ignirtoq

The result of all this may be catastrophic. Should a worst-case scenario ever occur — a cyberattack, a natural disaster, an internet outage — there may be no human workers left with the skills that once kept food on the shelves.

Very nerdy of me, but this reminds me of a Stargate SG-1 episode “the Sentinel.” The team travels to a planet whose civilization relies on fully automated technology. The people don’t have to operate or maintain it (normally), so their society has completely forgotten how. In the episode, one set of antagonists comes in and sabotages their defense system, and another set sees the opportunity and invades. The protagonists have to then figure out the defense system and fix it.

We don’t live in a TV series. There aren’t benevolent outsiders who will swoop down and save our systems in the nick of time when they break down. We’re headed in a bad direction.

Change the problem from 3 doors to a million. Kids pick a door, and the host opens 999,998 doors, leaving theirs and one other door closed. One of the closed doors is the winner. Do they want to switch now?

First, don’t need to respond to arguments made in bad faith. There’s no net positive outcome possible for the other person who is coming to the conversation in good faith.

Second, not having their own solution does not invalidate anything critical they say about the one under discussion. There doesn’t have to be a “better” solution to justify not implementing something that has no positive impact on the targeted problem and severe negative impacts elsewhere.

That’s their “safety” category in his rankings. They talk about moderation tools and risks like bad actors posting illicit content quite a bit, actually.

Determinism means performing the same way every time it is run with the same inputs. It doesn’t mean it follows your mental model of how it should run. The article you cite talks about aggressive compiler optimizing causing unexpected crashes. Unexpected, not unpredictable. The author found the root cause and addressed it. Nothing there was nondeterministic. It was just not what the developer expected, or personally thought was an appropriate implementation, but it performed the same way every time. I think you keyed on the word “randomly” and missed “seemed to,” which completely changes the meaning of the sentence.

LLMs often act truly nondeterministically. You can create a fresh session and feed it exactly the same prompt and it will produce a different output. This unpredictability is poison for producing a quality product that is maintainable with dynamic LLM code generation in the pipeline.

It’s a lot harder to perpetuate historical knowledge when you don’t get support from the educational system. The government sets educational standards and subject matter, so it’s not surprising they de-emphasize the record of their own actions against the public they are teaching.

Universities are more independent (but definitely not completely, and they come with their own set of problems), so students there tend to be more exposed to topics like this. But then you get political movements villianizing universities.

Bluesky is one, single platform. It stores the complete data for any given user post in its databases and provides that through its data stream and APIs. This means every different client someone writes has access to all the same data as every other client, because they’re all going through Bluesky. This also means if Bluesky doesn’t support some feature, no clients can either.

The architecture of the Fediverse is different. Forgetting ActivityPub for a moment, Mastodon is one platform and Pixelfed is another. This means each one has its own data model, internal storage architecture, and streams/APIs. Because they were built for different purposes, they support different features. I don’t use either, but I expect there are image-related features in Pixelfed that are just not possible in a Mastodon client, not because someone hasn’t written a client capable of it, but because Mastodon doesn’t have the internal data storage nor API to support it in any client.

Where ActivityPub comes in is a unified stream language. When a post pops up on a platform, that platform has the complete data and translates as much as it can into an ActivityPub message to send to other platforms. Some platforms haven’t figured out yet how to pack all of their relevant data into an ActivityPub message, so some data may be lost in the sending. And different platforms may not support storing all the data in a given ActivityPub message they receive, especially if it’s from a feature they don’t provide, so some data may be lost in the receiving.

Ultimately this means even with ActivityPub linking things together, the data flow isn’t perfect/complete. So different data is available to any even theoretical Mastodon client compared to a Pixelfed client because the backend platforms are different. Their APIs expose different data in different, often incompatible ways, so even if someone wrote an image-focused client for Mastodon, it wouldn’t be possible to do everything an image-focused client for Pixelfed could do, because the backend platforms focus on different things.

Directional EMP is absolutely possible, but generating a predictable, controllable EMP without a nuclear device is hard. Especially if you want the device generating it to be used more than once.

I think she’s saying she could have allocated the GPUs to Azure to game the metrics, but Microsoft chose to allocate them to internal projects, which is a form of self-investment. She’s not saying they made the wrong decision, she’s saying their decision in this longer-term investment makes the short-term metrics worse.

The walled garden (micro services in an isolated network) is the first line of defense. In case a malicious actor finds a way into that network, the second line of defense would be to authenticate the service-service traffic, so the micro services reject direct requests from clients they aren’t expecting.

The code block I wrote is a statement followed by an if. What I meant be “backwards” was the order of conditions, not that the statement came after the if. It’s exactly what you asked for.

Also remember that anything can be hard for you; no one else gets to decide that. Folding laundry hard? Yep. Getting out of bed on time hard? You know it. Doing hard things is a major accomplishment, so pat yourself on the back every time. If it becomes easier, great! If it never does, then you deserve just as much self praise each time as the first time.

Python, though the logic would be backwards:

milk_gallons = 6 if eggs > 0 else 1

Really wish I didn’t have a health condition that made it too risky to see in theaters. I hope there’s a digital version I can buy at some point.

There’s no substantive evidence in this article. They present 2 kinds of evidence: giving the text to LLMs and asking if it’s written by AI, and asking representatives at major food delivery app companies if it’s about them. How are either of those better sources of “truth”?

The article then also cites second hand stories from other journalists. Apparently the original author of the post acted suspiciously when the journalists tried to get more information. That would be great to corroborate solid evidence, but in the absence of good evidence it’s just gossip.

I’m not saying I believe the original post, but I definitely don’t believe the claim in this headline.

Personally I’m fine with them taking the noise levels from the aerospace industry, too. My primary concern is how’s the battery life?

U.S. ‌antitrust agencies ⁠had cleared Nvidia’s investment in Intel, according to a notice ‍posted by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission earlier in December.

Are they even giving reasons anymore? Or is the “antitrust agency” just a guy napping in a corner they periodically wake up just to give a thumbs up?

Earlier this year, mosquitoes were found in Iceland for the first time as global heating makes it more hospitable for insects. The country was until then one of just two places that did not have a mosquito population, the other being Antarctica.

Welcome to the club. It sucks.

It doesn’t matter. Even if it were constantly streaming the current volume level, the energy to transmit the value “100” is the same as to transmit “5”, so your phone doesn’t drain any faster to constantly tell the earbuds the volume is high versus low.

Simple answer: no. We’re beyond that now. ICE’s latest strategy is simply to move so fast, courts and lawyers don’t have time to do anything. There are dozens of credible news reports of them deporting US citizens, which means there are dozens, or hundreds or thousands, that haven’t been reported on. They don’t have to follow the rules if there’s no practical way to hold them accountable, and they’re leveraging that heavily.

If you don’t have your papers, they deport you. If you do have your papers, they lie and deport you faster than anyone can stop them.