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The irony of this shit ass site loading at a glacial pace lol

How about when you're not on an Apple product?

5. Put the malicious payload directly into work AI system.

"Great instincts!" lmao

Burying the lede here - your solution for avoiding using vector search is either offloading to 1) user, expecting them to remember the right terms or 2) using LLM to craft the search query? And having it iterate multiple times? Holy mother of inefficiency, this agentic focus is making us all brain dead.

Vector DB's and embeddings are dead simple to figure out, implement, and maintain. Especially for a local RAG, which is the primary context here. If I want to find my latest tabular notes on some obscure game dealing with medical concepts, I should be able to just literally type that. It shouldn't require me remembering the medical terms, or having some local (or god forbid, remote) LLM iterate through a dozen combos.

FWIW I also think this is a matter of how well one structures their personal KB. If you follow strict metadata/structure and have coherent/logical writing, you'll have better chance of getting results with text matching. For someone optimizing for vector space search, and minimizing the need for upfront logical structuring, it will not work out well.

So much winning!

Humanity just doesn't ever learn. Europe will end up having draconian oversight and censorship that will be abused beyond belief by fascists. When some central entity--subject to the whims of political temperature--controls what you can access, there can be no trust in the durability and integrity of information. Same as in the US really, except there being executed to support the nascent regime without any liberal auspices.

Allow/deny list, hope that helps.

The insanity of trying to shoehorn everything into emacs, even calling it an OS, is purely beyond.

Yeah, this cacophony of clacks is being recreated at my office by every other eng using a diabolical mechanical keyboard with no respect for the ears of their neighbors.

You'd get the spirit roasted out of you at any FAANG (at least, back when people gave a shit) if you ever sent out a change review with such a dumbass comment.

"Absolutisms are a sign of a bad engineer"

Oh the tasty irony.

What's more depressing is this was completely predictable, totally avoidable, but half the country welcomed this wave of oppression with open arms.

Have you checked out the reception to Devin last week? The only thing it's going after is being another notch on the leaderboard of scams, right next to the Rabbit R1.

Please don't use zero-based footnote citations, people will assume 1 is the first one (because that is the standard in like, all of literature) and muscle-memory click the first link when reading and have to then figure out that you are doing a non-standard thing.

Because it is

IA has been under attack and has gone down for weeks recently. At this point it's a bit silly to place much faith in it as a perpetual store.

Nice try LLM, but we can't teach you to think (yet).

Or just use fibers and avoid icky futures.

GP? What happened to the good old "OP"?

Doesn't look anything like the Lucas arts adventure game, I fear.

Hands off is probably a bad approach here.

One of my roommates in college got addicted to League of Legends. He'd play it all day long, skip classes, not study, etc.. I don't remember what happened exactly but his mom had to get involved and I think he spent some time back at home (detoxing maybe from constant gaming?) before coming back and being better (even apologized for being the way he was, it's easy to realize how crazy it can get when your on the other side).

Basically, get him out of an environment where gaming is freely available. If not that, at least keep contact and keep the pressure up so that they at least have some influence against the tide.

He's 19, a child who just a year or two ago still lived at home... don't think of yourself as powerless and take the action needed to get him to snap back. Hopefully he's receptive.

EDIT: I think people here who think this is fine are just assuming this is a typical kid gaming at school. If this is seemingly so bad that the OP is going on here, I'd err on the side of the parent having a legitimate concern rather than some helicoptering, especially since it's easy to fall into this trap with a developing mind and in a new environment.

Gotta love the generic LLM generated description

Would love to see examples of these "powerful applications" built in "minutes or hours" by "AI engineers".

"Instant dismissal of anything challenging the LLM dogma" - check "Moving the goalposts" - check "AI is already better than humans in every way" - check

It's comical how rote and basic the defensive script always is.

When was the last time you got a TV, 2001? Every TV is a smart TV now, that's table stakes.

Arachnophobes beware

Do y'all just like, ignore SLO's? Cloud SQL has a 99.95% SLO, going down for multiple minutes every month is within that. No smoke and mirrors here, there are ways to mitigate it but it's not Google messing around with expectations. HA doesn't mean 100% uptime.

Sorry for your losses, that is really tough. I appreciate you sharing, it resonated with me. My mom's dad passed away two days ago and in the last two weeks before death a stroke destroyed his ability to speak. Nowhere near the level of locked in but terrible in its own way.

Death really is grim, I haven't had much exposure to it in my life up until losing two grandparents this year - holding my mother as she sobbed was heartbreaking.

I can't help but contrast the idyllic memories I have of my grandparents when I was young and the world was so bright and wonderful to the feelings of dread and sadness now. As if a layer of darkness has been laid over my perception of the world. It feels like hapiness and joy, things I used to find intrinsic to life, are now fleeting constructs that we build in spite of the inevitable. Maybe this is the difference between a youthful perception of the world and a mature one.

This seems like a convoluted method to achieve the end goal, straight up regex parsing pages seems like a last ditch effort not the up front start.

I went to state school and do consulting at a B4 - you're right on the money, consulting (especially at Big 4 level) isn't sexy. MBB is a league sexier though, but gets beat out by PE and some good spots at the FAANGs