radicalbyte

Interesting, it's similar to the way we used to make cheat codes on the 8-bits: dump memory, run test, compare. You had to loop 3-4 times but you'd find the "weight" you were looking for and could fix it (for infinite lives/ammo etc) or increase/decrease.

I'm surprised that we don't have the black banner. Sir Patrick Stewart played a formative part in the live of many of us in the industry.

I watched TNG the first time around, every night, with my dad. It made me the man I am today in many ways.

Every time I see the current VP of the US I keep thinking back to Riker. And how he's like the anti-universe version of Riker.

Yeah this, I used to sit in the lab with my girlfriend (now wife) when she was doing wet work for her pharmacology doctorate. It was slooooow. Like slower than J2EE. I could smoke a pork shoulder faster.

My wife is a doctorate in pharmacology, I made exactly this argument to her but she dismantled it pretty quickly.

a) We do test on terminally ill people, but after testing in other models. b) Thalidomide was all roses compared to the horrors you can inflict. c) Profit-driven industry makes extremely perverse incentives.

Still I do come down more on your side of the argument, and we have historically made massive leaps doing some horrific things.

I wonder if we can get better models based off of human cell-lines / tissues? Like CRISPR did?

iTunes.

Skype.

Windows File Manager.

It has been a thing for a long time in consumers software from the big guys. The people working on it don't care about UX or performance.

Now a lot of the small-company software we used to use has been replaced by slow bloated and buggy apps usually running on Electron (Slack et al) so we're seeing it everywhere as opposed to in a couple of bad apps.

I used to spend an hour throwing a PoC together with PHP (or sometimes in MS Access) because hey you can throw shit together real fast, and because I used either a shitty language or a toy tool they were treated as throwaway.

Now LLMs make that easier to do with a larger scope.

Are you building them "fast enough"? I follow American politics and infrastructure build-out closer than I do my own local politics as I've been working for American companies in the AI space.

I'm hearing a whole lot of noise, frustration and anger from the construction side that it's getting really hard to build data centres in the US now that the public are coming out hard. Especially in DEEP "red" states.

>edit: never mind, I just checked your comment history, this seems to be some thing that you are repeating over and over and getting the same kind of answers but you just keep doing it

I've noticed this with people in tech who spend too much time on Twitter. They have a very weird view of Europe. It used to be the Fox New boomers but it has spread to people who you'd assume were pretty smart.

To be honest it's part of the reason I left Twitter and only visit this site rarely. Sucks as I've had some awesome discussions here in the past.

My suspicion is that it's related to the drop in standards in tech since the big ramp up in the 2010s and the way Meta and the crypto folks don't want regulation so a lot of their employees have a vested interested in bashing the organisation capable of actually introducing some good regulation.

We're building data centres, there are several massive ones in my tiny little country (NL). We're also quite capable of putting satellites into orbit. We have swarms of these small satellites just not quite at the scale of StarLink and they're doing science.

Your claim makes as much sense as saying that the US can't even build airliners. Sure they can't build good ones. That was a decision to replace the technically capable management at Boeing with an army of MBAs. Sure Airbus are a decade ahead but the US can still build them.

The thing which many people forget was that, up until the current POTUS decided to reverse course, we were best buddies. We've invested a huge amount of money in US-based companies and generally worked together to increase the size of the pie for everyone.

There are a whooooole lot of people writing software who, despite spending years on the craft, never really get any further than McGuyver mode.

Self-trained people (like me) are particularly susceptible to it and we're heavily represented in the software world. A lot of us either recognise that (or are coached) and invest the time learning the benefits, and limitations of, software architecture. And, importantly, keep reflecting, learning and updating our practise.

I keep going back to the YOLO mode every other year and try out new languages to see if we still need the structure and abstractions. Then VMs came along and all I can say is they're both even more important and now we have an army of virtual "ADHD idiot juniors developers" at our finger tips it's even easier to tell the good and bad abstractions from each other.

Basically once it has sucked all of your data dry you no longer have the ability to leave the Meta Network.

> You can opt out of model training with a checkbox

Do you trust that a company who can't even do basic IT ops monitoring are capable of respecting a "no training checkbox"?

I can't, I'm colourblind. That's why I had to drop electronics and go into software. It was a hard requirement in the UK in the mid-90s when I needed to make a choice.

Given that the cloud providers just put a 0 or two on the cost to determine their prices then yes, you could try.

They'll ban you after a year because it will be against their TOS.

But sure, go for it.

It's can't customise the response to the person asking the question in quite the way putting a massively expensive compute behind each user interaction.

And that is the huge problem here; it's not "search on steroids", it's "Ministry of Truth" on steroids.

..and they had basically 0 monitoring of it. Sure if it's a 5-person company then you can forgive them. Only these labs are massive companies who are spending $50B+ a year, it's extremely negligent.

They've also apparently deployed the best-of-the-best in Silicon Valley and this is what they deliver? Really?

In the things published in public, they're using existing exploits and hitting systems which have been poorly maintained. It won't end at that, obviously, especially with humans behind the wheel.

Yet I'm convinced that we can create extremely resilient software systems. I've been involved in the entire life-cycle of one. We know how to be very defensive and it's a choice to build "cheap, crappy and disposable" software.

LLMs are turning the needle there and I think that's a good thing.

I don't think that 2 is true though. It's exactly the argument we made against open source software.

Yes these models make exploits easier to exploits. Lets use a construction analogy: they've made all of the defects in our buildings easy to see. We have a choice. We either fix those defects, or we ban the tools which lets us see them.

It's clear to me what we do: we use these new tools. Then we fix the defects. Yeah sure it'll mean some work for us but at the end we're in a much much better position.

Anthropic, Open AI and Grok are arguing for hiding the defects. For making us weaker and more vulnerable. For their own profit.

I hated the FUD when Microsoft were funnelling millions into it. Especially as I really liked their frameworks, languages and some of their operating systems and tools (Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 7, SQL Server, .Net, Office 2000, Office 2003 and Office 2007 were all excellent products).

Now the two AI companies born with help of Microsoft have a decent core product but have gone full FUD slop on us.

Rutte can't even speak English properly. My 7-year-old speaks better English than he does (kind of by accident, but that's another story).

There's a possibility that the postal and telecoms systems did but I can't give you a counter. For everything else it has not been particularly effective; but a lot depends on what is privatised and how it's actually ran.

Water. Energy. Public transport (which is partially privatised). Healthcare has been a disaster.

Same thing for the UK but the results there were much much worse, especially the water (Brexit made it 10x worse). It was driven by the actions of the Unions in the 1970s (where they were taking the mickey) but of course went way way way too far. What was needed was to tweak the system such that the unions couldn't blackmail the Labour governments. Not to break it all up and sell it off for pennies on the dollar.

AFAIK the problem in NL is due to chronic underinvestment in the grid infrastructure since the big privatisation wave. Combined with the heavy subsidy of industry causing the issues.

Solvable but we need to be much smarter and redirect the fossil subsidies to reducing risk for grid-scale batteries and adding more grid capacity.

Yeah they've flooded Google with them. It sucks.

You can conclude by the fact that they hid a recording device into what looks like a normal pair of glasses as proof that the idea is to allow people to look like they're recording people without looking like they're recording people.

They could have made it much more effective - better optics, better microphones, better battery - but that would have made it extremely obvious.

Yeah I saw that after posting. I have the same issue, and I'm fluent in Dutch.

I absolutely hate that YouTube is doing that; I'm Dutch/English so obviously fluent in both languages yet YouTube randomly decides to give me this horrific AI dub for some Dutch videos.

They've broken Android too, you can't even set it up with multiple languages. I use three daily - Dutch / English / American - and also a bit of German / French / Spanish / Italian here and there. Plus of course Latin because on my English side I'm a pretentious prick :-)

He's speaking Dutch and speaking English with a very very heavy west-Netherlands accent. Quite a lot of the Meta employees there can't speak Dutch which is why he switches to English.

It's harassment when you're doing something slightly inconvenient in a way which doesn't benefit big business or the super rich.

It's fine if you're doing it to benefit them, then you can go much further, you can kill small children with your tractors (as is attempted in The Netherlands) or to murder coast guards or migrant (via drowning or fire) as happens in the UK.