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FRED lets you control for population actually! It does flatten the change a bit but it's still a bump: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1Q8J6

That seems like a thought terminating concept? Every business has risks. The employees should know what they are getting into and hopefully the business is providing resources to h…

The framers noted that the system was vulnerable to a single "faction" [1]. The solution was to have many competing factions. I think first-past-the-post, corporate election influe…

It appears this will be an opt in feature. Honestly it will probably help some people "hey where did I put that file?" but yes at a tremendous cost to privacy and security for thos…

No singular person, it's more the value of having a large database. You visit a coffee shop, a stalker collects your dna from a fingerprint and uses the a leaked or sold database f…

5 U.S.C. §7311

Federal employees are not allowed to strike

One advantage of uuids is they can be generated on several distributed systems without having to check with each other that they are unique. Only long ids make this reliable. Youtu…

Having tons of people employ human ingenuity to manipulate existing LLMs into passing this one benchmark kind of defeats the purpose of testing for "AGI". The author points this ou…

> estimated 2.4 million items That's 5 years if one person worked on it nonstop without sleeping and each item took 60 seconds. I would assume they probably sit in a secure locatio…

Not a lawyer but those contracts aren't legal. You need something called "consideration" ie something new of value to be legal. They can't just take away something of value that wa…

The training jurisdiction one is interesting. Are future companies going to exclusively train their models in a copyright lack country? Seems like jurisdiction would be based on th…

I looked it up and there is a whole industry of "low voltage" or cable networking installers. I think it's more a matter of cost and that people wouldn't think to do it if their in…

If you haven't used aws a lot then you might not know this but the old instance types stick around and you can still use them, especially as "spot" which lets you bid for server ti…

I don't think that's quite right, Microsoft's main game was keeping the money train going by any means necessary, they have staked so much on copilots and Enterprise/Azure Open AI.…

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Just to add another perspective, isn't sales like this at any large company? Sales is pushed hard on quotas/targets and so look for any way possible to hit those. In other words we…