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good way to get notification fatigue and tunnel vision. look ahead, ignore everything else and have a shocked pikachu face when you sideswipe someone because you're well trained to not check your blind spots

oh absolutely, its been a progression though and search order rewriting was implemented very early on as part of ad integration. its common in search relevancy/tuning circles

your example with google isn't necessarily applicable now because they've shown a roadmap that can be done and squeezed down tightly between the "hey, we're good folks" to "you're our captive cattle, we can do whatever the fuck we want. there's nothing you can do, since all our competitors will be doing the exact same thing shortly"

why would you be surprised about this? its pretty obvious that execs give no fucks except for money.

And how much trust are you going to have with your model results that they haven't been transformed and adjusted by advertising priorities?

search engine results do this all the time, reordering output by advertiser input. its a pretty small jump from that to rewriting output from models, and even better where its all a black box.

this. IIRC the internal drive plus two disks being significantly cheaper than an external hard drive of similar capacity

not quite, from the article

Cortex, by default, can set a flag to trigger unsandboxed command execution. The prompt injection manipulates the model to set the flag, allowing the malicious command to execute unsandboxed.

This flag is intended to allow users to manually approve legitimate commands that require network access or access to files outside the sandbox.

With the human-in-the-loop bypass from step 4, when the agent sets the flag to request execution outside the sandbox, the command immediately runs outside the sandbox, and the user is never prompted for consent.

scope restrictions are in place but are trivial to bypass

the companies migrating off vmware due to broadcom shittiness would disagree with you

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/02/most-...

CloudBolt’s survey also examined how respondents are migrating workloads off of VMware. Currently, 36 percent of participants said they migrated 1–24 percent of their environment off of VMware. Another 32 percent said that they have migrated 25–49 percent; 10 percent said that they’ve migrated 50–74 percent of workloads; and 2 percent have migrated 75 percent or more of workloads. Five percent of respondents said that they have not migrated from VMware at all.

Among migrated workloads, 72 percent moved to public cloud infrastructure as a service, followed by Microsoft’s Hyper-V/Azure stack (43 percent of respondents).

Overall, 86 percent of respondents “are actively reducing their VMware footprint,” CloudBolt’s report said.

not sure about a post, but have https://github.com/tigerbeetle/tigerbeetle/blob/main/docs/TI... bookmarked

and wildfires, see PG&E in CA.

they're expecting to spend 10B burying lines in the mountains.

New england is pretty much one big rock garden/shelf where you're not digging through soil in alot of places but rock ledges.

come up to maine and see how much pruning the power companies do. there's a reason high wind and heavy snow storms trash power lines

ahhh, the old "I expect everyone to read my mind about extremely nuanced and specific things, and those who can't are idiots" mentality at play

Essentially this is a good example of parametrized tests, just supercharged with generated inputs.

So if you already have parametrized tests, you're already halfway there.

correct, I've done this at past places to verify rules engine output for variety of inputs.

to be honest, you;'d have the same issues with that said magic wand and normalcy, because hearing aids do amplify sound and allow you to hear everythig.

You'd have the same issue, if not more, with background noise, group settings and context acquisition

Processing input is the hard part, if you're already having issues, that isn't going to go away

If they've been deaf from infancy, basically the entire hearing center of the brain is non-existent. So they'd be hearing sound, but processing it into meaningful content would not happen, if at all. So basically, its like having a cacophany of sound that you can't filter and process...

As for others, one thing hearing people, particularly monolingual hearing people, don't understand very well is that hearing != understanding. Just because you hear a sound doesn't automatically equate to it having meaning. The default for many people is to just SPEAK LOUDER and slower, which does not help in the vast majority of encounters

And rather than fix the issues with revocation, its being shuffled off to the users.

Good example of enshittification

can also be a linear algorithm that does N+1 queries. ORMs can be very good at hiding this implementation detail

Not really, car insurance rates need to go through alot of state level validation in order to be approved.

Other models are not considered insurable by GEICO as well. So likely small pool of policyholders + exorbiant claim payments == not worth the headache

Car insurance in general is a race to the bottom with competition. A good quarter has 70% of incoming premium going out to settle claims.

When you have fender bender claims costing 20-40k USD to repair, how do you price that risk?

Rivian is likely heading this way too, there's plenty of stories about a fender bending costing 42000 to fix

https://www.theautopian.com/heres-why-that-rivian-r1t-repair...

Most of the material you can find is how to solve sudoku (the hello world of the space) or highly technical primary research literate meant exclusively for domain experts

Exactly. I was looking at using a sat solver for a rules engine and couldn't make heads or tails how to use it. After alot of deduction, got a basic POC working, but couldn't extend it to what was actually needed. But the gulf between toy implementations and anything more substantial was very large.

At a certain size company, you being a professional asshole is a requirement for any position. Also being very good at lying and deceiving. The danger begins when those people start believing their own lies.

I guess at base, what is keeping these people in jobs where collaboration is required, along with a standard of base professionalism and courtesy?

In other words, why haven't these people been counseled to change their act? And if no progress has been made, have them seek employment elsewhere?

Just because you're in a remote environment doesn't give you free reign to be an asshole.

This is how I understand your position:

At core, it is about prioritization of strategies to facilitate mental health. In office work makes it easy to not explicitly or skip prioritizing socialization because its already there, for the most part. Without that prioritization, it can be easy to become undisciplined in maintaining those strategies for mental health

Been there a few times. For me, I love biking and trail riding. Its two wheel therapy for me, particularly on trails because you do need to pay attention. If your mind starts wandering, you'll be ejected over the bars real quick.

And there's hobbies that you can do outside of work, if its a priority for you. But like physical fitness, that's self-driven, and really easy to slack off and lose gains if you don't keep up with it.

But if you take into account the implied requirements for in-office work, that means time lost in commute, and needing to sync travel plans, vehicles, etc. that's the problem I have with blind mandates, they often are benefiting the person making those decisions, regardless of the people who need to implement and execute projects and goals.

that's where communication and collaboration strategies and procedures exist. It can be really easy to have them be mindless things, rather than mindful things. You can use your medium of communication, whether text, ad-hoc calls, or so on. No need to schedule meetings unless both parties are booked for ad-hoc chats

With some examples

* Hey, I was chatting with X a bit ago, couple things came up about service A and B. Got some time for a quick call?

* Hey, I can use a sanity check with this brainstorming session, got any time free? Oh, is Junior X available too?

Not saying your points aren't valid. But the same things would also happen if I were at my desk and you were off talking somewhere. How would you get me into the conversation?

The big difference is mindfulness, I think. Remote communication requires more mindfulness about team and communication, whereas in office you can be really lazy about that.

At the end of the day, its about communication and collaboration, and making sure loops are closed. Reasons for unclosed loops exist, regardless which environment you're in

No, but you also make sure to bring it up in slack or whatever to fill in your other teammates when the material is relevant and useful. Or just because?

Working remote is lonely and erodes a foundational element of sociability. You spend a good portion of your waking hours at work. Your coworkers are your friends.

Thats where you do need to explicitly make effort outside of work to fill that gap. You could also make the argument that commuting 90 minutes a day is a regular time suck for you that could be spent doing other productive things.

Also, there is no doubt in my mind that people take longer HN and Reddit breaks while at home than they would at the office with their coworkers having a view on their screens.

oh, so smoker breaks lol. as long as they're getting the work done, why do you give a shit?

As a broad social trend we need to fight against the retreat from actual human interactions.

There's nothing stopping you from doing that outside of work, but you need to be more mindful about doing it

Why can't your team perform?

Collaboration can exist and grow if its fostered. The same things that foster collaboration in office can be done remotely, but you do need to be explicit about it.

One thing remote does select for is those people who are independently productive.

There's a difference between being remote friendly and remote first.

the former is "yeah, you can work from home, but you're going to miss out on alot if you're not at the office"

the latter is "we consciously make sure to integrate everyone in collaboration, regardless of location and have tooling/procedures for collaboration"

If you're asking this question, it might be that you're in a remote friendly environment with explicit lack of communication or collaboration support

Three things missing from this article:

* Overhiring adjustment without paying severances or doing official layoffs

* Monkey see, monkey do. Management is highly unoriginal, and loves to copy what others are doing without thought.

* Ego and power. Management loves in office, can't imagine anyone else not wanting to be face to face. Crack the whip, people respond and do what you say, so there's an ego boost

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* This article is assuming that management cares about their staff over their own personal priorities. Everyone is replaceable, and there's no reason for any loyalty, whether down or up the chain.