I believe it should be all over the media to ensure that it never passes. Democracy dies in darkness. Name and shame those who supported it.

“… and we pride ourselves in building on our strong record of protecting people’s privacy.”

The defense has destroyed any and all credibility with that single clause.

It’s a step in the right direction, but reserving the right to sue companies that collect and share our most sensitive personal information and whereabouts is not enough. It is a cost of doing business to them to be weighed against the potential for profit. This line of thinking is now taught in business schools.

Nothing will change materially until the executives are faced with the potential of jail time.

NewPipe does this for free

Remember that brief period in the US where, for a fleeting moment, Lina Khan went after a few companies for monopolistic practices?

if battery < 10:
  price = price * 2

Many AI. Much wow.

Sorry for the slow reply, but I’ll piggyback on this thread to say that I tend to target models a little but smaller than my total VRAM to leave room for a larger context window – without any offloading to RAM.

As an example, with 24 GB VRAM (Nvidia 4090) I can typically get a 32b parameter model with 4-bit quantization to run with 40,000 tokens of context all on GPU at around 40 tokens/sec.

I use open source 32b Chinese models almost exclusively, because I can run them on my own machine without being a data cow for the US tech oligarchs or the CCP.

I only use the larger models for little hobby projects, and I don’t care too much about who gets that data. But if I wanted to use the large models for something sensitive, the open source Chinese models are the more secure option IMO. Rather than get a “trust me bro” pinky promise from Closed AI or Anthropic, I can run Qwen or Kimi on a cloud GPU provider that offers raw compute by the hour without any data harvesting.

I actually interpreted it as callous to the suffering women endure at first read for some reason. But yeah, there’s very much an element of, “The stakes are higher for women, so they can deal with the side effects,” which is awful.

At first read that came off as callous, but I see your point. I had that thought as well regarding improving female birth control. Where’s the research into a hormone-free pill for women?

It looks like the hormonal NES/T male contraceptive gel passed safety a while back and started phase 2 trials in 2018. It’s already gearing up for phase 3 trials with investors ready to fund this final phase:
https://www.einpresswire.com/article/835140008/contraline-exercises-license-option-for-nes-t-the-first-male-contraceptive-to-reach-late-stage-development

But a hormone-free option is more appealing. I hope YCT-529 makes it to the finish line.

June 29, 2010
Introducing the First Male Birth Control Pill
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/news/a8721/male-birth-control-pill-contraception/

That’s the earliest year I remember hearing about a male birth control pill. There are probably articles from years prior to 2010. Obviously this is a great advancement, but is it reasonable to expect one of these to actually come to market within the next decade?

Edit: Actually, this is discussed in an article linked to by the Scientific American article:

A joke among researchers in the field of male contraception is that a clinically approved alternative to condoms or vasectomy has been five to 10 years away for the past 40 years.

I’ve always had an issue with calling any of this AI. The branding is part of the problem. These people probably don’t realize that they’re talking to a fancy word predictor tuned to stroke their egos for engagement.

If it comes with the bubbles screensaver, I’m in

Link to the video:
https://xcancel.com/GeoffLewisOrg/status/1945212979173097560

Dude’s not a “public figure” in my world, but he certainly seems to need help. He sounds like an AI hallucination incarnate.

https://github.com/timvisee/send-instances

Are these so-called experts supposed to have me believe that gambling apps designed to get people addicted to their gambling app might be a gateway to gambling addiction?

I’ve heard rumblings about the beta amyloid hypothesis being weak or incomplete for a while. Does anyone better versed in the research know what alternative hypotheses have shown promise?

20+ years behind

I don’t think it’s realistic, but what they mean is that the community can in theory get together and decide to fork the code, collectively deciding that BlackRock’s Bitcoin addresses are no longer part of their Bitcoin network. The BlackRock Bitcoin would be incompatible with the forked code.

The result of a fork like that is two coins: BlackRock Bitcoin and Everyone Else Bitcoin. Every holder of the original Bitcoin gets an equal amount of both. It’s a popularity contest between the two resulting Bitcoins to determine the price of each.

In 2017, Bitcoin was struggling to scale. It had absurd transaction fees due to demand (just like Ethereum a few years later), and the community couldn’t come to a consensus on how to upgrade it. 10% of the community forked the code to upgrade it by increasing block size, while everyone else opted for an L2 scaling solution. The result for holders was that they ended up with both Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash in their wallets. Weirdly, the combined market value ended up being higher than value of the Bitcoin before the fork. I sold my Bitcoin Cash immediately and pocketed the money, expecting the price to go to zero. It did not.