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New comment by ahartman00 in "I’ve joined Anthropic"

ahartman00 — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:34:47 +0000

According to ABET they do if they want the degree to be accredited. We had two classes for my SE degree. From Criterion 3. Student Outcomes:

"2. an ability to apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors." "4. an ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts."

https://www.abet.org/accreditation/accreditation-criteria/cr...

New comment by ahartman00 in "Goodbye to Sora"

ahartman00 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 01:32:11 +0000

Well there was the incident at Amazon[1]: "Amazon just did something unprecedented: they're forcing a 90-day safety reset across 335 critical systems after their AI coding tool caused catastrophic outages. The March 5th incident alone lost 6.3 million orders and triggered 21,716 peak Downdetector reports"

And two at Meta[2]: "A rogue AI agent at Meta took action without approval and exposed sensitive company and user data to employees who were not authorized to access it"

"director of alignment at Meta Superintelligence Labs, described a different but related failure in a viral post on X last month. She asked an OpenClaw agent to review her email inbox with clear instructions to confirm before acting. The agent began deleting emails on its own."

Even Elon Musk has shared the wisdom to proceed with caution! [3]

1. https://dev.to/tyson_cung/amazon-lost-63m-orders-after-ai-co... 2. https://venturebeat.com/security/meta-rogue-ai-agent-confuse... 3. https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2031352859846148366

New comment by ahartman00 in "Privilege is bad grammar"

ahartman00 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:10:13 +0000

Using this logic, all of the homeless people are counter signaling then. And there are plenty of executives who wear suits. Also signaling has one l, so thus you are signaling your importance.

Or maybe you just can't assume you know what's going on inside someone else's head.

New comment by ahartman00 in "AI Isn't Just Spying on You. It's Tricking You into Spending More"

ahartman00 — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:38:09 +0000

I wouldnt jump to conclusions too fast. I'm a very thin person, but I get a lot of ads for GLP-1. My doctors have always said I need to gain weight, so I can assure you I'm not searching for weight loss solutions. Nor am I diabetic.

New comment by ahartman00 in "The new geography of stolen goods"

ahartman00 — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 23:54:19 +0000

the relevant text is near the bottom, under Results: Cargo screening As required by the 9/11 Act, 100 percent of all cargo transported on passenger aircraft departing U.S. airports is now screened commensurate with screening of passenger checked baggage. International inbound air cargo is more secure than it has ever been, with 100 percent of identified high risk cargo being screened. CBP now screens 100 percent of southbound rail shipments for illegal weapons, drugs, and cash, has expanded Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) coverage to the entire Southwest border and completed 651 miles of fencing. CBP has deployed Radiation Portal Monitors and other radiation detection technologies to seaports, land border ports, and mail facilities around the world. In 2003, these systems scanned only 68 percent of arriving trucks and passenger vehicles along the Northern border, no systems were deployed to the Southwest border, and only one was deployed to a seaport. Today, these systems scan 100 percent of all containerized cargo and personal vehicles arriving in the U.S. through land ports of entry, as well as over 99 percent of arriving sea containers.

New comment by ahartman00 in "My sourdough starter has twins"

ahartman00 — Thu, 01 May 2025 06:42:31 +0000

Have you tried microwaving it for 10-15 seconds? I havent tried this with sourdough, but it works with stale white bread.

New comment by ahartman00 in "How dairy robots are changing work for cows and farmers"

ahartman00 — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 20:56:08 +0000

They aren't really scheduling though. They can feel when their udders get full. It actually can be painful if you don't milk them on time. Its comparable to eating or drinking, they go eat when they feel hunger. It is pretty cool that they learn to associate the machine though, its not like it smells the way food does, or like there is any instinct involved.

New comment by ahartman00 in "DolphinGemma: How Google AI is helping decode dolphin communication"

ahartman00 — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 23:10:16 +0000

>lots of human-translated passages in their corpus

Yes. I remember reading that the EU parliamentary proceedings in particular are used to train machine translation models. Unfortunately, I cant remember where I read that. I did find the dataset: https://paperswithcode.com/dataset/europarl

New comment by ahartman00 in "The Anti-Social Century"

ahartman00 — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 01:59:06 +0000

I think "well before the personal computer showed up in the geological record" is a bit of hyperbole, but it is not a new phenomenon:

"We find that despite short-term fluctuations, partisanship or non-cooperation in the U.S. Congress has been increasing exponentially for over 60 years with no sign of abating or reversing"

"Partisanship has been attributed to a number of causes, including the stratifying wealth distribution of Americans [2]; boundary redistricting [3]; activist activity at primary elections [4]; changes in Congressional procedural rules [5]; political realignment in the American South [6]; the shift from electing moderate members to electing partisan members [7] movement by existing members towards ideological poles [8]; and an increasing political, pervasive media [9]."

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

New comment by ahartman00 in "I sensed anxiety and frustration at NeurIPS 24"

ahartman00 — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 02:36:52 +0000

"The boom and bust cycle is a process of economic expansion and contraction that occurs repeatedly. The boom and bust cycle is a key characteristic of capitalist economies and is sometimes synonymous with the business cycle." [1] Somewhat similar is the bullwhip effect[2], although there isnt a long supply chain for labor.

1. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/boom-and-bust-cycle.asp 2. https://www.investopedia.com/bullwhip-effect-definition-5499...

New comment by ahartman00 in "Why doesn't advice work?"

ahartman00 — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 23:38:44 +0000

I've heard it called engineer's syndrome. "You start believing that since you're an excellent engineer in one specialty, then you're a friggin' genius in everything you do, because it's all the same, really" [0]

It apparently affects physicists too, and must be common enough to warrant two xkcds. [1][2]

0. https://web.archive.org/web/20071226220909/http://www.pcmag.... 1. https://xkcd.com/1831/ 2. https://xkcd.com/793/

New comment by ahartman00 in "Wild orangutan seen healing his wound with a plant"

ahartman00 — Fri, 03 May 2024 20:49:54 +0000

Cats can smell those scent markings though. They do also mark their territory in other ways. Our cats really do the rubbing thing during feeding, so i think they are trying to mark their territory, lol.

New comment by ahartman00 in "Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software"

ahartman00 — Fri, 03 May 2024 18:37:23 +0000

I remember in math class in high school, we had a project where we analyzed hours of tv watching per day. Quite a few people watched like 6 hours of tv a day. I'd say its been heavily skewed towards consuming for a while. I would also say that gaming and watching streams can have a social aspect too, though that depends. If anything there is more of a social aspect? At least for me I talk to people on twitch regularly.

New comment by ahartman00 in "Boeing whistleblower found dead in US"

ahartman00 — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 01:01:00 +0000

"VW executive given the maximum prison sentence for his role in Dieselgate"

https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/6/16743308/volkswagen-olive...

New comment by ahartman00 in "ChatGPT will lie, cheat, use insider trading when under pressure to make money"

ahartman00 — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 22:40:46 +0000

I'm not sure there's going to be a lot. I think people will catch on.

"Federal Judge Kevin Castel is considering punishments for Schwartz and his associates. In an order on Friday, Castel scheduled a June 8 hearing at which Schwartz, fellow attorney Peter LoDuca, and the law firm must show cause for why they should not be sanctioned."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/lawyer-cited-6-f...

New comment by ahartman00 in "Dropbox: How to opt out of 3rd party AI partner access to your Dropbox"

ahartman00 — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 17:37:01 +0000

US here, I can't see it either. I noticed the tweet mentions European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), is this EU only?

New comment by ahartman00 in "GPT-4 can't reason"

ahartman00 — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 19:46:54 +0000

I do think the underlying point is a good one however. It wouldnt be surprising that ai researchers read hn, and other tech related social media. I also believe OpenAI are also storing prompts and responses. They should be able to make embeddings of all prompts and cluster them. When they see popular prompts that are failing, they could easily add the problem, solution, and reasoning to the training data. We also know they are constantly fine tuning and releasing new versions of models.

New comment by ahartman00 in "Stack Overflow's CEO Doesn't Understand Stack Overflow"

ahartman00 — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 00:04:02 +0000

> Despite growing revenue, it lost $84 million over the year ending on March 31, 2023

Its not possible to run a business that loses $84 million. You will run out of money.

New comment by ahartman00 in "None of the Above"

ahartman00 — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 05:32:31 +0000

"I’ve wondered about a system that augments data with units dynamically"

F#'s units of measure do this! Though the compiler checks it, so it's static, not dynamic.

https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/units-of-measure/

New comment by ahartman00 in "The FactoBattery"

ahartman00 — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 20:26:57 +0000

iiuc, flywheels would slow down/lose energy over time due to friction. They might be useful for smoothing out peaks, ie when clouds pass over a solar farm. But for longer term storage, arent batteries better?