I can't help but hate that OLED has been replaced by LCD. I actually sold my Quest 2 and kept the 1 just because of this despite the 2 being better in virtually every other metric. I guess I'll have to wait and see how the 3 LCD compares. Note: I primarily use the Quest for streaming from my PC and low graphic games so I could live with the other tradeoffs. I would paid more for an OLED version of the 2 or 3 so I would eat the cost.
Sometimes I ponder creating a story about how different groups trying to infiltrate groups actually become the group itself. Like undercovers trying to prove to the group they belong but are actually just trying to one-up other undercovers from other organizations. Idk if I'm explaining that well enough or not.
Unfortunately this article is really just speculation. No official press release or statement from the actual organization. It certainly looks bad. But I'll reserve full judgement until they release their side. But overall it's an interesting current event of society and technology.
Republicans don't all not support climate change just because they don't believe it. Sure some don't believe it. But there's also those that believe it's not going to work out well to adopt aggressive climate saving measures if industrial and military rival nations don't also adopt the same measures.
I toggle around with the idea that the system is designed or heavily influenced to be like this to benefit the big-industries and rich people. Have talent but need money? Work for big industry. Have money and can afford to stay in school? Get some patents and get more rich. I know this is a bit tin foil hat-ish.
My spouse is a polymer chemist for a large company. They spend tons of time trying things that don't make it to final products. Even if they produce a product which has the desired properties in a stable creation and application environment, it often fails in variations of the original creation or application environment. Essentially chemistry machine learning requires a complex physical feedback system feeding it tons of data to work. The large amounts of intricate physical data compiled in uniform data layouts required to feed machine learning models probably doesn't exist.
It's funny I'm being downvoted. Probably out of a sense that I'm ignorant. Yet I've worked on large data labeling teams. And if you think anyone outside of the military is paying for very large native English speaking teams to label data I got a bridge to sell you. No one outside of special projects are paying large teams the wages of first world country standard.
If its detecting non-native English as GPT produced then wouldnt that mean GPT is modeled on non-native English to produce similar outputs? If it is NOT detecting native English as GPT produced then wouldn't that mean it's showing up different than the training data outputs?
Definitely the culture has changed as tech has become a mainstream career path. Also I think there used to be a sense of the "wild west" where you could push the boundaries while hacking and get away with it. Now someone smart enough to hack is probably smart enough to realize how much of their activities are logged somewhere.
I have experienced this on both nix and MacOS. Increasing the font size gives the benefits of the high resolution display desktop space without making the text uncomfortably small. Scaling the display makes the desktop space feel like you're downgrading the resolution of the whole display.
Within a few decades there will probably be technology that would allow a semi-dedicated person to engineer and create a vaccine or medical treatment from scratch if the code was available online. Do you think that's a good idea?
Your post conveniently ignores the current state of China's AI development but mentions Russia and North Korea. That's an interesting take. There's no guarantee that we are or will continue to be one or even two steps ahead. And what keeps the groups with rifles you mentioned in check? They already have the capability to fight with violence. But there currently exists a counter-balance in the fact they'll get shot at back if they tried to use them. Not trying to take a side here one way or the other. I think there are real fears here. But I also don't think it's this black and white either.
Is military capable AI in the hands of few militaries safer than in the hands of many? Or is it more likely to be used to bully other countries who don't have it? If it is used to oppress, would we want the oppressed have access to it? Or do we fear that it gives too much advantage to small cells of extremist to carry out their goals? I can think of pros and cons to both sides.
I had a family member who used to educate people on recycling. Growing up it was a major fact that styrofoam was a forever material that would never biodegrade and couldn't be recycled. Today there are methods to recycle styrofoam (albeit just like all recycling it takes people and resources to take the effort to do it, which is the real barrier). I don't think being reckless with our future is a good idea. But history is full of past norms being changed by new scientific discoveries.
Update 2: thanks for the reply actually. I went back through the entire thread and realized somehow my comment replied to the parent comment. I was not trying to respond this the parent comment. I was trying to respond to a sub comment on the parent comment that someone said the major denominations all engage in political activity during elections. I realize my comment looked extreme now because it was out of context. This was not my intent. Thanks for responding. And you were absolutely correct.
I deleted it immediately because it did jump to a conclusion that wasn't there and I recognized it and corrected it. But regardless, the rest stands true. The most political it got during election was "please pray for our elected officials to guide us". Which is completely fair.
I'm not religious as an adult but I was raised so. I attended Catholic school and went to church twice a week during the school year. In addition, I attended several churches in the region for different events over the years growing up. Never once did the church become political while I was there and I had substantial time there. In addition, it was a major denomination. I can assure you just because someone goes to church does not mean they belong to one political party either.
To overly simplify it I believe we witnessed a battle of big tech vs big ISP. Each had a financial stake. Big ISP didn't want to pay for investments in infrastructure it didn't think would bring a good ROI or the extra costs you mentioned above with having to comply with new government regulations. And Big tech didn't want to pay extra fees for being some of the biggest servers of data on the internet. The fact so many comments here don't acknowledge big tech also had business interests in net neutrality passing like big ISP had business interests in it failing scares me. They are both big business looking out for their own backsides. I'm saying this as someone who grew up in a house that STILL doesn't have access to highspeed landline internet in 2023 because the ISPs did t consider the density of houses in the area worth the investment. I'm not immune to Big ISP or a shill. But this legislation was not the good vs evil it's made out to be by so many. Big tech companies have little problem taking a stand for some opinions they don't seem acceptable. they don't give neutrality to their platforms either.
I mean, the rhetoric for net neutrality was pretty extreme. According to the rhetoric of the time, we would be living in a world of internet "fast lanes" right now if net neutrality didn't pass. Only services affiliated with the big greedy telcos were going to be given a pass while all the other services on the web were going to require additional fees to get adequate bandwidth to/from. That was a major fear mongering argument that hasn't come to pass. All the major tech sites were publishing the same rhetoric.
The city should run a public campaign to publicly advertise the consequences of stealing a vehicle (e.g./ jail, heavy fines, reduced job prospects, etc.). Make it clear criminals will be punished hard for stealing cars. Maybe they can ask the manufacturers and dealers to sponsor or donate to it.
I'm not familiar with Norway's culture. Personally, if I had access to these benefits, I would have more children and faster. But I do see people who have the financial means and time to raise children who view children as a restriction of their life experience.
We do sacrifice a lot of our time to raise children. But it's the cost of childcare that makes it really difficult imo. Unless you have a high paying job, you are quite literally going to work so you can afford to pay other people to watch your children while you're at work.
Nobody seems to care anymore. I am reminded about this constantly at my work where I travel to lots of different offices and meet lots of managers. Nobody cares this author worked hard to be honest. Nobody cares that the other interviewees cheated. There's not much accountability. All anybody who has a say in anything seems to care is if they don't caught in a scandal. As long as it doesn't cause a scandal, mediocre work, dishonesty and/or neglect is widely acceptable in today's workforce.
"I vaguely recall at least around 6-7 such holes, and a quick google
search seems to reveal that at least those would have been mitigated
by unprivileged user namespaces being disabled:
CVE-2019-18198
CVE-2020-14386
CVE-2022-0185
CVE-2022-24122
CVE-2022-25636
CVE-2022-1966 resp. CVE-2022-32250"
That's funny. I studied information sciences because I loved systems but didn't want to get stuck coding all day and (no offense?) was less introverted than many of my fellow tech majors (to where even my professors would be surprised when I'd take on a coding role in a project because they stereotyped me as not fitting the part.). We studied things like documenting systems, workflows, use cases, project management, networking and introductory programming courses in databases and several coding languages. In theory it sounded great. But I the job market it's actually extremely difficult to get those code-adjacent jobs when you don't have coding experience.
This study was published from a journal that got caught publishing a questionable study on a major health issue a few years ago that they later had to retract. This was despite their reputation of being one of the best and peer-reviewed. So I don't blame you for questioning it.
But I'm a parent with children with issues. And everything we study from other very mainstream sources says their issues are on the rise. These are issues that you can't ignore or not recognize.