Season 1 of Lower Decks missed the mark and tried too hard to be bog standard “Adult Animated Comedy” but it really improved in the following seasons. And not even so much because it became much funnier, but because they actually toned down the comedy a bit and pivoted into making it a decent Star Trek show on its own. Most of the comedy after that sorta centered around teasing about Star Trek tropes and poking fun at some of Old Trek’s more goofy episodes.
I don’t recall being asked to. The question was “Is there any research on this?” And I answered the question lol.
Now that you’ve been made aware of the research done on this you can go look it up. Just Google “Infrasound NIH” and I’m sure you’ll figure it out from there.
There is a lot of research on this. Exposure to this level of infrasound has negative effects on anxiety, the ability to sleep, and even cardiac function. Those who experience the level exposure associated with living close by to these datacenters can start to experience negative effects on their hearts ability to contract properly after as little as one hour. Take into account these people are exposed to this every hour, hour after hour, for years if not the rest of their natural lives.
Retails stores sometimes still have these in high-volume areas. Imagine your store loses power on Black Friday weekend. Some stores live or die by a few critical weekends a year. You might lose some merch through declines later but avoiding the loss in total sales will almost certainly make up for it.
Notion just doesn’t have any FOSS alternatives right now that are a true replacement. A couple come close, like Appflowy and Affine, but they’re open-core with paywall hell, and are pretty half-baked as it is. Obsidian is awesome but it’s not really a 1:1 replacement.
Do you live in the United States? If so the only reasonable option for a router at this exact point in time is to run your own using opnsense or PFsense. You can buy an x86 mini pc with with a couple high bandwidth NICs and it’ll do the job
Fire trucks will gladly push a Waymo out of the way, but an ambulance doesn’t have that kind of horsepower, not to mention the fact that purposely colliding with another vehicle with a patient in the back is a great way to be sued and probably lose your qualifications
Did they state this, or is it a guess? Most corporate desktop users aren't even the ones making the corporate purchases
Yes they stated this.
If desktop users are valued more, it's because advertisers pay more for them.
Because the advertisers thing they’re corporate users at work
If a store is willing to pay more to advertise to a desktop user, but also tries to prevent them from using the site
Corporate advertisers are more willing to pay to advertise to corporate buyers. Non-corporate, non-business personal users are not corporate buyers in this context so they benefit more from funneling them into an app for purposes unrelated to advertising to them.
This is an agent doing IaC for the company. Nowhere is it specified that the agent is only used in staging, only that the fuckup happened while working in the staging environment.
What is a "routine task in a] staging environment"
Not sure what the routine task was specifically, but it doesn’t really matter. The task involved modifying the company’s infrastructure via IaC.
why does it need admin permissions?
It’s doing IaC, how exactly is it supposed to manage the cloud infrastructure itself without permissions to manage the infrastructure?
Why does the agent have permissions for the prod environment if it's supposed to work in the staging one?
Who said the agent only works in the staging one? I doubt they’d use a fully qualified infrastructure engineer to manage prod and then give staging to an AI. Either that engineer is managing the company’s infra or he’s not.
What the article describes is an agent that manages their IaC, and when it was set to do a job in the staging environment, it deleted something in prod because it thought that would help it do what it was doing in staging. The CEO says the resource deleted was somehow in both environments at the same time. Not sure I believe that but that’s what he said. If that’s true, I would imagine that’s how the AI designed it in the first place.
No, I was simply mistaken about the job it was given. Like I said, all I had to work with was the tomshardware article, which doesn't go into much detail.
The article goes into full detail. All of this information was in the article.
Granting someone or something that isn't the senior admin permission to delete a volume is irresponsible.
Correct. Like I said this was the job of a senior admin.
They gave the AI the job of managing IaC for their environment. Then were shocked when the AI managed the environment incorrectly. This is absolutely not something you let a junior engineer anywhere near.
You seem to be suggesting that the AI should be able to do the job they gave it without being given the permission required for it to do. The thing about doing things in IT, is you need to have permissions to do the things you’re asked to do. So you have to make sure the person you give permissions to is reliable and knows what they’re doing. The AI did not.
That's why I consider this partially a human failing: If you're gonna use a tool, make sure that it operates within safe limits.
Yes and in this case using it for this job at all was clearly not within safe limits. You keep hammering on “It’s not the AI’s fault it was given a job with too big of a blast zone for it to safely do” after I’ve said “This type of job has too big a blast zone for an AI to safely do” and somehow you’ve convinced yourself that these are two different things.
Yes that’s right the protocols that we humans used to have for giving only trusted, reliable people this level of access over infrastructure predate LLMs and were a great way to stop this from happening.
However the AI is here now, and when you give an autonomous agent with known hallucination problems access to act on your behalf with your IaC on your infra provider, this kind of thing is an inevitability.
Season 1 of Lower Decks missed the mark and tried too hard to be bog standard “Adult Animated Comedy” but it really improved in the following seasons. And not even so much because it became much funnier, but because they actually toned down the comedy a bit and pivoted into making it a decent Star Trek show on its own. Most of the comedy after that sorta centered around teasing about Star Trek tropes and poking fun at some of Old Trek’s more goofy episodes.