Allegedly this was a permitted practice; but the speed with which they said that they will be abandoning it once it became public knowledge; and the number of federal IT people ProPublica was able to find who had never heard of it, suggests that either the proposal that was approved was not entirely candid about what the plan was; or the approver was too low or obscure to actually approve.

This certainly wouldn't be the first time that something perfectly on the up and up was abandoned for PR reasons; but MS would probably be loathe to give up the ability to whitewash whoever into sensitive projects by having an $18/hr copy-paste pal in the loop; so they must see the exposure as potentially serious.

Every day ruzzian drones are used to murder civilians, including 1 year old children, not just fight against military targets, this is called 'safari'. If these creatures are not stopped in Ukraine, they will be targeting YOUR civilians next.

It would be interesting, and possibly useful, to know how these reports break down in terms of affiliation and motivation.

It's obviously a problem regardless; but, in terms of behavioral change, it seems likely that the well meaning but confused would have different incentives than someone taking advantage of the speed with which a bad bug report can be automated to spam everyone who has a bounty program of some kind in the hopes of getting lucky; someone in over their head and attempting to farm cred as a 'security researcher' would be sort of a hybrid of the previous two; and someone using OSS projects as guinea pigs for some 'AI securifies your code!' startup's training/hype process would be basically the worst case scenario; since they don't need to be motivated by the idea that they are being helpful and their financial incentives are separate from any bounty program.

https://t.me/nevzorovtv/28223 - this video shows ruzzian civilians, who are dead set on destroying Ukraine, no matter what. AFAIC Ukraine must exterminate this cocroach infestation that is ruzzia.

It's complete and utter BS. The 2 state solution has been proposed multiple times ( https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQ... ) , the Arabs are refusing it because it would de-escalate the conflict and would normalize the very *existence* of Israel, which is what they are denying (and you here as well, due to their very effective propaganda).

Also very very personally, I have 0 sympathy for anyone attacking Israel, so no love to anyone who attempts on lives of any Israelis, may they all burn in this life and any and all afterlives (which I don't believe in, I am a complete atheist).

To me, everyone who attacks Israel is barbaric and must be destroyed, how about that? There is no genocide of anyone in Gaza because it's not me, who is running Israel, does it work for you?

I am well aware of ruzzian/Israeli relationship. There are a couple of million ex-soviets living in Israel, I was one of them back in 1992, when I moved to Israel from Ukraine.

Israel is doing everything anyone could ever do to protect civilians from being killed in fire indiscriminately https://chatgpt.com/c/6876bd05... Sure, you can always say that more could be done, AFAIC they are way overdoing.

Have a horrible day.

Absolutely Israel is fighting for its survival. 7th of October shows that Israel must destroy all of its enemies that surround it. Hamas and others were supplied by Iran, which must be stopped from developing a nuclear bomb specifically because it would be much easier to just get that bomb into Israel through Gaza and blow it up in the middle of any city, most likely Tel Aviv or Haifa (they wouldn't do it in Jerusalem). Any 'civilian' within Gaza is suspect, that's where Hamas is recruiting from in the first place. I applaud Israel for making progress against Iran and now it must finish what needs to be finished all around it, especially Gaza.

Iran has policy of destroying Israel, it's their religious policy and policy of the State, so they are obviously interested in keeping all of the various local conflicts going for as long as it takes to destroy Israel. Israel is under a strategic threat, it's not just Gaza and Hamas, this was made clear when Iran started supplying Houthis with missiles. Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis under the guiding hand of Iran and with support from ruzzia. That's what Israel is fighting against. Just because you don't understand it doesn't change their equation and they must not and will not give up, they must destroy its enemies to survive.

The fact that the Western world has been brainwashed and is now so antisemitic and anti-Israel just shows how effective the propaganda pushed from Iran with the help of the ruzzian troll/bot farms became, that's a weapon that must be taken seriously. It was used to brainwash Americans into supporting putin and ganging up against Israel as well.

Israel is doing more than anyone to prevent casualties in their fighting, that's exactly why they develop and use extremely precise bombs and ammunition. Again, I wouldn't, but they care.

Israel is fighting for its survival.
Ukraine is fighting for its survival.
Both are attacked by terrorists.
Ukraine is attacked by a terrorist mafia state.
Israel is attacked by a terrorist religiously controlled state.

Their situation is different because Ukraine is a much bigger country in terms of land and people but Israel had much more time to prepare for this war obviously and it had support of the USA for a long time now.

Israel must win this to survive as a country.
Ukraine must win this to survive as a country.

There is no making peace with the enemy, there is only annihilation. I spend my own money and effort to help with this cause, so I already have plenty of enemies.

So, TFA says "Today, CAISO engineers scan outage reports for keywords about maintenance that's planned or in the works, read through the notes, and then load each item into the grid software system to run calculations on how a downed line or transformer might affect power supply."

Sounds like there is already an actual piece of simulation software in place; but the people feeding it scenarios need to manually assemble them from outage reports and maintenance notes; because apparently you can perform, even schedule, maintenance without generating a record of which asset you'll be working on. And so someone proposes that the obvious answer is to bandaid that with a summarizer, and their notorious penchant for accuracy?

Does that strike anyone else as slightly insane? We're already recording outages and maintenance events and those records refer to various pieces of infrastructure; but not in a format that can be programmatically extracted from the report to load into the analysis system; so rather than doing the boring thing and slapping serial numbers on transformers or adding a "things we turned off for maintenance and when" field to the maintenance report; we'll just continue doing that as a big free text blob and hope that an LLM will save us?

Seems sort of like deciding that postal addresses and mailing labels would be a huge pain; so let's find a chatbot that can, hopefully, follow a rambling account of how mail for the Johnson place is 3rd right past the old rail bridge; but if you see the silo you've gone too far.

Even if we assume, for sake of argument, that trends are favorable and someone can actually figure out how to cover their costs; why do you say that "the train is leaving the station on this"?

So far the LLM guys have appeared to be relatively low moat; with significantly cheaper and only modestly worse competition not far behind the big names and ongoing contention between the ones you've heard of.

If Google, whose main obstacle to dominance of the search market is its own self destructive tendencies; with microsoft a distant second, is paying Apple 20 billion a year to stay default and everyone who isn't them is basically begging you to switch to them, why would we expect that the LLM guys would be in a position to squeeze Apple on terms?

Where is the point where Apple can no longer board the metaphorical train for some reason? There may come a point where they can no longer simply ignore the matter; if Siri's ongoing mediocrity becomes an actual issue or the like; but I'm not seeing why they'd be in a notably worse position tomorrow than they would be today to either get satisfactory terms from one or more of the largely interchangeable and margin-challenged competitors; or just snap up one of the more competent fast-followers(or an open weights model and some appropriate hires) and deal with that when it comes up.

Where's the urgency? What marks the end of the station platform in this increasingly tenuous metaphor?

Even if we, for sake of argument, accept the theory that Apple products are suffering for want of 'AI'; what's the case for Apple to pay a fairly stiff premium to acquire vs. just taking advantage of the current state of the market; where there are multiple people who will fight for the opportunity to lose money on every sale and attempt to make it up in volume?

Absent a fairly specific argument why Apple needs to own one; rather than just snapping up some of the useful people or commanding the influence that being a customer with actual money tends to provide over suppliers that are in the process of bleeding out, the idea that Apple needs to buy into 'AI' seems sort of like the idea that Apple needs to buy into DRAM, except that it's vastly more evident that Apple's products actually need DRAM; and Apple still doesn't go there because why bother with a capital intensive business whose margins are constantly buffeted by spot prices and on the thin side when you are buying enough that you don't need to worry about your place in line?

It's not clear that that's an either-or. A financial sector metastasizing into the real economy is going to have many of the same symptoms.

Yes, I will absolutely give green light to Israel to protect itself against all enemies around it, all of who want to see Israel destroyed completely.

I will do the same exact for Ukraine.

Both countries are at war, protecting themselves against terrorists that are trying to destroy them.

As to the claim that Israel commits any war crimes, there are always some crimes at war, this is inevitable. Israel is the ONLY side in that conflict that actually actively works to prevent war crimes by having the most strict rules and protocols that are set up to ensure there are as few casualties as possible. That's why Israel uses the most advanced most precise ammunition to target its enemies instead of doing what I would have probably done, which is total annihilation of all enemies with the maximum force possible. That's my preferred approach. But Israel is not me, so they are extremely careful.

So are you saying he is supposed to be responsible for everyone's welfare because he has the ability to pay quite a bit? Are you this generous with your own money as well, or only with the money of people that you don't like, because they have so much more of it than you will ever have?

Israel is the only democracy in the region and it is home to the Jews from all over the world and they must and will protect their home. Israel does not target civilian population, it targets combatants, who are hiding among the so called "civilian" population. Civilian in quotes, this population provides the meat to replenish the Hamas terrorist combatants. These civilians attacked Israel on the 7th of October together with Hamas terrorists and murdered Israelies and boasted about it. I am 100%, 10000% pro Israel and against all of its enemies.