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There is a certain amount of irony that people try really hard to say that hallucinations are not a big problem anymore and then a company that would benefit from that narrative gets directly hurt by it.

Which of course they are going to try to brush it all away. Better than admitting that this problem very much still exists and isn’t going away anytime soon.

sigh 1379 days...

It is scary that this could be used for... nearly anything? "Omg I am oppressed because this person has rights". Someone bad that someone else got a promotion and just looking for a "justifiable" reason to be upset that removes any personal responsibility or an easy explanation of "why".

I honestly don't even know how to respond to this anymore.

I feel like we are weeks away from Trump trying to actually make an official religion or some other crap like that.

They really need to do much better about how they communicate this to users.

Developers are unable to opt out of the system and Valve will just put a "verified" tag on a game with zero input from a developer.

Valve needs to set proper expectations of who to be mad at when a game breaks on the Steam Deck if the developer themselves never pledged support.

Most users don't understand what an OS really is or how a game works on the Steam Deck (SteamOS) instead of Windows.

This is honestly wild.

Whether we like it or not security incidents have become such common place in the last several years that if they just admitted to it this entire story would have likely been shrugged off and mostly forgotten about in a couple days but instead it is turning into an entire thing that just seems to be getting deeper and deeper. (Not downplaying the security incident, but that is the unfortunate reality).

Seriously if I can't trust that I am going to actually be told and not lied too when there is a security incident at the bare minimum, why would I chose to work with a company? What is Oracle's end goal here?

Are they somehow really confident that this didn't happen, maybe they don't have the logs to confirm it? Trying to think about how this is anything except them just straight up lying.

I can't remember the last time we saw a company this strongly try to deny that something like this happened. Especially when according to Ars Technica:

> On Friday, when I asked Oracle for comment, a spokesperson asked if they could provide a statement that couldn’t be attributed to Oracle in any way. After I declined, the spokesperson said Oracle would have no comment.

I think what they said is not technically wrong (excluding the "happens to be good for al of us part"). What is good for the health of the web really is good for Google, since they need the web to be sustainable.

But, the problem is the opposite is not true. What is good for Google is often bad for the web as a whole. The only reason it "Works" is because of their dominance.

There are a few things about S3 that I find extremely powerful.

The biggest is, if I need to store some data. I know what the data is (so I don't need to worry about needing to in a moment notice traverse a file structure for example, I know my filenames), I can store that data, I don't need to figure out how much space I need ahead of time and it is there when I need it. Maybe it automatically moves to another storage tier to save me some money but I can reliably assume it will be there when I need it. Just that simplicity alone is worth a lot, I never need to think later that I need to expand some space, possibly introducing downtime depending on the setup, maybe dealing with partitions, etc.

Related to that is static hosting. I have ran a CDN and other static content out of S3 with cloud front in front of it. The storage cost was almost non existent due to how little actual data we were talking about and only paid for cloudfront costs when there were requests. If nothing was being used it was almost "free". Even when being used it was very cheap for my use cases.

Creating daily inventory reports in S3 is awesome.

But the thing that really is almost "magic" once you understand its quirks. Athena (and quick sight built on top of that and similar tools). The ability to store data in S3 like inventory reports that I already mentioned, access logs, cloud watch logs, or any structured data that you may not need to query often enough to warrant a full long running database. It may cost you a few dollars to run your Athena query and it is not going to be super quick, but if you know what you're looking for it is amazing.

It would be interesting if they could somehow look at the ink itself but without this being basically a lifelong study I realize that could be difficult.

Especially given the recent report of issues with some ink being used. I don't remember the specifics.

I doubt this would stop people from getting tattoos, and I know it isn't stopping myself from planning on being fully covered... but it is still interesting.

I really think that anyone that thought that Apple was going to abandon this just due to "weak" sales is just trying to position the Vision Pro in the same segment as the Quest. When it simply isn't. It is focusing too much on the price.

Apple may charge a premium for their devices but they are not stupid otherwise the iPhone would cost far more than it does now. I can almost guarantee that they knew that this would not be a mainstream device and it was them getting their feet wet while the technology catches up to the software.

Maybe they even look at their success with the Apple Watch. When it first came out it was basically positioned as completely different device than it is now where most of the focus is on health with notifications being secondary. So get something out there and learn what people actually want.

Some of the work on the Vision Pro will have an impact on other devices and other way around.

Apple is clearly playing the long game here and maybe it will work, maybe it won't. But there is zero chance that they are abandoning it a year in. And unlike the original Apple Watch, the Vision Pro has a decent amount of compute in it to handle future updates even if a new version does come out.

This is the same concern that has been raised about the personal devices (I think one was legit called “friend”?) that sits around your neck or something and just… records your day.

It’s super privacy invading since you are sending this data to a third party without someone else’s consent. (Which I mean we have normalized people consenting for someone else with Google so… yeah).

I think if we are talking about about fully local processing the conversation slightly changes. But there is still a major question about accuracy and the ability to have and say things at a meeting without worrying about it making it to someone else.

As someone that seriously struggled with procrastination in school because I just could not find myself to care about many of the meaningless objectives I had to take.

Yeah, this. Having it on my calendar would likely have made it worse since than it turns into noise for the actual important things on my calendar.

If I used a tool like this I would have ended up missing so many important things like doctors appointments because I would have just ignored my calendar completely.

Also the idea of asking a system to find time to schedule this thing that gives me some joy in life sounds dystopian and screams messing up your mental health.

But if the name of the game is efficient spending why are we replicating much of the same work in 50 states instead of just once federally?

That would make far more sense if this was only about money.

I think it is more than just Trump. We do have to remember that some companies are currently being sued by shareholders for attempting to keep DEI around. Or at least was threatened to be.

I don’t know if these lawsuits would win or not but given the current political climate I sure wouldn’t bet against it. From a purely business prospective on that alone, I can see why they would do it. And do it so quickly.

This is the latest symptom of a very powerful opposition that just gained almost unlimited power. Or at least unchecked power. To be clear here Trump is also a symptom, this didn’t come out of nowhere with him.

Be mad and hold these companies accountable but we also can’t afford to be distracted by the symptoms when those in power are going to make it so much worse.

That and the idea of a poorly sanitized log entry or something slipping to the AI and then you have a big problem. Just seems like a security issue waiting to happen.

There was a system not long ago on here for AI automatically running system recovery as triage. I just can’t imagine giving AI any rights to actually run commands without oversight.

I guess good luck explaining why you deleted a database or whatever while diagnosing an app when it decides that the best course of action is to delete and start over or some other really stupid solution.

I mean. You’re not wrong.

I think the only way I am going to be sane over the next 2 or 4 years is to hold out some sliver of hope…

Since it isn’t clear what exactly will be stopped here.

Some of these could hurt the districts with republican representation the most. Like food stamps, unemployment, and similar. So maybe something this stupid will wake people up?

A lot of other policies could be twisted so trump isn’t directly blamed. This is… pretty cut and dry if you suddenly stop getting money you rely on.

So maybe it’s actually possible? One can hope.

I will check out this tool later, but given the title of the post.

I know this is something that my parents have told me before, but being on the market myself right now. It feels like there is really only so much time I can spend looking for a job. In the first week or 2 I am catching up on all of the jobs already up but after that only so many new jobs are posted.

It feels like I can spend at most an hour or 2 a day actually applying. Sure add in calls/interviews. I say this currently being unemployed. At some point there is nothing else to look at.

I am curious if people are really spending 40+ hours applying to jobs a week? I am finding I am spending most of my time brushing up on tech and working on side projects to keep my skills up.

Yesterday I believe he said it still needs to be at least 50% owned by a US company.

If that remains the case I doubt anything will change and this is just a delay. They made no indication of selling being an option.

So realistically is this anything more than political theatre?

Based on that list, they have tended really only to do that on mobile platforms. It was one of my favorite things about the platform, but it always felt like this was partially thanks to the older hardware still getting games well into the new hardware's life in many cases. Major games, I believe Pokemon has done this a few times?

Most of their home consoles were complete departures from previous hardware.

NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube all did not work with prior games were fairly different (ok admittedly the outward difference between the NES and the SNES were minimal but still no compatability).

So honestly I think it was more notable that the Wii could play Gamecube games than the other way around as far as Nintendo's track record goes.

I would say gameplay and art style instead of what the rest of the industry calls graphics (polygon count basically).

Nearly all Nintendo (game freak is not technically Nintendo) games look beautiful thanks to having a great art style instead of just focusing on higher polygon count.

The joy cons are fine, but I think them always being attached also removes the key benefit of the Switch. That was something that a lot of people talked about when the Switch Lite came out.

They could be better and given the limitations, I think they do the job. If you don't like them they offer the pro controller. But there have been times (especially when flying) that I have used them detached when not docked.

I honestly don't think the Switch would have succeeded the way it did if the controllers were always attached, forcing you to buy another controller for when you wanted to dock.

Happy to see that Nintendo is treating the switch more like how they traditionally handled their mobile platforms instead of their consoles.

Iterating instead of throwing out everything with each new version. There is a part of me that is going to miss the, do weird shit and see what works, Nintendo that brought us some really fun ideas. But a stable Nintendo just being able to continue putting out great games has its advantages.

I am curious about the specs, but honestly don't care much. The only real issue the Switch had was being able to keep up with some of the games put on it with FPS but it still had beautiful games (like Tears of the Kingdom). So as long as it is actually a decent spec bump I am happy and have zero care to compare it to the other consoles (but I am sure people are going too and scream that it is "underpowered").

The biggest thing I am curious about, will it be OLED since that will be disappointing to go back to non OLED from the OLED Switch. And Price.

As much as I want to solely blame sexism and racism (which without a doubt was a major contributor).

We did also have a serious problem of people just not going to vote that were abstaining due to various (many citing Gaza) reasons that would not have fallen into the racist or sexist category.

I have many friends (honestly hesitant to use that word at the moment... I am frustrated with them) that did not vote (and would generally consider themselves liberal) and yet continue to complain. The turnout was legitimately bad.

Unfortunately this has just been the reality over the last couple years. People just ignore the hallucination problem (or try to say it isn't a big deal). And yet we have seen time and time again examples of these models being given something, told to summarize it, and still hallucinate important details. So you can't even make the argument that its data is flawed or something.

These models will interject information from their training whether or it is relevant or not. This is just due to the nature of how these models work.

Anyone trying to argue that it doesn't happen that often or anything is missing the key problem. Sure it may be right most of the time, but all that does is build a false sense of security and eventually you stop double checking or clicking through to a source. Whether it is a search result, manipulating data, or whatever.

This is made infinitely worse when these summaries are one and done, a single user is going to see the output and no one else will see it to fact check. It isn't like an article being wrong that everyone reading it is reading the same article, can then comment that something is wrong, it get updated, and so on and so forth. That feedback loop is non-existent with these models

While I am sure that may be part of it.

How they have built games recently seem to backup what they said.

Aperture Hand Lab and HL:Alex was VR and partially pushing the Index.

Aperture Desk Job I can’t remember the name of was for the Steam Deck.

The way they have released games seem to backup what they are saying.

I am really excited to maybe actually someday be able to play the next half life…

But when I watched the half life anniversary video a couple months back, their reasoning for why we didn't get more games bothered me. That they don’t want to put a game out solely to advance the story and instead only if it does something new.

As a fan of the series I thought this was frustrating and makes this a bit bittersweet and is kinda tempering my excitement. So we get HL3 soonish and Hl4 in another 20 years? I get it their reasoning but at some point I just want a game to come out for the story without reinventing the game every time.

I will likely do some searching on this later, but I am curious how "race" ever came to be the word we use instead of "Species" in nearly every video game I know of that has a character creator (at least until recently)? I know I have struggled to not say race when I really mean species just out of many years of habit.

That being said, I don't really understand the push to remove species benefits from games (not just D&D) and instead just do a name change? It makes sense that in a fictional world that different species would have their strengths and weaknesses just for biological reasons.

Or story reasons like in Mass Effect where the Asari live to around 1000 or more (I don't remember exactly) and have a very natural benefit for biotic abilities.

I understand the concern that some of these traits were originally racially fueled, but it makes sense for there to be differences of some sort.

I agree with this… mostly.

A couple times I have tried doing some engineering related task on my desktop with a mechanical keyboard and it just felt wrong. It felt like I was moving my fingers too much. Kinda the same if I do any amount of serious typing.

On the flip side though, the couple of times I have tried gaming on a laptop it also felt wrong.

So I have come to view keyboards the same way I view gaming controllers, it all depends on what I am doing and I will use the best input method for a particular task/game/etc.

I honestly didnt really expect that people would latch onto the alcohol part of this so much.

> That said I agree that strict lifestyle prescriptions for people getting assistance are more often a kind of moral high horse than a useful policy.

Honestly, yeah. Just look at the comments.

So many of us take it for granted that if we want to "waste" money on a candy bar, or some other stupid little thing that gives us a few minutes of joy... we just can and barely give it a second thought.

You actually got me thinking looking at some of the nutrition labels on some of the alcohol I have in my fridge and honestly, I could see the argument. At the end of the day it should the their decision and trying to draw arbitrary lines due to health or whatever just isn't helping anyone, likely just leading to embarrassment or anger when they accidently add something to their cart that isnt covered.

Sure technically a lot of stores sell it, but I think there is a clear distinction between alcohol and almost anything else at the store given that it requires special permits, has age restrictions, and a lot of red tape surrounding it.

I feel like it is an easy argument to make to say, if you can safely make the assumption that it is a consumable item and any random grocery store would sell it. It should be covered. Alcohol (especially depending on the state you live in if they severely restrict licenses) does not fit that category.

I am really torn on there being restrictions on what food stamps can buy in the first place, as long as it is food and stuff available at a normal grocery store (so not including alcohol).

I understand the idea of what they are going for here with trying to push people to buy healthier items which on paper sounds like a good thing.

At the same time I feel like people should be able to make their own decisions and if you are already having a hard time, why not be able to get a small treat with a soda or something? If they looked at the numbers and decided that they could get it with the money they had.

Not exactly siding with the companies here, since they are only doing this for profits and not any positive goal. But just the core idea of saying food stamps can't be used on something.

Edit:

I really don't care to reply to every comment so just going to add this here.

Regarding Alcohol: TBH I don't have strong feelings on this, I just feel like it is a fairly easy to show a difference between food/drinks and alcohol. Age restrictions licenses, etc. But, at the end of the day if alcohol was the line I don't think we need to die on that hill to justify saying someone having a hard time can't get a treat.

This goes back to judging (and making) other people's health decisions and punishing people that are just trying to get by.