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meltyness··on Iraq Blocks Telegram, Leaks Blackhole BGP Routes
Presumably whichever government is trying to identify users accessing the service, or prevent the spread of information or something.
meltyness··on Broadband monopolies push bill that would crush the ability to stand up to them
And also get rid of MVNOs.
meltyness··on Code Is Not Literature (2014)
There's legitimate tension here.

With FOSS, the common desire is to build fix or modify, but frequently non-code explanations are sparse. That's one place where code reading is certainly desirable, and obviously the reverse engineering described.

meltyness··on ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Prepared for 100k Concurrent Players, They’ve Gotten 700K
kind of like how disk shouldn't be a bottleneck for framerate, but, you know... how we forget.
meltyness··on user handle associated with account @music will be affiliated with X Corp
This is probably a good thing, wasn't there a story about someone getting violent threats about their handle? In a market, it is possible for prices to go down too, and this seems like a reasonable thing to depreciate
meltyness··on Google’s Plan to DRM the Web Goes Against Everything Google Once Stood For
Hm don't they already do this with like, Widevine? This seems alarmist.
meltyness··on Forget subtitles: YouTube now dubs videos with AI-generated voices
Just like their auto caption / translate, it'll be free, you won't be able to pay for it, and it only work on Google-approved viewpoints.
meltyness··on Facebook users have less than a month to claim a piece of the $725M settlement
Hypothetically, what laws would I be breaking if I were to file claims on the hundreds of accounts I made for astroturfing in that time window?
meltyness··on AOL pulls Nullsoft file-sharing software WASTE (2003)
Hmm, yes, let's all work together to fight climate change, but uh... not peer-to-peer, having a middleman is always more efficient, even with a global decentralized ubiquitous network of personally controlled, energy efficient devices, best to continue to delegate to a bank that's delegating to a bank.

Oh, and yes, you can be the middleman -- you seem trustworthy, I nominate you for de novo utopia money dude, enjoy your new, absolute power.

meltyness··on JPMorgan warns that an AI bubble is brewing
Apple stock is still pricing an self-driving electric car.
meltyness··on AOL pulls Nullsoft file-sharing software WASTE (2003)
Crypto is probably the closest echoes of this era. Unfortunately the youth isn't going to follow most of this, and their fondest memories are themselves mostly going to be considered missteps, like the problems with building recommendation systems in the past decade.
meltyness··on TSMC delays US chip fab opening, says US talent is insufficient
Horrid.

It's a kickback sheme too probably, directors collude to clamp hiring to "the cream of the crop" which is basically no one, while the other 2 outfits benefit from monopsony and an influx of cheaper talent they can make investments until their own situation gets dire, and let hiring breathe again. A sort of autoeconomic career cycle dysplasia.

Most of these jobs are only open if you went to college, decided 2 years in that you wanted to work at one of these joints, worked in a lab for 4 years to get your masters, had excellent grades, and your PI was a friend of a friend.

HR just assumes like 99% of the population is deranged.

meltyness··on In 1961 a Gallup poll showed only 33% of Americans in favor of moon landing
Marketing, M&A, and price?

See, it's a vicious cycle, the aggressive M&A strategy leads to a need to increase sales, which leads to a larger marketing budget, which finally trickles down in to the price. Now price is actually segmented itself, in terms of up-front elasticity and "walled-garden" elasticity, which Apple can monitor independently of device sales through marketing novelty through the app store and seeing if the nibbles are elastic onto services, say like Apple+. Historically they also have segmented product (XR, Pro XR) to get more data points for the degree of price elasticity, which is probably most responsive because they're the most expensive thing on the broad market.

meltyness··on Embattled physicist files patent for unprecedented ambient superconductor
APS Physics often promotes interesting papers which aren't clickbait.
meltyness··on Rise of pill-popping tech execs
This is all oddly specific.
meltyness··on Meta Quest+, Our New VR Subscription Service
This seems more like PlayStation Underground, like at the dawn of 3D. Probably sane, demos are great.
meltyness··on Sol Reader is a VR headset exclusively for reading books
Right, but aside from head tracking and asynchronous timewarp, one of the main innovations oculus brought to the table was the extremely high FOV of 106°.

If FOV at that resolution is a normal book, like 5-10° it's on par with like, a Kindle.

meltyness··on Moravec's Paradox
... I mean sure, if you require digital precision and reliability - had these guys not heard of a comparator?
meltyness··on Targeted attack on our management with the Triangulation Trojan
I reject this, but the thought makes me smile.
meltyness··on ‘They’re afraid their AIs will come for them’: Doug Rushkoff
This assertion regarding quality sounds like an appealing but probably wrong guess, like curse of dimensionality.
meltyness··on Nvidia’s Blowout Forecast Sparks $260B AI Rally
I don't think you can say that based on how many A100s you own. Perhaps with more A100s, you could confidently say what the PE should be, rather than simply claiming it's too high.
meltyness··on Big Tech Resumed Hiring Foreign Workers Just Weeks After Layoffs
Breaking: Google accidentally leaks all customer personal data to the blockchain, governments enacting forced breeding to support the product.
meltyness··on Vint Cerf’s career advice for engineers
This is a bad attitude, and doesn't acknowledge the importance of collaboration.

Now in a given position you may not have appropriate communications skills (or missed a memo, intent, constraint) but if you keep your criticisms objective and organized, this probably isn't a trap.

Leveraging some hard to address criticism in a public setting, too late, and viciously is very different from a timely, short, semi-private email. It's rule 1 of communication: know your audience.

meltyness··on White House announces new actions to promote responsible AI innovation
The AI Bill of Rights: https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/ai-bill-of-rights

  + Safe and Effective Systems
  -> What should be expected of automated systems
  --> Risk identification and mitigation
What they should really be focusing on is Hazard/Reliability engineering. "Risk" is too broad of a term for safety because it includes "economic harm" which ... well it's by decree.

  + Algorithmic Discrimination Protections
The only task these system perform is discrimination, and it's impossible to tell what the system can infer -- the Federal government will do anything to avoid naming the root causes of harmful inequality experienced by protected classes (and addressing that instead of holding a butter knife up to the neck of a shiny object).

  + Data Privacy
This is actually impossible without trust. Homomorphic encryption isn't a thing. This isn't happening.

  + Notice and Explanation
  -> Why this principle is important
Chicago kept a secret watch list of violence-prone individuals. https://chicago.suntimes.com/2017/5/18/18386116/a-look-insid... is this important? If it was derived from OSINT, and it was being used for public safety purposes why is the federal government meddling in it -- do they have a monopoly on secrets? They shouldn't, if the public safety of Chicago is to be seen.

edit: I'm not sure what the criticism is here in light of the Notice and Explanation requirement -- there was N&E at most 4y after the practice began -- and it wasn't really a gaffe, presumably such a risk assessment system is still being used. I guess the argument is that this should have been required, or made earlier?

  + Human Alternatives, Consideration, and Fallback
This is probably what we need more of at first, and then less of later -- once all these goofy flat "simple" decision models have been replaced.

Here's a clear drawing of the ideal system without all the pesky words: https://ibb.co/7KrgBk4

meltyness··on Richter: Quake Engine Rewritten in Rust
Probably only the

  unsafe
parts are GPLed.
meltyness··on Samsung Profits Plunge 95%
Intel doesn't really have a competing product.

AMD and Nvidia sell the same thing made at the same place in Taiwan.

Nvidia dove in like 1998. AMD sold it's moat in like, 2005.

meltyness··on SpaceX Starship Grounded Indefinitely by FAA
A modem isn't a phone.

A spacecraft isn't an aircraft.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/49/40102#a_6

meltyness··on How did my company found out that I shared confidential information online?
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-network-securit...
meltyness··on Congress gets 40 ChatGPT Plus licenses to start experimenting with generative AI
That it meets an intent.

"Take 3 hours of floor arguments and committee testimony, and identify compromises."

meltyness··on Tighter bounds on the expressivity of transformer encoders
Does this mean that transformers are most akin to rule-based expert systems with opaque (currently) statistically-devised rules?
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