4RealFreedom

Oh boy, do I have some stories. I've worked with many companies that actually still do this today. You'd be amazed at what someone can do with VFP and Citrix - or maybe horrified.

Just antidotal but I don't know how many times I've had to help developers fix their vibe coded code to account for concurrency problems. LLMs don't seem to be very good at picking up on this today unless you call it out.

I wasn't conflating distillation. You are basically repeating what I said - you're describing quantization. The OP was talking about changing the computation. The article says the 8- and 16-bit integer approach actually had higher resolution than the floating-point approach. You said we already had quantization to do this but quantization isn't what the OP was describing.

Quantization compresses the model’s parameters and you lose precision in the process. My understanding from the article was that precision wasn't lost - 'It actually had higher resolution than Extended-precision floating point math!'. The point of quantization is to make the model smaller to fit into available ram. I think the OP is referring to computation which is a different beast.

"especially people already intelligent/capable enough to immigrate anywhere else that doesn't have these issues or stay in their own country" Isn't that the point? Come here legally or don't come at all.

"That's higher than any other president by a massive amount" - Any modern president. Abraham Lincoln had a 2859.40% increase. Martin Van Buren had a 1458.32% increase. We've had quite a few over 200%.

I'm pretty ignorant about these kinds of things so how does this work? If Valve can specify the court to be used couldn't the company always choose something like Alaska or Hawaii where it would be difficult to show up?

24 billion dollars for 184,000 homeless people (United States Department of Housing and Urban Development estimate). That's 135k per person. Where is the money going if not the homeless industrial complex?

Why not keep everything transparent and make lobbying illegal? I know neither secret voting or making lobbying illegal will ever happen but it seems like you're just putting a bandaid on an issue without regard for the consequences. People that vote for representatives like to know how they vote. Why even have the theater of a transparent vote that does nothing?

I don't think we need to do it for every number. Account number, for example, could still be HTML. Balance could be converted, though.

The harder we make it for scammers, the worse it is for them. I'm not claiming this is fool proof - scammers might be able to generate a png on the fly and inject that as the image like solrdev mentioned in another comment. They would still need to match background colors or possibly jump through some other hoops. The more work we make them do, the more likely the are to mess up. It also makes it more obvious to the person being scammed.

In terms of deleting the image and inserting text instead, I've tried it and it's hard to make it look good quickly. You also see instant feedback of the missing element and then the text coming in. It's a cue that something isn't quite right.

Couldn't alt-text be used to address accessibility?

Web scrapping shouldn't be a requirement of personal banking websites. Am I missing something here?

Wouldn't banks have content security setup?

I've tried a few different sites and I can't make it happen. I'll keep trying.

If you're interested, I would suggest watching some Kitboga. I don't actually know anyone that has had this happen but there are plenty of stories around the internet. I will try doing some img replacement with my own text and see how it works out.

Had to look up FINTS. You are right about accessibility.

I'll give you accessibility. I tried changing images in the browser on the fly and it just hides the image. That's probably because the browser would need to make a new GET request.

They ask a person to login to their bank account with screen sharing. They then take control of the mouse and edit the HTML on the fly making it look like they transferred a large amount to the bank account. Now they ask the person to wire money back or they will lose their job.

Just upgraded an old system to solr 9. I've been very impressed with it.

There's a link in the article where Google says they are not phasing out third party cookies at all - https://privacysandbox.com/news/privacy-sandbox-update/.

Third party cookies are not just used for tracking - they are also any cookies set in an iframe. There are legitimate use cases for third party cookies. Chrome recently rolled out partitioned cookies which addresses part of the problem. If you are trying to authenticate via sso to then show content in an iframe, this just doesn't work, though. There is some behind the scenes trickery you might be able to use with reverse proxies but it's painful. I setup some systems using keycloak and nginx to force the iframe and idp on the same domain. You're out of luck if you're using Azure AD or any third party idp, though.

There will always be "haves" and "have nots". That's been the case since forever. Standard Oil ruled the world. AT&T did, too. I agree that monopolies are bad. We should pressure our government to break them up. Will that help with people trying to find jobs in an inferior job market? That's where this conversation started. We need a strong job market. Competition can help that. We will always have bad job markets, though. It's part of the cycle. Nothing lasts forever.

That could be viewed as a piece of "late stage capitalism" but that's only one part, right? The problem with the term is it's a catch-all for any perceived problem with capitalism. Maybe that issue is just a capitalism speed bump. As I said, we won't know we're in late stage until after the collapse.

"Late stage capitalism" implies that capitalism is doomed to fail. In reality it is a system of constant change. Wealth inequality has always existed. Some problems like housing are newer problems that require solutions but don't point to an inevitable collapse. Are we also in "late stage democracy" and "late stage big government"? We won't know until after the collapse.

The goals are a little different but I think it's worth pointing out ElasticMQ. I use it simulate sqs in a docker environment. https://github.com/softwaremill/elasticmq

The first thing I looked for was text and saw they used cars in an example. I thought the same thing as you 'this can actually get readable license plates?' I don't know enough about ML to understand the associated paper, though.

Yes. Nothing is perfect. The remedy they've chosen is to rely on insurance. There is a reason we call doctor's offices 'practices'.

I have a hard time with window resizing on my Mac all the time. I have to go slow and find the sweet spot.

Not exactly the same but an engineer I was working with wasn't handling a failure case properly and leaving transactions open. It was reported that the DB would stop working after a certain amount of time. I knew transactions were hanging but I didn't understand why. I sat down with the engineer and QA trying to figure out the problem for well over a day. QA was running their test suite over and over. We started removing pieces one at a time until we found the problem.

Change your window size and watch the fireworks!

Thexder was great!