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Presumably, without intent (based on sibling comments), the victims would need to sue for damages due to gross negligence.

Setting aside the merits of DEI, this anecdote isn't indicative of it. I recall a client getting HP to do a security audit of a site I was working on, and it absolutely read like a committee put together a checklist of every possible thing they could think of. They flagged that user sessions weren't pinned to IP addresses, despite this being right around the time that cell phones became popular and their suggested remediation would have caused users who were riding on a bus between cell towers to get logged out while they were using the site.

There were plenty of even less useful flags, but that one stood out to me for some reason.

"Checklist security" has been a thing for ages.

So long as the percentage of people who live in a home they own is high, there's not a great reason to care about owner occupancy.

You're just using it as a proxy for people owning homes. It's not a given that the two numbers are always opposed.

"Slavery was about racism and power and control" is very much not universal. Slavery existed (at varying scales) around the entire world for much of human history for a variety of things. Sometimes, as in US history, there was typically a racial difference between owners and slaves, other times it was a difference of conquered and conquering peoples, and other times it didn't have anything to do with race at all.

Race might be a decent analogue to the difference between human actors and sentient AI, but I suspect work animals (plow horses, etc) would be a better analogy.

Back in the day, a contract company I worked for had entire teams of people dedicated to building FB apps. When that collapsed, it came down fast and hard.

If Qwen 3 Coder were available as a PCI card I could just slot into my desktop, and the software on the system could recognize the card and still work with other cards should I decide I later want to upgrade to Qwen 5 or whatever, and at a three figure price point, I imagine it would do quite well.

The comparison I've seen elsewhere is the old console systems with separate cartridges for games... I wouldn't want to be regularly swapping them, but if they came out in a form factor that didn't require me to shell out multiple-4 digit figures in upgrades just to use the next model, it'd easily be worth it for me.

I've already got a home lab, and it's specced to last, minus the GPU. I picked up a separate system for local llm experimentation, but I'm not likely to be upgrading it again. The value add is incredibly small compared to the cost. The real benefits are data privacy and never worrying about rate limits, and there's a price point beyond which an incremental improvement to the model doesn't justify upgrading the system.

Kid gets two options: hand over the phone, or sent to the principle's office. Parent can pick them up and the kid can come back without the device the next day.

Same effect, a difference with only a nominal distinction.

It absolutely worked in my school a little over 20 years ago. Teachers and staff always took away disallowed devices and that set the tone quite well.

I'm glad I read your comment, I missed that it intentionally gracefully degraded and assumed it was broken, as I'd forgotten I'd set that.

Did it really exist? I remember buying games on discs as a kid that had bugs in them that prevented you from actually finishing the game at all.

I'm pretty sure "built to last" was only ever more true in specific contexts, and wasn't particularly more true than today.

You're moving the goal post here. The parent never mentioned anything about the Chinese models themselves being dangerous or harmful; that's a totally different topic.

The point they were making was that the most successful open models- those coming out of China- are made my companies that are using those open models to get exposure in Western markets. The goal is to undercut the Western dominant players, not out of any particular "open source" philosophy, so it wouldn't be wise to expect them to continue providing open models long term.

It could, but exposing that would doom the company entirely, and AI doesn't generate code with near the quality needed to get a model to mass adoption, insert malicious underhanded code, ensure that consistently looks innocuous enough to never be noticed, and- most importantly- actually exfiltrate data without being noticed. Once it is noticed, it's game over across the board.

web/internet in 90s and smartphones in late 2000s. Back in those times, the tech industry was far, far smaller

huge parts of people's lives are mediated by one of a half dozen companies

The latter point is doing a lot of heavy lifting because the first point is whitewashing history. Back in the 90's, you had exactly one cable TV provider, one phone provider, maybe one or two cell phone providers if you could afford one, and your internet options were limited to either your cable TV provider or your landline phone provider for DSL, or AOL if you were really unfortunate.

You probably had one trash / sanitation provider, one choice of place to send your kids to school (unless you went the religious school route or could afford a private school, assuming one was nearby). You had one option for getting your mail delivered. One choice for policing, for fire protection and other emergency services, etc. Having only a few options has been a pretty big part of a lot of daily life.

The internet felt more wild and free, because there weren't too many places to go, and most people didn't go there. The internet didn't shrink, but people who started going online went all went to the same places, so all the growth went... where people actually wanted to go.

What about the parent comment implied Tokyo or Osaka residence?

Neither podman nor docker will help you when the current directory is your home directory, though. It sounds like that's the root problem here- someone handed the keys to the kingdom to grok, and grok did what grok does, which is look at everything it can for context.

To fight pedantry with pedantry, I refer you again to my comment, which points out that exception no longer exists, and the original claim, which is in present tense.

As you might note in that link, the states already had their own speed limit laws in place, and that the national limit was later repealed. Thus, the speed limit laws are not in place to reduce gas usage.

What truth? The whole article is absurd. Speed limits exist to reduce fatalities, not reduce inequality. Road speed limits in my area have been increasing, not decreasing, as road designs have improved. Distance didn't scale with speed either - the West was settled well before the automobile.

Tracking humans isn't necessary. Fingerprinting is necessary to tracking humans.

This is The Register we're talking about. Of course it is heavily editorialized, that's half their schtick.

This is very much an N=1 anecdote from a friend, but his manager has basically doubled velocity expectations for the team at his company over the last year. Everyone has to use Claude code because that's the only model they're allowed to use, and not using it means not hitting the arbitrary expectations.

Conversely, the company I am at has no such expectations, and we've got a legacy code base that LLMs aren't very handy in anyway.

The commercial viability is orthogonal to whether it achieves AGI, which is effectively what "reproducing the human brain" amounts to in this discussion.

Fable 5 doesn't represent anything new, other than scale and some refinement techniques, over the original LLMs. In the chase for AGI specifically, LLMs are a dead end, just like all the other AI technologies that died in the AI winter.

What priors should be updated?

6G will have worse physical penetration than 5G, which makes it worthless in rural areas where 5G is already severely inhibited by tree leaves.

PS3's, prior to the otheros block, were turned into supercomputers in quite a few labs. The US Air Force had the 33rd fastest 'supercomputer' by building a networked cluster of them at one point. Doing this was substantially cheaper than actually purchasing a similarly powerful actual supercomputer.

The hack allowed users to continue using them as such, though to what extent that persisted I don't actually know.

Most people use esbuild or swc or oxc instead of the typescript compiler directly specifically because of how slow tsc is.

In fact tsc was slow enough that it was rewritten into a different language for version 7, with the performance of the compiled output as the primary motivation.

For tattoos, if the artist isn't using a brand new set of needles for you, you risk bloodborne disease transmission, with hepatitis B being a particular danger.

They aren't part of the executive branch, period. The president has no control over their pay or performance. Hell, the president doesn't have nearly as much control over the executive branch as you imply, however much he might want it.

Actually immigrating to Canada is quite a bit harder, from what I've heard.

One of my grandfather's favorite jokes whenever we visited was to yell across the house that guests had arrived, and to add some more water to the soup.

Of course, my grandmother was a farmer all her life before I was born, so she was always making far too much food (nobody ever left hungry was a mark of pride) but it took some growing up before I really contemplated the kind of life that joke would have come from.

And yes, always had soup going.