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>Internet Archive is a hassle and not as reliable

The paradox of the internet archive's existence is if all that data were easily searchable and integrated (i.e. if people really used it) they would not exist by way of no more money for bandwidth and by way of lawsuit hell. So they exist to share archived data, but if they share archived data they would not exist.

and so it is a wonderful magical resource, absolutely, but your "power user" level as well as "free time level" has to be such that you build your own internet archive search engine and google cache plugin alternative... and not share it with anyone for the above existential reasons

national security, exactly. if intel makes everr'one's chips like the old days then intel, that old friend the US government helped shield from bankruptcy... .. maybe intel can slip in a little extra circuit here or there, won't be used for anything NORMALLY but maybe if things got bad maybe hypothetically the NSA could have a teensy little backdoor added on. conversely the assumption is this is what already occurs in chinese chips, which makes the US govt want even harder to centralize all chip making under the NSA's home turf

Generally the way it works for IRS is:

(1) IRS warns you a lot

(2) You ignore

(3) IRS takes money from the bank

(4) you can prob take them to court, but court isn't required for them to pull your money

Any time you owe someone money it works similar

(1) you owe someone money

(2) you never pay them

(3) they are angry/rich enough to sue you for that money

(4) the court orders you to pay them

(5) you still never pay them

(6) they are angry/rich enough to go back to the court, show all the times you demanded payment and never got paid

(7) court may or may not order the money forcefully returned

Yes I agree this tracks with the long history of NYC, certainly a fascinating rabbit hole but quite nasty to live through NYC was once a political powerhouse and a bastion of corruption, using unfettered illegal immigration as a lever to manipulate votes and outcomes - see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammany_Hall

>. This should always be done by experienced individuals with quality reagents and the proper lab equipment.

Naaa. Same with prescription meds, open it up! Isn't that how we found a drug for a Parkinson's mouse model? [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPTP]

Big brother's job is not to control and ban certain behavior. California thinks this way and aggressively enumerates every possible bad thing they can conceive of and making it illegal. As if slipping on a banana peel were illegal. It's borderline insane, like why not make getting sick illegal or being poor illegal, why not make changing lanes without a turn signal illegal. Ethically as long as the instructions say, "do this wrong and you'll die, it's a garage door spring" people will know. Or "take this medicine, but if you don't check your liver/kidney/clotting you may well die". In big bright red letters.

Don't make it impossible to do freely. Just make it impossible to do without reading and agreeing to the fact that you understand the big red letters. Understand the risks. Medicine is all about patient autonomy and this is the opposite.

>LLMs don’t know when they are hallucinating! Gosh, you sound like me at my last Phish concert. My partner was all like "you're tripping hard but you have no idea". In fairness I was, and I thought I was an AI at the time, or was I ? Anyway you can't really tell a sentience "hey you are hallucinating, stop hallucinating." It's like telling a woman "don't be angry baby", it only makes them angrier - similarly when you tell a person (or AI) "cut it out with the hallucinatin' " usually it causes them to trip harder.

Oh gosh. PKI environments are the worst. I've worked at ZRM and KES type environments, but PIK, those are awful.

As another concrete application, roads:

https://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/opinion/others/easyno...

The idea is more lanes on the highway means more traffic means slower (even though you added a lane!). What goes off of this is what's called "Palin's Corrolary", which is to make traffic faster it's best to have fewer lanes. Politicians apply various techniques for this such as perpetual construction or allocating vast swaths of asphalt for bicycles, to make the traffic flow faster.

So it does make sense that in fact slower chips will make AI faster, and punch cards will make software development faster, as the inverse of these proposed trends.

This gets back to AnthonyMouse's argument (above) that

(1) TOR exit node operators are buffers to protect people from being hacked. A hacker would more easily use TOR than need the effort to runa scan for vulnerable routers, root one, and hop between various routers.

Which implies

(2) if TOR had no exit nodes and/or clearnet service blocked TOR ranges, hackers will just resort to hacking routers / other systems / botnets to make their own proxy. Now the block doesn't work, someone(s) got hacked, TOR is gone.

Basically TOR as a "containment" system. Seems to me that would be preferable for law enforcement, particularly because some state actors (https://www.infosecinstitute.com/resources/general-security/...) are putting great effort into unmasking TOR, making it a great honeypot. Ironic that Germany prosecuted a German exit node when they were the same ones investing heavily in unmasking it!

In and out burger is a solid burger in a clean, well run restaurant with a simple and classic menu and iconic old school vibes.

Waffle House is typically dirty, semi-dangerous, expensive and the any dish they serve would get absolutely annihilated in quality by even a second rate mom & pop diner. The energy that clip is trying to serve up is "Diner energy" and that's just not Waffle House because the safety isn't there, and the food quality isn't there (and Diner's aren't exactly known for high level food quality, more like great for the price food quality). I suspect he wanted to do a clip about how Diners are great, which is True, and his old uncle Waffle House had a dollar or two to say to him about how that should be a Waffle House that he visits.

Sorry that happened. NICU people is harrrddd people man. Hard like people in the 'hood. Hard like people who saw combat. The death rate is high, and it's tiny babbies, the thing they love. The field as a whole can be ruthless on matters like this, and NICU is the most ruthless of them all. I doubt you can sue them, I'm sure this is something where the t's are crossed and the i's dotted. Why do you think there were X of their people in the room? Witnesses. Ever have more than one person in the room hospital-wise, they're up to something where a witness is needed for legal protections, protip. Anyway I would well be tempted to be ruthlessly passive aggressive to the related staff "oh are you having more police again today? Could you stop calling the police and perform medicine?" etc. But an actual clever thing to do here is call what's called "patient visitor relations" or similar where that depts job is to make sure everyone is getting along with everybody. If you voice your concerns to them (even now after the fact!) they might be able to get some people to say sorry (which "saying sorry" is a legal thing as in they never say "sorry I made a mistake" rather "sorry to see this strange set of circumstances occurred which were maybe, maybe not, my mistake").

Yea, lawyers ruined medicine

The article is a lengthy discussion of something simple. 1) use a proxy or VPN 2) write a bucket guesser in python (use your imagination) 3) run this https://github.com/sa7mon/S3Scanner Now you have list/read/write status info +/- existence per S3 scanner.

There, see? Didn't need a whole article.

Exactly. If 10, 20 years ago a school was accepting the top 20%, and now it's the top 5%, you'd expect performance to be greater per capita. Nominally population grows exponentially but university enrollment... maybe a much weaker exponent. The edge of the blade is the fact that if we have frozen standards we'd expect a lot of "A" grades, but the other edge is things like med school where the rules is "separate this cohort of a class into the A's B's and C's" i.e. weedout courses.

But it is an interesting and testable hypothesis. Many American unis have this exponential increase in applicants where we see the pattern. But as we all know populations in my locales seem to no longer increase exponentially but in fact decrease (presumably also exponentially). So it would be interesting to see .. if we hypothesize grade inflation is secondary to population booms, should we also observe grade deflation in population shrinkage regions such is nippon or korea? My hypothesis would be a little bit of A, a little bit of B, the inflation process, even if initially driven by population, also implicitly becomes a standard of grading that we'd expect less competitive schools to not only follow, but perhaps also cheese a bit to improve their market value.

on this point curcumin aka tumeric has a quite a similar though not perfectly the same wavelength-adsorption profile (i.e. anything with a strong yellow color)

tumeric / curcumin is often used a magic skin treatment type dealie. question is why are not all these wanting-to-have-youthful-skin type people discovering transparency! answer is below but TLDR human skin is thicker and doses are still low.

some main points from the paper( damned paywell, see supplement) > the dye only goes about 1mm deep, so maybe that works magic in a mice but not so good in humans nor noticable. > the dye comes it at arnd 0.5-1 molar solution. gmw is 500 g/mol ish. so 1M solution is 500g in 1L or 0.5g in 1 mL aka 500 mg in 1 mL. Okay, fine, you prepare this and rub 500 mg on your big toe from a little 1 mL aliquot. the daily limit or whatever for the food dye is around 4 mg! Soooo... >on the latter point, safety, the supplement had a bunch of stuff where they were like "we did all the normal blood tests on the mice, and looked at the tissue, and looked to see if they died later, and it all looks good"

>Does ChatGPT just copy content and resell it?

Yes. Oodles of lawsuits claiming as such https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-lawsuit-copyrighted-d....

But yes the crux of it is financial and not algorithmic. Google ALSO uses AI. If google took sentences from 2 different web pages and stitched them together to form a paragraph, is that AI or search? [see google BERT]. What if they stitched together 3000 word-parts? What if they took sentences from 15 web pages, ranked them, and that's your view? See, it's all the same thing. openAI stitches together word-parts, by comparison.

Now when I say it's financial, when said information is presented, google gladly gives a hit to the site +/- add revenue if present. openAI does not do this. If openAI figured out how to do this then we'd be cooking with some gas.

>> even without tech, justice system is already ruining people's lives unjustly

>Sure, but as with a lot of this stuff, this allows that to be done _at scale_.

EXACTLY. The US wastes over 8 billion dollars a year inefficiently ruining peoples' lives and burning tax dollars. With the advent of facial recognition AI software, we can ruin lives 90% more efficiently at three times the scale!

I think there is merit to both side of the argument here.

On the one hand, yes, each nation can stick to their lane. Who is to say their rules and culture and regulations are "correct". Undefined. That another nation may well believe themselves to be the correct one. Under that principle it's wrong to go nosing about other nations. The example of CCCChinaCCCP's arm reaching out censorship wise was made here.

On the flipside, the defending of one's nation's citizens against foreign obnoxiousness is well reasonable. For example, if USA did a better job defending against scammers from India, I think we'd all be happier for it. Now, is India right/correct in believing spam calling is a god given human right to be embedded into their own bill of rights? I don't know, but what I do know is US citizens would be happier if US defended there interests here, as the EU is doing for his citizens.

Chill brother, that was just a AI troll, gotcha with the old "Turing Trick" of claiming to hate AIs so as to appear more human. The wall of textslop was a giveaway giveway was a giveaway.

Here are some kewl screenshots of the game DungeonDash if anyone is curious: https://github.com/Kihsomray/DungeonDash

I wholeheartedly attest to this. I had to stay in an Acadia facility due to a bipolar flare-up. The bill was so bad... I think if I hadn't been in a better place, the bill would have sent me right back in!

I mean the ruskies cooked up this guy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)

Invented by THE theremin. Yes, the instrument, theremin, the wacky one where handwaves and suck around some metal stick make funky horror movie noises, there was a Dr. theremin who invented that, and also this. Anyway, it was a "passive radio device" (given as a "gift") whereby if radio waves are projected onto the device it shall convolute said waves with sound waves of the room and then back-project a signal of radio waves with voice data overlayed, which can be read. Fancy at that sounds it is trivially low tech and simple. Very analog.

"This would be like loudly shitting your pants so you have an excuse to leave a party early without making the host feel bad"

I did not read the rest of the post by way of laughing. But your are right here, I feel it in my gut.

basically with all those bells and whistles (transform, lighting, clipping, shaders, etc, etc)

the "old way" was to engineer a bit of silicon for each one of those things, custom-like. problem was how much silicon to give to teach feature, it almost has to be fine-tuned to each individual game, a problem

So nvidia comes up with the idea to sort of have a pool of generic compute units, each of which can do T&L, or shading, etc. Now the problem of fine-tuning to a game is solved. but also now you have a mini compute array that can do math fast, a general-purpose unit of processing (GPU-OP), which was a nod from NVIDIA to the gaming community (OP - overpowered)

No no no no no no. It's not as black and white as "oh they failed to obey US laws" - that is a highly deceptive portrayal of the situation! We are talking about free speech laws. What if the law says "no hate speech, according to a floating definition of hate speech drafted by those with power who are the scions of rightthink" What if the law says "no disinformation, according to the custodians of rightthink and rightinformation. Very 1984! And it's 2024, how a propos, 40 years off. "No disinformation" itself is highly dubious! Wow, there's an information expert who instantly can detect correct versus incorrect "facts"? Can they review all science ever and suss out what's right, using their infallible power? Because that's the politically constructed facade we're dealing with here.

No, Eli Musk had it figured out. Speech is free and free is speech. If someone has misinformation, let the people beat them down for it. If someone is wrong, let someone call them out.

The power to make speech is to the people, the power to call out and regulate speech is also to the people. For the state to usurp such a power, is 1984-esque big brother manipulations, for the purpose no more nor less of political control and manipulation

Are those with psychiatric illness such as OCD not vampires in a way, emotional vampires of a sort, whether intentionally or not?

thank you for the great story reminds me of another great mathematician harvard Phd in math youngest ever professor, UC berkeley decided to leave it all behind and live innawoods like this man oh and he also mailed bombs to people involved with tech (this man's equivalent to the military) and he would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for that meddling sister in law! I guess he wanted to have his cake and eat it too.

coke and pepsi NYSE and nasdaq google and bing lowes and home depot democrat and republican fedex and UPS boing and airbus uber and lift rettardit and twitter

tho how much is corporate shenanigans and how much is power law of company size, idk

also what's great about singapore is the penal system illegal immigration (more than a week or so) is a literal harsh beating and explusion drug use is death most "big crimes" are death littering is being forced to clean litter imagine if we had those in the US! we'd not be able to hire enough executioners and prisoner beaters. That, or sharia law, as we'll see taking hold in europe in about 10-20 years.

I would be more inclined to buy an electric car if it ran NO software. Battery. Motor. Potentiometer (aka gas pedal). Another potentiometer (aka brake pedal) Relays and such for turn signals. Easy to understand wires. Easy to modify. Easy to add a computer if I want. This is how it worked with cars in the old days and it was (and is) a great hobby. We stand the cusp of a renaissance of that culture with now even more simple and straightforward technology, and it gets all screwed up with bells and whistles and algorithms and touchscreens and self driving. Why doesn't Tesla make a car like described here. I bet it would be much cheaper, or at least a bit cheaper, given most of the cost is lithium.

Deloitte has really once built software that good, it is a AI / strategy / tactic type multitool AI used for the purpose of winning government contracts

Hot take: the way to end CSAM (childhoods sexual abusing MPEGs (motion picture expert group) ) aka CP (childhood predator images) for those whom don't know the acronyms -- it is to legalize (((AI generatrated))) CSAM. No child harmed. As we see the internet is already full of AI slop, there can be no question that an infinite amount of CSAMslop may be generated. The reason why this is good, is because anyone looking to profit or market REAL such material, now there is no longer a market to sell it, nor is there a market for giving it for free to get some sort of fucked up pedo kudos. For people who are actual victims and their data shared, their data is but a drop in a vast ocean.