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Eetan
2d ago
No cybersecurity expert should be worth this PR disaster.
Optics! Think about the optics!
Maybe they feel that in modern time, when scandals come and go with lighting speed, when public with attention span of gnat stops caring once last hour's breaking news rolls out of screen, worrying about "optics" is no more necessary.
Maybe they are right.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
2d ago
As an example, deployed US soldiers and others stationed in allied nations often get processed by the American (UCMJ, as appropriate) justice system. It's obviously unfortunate when it happens, and sometimes leads to local protests and upset local officials, but at the high level neither side sees it as worth ending the arrangement (historically, "better US troops than Soviet ones", I'm sure). See the death of Harry Dunn in the UK and various incidents in Okinawa and Germany.
I'm not here to defend the process, merely to note that it happens.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
2d ago
It's all fun and games until they've H1B'd critical infrastructure you didn't even realize existed. Oh the things I've seen...
It's one thing to laugh and joke about Meta or Microsoft enshittifying everything thanks to H1B value extraction. But you have no idea the enshittification that's coming in areas that desperately require a high trust, conscientious workforce.
ThomasdelVasto
Κύριε, ποίησόν με ὄργανον τῆς ἀγάπης σου
2d ago
Ok fair. I'm just a big softie and I get sad when people get banned. But I appreciate the job you do.
The press release claims they were charged with "Luring a Child with Computer for Sex Act". Likely NRS 201.560 1b, 4a. One to ten years, same as for statutory sexual seduction. Interestingly enough, using a computer is a mitigating circumstance, doing the same without a computer, network etc carries a penalty of two to 15 years.
So the cops posed as 15yo's or younger. Grown men going for sex with 15yo's is bad. I mean, it could be that the cops only implicitly mentioned their supposed age, as in, "I was $AGE when $EVENT happened", but otherwise I have no problem with this sting as far as I can tell. Depending on the specific circumstances, I think that a minimum sentence of a year is a bit harsh though. If a 15yo manages to get on tinder, she will likely find some adult guy willing to fuck her in very short order if she does not mention her age. Doing the same as a sting, with the only difference being that you mention the age will likely catch a steady supply of guys without changing the situation of the real minors one bit.
Of course, it could also be that these men were grooming what they thought to be 8yo's on Roblox or whatever, but cynically, that would be a lot more work per person caught, and also be a lot more impressive, so they would mention it in the press release.
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The left will of course make hay with this story. Trump's handling of the Epstein case is already suspicious as fuck, so the narrative "MAGA leadership believes important people get to fuck 14yo's" is already there. Add to that the Israel connection, where the narrative of the left is that the US is bending over backwards to give Israel whatever they want. "Trump supports Israel murdering kids in Gaza, so why would he not support them raping kids in Vegas" or something.
Of course, the people who claim that Jews have an undue amount of influence will also make hay with this story. Jews ritually murdering Christian babies would probably fit better into their traditional narratives, but Jewish men getting away with sexual misconduct -- especially against minors -- is still a juicy story for their side.
On part of the Israeli guy, this seems a major failure of judgement. I mean, that guy was in fucking Vegas, and could not be arsed to hire a hooker who at least claimed to be 18? The obvious solution on Trump's and Nethanyahu's part would have been to just let him get convicted to the minimum sentence and put on probation after half a year. No cybersecurity expert should be worth this PR disaster.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
2d ago
It's sad that there's this misapprehension that girls are being kidnapped by abusers, when a huge number of runaway girls (something like 20%-40% in most studies) are fleeing sexual abuse in the home.
AfterEpictetus
2d ago
I work for a software consultancy that has recently gone heavily for building an "AI accelerator" for clients.
Full disclosure, I just moved from GPU based image generation (non-AI) to embedded, I'm trying desperately to avoid working on the AI projects. Take my comment with a big grain of salt, as I'm definitely biased.
They are definitely useful. Mostly as a way for executives to summarize and interrogate quarterly reports. They're probably going to replace several data analysis teams whose jobs have been building Power BI dashboard for the past 10 years.
The hype cycle is definitely real, but most clients have wanted the chat bots built as a box checking exercise, and have no idea what they actually want out of it (based on in-depth conversations with people on the AI accelerator teams). I expect the trough of disillusionment to hit hard and cancel most of these projects.
theincompetencetheorist
2d ago
I'm not deeply plugged in to the industry, nor the research, nor the subculture, but it seems like the substantive value increase per watt is rapidly diminishing. If that's true, and there aren't any efficiency improvements hiding around the next corner, it seems like we may be entering the through of disillusionment soon.
Well there seems not enough money is being spent on trying to reduce the power use of inference. A startup that work with silicon for inference tried that can't raise funding enough to retain their engineering teams. Like something is off if companies that try to solve the concrete problem can't get funded but other companies lights stacks of cash on fire to subsidize model usage just to capture market share. The whole thing looks bonkers to me!
naraburns
nihil supernum
2d ago
Either way, whenever teenage girls or boys run away from home, I'm assuming it's usually done on the initiative and with the support of an older man who's usually interested in her sexually, who may or may not be a pimp in reality.
This is definitely not true. Most runaways are going solo, or with the assistance of peers (including romantically involved peers). Pimps and predators are real, but far from common.
theincompetencetheorist
2d ago
How about proofreading a long document? You can get LLMs to go through page by page and check for errors like sate instead of state, pubic instead of public, dependent vs dependant...
Spellcheckers and grammar checkers have been a thing for ages in word processors, without throwing massive amounts of compute at it.
JTarrou
2d ago
Your source is Shaun King? Talcum X hisself?
The rest is pretty bog-standard conspiratorial huffing. You could pull some police-blotter item on literally any group in the world and construct some bullshit secret conspiracy. Of course, with Da Jooos, there's always some genius like Shaun King to get things started.
jfx
2d ago
hey thanks for the answer, im not too active here atm. It seems to me you are balancing multiple goals and identities with your fitness regiment:
- lifting for looks (hypertrophy, bodyfat)
- lifting numbers --> charitably: "powerbuilding" approach
- your identity as a capable distance runner aka ye golden times of your 20ies
it is very hard to balance all these goals simultaneously. I had similar issues of balancing different goals (BJJ instead of running). To me, most helpful has been the insight, that due to the memory effect, you are free to regain most of your old gains quickly if you train accordingly. This allows you to prioritize one goal over others with a "good concience" in the mid term. For example: once I let go of some "must-have" lifts and rep ranges (hello bench press 3-6 reps) and embraced hypertrophy training fully, my looks really improved while aches injuries went down
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
2d ago
So you've got lots of examples, but obviously no one case will be exactly the same, so you can nitpick endlessly to claim somehow this one was unique and special because Jews. You have failed so far to meet the challenge of offering anything other than "Jews" as evidence.
kky
2d ago
Two small notes. First, you are almost certainly being heavily subsidized on that $20 plan. All the evidence points in that direction. You may be paying 1-2 orders of magnitude under cost. Second, the most interesting part of the METR paper was that the devs thought they were being sped up, but the opposite was true. Provably so. Intuitions on AI efficacy cannot be trusted prima facia. Many people find them enjoyable and interesting to use, which of course is their right, but we should not trust their estimates on the actual utility of the tool. Both of these facts seriously undermine the boosters’ case.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
2d ago
Age of consent is also 16 in Nevada. So presumably the alleged (most likely non-existent) minor was younger than that.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
2d ago
It's not the piece of paper that drives a man/woman to choose their own ethinc group for favoritism.
Exactly so. So even if she was born in Israel, claiming she is loyal to Israelis above her duties as a US citizen or an attorney general requires more evidence than "She's a Jew."
CertainlyWorse
No one is coming. It's just you.
2d ago
I'm a bit slow on this one, but I saw a hilarious clanker clip the other day.
CertainlyWorse
No one is coming. It's just you.
2d ago
As LLMs currently stand I trust articles that use AI less than those 100% written by people. I understand that for many people its an upgrade on their usual coherence, grammar etc, but it just makes me feel like they're covering up something that they're lacking. Whether its content they can't create themselves or something else, I'm not sure.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
2d ago
Yes, but it hasn't come up overly often.
On the other hand, I quickly tire of and stop reading blogs that use AI generated art as illustrations every two paragraphs. Not out of some sense that it's harming artists, but just because I find it so ugly and stupid that I have trouble maintaining respect for a writer that clearly thought it looked good.
Corvos
2d ago
Also they're just aware we don't have the personnel to make Europe work the old way any more. Even the politicians are increasingly aware that mass immigration isn't a long-term solution, though they can't wean themselves off it until something takes its place.
Outright dismissing them makes for a boring discussion, because then there is nothing to discuss unless the specific failures can be discussed. Concept of distortions I am ready accept, because whenever I hear how the calculations are made, they sound heartwarmingly crude. Method for constant prices adjustment even more so (what is the value of MacBook in 1980?). But any attempt to account for it is a headache, too.
I do believe the numbers are not wholly invented, so they track some kind of signal, which is a relevant to enough for to make the point: LLMs have not (hedge: not yet) caused dramatically increased GDP, but GDP (per capita) and productivity statistics increased when the office adopted MS Office.
Eta: sent an early draft too early.
2rafa
2d ago
To be fair that is a particularly grim example. There are people who travel for work in finance who mainly shuttle between 5* hotels in London, NYC, Hong Kong. There are people in marketing, media, fashion, conferences who mainly travel to luxury resorts to attend events where they mostly stand around. There are people who do go to more boring places but who travel mainly locally, 1-3 hours by plane or train from where they live. And besides, even if you’re in manufacturing going to Shenzhen every month for a few days, you can go Monday-Friday and “work” a grand total of 15 hours over the week with the rest spent travelling, in hotels watching TV, or drinking with your coworkers which, while work, is something a lot of people find more enjoyable than Excel or writing emails.
In my experience travelling for work is something naturally conscientious people struggle with and naturally lazy people love.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
2d ago
When you have a far right whose most important political principle is "whatever makes the libs cry is good", and also "libs" will always end up meaning whoever is the enemy at the time, it should go without saying that inter-far-right wars will always end up acquiring a specifically ridiculous character.
I feel like they're blowing their load too early on the Newsom stuff. If the pivot came closer to a primary cycle I'd back it but I feel like he's giving himself too long acting like this without getting boring, cancelled or both
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