about Uber itself here. But as some minor trivia about Manchester: the "Man" comes from "Mamm", meaning "breast", referencing a small breast-shaped hill that used to be located in what's now the Castlewood district (it's since been lost).
The name of the city basically means "Tit Fort".
Dude it's a cult. That human values, alignment, self improving crap comes directly from the AI alignment and safety cult that OpenAI and Anthropic and others are full of. It's where all the conflicting messaging comes from, all the accusations of Altman saying one thing doing another comes from those folks that are concerned he isn't drinking the right amount of koolaid. They believe AI will become a god, and only they can be trusted to build it.
OpenAI and Anthropic are full of them. Anytime you see some "AI safety researcher" quit all huffing and puffing out the door, it's one of those people causing drama. Anthropic was started by folks from OpenAI that reaaaaaly drank the koolaid, see the inviting religious leaders, the don't hurt the AI feelings stuff, the constant drop of the AI is conscious, etc.
They're fucking nuts, and any accidents that come out of an "AI safety" lab at any of these companies deserves heavy squinting. Making a point by any means and generating scary headlines is their entire goal. And yes, it does seem to conflict with the company's mission. Until you understand these companies are full of people that sincerely think the mission is only they can be trusted in the race to build AI god.
So, anyway, outside of that, I'm not saying standard internet safety stuff isn't warranted. Some auditing and reporting thresholds, know your customer, age regulation, they're worth looking at, just filter out the AI safety nuts because that whole field isn't what it looks like.
What does that actually mean, a kebab shop on every corner (yay), or more abortion restrictions, sin taxes, dry counties, blue laws like can't buy a car on a Sunday, can't buy wine before 10am, can't look at a beer after driving west past the third armadillo cause law and order Jesus says so, posted in every classroom?
You're afraid of there was another religion at the table all your stupid religious laws might have to go, I'm calling it. Big talk from Texas politicians, not a lot of legislating cause it might cut a little close to home huh, fucking hypocrites.
When the US was attacked, we sent our children to die in one of your foreign wars.
When WE were attacked, the largest war in the continent since World War II, you abandoned us - even witholding things that cost you *literally nothing*, like intel to help intercept drones and missiles targeting civilians - and switched to instead threatening to attack us as well, helping pick us apart piece by piece.
Do not act surprised when you get seen as duplicitous snakes and we take action to separate ourselves from your levers of pressure.
The major difference is that scion is not decentralized. A major problem that Scion introduces is that you can't properly sandbox a development environment
A sandboxed development environment still has access to a git remote to pull and push branches, how else would they work? If you're going to wave hands and say that's different, you literally have no clue how access controls on this scion thing works.
If you actually airgap development systems, what are you even talking about, like mount a read only copy of the code in a container, then scrape the ephemeral storage layer off from the outside as you tear it down? Then the system preserving your hypothetical airgapped development uses source control itself to commit the work. The source control system literally does not matter. For local version control you could use anything, or nothing at all. You could use svn then translate it to git commits, you could use git then translate it to scion.. commits? You could just take the whole working copy it produced and squashed commit into whatever the external source control of the day is. Christ you could use svn locally, offline, then translate it into.. external svn commits. It's not rocket surgery. I could fart out scripts to do all of those in any combination in tens of minutes. How could anyone ever think this is only possible with git, like it's the only possible way to do offline development?/!
The actual problem is how many people have opinions on git, and lack a first principals based understanding of how version control even works.
In any case, the rapid fall off of CVS and Subversion proved his point.
He has given us his shoe! This is a sign that all who follow him shall do likewise! The shoe is the sign! It's a sandal! Gather the shoes! Follow the gourd!
The only thing git adoption proves is that sketch is timeless.
O Lord of the Abyss, Prince of Darkness, Morning-Star, please hear my cry: I invoke thee, Lucifer! Turn your gaze toward the Vatican's operating rooms! Guide the surgeon's scalpel with your claws! Burn the tumors from the Holy Father's chest with the infernal fires of Hell! Cast your curses upon any bacterium that may seek to cause opportunistic infection! In the darkness I beseech thee.
Hail Satan, please save the Pope, Amen.
It's cheap and easy to audit OSS for malicious code with AI these days.
It's not really about Microsoft. Increasingly, Europe sees the US as a potential threat who blackmails allies, even a potential invader, rather than an ally.
Literally just yesterday the US shut off intel-sharing to Ukraine (which mainly helps with targeting incoming drones) and blocked all Starlink terminals in Ukraine moving faster than 100kph (e.g. terminals on air-defense interceptor drones), both in effect dramatically hurting Ukraine's ability to defend against Russia's nightly drone waves - all in order to pressure Ukraine into stopping striking Russian oil refineries while Trump seeks to buy more Russian oil and Russia keeps strikig Ukraine's energy infrastructure.
We all know that the US could do this sort of stuff to any of us. We have to move US companies out of our critical paths.
Once upon a time, when the US called for aid after 9/11, Europe stood up. More Danes died per capita fighting in Afghanistan, in a war that was not their own, than Americans did. This year, Denmark was rapidly rushing explosives and bags of blood to Greenland to prepare for firefights against invading US forces.
All of Europe got the message. We're not dining with friends - we're on the menu.
I'm not sure how every centralized version control system can be described as reinventing svn. Or every distributed version control system is a reinvention of git? You can't imagine ways they can be different or improved? Yikes
Fuck off, racist piece of shit.
That damned weight sensor! With my kids it screws up all the time because one person is scanning and other person is standing there holding the previous thing fumbling with the next bag. I started scanning then setting the item outside the bag on the platform instead of handing it off. Then whoever is bag wrangling can bag it in their own time. I think that works, at least I haven't seen the place item on bagging area message in a while.
I can pretend I'm a robot arm on an assembly line, but it sucks for anyone that doesn't predict the shitty programming I guess, that's fair.
The upper end for AI-pilled companies is paying upwards of $7,500 / seat a month. Which would get you some engineer or managers in most parts of the country, or multiple lower level employees. I have no idea what Kroger pays for their AI, but if they think that AI eliminates thousands of jobs then they are using frontier AI at the aforementioned rate. Or they have made a terrible blunder and are going to be short handed.
Most likely they are not using AI for much of anything but don't want to publicly take responsibility for cutting jobs to trim their expenses. Pure accounting trick with a little AI-flavored PR.
Be real, they're not Amazon burning time on their own hardware funny accounting. So more like $20/month a person, maybe $50 for a developer.
Don't worry about them being short handed. They're being sued for some amount that's potentially around three times their adjusted annual profits because of a failed merger/acquisition a couple years ago. They did some buybacks, but growth has been shit for a while, and on Oct 12th, the same day as this AI layoff announcement, *COINCIDENTALLY*WINK*WINK*WINK*, the filings from that lawsuit were made public. Scheduled to go to trial on the 19th. I arrest my case your honor.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.bwbx.io%2Fdocumen...
I used AI to look all this up, so please everyone feel free to burn out your own eyeballs reading a bunch of legal blah blah blah and financial filings. None of these AI layoff stories have anything to do with AI, you just have to look, and use an AI to do it FFS, but also read and ask questions either way. Also I don't want to get sued, so uh sure AI optimized teams can cut through corporate inefficiencies.. just like I use it to cut through the bullshit on Slashdot. AI is good and bad so anything is possible? I'm buying groceries at Krogers tomorrow, they're so awesome, you all should.
Run yourself *on normal hardware*? Yeah, there's a pretty big gulf between that and a frontier model.
They thought self-check was going to eliminate thousands of jobs. Then they figured out that every 4 self-check registers requires 1 human employee to watch it and handle all the alerts it pops up. Pretty sure that one human employee could scan groceries 4 times faster than people doing it themselves, so those self-check registers are saving them... absolutely nothing. And they are seeing a lot more "shrinkage", although I'm not sure whether it is due to intentional or accidental failure to scan items. When I hear a beep, I assume the item scans. Turn out I can't tell the beep from the register I'm at from the beep of any of the adjacent registers... I now prefer human clerks to make it less likely to get arrested for a mistake.
You read the screen to see the price of the thing you scanned along with the total. Not rocket science. I mean shit happens too, we've all walked out with some security tag a cashier forgot to disable at one point basically same thing.
If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.
