Thank god europe is a whole different world to the US where you don't have to get out a credit card before someone hauls you into an ambulance.

"you have to pay for those emergency system"

Not in europe, they come free with the car plus they trigger in a serious accident where you might be unconcious when phoning the emergency yourself isn't an option.

The radio always switching on at startup is a real bugbear of mine in my mazda too. I just don't understand why they do it , it would be so easy for the system to remember the state at shutdown and leave it there , but no, switch on each feckin time. FFS.

Unfortunately doing that will also break the built in breakdown/emergency services auto call system if you have a crash not to mention you won't get any further software updates.

But insofar as I can tell, that original 404 Media story largely amounts to "my friend heard from another friend that they're doing it with RARE books". Â\_(ãf)_/Â

Why would LLMs benefit from scouring RARE old books? What benefit would the rarity serve, when likely the texts are reprinted in umpteen subsequent editions that - to put it bluntly - nobody wants?
Are they buying an original copy of Samuel Pepys diary (first printings $4000) when they can get the umpteenth reprint for 17 cents? So yes, they're "destroying an old book" but rare? Why would they pay for rare?

You know how I know? Because I've been trying to unload a cache of 'rare old books' for a decade and nobody wants them.

1935 Platt & Munk Indian Series 3 pics â" Iâ(TM)ve only ever seen sets of 8, this is 16
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Maximilian I., der Grosse (2 pics) 1876
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Massive Norwegian Bible 1891?, rough shape, 7 pics gorgeous rebinding candidate, probably 14â x 10â x 4â?
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Worldâ(TM)s Great Classics, The Federalist Papers 3 pics, 1901
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Roman London â" 1926? 1 pic (contents on web at https://archive.org/details/in... )

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William the Silent 2 pics, 1911

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Knightâ(TM)s History of England, 4 vols, first American Edition, 2 pics 1880

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Guizotâ(TM)s Concise History of France 1881? 2 pics (Curiously, different than the version in the Library of Congress in that itâ(TM)s missing the printing date (see pics) â" LoC version here: https://babel.hathitrust.org/c... )

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A Guide to the American Battle Fields in Europe 1927 4 pics great maps.

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England and Germany 1740-1914 3 pics, 1918

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Schillerâ(TM)s Thirty Yearsâ(TM) War â" 3 pics â" 1897?

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History of the United States, vol 1 ,Ridpath 2 pics 1911

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Operation Greenhouse â" briefing pamphlet, 2 pics 1951 âoeRestrictedâ

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Home Life in Far Away Lands (textbook) 1928 clearly loved

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Simondâ(TM)s Travels in Switzerland Vols I and II , 1822

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5000 New Answers to Questions 2 pics 1933

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Union Now With Britain, 1941 4 pics

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Advanced Geography 2 pics textbook 1925

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Christian Stockâ(TM)s Hamiletisches Real-Lexicon 3 pics, 1890s?

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Thoresbyâ(TM)s Letters 4 pics Vol I and II, 1822

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Praediekener 2 pics, 1760

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On the Field of Glory 1906

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A Primer of the War for Americans 1914 2 pics

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Sabotage! The Secret War Against America 1942

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Vore Husdyr 2 pics 1902

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Maori & Settler 1900? 2 pics

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The History of England 2 pics Vol V, 1910?

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Gregg Speed Studies, Anniv Edition 2 pics 1929

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Parallel Source Problems in Medieval History 1912, 2 pics

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Swedish New Testament 1886 4 pics

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A History Of France, Arlington edition 5 pics 1881

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A History of Western Europe 3 pics 1904

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  Auswahl von Predikten 1829 2 pics

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World Politics at the End of the 19th Century â" 1902

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Republic or Empire: The Philippine Question by Wm Jennings Bryan SIGNED BY WM JENNINGS BRYANT 1899 2 pics

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Psalmebog 1833 3 pics

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Danish-English Dictionary 3 pics, 1845

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Collection of New Testament Histories 1805 3 pics

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Slips of Speech 1922 3 pics

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Biblehistorie 1888 no cover 1 pic

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Contes et Recits 1896 2 pics

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A Handbook of the War for Readers, Speakers, and Teachers 1918 1 pic

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FM21-100 Basic Field Manual 1 pic July 1941

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Look to Jesus 1904 2 pics

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Seven Chances (play) 1924 2 pics

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Sherwin Cody Nutshell Collection of Books 1927 3 pics 12 books (2 maps pictures NOT included in this set)

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Minneapolis and St Paul Street Maps including streetcar lines â" year not yet determined

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I guess not.

It would be interesting to know what the numbers look like in terms of schools that are actually doing something at least modestly Apple-specific vs. ones basically reusing chromebook-focused plans on Apple hardware.

Anything you hand out is going to be 'a platform' and normalize it for the students(not necessarily a point in its favor; people tend to resent the deliberate limitations of hardware that IT has been told to at least try to make less useful for porn and cheating); but there is a potential difference in versatility and vendor flexibility between people actually adopting some macOS stuff and people concluding that chromebooks have been getting more expensive at an alarming clip, without feeling any less cheap, so Apple is now genuinely competitive even if you are just going to slap managed chrome on there and reuse your existing, chromebook focused, IT and curriculum stuff.

Millions of books are dumpstered every day. MILLIONS. Ever go to a library used book sale? Ever notice that - in MOST cases - 75%+ aren't purchased, even at 50-cents a book?

Sure, some get donated but a lot of book donation places are filtering as they don't need a 100th set of Encyclopedias from 1981.
I know of at least a couple of organizations that fill 20' containers and send to some associated groups in Africa to provide books for kids, but "Morning Glory Milking Farm" as well as Chilton's 1999 Pontiac Minivan manual isn't going to make the cut there either. It costs $ to ship them and they don't have money to waste.
Largely...they get thrown away/pulped. For some reason I'd once noticed that a local library (part of a county-wide metro association) was dumpstering books. Like... a LOT of books - talking a half-full 5 yard dumpster EVERY WEEK. I'd look and there were dozens of heavy duty black garbage bags FULL of books, and not just shitty old ones, there were multiple copies of popular fiction titles, NEW periodicals, all sorts of good stuff. I recognized the dumps were clearly by section as one night several bags would be "history" for example. In the bags they were totally clean too.
I probably dumpster dived 1000 books over the better part of a year, before my wife drew the line bringing home 1-2 shopping bags (eventually i just left a heavy-duty recycling tub in my car for it...) every week. I'm a big reader but that's a lot.
This was a library in an extremely wealthy suburb of 50,000. So I called them and asked about it. IMMEDIATELY the library *insisted* they only threw away damaged books. When I provided pictures, they claimed they were moving to a new facility and someone was just being a little overzealous in their cull.
Their new building was - I shit you not - MAYBE 50 yards away.

Anyway, the point is, I am saddened by the loss of any book, but let's not cry fake tears over this just because it's AI and people are 'shocked' to find out that the public doesn't give much of a shit about books anymore. Because they don't.

It feels like the simple requirement of needing a warrant to search rather than "bored officer looking up his ex" would solve 99% of these issues.

But if you work fully remote anyway, why not save much more money by replacing you with some cheap Indian who is willing to adapt his living to whatever timezone the employer likes?

I notice the opposite here, companies in the IT want you to work from home because it saves them office space and travel expenses. Cooperation between people is worse but the management sees only the theoretical advantages by splitting work so that you become a simple production unit (preferably to be replaced by some LLM ASAP).

Adoption is a function of existing adoption and existing availability of resources.

Extremely good OS' and truly amazing computers have failed, not because they were too expensive or had issues, but because they were perceived to be unpopular OR simply lacked enough software that could run on them.

Extremely bad OS' and truly awful computers have succeeded for the opposite reason.

Linux has an extremely good architecture, at least for machines that are mostly operating with CPUs. When most of the work is done by the GPU, it's less obvious that Linux provides the necessary mechanisms to manage resources and abstract away the hardware specifics. That doesn't mean I expect Linux to start fading, but I don't think a centralised OS is necessarily where things will go. However, the reason it hasn't done better so far is simply because potential users and potential software houses had a negative view of it (even though actual users were almost invariably loving the system).

Windows is crashing now not because it is a slow, bug-ridden piece of spyware (which it is, but users have never cared about that in the past), but because it is perceived in increasingly negative light.

They can get vertical samples from space and the ground. What they can't get from space or the ground is how the internals of a system evolve.

The problem with "models" in the abstract is that there are a lot of them and some of the time the thing you want is to know the same point relative to the system and not to the mudball.

Lots of people have gut feelings about AI, positive or negative.

Most of the AI research I can see people doing is focusing on single-element problems (such as finding counter-examples to a mathematics hypothesis) or solving very simple engineering systems (at most a dozen or so components). Most of the benchmarks are even simpler (write a short story at the level generally asked in English classes of primary school kids).

As a result, I think that people have developed either a very cynical outlook or a very optimistic look. Neither of these is entirely realistic, for the simple reason that no actual useful problem fits any of those descriptions.

Digging much deeper, I'm finding that when problems get into the hundreds or thousands of elements, even ChatGPT Sol 5.6 and Claude Fable 5 struggle badly to keep track of accurate relationships, let alone any level of detail.

If you want to solve a relatively simple coupled system (whether to use solar panels or direct solar heating, and which side of the house to place them), I'm sure AI is fine. If you want AI to write a five hundred word story detailing a conversation between Kim Possible, Rufus, and a smoked herring, I'm sure it could cope. Just.

If you want it to do anything hard enough that a human could do with an assistant, the tests I've been using (meaningful rather than synthetic problems) suggest you've developed a fantastically expensive blue smoke generator. We are going to need to see the inference engines developed for previous generations of AI, and the reasoners developed for the semantic web, and perhaps tools that haven't begun to be imagined yet, before AI can do anything non-trivial.

Maybe you're just committed to rage (look, it's Mr Social Media) but IT SEEMS like you're "too stupid" to see that I was very, very specifically criticizing the commenter in the story that complained "How many people does it take to run a data center after taking up all this property and all this land that could have been used for something else?" eg, that data centers don't provide satisfactory employees per area numbers (when that land likely was being used for agriculture, which is generally EVEN FEWER employees per area).

That IS a stupid take.
What's even stupider is misreading my comment as some sort of criticism about agriculture, which it wasn't even faintly.

L2READ, dipshit.