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Was the ~"EU is heading towards civil war" post made by the owner of X, community noted?

I realize that would be tough to fact check, but I've lived in the EU for the last 6 years and "civil war" is a take from another universe, and really felt like projection.

Was he suggesting that Orban & Co's politics is going to invade the rest of the EU, with violence?

Can someone explain to me what one of the most influential people on the planet meant by that?

I respect so much of what Musk has accomplished but that left me at a loss for words.
I suspect others downvoted due to the waffly style of the comment. What was that last Swift thing about? Reads like someone with multiple bees in their bonnet
What crimes should be expunged, when it should be done, and how to do it are all debates worth having. There are lots of other details worth debating. However once the crime has been expunged it shouldn't be brought back again - that is the whole point: let people who have reformed get on with their life as best as possible.
I used to date someone with a nicotine addiction who threw cigarette butts on the ground, or out of the window if driving. Whilst I strongly disapproved of the behaviour, she did not exhibit any of the other qualities you ascribe to litterbugs. She picked up her dog's shit, for example.

I think it was just a case of it seeming like a tiny amount of litter compared to the hassle of safely and cleanly disposing of a smoldering cigarette.

I agree that littering is antisocial, but if you paint everyone who does it as sociopathic, you prematurely rule out a bunch of measures that might be effective in tackling the problem.
Really interesting talk.

Here are the slides: https://leaddev.com/sites/default/files/2023-10/Behind-the-s...
>It is good for Adobe: they'll be forced to make their products bette

Which they thought was harder than spending $20 billion acquiring a competitor.
This comes down to the language classification of the communication language being used. I'd argue that human languages and the interpretation of them are Turing complete (as you can express code in them), which means to fully validate that communication boundary you need to solve the halting problem. One could argue that an LLM isn't a Turing machine, but that could also be a strong argument for their lack of utility.

We can significantly reduce the problem by accepting false positives, or we can solve the problem with a lower class of language (such as those exhibited by traditional rules based chat bots). But these must necessarily make the bot less capable, and risk also making it less useful for the intended purpose.

Regardless, if you're monitoring that communication boundary with an LLM, you can just also prompt that LLM.
i have serious mental health problems and physical health problems so i can sometimes come off as entitled just because i am in pain. but my solution to the problem of not littering is that i put things in my pockets. one can even have a small dog poop bag and put the stuff into it.
but i would reason that orange peels and banana peels are ok to put into bushes. maybe this is controversial, but i do this and if you tell me off about it im gonna become defensive and write you off as porcelain lover. (a person who likes using a toilet rather than shitting from a branch in nature)

i agree on most of your comment.
Best outcome for consumers. I really hope the experience was expensive enough for Adobe (due diligence, lawyer fees, "lobbying" 3-4 different governments, $1B break-up fee) that the entire big tech M&A market takes a hit.
Better to waste the customers time than your own money.

That sounds like it belongs in the Ferengis "Rules of Acquisition".
Interesting - it reads like it's the same approach I've taken for stopping poison ivy itching, and my sister users for her eczema itching.

If you put the affected area under the hottest water you can, you cause the nerves to effectively burn out, overloading the signal to prevent the itch from triggering.

Especially for poison ivy it worked wonders when you have a bad rash, although you shouldn't put hot water on (opening the skin pores) if there's any chance you still have the oil on you, as it'll just get deeper in. This is for the days after once you're suffering.

Being a Brit and moving to the US I had no idea what poison ivy is, and learned the hard way. Standing under the hot shower and burning the ivy itch away causing a feeling that's basically pure ecstasy. It's an incredible feeling of relief, coupled with every nerve going nuts.

Could also be something specific to mosquito bites, I've read the denaturing argument too. My brother in law swears by holding a lit cigarette tip just above the bite to have a similar effect. It never worked particularly well for me, but bathing area with hot water always works for a bit.

The link actually links to the actual "science" page - https://just-heat-it.co.uk/pages/study which is page on a study of the effect.

> The treatment of insect bites using heat-based devices such as heat it® leads to significant itch and pain relief. This is proven by the world's most comprehensive study on the effectiveness of thermal insect bite healers.

> "Efficacy of Concentrated Heat for Treatment of Insect Bites: Results of a real-world study" - Metz M et al. | Published June 26, 2023 in Acta Dermato-Venereologica by the Society for Publication of Acta Dermato-Venereologica.

The paper itself is here: https://medicaljournalssweden.se/actadv/article/view/11592/1...

Conclusion:

> This study shows that concentrated heat induced by a heating device reduced pruritus caused by insect bites and stings, even if the insect bites occurred more than 6 h previously. Across more than 12,000 treatments registered, less than 1% of participants reported side-effects. Further investigation of these side-effects showed that none posed a serious risk to the participant.

But, it doesn't go into the possible reasons why.
That's a valid observation, but if getting a 12-pack of identical decks is not a problem, it's enough to build 13 custom decks (all Aces, all 2s, etc).

Edit: if the players can announce only what suit they are buying and selling but do not show cards to the others, it may end up difficult to deduce what cards are missing, because only the buyer and the seller know the value of the traded card.
Vulkan backend for PyTorch exists. It's mostly tested on Android, but it's there. PyTorch maintainers though are reluctant to advertise that as "support" because complete, reliable support for the zillion 'operators' PyTorch includes is quite a different challenge.
Nix sounds great, unfortunately I never managed to install it reliably.
The number of anti-EU comments here surprises me, frankly. My understanding, as an Australian, is the EU is just enforcing rules regarding transparency and moderation reporting - they’re not setting some speech-controlling agenda. Seems reasonable to me?
That's pretty much what happens anytime you buy a car though. There's always some other bullshit fees even if you get incredibly explicit and specify this is the final price with no other charges. They are going to try to force stuff on and unless you are incredibly vigilant and uncompromising. It sucks when you have to drive hours away just to leave in your old car.
I’m referring to the EU Court of Justice.
>> Robots a a cruel joke on customers.

My kid and I went 3 hours away for hew college orientation. She also booked 2 tours of apartments to look at while we were there. One of those was great, nice place, nice person helping. The other had kinda rude people in the office and had no actual units to show. "But I scheduled a tour!" turns out the chatbot "scheduled" a tour but was just making shit up. Had we not any other engagements that would have been a waste of an entire day for us. Guess where she will not be living. Ever.

Companies, kill your chat bots now. They are less than useless.
Yeah that's sad because couldn't pull a VMWare onto unsuspecting UX desgin community I suppose.

What's wrong with staying a small profitable company that loves what it builds and cares for its customers?
I’m not making a definite prediction and many “doomers” aren’t either. And if your position is “idk what will happen, might be good, might be bad,” then there’s not much I can disagree with you on. I disagree with people who dismiss the entire project of AI alignment as unnecessary, despite the difficulties we have with human alignment as a person gains power who has the advantage of decades of socialization and somewhat reliable underlying biology.
If they are fighting back, they are failing miserably, because the AI generators look better than ever. Midjourney, for example, is crazy good.
ServiceNow dives deeper into task mining with latest acquisition
Once upon a time, digital product design happened in Photoshop and Illustrator. Then competitors like Sketch and Figma came out with a better product. This made Adobe create XD to compete, but it was unable to make a good product so instead they tried to purcahse their competition instead of making something better.

9 months after Adobe announced it was to purchase Figma (and 3 months before it hoped the deal would close), Adobe discontinued XD.
> All the people like OP are quick to go back to their tax heavy hell homecountries as soon as they need anything other than sun and cheap cocktails

I'm Greek, but thanks for assuming.
LOL, do you really wanna talk about unchecked power by defending an Elon Musk company?
Eczema sufferers have been doing this for a while
Ahead of the Olympics, France embraces AI video surveillance
Meanwhile, I ordered a Tesla while I was in the shower. I even got financing. It showed up a week later.
EU and UK authorities are not quite as corrupt as the US.
I'm not sure if you just didn't notice, but public and private gatherings were unilaterally outlawed just 2~3 years ago in the name of national emergencies.

The freedoms we enjoy here in the west are closer to erasure than you realize.
Pretty much everyone running a Christmas light show on their house is sequencing it with this, and playing it back on a raspberry pi or beaglebone black, sending signals to a bunch of ESP32s to control their lights.

And many of them buy their “shows” rather than sequencing their own with XLights.
I think the argument that humans are naturally willing to harm infants for personal gain is not at all true. Generally, harming other humans, especially young humans, is deeply traumatic to most of the species. Harming children for personal gain, particularly economic gain, stands to ask why people stand at all to gain economically when committing harm.
Data portrait of a life with long Covid
C++ is complicated, I get it. Things that are "easy" in other languages are "hard" in C++. That doesn't mean that writing C++ code that can't throw isn't something that tens of thousands of engineers
are doing every day. One could argue that all of C++ is tedious, bloated and error-prone.
I agree - which is why less inspectors seem reasonable to m, there are a smaller number of dangerous jobs, less inspectors needed, AND imo, most importantly, the ever-present threat of a very expensive jury award keeps some companies on the straight-and-narrow.
You know you've been programming with shell scripts too much when your first thought seeing the headline is "Okay, but what's the value of $1?"
> you cause the nerves to effectively burn out, overloading the signal to prevent the itch from triggering.

Saturate not burn out! If you killed those nerves you’d end up regretting it as anyone with Hanson’s disease (Leprosy) unfortunately finds out.
Well the tweet is from Sept 2022, so hopefully the roof has been patched for a while now.
Literally every single country on this planet has censorship one way or the other, some a bit, some a lot, what you're saying is that any censorship = China tier authoritarianism ?
AI art is not art. AI art is copyright laundering.
Why the rush to blame capitalism when simple human cultural memeing is at play? Medicine has fads. They are often stopped or started by one or two individuals. Various theories have been held out about various facets of medicine, and doctors often split into camps until they reconvene / one is proven wrong, etc. There is no need to even involve money yet as simple professional recognition and the desire for human popularity is at play. For example, basic research reveals that even in countries with socialized systems, tongue ties seem to be a thing that people now have

For example, the NHS has a whole page on it, with a link to an industry association to help you find a practitioner. Now, it would make sense that the doctors themselves wanted the procedure done (they get paid), but why would the NHS, who loses money, put this information out there unless certain doctors actually believed it?
isn't it funny that we've come full circle to just paying for search results? Which was something Google could have done long ago (and there's a new company offering paid-search services that people talk about on here, I can't recall the name).

So they create the problem by increasing ads and spam in the result, then sell you the A.I. solution. What's next? Put more insidious ads that still answer the original query but have an oblique reference to a paid product?
I’m torn on litter. On one hand, I like a clean immediate environment as much as anybody else. On the other hand, throwing it in the trash is just hiding the problem. The garbage was still generated, and it still goes somewhere. If we were forced to confront the sheer amount of garbage we produce, maybe we would be compelled to produce less. But ah well… out of sight, out of mind.
Don't forget the "our options have recently changed" part that was recorded when Bush was in office
While I do see this as great news (for all the reasons others have outlined), I wonder how this will impact VC in the future; If the current goal is for companies to get VC money, burn that cash for years and years and years, and then have a huge IPO or acquisition (that makes it all worth it), it would seem regulatory issues would start to scare away investment.
Yes, XD directly competes with Figma.
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A simple PDF text extractor, where you can extract texts from PDFs, combine with other files and convert to other formats. I am looking at ways to improve its design and add important features.
The AI Stanley Parable is coming
It seems like the common refrain is to blame Lina Kahn for conservatives stacking the courts against her since before she was born.
You are free to say that already, yes. And I would say it's morally acceptable to say that to anyone trying to manipulate or trick you into something.
"The companies have signed a termination agreement that resolves all outstanding matters from the transaction, including Adobe paying Figma the previously agreed upon termination fee." - that's from the announcement on the Adobe blog. Does that mean that they do not have to pay the $1bn break-up fee to Figma now?
thanks this is helpful!
On the fact that you're investigated because you hold certain beliefs or say something that the party currently holding power doesn't like.

I don't think it is a more violent society. Maybe in the discourse, but not in actual crime. And yes, people are more polarized, but I think it is tied more to the economic context than anything else.
I talked to a luddite on this:

"What if I take my own pictures, and train the data on my own pictures?"

Their answer:

"No"

Luddites, nothing more. They will become obscure while everyone else advances. She uses her colored pencils, I use digital art. Guess who works at a coffee shop.
Never attribute to malice what is better explained by stupidity. Often doctors just take wild guesses and use their positions of authority to make it seeem as if they know what they're doing. This is a historically problematic part of the profession and has led to all kinds of known harms. For example, the deaths of laboring women in early maternity wards by doctors who 'knew best'.
Different Sampling Strategies for LLMs
Uh... no. There'd just be garbage everywhere. (Source: I've lived in places where there was garbage everywhere.)
I was in Korea several years back, and they had an innovation that anyone with working experience in fast food could appreciate: Built into the garbage cans at places like KFC was a hole to pour the remains of your soda into, so later on some kid didn't have to delicately move a garbage bag with two gallons of liquid in the bottom of it.

We can't have that in the US because it would take about 30 seconds for someone to plug the hole up with garbage.
what is the nature of these pixel changes?
The non-USB Beurer BR60 works very well, doesn't require a phone, and is about half the price. We have used them and found them very effective.
IANAIPL but I find it difficult to believe that trademark is valid, considering it's never been used in trade. There is no Jarvis digital assistant software sold either fictionally or IRL. Even if the trademark were somehow upheld, I don't see how there could be any damages.
Sure, but it was also very predictable. Even 20 years ago individual European states started wielding the censorship bludgeon to keep their societies from exploding.

Heck, has there ever been freedom of speech in Europe? Just consider the classic films France has censored (paths of glory, Battle for Algiers) over the last 70 years while allowing the most deprived smut unchallenged. The UK's censorship has a wiki entry (including reservoir dogs and Battleship Potemkin!!). And those are the most liberal speech countries in Europe.
> Github was written in Rails, I guess by your logic original developers should be ashamed of what they built? Would they be able to deliver something like that if they had some sticks&stones version of an http library built by one guy in the beginning?

Great example to prove my point. They used a framework to quickly get something out of the door and working, validating the business idea, but later migrated away from it, when they had to build for longevity and turn GitHub from good to great.

> Besides that all of those questions are basics that anyone who actually works with the stack will be able to answer easily

except you by the looks of it ^^

> How will this differ if I jump into your hand-made solution?

Yes I'm calling library functions by typing code with my hands

Overall the rest of your comment is just pitiful and I'm not even going to address your outburst because you can't handle that someone on the internet has a different opinion on frameworks than you do.
I think the US already went through their populist cycle between 2008-2020. If that cycle theory is true, we shouldn't have to worry about it until our old days.
I've also found that, at least with Comcast, swearing at the bots will usually put you through to an operator.
That would certainly be good for Adobe's users, but it means they'll have to put in a lot of work, which costs money that could otherwise buy so many yachts.
The lack of humanism in comments like this one are worrying. The fact that you don’t understand art or the artistic process doesn’t mean they are not relevant to a healthy society.
Just make a new rule that you can only post content on x that has first been posted on a properly moderated social media site.
You have a different definition of "regret" from what most people think, then.
>They are actually very limited, because a GPU does not work, like many cpus in parallel (how I initially assumed).

This is how I understood GPUs. What's a better way to understand them?
But there are many apps called Jarvis, so I am not sure how that is supposed to work?
What is "unchecked" refering to here? Isn't the EU more a "checked" power than (say) the owner of the platform in question is?
I would love to see this enforced! That would be an interesting turn of events on AI
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The vast majority of litter in my area is from the homeless population.

They receive ‘donations’ from well intentioned people, usually in the form of items wrapped in single use plastics. Those wrappers are simply discarded on site. None of them use a dumpster, even if in walking distance.

There are several ‘good’ members of the population who want out, but have mental issues (I speak to and help personally), but the lion share is drug users with no desire except to use, and while angry about their situation, that is less important than to use.

I’m active in trying to provide real help as it’s something I’m passionate about. My advice is please don’t give anyone a single use plastic, please paper wrappers only. Remind them your help is conditional on them throwing the trash away and you’ll be back to check for the wrapper.

Please PLEASE don’t hand homeless cash donations, this hours straight to the local dealers. This drives up policing cost when they become violent or have to perform wellness checks, and they inevitably wind up in the ER for OD or wandering into traffic, driving up healthcare costs since they simply leave and never pay, using it as s convenient in demand shelter. If you do have cash, donate it to your local mission. If the homeless person demands cash, tell them you sent your money there.
More than 10k scientific papers were retracted in 2023
That makes no sense at all. There's plenty of inventions and tech that has come to life throughout history, where you had to do or consider something in order to use it.
"I need an SUV for my family of 5. Which one should I buy?"

"What is the gas mileage of the Chevy Colorado?"

"What electric vehicles are in your lineup?"

"What is the difference between the Sport and Performance models of the Equinox?"

Feed the LLM the latest spec sheet as context and give it a few instructions ("act as a Chevy sales rep", "only recommend Chevy brand vehicles", "be very biased in favor of Chevy...") it can easily answer the majority of general inquiries from customers, probably more intelligently than most dealers or salespeople.
Who is right?

The people who are happy to have higher quality artwork at lower costs, allowing humanity to progress further?

Or the establishment who want their own desires fulfilled at the expense of the rest of humanity?
It does seem like a misleading headline.

Do you know if there's any analysis online of what parts of the budget were scrapped?
>Yet here you are, criticising them with absolutely 0 fear of any kind of repercussion, and you could be 100 times harsher and still expect nothing wrong happening

How benevolent! Zero fear as a person with insignificant reach and following, commenting on a tech forum (and under a nickname). What a feat!

Try having 0 fear as a journalist doing your job. Or as a whistleblower. Or as a content creator.

Even mere regular people expressing counter to the party line views in major issues on social media are fired, censored, harassed by the police, "fact checked" into social media bans, increasingly the target of new related laws (recent examples from UK, France), and so on.

Heck, just a couple of weeks ago students supporting Palestine in US universities were doxxed, threatened, and had a coordinated effort to render them "unhireable".
Some of those humans had a script that was useful and thus worth going through - 99% of the time your issue is the same as the one everyone else is having. Maybe you check before calling things like it is plugged in, but even then there are many common problems and since you don't have the checklist they need to go through it to see what item on the checklist you forgot.

What humans do well though is listen - the 1 minute explanation often often gives enough clues to skip 75% of the checklist. Every chatbot I've worked ends up failing because I use some word or phrasing in my description that wasn't in their script and so they make me check things on the checklist that are obviously not the issue (the light are on, so that means it is plugged in)
That's kind of a point, no? I want the society where I live to get better. Other societies have their own citizens, it's their job to improve theirs.