Quarrel

These cases are so weird.

The share price fell, so lawyers race to the courthouse to file a class action suit, because there is a first-to-file doctrine for these types of cases.

Then they don't necessarily try and prove harm, they just want to settle & get paid for their own inflated costs.

Meanwhile, the people that they are supposedly representing, ie shareholders at the time of the fall, are overwhelimingly still shareholders. So any payout they get is from their own proportion of money they already own in the company, minus legal fees.

It does however screw foreign holders and a few other classes of shareholders, to the benefit of the lawyers, and to lower the loss the shareholders take by getting their own money back.

Sure, but does voting for DAs with a high conviction rate get you any closer to solving these problems?

My guess is that it does not.

It cops hate because people try to pass off LLM written text as their own, then get pissed when called out on it.

If you just want good llm text, it’s great.

Waiting on Limerick to drop.

Right?

Like, I used to, but it was in the early 1990s.. People look at them now?

Next I'll be asking people to finger me to get my availability ..

and I thought I was old..

My Dad worked for Honeywell in the 70s, in Australia.

tbh, I just google'd them and they're still in the Nasdaq-100, 100k employees .. damn. I'm not sure of when I last heard of them.

I still think of them as old school punch cards and reels of tapes.

What are they? Are there papers on this?

I was amazed equatorial / tropical glaciers are much of a thing.

A sad search later:

"projected to vanish entirely in late 2026 or 2027"

They're at 4600m in elevation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carstensz_Glacier

They've apparently disappeared and returned a few times since the last iceage.

FWIW, I quite enjoyed this write up of it, and the state of AI investment at the moment. It doesn't entirely dwell on the blowup, but I found it worth the read:

https://xcancel.com/porterstansb/status/2083606266388029691

(I also enjoyed the meandering in to Amex and Wells & Fargo's founding stories)

It would be about as bad, although nothing, AFAIK, actually systematically sends it as telemetry.

This GDID is essentially a similar concept though, but not as hardware tied, but is reported in telemetry.

FWIW, YogaDNS stops these bypasses if you tick a settings box ("Block plain DNS over TCP from System Resolver"). Or use similar DNS forcing techniques against port 53.

Windows falls back to the normal resolver in that case.

Indeed, I think this is the correct take.

If they'd done their VPN/dirty work in a linux VM/container, with the VPN running in that, they'd have been fine.

Clean-them would have had their GDID on their normal ISP IP or equivalent, and Dirty-them would have had everything through the VPN from their no-telemetry dirty-host.

They took the slavery / serf distinction seriously in the Slavic world. While the distinctions might have mattered in the 1800s, by any modern-slavery standard the serfs were slaves, as you rightly say.

Whatever we might now think with hindsight of the communist revolution in Russia, if ever there was a country primed for the peasants to rise up against the ruling class, it was Russia.

Russia might have been a land of art, music, dance and literature, but you were pretty fucked if you weren't in the 20%.

FWIW I think Acemoglu writes very well & I loved his book "Why Nations Fail" for introducing lots of interesting ideas to me, while also helping me understand my own (non-failed) society better.

conductor.build is Mac only ..

and, as the articles points out, it is literally out of copyright.

For profit journals need to die.

The earliest Roman records of Slavs are of the Veneti, who lived in roughly western Ukraine, Belarus, south-east Poland.

Very much in Europe.

Then, like now, they were the people east of the German speakers.

TFA:

    npx pagecast publish "/absolute/path/report.html" --password "your-password" --json
    npx pagecast publish "/absolute/path/report.html" --no-password --json   # remove it

Ah, thanks, yeah, I just looked it up.

I had no idea.

Mistral have moved to actually trying to make money, and been relatively successful; at least if we lived in a normal world.

They've got a heap of contractors working to help industry adopt LLMs. It is just classic consulting work, and they'd look like a really great company if we weren't comparing them to literal $2T+ companies losing money hand-over-fist...

Everytime I see people talking about the length of their coastlines ...

Look at how long this edge of my fractal is, Ma!

err?

afaik Bellard never had any beef with Burger Becky. Both are legendary programmers, but somewhat different eras.

I have no idea what you're suggesting.

I basically was ready to come on and make a snarky comment like this. "I wrote one in the '90s!".

and then I saw the examples, and the feature set. I particularly like the blender-to-Luz export.

It seems great. Good luck to OP.

how are you sourcing your proxies?

the vast majority seems to be pretty unethical, and many of those that aren't overtly so, seem to not always be nice.

There are decent reasons people want to KYC residential proxy users ...

Of course it can. They can license the code for use under almost any terms they like, including restricting how you use the code.

The GPL imposes conditions on your use of the code / program, as does the MIT License. If you don't follow the conditions then you do not have a license to use the program / code & are open to claims of copyright infringement.

You might choose to ignore the licenses on the code you use, but it certainly isn't a great idea in a commercial context (and in your personal projects probably just a moral dilemma). Although, sadly, I'm not sure any of the many public GPL violations have really "cost" the companies that did them all that much.

Edit: I guess you're saying, yes, you can just go ahead and use it. Which I guess is the position large LLM training corpuses have taken ..

> The Chinese models are censored (too?).

This is MUCH less of an issue if they're providing the weights though.

They can still be fine-tuned & ablated.

Which is quite the contrast to Mercedes new axial flux electric motor, which goes all in on rare earths- the design relies on the highest end high-grade permanent magnets.

Still, presumably Mercedes ambitions are for few motors than BMW or Renault.

I'm a Terence Tao fan, but yes, OpenAI should at the very least just be telling him to go crazy with the latest models on our dime.

I liked this article because it helped me understand the javacript engine flow better than I had.

The rust flow is so much more natural to me.

I moved to the UK in 2016.

The public sector, simple, no frills, accessible, no flashy graphics, websites were a massive eye-opener.

They just worked. They had a job. They did it. I wasn't going to buy more from them because of it, and they didn't care. It was great.

I've heard that recently they've dismantled the centralised team that wrote all the rules, enforced it, and started moving to decentralised hosting, but so far the whole still seems to hold to together really well. I think, I hope, they have embedded the expectation that the local council, the tax office, your visa status, etc, should just be utilitarian in nature, and work for everyone.

I worry how long it will last...