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daft_pink··on Migrating from Proxmox to NixOS and Incus
I find I have a lot of trouble with updating with nixos. I really like the OS but I find that when I have something like Claude Code and I need to update to the newest version, I just have trouble. It just seems like a lot of work updating versions otherwise NixOS is really awesome and great.
daft_pink··on Tell HN: OpenAI has started putting ads on paid programs
I'm really curious if there are privacy implications to the ads since Google ads showed the complete search that you made to the advertiser. I'm curious how their ads console works
daft_pink··on Elastic lays off 7% of employees
I blame the hyperscalers not AI.

I think open source is important and fair use is important, but I’m skeptical of the business model of gutting open source by hosting it and reselling it wholesale with a few modifications.

Amazon, Google and Microsoft are getting rich just reselling hosted open source and actively competing with and gutting companies like Elastic.

daft_pink··on Blogging can just be stating the obvious
Commenting on Hacker News is often just stating the obvious, but people still upvote! ;)
daft_pink··on Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak
That system is going to be a nightmare in discovery
daft_pink··on Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring
If you look at the chart, the systemic rejection rate is only like 5-10%. It’s not a huge impact and it’s just about getting an interview not getting the job, so they could still get rejected.

I just think certain resumes will get an interview almost every time in some industries and certain resumes will likely never get an interview almost every time, but the majority of resumes are like you say have different aspects that appeal to one empoyer over another.

daft_pink··on Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring
Anyone who’s done hiring wouldn’t be shocked by this:

We find applicants are more likely to be rejected from every position they apply to than would be predicted by the baseline of each position making statistically independent decisions.

Obviously a rejected resume is more likely to be rejected by every other employer and an accepted resume is more likely to be accepted by every other employer. Like online dating, most employers are looking for some baseline indicators that you are going to be successful and stable.

daft_pink··on Israel targeted Gaza children resulting in genocide, UN inquiry says
It did because world war 3 hasn’t happened and it’s been about 80 years vs the short time between world war 2 and world war 1.
daft_pink··on Israel targeted Gaza children resulting in genocide, UN inquiry says
The UN is really just meant to prevent World War 3 and nuclear war. It has succeeded in this for the last 70 years. The structure of the UN is basically unanimous consensus between the major world powers with each power getting a veto.

There is no unanimous consensus on this issue at all.

daft_pink··on Gemini models increasingly stucking in thinking loop
I find when I use Gemini Web Chat that it often just starts over mid-conversation and doesn't remember the rest of the context of the conversation whereas Claude and ChatGPT never do that.
daft_pink··on Deno Desktop
Is it going to support iOS/Android?
daft_pink··on The early hiring funnel is now breaking on both ends
If I were looking for a job right now. I would scrape all the LinkedIn profiles at the target company to understand what skills they valued and tailor my resume with ai based on those profiles and the initial job posting and my skills.

I think you just have to go a step or two above what most other candidates are doing. In my experience, that works really really well.

daft_pink··on The Doom Justifies the Valuation
I think when chinese models figure out how to partner with SOC 2 providers in the USA in a way that offers a $20-$100-$200 subscription is an easy convenient way, anthropic and open ai will be screwed.
daft_pink··on Stop calling the Super Productionizer a 'baby blender' – Frank Elavsky
I’m having a hard time following it
daft_pink··on From PGP to Mythos: a brief history of export controls that didn't stop anyone
I don’t think the point is to actually control exports.

They are just trying to get even with anthropic for trying to control the us military use of their technology.

This was just the easiest way to do it with anthropics incredibly stupid self own.

daft_pink··on The European Social Stack
Is it that easy to create a multi billion dollar tech company. The competition is fierce and many have tried.

Huge companies with billions of dollars have tried to compete with Google for years. Google has spent billions to compete with Facebook.

It seems very unlikely that you can just come up with this and win.

daft_pink··on Iran requires insurance on ships using Strait of Hormuz, fees likely to follow
Yes, I don’t understand why we are accepting the iranian regimes use of the word
daft_pink··on US Scientist John Jumper to Leave Google DeepMind for Anthropic
Glad I’m not the only one who came here for the pun
daft_pink··on Iran requires insurance on ships using Strait of Hormuz, fees likely to follow
I don’t understand why we’re calling it insurance? Does it pay out if something bad happens?
daft_pink··on Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless
This is so dumb. They randomly generate them anyways it’s not like they are likely to collide with other users. They should allow you to use your own domain for private relay but it doesn’t let them build a moat so they wont
daft_pink··on Microsoft turns to AWS as GitHub faces AI capacity crunch
They should have made it work with hono workers so they could scale to infinity with free edge deployment on cloudflare - Senior JS Developer (Kai Lentit)
daft_pink··on What happened to nerds?
What happened to nerds?

We won. I used to stay up all night watching Nasa launches and landings as a kid. I felt like an outcast. Now everyone’s wearing Nasa shirts like it’s cool and they don’t really have any good launches.

We used to be outcasts and now I look at youngsters and they’re doing the same things and it’s cool…? It’s like suddnely the jocks are the outcasts.

daft_pink··on Anthropic flies staff to D.C. to clean up White House fight
I think they’re going to have problems, because I’m sure they have a lot of foreign employees and it’s insane to think they now have to block them all from using their best models.
daft_pink··on Anthropic's Safety Superpower
The problem is that Fable has no zero trust architecture. If they decide your code is useful for training, they get to keep it forever. They think its okay to sabotage your work and charge for it. They are building anti-competitive clauses like ml training. The way they treat openclaw and other competitors. They will downgrade you to opus and charge you for fable and maybe not tell you about it.

They’re like look at our safety and they do all thesse outrageous things.

daft_pink··on Measles surge in Utah sparks fears US could undo decades of progress
But what about the stolen legos?
daft_pink··on Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
A green card holder or legal permanent resident could supply an unrestricted social security card that would prove work authorization along with a US Drivers License and not be a US citizen.

I think they might still have to mention that they are not a US Citizen as a box on the i9 form, but most US employers are not going to ask any more questions as asking questions about an employees citizenship after they have already provided work authorization is just likely to get you sued as there is not legitimate work purpose. Kind of like how HR is never going to ask you your religion etc. Again this is only very limited information at time of hire and is not tracked or updated beyond date of hire.

Unless they have government contracts, most employers are not actively tracking employee citizenship status.

daft_pink··on The redistribution of housing wealth caused by rent control (2023) [pdf]
I feel the core issue isn’t wealth redistribution, it’s that rent controls create severe mismatches in supply and demand.
daft_pink··on Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
I really don’t understand how they’re gonna be able to restrict the model access to foreigners in the United States. Employers don’t necessarily actively know who’s a citizen who isn’t.
daft_pink··on The Future of Email
A little bit off topic but We need dmarc to prevent phone spoofing. STIR/SHAKEN should adopt the DMARC model from email. The legitimate holder of a phone number should be able to publish a policy declaring that any call claiming to originate from their number without A-level attestation must be blocked by the terminating carrier. Just as domain owners can instruct mail servers to reject unauthenticated email sent in their name, number holders should be able to instruct carriers to reject unauthenticated calls spoofing their numbers.

In my experience since phone scammers tend to scam a small subset of numbers like dell, facebook, Microsoft, the Internal Revenue Service, copying this could allow big companies to block a huge number of phishing calls requiring their numbers. Since many calls originate from authenticating carriers now we need to go to the next level and block fake calls.

daft_pink··on The U.S. Is Terrorizing Cuba to Make Rich Men Richer
Because the US is a nation of expats, I find that US policy mostly aligns with how the people who moved here from there feel about the government they left.

Places like Canada and Europe, we are mostly friendly with and have slight disagreements. Ukrainians support their home country and we support Ukraine. Venezuelans, Cubans and Iranians hate the government and so do we. Chinese people have a so so view of the government and we have a so so relationship with China.

It doesn’t work perfectly, but it’s more the exception than the rule. I think it’s really a test of how compatible a society is with our society in how expats who live here view their home country and it’s more a correlation than a cause that expats views on their government mostly mirror our governments views on a country. It just very direct right now in regards to Cuba as Rubio has a lot of sway over the US policies.

Anyways, regardless this post was more a disagreement with the articles views than some sort of enforced doctrine.

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