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One advantage of the RFID, is that you can modify the ticket while using it. This is actually what made Montreal choose that solution. There's no internet connection to validate the tickets, they just update the ticket to say they are used.

I would have said that make it much more resilient, but I have seen so many buses that couldn't accept fares... I'm not so sure if it's the case.

Are you saying that's the risk of providing the website URL? Or that it's the risk of the HIBP?

Because he does provide the email and the leak name... He even provide indirectly where to download it from his blogpost.

Providing the website won't give more dangerous information, that's exactly what he usually does when it's not a stuffing list, he say where the password come from (Linkedin, Facebook, etc...).

He even pay for the 3D graphics! Essentially he is making ad money, boost his subscribers counts and he is marketing his product sold on the Unity Store.

> And yet his older CJS versions get weekly downloads that are magnitudes higher than the newer ESM versions.

You write this as if that mattered...

Should he only works on stuff that gets more download? For what reasons? He works on what he wants to works on, it's amazing and he is lucky to be able to do it.

> The move that Sindre (and others like wooorm) made has not been well-received

It's normal to be sad to have lost someone that was working on something you needed, but anything else is just entitlement.

> if you have completely free speech your inbox gets spammed into oblivion.

Don't know for your provider, but on Gmail, I click on Spam and there are all there. It's not censorship, it's sorting. I usually go see them once a month, just in case something got badly sorted (it's also quite entertaining to see the scams attempts).

In what world is it censorship to choose to read something or not too? It may be censorship for sure that something is blocked (and still can be argued upon), but choosing not to read crap is not censorship, just like choosing not to read every scientific papers in the world is not censorship…

A camera can easily catch someone with an hammer, it's kind of much harder to go one by one to destroy them that way and it's also probably much more dangerous to try to break something connected to the power lines like that.

This on the other hand is quick, can be done away from the meter, away from cameras, and can reach many meter at the same time. Considering the few terrorist acts that have been done to electricity distributions points, it does seems like a good ways for them to do a big impact easily, with the right antenna and amplifier.. you could do quite a bit of damage.

Their AOT solution was clearly too complex for some potential clients, that seems like the real reason they rewrote it all, support for higher Java version is mostly a neat benefit (though Java 9 did still support Applet from my understanding, just deprecated).

At first glance it seems to only support bitmap? I means it does seems great, but I believe a big part of Flash is the vectorial format, it's not baked into the image, and it does look "good" in many resolutions. You can iterate quickly that way.

They also build their own editor [1] and it's quite good. I'm quite jealous of theses talents.

[1] https://floor796.com/editor/l0

Are you kidding? You definitely don't have an effective tax rate of 48%... Here in Quebec (which has the highest tax rate) that would make you higher than 400k a year... (45% at that point) [1]. You most probably meant marginal rate, and probably live in a pretty high cost area, but still 160k shouldn't stop you from being quite wealthy.

I'm closer to 100k, my SO own a business and make very little money. I rent a 2 bedrooms apartments close to Montreal, I order food regularly, own a Volt and I am currently looking at house 30 minutes away from Montreal. It's much cheaper than elsewhere in Canada though,

[1] https://www.rcgt.com/app/uploads/2023/03/individual_taxation...

We all saw the charts showing the number of employees if the past few years and that they just laid off the over hiring... No one remember during that time how we were lacking employees too? I know at my job which is not a sexy one, we were struggling to find new hire. We are still hiring... just as much as before.

That's where they are going. To the place that wanted them in the first place. All theses peoples didn't appear out of thin air (though for sure the amazing pay did pushed some to go to "bootcamp" or whatever, but that's been true for the past decade). It's the normal amount of workers that would have been hired otherwise.

In any other field, sure maybe there could be more workers than demands, but in tech, placement has been good and it won't change in a few years (as it takes a few years of school).

The only thing that may change is the pay expectation of theses workers, as the one that did the laid off are the one that were paying a pretty penny for theses jobs.

You can probably say something similar for any form of entertainment. You can always gain something from it (and that's excluding the benefit of doing something you enjoy).

Is this actually confirmed as it doesn't even make sense.

That page mention a free tier of up to 250 requests, it only mentions search, and even though we can't see the content easily, Web Archive is saying that page has been there for the past 5 years... so is that really the future price? Or is it for a Search API that has been priced like that for a long time?

I means the world isn't binary, obviously there's risk in everything.

There's not much incentive to jack prices up 10x, it's their revenue, by doing so they will probably lose some. There's incentive though to not offer something for free, as this is literally losing you cash. You never know all the facts though, Google Maps did increase the API cost quite a bit, so it can always happen, but when it's free, you do know some of the facts... and it's not in your favor.

So yes, still some risk, but not at all the same amount of risk.

People can be wrong and can sound quite plausible too.

The key is to verify... and that's true for AI and people too, though for sure that's not something people are used to do sadly.

I learned that quite early, mostly because I'm from Quebec, there's so many of our translation that get lost (I guess it's a question of rights, the translation and original content have 2 different owners). The one that made me realize that first is Pokémon, there's just no way to get the original Quebec version (and funnily enough, it's the same French translation, just with the English Pokémon names). I had to buy the original VHS to be able to get it, and still just the first season seems to have been made in VHS.

Piracy doesn't help much either as theses translations were never digital in the first place. There's many show from my youth that I can't find with Quebec translation, even some that I can't find in their original language.

If I had the cash and time it's something that I would wish to try, getting the distributions rights of a few of theses old shows. There's no way it would be that expensive (probably take quite a bit of time though) and nostalgia would works quite well I believe to attract enough viewership to support it.

The amount of commercial games that used (and still does actually) Flash is much higher than many could believe. Jackbox is probably one that many here have played in the past few years. Some games used it only for UI, like Borderlands.

> He behaved shittily by not honoring an informal contract.

Did he not honor the informal contract? What did he not honor?

If anything, Carl didn't honor the informal contract, he was the one saying Minecraft would promote his work, and no a name in a tiny credit is not doing that... but I'm feeling generous as let's be honest that's a bullshit clause that corporation always try to use that line without meaning much so it's to be expected.

Julian said he was never giving all its rights away. That was part of the informal contract. That's the thing that made him not sign it.

> The author is so self-centered they belittle the contributions of other Mojang employees

C418 made the music... plenty love it, I don't. Doesn't means it has no value, it has none to me, just like the End Poem has none to you, but yet still some people got a tattoo of it.

You are the only one belittling anyone though, you are belittling what Julian did, saying he deserve less recognition than C418, while Julian just said they got recognition while he didn't (without saying if he deserved it more than them).

>Okay, but what's that supposed to achieve?

Not being in the dataset maybe? There's many artists that hate that you can just write "in the style of" with their name.

So at least, if it does appear that it works with their name, they now either have been paid that amount, or they can sue for that amount of lost revenue. At least not everything would be lost.

I'm not a lawyer though, so really no idea whether this could even be possible as it's seems like currently it's fair use.

Seems like OpenAI didn't like this kind of poking as now it keep saying this:

> As a large language model trained by OpenAI, I do not have the ability to mimic the writing style of specific individuals

I don't know for you but I'm still amazed at Dall-e and know plenty of people who are too. I got access 112 days ago, and was also relatively impressed before too (but definitively not as much as when I got access).

> we'll just accept that this is what computers are capable of doing.

I accepted that on day 1 for Dall-E, and I kind of accepted that for ChatGPT too (but that one is more nuanced as it can do "more" than a task, it's hard to determine its limit obviously).

Doesn't change that this is amazing and I do believe will change the world forever.

That sound to me like inference.

What about doing wget over https://chat.openai.com/chat ? I don't believe it had much Google result over that when it learned, yet it was able to logically infer it would be a chat assistant doing exactly what he was doing.

> And it replied with some random http response showing that this hostname exists.

And that's not logical? ChatGPT doesn't know what is there, so it answer logically based on what should happens there. Obviously having 2 different answers make it less logical for sure, but I have seen many peoples makes plenty of logic error too in real life.

It's crazy to me that for an AGI to be one, it need to be infallible in logic...

I'm trying that right now. It can probably do it, the big issue right now is that it won't give really long answers and just stop in the middle, which can be avoided by asking him to finish it, but it doesn't always works.

The guy that got the first position for the first part, thus the first solution ever on that problem, was using ChatGPT to do it. [1]

[1] https://github.com/max-sixty/aoc-gpt

It certainly has logic. I had some fun using the "virtual machine" example someone else did, with the "nvidia-smi" command, if I told him it was hot in the room, the next run of the command was showing an higher temperature on the GPU. This is the logical conclusion from an hotter room.

Except they already sell API access for their AI and it seems like the right price, $0.0200 per 1k token for the best one, and my prompt right now are between 3k and 15k tokens. Doing a prompt is cheap enough for what it give, and there's no way it cost them more than that running it considering how quick it does it. They could easily do 2x that cost if it were too expensive to run for them, if not more. You can rent a server with 8x Nvidia A100 on lambdalabs for 8.80$/hr, let say my smallest prompt took 15 seconds (it didn't) and required that whole server (clearly not) it would cost them 3.7 cents to run my prompt, while costing me 6.2 cents, and lambdalabs would also make a profit on it.

Training the models weren't that expensive either, and that's a one time deal.

This is like the reverse of the turing test. It can convince me it's an actual terminal...