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>they would want to take a few weeks of testing and red teaming before re-releasing.

One wonders why they haven't done this kind of testing before going public with such an important feature of such an important new flagship product. It's not like the prompts were some super niche stuff that required a lot of imagination to conjure.

And they could have blocked the people image generation feature from the start if they saw it malfunctioning like that in tests and didn't have enough time to fix it on such a short notice before launch.

I find it hard to believe nobody internal at Google bothered to play with Gemini to generate people for shits and giggles and saw the hilarious wrong outputs and raise the alarm.

Or they did ran tests, saw the issues but they decided internally that there's nothing wrong with those generated outputs, which is even worse.

Either way, whichever reason it was, why would you use or even want to pay for a Google product if this is the level of QC and broken functionality you can expect from Google products?

To further my point. I use ChatGPT to translate stuff from English to German a lot and now I used it to write a legal complaint in German and I tried getting Gemini to translate it as well to compare it to ChatGPT, and instead of doing that, it just said it won't do it because it can't offer legal advice. FFS, I didn't ask you for legal advice, I already did my research on that topic, I just asked you to translate verbatim from English to German.

Gemini's "safety" guardrails make it beyond useless at this point that I wouldn't even use it even for free. How does Google plant to make money from it? Or is it gonna be another side-project they'll cancel in 2-5 years.
Are we also not sure that this is a danger of letting one advertizer become dominant on the entire internet and controlling a large part of human discussion?
I think the former is avoided because attitude control thrusters don't tend to be very powerful, so you're adding another variable you need to zero out right as you land, and because sensors can't necessarily be rotated and still provide useful data.

Allowing the lander to take a bit of a hit is kind of what IM-1 ended up doing :P but jokes aside, the legs add a bit of tolerance for this, and it has been done on Mars (wrapping rovers in inflatable balloons to absorb the impact), but I guess the logic with the Moon is that you need to do a controlled propulsive descent anyway (and with heavy/large payloads you have no other options), so might as well focus on doing it properly. With Mars there's an atmosphere to help, reducing how controlled the descent needed to be for lighter things.
"AI" and accessible front-end components: is the nuance generatable?
Do you know if one kept it plugged in vs the other only recharging when needed?

I wonder if that explains the battery difference.
That’s a fair point. I skimmed it and got the gist of their approach, but I didn’t deep dive. It’s very hard to do what they’re trying to do rigorously. The real problem lies in the formulation of the question. It also doesn’t feel like they’ve “steelmanned” the original thesis, which is suspicious (tbf it’s rare in most of academia to see folks genuinely try to disprove their own position).
I'm interested in this, but I noticed a base58 hash on the page. I'm not really interested in crypto. How much could I use this product without adopting crypto? Is this attached to some digital currency like ipfs or is it independent?
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Just install some browser extension that automatically refuses them.
The parent commenter was making the point that the particular buttons on the latest Model 3 (Highland) actually feel almost like physical buttons. They require pressure and won’t activate just by being brushed against.

Still, as blinker controls they don’t have tactile markings and a stalk would be much better.
So? Still not a colony, right? Imperialism =|= colonialism, get your definitions right before you call me "friend", so much politeness I expect, even on the internet.
> This story appears to confirm that Google sees ideological influence as part of their core mission

That's confirmation bias. I could do the same argument going the other way. That google profits of misinformation by promoting content that is demonstrably false and have caused harm in the real world. BTW, scientist can have opinions too, and such opinions can be wrong. What opinions were expressed? That closing borders doesn't work? Yes, once there are multiple spreading points restricting movement in international scale doesn't work and would be unpopular due the economic harms it brings. That mask doesn't work? Yes, they don't work because to be correctly used you literally have to have them 100% of the time when you are outside of your bubble, something that the public isn't very disciplined about.
It's a wonderful reminder of who is trying to spy on me.
I might take your comment more seriously if you a) put your name behind it and b) dropped the “just asking questions bro” shtick when you obviously have some sort of axe to grind with this project.
This seems believable to me. Same way they fought spam in the search results. They didn't care about false positives, just whatever algorithm made for less spam, regardless of the end quality. Overweight big companies in the results and toss out good stuff? Sure. It's lazy, but the pure spam was mostly tamped down.
Now consider an alternative website which does not track you and therefore does not have to show a cookie warning each time.

Even in its worst form, the cookie warning is giving a significant material advantage to the non tracking website over the tracking website, which without the cookie warning the 2 websites would have appeared exactly the same to all users.
As a European I always have mixed feelings when this comes up. First things first, the European NATO members signed a contract to use 2% of GDP for defense and some are not doing that. Not right, they have to honor their agreements.

But then why is the US spending so much more than the 2% ? I feel that by and large that Europe and mostly the EU tries to have international influence via commerce. (Trade agreement/or not, customs, economic pressure, regulation, that sort of thing).

When you look at the US then in some instance you can't help but thinking that the military is another arm to execute international influence in the world. For that it might make sense to have a large military budget. If that's not your way of making politics, and let's be honest no European country could even do that if they wanted, then it is also less interesting to have a large army in excess of what has been agreed (the 2%)

All of that also with the view that probably most people are shocked that it is actually possible to have an actual war in Europe again. This was unexpected and most people thought, we have enough weapons to deter any attacker. let's leave it there. And in fairness that still holds. The 2% seem to be about right to have a useful deterrent for an attack.

So in Europe (despite how it looks now with the Ukraine war) a big army was seen less useful and when the Americans say they have to hold a defense umbrella then they are probably right with regards to nuclear defense.

But for the rest the Americans seem to have their own motives to have a large army that goes beyond defense and then it feels a bit strange to hear that America has to pay for a big Army because the Europeans don't do it (except the Europeans really should stick to 2%). As the Europeans have less incentive/possibility to use their military for anything else but defense whereas the Americans do.
How You Can Easily Delay Climate Change Today: SO2 Injection
I remember a half-assed roll-out of funny filters on Hangouts, like adding ears to somebody's head. Didn't work on our black team members. It was probably never tested on black people before they released it? You can't hide a subconscious racist Asian-White bias by using counter racism.

The problem is systemic and it starts at the very beginning when they vet the people they hire. If you didn't go to particular American, European or Asian universities or have a non-super talent career path you're not going to get in.

Which is exactly what happens to people from disadvantaged backgrounds or countries.

You cannot preach diversity and at the same time not even represent the diversity that exists among white people from the United States alone at the same time.
> But the single market is what it’s for. Without it, the EU would cease to exist. To understand what motivates EU, as an organisation, you need to understand the single market

The author writes that really the only point of the eu is to be a single market, but that’s not true.

It has other goals, well stated in its principles and values, in which one is “establish an internal market.”

It’s important because it’s a common right wing talking point where I live in the EU. The right wing use it as an argument for making EU weaker, because they think that it “has moved away from its original purpose, to be an economic union.”. No, its stated aim and values are not just that but many other. The author seems to make an argument the other way around, that it is only an economic union; there is a disconnect and both parties are wrong. It is not just an economic union and its stated goal was never to just be one.

I also take issue with the claim that EU thinks an all-seeing surveillance state is a good thing. They recently repelled the chat control law proposal, and I know they consistently condemn Swedens surveillance for being too intrusive. This just doesn’t match with what he is saying.

But I digress. It's important to realize that if you only understand eu in terms of a market without its other values, then you as a company might be working against their stated goals and be punished for other reasons. The author is far too reductionist.
Like rental, but per minute. Look up car2go, although maybe they're no longer in business in the US, i. Europe they changed their brand name.

It's like those scooters you can hire and leave (almost) anywhere, the benefit with a car is, if you park it idiotically, they can check that you were the last driver and forward the parking ticket to you.
> The only change can come from companies and large businesses.

the large polluting companies don't exist in vacuum. They sell what they sell because consumers are buying it. E.g. saying that Shell / BP is the largest polluter is nice but there is no way to run oil company without selling oil to the individual to be burned.
Yep. Putting as much of your UX as possible in one place makes product development a LOT more efficient. It doesn't always make the product better, though.
I haven't thought much about it, because my revealed preference (and those of so many people I talk to) is so extraordinarily clear.
I love articles like this.
You can, but not at the same time. The data and address bus is shared. IO is done by the 8502 (the 6502 variant) when in Z80 mode, but only one CPU is executing code at the same time - the other one is halted. It was a shame they didn't sort that out. I don't know enough about the Z80 to know how practical sharing the bus would be, the way the VIC and 6510 in the C64 does, but almost "anything" would've be better than the arrangement where either one is totally stopped.

(If you have a floppy, though, the 6502 in the disk drive would still be available, and run in parallel, but the disk drive was both severely memory constrained and of course limited to the serial bus.
To death, you say!
And roaming charges? Who doesn't like paying every time they go abroad for something that is now entirely free.
Yeah, no. You just don't follow the EU in detail. Read the EU parliament IG summaries of what happens each week for example. I have much more faith in EU politics than in German ones because they actually seem agile, and run by people with expertise for their respective project.
Well they tried. For example here: https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0UL13A/
Even if it would result in twitter being blocked in Turkey. Now they rolled over https://www.cbsnews.com/news/twitter-censoring-content-recep...

Do you have more information about the "illegal government censorship of US social media"?
I'm sorry but I just don't buy that. If you say show me a picture of person from background X and it refuses to oblige or gives you a misrepresentation , isn't that the definition of discrimination? Is denying the existence of some groups of people somehow friendly to advertisers? Who in the world is asking to show uniform distribution of some racial/gender groups in every image?
Damn, how many problems with LLMs relate to the encoding of the token? Surely every symbolic manipulation task is getting thrown off by this. Memorizing the multiplication table of two three digit numbers is no easy task at all. That explains why the interpreter hack works so well. The python interpreter sees things digit by digit, but the LLM does it token by token.

I've asked it so many times to count the number of words or letters and it was incredibly bad at it.

Since it is capable of splitting large tokens into smaller tokens, the solution to this problem is to create additional training samples that perform "big token" to "small token" conversion and back, so that the model will learn to dynamically provide the most suitable encoding to itself.
I wrote more in the comment above but just to add that the old trackpad is not the best point reference. This is just Apple chasing thinness by making any button barely have any travel. Signal or wiper stalks have 2 orders of magnitude more travel.
Indeed; this is capitalism in its purest form. The linked article about 'Blowback' features user comments containing gems like ‘Grooming little kids to be “trans” or “queer” has outraged many and made things worse’. Advertisers generally do not want their ads seen alongside such polarized and extremist statements, because it could harm their brand (unless they are only targetting that demographic). They pay their advertisement platform to manage that.
> 99% of time there is absolutely no reason to honk

Could it also be that in different places, there are different expectations, and different environments that makes people use the honk for various purposes?

I get that in the US it seems to mostly be a social signal of "fuck you", but in Spain where I mainly drive, I've avoided a couple of accidents by honking after seeing cars slowly coming close to my own car on the highway, especially when passing lone cars when things are no so busy. People seem to stop paying attention then.

Then in Peru the honking is seemingly constant, and people honk in prevention when they pass you, like a "just in case" honk. Honking seems to be a way of life there, rather than for emergencies.
What about codeberg.org?
I haven’t heard a single Google employee say they wanted it to be like that. Do you know who specifically did? It sounds like a conspiracy theory more than anything else.
Past presidents are one of the most informed commentators of current presidents.
But it makes for a great talking point and strawman, doesn't it?

As soon as someone brings that up, one can savely ignore the rest of what they have to say on the subject.
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-netherlands-co...
Not yet, but is coming soon. We have a minor technical challenge to make it work with QUIC.
Welcome to the era of self-promoters and narcissists.
How long will it need to be pointed out that monopolies and platforms are evil ?

Also, linked from the comments there, an earlier example : Substack + Stripe :

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/year-of-troubles-the-hat...

P.S.: it's a shame they fail to make the right conclusions : if anything, Musk's "everything app" is going to be even worse than we have now, for the same reasons.
Indeed, Bath to Oldfield Park was (is?) the most expensive train journey on a per-mile basis possible in the UK.
it seems there is some incompatibility with the naked and capitalism here, and they selected for the first word not the second.
Does it work if you have a thick (non-American or non-RP) accent? Serious question.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMS2VnDveP8
I made a lot off of options..

Note the past tense. The way startups operated a decade ago is quite different to the way they operate now. The tricks to get the most from employees without giving away much equity are more widely known now. I have no doubt that there are still some moral and ethical startups about, but I also think there are many, many more who give out stock with absolutely no intention of it becoming valuable in the future these days.
Per The Verge, it looks like the image generation model isn't even Gemini, but some older image generation model they found on a shelf in their basement and just made Gemini make a call to it for any image requests.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/4/24090879/some-details-on-g...
-1: all large companies throw their market power around. There's nothing special about Apple in this regard.
I did the same thing running fiber in my older house, and was virtually always able to find a premade within a reasonable number of feet of the length I needed. Yeah, I had to widen a few holes to snake the connectors thru, but it wasn't horrible and all in places you don't see it. If it was new construction, I'd certain pay a few extra $$$ to have a pro do it, because I don't trust me to do a good enough job terminating fiber.
And it didn't work very well. It didn't sell much, CP/M was dying at that time and the CP/M support in the C128 was not great. "Half my class" at school had C64's, but I only ever knew one person whose family got a C128. I really wanted one when they were introduced, but ended up with an Amiga a couple of years later instead.
What do you use to find businesses, opening hours, ect.?
That would fall under the non-discriminatory part of its training and whatever "modern takes" it was fed.

If it was fed data from pre Musk twitter, lawd there is going to be some bad training data.
In case some readers don't know where your user name comes from ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo
Oohhh, yes.

But politicians are naturally Chaotic Evil, and they put every XP and GP they can beg, borrow, or steal into maxing and buffing their Disintermediation Resistance numbers.
Science is one lens to view reality. So is personal experience. So is emotion.

In my experience bread makes me feel tired and anxious. Do I really need science to tell me that I should or shouldn’t eat bread? I hypothesized that bread is making me feel like crap and have confirmed it many times. I don’t believe there is a local bread scientist in my small town so I’m just going to go with my gut on this one.
If you go that way you kind of have to admit laws have no power until they're made into the constitution, so everything you really care about and is threatened somewhere else in the world should be constitutionalised, that's not a small pandora's box. vasectomy ? lgbt rights ? same sex marriage ? unemployment benefits ? social security ? pensions ? where do you draw the line
While that is true (if you don't have a seat reservation) you are prohibited from occupying more than one seat per DB ToS.

"Each passenger is only allowed to occupy one seat [...] Passengers who behave contrary to the above regulations, ignore the instructions of employees or otherwise pose a threat to safety and order can be excluded from transport or further transport without entitlement to reimbursement of the fare and baggage price."

Translated from https://assets.static-bahn.de/dam/jcr:82c5f579-c786-41dc-abf... (Page 20, 6.1)
In the "information age" "word of mouth" is called "sharing links".
It seems you were successfully fooled into attributing an intelligence to it :)

Otherwise this question wouldn’t arise and you wouldn’t use “he” to point to a computer program ;)
How so? A P1 is basically the same as an X1. Not even sure why they are different models.
You can say the EU is doing good or bad, but what is reality is that this blog post is ignoring is that the European economy is kind of just falling apart right now directly because of these types of regulations and reforms.

German labor unions are the weakest they’ve been in decades, Europe as a whole is an incredibly undesirable place to run a business in 2024, and EU companies have rested on their laurels so long that they couldn’t hope to even match American and Chinese R&D numbers in the next decade because of these types of regulations pretty much enforcing the status quo.

Europeans have just relegated to the fact that they will always be subservient to American tech companies, which is just brain dead economic policy that will reverse course in 5-10 years once France and Germany shake hands and realize they’ve just fucked themselves over again.

I know it’s not about that, but if you’re going to use anecdotes they should be accurate. The only people who think the EU is doing a good job handling tech are populists, not economists.
I dunno, Bud Lite continues to slide into the abyss because the company is more afraid of going against the woke tide and apologizing- it would rather effectively lose in the market than dare to appear insufficiently enlightened.
Because left-right patterns from the US don't properly transfer to pluralist democracies like most in the EU as well as the federal politics. You need more nuance than a black-white view.
Is there nice interop with BitTorrent for those cases, similar to how Git Annex adds large binary support to git?

For example, if I use Radicle to version a machine learning project, can I use a Magnet link for multi-GB model files?
But you can't tik tok about living in a regular house and paying regular bills. And tik tok is probably where 8500/year comes from ...
I'm in the US. We wanted a commuter train in my city - instead we got a very expensive toll lane built by a Spanish company. The tolls are so expensive by the mile that only the wealthy or those with a business that can write them off as an expense use the lane. If the company doesn't make enough, our taxes have to pay for the shortfall.
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Not sure why downvoted, maybe because it’s a bit of a personal attack on me.

Well, we can say everyone has motives but that does not mean some incentives are more misaligned than others. So it’s not really a counter argument to say “everyone has motives”.

I wouldn’t say it’s my “feelings”, but my common sense, which is mostly derived from wider reading.

Quite often we wish to overcomplicate subjects to make them seem sophisticated. But many topics just don’t lend them to the complex analysis of say, high energy physics, they’re just much more prosaic. It’s ok to say “someone who lives near the sea has accessed to an additional food source and that’s probably beneficial” (as a random example) without having to write a thesis on it.

I defer to Charlie Munger on this topic, as he expresses it so well.
TurboTax is littered with a number of dark patterns. Constantly using fear to upsell to another product. Misdirection.
In the Netherlands, when I had a monthly first class ticket for my commute, I'd sometimes take the train home and back to work during the day to get work done. I was able to focus in the train much better than in the office, sometimes.

I've also considered going freelance and doing all work from the train with an unlimited ticket like this, it'd work great I think.

But sleeping there is a bit too much.
People in the UK actually use their turn signals. Try driving around Central Texas. The joke, as another commenter pointed out, used to be BMW drivers. There is some kind of linear relationship between the luxury of a car and the lack of conscientiousness amongst many American drivers.
This is impressive because I forgot Sally counts as a sister too... and the reasoning for the most part is correct and really easy to understand.
The UK is part of Europe, too.
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