But, there is one exception that worked even better. Find someone who doesn't struggle with maintaining his momentum and motivation, and work on the project with him. At least for me, not wanting to dissapoint and force myself to keep up with my roommate, who was kind of a workoholic and with whom we worked on a game, is what forced me to keep on working on it for 6 years, before we finally released it.
I would've given up after a year, once we handed it in as our semester work, but his team management that he managed to keep up for 5 more years is what made me keep on working.
So, yeah. Either don't tell anyone, or be the second follower for someone is what works for me.
But, discipline is also what works wonders. When I was at college and used to regularly having to work on schoolwork/my own projects, I didn't struggle aa much with starting or doing anything.
Once I fell out of this rythm and procrastrinated for few years, it's now super hard to do anything.
Try to force yourself to work on it regularly, even if it's just "every two days, work for an hour, without exceptions". After few months of this, it will become way more easier, once it's a habit.
We had someone at our office who took a large dump right in the middle of a closed toilet lid, and just left it there for someone else to deal with. It's not even a shared or public access building, we're the only company there, like 40 people on that floor at max.
Three times in a few months.
I left before they managed to catch him, because it took that long. Don't know how why he did it, but I still can't wrap my head over it. Because from what I've heard, it was not an intentional "I want to get fired, fuck all of you", but he claimed accidents?
It's hard to not be sceptical about all the companies suddenly having time to work on this thing they've prommised or wanted to work on for years at this point.
Not aimed at Proton, just in general. Yeah, I wonder why they have time now.
It is a tremendously stupid idea, which is why I found it funny (also, it's one of those things where name came first and inspired the rest).
But, to take it seriously for a moment (and I'm not trying to defend it, not a fan of LLMs as most of the people here), is it necessarily lossy? I mean, you basically have to include the 5Gb large model for it to work, and you just move the data from the file to hoping the summary can trigger a correct combination of parameters.
I didn't run any larger tests, and I assume that if you managed to keep the API/function names and behavior, the summary would be actually longer than the actual implementation in most cases anyway, so it's probably not even a compression (especially if you include the model).
It's just a food for thought, it's definitely a bad idea to do something like this, to the point where I'm pretty sure you could get millions from investors if you made a startup working on something like this (and that one already exists), but I do honestly wonder if the fact that you kind of have the data in the model would still count as lossy.
This is important. Basically, nothing changes. The parties that wanted to (Meta, Google, Microsoft) have already been doing it for the last 5 years.
I'm not defending it, I've been screaming about it every time 2.0 was discussed, especially with people who I know refuse to move away from M$ and Meta, but apparently they don't care that much.
I just hope they will settle on 1.0 passing and fuck off with it being mandatory, so I have at least some place to chat and keep my data.
A reminder that the Lego store has also reportedly paid for a expensive and professional PR damage control agency, which usually operates by slowly changing the general opinion about the case in coments and posts like these. That it might've been his fault a little, that he has done this and that. They know what they're doing, so take any comments about how it he migt not be as right as it seems after all with a grain of salt.
It mentions that Privacy Guides have apps that help with batch-submitting requests to Data brokers for removal of data, but I couldn't find it there. Anyone has a link?
Also, is this something that applies only to the US residents, or is there a similar process for EU people? Most of the guides/services I've seen were US-only.
This is the first time I'm hearing about semver contract. I always assumed the x.y.z versioning was pridever, which was the first definition I found. And that says nothing about backwards compatibility.
I think I might have it, and it's interresting. I'm generally a nice, flegmatic and extremely non-confrontional person, but when someone tells me what I can't or have to do, that I don't agree with, it awakens something in me. An intense drive to just be extremely petty and get my revenge, either through malicious compliance or some other petty revenge. It can drive me for quite some time, and it's an intense impulse that is hard to ignore.
It's not anger, and it's never violent. I kind of assume this is how people with OCD feel, but instead of being unreasonably triggered by OCD stuff, you hate being told what to do.
It's usually enough for me to plan the malicious compliance, or the petty revenge, I usually don't go through with it and let go eventually, but it is intense nonetheless.
My partner works in HR, and from what I've heard about her stories from her job, this is nowhere near true. Anecdotal evidence, though.
There is a lot of paperwork that needs to be done. If everyone could follow simple, written and documented directions that have actual pictures about how to fill the form you have to fill, you could have a lot less HR people.
But majority of employees are not able to. They have to remind them dozens of times and chase people who didn't do it unless personally threatened. They have to constantly answer questions that are very well documented. They have to parse out information that finances should be able to access, but they need it directly copied from the systems.
It sounds like hell of a job, that would've been so much easier if people were able to follow simple instructions. And the kind of people that can't follow a step-by-step guide that had 5 notifications about needing to be done in a Slack channel won't do it if some AI is telling them to.
From what I've heard, she is just managing disasters that could be a legal problem, always chasing people who don't care about their annoying beraucracy that could cause a lot of trouble.
I have a lot more respect for HR after seeing it from the other side.
If you want the cheapest, go with Cloudfare. They guarantee to ask for the wholesale price, which is the price the registrar pays to the top level domain owner, so they can't go lower without footing the bill.
What most of registrars do is foot the difference for the first year, so you get a domain for super cheap, then add 50%+ cut on top, so you pay i.e 5$ for the first year for a TLD that has wholesale cost of 10$, while they loose 5$ on that sale, and then you pay 25$ for the second, so they now gain 15$ on holding your domain hostage.
Cloudfare guarantees that they will sell you that domain for 10$, and only raise it when the TLD owner raises the price.
I'm not aware of any other registrar that guarantees wholesale prices, but LMK if anyone knows any.
If you want to get the best deal, buy your first year (or maybe 10 years, if they let you buy 10 for the sale price) with the scammy registrar, i.e get the 5$ sale on Namecheap, and before it expires transfer it to Cloudfare so you don't pay extra for the second year and can continue with the (much lower now) wholesale price.
Each TLD has a different wholesale price, but every registrar pays the same to them for selling the domain to you. The differences you see is exactly in how much are they willing to foot the bill at first (most have a massive sale on first year, then huge markup on renewals), some just add a flat fee and have markup from the start.
Cloudfare just states "you will pay wholesale", and don't do any sheninegans. At least that's how it was last time I checked.
Is that better than directly allowing the way worse evil to win, by letting it get majority due to your inaction, that they would not have otherwise?
If there is such a huge difference between the lesser, and worse evils, letting the worse one win, giving it free reign to do a lot of vile shit with the world that definitely would not have happened otherwise, still be better?
I'm not saying it doesn't suck, but putting your head in the sand out of principle has literally led to the situation US is in right now.
My point wasn't about this bill, but that the fact that this bill has passed, it's not a reason not to support one of the two parties that supported this bill.
That was the "keep in mind" part of the comment, along with the most of the comment.
This made me look into Copilot skills marketplace, if I could make a skill that just runs https://github.com/zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI in a way that works even if Copilot dies in the middle.
I was ready to make a Microsoft dev account to publish that skill to the official marketplace.
Turned out it's not really possible with how Copilot works, plus it's also against a lot of the rules you need to pass when sending anything to the Marketplace.
Assuming a dev company, first thing I would do is let the manegement know, in writing, that building a dependance on AI into your processes will make you depend on a tool that is currently heavily under-priced, with operating costs for all AI firms resulting in hundreds of millions of losses, that they will want to recuperate eventually.
Link articles about firms blowing the yearly budget on per-token price in a single month. Companies spending 500mil per month on tokens woth uncapped usage.
Also explain that allowing your devs to use it will lead to erpsion of their skill, building a dependency, that will then tie their productivity going forward to the whims of AI companies, that are currently operating at heavy losses.
Link any of the numerous papers how AI erodes skill of devs.
Ask them if they really want to build a dependency into this ecosystem, and if they are willing to pay the heavily increased price, once it inevitably gets expensive. That you can start replacing devs with AI, but even now, at the heavily undercut prices, it's already costing more than a developer would, and it will only get worse. There are articles for that too. Make sure to highlight that you will be giving control of your systems and development to something that will be expensive, and it will be expensive to walk back on those decisions, once it's integrated deep enough.
Get a paper trail. Make them sign off on the risks. Don't do anything unless they sign off on the risks, and make it super clear how stupid idea it is. Bring as many recipes, papers, and blogs you can find.
Make a citation for how much it would cost to run a competitive local models. How much you would have to spend on GPUs to have a local solution for all of your planned AI need, so you can continue working once third party AI is not affordable.
Also take a look at all currently unresolved GDPR and general laws around copyright, unsolved cases. Send them blog posts that imply that there might be a copyright problem with AI generated outputs down the line, once all lawsuits resolve.
Mention the google lawsuit in germany, where Google might be legally responsible for the outputs it's AI gives. Ask if that is a risk they accept, assuming it passes.
It's an extremely stupid idea to currently even consider being dependant on AI. Give the recipes and arguments, and have them directly sign off on every risk you can think off. Basically - whatever you do, do a proper long term risk analysis, and make sure the management signs off on the risks.
You will need it down the line. There is a lot of risks.
Keep in mind that people refusing to choose the less of the two evils are directly responsible for the current state of the US.
Does it suck? Yes. Should you let them do this without protesting it, just because they are dems? No. But refusing to choose the lesser evil is way, way worse.
This works for me too.
But, there is one exception that worked even better. Find someone who doesn't struggle with maintaining his momentum and motivation, and work on the project with him. At least for me, not wanting to dissapoint and force myself to keep up with my roommate, who was kind of a workoholic and with whom we worked on a game, is what forced me to keep on working on it for 6 years, before we finally released it.
I would've given up after a year, once we handed it in as our semester work, but his team management that he managed to keep up for 5 more years is what made me keep on working.
So, yeah. Either don't tell anyone, or be the second follower for someone is what works for me.
But, discipline is also what works wonders. When I was at college and used to regularly having to work on schoolwork/my own projects, I didn't struggle aa much with starting or doing anything.
Once I fell out of this rythm and procrastrinated for few years, it's now super hard to do anything.
Try to force yourself to work on it regularly, even if it's just "every two days, work for an hour, without exceptions". After few months of this, it will become way more easier, once it's a habit.