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Then you overpaid a year ago. A 2x16GB DDR5 kit was around $90 a year ago and is over $400 today.

When people write blog posts about how LLMs failed for some particular task, the responses from boosters invariably fall along the lines of "just use this other model/just tweak yo…

It’s listed on the agenda here as “Automated License Plate Reader Contract.” https://mountainview.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=1352...

> The Constitution of the United States was a layman's document, not a lawyer's contract. https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-constituti... The Supreme Court is not t…

... yes, that's the complaint. The prompt engineering they did made it spew neo-Nazi vitriol. They either did not adequately test it beforehand and didn't know what would happen, o…

The big digital music stores are DRM-free these days (iTunes and Amazon both are). There's also Qobuz if you want to avoid the tech giants (though most of your money ends up going …

Four characters counting the pound sign.

The Verge has been publishing non-tech related stories for ages. Technology still seems to be their main focus, but this isn't new.

They did not have "every right to remove him." As the article you linked says, Abrego Garcia was specifically granted a withholding of removal order.

A beanbag is a chair? Perhaps a chair should be something on which one can comfortably sit without breaking that has a back and four legs. I suppose then a horse would be a chair.

In my case, no small fraction of the traffic was from OpenAI and Anthropic. There were also other user agents that literally said "AI".

> He straight-up ate someone else's salad? ... no, it's clearly a joke.

Soulver has indeed been doing this without large language models (so far as I know) for many years: https://soulver.app/

It is not directly accessible from user-space. Making it so requires kernel support. Apple published a set of patches for doing this on Linux: https://developer.apple.com/documenta…

There is a separate, ongoing antitrust lawsuit over Google’s adtech business. Closing arguments in that case are scheduled for Nov. 25, next week: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/2…

> When you run a mastadon instance you're not mirroring the entire network, so its a bad comparison. That's the point, though. You don't need (nor, I imagine, would most people wan…

Yes. This is how, for example, Tailscale implements bring-your-own identity provider: https://tailscale.com/blog/custom-oidc It is, to date, the only non-selfhosted service with wh…

If you genuinely believe that number, you have fallen for the propaganda. Ten million people did not enter the country in such a short time. DHS estimates the _total_ unauthorized …

> Can you name a policy of today's republican party that is further right than the republican party of 20 years ago? Sure I can: "mass deportation now"

In principle, that is true. But that is simply not the reality on the ground. States ban abortion with such exceedingly narrow exceptions that doctors and hospitals delay until the…

The police following one person’s car isn’t unconstitutional, but following everyone’s cars very much is. The IJ press release mentions this: the 4th Circuit (which covers Virginia…

It's not a random blog making some conjectures, Rick Hasen is a law professor who is an expert in this area and, moreover, he cites specifics statutes and DOJ information that's no…

I'm a little bit sympathetic, but they've also kinda tried to have it both ways. They spent ages inventing a new protocol for decentralized microblogging, and then ages more before…

Not only are they not end-to-end encrypted, Bluesky's DMs seem like they're entirely centralized. From their 2024 roadmap: > We looked closely at alternatives like linking to exter…

Yes, it does matter. While there are plenty of situations where it's foolish to forbid calculators, that's not universally true. Forbidding calculators and requiring students to do…