Those answers won't be too helpful. We have very high bills compared internationally, due to a difficult-to-explain quirk (pay-as-clear marginal pricing) where all electricity is charged to the customer at the highest rate possible at that moment. So wind may cost 0.05 pkwh and be freely available but if gas is being utilised anywhere else in the grid at a cost of eg. 0.45 then everybody gets charged 0.45 pkwh, even for the wind energy.
Its a messed up system which means often pay the highest in Europe, without even helping that much towards the tax coffers. But reform of this system does seem to be gaining a bit of political momentum.
Indeed, they're not AGI. They're basically autocomplete on steroids.
They're very useful, but as we all know - they're far from infallible.
We're probably plateauing on the improvement of the core GPT technology. For these models and APIs to improve, it's things like Skills that need to be worked on and improved, to reduce those mistakes that it makes and produce better output.
So it's pretty disappointing to see that the 'Skills' feature set as implemented, as great of a concept as it is, is pretty bogus compared to just front loading the AGENTS.md file. This is not obvious and valuable to know.
They haven't even released the full complete retrain on the entire corpus of what they have in the training data. They have billions of chats detailing precisely a high fidelity map of the inner workings of millions of people psychologically. The next ones gonna be a banger + the non lobotimized one for the military
>Indeed, they're not AGI. They're basically autocomplete on steroids.
This makes the assumption that AGI is not autocomplete of steroids, which even before LLMs was a very plausible suggested mechanism for what intelligence is.
How would you do this for historical accounts? 2FA needs to be set up by users. It has gone through multiple iterations over the past 2 decades and was not always standard practice. 23andme was founded in 2006.
Send out increasingly loud notices ahead of time, and try to come up with a secure recovery procedure for the many customers who will fail to react to them. It's not going to be cheap. But losing some kinds of data should be even more expensive.
The thing is, attackers don't need 20%. The article says they used 14k accounts with previously cracked passwords to uncover data of 7 million customers: that's 0.2%
Doing low-hanging fruit isn't enough here. Honestly I just don't feel like the time is right to build such big DNA databases yet. Maybe one day with quantum encryption (can't observe the state without modifying it) or whatever else we may figure out, but today it just seems like you're taking a risk for yourself and half a dozen layers of relatives
2. Send a postcard to the billing address where you signed up (verified against credit reports) with a one time verification code, upon which some second factor is set up. Maybe put 20 "rescue codes" on the postcard too, if you like.
3. Force user to enable some sort of second factor authentication on their next login.
I’ve had sites that do forced password resets and other annoying things when I come back after years.
23andme bears responsibility more than users like banks bear more responsibility for customers choosing stupid pins. DNA info is valuable they need to design good safeguards.
Shein is bad for the planet and bad for humanity. They profit through exploitation; mostly of their workers (breaking even Chinese labour law), ripping off designs, dodgy marketing practices, skirting local tax laws and employing dark UI patterns. Their clothes are so low in price and quality that they are often worn once and thrown away. At $40B GMV they are bigger than most of their competitors combined; fast fashion on steroids, flying under the radar. Their mere existence is accelerating the destruction of the planet and feels like a distopian hell hole that won't be stopped.
It works something like this;
1. Somebody uploads a design they found (probably stole) and creates a piece of clothing
2. Somebody else with just a shred of desire clicks on a couple of buttons and pays $3.78
3. A Chinese sweat shop worker immediately picks up the order and creates the piece of clothing and gets paid $0.03 for the trouble (whilst working 18 hour days in leui of any breaks, weekends or holiday)
4. The clothes get air shipped across the world and delivered to the customer, skipping customs and taxes
5. The customer, who basically forgot they bought the clothes (it was after all purchased in a tiktok haze and didn't affect them much financially) trys on the item, takes a photo, and throws it in the closet
6. A year later it gets donated to charity, who assesses the quality and redirects it to landfill
(most of my information here has come from a documentary, "Inside the Shein Machine)
2C is criticized as insufficient, because even a warming of two degrees will have serious consequences for humans and the environment, as demonstrated in particular by the IPCC Special Report on the consequences of a global warming of 1.5C [1].
I feel like this is a lot more approachable with the advent of cheap mass-produced RC helicopter parts (modulating the collective pitch with the audio waveform).
(Which has me wondering if you could do some fun directional things with the sound? Of course low bass is not exactly known for its directionality)
Sound with a wavelength of 6 inches is 2.25 kHz, a high pitched tone far above typical voices, around 100-250 hz. Pretty sure the ears can measure the delay between peaks in the waveform with wavelengths much longer than the width of a head.
That is true, in fact directionality is actually harder to achieve in higher tones (everyone remember those mosquito ring tones that went around a little over a decade ago?) When the wavelength gets very small your ears have less and less information to distinguish which ear is receiving the signal first, other than the brute force which ear actually heard it first calculation. Distinguishing waveforms becomes near impossible at high enough frequencies. It's interesting though that a low enough frequency might also be difficult to distinguish due to there being not enough information rather than too much. If the waveform is as long as a room how much difference is there really across the size of a head.
Its a messed up system which means often pay the highest in Europe, without even helping that much towards the tax coffers. But reform of this system does seem to be gaining a bit of political momentum.
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