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I only skimmed the paper but this was my concern as well: if I understand correctly the author is measuring "creativity" in terms of syntactic and semantic diversity, which I guess could be a starting point, but if my model was just white noise would that make it infinitely creative? Did I miss anything?

Also, I have tried the first llama base model and while it was fun to interact with, I'm not sure how useful an "uncensored" (as some people likes to call it) LLM is for practical work. I think you could obtain better results using 4chan as a mechanical Turk service honestly.

To be honest I would be very surprised if this was Cox as an organization and not just one or two very passionate workers who understood the severity of the issue and stayed after hours fixing it for free.

Linux won though :) "the year of the Linux Desktop" is a joke that started over two decades ago to dismiss Linux and OSS as a delusion of a few nerds but now we have Android devices everywhere, every server on earth using it, supercomputers/HPC clusters, game consoles, and even on desktop it keeps growing. Those who were in the FLOSS community back in the late 90s and early 00s probably remember how most people literally laughed at you and would call you crazy just for believing that things could be different.

The idea of a phone that can have its battery easily replaced is several orders of magnitude less crazy in my opinion.

> won't ever work for something like a consumer phone

Fairphone makes great repairable phones - I own one and couldn't be happier.

Onyx is a GPL violator unfortunately: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23735962

Honestly if you can I would try to find something outside "AI" for now: even if you are doing real deep learning stuff the reality is that 99% of the people investing in AI at the moment can't differentiate obvious bs from real R&D at all, they are here just because of the hype and are throwing millions to anything with an AI tag on it, so when this bubble pops it will be ugly for everybody, indiscriminately. This is another dot com.

> We’re joining forces with News Corp to support the highest journalistic standards and enrich our products with its premium journalism.

Hard to take this statement seriously when they are the owners of tabloids like The Sun and New York Post

Forgot to say, if it wasn't obvious: I'm not a microbiologist.

There are a few recent invivo studies on marine life showing several negative effects. I've seen also a few reviews from the past two years, for example: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S258900422...

There is a lot of interest in microplastics lately so I guess we will soon know how harmful they really are.

If I go to Google Scholar and search for things like "nano micro plastics", "cytotoxicity", "oxidative stress", "immunotoxicity", "inflammation response", etc., I get back an enormous amount of (very) recent studies with conclusions I personally find concerning. It's hard to quantify the actual impact in the general population. At the same time everyone is looking for explanations for the raise of early onset cancers.

Companies do care: Why would you take additional risk of data leakage for free? In the best case scenario nothing happens but you also don't get anything out of it, in the worst case scenario extremely sensitive data from private chats get exposed and hits your company hard.

> Maybe people still have souls

I agree with everything you say except for this part: not having an emotional reaction to the destruction of objects doesn't imply you don't have a soul (whatever that means to you). Not everybody had the opportunity in life to learn to play an instrument or make art, and I can see how for people like this a music instrument is not more sentimental than, say, a hammer.

Maybe you should feel good about feeling bad after watching that ad: it means you had the chance to experience the beauty of creating art.

I think gp was referring to tenants/renters unions: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenants_union

They are quite common in the UK.

unfortunately telling a potential employer to fuck off is a privilege not everyone has

But that's the thing: if we are not adding as much as before then we should observe NOAAs chart curving, instead it still looks like a straight line (of course, it could also be that this reduction is so small that is not visible on the chart)

Sorry the use of "peak" in the article and my comment implies a reduction right after (not a plateau):

> “We find there is a 70% chance that emissions start falling in 2024 if current clean technology growth trends continue and some progress is made to cut non-CO2 emissions,” authors wrote. “This would make 2023 the year of peak emissions.”

Is anyone familiar with the methodology used by Climate Analytics to create this projection? I find it really hard to believe that there is a 70% chance that in 2024 the world will peak in GHG emissions when at the same time CO2 measurements show a clear straight line:

https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/

NOAA Research doesn't seem very positive either: https://research.noaa.gov/2024/04/05/no-sign-of-greenhouse-g...

Unfortunately this sort of news rarely show up in the home page though:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240322155020/https://www.bbc.c...

https://web.archive.org/web/20240323161503/https://www.bbc.c...

https://web.archive.org/web/20240129162322/https://www.bbc.c...

https://web.archive.org/web/20240130140028/https://www.bbc.c...

Maybe because they are categorised as "Technology" instead of "UK" | "Society" | "Politics"

That's disappointing: the European Commission has 100k followers on Mastodon (https://social.network.europa.eu/@EU_Commission) which seems enough to justify the continuation of this project.

That picture reminds me of all those horribly bad "HDR" pics 15 years ago

I really hate the result, they apply something like some gaussian filter followed by deconvolution which makes people's faces very uncanny: super soft skin with super sharp wrinkles

Here in Scotland the government is starting to open consumption facilities to address (in part) that problem: https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=38604&p=0

I don't know how feasible this would be without public healthcare though

While I do agree that M4 is not great I don't believe any alternative would have prevented this attack: you could try translating that build-to-host file to say python with all the evals and shell oneliners and it would still not be immediately obvious for a distro package maintainer doing a casual review after work: for them it would look just like your average weekend project hacky code. Even if you also translated the oneliners it wouldn't be immediately obvious if you were not suspicious. My point is, you could write similarly obfuscated code in any language.

How would that help? In this case the adversary is likely to be a state actor/group with a significant amount of resources available (time, money, talent, secrecy, etc.)

Consider also that in many countries the government can force a honest national to collaborate with them on introducing backdoors to any target. This can happen both in OSS and proprietary software projects btw

> Median net worth $192,900

https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/scf23.pdf

> [Bechtolsheim] net worth at $16.3 billion

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

So then (923_740 / 16_300_000_000) * 192200 = ~$10.89

Just for comparison, the fine for jaywalking in Seattle is $68.

Ah I was not aware of this, I guess it makes sense then? They could make this section of the ToS specific to their marketplace/store front products

Yeah sorry I meant in the context of cloud providers

They want permission to commercialise my content "for purposes of providing the Services to" me?

First time I hear such requirement

I believe the threshold for DMA is 45m MAU inside the EU.

The reality is that most people don't want to be tracked:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/07/facebook-adverti...

Bristol <-> Bath is GWR, which is owned and operated by the British company FirstGroup; they're mostly known for First Bus but they do trains too.