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If companies can't be sold, there is less reason to start them.

In the mainstream economist view, mergers are generally good, both for the companies and society. If they don't produce some efficiency surplus, there is no reason for the companies to do them.
A real Orderbot has the menu items and prices as part of the chat context. So an attacker can just overwrite them.

During my Ekoparty presentation about prompt injections, I talked about Orderbot Item-On-Sale Injection: https://youtu.be/ADHAokjniE4?t=927

We will see these kind of attacks in real world applications more often going forward - and I'm sure some ambitious company will have a bot complete orders at one point.
The URL for this post is incorrect and has a double-slash.

It should be:

https://www.bl.uk/

and not:

https://www.bl.uk//
This often works but I think the bot companies are getting wise to it as I've run into a situation recently where doing this just put me in a never ending loop. The infernal machine refused to send me to a person no matter what amount of nonsense input I gave it.

I don't recall the company though. It was so infuriating I think I mostly blocked the memory.
Trademarks are industry specific. If you made a fictional AI character named Jarvis and tried selling media based on that character THEN Marvel has a case. Creating a talking AI Assistant named Jarvis would be an expensive court case, which Marvel/Disney has to cash to pursue, but it would be a legal stretch with a lot of moneyed interests willing to back the non-Marvel/Disney side.
Fireworks tried to fill the gaps between PS and Illustrator, but never got traction.

> Adobe discontinued XD

That was my understanding as well, hmm
I disagree. Chat bots can be superintelligent about fact-based 'How do I do this?' type questions in a B2B context. It can "know" vastly more about complex platform-type products than any person can. In our case, we offer both chatbot for 'How do I do this?' type questions, and contact a human support agent for 'I have a discrete problem I need help with?'. Customers love it.
1 billi and they didn’t even have to give up any equity. I’m not a fan of the regulators screwing this deal the way they have (primarily due to the precedent they’re setting), but in the grand scheme of things, methinks this is actually a great outcome for Figma. 15 months of hassle with $1B cash at the end, to be delivered within 3 business days.
I've heard "oe" being used to call for someones attention or like a greeting.
> partisan political action.

Just to clarify, since I believe "partisan" in the US is often meant to refer to one of the two parties, that the EU has several bodies, and the European Commission specifically consists of people nominated by the member countries and do not necessarily come from the same party (to the limited extent that EU-wide parties even exist).
Investigation into potential anticompetitive conduct by Apple
Poor farmers will dump trash too, successful ones don't. Litter is the effect of many people doing a little of it. Where I live is not "just farmland," but if you leave a gate unlocked, you can get some criminals from the city dumping a truckload of dirty fill in your field, but that's another group who have integrated enough to become that bold.
This was before Israel withdrew their settlements from Gaza.

I've been travelling to Israel, West Bank and Gaza for over a decade, the two words that come to mind are apartheid and prison. I'm lucky, I have a western passport and I can travel through the checkpoints and blockades with a wave of white privilege as I pass the masses queueing to go through metal detectors to get to their fields. In comparison as a westerner, going into a shopping centre is a brief metal detector, the airport is a nicer experience than US airports despite the elevated threat, the only extensive security checks I encounter is coming out of Gaza at Erez which takes far longer than a typical airport check.

Of course it's not without reason, Palestinian terrorists have blown up many places in Israel in the past, buses, restaurants, etc, that caution is not unwarranted.

Meanwhile the far right of the Israeli political spectrum continue to spread into areas they shouldn't be, whether it's illegal settlements in the west bank or burning Palestinian fields supported by the Israeli military. It's not just attacking Palestinians and Muslims though -- how often is the attempted eviction of Christians from Jerusalem mentioned in the US press?
You'd be surprised how useful they are once you've grokked them. I have a 4-part interactive tutorial on SQL window functions, if you are interested:

https://antonz.org/sql-window-functions-ranking
Which is an opinion and thus cannot be fact checked nor be determined to be false or true by nature because it is ultimately a prediction in nature.
I was similarly skeptical and impressed with how effective it was. +1 for the bug bite thing.
Which means it will be 10x the price, because of all the ten percents for the big guys.
You’re out of home 10 at best (from 8 to 18). Assuming you sleep a regular amount of hours (8h), that leaves you 6h/day for yourself and your family. That’s not enough in my opinion. Luckily for me, covid happened and now I work remotely (so I regained the commute hours and honestly, I work 6 focused hours instead of 8h since that was the amount of hours I was working at the office anyway without interruption). In this setup you could regain up to 4h of the day for you/family, so 10h in total.

Find a remote job.
Or "our office is currently closed" and prevents you from using options that should be possible to use when no one is present. Maybe this is just a mistake some firms make, but in any case, what the hell is the point of having a phone tree or chat bot if humans need to clock in at your business for it to do anything?! I've had this happen on more than one occasion. There was a doctor's office that had a phone system that wouldn't provide the option to schedule an automated appointment unless you called within business hours, and there was a pharmacy I used once that wouldn't let me hear my prescriptions or order a refill because "the pharmacy is now closed." I never used that pharmacy again, obviously.
"Soon" in this case means 2025 or later.
I built this kind of thing for GPT-3 way back and then repurposed for 3.5 when I got API access to that. Though I used Whisper. I was hoping this would have wake word handling because that was what I struggled with but it appears that it just starts listening when you click a button or something.
I think it's also because the people on hacker news in general are not stupid and they can see through the bullshit to the real agendas that are being passed.

Let's have a test:

What's wrong with the following:

In 2020, the Netherlands passed a new law that stated that anyone that works in a job with an obligation to secrecy cannot be prosecuted for perjury for lawing in court under oath.

The example given by the government was, "Consider a lawyer and his client".

Forget for a moment that in this trivial example a lawyer could simply refuse to answer?

Figure it out yet?

Here's a hint, everyone in government has an obligation to secrecy, including prosecutors.

See the problem here? I'm sure that lots of hacker news people would.
I think the challenge is that not all the ways to browbeat an LLM into promising stuff are blatant prompt injection hacks. Nobody's going to honour someone prompt-injecting their way to a free car any more than they'd honour a devtools/Photoshop job, but LLMs are also vulnerable to changing their answer simply by being repeatedly told they're wrong, which is the sort of thing customers demanding refunds or special treatment are inclined to try even if they are honest.

(Humans can be badgered into agreeing to discounts and making promises too, but that's why they usually have scripts and more senior humans in the loop)

You probably don't want chatbots leaking their guidelines for how to respond, Sydney style, either (although the answer to that is probably less about protecting from leaking the rest of the prompt and more about not customizing bot behaviour with the prompt)
That is however a problem of what kind of data you feed into the LLM's prompt.

If you accidentally put private data in the UI bundle, it's the same thing.
Minor nitpick, at the end of the article:

Sure, it does some risky pointer math, but that’s considered safe in Rust.

I wouldn't fully agree to that, from The Rust Programming Language book [1]:

Much of Rust’s safety comes from compile-time checks, but raw pointers don’t have such guarantees, and are unsafe to use.

[1] https://web.mit.edu/rust-lang_v1.25/arch/amd64_ubuntu1404/sh...
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I don't agree that even this would be obviously dismissed.

Every law student learns about this case in Contracts during their first year of law school: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_v._Pepsico,_Inc.

I'm sure some people said there obviously was no contract then either, but it was litigated at some length in federal court.

With respect to US common law, unless there is a statute or case "on point," it's potentially an open field.

A lot of AI-related litigation is happening right now to begin to settle some of these issues.
> But that's not a 'preneur. If you are the business and the business is you, you're ability to exit is highly limited. That's not a 'preneur. If you get hit by a bus and your customers are screwed and the business tanks. That's not a 'preneur.

Sorry, but it absolutely is. Entrepreneurship is just starting a business and taking on the majority of the risks and rewards. There is nothing in the definition that says you have to sell the business or exit in any way.

I'd argue that taking on VC money is actually less entrepreneurial than going it alone - you're offloading a big chunk of the risk to your investors.
> Indian English has to be one of the easiest accent/dialect to understand.

I don't find this to be true at all. Maybe it's not the hardest, but it's certainly not easy for me to understand Indian accents.

As an Indian myself, this has, variously, confused, amused and annoyed Indians speaking English to me. Unfortunately I don't speak a word of any Indian language myself.
The government had a more direct “report content” button. Twitter is free, has been free, continues to be free, to ignore or actively reject almost all such requests. These rights are extremely well-established, extremely well-defended, extremely well-known to the lawyers Twitter has on staff. The US has a rich history of being successfully sued for coercing private parties, which Twitter has still never claimed actually occurred to them.
> Some had lazy parents who didn't teach them any.

My kids will occasionally pick up litter to throw it in a bin. It's one thing I did right, at least.
How am I supposed to know I'm committing fraud versus just being very good at negotiating?
> I think we should be able to talk about it now while we still can.

What does that even mean? Are you saying the debate about free speech itself is somehow silenced?
Thanks! I don't know a lot about this but someone shared this local voice assistant in the comments:
https://github.com/KoljaB/LocalAIVoiceChat
Could be a good lead
Well, if Thierry Bretton (French business executive, politician, writer and the current Commissioner for Internal Market of the European Union) will link to the document that describes the reason for the formal infringement proceedings rather than post a meaningless screenshot of the front page that includes redactions, we can all have a more meaningful debate.

https://twitter.com/ThierryBreton/status/1736701607553692020
Back in the olden days before the free-money-zero-interest rate policy, companies subsisted on selling their product, not their company.
I have a mosquito net. Very lightweight, does not require charging, works very well, also is preventive.
> ship of Theseus changes in its constituency

Does it? Atoms and electrons are indistinguishable so much that physicists argued that every electron is actually the same single electron: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe
With Musk publicly tearing down lots of the existing moderation and compliance infrastructure and welcoming back highly problematic disinformation actors like Trump and Alex Jones, Twitter seems like an obvious choice?
My first trip to Florida I wound up in the emergency room from a bug bite that made my wrist swell to double the size. What a state.
Thanks for the reference info.
Uh oh I hope I'm not in trouble
Not MySQL, but with the MariaDB and MaxScale combo this has been possible for quite some time. The only drawback in my opinion is that you'll need a duplicate set of grants, one for accessing the database for the maxscale process and one for accessing the database as the client user. It is free to use for small clusters (3 node).

I've been a happy MaxScale user for a couple of years now, it is simple to configure and very robust.
I wonder what this does to their valuation? It's not really my area so I don't know, but once a company is willing to buy you at a certain price, you're kinda "worth" that price right?
They really hit the sweet spot with Fireworks.

I wouldn't be surprised if Adobe's decision to phase it out resulted in all these new UI design apps to appear in the market (Sketch, InVision, Figma, etc).
I think most of the people would not consider 6am-8am the best time range of the day.
No, because contract law is built for centuries past and lets Adobe screw you for trying this. Not sure if they do, but they definitely could.

Back when communication latency was days or weeks, allowing sticky auto-renew that ignored payment failure and asked for a lot of heads up time on a cancellation made sense. It was exploitable, but it was worth it to buffer the latency. Now we don't have the latency, so it's just exploitable, the law hasn't caught up yet, and Adobe is happy to exercise this advantage against you.
>You're free to think whatever you want, just don't expect people to swallow the "EU = literal China"

Note how nowhere in this thread I said "EU = literal China" or anything to that effect.
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I found that these bite-zappers stop the itching in the moment but it just comes back stronger later and the bite takes far longer to heal that it would have if left alone.
I’m also curious.
I assume it has to do with disclosing the nature of the Chatbot, as with "Powered by ChatGPT" in the tweeted screenshots.
I would think that, especially in a everything-online world, this is very useful for regular people. I for sure have removed some links to embarrassing posts I made as a teen, to which I've long lost account access to, to remove manually. And now with everybody's kids being on Tik Tok etc since very early age, I assume it will be used more and more.
Total investment is around 350 million dollars. Adobe is paying 20 billion dollars.

What company is making money in this?

It is the investors that poured in 300+ million were going to have a massively inflated payback day, later compensated and loaded on to the backs of unsuspecting end users.
There's gradations of poison ivy reactions. I'm so allergic to it that turns into bubbles on bubbles like a cluster of fish eggs. (I don't think I'd want to put hot water on that.)

My late father was so sensitive to poison ivy that it skips the bubble phase and melts the skin and flesh off his body. One time he got poison ivy on his hand, and it resembled the scene from Terminator Genisys when the good T-800, "Pops," holds the T-1000 under the acid shower and lost the flesh covering on its cyborg arm.
I’m not well-versed on the internals of FirefoxOS, but I’m not sure it really counts as embedding because to my understanding, the entirety of the user-facing UI was built with Gecko. Embedding entails usage of the engine with unrelated toolkits, e.g. AppKit/UIKit or GTK.

If that’s true, then Mozilla wouldn’t have been making money from Gecko’s ability to embed with FirefoxOS unless the project took a sharp corner and changed UI toolkits.
> they’re really let down by the fact they don’t have high-level context of the project or business you’re working in.

Currently, you need to treat your LLM like it is a junior programmer. AI-coding tools and junior programmers will not give you the code you want if you don't write a detailed prompt. In my experience, however, AI coding tools will provide you with something closer to what you want than a junior programmer would.
The auto industry has a huge amount of influence in Germany. Consumers are probably less bothered - all subsidy programs have an end, and people know this. However, the auto industry claiming "woe is us, the economy will crash, because we are so important"? That's the backlash.

Germany has a deficit problem. They are expecting to run a deficit of 4.25% this year, when 3% is the upper limit if there is no emergency. This is partly because the courts have prohibited them from basically stealing 60 billion euros (unneeded emergency Covid funding - no, you can't just add it to the regular budget). It's good to see them tightening their belt. Long-term, one can dream that they might streamline their bureaucracy.

p.s. Since there are lots of USAians here: The USA is running the highest deficits of any developed country (including infamous Japan). See the latest IMF Fiscal Monitor, page 50 (https://www.imf.org/-/media/Files/Publications/fiscal-monito...). Y'all might want to plug that leak...
>Twitter is free, has been free, continues to be free, to ignore or actively reject almost all such requests.

Of course it's free to ignore or actively reject all such requests from an entity like the government. Kind of like how a shop owner is free to ignore requests from the goodfellas that pass by and say "Great shop you got here. It would be a shame if anything happened to it".
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Sure, permanent loss of drivers license, fine. Does it need to also permanently prevent persons career opportunities though? That's the question here.
I don't usually contact customer service to ask them how to do something. I usually do so because I have some issue with whatever situation and need someone to resolve it.
Yeah I had the same issue so I used (stole) this answer on StackOverflow:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46734345/python-record-o...
Basically there's a library that records until it detects a silence
What's the best way to acquire those?
> Quite the opposite, English has been the source of many such pressures, e.g. post Norman invasion, but it simply adapted in borg-like fashion to redefine what English was

What you are describing is the standard process by which languages change. It's not accurate to equate this with the systematic elimination of a linguistic group through ethnic cleansing, something which English has never experienced.
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There is nothing wrong with that if that is the type of company you build from the start. VC funded startups generally want to have an exit/IPO to get a return for their investors and give their founders and employees an opportunity to cash out and de-risk. Without an exit or IPO that is a lot harder, especially for employees.

It's about the expectation of everyone involved.

Eventually every company needs to turn a profit, so for the company it might not make that big of a difference or even be better (if they can turn a profit which I assume Figma can), but for the investors and individuals involved it's a very different situation as it means their capital is pretty much stuck. And I bet a $20B exit would be life changing money for a lot of people involved.
The press release itself says that the formal proceeding concern "the dissemination of illegal content in the context of Hamas' terrorist attacks against Israel" and the person you refer to as "some guy" is a adjunct professor of law at a few institutions, as well as a legal fellow of the Adam Smith Institute where his research interests have focused on free speech and related technology regulation.
I don't understand. According to Wikipedia, Disney bought the rights to Alice in Wonderland and the illustrations from the publisher in 1938, 13 years before the movie came out.
Yes, and I explained that we're in a planet were western free speech is increasingly stiffled by the governments and cooperating private sector.

If find it abhorrent, even if it passes the low bar of "not equal to China" (which I find irrelevant). Do you disagree with that?
Most effective thing to do relative to your time is probably participating in relevant FTC requests for public comments: https://www.ftc.gov/policy/public-comments
I don't think that's a correct analysis.

Adobe is very good at building software. It's not the problem. It's not that Adobe can't compete with Figma. It's that they don't want to.

Adobe has a great engineering team and ships wonderful products. The problem with Adobe is that the business side is anticompetitive, exploitative, and sleazy. Buying Figma, they lose a competitor. Competitors have a nasty tendency to expand to adjacent markets, and that's the sort of thing Adobe likes to nip as early as possible.

If not for their business practices, I would totally buy Adobe products, because they're great.

As is, I don't know if Adobe won't triple prices tomorrow for me to continue to be able to edit my own documents (once they know I'm locked in), or find some other way to !@#$ me up the !@#$. The slight hit to product quality going to competing products and open-source is more than made up for with the stability of having a reliable business partner, or source code I can build myself, respectively.
If this is a screw-up, what isn’t? You’re saying it’s user error rather than the tech being ineffective, so what sales chat bots are correct?
Children of divorce do worse on a wide range of wellbeing metrics: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4240051/ (“Nearly three decades of research evaluating the impact of family structure on the health and well-being of children demonstrates that children living with their married, biological parents consistently have better physical, emotional, and academic well-being. Pediatricians and society should promote the family structure that has the best chance of producing healthy children. The best scientific literature to date suggests that, with the exception of parents faced with unresolvable marital violence, children fare better when parents work at maintaining the marriage.”)

Life is full of trade offs. No need to delude yourself into thinking divorce, in the typical case, isn’t a trade off between your well being and your kid’s.
An elegant concept. If your schema is good, this works. Even if it sucks, it will probably still work.

We don't have the discipline to go all the way, but we are pretty close conceptually - the UI/logic layer is still done in code. 100% of the data lives in exactly 1 SQL database, and all of our products are expected to communicate by way of the schema for integration purposes. There are no API contracts or JSON/gRPC-serialized things anymore. The schema is the contract and all application state transitions must pass through the transaction log.

One database can scale like bananas with the technology we have today. There's really no reason to optimize prematurely on this one. Even if your business is so data intensive that one SQL database won't work (doubtful), then you still need a place to store metadata regarding the data that presumably won't fit so that it can be retrieved by other means. Once we get down it - If you combine a SQL database w/ some blob storage provider (i.e. S3), what excuse remains from a purely data/information theory perspective?

I think the dark secret truth that underlies why we don't see more of this architecture is simply because it is boring and "too easy". There's not a lot of opportunity to look like a smart-ass in front of others when we are mostly talking about glorified excel documents.