blueSky1989

I never met him. I'm crying.

They are also banning local inference: "The models themselves may contain malware or other security vulnerabilities."

It doesn't seem that they have found the models to be actively poisoned, though.

To name a few I have experienced: playing an instrument, sparring, meditation.

Paying the bills? I could have mentioned proving a theorem related to an algorithm at work ... but LLMs are also helping there now. The best I can come up with is: reading a book related to my current projects.

Good luck with your search.

Flow state.

I am glad that he mentioned that he'll miss the flow state that he would enjoy while deeply focused in computer programming. That was also one of my worries. Gladly, I still have other ways to get there, and I hope that you'll find yours too.

Essay by the "Free Speech lawyer" defending multiple American corporations against foreign government censorship attempts.

I initially learned about this from a luthier and plectrum designer, Hufschmidt Guitars, a one man shop in Switzerland. Some quotes from the update he sent to his customers:

""" For a one-person workshop, the result has been pretty brutal.

[...]

The numbers simply do not work for a micro-business like mine. Even in France and Germany, I send only around 1 to 2 kg of cardboard per year. In some other EU countries, I may send less than 100 g in an entire year. Paying annual compliance costs for one or two parcels makes no economic sense.

[...]

I have therefore decided to maintain EU shipping only to: FRANCE GERMANY """

My favorite paragraph from Zuckerberg's writeup:

""" [...] it is surprising that the discourse from many developing AI is so filled with doom. I do not understand why anyone who believes that AI will eliminate most jobs and much of humanity's relevance would rush to build that future. The notion that AI is so dangerous that the only safe path is an extreme concentration of power seems inherently problematic. Historically, hoping that an absolute power will benevolently provide for humanity if sufficiently enlightened has not led to safe or positive outcomes. """

Simultaneously triggered my PTSD and made me laugh

> Maybe for some reason, Rae et al.’s cohort had lower baseline creatine levels?

Well, yes. It is well known that you must eat fish, beef, i.e., animal protein, to get close to optimal levels of creatine.

Happy to see that there is still interest in this kind of content/aesthetic (reminded me of Phrack).

Will definitely follow :-)

Surprised to see this here. Toone has been working on a production model for ~4 years now — hopefully it will arrive soon, as the customs are usually made of fine recovered woods, aluminum and unobtanium.

Although a Stratocaster (of any brand) can play perfectly—and every guitarist should own a strat—I'm very curious about drastic innovations. A guitar being a guitar, to make the smallest incremental progress in playability and tone, beyond what was achieved by the '90s, drastic things have to be done.

It seems to me that Toone breaks the cost/benefit threshold. However, I'm interested :-)

In addition to latinos and vegans, there is a likely explosion of ketogenic eaters to come very soon, thanks to all the research pilling up about the great benefits of being in ketosis.

Avocados are usually part of an omnivorous ketogenic diet.

The author omitted an important one: microservices are the new source of spaghetti code.

When trying to implement as multiple microservices something that should actually be a single service—i.e., the ms's are not useful as independent units—answering a single API request is an amazing mess of distributed calls all over the place and unnecessary serialization/deserialization of queries.