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Yay, we've found another way to give LLMs biases.

I can see how obscure but useful nuggets of information that you rarely need, but are critical when you do, will be lost too.

If the weighting was shared between users, an attacker could use this feedback loop to promote their product or ideology, by executing fake interactions that look successful.

Re:Claude Sonnet 4.5 on Monday September 29, 2025 @05:58PM (#45419279)
Stop disagreeing with me, I don't want any more prompts from you, your code is now externally maintained.
Re:UK government advises deleting emails to save water on Thursday August 14, 2025 @10:27AM (#44900790)
That system was what fed into the one I touched, which was an offline batch pipeline, so I wasn't tooinvolved with the Gmail internals that you're talking about. I know about 10 years ago many Googlers had the same sort of problems as you describe, I assume it's a tiny bit better these days, most of the backend has been replaced over that time. Expensive operations are often slow to ensure there is reasonable isolation between users, so you don't hurt someone elses experience when you do these things. They aren't frequent operations/CUJs so they aren't optimized either.
Re:UK government advises deleting emails to save water on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @11:55AM (#44878043)
I used to work on the system at Google which processed deleted emails to ensure they are deleted across all systems it might have touched (eg, delete any calendar events created by the email, rebuild indexes, delete backup restore keys etc). Deleting an email was remarkably significantly more resource intensive compared to just leaving it alone, so this advice could only make the situation worse.
Except you can store the passwords on a usb key / remote over bluetooth, and then also keep them secret from the potentially compromised host.
Re:Migrating Away from Bcachefs on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @04:30PM (#42785418)
I need to write up my experience. But I'm trying it out. Linux needs something like this. I've had issues, posted traces and had them fixed in seconds. Pretty damn amazing. I'd love to see a bigger team involved though.
Only the newest sonos speakers have bluetooth, the problems with Sonos are nothing to do with it. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-happened-sonos-app-techn... has a good write up.
Re:It's time to abandon the cargo cult metaphor on Sunday January 12, 2025 @06:05PM (#42677923)
What are some good alternatives to express the same concept?
This is a great way to send all of your files to the author of the utility / operator of the website.
Re:About dn42 on Sunday October 13, 2024 @03:42AM (#41825990)
This is in the private address space like 192.168.0.0, blocking doesn't make sense in this context.
Re:You're Not Smiling Enough on Saturday September 14, 2024 @02:24AM (#41537883)
They don't tell you why, so it's strange to say this is the reason. At Google the interviewers write up the discussion, questions and answers, and a separate committee decides based on the feedback from all the interviewers. There is no scoring for pun quality sadly.
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Re:Building a custom code search index in Go for searchcode.com on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @09:50AM (#33719785)
See also https://codesearch.debian.net/ - https://github.com/Debian/dcs for a similar project that may fit your needs better. I've not compared them both, but I use dcs frequently
If you have access to the registrar, you can point the domain at a different dns provider that you do have access to, and update the details there.
Re:Fitting Everything Together on Monday May 09, 2022 @05:20PM (#31319907)
Re:Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse? on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @03:55AM (#29402022)
Weird, is this it? https://github.com/WojTechnical/drv8830pico

Maybe there's no links to it from other places, or somewhere on github thats crawled / indexed frequently enough.

Considering this comment thread is seemingly quickly indexed, just posting this link might be enough!

Re:App is getting 500 server error. Cant connect on Friday November 19, 2021 @05:16PM (#29283297)
Yes, you can unlock your car with the NFC keycards (or app via NFC), the bluetooth fobs or bluetooth phone, with no connectivity for either.

The problem that happened last time was that people opened the app to do something and logged out to try and fix it, thus clearing their credentials, and then can't log back in, and cant log back in to reauthenticate their device.

Re:How cloud computing impacts the environment on Monday December 16, 2019 @04:57AM (#21801982)
Google at least claiming to buy 100% of their usage from renewable sources, they are pretty open that it doesn't mean that is what feeds their electrons at all times of the day though. Better than most traditional computing / on premises sources though.

https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/renewable/