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echodot ,

The only people poisoning the data set are the makers who insist on using Reddit content

echodot ,

Human brains aren't binary. They send signals in lot of various strength. So "on" has a lot of possible values. The part of the brain that controls emotions considers low but non zero level of activation to be happy and high level of activation to be angry.

It's not simple at all.

echodot ,

Well they made a bad job of it because you can't do that with a DDOS attack. Basically it's the same as picketing the entrance to a building. All you need is a lot of people anyone can do it at any time.

Actually entering the building and manipulating contents it holds is much more difficult, as then you actually have to engage with the building security.

A DDOS attack can never delete data.

echodot ,

There isn't really a lot of options for a premium products.

Phones for example, sure they're all repairable phones but they're cheap low-end models, there's nothing in the high-end market.

You've basically got Samsung and Google and then if you're prepared to go with iOS Apple, but none of them are any better than Samsung.

echodot ,

I highly recommend the pixel fold if you want a folding phone but don't want to go with Samsung. It's a better form factor anyway and it closes all the way.

echodot ,

That's low end of average for a human. A particularly dim human admittedly, but we've all met them.

echodot ,

People upvote stupid stuff as well though. Because humans understand humor, irony, and satire.

The AI is like those people that need /s to be able to work it out. If it's missing they erroneously take everything as serious.

echodot ,

See the Republicans do sport the disadvantaged. They support the idiots, the greatest disability of them all.

Linus Tech Tips (LTT) release investigation results on former accusations (x.com)

There were a series of accusations about our company last August from a former employee. Immediately following these accusations, LMG hired Roper Greyell - a large Vancouver-based law firm specializing in labor and employment law, to conduct a third-party investigation. Their website describes them as “one of the largest...

echodot ,

And that's of course they actually didn't do anything and the accusations are entirely false in which case why would they settle with someone trying to just get money out of them?

echodot ,

So they just have to sit around and hope that another company does the investigation then for free? I really don't know what you want, I understand your point, but there's literally no solution to that problem.

echodot ,

Surely the Star Trek fantasy is doing the above stuff. Star Trek is all about how money doesn't exist in the future

The problem is they're not creating a Star Trek future

echodot ,

The Texan power grid works fine. It only has problems when it's hot or cold.

echodot ,

Isn't it better to have a train that runs when you want rather than having to wait potentially hours for the scheduled commuter train. Isn't this better?

echodot ,

I've seen one of those in Japan. Even they admit that the only reason they continue to run it is for the novelty factor, it's apparently quite expensive to keep going and not really that efficient.

It takes a good while to convert between the two modes since you have to be really careful you don't misalign the thing and result in a derail. So it's done, very, very, slowly.

echodot ,

They use one rail so they can pass each other on single line tracks. Which are quite common for rural lines.

If only there was some sort of article you could have read.

echodot ,

They explained that one in the article as well.

This is a prototype so it has the mechanism so it doesn't fall over if the prototype fails. The actual production version won't have that. It's also running at low speed for the same reason.

echodot ,

This almost certainly wouldn't work in the United States but it does in Europe because Europe has loads of these tiny abandoned rail lines (often single track) that were built in the 1800s and then abandoned. They don't go anywhere particularly densely populated, you know because of the industrial Revolution causing everyone to move to the cities, so there isn't the demand for a full rail service. Meaning they're not going to spend the money upgrading the infrastructure to modern standards.

This means they can be used at relatively cheap cost. As long as the tracks are still physically present all they need to do is cut some weeds down and put these things on the line and they're good to go. It's a cheap project that a local municipal authority can handle without having to involve wider government.

echodot ,

LLM'S don't work like the human brain, you are comparing apples to suspension bridges.

The human brain works by the series of interconnected nodes and complex chemical interactions, LLM's work on multi-dimensional search spaces, their brains exist in 15 billion spatial dimensions. Yours doesn't, you can't compare the two and come up with any kind of meaningful comparison. All you can do is challenge it against human level tasks and see how it stacks up. You can't estimate it from complexity.

echodot ,

Back in the early 2000s CERN was able to simulate the brain of a flat worm. Actually simulate the individual neurons firing. A 100% digital representation of a flatworm brain. And it took up an immense amount of processing capacity for a form of life that basic, far more processor intensive than the most advanced AIs we currently have.

Modern AIs don't bother to simulate brains, they do something completely different. So you really can't compare them to anything organic.

echodot ,

Citation needed on that comment of yours. Because I know for a fact that what I said is true. Go look it up.

Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking, and color-coding of employees (arstechnica.com)

After reversing its position on remote work, Dell is reportedly implementing new tracking techniques on May 13 to ensure its workers are following the company's return-to-office (RTO) policy, The Register reported today, citing anonymous sources....

echodot ,

When I worked in the office I worked in a cubicle all on my own behind a support column and a potted plant that I put there specifically for the purpose of being unviewable by the idiot manager who wandered around and got in everyone's way.

Also now people don't randomly come and ask me questions about why the printer isn't working, or start sentences with "can you just", and "it will only take a moment".

I don't know if I'm more productive at home than when I was in the office, but I'm definitely not less productive. I would probably be more productive but there really isn't that much to do. My job is to basically sit around and be there, I'm ready to jump into action when everything breaks.

echodot ,

Many people chose a 'remote' role that requires no office visits but hamstrings your career growth.

Not really. Everyone knows that in the business world the only way to reliably get a promotion is to switch companies anyway. So I can be on permanent work from home and then when I want a better job I can just switch to another company, that may or may not require me to go into the office sometimes. I can have my cake, and eat it.

It is not the 1930s anymore, I don't have to work for the same company my entire life. Everyone but the business people seem to know this.

echodot ,

I never went back to the office after the pandemic.

I actually got really sick and had to spend a small amount of time in hospital, afterwards I might have slightly played up the emotional trauma to management so they couldn't try that BS. Eventually they did anyway I along with a lot of my colleagues quit and got another job straight away.

Apparently they have now flip-flopped again and are back to permanent work from home for everyone who wants it. I wonder if losing a third of their work force in a month had something to do with that.

echodot ,

Even at the height of Corona the offices weren't empty here.

That seems like a problem. They should have been.

What's the point in a lockdown if you're not actually locking anyone down? It's not a lockdown then.

echodot ,

The processing was done server-side as it is with the other thing. If you find a way to do it client-side let me know otherwise I'm not interested in your dumb product.

echodot ,

A modern smartphone has a screen that's going to break. Those old phones had a block of plastic that was an LCD screen and then some buttons made out of some form of rubbery sponge.

They broke all the time, the point was that you could just put them back together again in 30 seconds. Everything is glued in place now, so when shock happens they rip and snap.

echodot ,

Nuclear power is complicated because it still involves mining. Which will inevitably damage the environment even if all the mining equipment are electric vehicles run on solar power.

Rabbit R1 is Just an Android App (lemmy.world)

See, it turns out that the Rabbit R1 seems to run Android under the hood and the entire interface users interact with is powered by a single Android app. A tipster shared the Rabbit R1’s launcher APK with us, and with a bit of tinkering, we managed to install it on an Android phone, specifically a Pixel 6a....

echodot ,

So it was faked. The ship of Theseus was still a ship with the same capabilities at the end. They didn't add an engine to it.

echodot ,

I've met them they seriously don't think like that. They have so much money that they can afford to be completely irresponsible with it. From that standpoint it is easier to just throw money at the wall and see what sticks and go through the effort of actually working it out.

echodot ,

I've been offered a job during the interview. But I did think it was super sketchy and didn't take it.

But honestly it was more of a red flag of them just being desperate than anything dodgy going on. They really weren't prepared to pay that much money, so they wanted to offer people jobs so they wouldn't think about it.

echodot ,

It's a revolving door anyway. I think the average length of time somebody works for a company in the industry is 7 months.

Besides the jobs that AI will take over will be the higher paid ones because inevitably that will result more value for money. Low wage employees are less of a burden for a company and so there is less incentive to replace them.

echodot ,

Someone with an expensive calculator probably worked out that it would be more expensive to fight this and just allow it.

echodot ,

Have you spoken to AI, it's way too ethical for corporations , it'll give everyone discounts

Reality appears to be the exact opposite of the movies. It's the AI that's been nice

echodot ,

The web is just a fad. We'll go back to watching VHS tapes any day now

echodot ,

Doesn't exist yet.

echodot ,

Well he's missing the point then. He wants to be on the software side of things not the hardware side.

They need to actually create a decent experience and then make it accessible to everyone. That's how you make money.

echodot ,

Well of course if you redefine words all of the time then nothing is anything right.

echodot ,

It's just a problem with the whole copyright laws not being fit for purpose.

After all, all art is theft.

echodot ,

I want one with an e-ink display. That way I can swap out the e-ink display when I need to for a proper display. That wouldn't work on a normal laptop but should work for their uniquely modular design.

echodot ,

I want to use it programming so I don't get eye strain from staring at a screen all day, and the display is mostly white text on a black background anyway.

Obviously I invert that on an e-ink display. Any reason it's white on black is to reduce the amount of white light that I get blasted with. When you're programming most of the screen is blank because each individual line of code isn't really that long in most cases it'll be shorter than in English sentence.

echodot ,

Were you expecting weekly updates?

echodot ,

I hate having to carry around a .5g firelight, this will save me the immense difficulty.

echodot ,

They are not actually that expensive. You just feel posh when you use one.

My girlfriend came with one, it's great for grilled cheese. But I'm not allowed to use it anymore because I set fire to a chocolate bar.

echodot ,

Don't even bother shooting them, just use the flamethrower for everything. There may be collateral damage but it's worth it.

echodot ,

It also has block chain in it.

The key is to use 100x more electricity than is actually needed.

echodot ,

Or Celsius 232.778 as it is known outside the US.

I didn't think the name flows off the tongue as well though.

echodot ,

Jesus I thought the software on my ford was bad. And it is bad but it doesn't randomly stop working for no reason and have a reset button to fix it. It just doesn't break.

Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps (www.404media.co)

Instagram is profiting from several ads that invite people to create nonconsensual nude images with AI image generation apps, once again showing that some of the most harmful applications of AI tools are not hidden on the dark corners of the internet, but are actively promoted to users by social media companies unable or...

echodot ,

It depends very much on the individual apparently. I don't have a huge data set but there are girls that I know that have had this has happened to them, and some of them have just laughed it off and really not seemed like they cared. But again they were in their mid twenties not 18 or 19.

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