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Recent Toyotas can have the DCM physically bypassed fairly easily by unplugging it and/or unplugging a fuse. You lose the front passenger speaker and bluetooth microphone, but those can be re-enabled with a bypass cable or manually jumpering them and putting in an 8v supply IC for the mic.

They clearly RLHF out the embarrassing cases and make cheating on benchmarks into a sport.

With LLMs being unable to count how many Bs are in blueberry, they clearly don't have any world model whatsoever. That addition (something which only takes a few gates in digital logic) happens to be overfit into a few nodes on multi-billion node networks is hardly a surprise to anyone except the most religious of AI believers.

Let's not forget that SamA's other business venture is creating the World's largest biometric database.

So it's all for sale the moment the VC money stops keeping that unprofitable company with overpaid engineers afloat.

After seeing someone I love tortured for weeks at a hospital primarily because every one of the doctors was convinced they knew better than her -- I'm very much on the 'we can do just fine on our own' train. Do some research, use good sources, let docs stop you from bleeding out if it comes to that.

It's more about the below minimum wage people harvesting, bottling for transport, transporting, then bottling for sale than the bees themselves. More intermediate steps to introduce contamination and more potentially contaminated sources all mixed together.

Awesome idea. Are you doing anything else in a similar vein?

> You don't want people steal your cargo while waiting for the traffic lights.

I'm glad I live somewhere I can't even fathom this happening.

Maybe it's always been this way and I just never noticed but at some point in the last ten years or so Samsung became synonymous with bottom of the barrel quality, while still charging premium prices. I won't buy anything with a samsung sticker on it, even used, because it's inevitably going to have failing electronics, stupid design decisions, too many half-baked features, and horrible buggy software/firmware. Your typical no-name alibaba whatever is likely to be at least on-par with anything Samsung puts out while costing less.

Even ignoring price, I can't think of a mainstream brand I consider worse from a quality perspective than Samsung. The only other brand I consider as bad is Sony, and that's more ideological than quality because of their shenanigans and contempt for their customers -- at least their hardware isn't almost across the board destined for the scrap heap. I've seen too many nearly new samsung appliances just die due to bad electronics and they want to charge nearly the cost of the appliance for a replacement circuit board.

On topic for audio -- I got a samsung receiver for $20 from the thrift store and while it sort of does the job of being an amplifier, everything else about it is horrible. Worst interface of any receiver I've used since the 80s, its easy to change a setting accidentally while being difficult to change it back, and it doesn't power back on after a power outage requiring me to manually press the (capacitive/touch) power button on it. Also that (TOUCH!) Power 'button' is right next to the volume knob so you accidentally touch it while changing the volume, shutting the receiver off. But booting it back up requires holding the (capacitive) button. A quick press makes it flash so you think it is booting but the joke is on you, you need to hold it. Also you have to hold it properly, because sometimes it simply fails to register so after holding it for a few seconds and it doesn't boot, you have to take your finger off and try again. It's a receiver and you can't even select an input -- you need to cycle through all of them one at a time. So the one connected to your TV starts blasting erectile dysfunction audio at boosted commercial volume through your speakers when you're just trying to switch to bluetooth so you can listen to some lo-fi. You can't even make this stuff up. It's a joke and I don't believe anyone involved cared one bit about making a decent product.

Only 80? Last time I went there it was going even faster but it's been years.

This makes the assumptions that:

A: The ticket was valid in the first place

B: The Speeding was reckless

I have a friend who got an entirely fabricated ticket claiming he was doing 80+ going uphill on an on-ramp in an early 90s toyota corolla with four people and four desktops + a couple of CRTs. We weren't going faster than ~35. Ticket said it was radar verified but he was sitting on his hood eating a sandwich.

Other times going the speed limit when traffic is going significantly faster is reckless (I'm looking at you, Atlanta). Cops in places like that love to ticket out of town/state plates.

If you have ever bought, sold, transported, held, or been alone in a room with a Gibson guitar you have been in violation of the Lacey Act.

Why would anyone trust you?

The best case scenario is that you lied about having people answer support. LLMs pretending to be people (you named it Sam!) and not labeled as such is clearly intended to be deceptive. Then you tried to control the narrative on reddit. So forgive me if I hit that big red DOUBT button.

Even in your post you call it "AI-assisted responses" which is as weaselly as it gets. Was it a chatbot response or was a human involved?

But 'a chatbot messed up' doesn't explain how users got locked out in the first place. EDIT: I see your comment about the race condition now. Plausible but questionable.

So the other possible scenario is that you tried to hose your paying customers then when you saw the blowback blamed it on a bot.

'We missed the mark' is such a trope non-apology. Write a better one.

I had originally ended this post with "get real" but your company's entire goal is to replace the real with the simulated so I guess "you get what you had coming". Maybe let your chatbots write more crap code that your fake software engineers push to paying customers that then get ignored and/or lied to when they ask your chatbots for help. Or just lie to everyone when you see blowback. Whatever. Not my problem yet because I can write code well enough that I'm embarrassed for my entire industry whenever I see the output from tools like yours.

This whole "AI" psyop is morally bankrupt and the world would be better off without it.

I have a friend who went to an allergist last week for sinus issues. They did a CT scan within 5 minutes of coming into the office.

While I agree with the sentiment --that couple's methods leave something to be desired.

The article makes it sound like they took a motor boat into a wilderness preserve? Motor vehicles are explicitly not allowed in those areas.

Also excluding dirt roads is a pretty bad criteria. A lot of GIS marked 'dirt roads' are natural animal trails or washes that have been around for hundreds/thousands of years.

You and I don't get to print money. Other classes do.

Replied to daavoo, can I suggest adding a tag for ML originated features? As other comments have stated, it is likely that these tools are already being used (potentially semi-automatically) and this could help prevent them from polluting the DB wholesale.

Can I suggest also adding a tag for ML originated features that's not specific to your demo/app? Maybe this can help put extra eyes on them and/or help prevent them from polluting the DB wholesale. Maybe client apps could have a toggle to allow/reject them.

For anyone else reading this, librera reader + sherpaTTS are both FOSS android apps and can read anything librera can open on an ad-hoc basis, with no need to futz with files, just load your ebook bookmark and hit play.

SherpaTTS has a bunch of different models (piper/coqui) with a ton of voices/languages. There's a slight but tolerable delay with piper high models but low is realtime.

Singularity Sky

Nine Billion Names of God

Hopefully the user has the same freedoms to style things how they would like.

> we're now at the point where even authentic recordings could be plausibly denied and claimed to be fake.

We've been there for at least two years.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/judge-slams-tesl...

Perfectly spherical cows.

Left pad.

> And they're all necessary

No. No they aren't.

> Is there any practical reason why this is better than a spring?

People are propagandized to pay more money for them, then do it again when they break.

Learning is a perfectly fine end in itself.

Everyone's in violation. A society where everyone obeys every law is a society of robots.

Not so much a 'why' but it does have a good history of the user-hostile moves Mozilla has made. https://digdeeper.club/articles/mozilla.xhtml

Librewolf seems to be the best. https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/