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This is what the internet is for! (it's for all the other useful, valuable, life-saving stuff too)

Probably Nintendo is suing on the catching mechanic which is pretty much the same in both games. In Palworld, the player has a team of Pals and, in order to catch a new Pal, they must fight and after some damage throw a catching ball at the right moment. Could someone patent a monster catching mechanic, anyway?

The reply was it didn't break any policy.

What is the policy, as long as you pay and don't do anything outright offensive, it's all fair game?

While this must be an incredible technical achievement for the team, as a simple user I will only see value when Google ships a product that's better than OpenAI's, and that's yet to be seen.

It's not like that's something new or exclusive to tech, right? Coke had cocaine and cigarettes were physician tested and approved. We should have learned from those things but we didn't, and so history will rhyme.

I can't speak about Google at all, but this line: if you’re not in the room when decisions are made you don’t know how the company works

Is great and true, thank you.

this changes everything (if it's true)

Beazley is one of the masters and his other books are great. My nitpick here is that, as in any other language, the basics are there forever and the advanced features/techniques get old and replaced every now and then.

Creating a problem and selling the solution, a classical politician's move.

I used to really like Gandi. I still have a t-shirt with their #no_bullshit slogan that's from 2015-16. It's been a couple of years since I stopped having any need for their services, and its sad to see them dropping the ball like this.

People don't see it being this revolutionary because they don't know how to use it. My wife (literary translator) my close friends (2 doctors and one business executive) and myself are seeing massive gains in productivity by using simple prompt techniques such as chain-of-thought. Heck, my cardiologist friend from one of the country's top hospitals is writing a book with chatgpt. It's there and it's great, and will only get easier to use, smarter, faster etc.

+1 for Pix. It's great, amazing that the Brazil Central Bank pulled that off, it's better than what people have in most developed countries.

As a customer, I want the best product, not the best LLM. The race is far from over and it's not just about having the biggest model in the room.

Thank you for the insights. Realistically, how long do you think it's going to be before small businesses (for example, retailers or small warehouses and manufacturers) start using robots like the Boston Dynamics products in their day to day workflows?

I don't disagree your second paragraph, I'm just curious - can you elaborate more on why is that?

If someone I didn't grant access broke (in a very smart way) into my house, turned on the lights for a minute and then left, I'd still be pissed and would call it illegal.

I too don't like to use the title Engineer lightly, but what would be a good title for someone who's job is building and maintaining chains of prompts that perform X,Y,Z in a system? Developer? The comparison with search engines is naive since those are made for end users and LLMs are a piece of software that are a part of a bigger solution.

I don't think there's a silver bullet. The % for each macro - if it's a low carb or high fat or high protein really depend on the individual and the specific needs. My wife for example can't go on low carb or she'll have major headaches even after the "adaptation period", while I don't even get minor headaches. Also the amount of fat may vary, high fat diets tend to be better for overweight people while healthy people are OK with more balanced diets. The most important things are defining an objective and understanding how your own body works. My current diet was made for slowly losing body fat (mild caloric deficit) and it's like this: Breakfast: whole milk, oats, whey protein, flaxseed and chia seeds. Lunch: brown rice, vegetables, meat (steak twice a week, chicken or fish the other days) Afternoon snack: 2 boiled eggs Dinner: lunch without rice. It works for me but the whole milk and the steaks are really bad for some people.

Quick question, why was the UK selected for this process? Also, Microsoft was directly involved in very successful games such as AoE, Flight Simulator, Dungeon Siege and Fable. I understand the management's desire to acquire every other IP in the industry but they really should focus on making their own stuff.

Would love to give it a look but there's no Android support.

The skeptical side of me is screaming "just now that the big techs face disruption, this comes up!"

I also have this feeling of "everyone is doing the same thing, a GUI for chatgpt with some prepared prompts". The thing is, it's too risky and too soon for bigger issues to be tackled. It will take quite some time before LLMs provide medical and financial advice, if they ever will.

I'm excited about this project, it's very refreshing to see that the source of inspiration is R/tidyverse instead of Python/Pandas.

Burning witches? Call me a radical but I can't help but notice the name of the company is OpenAI, but it's not open at all!

I'm Christian and that's the first thing I noticed about the Url. "Go INRI? Cool" was my reaction.

I'm against a TikTok ban and here's why: if user-level data collection and fingerprinting are wrong, ban that. If algorithms to show certain things for certain people are wrong, then ban that too. If a company being owned by a foreign entity who is a "frenemy" at the eyes of the military, then sure, ban it. If US social networks are banned in country X, then ban X's social networks in the US. Again, that's Ok. But those are rules made for any company in any place, not just TikTok. Just banning TikTok now seems more like making some convenient excuses for doing what some folks already wanted to do anyway as soon as TikTok started getting their cookies and slices of ad revenue and media relevancy.

This. Some folks will spend their lives trying to find faster horses and build lighter carriages, and all is good and well until someone shows up with a car.

The price of democracy in a region or organization is the minority of votes not getting the result they want and only that. Nothing to do with privacy. Not having privacy is a consequence of authoritarianism, be it for a greater good (to find child abusers) or not (to find dissidents).

If I lived in the EU I'd want to know who are proposing this kind of stuff and help with anything that gets them far from public and government -related jobs forever, but hey, that's me. Lots of people like to give up a bit of freedom and privacy in exchange for an increased sense of security.

Most food packaging is made with aluminium. Aluminium is down 30% YoY but up 50% in the past 3 years. It's been a wild ride for manufacturers and they increased prices to handle this. Same with energy, the average cost is 50% up from ~3 years ago. Not just electricity that powers up the factories, but the oil for everything logistics.

If you're Unilever/P&G/Nestlé, what do you do? You start cutting costs (less/worse materials - that's called skimpflation), total production volumes or less volume per product (shrinkflation). You also are not as inclined as before to give out promotions and benefits. The good old "pay 1 take 2" is now "pay 1 take half". Retailers get squeezed because they can't just pass the whole price raise down to the end customer, so they suck it up a little and get less profits. They also had more operational costs, so they get screwed (mostly the people working there). The smaller ones may shut down or get M&A'd, the big ones survive.

To make matters worse, the world is simply unpredictable right now. Post-covid you would expect some categories would go up (deodorants, for example), but then you have a war in Ukraine and a global rise in interest rates. When managers can't predict they go with the worst-case scenarios in their pricing strategies, reinforcing all that's bad.

Personally, I'm saving what I can, investing in inflation-indexed bonds and the occasional "buy the dip" for some select stocks, freezing cooked foods with a month in advance, and being very cautious with any job movements. I hope I'm wrong but I believe that will be the way to go for at least a year, if not more.