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Oh god, they're going to kill all the birds, aren't they? I wish I was joking.

You are not too paranoid. There was a post just the other day about the Anthropic agent program sending people's emails to third parties. All the third parties had to do was require an email address to interact and the LLM would oblige because it had access to that information.

The very first thing I did before even thinking about running this stuff on my computer was learn how to make sandboxes via bubblewrap. But I'm constantly amazed by how many people are just getting by on a wing and prayer every day then cry out when things go wrong. We have the tools to take care of ourselves but most just want someone else to do it for them.

You shouldn't need to "experiment" to determine this. How do you not know where your keys are? If the agent can read them, then it'll use them. This is going to be a very interesting time for all these devs who seem to have no idea how anything works.

Once again, devs shocked when random number generator has unpredictable results.

"longtime ... over a year ago" This time dilation is getting ridiculous.

I use FUTO keyboard and it won't predict naughty words either.

"Devs shocked when random number generator produces unpredictable results."

I've been saying this for ages: if you care about something, seek your own copy.

Tbh the most disappointing part of this is musl (and later glibc) changing the function to stop callers crashing because they didn't RTFM.

I wouldn't say driving in the rain is fun, it's just slightly less bad than cycling maybe. I look around and don't see many people having fun in cars, it's mostly just anger, frustration and an inability to break the cycle. The only ones having fun are the fictional characters in the adverts. I think the sooner we stop pretending it's still fun and start treating it like the chore it is the better.

I would look into one of the many frameworks that generate an OpenAPI/Swagger spec and use SwaggerUI to display and use it.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who has made the cigarette connection. It's interesting to note some of the cigarette companies pivoted to junk food after cigarettes went out of fashion. The business isn't really cigarettes, it's addiction.

I wish you would just write what you think. It would really help discussion. I assume you are not literally arguing that fractional reserve banking is how things work, but it's hard to tell what you are arguing.

I know about central bank reserves. It's not fractional reserve banking, though. It's basically just regulation, but regulation done in the language of money, which banks (and any 5 year old) can understand.

Banks have many reasons for attracting deposits. Not least of which to get customers "on board" such that they might buy other financial services. But yeah, they also need to stay on the right side of regulation, or not run out of central bank reserves, if you prefer to think of it that way.

Ultimately it's all fake. Whether you think of it as "reserves" (that don't really exist, of course), or regulation is up to you. It's ultimately just a bunch of IOUs but raised up about ten levels of abstraction.

Anyway, the whole thing is incredibly complex and nobody understands the whole thing. I did think the commenter was referring to fractional reserve banking, but they might have meant central bank reserves, I don't know.

Any details on this? Are the regressions exclusive to these Ubuntu proposed kernels?

My mum died this year so I have recent experience with this. It does seem, like so many things, to profit from the weak. But they do, of course, provide a valuable service. I didn't really fancy chucking my mum's body into my hatchback and going down the tip.

I didn't feel like they pushed hard at all to upsell anything, it wasn't like a car dealer, but the options were definitely available. We chose the cheapest possible coffin because what a ridiculous waste of resources otherwise. Literally nobody was going to scrutinise it and then it was going to get burnt. I noticed the catalogue had quite a few more pages in it, though.

Interestingly my dad, newly widowed, was much more sceptical of the whole thing than me. He found the language they used quite disagreeable. They would refer to the body as "her" and say things like they are "looking after her" etc. She had lost almost half her bodyweight before death so it is kinda weird that this half matters so much. To us, of course, she had already left. We looked after her, they were just moving a body around.

But you have to think, a lot of people will pay a lot more to buy into this illusion and perhaps soften the blow of the death. I feel like you have to confront it one way or another so just get it over and done with. I just imagine the souls of the departed watching from a higher plane of existence puzzled about why we care so much about their former bodies.

Yes, you're both right. An important role of government is to use regulation to prevent the inevitable.

Long ago it was understood that monopolies are bad for us, but it looks like we're destined to learn these lessons again the hard way. I don't think it was ever imagined the people would vote monopolists into the position of regulator.

Well, it's an opinion held by the Bank of England as well: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...

Bad by what metric? They're interested in getting you to watch ads, they couldn't care less what you want.

Ah, fractional reserve banking. That hasn't been a thing for decades. Banks don't work like that. Money is just loans that haven't been paid back yet, mostly mortgages.

Where did you get this idea?

> I used to think this was a bit boring. I’d get a new phone, restore it from a backup, and then think “what now?” It wasn’t usually appreciably different than my previous phone, and I felt like I missed the pre-iPhone days when I’d switch form factors all the time to try new things: a Sony Ericsson slab phone, a Samsung flip phone, a Nokia with a truly bonkers keypad layout. I even tried a Windows Mobile phone for a spell.

I wonder how many thousands the author has spent chasing the dragon.

Youtube quality really let's stuff like this down.

Bitcoin isn't a product.

No, because this is explicitly the design of Bitcoin. If you give me a foo machine but it makes a bar, that's your fault. If you give me a foo machine and the foo hurts me, that's my fault.

What data? The article only seems to be about the US?

Indian diets are very different from the average American diet. Loads of vegetables. Even non-vegetarians get tons of fibre and are often eating 20-30 different plants in a day. Most of it fresh too.

"Should not be a correlation" is a weird thing to say. A quick glance shows dishwasher use has been steadily increasing over time.

Source?

Sure. I use ledger so everything is plain text. The idea is I classify each transaction in my bank statement to work out what the "other side" of the transaction is. It could be an expense account like "Expenses:Groceries" or another asset like "Assets:Vanguard" or something.

I train an SVM on my previous year's ledger, then it interactively goes through the CSV bank statement showing the prediction for each transaction, and allows me to quickly change it if I don't agree, using fuzzy completion. I used scikit-learn for the machine learning. It's not "production grade" or anything, but it really doesn't matter.

All the code is here in case it's useful: https://github.com/georgek/accounts But it's very much made for me. It was all about making something with low enough friction that I'd actually use it. It won't necessarily work for anyone else. I'd imagine an LLM could pop out something very similar these days, but you wouldn't learn anything in the process, of course.

A two day ferry to Spain will set you back more than that!

Worth noting, though, being able to "afford" this kind of thing isn't just about the money. Most people get only a few weeks holiday per year, and many aren't allowed to take more than a couple of at a time. To get the most out of something like this you'll ideally have a month at the very least to holiday, which is not possible for most.

They aren't. I think that's the point. If you type "SS" into Wikipedia you get straight to Schutzstaffel. It's hard to find what it means in the context of ships.