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The only thing more cringe than the seething anger in this blog is the technical illiteracy revealed by an earnest belief that any of these attempts at "poisoning" will have any negative impact whatsoever on model training.

This is a straight up lie of a headline.

The tax exemption was for SALES TAX on MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT for CONSTRUCTION, because those local purchases helped the local construction industry.

You can read the actual authorizing resolution for yourself here:

https://rocklandida.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Authorizi...

The idea that permanent jobs were some kind of a trade, or even factored into the decision at all, is completely fabricated.

Kind of sad to see AI water use as the first listed issue motivating this.

It is a completely fake concern. See here: https://blog.andymasley.com/p/the-ai-water-issue-is-fake

Misleading title. The change in tech employment is worse, but actual tech employment remains high thanks to the massive 2021-2023 hiring spree.

Why not let Amazon take a stab at turning things around, then? It's better that they fail? I don't get it.

Now do the % of the time news content misrepresents the subject matter it is reporting on.

I wonder what they're going to do when the states mandating age verification for pornographic content start coming for them.

Very similar to these dystopian foreign laws. But because they're US states 4chan will not be able to use the "we only recognize US law" defense.

Cloudflare is an enemy of the open and freely accessible web.

AP story: https://apnews.com/article/hawaiian-petroglyphs-tides-ocean-...

Moving money from one pocket to another... is economic activity.

If you actually bother to click through and read the article, you'd find the court expressed sympathies with the intent of the rule, but the FTC "is required to conduct a preliminary regulatory analysis when a rule has an estimated annual economic effect of $100 million or more", and they did not do that.

The blame here belongs to the FTC for its rushed and sloppy process that put the rule on shaky ground legally.

It’s amazing how twisted the term “anti-competitive” has become. Where anti-competitive companies push for anti-competitive regulations under the false pretense of preventing anti-competitiveness.

Standard Oil is being competitive.

The U.S. oil refining and distribution industry is being anti-competitive.

Because they suck at competing against Standard Oil and they want to get unfair, unethical advantage themselves.

Imagine spending years and billions building something and then I show up and say “hey man that’s not fair, give me a slice of that thing”.

And before someone tells me “that’s the Sherman Act”, I don’t care. If that’s the law then it should be changed. Laws have been written (and lobbied) for all sorts of reasons and surprisingly not all of them are fair and ethical.

(I hope this illustrates how easy it is to make this exact argument about literally any monopoly.)

I don't think browsers will ever let web code affect things outside the viewport because scammers would cook up some truly zany things with that power.

Does this matter? Corporations are on notice that this pendulum may swing the other way in four years (and remains permanently stuck the other way in certain states). They might just decide to steer clear of this minefield.

Then let's take those things into account when calculating what tests to do. Surely, though, we can do better as a society than solving this with "no preemptive testing except for extreme risks".

Listen, if you think I'm wrong then go profit off how wrong I am. You can put your money where your mouth is anytime you want.

That people are declining to do so is, I think, revealing.

Polymarket odds are pretty low on this. https://polymarket.com/event/suchir-balaji-foul-play-determi... https://polymarket.com/event/arrest-in-the-suchir-balaji-cas...

The "evidence" seems pretty weak. A second autopsy that even the family's attorney admits is inconclusive... okay. Alleged "conflicts of interest" with the medical examiner... okay.

Seems very likely this guy was just depressed and his depression ended in tragedy. The motivated reasoning here from Musk, his family, and many others revolves around wanting to prove OpenAI is bad because they want OpenAI to be a bad guy they can pin this onto.

Not sure what OpenAI would possibly gain from this. It's not like LLMs being trained on pirated datasets is some sort of closely guarded secret.

The systematic, public aspect of the killings and the fetishization of maximal pain and suffering is the fucked up part. Few societies ever where public delight in unthinkable cruelty was so off-the-charts.

Wow this is neat!

Stark contrast to the stupid locked-down new API rules twitter rolled out post-Elon.

Seems like it could drive NYT engineering to be much more conservative in hiring, resulting in engineers being pushed to do more work.

I think the reason here is that Copilot is very very obviously inferior to Cursor, mostly because the model at its core is pretty dumb.

Would be a very difficult transition for the first generation to live under the new normal where an A is now a C.

Would employers accept that and consider it fairly when judging against their grade-inflated predecessors? I doubt it.

Tailwind is CSS though? Like, it much more strongly maps to individual styles than most other popular style frameworks and systems.

My son, it is time for you to embrace the good news of our lord and savior web scraping.

The dot-com bubble was still very much a bubble even though the value creation potential of the internet was incomprehensibly immense

Why is this a link to a tweet by a guy whose entire public persona is "AI bad! AI bad! AI bad!" rather than the actual article?

There will be consequences, no? Billion dollar lawsuits that cause real and severe damage?

Don't mean to be rude, but does the job posting list a competitive salary?

Now that they're required to list salaries in coastal states I filter for that while searching and don't even consider jobs paying under $[threshold]k.

>According to all the interviews I’ve failed over the years (I don’t think I’ve ever passed an actual “coding interview” anywhere?), the entire goal of tech hiring is just finding people in the 100 to 115 midwit block then outright rejecting everybody else as too much of an unknown risk.

As a (now) senior/staff-level engineer back out on the job market for the first time in a while, I'm begrudgingly coming to accept that coding interviews might not actually be all that bad. Mostly because I find myself passing them due to having picked up skills in the past few years rather than spending a ton of time studying, which suggests they might actually be picking up some signal. I once thought they were purely hazing with zero relevance to day to day work, but as I get more senior I drift further away from that opinion.

Why not exactly? The model weights cannot encode a sort of math engine? The hidden state cannot encode carryover values? Why do we assume these things can't happen at some level?