Constant brawls no, but I’d never say the NYC subways are boring.

It is a prototype.

Their development roadmap specifically mentions Android AND iOS versions…

I haven’t reviewed the whole thing, only small parts but it does look to handle online verification better (re: invasiveness).

There is a section talking about a prototype app already released that is used to store age. It verifies off a couple different government docs (ID, bank details, upcoming Digital ID), but in the end only stores the user’s age (no name, ID, birth date, or other details). The fact page for the app claims that once age is established there is no further contact between the user and age verifier, but of course this is where I likely see the issue with any age verification tool. It’ll depend on whether the verification tool trashes age-related data once done with it, or if they retain a copy for whatever reasons.

Proof of age is tied to the age required per country per activity, but this sounds far more reasonable than having a single company verify and manage age data (Persona in the US).

Just some thoughts on where this may go.

If this continues to keep the public’s eye, Trump may offer Maxwell a pardon for “testimony”. May be truthful, may not, but basically gets her out of jail. Lying under oath carries a lower penalty and sentence than her current crimes, and this mostly prevents any related federal charges.

Or perhaps an offer of a pardon to stay silent until this dies down. I just checked and it doesn’t look like pardons need to be disclosed to the public, matters like ongoing court cases or sensitive matters can preclude disclosure. Not that legality has been stopping Trump from doing what he wants anyways.

Finally, he may just actually go for a full pardon of himself for these crimes. Doesn’t stop him from falling prey to states charges, which stands a better chance now that he’s served two terms.

IANAL, so feel free to correct me where wrong.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a book that was made into a movie.

Oh I agree, but a quick movie rewatch vs re-reading the entire book?

I rewatch this movie probably once every couple of years, and it’s just about that time. Thanks for the reminder!

Let’s see who is really at fault…

Okay, then self host an open model. Solves all of the problems you highlighted.

I guess this really depends on the solution you’re working with.

I’ve built a voting system that relays the same query to multiple online and offline LLMs and uses a consensus to complete a task. I chunk a task into smaller more manageable components, and pass those through the system. So one abstract, complex single query becomes a series of simpler asks with a higher chance of success. Is this system perfect? No, but I am not relying on a single LLM to complete it. Deficiencies in one LLM are usually made up for in at least one other LLM, so the system works pretty well. I’ve also reduced the possible kinds of queries down to a much more limited subset, so testing and evaluation of results is easier / possible. This system needs to evaluate the topic and sensitivity of millions of websites. This isn’t something I can do manually, in any reasonable amount of time. A human will be reviewing websites we flag under very specific conditions, but this cuts down on a lot of manual review work.

When I said search, I meant offline document search. Like "find all software patents related to fly-by-wire aircraft embedded control systems” from a folder of patents. Something like elastic search would usually work well here too, but then I can dive further and get it to reason about results surfaced from the first query. I absolutely agree that AI powered search is a shitshow.

Alright I don’t like the direction of AI same as the next person, but this is a pretty fucking wild stance. There are multiple valid applications of AI that I’ve implemented myself: LTV estimation, document summary / search / categorization, fraud detection, clustering and scoring, video and audio recommendations… "Using AI” is not the problem, “AI charlatan-ing” is. Or in this guy’s case, “wholesale anti-AI stanning”. Shoehorning AI into everything is admittedly a waste, but to write off the entirety of a very broad category (AI) is just silly.

Yeah, had to answer a few of these in a personality match assessment when I was greener. Answered them truthfully and… never got a response from the company. But things like: are you willing to grind yourself into dust if the need arises, do you perform 110% 24/7 or just enough to eek by, and the classic “do you work to live or live to work”.

I would think that any business having this on an employment screener would be a huge red flag. But also, part of being a seasoned (read: weathered) corporate wage slave is answering nonsense like this with the corpo-appropriate response and NOT your actual thoughts.

My limited searching found that Amber alerts are generally controlled by regional police organizations. Indigenous tribes tend to not mesh well with local law enforcement, and as a result indigenous-related crimes tends to fall through the cracks due to lack of coordination / jurisdiction issues.

This sounds like an effort to allow alerts to be more (?) controlled by indigenous tribes, but still distributed in the manner that Amber alerts are.

[from a breakdown of expenditures]

• Spent $638,000 on two luxury mattresses
• Spent $295,000 on luxury bedding and linens

Hot damn, and I thought my current $700 foam mattress was overkill.

https://archive.is/ohI5R

Silo. I don’t think that phrase was said in the Fallout show.

So… you’re saying the options were ONLY:

1. Vote Harris and go on like this have a chance at actual reform
2. Vote Trump and burn it all down watch access and affordability evaporate

What do you mean what other option is there? It was quite clear that Trump intends to abide by Project 2025, and what it spells out for the future of America’s education system is bleak. He had no intention of making it more affordable, and every intention of making it pay to play.

Maybe he’ll fix the affordability aspect as a side-effect of his mass deportations, but that won’t matter all that much when the general public fails to qualify for tertiary schooling. That public-private education quality divide is just going to snowball and make higher education even more of an elitist activity.

Not sure what you’re arguing here. Are you saying that Trump’s attempts to improve the education system are somehow better? And what exactly are those attempts?

He plans to support increased privatization of education, reduce funding for public options, and gut the DoE. So limited oversight of educational standards at a time when our standings on the international education stage are slipping?

It isn’t the best solution, sure, but I really hope you aren’t making the argument that because what Biden attempted was more of a bandaid fix we should roll the dice with the Trump University guy.

It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this.