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(The number in the article doesn't specify whether data center water usage is just us-bound or global)
Pretty clear parent meant people who cross against the light / mid-block when there is a crossing 50ft away / stepping in front of the one car on the road when they could look up for one second and step out behind that car etc. in other words the people who put off 'main character' vibes.
(Source: guy who hosted websites on sparc's in 1995)
Whats measured is whats managed, and so we have a bunch of unnecessary crap to click on because that pushes the engagement metric up.
To put it another way, if an AI and a human post two different views on a subject, people are more likely to be swayed by the AI's point of view.
So for much cheaper now organizations can use AI at scale to sway public opinion in a way thats more effective than ever before.
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It works like this: you pay taxes on income, or realized gains (sold your stock). But you don't pay taxes on unrealized gains.
You have TSLA/AMZN/NVDA stock which has gained $10M, and you have a mansion/yacht payment coming due. You could sell the stock and pay $2M in taxes...
OR
You can get a loan with your stock as collateral. You may pay 7% interest but you still OWN the stock and the S&P grows at a rate of 10%, netting you a 3% annual profit on your collateral stock. AND the interest might be tax deductible offsetting other income taxes you may owe. You pay 0% taxes because you didn't sell anything.
Search for 'buy borrow die' for more resources on this strategy. This new tax proposal is trying to address the problem that the most wealthy individuals in our society pay a much lower percent in taxes compared to the average individual using this type of strategy.
You do bring up a good point which is what /is/ the effectiveness of these defensive type measures? I just found a benchmarking tool, which I'll use to get a measure on how effective these defenses can actually be - https://github.com/lakeraai/pint-benchmark
Do you have recommendations on more effective alternatives to prevent prompt attacks?
I don't believe we should just throw up our hands and do nothing. No solution will be perfect, but we should strive to a solution that's better than doing nothing.
The j was to prevent forgery, or altering the document. ii could be altered later to iii.. but if it was ij its obvious its been tampered with if it later appears as iji
My father in law got a dementia diagnosis, after this my wife and I started going with him to his appointments - and discovered why he had such a diagnosis. He's the type of person who'll nod and pretend to hear/understand when he doesn't. We know this just from our interactions with him. The tool they use to eval is verbal question/answer and he did much better on the evals when we were with him and keyed the doctor in on that they ensure he hears the question or they give it to him in written form.
Take the average person's footprint of 7co2-ton/yr, math that out with the 80 ton cargo capacity, the short daily distances ~250km/day, 14 crew, and you come out with about 12g-co2/ton/km just for crew for these schooners. easy to see another 4g-co2/ton/km being in just upkeep for a vessel of wood and canvass. So yeah if someone wants to virtue-signal, then go for it ship your stuff this way but don't think you are actually netting out a smaller carbon footprint then a container ship here.
I am still around and still working in tech -- although nowadays work involves poking API's to launch servers and related infrastructure vs. the time that this article was written where someone in my line of work had to drive to the datacenter whenever a server needed an upgrade or became unresponsive. My roommate at the time is still around too, his work is in the realm of reducing internet latency in routers by doing clever things with their packet buffers.
Some 5 or 10 years after the howto was written Cisco/Belkin reached out to us. Someone had patented putting a wireless card in a router, and they wanted our help with showing there was prior art. That process opened my eyes because to a couple guys like us it seemed like an obvious thing to do to put a wireless card in and network with it, like any other network card at the time it just had an antenna instead of a cat5 cable. Nothing 'inventive' about doing it, its just a logical step. I think they ended up settling so maybe that original patent-holder gets a couple cents on every wireless router, not sure.
I remember the hostname that document was served from when it was written, a tower PC hostname 'screamingslave' (NiN reference), and it served that document from the Redwood Estates (remote) side of the wireless link. 'for work' my work is all cloud infra, I still run my own personal server -- something I built and configured to run openstack, to be a "cloud in a box" -- hostname 'mantaro' (a reference to the river that is the source of the amazon), and that document is served from a VM running within, hostname 'immora' (doom reference).
It seems to be surviving the HN hug-of-death so far, but it was written in what was state-of-the-art for 1998, just a plain html doc, with maybe a css style sheet (did the original even have that?). Yeah no Nuxt/Vue SPA with some nosql backend.
If you wanna see another of my efforts in 98, I was also involved in bringing 'directory services' to Linux, tldr something more modern (at the time) than NIS, using LDAP for managing your users and other directory objects. That doc can be found here http://www.rage.net/ldap/ldapns-howto/
My 980 2TB crossed the river styx over the holiday break. Failure mode exactly as described. Nice Christmas present for me. Took 3 weeks to get the warranty replacement from Samsung.