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mozilla used to: https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/blog/privacy-nightmare-...

The barn swallows we have around here will do that too. Really annoys the cats. I dont know if they kick or grab fur; but the cats will suddenly flinch and look up. Super acrobatic birds, I love watching them.

But google already has their tpus?

"when events are represented in memory, contextual information is stored along with memory targets; the context can therefore cue memories containing that contextual information" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context-dependent_memory

Here are the ads in case anyone else was wondering: https://bmoutdoor.com/info/artisan-stop-hiring-humans-ai-cam...

How well tested would you say these libraries are? It doesn't sound promising, sadly. If there are comprehensive test suites, that would go a long way to ensuring new, faster tools arent producing subtly wrong answers. That's a pretty big deal, just because the code compiles or there is no exception thrown doesnt mean the analysis was correct.

According to ABET they do if they want the degree to be accredited. We had two classes for my SE degree. From Criterion 3. Student Outcomes:

"2. an ability to apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors." "4. an ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts."

https://www.abet.org/accreditation/accreditation-criteria/cr...

Well there was the incident at Amazon[1]: "Amazon just did something unprecedented: they're forcing a 90-day safety reset across 335 critical systems after their AI coding tool caused catastrophic outages. The March 5th incident alone lost 6.3 million orders and triggered 21,716 peak Downdetector reports"

And two at Meta[2]: "A rogue AI agent at Meta took action without approval and exposed sensitive company and user data to employees who were not authorized to access it"

"director of alignment at Meta Superintelligence Labs, described a different but related failure in a viral post on X last month. She asked an OpenClaw agent to review her email inbox with clear instructions to confirm before acting. The agent began deleting emails on its own."

Even Elon Musk has shared the wisdom to proceed with caution! [3]

1. https://dev.to/tyson_cung/amazon-lost-63m-orders-after-ai-co... 2. https://venturebeat.com/security/meta-rogue-ai-agent-confuse... 3. https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2031352859846148366

Using this logic, all of the homeless people are counter signaling then. And there are plenty of executives who wear suits. Also signaling has one l, so thus you are signaling your importance.

Or maybe you just can't assume you know what's going on inside someone else's head.

I wouldnt jump to conclusions too fast. I'm a very thin person, but I get a lot of ads for GLP-1. My doctors have always said I need to gain weight, so I can assure you I'm not searching for weight loss solutions. Nor am I diabetic.

the relevant text is near the bottom, under Results: Cargo screening As required by the 9/11 Act, 100 percent of all cargo transported on passenger aircraft departing U.S. airports is now screened commensurate with screening of passenger checked baggage. International inbound air cargo is more secure than it has ever been, with 100 percent of identified high risk cargo being screened. CBP now screens 100 percent of southbound rail shipments for illegal weapons, drugs, and cash, has expanded Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) coverage to the entire Southwest border and completed 651 miles of fencing. CBP has deployed Radiation Portal Monitors and other radiation detection technologies to seaports, land border ports, and mail facilities around the world. In 2003, these systems scanned only 68 percent of arriving trucks and passenger vehicles along the Northern border, no systems were deployed to the Southwest border, and only one was deployed to a seaport. Today, these systems scan 100 percent of all containerized cargo and personal vehicles arriving in the U.S. through land ports of entry, as well as over 99 percent of arriving sea containers.

Have you tried microwaving it for 10-15 seconds? I havent tried this with sourdough, but it works with stale white bread.

They aren't really scheduling though. They can feel when their udders get full. It actually can be painful if you don't milk them on time. Its comparable to eating or drinking, they go eat when they feel hunger. It is pretty cool that they learn to associate the machine though, its not like it smells the way food does, or like there is any instinct involved.

>lots of human-translated passages in their corpus

Yes. I remember reading that the EU parliamentary proceedings in particular are used to train machine translation models. Unfortunately, I cant remember where I read that. I did find the dataset: https://paperswithcode.com/dataset/europarl

I think "well before the personal computer showed up in the geological record" is a bit of hyperbole, but it is not a new phenomenon:

"We find that despite short-term fluctuations, partisanship or non-cooperation in the U.S. Congress has been increasing exponentially for over 60 years with no sign of abating or reversing"

"Partisanship has been attributed to a number of causes, including the stratifying wealth distribution of Americans [2]; boundary redistricting [3]; activist activity at primary elections [4]; changes in Congressional procedural rules [5]; political realignment in the American South [6]; the shift from electing moderate members to electing partisan members [7] movement by existing members towards ideological poles [8]; and an increasing political, pervasive media [9]."

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

"The boom and bust cycle is a process of economic expansion and contraction that occurs repeatedly. The boom and bust cycle is a key characteristic of capitalist economies and is sometimes synonymous with the business cycle." [1] Somewhat similar is the bullwhip effect[2], although there isnt a long supply chain for labor.

1. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/boom-and-bust-cycle.asp 2. https://www.investopedia.com/bullwhip-effect-definition-5499...

I've heard it called engineer's syndrome. "You start believing that since you're an excellent engineer in one specialty, then you're a friggin' genius in everything you do, because it's all the same, really" [0]

It apparently affects physicists too, and must be common enough to warrant two xkcds. [1][2]

0. https://web.archive.org/web/20071226220909/http://www.pcmag.... 1. https://xkcd.com/1831/ 2. https://xkcd.com/793/

Cats can smell those scent markings though. They do also mark their territory in other ways. Our cats really do the rubbing thing during feeding, so i think they are trying to mark their territory, lol.

I remember in math class in high school, we had a project where we analyzed hours of tv watching per day. Quite a few people watched like 6 hours of tv a day. I'd say its been heavily skewed towards consuming for a while. I would also say that gaming and watching streams can have a social aspect too, though that depends. If anything there is more of a social aspect? At least for me I talk to people on twitch regularly.

"VW executive given the maximum prison sentence for his role in Dieselgate"

https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/6/16743308/volkswagen-olive...

I'm not sure there's going to be a lot. I think people will catch on.

"Federal Judge Kevin Castel is considering punishments for Schwartz and his associates. In an order on Friday, Castel scheduled a June 8 hearing at which Schwartz, fellow attorney Peter LoDuca, and the law firm must show cause for why they should not be sanctioned."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/lawyer-cited-6-f...

US here, I can't see it either. I noticed the tweet mentions European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), is this EU only?

I do think the underlying point is a good one however. It wouldnt be surprising that ai researchers read hn, and other tech related social media. I also believe OpenAI are also storing prompts and responses. They should be able to make embeddings of all prompts and cluster them. When they see popular prompts that are failing, they could easily add the problem, solution, and reasoning to the training data. We also know they are constantly fine tuning and releasing new versions of models.

> Despite growing revenue, it lost $84 million over the year ending on March 31, 2023

Its not possible to run a business that loses $84 million. You will run out of money.

"I’ve wondered about a system that augments data with units dynamically"

F#'s units of measure do this! Though the compiler checks it, so it's static, not dynamic.

https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/units-of-measure/

iiuc, flywheels would slow down/lose energy over time due to friction. They might be useful for smoothing out peaks, ie when clouds pass over a solar farm. But for longer term storage, arent batteries better?

The US isnt listed on either of the Key Data graphs? Clicking read online, and browsing to section 2.2, it seems the US doesnt fare too well in figure 2.1 (The share of people who sometimes, rarely or never get an answer from their regular doctor’s office on the same day varies by more than two-fold across countries), but does much better in figure 2.2(The share of people waiting one month or more for a specialist appointment is two-times greater in some countries than in others). I dont see the US listed in any of the other figures?

https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/242e3c8c-en/1/3/2/index....

How do you know it didnt break when you closed it? Or when you opened it?

Hope a website will work, assuming your trip is not too imminent :)

https://simplifier.neocities.org/index.html

This was a good blog post and discussion of someone working full time in VR.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28678041