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> The amount of deceit put out into the world and gobbled up, on purpose, in business is obscene and seriously depressing.

In business, politics, everything. It almost seems like everyone is quietly agreeing that "if we pretend the pesky truth doesn't exist for long enough, we can literally change reality to be what we want".

I feel like I'm going crazy. There's no way that's how things can work for long, right?

Yeah, even at companies with a lot of red tape and procedure, in the end it's just a group of people and people make stupid oversights.

Doesn't mean there shouldn't be public shaming, but usually stuff like this isn't some nefarious plot.

Source: have worked at large institutions and seen stupid mistakes almost go through except for sheer blind luck

He means that he thinks the only reason why these generative AIs ever get info wrong and causing misinfo is because the businesses that write them are too woke and holding them back.

Tbf getting all of the engineers and leadership online to figure out what is going on, write and authorize a public statement is a pretty quick turnaround

Thank you, this was probably my biggest concern

I don't know if you're trolling or not.

When you get good at it, it is much easier to skim through 10 lines of fluff to find the answer (that is usually visually distinguished in a code block) then it is to parse through 4 really dense, terminology filled sentences.

If I need to know exactly how all the options work, sure the docs are the place to go, but 90% of the time I just need a quick example to go off of.

Honest question, do you complain that USA implemented this same type program in 2008/2009? Or do you just care now because this affects US travelers?

I've also worked in a highly technical customer service role and you are absolutely right. 95% of our time was spent on 5% of our customers.

Even though they spend millions of dollars a year on support, they easily cost us more than that to help them. Simple issues that we had documented solutions for (and explained to them dozens of times preciously) were just as critical as outages to them.

We had to throttle the support we gave them in order to provide a better experience for everyone else and try to train them to be better customers.

I'm looking at you Tata and Vodaphone >:(

> Do they not assign you a dedicated account manager like everyone else does?

That's the TAM he's mentionioning.

Absolutely, the only way for these to take off is if you have a single place you direct people that makes the whole process braindead simple.

Sign up has to be simple. Finding content has to be simple. Keeping updated has to be simple. The branding also has to be really welcoming as well.

> The answer is "both of them". Pick a client that makes it the easiest to connect to separate instances on separate accounts, then choose the same-ish username.

That actually reveals even more complexity: having to understand what federation is, researching and experimenting with clients, how to find different communities across the fediverse. Each added complexity cuts how many people would be willing to make the switch

I've worked at companies who sell software to state governments. They usually run sensitive software in their own servers with no external internet access. We would have to send someone onsite to perform their upgrades or send detailed list of instructions so they can resolve the issues themselves.

I suspect Microsoft would do something similar, no data would leave government property.

One day it's going to bite these companies in the butt when they continue to be so openly hostile to the people who create free content for them, right?

> National forecasters said on Thursday that the climate pattern system, known for bringing record rainfall in South America, more winter storms in the U.S West and South, and droughts in southern Asia, Indonesia and Australia, is expected to make its official return within a few months and has a strong chance of lasting the rest of the year. > > El Niño is a climate pattern that naturally occurs every two to seven years when ocean surface temperatures warm in the eastern Pacific.

From: https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/el-nino-returns-2023/

Where is the line? There are a lot of Chinese companies who make things that are used in the US by US citizens. What about companies from other countries like Ukraine, Russia, Germany?

Who decides who is in the Axis of Evil? Do you want the Biden administration deciding? Do you want Trump to decide?

One of the best things and worst things about America is the first amendment. It is amazing that you can say or make just about anything without the government jailing you or shutting you down.

It feels horrible because that freedom necessitates people who believe everyone else has the same ability to say or make anything they want, even if you find that stuff disgusting or risky.

Yes, there are definitely some limits to the right. But we should be cautious about the government making laws to restrict the right.

Should we ban an entire company or force them to sell as soon as we believe they give personal data to another country? Where is the line drawn at which country? What about a Russian based app or a Belarusian based app?

I'm not saying it's wrong, it just makes me nervous.

I'm not sure this is indicative of a failing on Bard and Google's parts. I think most movie/dramas that humans create often follow these stereotypes. AIs like Bard train on the content that humans make and build connections based on that.

I think it leads to an interesting question, is it Google's responsibility to try to counter every stereotype or try to make about that operates like a human?

The best option I found was to explain - multiple times - to my grandparents that these scams exist and how each of them work. Hopefully if they are ever approached by a scammer, they'll remember my warning and that hesitation will break them out of the fear used in the scams.

Retention means they still holding data. Even if they only hold data for 30 days, that's still data that can be leaked or stolen.

To be fair in this instance, this is a wild story that does have all the hallmarks of a wacky conspiracy theory straight out of a Bond film. Some secret Chinese laboratory is doing some secret stuff with some super spreading disease and then whoops it gets leaked and shuts the entire world down.

Also keep in mind where the info was coming from in the US: it was being introduced by Trump. This is someone who regularly spouses countless baseless conspiracies whenever he needs some sort of ammunition to blame a group he doesn't like. There is plenty of fair reasons to not have believed this story.

My understanding is that only the balloon from last week was huge and easy to see with the human eye. I believe the other UAFs are much smaller. Also there were 3 or 4 during the Trump administration and noone noticed them with their naked eye

I suspect finding a small balloon in the mind-boggling huge space that is American airspace is, can be surprisingly challenging.

My understanding is that these UAFs are much smaller than that first Chinese balloon last week.

It probably also costs a lot more money to shoot down a balloon than it costs China to put a balloon in the air.

I'm convinced that's why the balloons haven't been shot down in the past. Learning our detection abilities is probably way more important for China than anything they would be able to take a picture of.

I can't find the post I saw from the creator, but apparently this is something they have been working on for years, well before ChatGPT. They created their own script generator.

If I pay for 7.88 billion concurrent streams, yeah I would expect to be able to have everyone access it

I've only ever heard good things about working there from friends and random internet strangers. I wish you the best!

I mean, they did a huge thing that can't be backed out of, they released SRD 5.1 under creative commons.

Yeah they did some not great stuff, but let's celebrate the successes when we get them!

Why does the article keep saying that creating this charger would be a simple endeavor? It sounds simple at face value, but when you start thinking of it more deeply you have to imagine there could be difficulty with things like cooling.