@USLaborIG: "I am announcing a historic investigation into the J-1 visa fraud involving nine major American universities — Pit, Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Brown, UC Davis, Caltech, Arizona State, and MIT. Subpoenas have been served; investigations are underway."

If I were, perhaps it's because I'm not seeing any of the real stuff here.

Those are the contractors.

I don't really oppose H1b, but arrest one CEO who is hiring people illegally, and this will stop.

This is true. I like my H1b coworkers (so I definitely won't report anything), but I've never seen a company apply for one in a way that wasn't fraud.

Well, wait, I don't think that actually disproves the claim. I'm not saying it's not impressive, I just don't think it's as novel as you say.

When I ask an LLM to write me code that does something 'novel', it usually does quite a good job. I'm just using the freely available models, but they quite competently write code that is not truly derivative of any other code. If I give them some code of my own that has a bug in it, they'll find the bug and patch it, and that bug is, for all intents and purposes, unique.

You're still seeing a bunch of old patterns rehashed--I presume that other proofs introduce infinity families, and they can iterate through inside a clear logical structure to test whether or not something works. Again, this is impressive work, but I'm not personally convinced that this is 'novel' in terms of the broader corpus of mathematical knowledge. It didn't invent a new field of mathematics to solve your problem.

Even if you didn't prompt it, take a look sometimes at the contemplations of the models, if that's available to you. Before the model even arrives in your hands, it's got stacks of prompts giving it meta instructions, and it then generates prompts for itself to check your work. I think it would be interesting if you ran your experiment again on a new account that's fresh and see if you can watch the chain of reasoning. You might be right, it MAY be doing something TRULY novel, but as I've said, I've got my doubts.

Obviously, you're a mathematician and I'm not; I can't tell you that you're wrong about it if you insist that it is doing something new.

There's no such thing as a 10.

no idea why you would think that. i wasn't remotely touching the subject of regulation, nor was the post i was commenting on, which was sort of a digression about happiness and malpractice. i don't think the main topic has anything to do with regulation either, but i'm happy to discuss that:

i do think ai needs regulation but i don't think hysteria, fud and hyperbole are helpful (and, on another separate topic, i'm quite skeptical about the true intentions of the most eager pushers).

the most important aspect to regulate is military use, from targeting to nuclear deterrence. i think it should be banned there because the consequences could be in the realm of extinction events. sadly no country would abide by that, and mitigations would fall on international law which isn't even that odd political poetry with selective enforcement anymore because as for late we now directly shit on it. so, i'm sorry to inform: we're fucked there.

then there are fundamental and civil rights. surveillance, data collection, processing. also a very serious concern for society but, here too, the interests both of private organizations aswell as states are in clear oposition to those from regular people, in an atmosphere where the disconnect between institutions and people is already worringly high and getting worse. these are battles that each national society has to sort out with their governments. ymmv, and it's rather soonish for many countries, but overall it's not going well.

then there are social and health issues. education (specially children), healthcare, addictive and deceptive products, etc. this is even more diverse and localized.

last and least, economic issues. basically job market, where ai's impact is hardly regulable so what gives, governments should prepare instad for the coming impact but don't even want to mention it. and copyrights, that uncanny realm of lawyers i don't really give many fucks about.

but of course the most talked topics seem to be "i'm not saying it's skynet but it's skynet" and copyrights. now kids games too? we're royally fucked.

How was it not fraud?

H1B is/was intended for worker shortages: for roles you couldn't fill domestically. It was not supposed to decrease the wage of the role, but (in theory) keep it at parity. It was always a ruse, but that was the premise.

If you're firing people and then hiring others at a fraction of the pay, you're literally abusing it. You've applied under false premise. That's fraud.

Hey can't put a price on a much needed evening of circle jerking each other. Of the actors won't do it for themselves who will??

"The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the television industry."(Emphasis mine).

Wow. Nothing screams confidence quite like platform-X needing to play its own awards show on platform-Y just to get enough eyes to make it worth the effort. So cooked the smoke detector battery already went dead.

"None of y'all watch any of what we're going to talk about tonight, but hey, we have a second-rate comedian hosting, and maybe a band or two if they can get rides from the nursing home! And, uh, one of the regu... uh... recurring Seinfeld cast is in the audience tonight! Your parents couldn't get enough of it!"

The real killer app for AI will be when someone creates an AI that grovels over all the millions of low-effort AI slop games out there and flags just the interesting/fun/novel ones for your attention. Otherwise you'll never find the gems amongst all the dross.

First of all, it is important to remember that, like racism, sexism, etc, ageism most definitely is acceptable when practiced by liberals. It is only evil when practiced by the others. People need to be reminded of this from time to time.

Second, I feel like you already probably know the difference between not seeing a comedian because they are outdated, and calling them hurtful names. After all, they try to entertain. Age is an immutable trait. Surely not even you would advocate offending them because they are old?

Or would you?

Understand that it can be hard to keep up with who it is okay to offend, and who it is bad to offend.

It may be true that older people are less likely to have moral panic attacks than younger people. After all, they have already been through numerous moral panics already, and were probably true believers themselves at some point. Eventually they realized that such panics are rarely organic, and mostly started to serve ruling-class political interests, such as divide-and-conquer. This can make them seem more skeptical when new ones crop up, while younger people are still true believers.

But remember, it is the younger demographic which insists that it embraces tolerance and diversity. Is it wrong that comedians took them at their word? You cannot blame older comedians that the whole thing is a lie.

Slashdot doesn't have table support, so it's hard to do side-by-side well, but:

JPEG XL advantages:

Licensing:

JPEG XL: Fully royalty-free (Open source / Apache 2.0)
HEIC: Proprietary patent minefield (MPEG LA, Advance, Velos; royalties apply)

Legacy JPEG Migration:

JPEG XL: Lossless, reversible bitstream transcoding (~20% smaller); fast enough for real-time web servers
HEIC: Lossy re-encode only (generational quality loss; cannot reconstruct original JPEG)

Fine Detail & Textures

JPEG XL: Retains sharp text, fine lines, subtle textures, and film grain
HEIC: Video-derived coding (HEVC / X.265). Tends to smooth out high frequences and smudge grain.

Software Encoding Speed

JPEG XL: Extremely fast; highly parallelized SIMD architecture
HEIC: Exceptionally slow and computationally expensive in software

Software Decoding Speed

JPEG XL: Fast, lightweight multi-threaded CPU decoding
HEIC: Heavy CPU overhead (without using hardware acceleration)

Progressive Rendering:

JPEG XL: True progressive decode; smart saliency algorithm to focus bandwidth on critical details first.
HEIC: None; full file must be received and decoded before display

Lossless Compression
JPEG XL: Dedicated modular mode; vastly outperforms PNG and WebP
HEIC: Ill-suited; you basically have to try to do lossless compression with an inherently-lossy format

Bit Depth & HDR

JPEG XL: Native HDR; up to 32-bit floating point per channel
HEIC: Typically capped at 10-bit or 12-bit integer

Max Dimensions & Scaling

JPEG XL: Up to 1B x 1B; efficient viewport/crop loading without full decoding
HEIC: v5.2, 4096x2160; v6.2: 8192x4320; a tiling hack allows up to 16384 x 16384

Channels & Color Spaces:

JPEG XL: Arbitrary color spaces (hyperspectral); unlimited extra channels (alpha, depth, thermal, masks, CMYK, etc)
HEIC: Rigid container; limited auxiliary channels and standard video color spaces

HEIC advantages:

Rollout / acceleration:

JPEG XL: no dedicated hardware acceleration (thankfully, it's not as important because it's so much more efficient). Software adoption still rolling out.
HEIC: Hardware silicon (ASICs). Default capture format on modern iOS/Android; native capture in Sony, Canon, and Nikon cameras

Video:

JPEG XL: Supports animations (GIF/APNG replacement), with some optimizations** (it's not just a series of stills), but lacks the full set of optimizations that a proper video codec has.
HEIC: Container naively pairs full HEVC video tracks and audio with video.

** - JPEG XL can store up to 4 reference frames in a buffer, with multiple blending modes from the references (add, replace, multiply, etc); has subframe bounding boxes ("dirty rectangles") for when only part of a frame changes; invisible frames; modular deltas (differences between frames); etc. However, it lacks motion vectors (e.g. detecting a feature drifting across a scene and simply having to encode "move it" (followed by any needed deltas). So it's great for "GIFs", but if you wanted to encode a full movie, it'd be significantly larger than e.g. HEVC.

It all depends on who you are optimizing for.

• Parents with kids would do better on standard time, because they have to take their kids to school before work.
• Everyone else with a 9-to-5 job may do better on DST, assuming a short commute distance, because sunrise at 7:20 instead of 8:20 just adds useless time before the morning commute, while sundown at 5:53 means driving home before dark.

There is no one correct answer, because which one fits your circadian rhythms better depends entirely on what time you wake up.

It's a bit like media piracy, these are not people who would have spent money on the product no matter.

Anybody so wary to not have an Amazon account or even risk making a burner account wasn't watching the Emmys anyway. The people turned off by that requirement is like a percent of a percent.