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It looked like competent,but some of the events look really bad for the company. Especially the fact that TLS certificates that customers entrusted bunny now need to be revoked by the customers themselves. This detail was at the very last of the email I got and it was the only part I did not like, because it means customer secrets were indeed compromised. I hope they followed up with all the customers on revoking those certificates.

To me this feels peak doomerism, and frankly tiring. The consequences of a total disaster are laid out in big detail but the possible causes leading to the disaster are...assumed and literally not addressed in the comment.

I mean, the premise is "who's going to get wiped[...]?", but the harder question is why would they? And that answer is not trivial because these companies are actually generating money and are competitive. The people and investors running these companies and investing are also not just standing still.

I think one can assume these companies are all a massive scam, but having used LLMs in my day to day every day from the very same companies this article talks about, I don't feel so. I only see the integration of intelligence becoming deeper, and even if cheaper per unit(token), many more tokens will be required. Productivity unlocked is further unlocking business and social opportunities we are only now exploring and getting to know. In the very essence it is very easy to see how this will turn out badly: after all a collapse passes all the known floors on the way down, but we have no idea where we are going up with this technology. I don't buy the comparison with the dotcom bubble because it is very easily falsified by simple metrics as the profitability of these technologies in the present. In the dotcom companies were not profitable, and many other counter examples disprove the comparison applicability. I will not even comment on the comparison with the subprime loans which were related to real estate, which has very little unknown upside.

Anyway, have some faith people this is hacker news, and with LLMs I never was able to do so much cool tinkering in my whole life. I have custom modifications on my gnome shell, I have privately developed file servers, I have automations that make use of my rooted TV, I have a prototype web page to help my folk's small business. I am able to support and learn from the LLM about topics that would be too expensive to get input from. For example with a calibrated microphone the LLM generated the custom equalized bands for my type of amplituner. It looked at a picture of my living room and suggested moving certain furniture like the curtains and measure it. With LLMs I was able to take pictures of nice rugs in the internet and visualize them in my living room before actually buying to great effect. So many possibilities... Focusing on the known unknowns is the easy part, let us have our imaginations run wild and let the whimsical hacker spirit return.

I did not read the article yet but adhominem attacks is against what I thought this community stood for. It even saddens me more that you suffer this because you worked with your wife. Not all nerds are like this, take heart.

Not a zig person, but the post you linked has a good counter example on why the proposal for adding cancellation to the interface is bad: You would be forcing cancellation semantics on interfaces that might not want nor be able to provide one. Forcing a new method because the libraries are not well designed does not seem right for me. Maybe another solutions is available, but that is not one.

I get the pain, but the answer from Scott Redig totally makes sense. I am not sure what is worse: Libraries swallowing cancelled() or libraries lying that they support cancelled.

I find it a mystery why so many nerves are there, as well as why they were positively selected for. Enough so that human women have them with huge variation in shapes and sizes but they are there.

The idea of it being a pain killer for birth but requiring a vibrator is interesting, because I don’t think any culture developed clitoris stimulation as a child birth helper. If it did help I would expect it to change birth outcomes and thus being a source of positive selection.

The only thing that bothered me is that gender affirming is in fact an amputation, because they gave their clitorises to science. It even took me a while to understand what the term “gender affirming surgery” meant.

Exactly. If you are eating chips it’s very hard to stop until the pack is over.

There are 3 options in order of effort: eat the next snack from a pack in your hand, decide and stop eating the cookie that is in the pack; get another pack to continue eating.

It requires more effort to get another pack and that biases towards the “stop eating” outcome. If packages are large the the easiest action is continue eating.

What I liked about it is that they played around with different categories so as to tackle the natural discontinuity of how markets work/happen. With different categories the applicable models and data conditioning change. I think the requirement of manual tuning of the data and categories is touching bitter lesson aspects: a more general model would train and find the categories in its latent space.

I think the pattern In these posts is that they are looking for models that are explainable and have the potential for low latency, like the kann fpga project. While more general and opaque classifiers possibly work they are unlikely to work at the speed and risk constraint required to make money.

I apologise if I completely missed the point, it is not my field at all.

I love the hypothesis. It would be interesting if there was research in longevity where proteins that often degrade into unfortunate forms could be slightly modified for self repairing, and bigger resilience to damage. Of course that sounds a lot like a cancer..

It is very unfair you got downvoted. Your conclusions might be debatable but sourcing them with so many sources is laudable. I wish all my debate adversaries would drown me in data like you did.

The article mentioned they pinned the provider and model and the result was bad as well with their own shenanigans. That part was in the end of the article so maybe you missed it.

The Spanish case shows how tricky it is to sell your gold. Suddenly other countries found out that Spain had money from liquidating its gold and milked it dry.

Given Spain’s history it is incredible that the gold collected over centuries was spent in a few years.

The wiki article is very carefully tip toeing that there is no evidence that the Soviets defrauded or abused the Spanish, but it is hard to believe that 72% of the world’s gold reserves were visibly spent in a few years.

I did not investigate further but I understood the documents are not completely public, and my conspiracy hat tells me that is because it is a national humiliation.

Not sure from the page but I rode one coal powered steam train in Poland for “fun” and i wish i never did. It was an open carriage trip in koszalin and the pollution it did was such that coal particles rained on everyone. It was awful and I don’t get the nostalgia of riding such an obsolete vehicle. I was so outraged about it I told my wife the experience was like trying to experience a big pre industrial city without sewage system and finding it nostalgic.

It is amazing the failure rate and how people working in these endeavours keep on working and do not step in to intervene deeper. The statistics are what matters even if whole days are wasted because some leopard or lion ate the work done. These are not cute animal lovers, they are the real deal. Much luck!

P2P inference sounds really nice and it would bring us back to the 2000s culture if not for the fact inference is already so cheap. Even so it is an insurance policy if the cloud providers or governments have ideas of further censoring and monitoring chats.