All programmers will switch over to Pero, slashing productivity by 46%.

They're not just suing because perplexity is a competitor. They allegation is they are reselling Britannica's content without permission (also sometimes with errors added.)

It doesn't seem to be about the AI being trained on the content, either. It's about the AI searching and summarizing that specific content, without sending any traffic or money their way.

The problem with allowing this is that primary news sources will go broke if only derivative ones get paid.

The problem with not allowing it is an AI that can search and summarize or find answers to specific questions for you is extremely useful.

I was going to say that translation must require uploading everything to a server which would inherently trigger endless concerns. But the iPhone can do translation on-device with no upload, which surprises me:

You can translate text, voice, and conversations into any supported language. You can also download languages to translate entirely on a device, even without an internet connection.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsupport.apple.com%2Fguid...

Yeah I don't think banning people with certain usernames is going to work.

I think what we need for this is something like Miami Vice, except it's a private security organization operated by Big Tech. It's an all-star team of private investigators and ex-special forces that act as judge, jury, and executioner in the mean streets of the internet-enabled drug wars of the 21st century.

Not sure how it will blend with Denmark's "fix rooms" which is a government-funded safe space for people to go use drugs, but hey, it's complicated.

Now that you mention it, I wonder if this study addressed the energy implications of temperature - people probably are more physically active at an ideal temp, less so to either side of it, but sedentary metabolism speeds up in cold temps.

I don't know, but the density is so high the tape doesn't have to be very long. The 36 PB tape is only about the same length as a 60-minute audiocasette (100m). Whereas LTO-10 is 10 times as long to hold 1/1000 as much data, a "mere" 30 TB! So you could wind through this shorter tape in a fraction of the time, and use a thicker tape.

It's money Oracle has signed contracts to get, but which hasn't been billed yet.

For example if they signed a 5-year $10M contract with a customer for cloud services, they probably aren't getting the whole $10M upfront. In year 1 they might get $2M as revenue, and the remaining $8M would be on the books as RPO.

Having people under contract to pay you for years into the future isn't quite money in the bank, but it bodes well.

True but not sad. Forget AI, if you switch from coding in C++ to Python, within months you will start to lose fluency with C++. Whatever you do stops you from doing almost infinitely many other things.

You are right, there's no such thing. I like it better that way, and I don't think "cars spontaneously exploding or swerving into other traffic due to mechanical failure" is a significant driving risk. I don't want another hoop to jump through.

I'm going to give Adam Sandler a plug here. After hearing about how he's richer than god despite making low-effort trash, I watched one.. and then another.. and another. I find his films consistently entertaining and pretty funny. That is HARD to do. They aren't Oscar bait even remotely, but if mediocre means 50th percentile, that is just not my experience objectively from how hard it can be to find a watchable movie, especially comedy.

You could say this model is part-way between a hollywood movie and a sitcom. Suits me!

It's still fun to watch the video and try to think what it might be.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2F4nzlSz3rJBc%3Ft...

I don't have a good guess. But it's sure cool how that hellfire makes a last second course adjustment and smacks directly into that thing. (Are we not needing proximity fuses any more?)

Darwin Awards are about stupidly killing yourself, not negligently causing the death of somebody else. They don't give a darwin award to somebody who went to a doctor who screwed up and killed them. So the victims would need to have chosen the risk, and had a reasonable way to know what the risk was.

It's hard for us to sit here and judge the risk of each development given future plans. It could work out so long as insurance is allowed to do its thing, and price in the risk. This could result in spending extra to build structures resistant to flooding, or could result in building only cheaper smaller structures with unconventionally high insurance rates with the expectation of rebuilding them periodically. Where it goes off the rails is if voters move in and then start complaining that insurance is not "affordable" (compared to places without such risks) and get the government involved in 'fixing' it.

These pigs are genetically modified, so the UK wouldn't import them anyways!

Maybe young people just don't have the facts. Or maybe they think they have found a way to beat the system. Either way, they are wrong.

I think it's mostly a matter of overgeneralizing from the recent past.