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So I’m unsure why even if there were no victims that would be relevant.
To me the problem here is they might identify someone with a problem, but then send them to jail with essentially the same label as an actual pedofile or rapist, and prisons in the US exist as a source of slave labor and future criminals rather than any kind of rehab. So person goes in who is already clearly fucked up (not necessarily this case, assume some case where it’s clearly be demonstrated guilt or whatever) and then comes out with a pile of trauma and no employment prospects and it seems like a sure fire way to create an actual dangerous pedo/abuser.
I think a better equivalence would be the treatment of alcohol - alcoholics don’t go to jail immediately, not even when driving, it requires them failing to get the alcoholism treated, or actually harming people for them to end up in jail.
This entirely ignores what happens when you have states classifying telling a child “it’s ok to be gay/trans” as child abuse, or even just being gay/trans as a sex crime - which plenty of states in the US have said that they want to do.
Typically the same states and people that actively support child abuse by banning actual sex ed, and normalizing child molestation.
"Cool"
Are we going to require drone pilots to have insurance that covers all potential damage caused by their actions? if not this seems like another case of letting shitty people be shitty without consequences.
The problem is lots of people are use to a default world in which being a man, or being white, etc means that if all other things are equal they will be selected. They see anything other than choose the "equally performing" white dude by default as reverse racism.
Couple this with the well documented history of women and minorities being judged more critically for the same work, and you get the "non-racist" world where worse performing candidates are hired because they're "equal" and a better culture fit.
You can see the same thing retroactively: a woman or minority figure who subsequently performs below the level expected is blamed on "DEI", yet no one questions the hiring of a sub-performing non-minority. Weird right? lackluster minority employees only ever get their jobs because of DEI, lackluster non-minorities are just a thing that happens some times.
You're right, it would be great to not consider gender, race, etc - and certainly when I've interviewed people it has never figured into the process, but companies need to have some kind of mechanism to compensate for all the employees that do (you can happily find countless examples on HN of people openly admitting they consider women inferior devs, they dismiss certain races and castes, lgbt candidates, or people with the wrong religion. DEI programs exist so that those bigots can't pollute the entire recruitment process. Those are the bigots who complain most, yet seem completely unaware that they are the entire reason DEI programs are necessary. The moment you say "I don't think group X can do the job as group Y", you've immediately said there needs to be an external mechanism to mitigate the advantage you are giving to group Y.
That's what DEI is: a hamfisted, but sadly necessary, unless you have a better idea, mechanism to stop people from biasing the recruitment process.
Seriously.
If you think DEI is bad, I want you to think about every "bad" coworker you've had and see if there's any bias in what you blame for them being hired. If you look at the news today, everytime anything goes wrong, and there is a minority involved anywhere, even if they were objectively not at fault, the bigot circle jerk does nothing but blame DEI.
Lots of people want to go back to the "good old days", because they were immensely privileged in those days, you could get and stay married easier - because women could not have bank accounts, and were functionally owned by their family or husband. Remember a women could not divorce her husband for beating her, nor for raping her, because by definition spousal rape was impossible. So yeah, I understand why lots of men want to go back in time, life was objectively easier for them. Those men just don't give a shit about it being harder for literally every one else, which is why I don't give a shit about their opinion.
If you think DEI is the reason you can't get a job, maybe the problem is just that you're broadcasting "I'm a bigot" and no one wants to work with someone who is saying "I have no respect for my coworkers unless they're the same race, gender, religion, etc as me and will not treat them as people". Or of course, maybe it's just dunning-kreuger: you're too low skill to understand you're lower skill than the people being selected over you.
Maybe we should just go back to the days where we should just not hire black Americans or women into tech? Maybe go back to a time where only a few tech companies actually did that, and those that did then had to literally create there own banks, because even when a tech company did employ someone, and paid them the same amount as a white man, the banks would not let those employees get mortgages? Maybe go back to firing people because they're gay or trans?
Would that make you feel better?
Most other CDNs similarly support tracking services.
As the article says the actual cost of partitioning is negligible, the cost of not partitioning is that nothing can prevent cross site tracking and invasion of privacy.
VPNs and extensions don’t work because the browser is ensuring your identity is constant. That’s why the large ad networks funded free/cheap CDNs.
These fuckers should have all their assets seized, and they should be left in prison until everyone else has recovered.
v0:
1. if (input not a number)
fallback to C++; else
2. return tagged 0; // Just making sure the numeric check was optimal
v1:
1. As above
2. If integer
convert to float
3. return tagged 0
v2:
1-2. as above
3. If negative
return tagged nan
4. Return tagged 0
v3:
1-3. as above
4. use the sqrt instruction
5. return tagged 0
v4.
1-4. as above
5. move <4> back to an integer register
6. return tagged 0
v5.
1-5. as above
6. tag the result of sqrt
7. return tagged 0
v6.
1-6. as above
7. Actually return/store the result of <6>
I had a benchmark that was something like
for (var i = 0; i < large number; i++)
Math.sqrt(i)
The performance remained "really good" (read fake) until the `v6` version that actually store/returned the result of the work. It was incredibly eye opening to see just how much code could be "executed" before the CPU actually ended up doing any work, and significantly impacted my approach to dealing with codegen in future.
My perspective at the time was "I know there's a significant marshaling cost to calling host code, and I know the hardware sqrt is _very_ fast", so it seemed that it was possible that a 5-10x perf improvement seemed "plausible" to me at the time (because marshaling was legitimately very expensive) - and I can't recall where in the 5-10x range the perf improvement was - but then once the final store/return was done it dropped in perf to only 2x faster. Which was still a big win, but also seeing just how much work the CPU could just avoid doing while trying to build out the code was a significant learning experience.
First off, there are legitimate security concerns with the kind of functionality required for effective ad blocking given the immense work the ad industry (i.e google) have put into preventing purely static filters is also very powerful for exploitation. Those powers can (and have been) abused: the recent news about "Honey" replacing affiliate links so that they are getting paid for ads on peoples page, but also there have been numerous examples over the last year of extensions being sold and then having the extensions getting malware, crypto miners, etc.
Second, there are real performance problems - the non-JS filter rules are vastly more efficient, for memory usage, cpu usage, and load time (I recall people doing benchmarks a while ago, showing ad blocker extensions that actually slowed down page loads).
So those are the engineering arguments for not supporting this model of extension.
However, the engineers on the chrome team are not stupid, or malicious, and understand that the trade offs are something users want. But those engineers work for Google, and google is an advertising company.
So it does not matter what those engineers want, or think is better, if the company management says "you cannot block our revenue model" they do not have a choice. Well, they could quit, but that's basically it.
I can kind of understand the behavior in the case of non-game software, e.g if a company makes a tool to do X, and someone wants to do X, you want them to buy the new profitable version not the old one for cheap/free. But I just don't think that applies to games - even a "remake" that is literally just a graphics update (no gameplay, UI, or anything changes, just increased asset resolution) people prefer the updated graphics so will generally buy that when it becomes available, but in the absence of such an update the old game is not competing for new ones.
The whole point is that it's not a matter of you not wanting to sue them now because you "don't pay them anything". What happens if HN/ycombinator does something? Say they offer a service to recommend hire/non-hire for companies based on your comment history, and they for arbitrary/capricious reasons always say "do not hire" (maybe your comment about not agreeing to arbitration agreements), maybe they use "AI" and their service reports you as a "republican democrat homophobic christian anti-christmas woke ..." (e.g. all the keywords that would be needed to ensure that at least one of them would trigger an auto rejection from any company).
The fact that you agreed to arbitration, means you can't sue them in a fair court, and you can't use a class action with all the other victims (class actions exist because the "winning" from a single lawsuit like this is generally low enough to render it infeasible, that's the entire reason for arbitration and anti-class action terms).
The fact the you agreed in the context of commenting on a free service is not relevant at that point.
This is like the Disney "you agreed to arbitration for Disney streaming so you can't sue us for food allergy in a restaurant" (to be fair, as far as I can make out Disney was not responsible in that case, but using the Disney tv arbitration term was clearly bad PR but if they _were_ responsible would be just applicable and just as BS)
This provides the type being allocated to the operator new implementation.
If you want to experiment here’s the implementation: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/113510
The stuff with Python->traing->??->$$$ is what I don’t buy:
First: the “AI” stuff is “generate content with no obvious financial value to anyone”, chat bots (which no one I know actually seems to want), or “maybe better predictions”.
Second: the “person can do X with AI with less training” etc is not a value of AI, it’s just a product of improved libraries and UI for putting things together. It doesn’t mean the thing they’re doing with AI has any value outside of bandwagonning.
Third: the reason for AI start ups is just that training costs a tonne of capital - and VCs love throwing cash at bandwagons so there’s a pile of “AI” startups, all of which offering essentially the same thing below cost in the hopes that they’ll magically find a profit model.
Finally: there’s already near enough on device processing power on phones for most actual practical uses of “AI” so the need for massive gpu rigs will start to tank especially once the hype train dies off and people start asking what is actually useful in the giant AI startup buzz.
Each of these things is going to result in the valuation bubble for nvidia collapsing. Mercifully I don’t think there’s any real harm in the nvidia valuation bubble (congrats to the folk who made well on their RSUs!), but I still don’t think the valuation has significant longevity.
I think it’s more easy to consider when you think about what is in the bill. Like do you really want them invoicing the company that hit you with “reconstructing their wiener”, etc information.
Of course if you don’t have insurance you’re kind of screwed, or your insurance doesn’t cover the full recovery costs you have to pay the medical bills and get stuck with them if the responsible party is under insured and lacks assets.
Accident created expenses seem like one of those things where if someone else is responsible for the costs you should be able to simply transfer all subsequent costs to them, rather than being stuck with bankruptcy or life long debt if they can’t afford to repay you.
Honestly there should be a transitive debt mechanism - but companies won’t like that because currently they can just force people to settle for some minimal payout knowing that they aren’t on the hook for anything that comes up down the road.
I would assume at that point computers took over and led to the billing. In an ideal world you’d say “well obviously the target shouldn’t have been billed by the ambulance”, but I’m guessing their infrastructure does not have a built in mechanism for “we are the cause of this trip being needed”.
After that the rest of the lawsuit is likely just the only mechanism to get correctly compensated (the insurance company pays the hospital - if the victim had insurance - then goes to the ambulance co to get them to pay, which is via a “lawsuit”, probably with no intent to go to court, just that’s the mechanism of action. The ambulance company also probably has insurance, but often such insurance is contingent on being sued, because of course).
The large amount is not actually very large: ignoring all the immediate bills I’m sure lawsuit payouts have tax obligations, depending on severity of injuries recovery can be a very long time if ever, with increased costs through out life, and then you are always starting high with the expectation of a counter offer for settlement.
For example: currently if someone doesn't want to see someone posting "objectionable" content - you have to identify them, then sue them. That's a problem if there's messages you don't like but you can't make illegal. But if instead you can sue the host, you can just keep suing the host, and the host eventually starts disallowing that content on its services, even if it is legal. Like they already do for adult content.
But the incoming administration has stated that content they believe should be illegal is anything that says LGBT people have the right to exist. You see this with their consistent bans on library books, their attempts to reclassify books as fiction if they can't block them on "harmful" content, etc.
We can see that this is nothing about ensuring an ability for people to hold corporations accountable to people, but specifically to enable censorship: because the proposed removals of protection from prosecution for content they host is the only place that proposed changes increase corporate liability. Every other proposed change removes the ability hold corporations accountable, removing worker protection, removing or hamstringing the agencies responsible for regulating safety, and removing or limiting the liability for any accidents, disasters, or dumping.
I have not encountered any of the aggressively promoted use cases to be better than anything they replaced, and all the things people seem to choose to use seem of questionable long term value.
I can’t help but feel that this nonsense bubble is going to burst and a lot of this value is going to disappear.
There's no reason to worry. After all, as long as you are a white dude with an AR15, and self worth based on being a bigoted bully, you will be fine. At least for now. Make sure you tow the line though.
I was going to say why not compare it to something older! 100000x faster than a pc-xt!