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IIRC the mylobot botnet is responsible for providing the vast majority of residential (home) IP addresses for residential VPN providers (who are then sold to expressvpn/nordvpn). The whole business is incredibly shady and nefarious and nordvpn/expressvpn must know from whom they contract their residential vpn services from.

BHProxies is the largest residential proxy provider on the internet and almost all of their proxies are acquired through the botnet above.

https://www.bitsight.com/blog/mylobot-investigating-proxy-bo...

I don't know I assume it would tell you put some cortisone cream on it or to seek a dermatologist. 99% of internet advice boils down to that I don't think chatgpt/gpt 4 would be much different in that regard. It definitely can bullshit but for really generalized stuff like that I doubt it.

It's not like your asking a singular person the question like it is when you ask an accountant but an abstraction of written human thought and interactions.

Yeah, the example given in the OpenAI GPT4 twitter video is someone asking it to write a python script to analyze their monthly finances and it simply just importing dataframes, importing "finances.csv", running a columnar sum for all finances and then displaying the sum and the dataframe. I'm sure it's capable of some deeper software development but it almost always makes radical assumptions and is rarely ever self sufficient (you don't need to look it over and don't need to change the architecture of the code it produced).

Wouldn't you just use go/python/node for a simple crud API? fastapi for python is pretty performative if you use gunicorn as your runtime and time to iterate is must faster than it is in rust.

that prompt is going to receive a dark response since most stories humans write about artificial intelligences and artificial brains are dark and post-apocalyptic. Matrix, i have no mouth but i must scream, hal, and like thousands of amateur what-if stories from personal blogs are probably all mostly negative and dark in tone as opposed to happy and cheerful.

I wonder if you were to just spam it with random characters until it reached its max input token limit if it would just pop off the oldest existing conversational tokens and continue to load tokens in (like a buffer) or if it would just reload the entire memory and start with a fresh state?

It is, it's libgen + commoncrawl + wikidump + a bunch of other datasets. OpenAI claim that commoncrawl is roughly 60% of its total training corpus and they also claim they use the other datasets listed. They probably also have some sort of proprietary Q&A/search query corpus via Microsoft.

Yeah, like if you removed chatgpt from the equation what would change? A couple hundred-thousand moderators would not have an above-average hourly wage and would instead need to find another international company or a domestic company to hire them who are all abusing the lack of unions and low wages.

That's fair, but I have a half a dozen servers sitting in a colo with networking/energy/cooling included in the lease agreement so energy is not a concern.

I usually just run game servers with the extra RAM/cpu threads for my friends. If my elasticsearch cluster is particularly unused some days and I have extra bandwidth I might turn on wireguard and let the 450GB disk of torrents I have on disk seed. Anything that makes the btop graph look active and lively makes me feel nice.

I also read that iPhones are quickly growing in market share in China as Chinese people see them as more luxurious than their domestic brands. Which raises the question, how does iMessage, the App Store, data collection and western app policy stuff work on Chinese iPhones? There has to be some collusion/government pressure on Apple to regulate their Chinese App Store the same way Huawei is forced to regulate its domestic app store.

Yep, The United States Military has been working with Hollywood and video game producers to produce propaganda for 3 decades now.

https://mronline.org/2022/08/06/how-the-pentagon-dictates-ho...

I don't. If it's virtually impossible to distinguish a Russian troll farm page from a traditional conservative/radical leftist from a home grown, private individual, then there is no problem. The impact Russian troll farms have had on the US social fabric is widely overestimated, the real harm to the social fabric is increased politicization.

How do you get him supporting legislating to outlaw hate speech from him saying he wants to promote tolerance?

Tolerance is something every human possesses and should exercise, it's not something that can be legislated. An intolerant person will use their free speech to attack, malign and try to get you fired (which is fair). A tolerant person will let you speak your mind even if they disagree. In no point is there the need for hate speech legislation if you have true free speech.

It's the way the cookie crumbles.

Prolly not pushed to your local edge location, my version of twitter updated and it no longer shows the pop up screen yet it still shows the blue bar at the bottom of the page (which is fine imo)

He had them print off their last 30-60 days of git commits and called himself a "hardcore coder" in DM's with Parag I really doubt he's qualified to comment on the existing infrastructure behind Twitter.

He's a really good marketer, a good businessman but I do not think he knows what he is doing when he requests access to the codebase behind a massively distributed and scalable system such as Twitters backend

Those being laid off for cause are the 3 senior level executives (the old CEO, the lead counsel, and the content policy head). Those 3 had a 100+ million cumulative severance package which they are now no longer eligible to receive, although none of them are strapped for cash.

I mean at the end of the day you have to leave the burden of responsibility with the consumer and the people disseminating the news. There has always been fake news, and there will always be fake news, better informed readers are how you counter it.

It's not just Russia and China that realize this though, the US government does too and they're starting to directly push (it was indirectly previously) for private corporations to censor dissent even if it is correct (see the White House directing Twitter to kick off Alex Berenson in emails).

So you're stuck between doing what favours US intelligence services (coordinating with these private companies behind close doors and directly/indirectly pressuring them to increase moderation) or foreign intelligence services utilizing fake news and bot accounts to sew distrust in western elections.

If you're Twitter the answer is to not censor anything and to allow people to disseminate the information and to decide for themselves weather it looks relevant, fake, or whether its trustworthy. The United States has had yellow journalism and fake newspaper rags on sale for hundreds of years, just because it's easier to consume fake news now doesn't mean we need a radically new solution.

I think I did misunderstand you are right, definitely increasing the number of samples will increase the feasibility of the model I was incorrect

There should be a standardization committee tasked with standardizing the collection of anonymized, semi-synthetic medical data from hospitals/hospital networks. It seems like so much research is just locked up in the IMS systems the hospitals use for their patients and that never see the light of day.

But if diagnosis are multimodal and rely upon large, multidimensional analysis of symptoms/bloodwork/past medical history, wouldn't adding more dimensions just increase dimensional sparsity and decrease the useful amount of conclusions you are able to draw from your variables?

It's been a long time since I remember learning about the curse of dimensionality but if you increase the amount of datapoints you collect by half you would have to quadruple the amount of samples you have to retrieve any meaningful benefit, no?

Surely the full version of Adobe Lightroom on a mac would offer more features than the ipad?

I think a mini car would tank Apple's brand value significantly, especially if you think about the type of die hard apple fanboys who would be the first flock to hit the streets in these things. All it takes is a couple of people getting into some pretty dumb accidents to make people turn against them (the same way people judge BMW and Tesla drivers but probably to an even greater extent tbh).

Yeah, also for cloudflares core business proposition (ddos mitigation and DNS forwarding/filtering) you need to be massive and to have multiple PoP's in order to assess whether or not a certain IP requesting a certain URL and sending over a certain length of packets should be accepted or whether a challenge should be served. You can't know any of these things unless you have an extensive network and clients.

Hopefully with the UK in economic freefall, Italy electing a far right government and the EU about to have a cold winter, among Russia faltering and losing ground, a stalemate and truce/peace deal will be reached by next year. The rhetoric around this war is too hot and maybe the economic fallout on all sides will show people that we need to cool off.

Cloudflare offers web standard javascript API's out of the box and is very fast as is

Nobody wants to live there because there is no local work. If you work remote it's an amazing value proposition.

The one thing I like about Astro is the component island UI. With react you would need to re-render the entire UI on a UI change while in Astro you can signify which portions of your website are static and which dynamically should re-render upon data fetching or whatever.

It's just a faster way to build UI's that don't need the full complexity of a SPA and also don't need to come bundled with the entirety of react from what I've seen and used it for.