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Think things like TrackMeNot but just in a little notepad or excel or IDE file that you fill up with believable noise all day long.
For reference: https://www.trackmenot.io/
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A decade+ is plenty of time to spend a few weeks brushing up on CS basics. There is really only a handful of algorithms and data sctructues and none of them are rocket science. And what's the alternative? Quizzing people on some random C# framework methods? The "I don't use algos in a day to day job" argument has been around forever, but nobody making it ever proposes a better filter.
Strong no hire for Staff+ signal from this post. Meta's leetcode gambit includes leetcode Hards and Mediums which aren't just "remember your hash maps and trees!" They're incredibly hard to brute force under time pressure if you haven't practiced similar problems before. Now do that for every interview -- exhausting. Alternative? Lol? System design. "Walk me through systems you've built." Have a conversation. If you…
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“Sigh” is “I don’t respect you and will now talk down to you.” “Common sense” at least invites the question, “what do you consider common sense solutions?” and if I were to balk at that then clearly I’m not discussing the topic in good faith.
But it's just argument bait, isn't it? What are the odds that the guardrails you consider common sense will agree with my own? It's like how 90% of people might be in favor of "common sense gun control," but when you drill down and propose specific gun-control measures, you find that it didn't help a bit to start the conversation by invoking "common sense." We're seeing the same with AI.
"Many workers immediately revolted. In online comments, they blasted the tracking as a privacy violation, ..." “How do we opt out?” - Meta employee Poetic justice, or "dogfooding"
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The Luddites were against the systems that were shifting work away from skilled workers (them) to unskilled workers (commonly children). I have no doubt serious injury and death happened at those machines but find it hard to believe that was the cause of the Luddites. All signs point to them being more worried about themselves. There’s no way they would have been pro-AI. It would take a very skilled VC to warp the wo…
If you look at what their actual demands, the pattern is clear. They lobbied for support for unemployed, the right to vote, improved safely and labor conditions across all industries, and enforcing the labor laws that were already on the books. Banning machines was not part of their demands. The Luddites were part of a larger labor movement that spanned multiple industries.
That is still a lot closer to collective bargaining than “save the children”.
What you’re saying is plausible enough to be easy to get an LLM to hallucinate, is the larger concern here. If this opinion does come from one, try asking it to verify using external sources. The Luddites would have been violently opposed to AI slop, if they had an opinion on it.
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Right, I was just confused by your use of the word honeypot. “keylogger mode” is optional, and to my understanding, you always see a visual indicator in the text area. it doesn’t take every input as far as I know, and security firms don’t consider it a threat. but point taken, it’s not for people with privacy concerns.
It installs itself as an accessibility tool, which requires special user permissions. With these permissions, it sees literally every keystroke you make (except, in some cases on some OSs, system password prompts). The visual indicator is just their UI. Regarding "honeypot" -- that's also what a honeypot is. They provide a service you want, then collect data. We have to take their word that they're only using this da…
Eg FBI putting up fake “buy drugs online” sites and logging your info once you place the (fake) order.
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Well, you can use LLMs to parse LLM-generated slop. They make nice summaries. I have taken this approach to people who send me obviously generated LLM text; I simply run it through an LLM, paste the summary, and ask them "Is this an accurate summary?" and then I ask the for their original prompt.
Ah yes, take my single sentence, blow it up to 3 paragraphs with LLMs, and then the person reading it can have an LLM summarize it in a single sentence. What the fuck are we even doing anymore?
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It installs itself as an accessibility tool, which requires special user permissions. With these permissions, it sees literally every keystroke you make (except, in some cases on some OSs, system password prompts). The visual indicator is just their UI. Regarding "honeypot" -- that's also what a honeypot is. They provide a service you want, then collect data. We have to take their word that they're only using this da…
Isn’t a honeypot some decoy website / service / whatever that presents itself as legit, and then once you register / interact with it you’re caught in whatever they want to do? Eg FBI putting up fake “buy drugs online” sites and logging your info once you place the (fake) order.
Take a look at their product line up and tell me one thing that they did really well in the last, IDK, 10 years? And now we also read (and probably have suspected) that their employees are treated terribly too.
And yet, they continue to be one of the most „successful“ (as defined by market cap) companies on the planet. How is that possible?
This just shows that the current indicators for success/how well a company does/how well the economy does are severely misinterpreted.
Every big tech company's embrace of AI is making all of their employees miserable. Whereas if you're half-competent and at a startup, the AI is an incredible opportunity to try to leap ahead while the prices are subsidized (by the big tech behemoths fighting wth each other) The reason is a complete inversion of Ownership and Agency. For a decade of ZIRP, big tech convinced its employees that they're "changing the wor…
> the difference between 200k/year and 800k/year didn't feel much day to day (other than the ability to buy a house or something, and feel safe with a retirement nest egg) I can’t believe I read this sentence, lol. 800k is the ability to buy a house and support a family on a single income. Do you see so many people lamenting the days when this was possible? So many memes about the lifestyle Homer Simpson could provid…
> other than the ability to buy a house or something, and feel safe with a retirement nest egg
Your sentence:
> 800k is the ability to buy a house and support a family on a single income
So we agree.
The thing you missed in my post:
> day to day
Day to day it doesnt feel different when you own a house vs rent one.
Day to day you're eating the same food, entertaining the same ways. Doing the same thing with your friends, family, and loved ones.
The 50% of your waking life that's not your job is not meaningfully different.
So when the other 50% starts to feel dramatically different, you notice.