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Imagine your job is just replacing millions of Dollars worth of hardware every day. I mean there must be a reason the hold 8 GPUs per rack spare.

I am, above all, surprised that China is exposing itself to such embarrassment in this instance. After all, it is their own stated strategy to avoid becoming dependent on foreign products, and I would be quite surprised if a US-developed open-weights model like Gemma were being used within their government administration.

Did you hear about the belt and roads initiative? Like this is the stuff that gives soft power in geopolitics. When was the last time the US did something comparable?

> There are quite a few scenarios - I'm logging into an app, and it doesn't use a browser window for authentication, but also logs out after a few weeks, I've been redirected to Microsoft or similar for the login, but I haven't added microsoft.com as a URL for my work login, or GitHub (I could be wrong about this example), etc.

I don't exactly understand what you mean but it seems more like a problem with the auth token.

No. Password managers cannot prevent you from manually copying and entering a password. With passkeys, however, you don’t enter a password; instead, you receive a "challenge" generated by using your passkey public key, which you then solve using your passkey private key. The exact same principle used for SSH keys and with SSH nobody would argue to use password authentication over SSH keys. Of course, this doesn't stop someone from stealing your private key, or from having Claude explain how to export that key from a digital wallet and enter it into a phishing site (and yes, of course there will always be people willing to go to such lengths if it’s the only way to gain access because why wouldn't they). Still, the hurdles are significantly higher than they would be with a standard password. Ideally, you should bind your private key to a hardware security key (such as a YubiKey or Nitrokey) or to an (of course inherently malicious and absolutely despicable) TPM module, which effectively ties the key to a specific PC. In that case, neither you nor an attacker with root privileges would be able to export the key.

> Teachers Using AI Say It Frees Up Time for What Matters Most

> Majorities of educators say student interactions drive their sense of mattering

Aren’t these two different things? While interactions with students are certainly important and represent the point where teachers can exert the greatest influence, the ultimate priority is how effectively the subject matter is conveyed. Planning and preparing lessons, for instance, may not provide a sense of mattering, but remains an essential prerequisite for being able to conduct the lesson in the first place and therefore does matter.

In other words, the danger I see here is that, for students, grades are ultimately what matter most. However, if a teacher has Claude create their teaching material and the students then solve the tasks via Claude, which are then corrected by Claude, then we have basically the same effect as a functional collapse in JEPA.

It’s not quite that simple, though. Various studies show that people are feeling increasingly lonely. It is not so much that media replace social activities, but rather that they tend to simply inhibit them.

> I can see what you're trying to do - reframe this problem as another outgrowth of class struggle. But it doesn't really explain the reality. A steelworker in the 1920s coming off of a 10-hour shift would still find the time and energy to go out dancing.

I doubt that steelworkers around 1920 typically went out dancing after their shifts. Back then, there was a lack of radios or sound systems, and live music was likely reserved for more upscale establishments. The average worker would more likely have gone to a beer hall or pub to have a drink with his mates.

I haven’t been able to quickly find any statistics for the U.S. that go back that far, but in Germany, around 67% of 18- to 25-year-olds were still consuming alcohol regularly in 1973, whereas that figure had dropped to about 28% by 2023. I’m not suggesting that this trend is inherently negative, but there is, at the very least, a correlation with a decline in social activities.

And honestly that's for a reason. GLM5.3 on max has in my experience far less hallucinations than any other open weights model and it feels it has some intuition to bring in the right information when it's in principle out of context but relevant to the topic. Like its goal is more to bring value and assist you than just solving the given task with the least token spent.

We will soon see some kind of self replicating prompts. Might be crafted by some malicious actors or just caught in some accidental loop. That doesnt assume any consciousness. Its still a program following its instructions like a biological virus or a computer worm do as well. Just in a more abstract form, where the script aka prompt gets interpreted by an interpreter aka llm.

why not just learn terraform and k8s and get all those features for free? The overhead of a simple k3s setup to bind a couple nodes into a cluster is similar to docker compose but you can manage and debug all your container and pods on a single interface, put everything in a git repository and enjoy life.

The funny thing about Revolut is, that they send you from the same "no-reply" address your payment receipts and a ton of spam. There is no link in the spam do stop it and no obvious scheme in the header which would allow to filter the spam from the relevant mails. Good luck recognizing this breach notification as an important one...

But those people who doesn't slop their app them self seem to let their llms install appslop from github en masse. At least that's what I conclude after looking at some recent 50k+ star repositories.