. These things tend to have a lot of fan fair and then suddenly leave the front conscious of the company as we get a new GDPR/DMA fire to put out. at that point it will be dead. Or, it will stay alive for 2+ years as slowly but surely 50% of clients migrate to it and see even poorer performance.

There was a blog here a few months ago about migration from restli to grpc. It’s still going on, and nearly every app i see is still restli.

cbb330··on Leaving LinkedIn
TIL jugaad haha.

Yea, give everything 3x estimate because everything that can break will break along the way.

Fresh clone of master won’t build, the local build command is broken, gradle, remote build, GitHub, staging is an inside joke, prod host os upgrades, dependencies bumped in repo, http dependency’s network route changed, etc. etc. etc.

cbb330··on Leaving LinkedIn
I work at LinkedIn now. Chris’s role and the podcast describes ember and front end web dev. I think the LoC and build he’s referring to could be voyager-web. Our monolith flagship web app. And, there’s more systems at LinkedIn with MM lines of code and long builds example is the mid tiers, the offline data stacks, the metrics systems, KafkaKafkaKafka.

Unfortunately, 17min to build is pretty good. 17min without a transient infra failure is very good.

Anyways, AMA

cbb330··on The largest US dam-removal effort to date has begun
“Comparing max wind capacity to actual outputs from dams is nonsensical. Wind typically produces 30% or less of its max capacity over any period of time and it does so unreliably. The energy from damns is much more valuable.”
cbb330··on The largest US dam-removal effort to date has begun
America is the type of country to do negative “human” perspective actions for purely environmental reasons:

https://www.government-fleet.com/10193319/military-charging-...

cbb330··on The largest US dam-removal effort to date has begun
1. Your reply to parent said dams’ output is small

2. parent refutes the data

3. You reply again with same message

Can you address the parent’s concern that the data you’re reporting is incorrect? (Solar metrics are based on max / theoretical output and not real output)

cbb330··on FunSearch: Making new discoveries in mathematical sciences using LLMs
your mind also conjectures many unreasonable and illogical solutions to things. then separately your mind has an "evaluator" to deduce a set of solutions down to things that make sense.

Is anyone saying LLMs in isolation and without contextual tooling are miraculous? Even the text box for chatGPT is a form of wrapping LLM in a UX that is incrementally more miraculous.

cbb330··on My favorite database shirts
Scroll to the bottom.
cbb330··on Oil and gas production in Texas produces twice as much methane as in New Mexico
i'm not sure you fully read my comment.

my example posted is an example of how business interests are relevant to how livable the planet is for humans.

and then my quote is almost word for word what they said in the article.

their quote: "It seems the regulation in New Mexico has had an impact without hurting business"

my paraphrase: "yeah it seems like New Mexico doin real good with more laws"

They need to provide much, much much more proof because as regulation can have net negative affect then the burden is on them.

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