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sysgueston Myanmar military shuts down a major cybercrime center, detains over 2k people

idk maybe google is somewhat responsible here?

either their fraud-detection isn't working, or they're turning blind-eye here for profit?

sysgueston AWS outage shows internet users 'at mercy' of too few providers, experts say

> - Knows that genuinely 'critical' services (i.e. health) should be designed to account for this

yeah but aws advertises as "trust me bro I won't go down for 99.99999%"

I've seen a lot of gov proposals using aws to 'get away with downtime management'

sysgueston Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents

damn I guess I had to be more specific:

"LLM-level world-detail knowledge"

sysgueston OpenAI Needs $400B In The Next 12 Months

idk even that "usefulness" won't help on the core question:

"does the numbers add up?"

this article is about NUMBERS regarding return-on-investment / etc

"useful" is so vague so it's too 'useless' to the discussion here... I'm not sure why everyone here is parrotting that like gpt hallucination

sysgueston OpenAI Needs $400B In The Next 12 Months

hmm I bag to differ

sysgueston OpenAI Needs $400B In The Next 12 Months

idk "it will be really useful" is a bit too fuzzy and vague -- how do I infer about numbers related to return-in-investment?

of course, it's better than "this is so crap no one would buy it" -- but for investors, they want to know: "if I put X dollars now, would I get 10*X dollars or 1/10 X dollars?"

it's weird that all these comments on "usefulness" doesn't even attempt to explain whether the numbers add up ok or not

sysgueston OpenAI Needs $400B In The Next 12 Months

"Most people would benefit from using them"

hmm maybe that "would benefit" is a bit too vague?

sysgueston Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents

yeah that "model of the world" would mean:

babies are already born with "the model of the world"

but a lot of experiments on babies/young kids tell otherwise

sysgueston iPad Pro with M5 chip

damn I hope apple will make a "iSurface Air" laptop

macbook air + multitouch + apple pen

sysgueston JSON River – Parse JSON incrementally as it streams in

hmm this makes sense for LLM usage

(but for other uses - nope)

sysgueston Anthropic's Prompt Engineering Tutorial (2024)

this

the "engineering means working with engines" gibberish at the bottom is simply dishonest at best

"engineering" means "it's not guessing game"

sysgueston Anthropic's Prompt Engineering Tutorial (2024)

idk did we call that guessing explode-or-not game "engineering" back then?

maybe we started calling it "engineering" after we had some rules & calculations to make it "not-guessing-game"?

sysgueston Aerocart cargo gliders

could you provide a link for this? I'm interested but I'm not sure what to google for

sysgueston Zürich voters ban noisy leaf blowers

hmm then why are they paid to do this?

it's not to blame those workers, but re-think about the job itself

sysgueston Zürich voters ban noisy leaf blowers

the point? well... blocking the road drains & inducing flood?

sysgueston Zürich voters ban noisy leaf blowers

this

with leaf blowing, where do people blow their leaves/branches/trash to? to roads? to neighbors? making roads flood by blocking road drainage?

what about all these noise and dust from leaf-blowing? (even not counting all those fuel burning...)

maybe those leaf-blowing promoters are the "arseholes" ?

just rake them, put them in big bags & compost them

sysgueston The Software Engineers Paid to Fix Vibe Coded Messes

well that's enough for "good-looking documentation-is-everything" kinda teams

sysgueston Hyundai is now delaying its EV battery plant that was raided by ICE

..except no one had to "adapt" -- those workers were supposed to go back after the set-up work is over, and Americans would get the jobs after the set-up work.

this isn't some low-skill burger-flipping workers staying permanently and replacing a whole career of american citizens' jobs...

US just had to turn a blind-eye, wait until those workers are done with the set-up and leave for good

And now... things got ugly too quick -- I doubt even Trump wanted this.

My pet theory is... this is a classic example of an political double-spy (Tori Branum) being "cooperatively passive-aggressive" (if party a shouts for A, get inside party a, and go to the extreme far-end of A to show A is bad -- though in reality, some middle-ground was what party a was initially aiming for)

sysgueston Hyundai is now delaying its EV battery plant that was raided by ICE

idk after this fiasco, Hyundai will have a big time trouble finding competitive workers who would want to go to the USA...

I mean, prior to this, just a small possibility of being sent to the US was a big perk (job descriptions often highlighted this in bold fonts) Hence, companies would rotate people to hush complaints ("that guy gets to go to the US more than me!")

now... if being sent could mean "you could be banned from entering/working in US", it's a big no-no

Anyway, this will mean extra costs + less competitive people going to the USA (they should be forced to go, so... it'll probably be people with career dead-ends, whom americans might not want to 'learn from'...)

the only fix to the issue: officially commit huuuuge working visa quota for s.koreans...

sysgueston South Korea will bring home 300 workers detained in Hyundai plant raid

> easily apply for

ok... of course you can easily apply.

But then, when do you get the approval? next day? next week? next month? year?

this is just a big example of US not being "institutionally ready" for Trump's "Made in America" vision.

sysgueston Use One Big Server (2022)

hmm where did you get the numbers?

(what's "medium-size corp" and how did you come up with $100k ?)