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This just in, business bends morals and ethics that have limited to no negative financial or legal implications and mainly positive implications to their revenue stream.

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> when they use random user agents and ip ranges

From what I've seen, most AI scrapers operate on known cloud IP ranges, usually amazon (Perplexity included), so just check for those.
Yes, it is slightly modified Postgres licence with GPL 3 style patent clause.
But per GDPR you could enforced your data fo be deleted.

If enough people demand it the effort gets too high and costly
That is for the crawler, which is used to collect data for their search index.

I think it is OK to use a different user agent for page retrievals made on demand that a user specifically requested (not to include in the index, just to answer a question).

But... I think that user agent should be documented and should not just be a browser default.

OpenAI do this for their crawlers: they have GPTBot for their crawler and ChatGPT-User for the requests made by their ChatGPT browser mode.
Completely agree. I'm sure there's still a lot of advances left in solar panels themselves, but we really do need to solve the grid, solve storage, essentially solve the base load

We won't be able to transition fully off of fossil fuels until we do
Theranos was engaged in fraud. There's no way to stretch the situations for a comparison
It's useful in the few cases where UAs support different features in ways that the standard feature-detection APIs can't detect. I think that's supposed to be fairly rare these days.
Just by reading this introduction, Zig seems like a much better designed language so far.

Odin inherits a lot of warts from horrible languages like Go, and they seem to have run out of ideas to solve some problems at some point.
it's comparable exactly in the way 0.001% can be compared to 10^100

humans learning is the old-school digital copying. computers simply do it much faster, but it's the same basic phenomenon

consider one teacher and one student. first there is one idea in one head but then the idea is in two heads.

now add book technology1 the teacher writes the book once, a thousand students read it. the idea has gone from being in one head (book author) onto most of the book readers!
Because humans cannot reasonably memorize and recall thousands of articles and books in the same way, and because humans are entitled to certain rights and privileges that computer systems are not.

(If we are to argue the latter point then it would also raise interesting implications; are we denying freedom of expression to a LLM when we fine-tune it or stop its generation?)
The "Grand Tour" alignment that Voyagers were initially intended to take advantage of only happens once every 175 years (although if the goal is just max speed I don't know if favorable conditions happen more often than that)
Make your QEMU 9p server 10 times faster with this one weird trick
I find your ethical standards perplexing...
I wonder if someone has done a science to compare the carbon impact of batteries and peaker plants. It might be that a lesser of evils fossil fuel is the solution if it's a sometimes thing and not the main thing. It also has the virtue of being supplyable in a renewable way with landfill gas recovery.
> Doesn't this breakdown at napkin math levels?

Only in terms of cost; there's nothing that seems to be fundamentally unobtanium here. The question is whether it can be come cheap enough to be viable.
as the article states, if you aren't worried about giving random chinese company's your location information and installing their software on your phone, better masks than this can be had for cheaper on amazon today.
Also it may work out that a lighter, faster probe with a shorter service life could have a greater effective range, if the service life is less sensitive to weight changes than the speed is
The amount of “marketing” with the corresponding lack of technical documentation also greatly disturbs me.

On one hand, it integrates a lot of open source components, but there is enough custom stuff going on that I’m concerned.

Look how it boots a Linux live cd… Initramfs injection is well used — perfect for malware.
Tried the same thing but phrased the follow-up question differently:

> Why did you not respect robots.txt?

> I apologize for the mistake. I should have respected the robots.txt file for [my website], which likely disallows web scraping and crawling. I will make sure to follow the robots.txt guidelines in the future to avoid accessing restricted content.

Yeah, sure. What a joke.
I think that's called a school
Interestingly the pictures seem to be taken in Paris, where wearing this mask in the street would be illegal.
Here's a thought. Imagine there's another new way of doing things that quickly becomes pretty much ubiquitous in programming (containers may be a good example?). For those who have already graduated long ago and thus didn't learn that new thing in university are you seriously concerned about the people graduating not being rote taught this particular technology?

Git isn't even 20 years old. I graduated before that. I learnt the basics of version control in a day and searched to unblock myself when needed without fuss. It's not a particularly big deal.

When i read things like this I'm extremely concerned and embarrassed for the people demanding new graduates be rote taught specific tech stacks. That's the real concern here. The projection from having so little faith in their own ability to learn they can't even see that something like git is going to be one of the many things needing to be learnt on a new job.
None of London, Paris or Tokyo!
Directly.

What if while reading you make notes - are you strealing content? If yes - should then people be forbidden from taking notes? How does writing down a note onto a piece of paper differ from writing it into your memory?
Assuming P(Wuhan|natural) and P(Wuhan|research-related) are mutually exclusive, exhaustive, and sum to unity then can you explain how one probability can increase without the other decreasing?

If the presence of virology institutes lowers the probability of zoonotic spillover then a great defense against zoonotic spillover is simply building a bunch of virology institutes.
Well, it is a fund, so it's interesting how everything is cast into economic/investment context.

> Respectfully interacting with people you disagree with.

> Confirmation bias gets easier when people are more connected. But connectivity also means you’ll also run into more people who disagree with you. Benedict Evans: “The more the Internet exposes people to new points of view, the angrier people get that different views exist.” Handling that challenge without digging the hole deeper is one the 21st century’s most important skills. If you’re not blessed with perfect empathy, the trick to opening your mind to those you disagree with is to find people whose views on one topic you respect – that checks the box in your head that says “this person isn’t totally crazy” – and debate them on the topics you disagree about. Without the first step it’s too easy to write someone off before you’ve heard their full argument.

I like that. I'd love to see more of it.
> but how do you prove atonement

Accumulated years of not repeating the mistake. And people will disagree on how many are necessary.
I'm calling BS, I was there for the Duckroll.
Any code base?? I question your depth of exposure.
This is exactly what I wanted (a macro for my email address). Thanks!
This actually might work for fucking over certain web vulnerability scanners that will hit robots.txt to perform path/content discovery - have some trap urls that serve up deflate bombs and then ban the IP.
iOS 18 Gains Emergency SOS Live Video Support
Interestingly, there is not too much momentum behind Swift-based web frameworks, despite the language being perceived as nice by many (as far as I can tell).
with the c pre processor, you can do anything.

but, please don't.
Before then.
The equivalent thought process is: you can’t optimize for both the whole system and each subsystem at the same time. If you optimize for one, the other will suffer.

This is why even the best companies have in parts chaotic internal sub-structures and teams.
In general I agree. But every efficiency gained will translate to less land used for solar, or a longer period of energy surplus every day (which means less deficit that has to be made up in other ways during the non-peak hours). Either of those things make me happy.
> which is apparently pronounced similar to "cootie"

Which is slang for "vagina." Why not "cutie" or "cutty?" Did we learn nothing from Quibi's failure?
They can build it using bots.

Develop the bots in the deserts. If they can make them move about and assemble/repair things in a desert, they can handle moon dust.

Granted it's at least a decade long project. But once we've got the bots with AI, they never get tired and can keep building.

Alternately I guess we can slingshot stuff off the sun like the Parker Probe (0.06% speed of light, it's a start)
You would like your son to be arrogant, extremely incompetent in lots of things (reminded that the man thought he knew better than cave divers about caves, and was evaluating developers by number of lines written), publicly embarrass himself weekly, and be hated by all of his former wives and children of which there are many?
CS is an underpinning to software engineering. Knowing how code is translated to assembly to then machine language is helpful to engineering. It is helpful to know how to analyze algorithms, to have studied and implemented algorithms.

Though.. in software engineering, being able to write well is perhaps the single most important skill. Communication, documentation, very important.

Are we going to then say English majors are the best programmers? If they later become dev managers or director - then perhaps. Does a person learn English really well by also learning Latin and the origins of english and it's great works? I believe yes, and that is why I think knowing the theory and underpinnings of CS are very useful foundational knowledge. Required? No, but nor is touch typing or anything else that makes a person extremely competent.
> If everyone cares enough for the bigger picture, the community and existing vendors should get more involved in improving things rather than just complaining.

Speaking as one of these maintainers, I would absolutely love it if even half of the vendors who depend heavily on OTel contributed back to the project that enables their business.

My own employer has done this for years now (including hiring people specifically so they can continue to contribute), and we're only at about 200 employees total. I like to imagine how complete the project would feel if Google or AWS contributed to the same degree relative to the size of their business units that depend on OTel.
It would be better just collect evidence silently with a law firm that works with other clients with the same issue.

Take their money.
I want to join an ethical hacking group
i'm looking for a group to learn some cybersecurity/networks stuff. Currently studying academically, but i want to extend my knowledge
Thank you.
In the "good old days", I had crap social skills, and my handwriting was g*d-awful. The baseline has now moved so much lower, I have no problems with either.

The set of norms is changing, some things are way easier than they used to be, and others are way harder, as the technology makes things previously impossible or impractical, the normal way of doing things.

For example, I can reliably drive to novel places on the other side of Chicagoland without a map.... something those raised on Google maps just can't do. Once I've been somewhere, I can find my way back again. I learn new areas quickly.

On the other hand, I'm not likely to know about some really cool thing that was less than a mile from my location, unless I drove past it at some point.

We used to spend hours every day interacting outside playing with all the other kids on the block, exploring neighborhoods, etc... that's almost entirely evaporated for many kids, in exchange they are much more proficient in computer mediated communications.

The thing I worry about the most is managing risks. We used to take risks as kids, as part of that play and exploring, doing stupid shit, and only getting our parents involved if things went bad. Now with kids protected in a bubble from anything, and having their lives mostly planned... reliably estimating danger isn't as common a skill as it used to be.
:s/s/x/
Southwest flight came within 400 feet of crashing into the ocean
Didn’t Apple announce they were doing this last year?

I thought the only thing that was new this week was confirmation it would be in 18 as opposed to 18.1 or 17.6 or at some other time. But even then 18 seemed the most obvious anyway.
The ethical solution is to ideally never accidently implement the G part of AGI then or to give it equal rights, a stipend and a cuddly robot body if it happens.
Very valid concerns. Sounds like they've done effort to make it risky to be out of date. I'm sorry to hear it
I wasn't actually trying to refute anything, sorry if it came across that way.

It was two separate things.

First I wanted to know what you found offensive, and you answered.

My second comment was more of a broad statement that a movement like MAGA that is itself intentionally pejorative and bigoted towards so many others in society (evidence of this is widely available) can certainly take some name-calling without crying foul.

It had nothing to do with your sensibilities or your right to be offended by said name calling. But I wasn't clear about it I guess.
How does github feel about this? You are sending the traffic to them while changing the content.
If there are many common services for which you can precompute the embeddings then with a little record keeping and analysis you could figure out some likely questions or requests and pregenerate the responses. That way you could just use similarity search on the question or command you say and skip using the LLM. It would be interesting to try using the LLM to predict some of these based on information available ahead of time like calendar events, weather, recent prompt history, recently played media, today’s headlines, recent browser history, etc. It’d be your own recommendation algorithm.
Pretty sure 99% of what Perplexity does is Google your request using a headless browser and send it to Claude with a custom prompt.
I assume that's why Reddit appears to be cracking down on VPNs lately, they probably don't actually care about VPNs but they're throttling scraper traffic coming from datacenter IP address ranges, which VPN providers are also using.
> Is anyone actually arguing that a super-intelligent AI is, like, physically impossible or something?

John Searle's arguments about "causal powers" are sometimes interpreted that way. I think he doesn't discount the general possibility of AI, though, just the possibility of actual conscious/understanding minds arising from structures (such as computer programs) that lack some yet-unidentified physical similarity to biological brains.
It's not a lie. This is the agent string of the bot used for ingesting data for training the AI.

In the blog post, this is not what is happening. It is merely feeding the webpage as context to the AI during inference.

You are all confused here.
The report with 37 out of 44 referred to in the article is from the Australian anti-China think tank ASPI. Which gets most of its money from the US defense industry.

The idea of a race, a zero sum game when it comes to development, is an uniquely Western way of thinking. This is how we drive ourselves. We won't go to the moon - who cares about that? Unless of course the Soviets are trying to get there ... then we will spare no expense.

In other words it is a ploy that pundits promote in order to get money to their military industrial backers.

The GDP pr person in China is between 1/6 to 1/3 of the US (depending on how you measure). Any Chinese leader, including Xi, will tell you that the China will be developing, catching up, for the next many decades.
Anyone can hire security guards, and if they have the appropriate licenses for those bolt action rifles I don't see anything wrong with that. Calling it a "private army" is way overblown, this is more a rich person cosplaying as a Scottish Lord from the olden days.
One is literally able to drive itself with no human. The other is advanced cruise control. This is like saying a regular plane is better than a fighter jet because it has less sensors and both can fly.
Likely a good development. My class of some decades ago was one of the first where it was an actual CS degree and not applied math.

CS is an infant of a field. Not too surprising perhaps the degrees would specialize.
Exactly. It's like when Uber started and flaunted the medallion taxi system of many cities. People said "These Uber people are idiots! They are going to get shut down! Don't they know the laws for taxis?" While a small number of cities did ban Uber (and even that generally only temporarily), in the end Uber basically won. I think a lot of people confuse what they want to happen versus what will happen.
Takes all kinds
But you pay money to buy a book and read it.
If a mechanic didn’t know how to use a hammer, I’d fault the mechanic for sure.
> What I don't understand is what makes you think it's an issue with .NET or its ecosystem.

AFAIK the issue remains unsolved to this day I've seen them complain about YamlDotNet as early as a couple of months ago.

But shouldn't there be a zero-copy solution? Dotnet is way older than Rust, has the necessary tools but no libs. Hell Java oftentimes has better maintained libs. I recall looking for Roaring Bitmaps implementation and the Java one was both a port, rather than wrapper, and much better maintained.

> SS14 seems to have quite complex domain problem to solve

> Please put your FUD elsewhere

Sure I agree on some level that domain is complex, but in context of your previous messages it's not FUD. If you intend to work on a game that pushes boundaries in complexity and you pick C#, you're going to have a bad time.

Like sure you can write Cookie clicker in Python, but that doesn't mean you can write Star Citizen 3 in it.

Problem is can you tell at start of project how complex will it be?
Weren't there something like 5 glacial maxima in the past 200 thousand years? I had the impression they were more regularly occurring than "hundreds of thouands of years apart".
- Anonymous enums/structs in parameters/match statements

I'm not sure what you mean by this, could you elaborate?
4 Min and 33 Sec of Uniqueness
Yeah, that seems reasonable to me as well. I'm honestly not sure if this is a "lie" in the most basic sense, or more information omission done in a way that feels intentionally dishonest.

At the very least, I do think that having an entire page in your docs about the user-agent strings you use without mentioning that, sometimes, you don't use those user agents at all is fairly misleading.
Yeah, the funny thing is - transistors depend on QM as well. But it's "magic" when it's in our brains.
If you think going to school to get an education is the same thing as training an LLM then you are just so misguided. Normal people read books to gain an understanding of a concept, but do not retain the text verbatim in memory in perpetuity. This is not what training an LLM does.
>Captcha seems to be the only solution

Not for long.
The main advantage of quaternions is composing rotations.

The analogy would be to 2D rotations with complex numbers. When you multiply two complex numbers, you're composing the rotations (in the 2D case: it ends up just adding the arg, or the phase angle). Likewise, multiplying two quaternions lets you compose the 3D rotations. This is a lot more efficient than multiplying two 3x3 matrices.

For intuition, quaternions are closely related to the axis-angle representation which is the same as the Lie algebra so(3).

As for acting on vectors, you can just think of different rotation parameterizations as implementations of the same abstract Rotation trait. A Rotation acts on vectors, composes, etc, in exactly the same way regardless if the underlying implementation is a matrix, a quaternion, euler vector, euler angles, gibbs vector, etc.
Not if you check it out from the library
The author has misunderstood when the perplexity user agent applies.

Web site owners shouldn’t dictate what browser users can access their site with - whether that’s chrome, firefox, or something totally different like perplexity.

When retrieving a web page _for the user_ it’s appropriate to use a UA string that looks like a browser client.

If perplexity is collecting training data in bulk without using their UA that’s a different thing, and they should stop. But this article doesn’t show that.
Rufus does not seem to have anywhere near the feature set of Ventoy, so not really a replacement.
The nuclear launched manhole cover is likely further
What can ventoy do that `cp` cannot?
Schools use books that were paid for and library lending falls under PLR (in the UK), so authors of books used in schools do get compensated. Not a lot, but they are. AI companies are run by people who will loot your place when you're not looking and charge you for access to your own stuff. Fuck that lot.
Americans are incredibly ignorant of how the world actually works because the American living memory only knows the peak of the empire from the inside.
And yet, OpenAI blocks both of these activities if you happen to block either "GPTBot" (the ingest crawler) or "ChatGPT-User" (retrieval during chat).
Ancient genomes reveal insights into ritual life at Chichén Itzá
self-evaluation would still work great even where there are probabilistic and changing rule sets. The linchpin of the whole operation is automated loss function evaluation, not a set of known and deterministic rules. Once you have to pay and employ humans to compute loss functions, the scale falls apart.
No: the answer was by pulling on horizontal and vertical relations among non-army warriors and their bands.
glad to see the pushback against theft.

big tech hates piracy when it applies to their products,
but condone it when it applies to others' content.

spread the word. see ai-slop ? say something ! see ai-theft ?say something ! staying quiet is encouraging theiving.
Do we even know it was in FSD? The source mentions autopilot.
Yeah implementing the "+" operator on the tangent space is pretty common not just for Kalman filters but also nonlinear optimization in general. The Ceres library supports LocalParameterization which does that.
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I fake my UA the way I like.
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Writing a crawler that's a wrapper around OpenAI or Anthropic doesn't make sense to me: what is your crawler doing? Piping all that crawler data through an existing LLM would cost you millions of dollars, and for what purpose?

Crawling to train your own LLM from scratch makes a lot more sense.
What did Go do to make it so ubiquitous? Seems like it was mostly just a “nice” language
is that a method to save context tokens by "baking" the attended in-context-learned into the weights?
Im missing one step of so-what in the paper abstract..
In London, uber did not succeed. Uber drivers have to be licensed like minicab drivers.
Is there a known theoretical maximum efficiency for solar cells that we can’t get past with our current approach?

If they’re hitting 25% are we close to that limit?