My former employer's 401(k) custodian won't do an EFT for rolling over my 401(k). The ONLY option is a snail mail check sent through untracked first class mail. It's like they WANT you to lose your money. Imagine getting what most people would consider a large fortune of money in your unlocked mailbox that anyone can take out and doesn't have to be signed for on delivery.

There's already a case where someone doing a rollover lost their funds because of washing of an intercepted rollover check and the last I heard, he's basically SOL over six figures.

My HSA administrator is the same way; they have all sorts of options for doing EFTs for regular contributions but rollovers MUST be sent via paper check.

The only way this is going to be solved is if the financial institutions involved are held liable for losses or are forced to change by law or regulation. So far it doesn't appear either are happening, so you have to play Russian roulette every time you do routine financial transactions.

Scientists have been saying that Europe will cool down with the shutdown of the Gulf stream... as far as I can remember they've been predicting this for at least twenty years. What happened?

Trump is doing all in his power to fight for the little guy including stopping foreign H1B1 Visa holders.

The democrats care about the foreignors. Not us!

My server got compromised last week by this, Slashdot is quite far behind.

There's two new exploits in the Copy Fail class that do privilege escalation everyone should be worried about on shared servers. Copy Fail 2: Electric Boogaloo (https://github.com/0xdeadbeefnetwork/Copy_Fail2-Electric_Boogaloo) and Dirty Frag (https://github.com/V4bel/dirtyfrag)

I am rather disappointed that Ubuntu sat on these LPEs for a month without releasing a fix.

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As it turns out, I and a lot of other people are willing to pay a fee to avoid seeing ads, so the shows do actually get funded anyway.

I hate ads with a passion, and miss the old days of the internet where people would get mad at you for advertising.

This is why Monopolies and Oligopolies SUCK.

They lobby the governments of the world to not be held accountable and it is in their best interest to limit production to raise demand. Without competitors why should they lower supplies or increase capacity?

Infact, the mem makers got busted3x times for price fixing in the past 25 years! Micron or Hynix even stated they do not want to increase production in case the AI fad dies and they are suck with an abundance of supply.

The US also has a far right wing government now where nvidia, sumsung, and others paid for Trumps ballroom when the East Wing was demoed so the FCC won't do anything now. ... money well spent.

Well the demand for RAM is due to clouds providers buying blades.

Besides memory they also need SSDs to boot and run programs.

Do you think investors are going to just sink money into AI forever without a clear path to profitability? None of the big AI players are profitable - not a single one of them. Your free ChatGPT queries are costing OpenAI money. Even your ChatGPT Plus subscription still does not cover their costs.

Tools like Claude Code and Codex are also priced below what it costs to run them.

These investments are mostly based on the promises of AGI - the path to which remains elusive. How long will investors keep throwing trillions at this? I don't know, but it's clearly not forever. This is NOT sustainable.

Also we are seeing actual signs that build-out is slowing: https://thedeepdive.ca/openai-.... Micron is left holding the bag after OpenAI decides not to purchase nearly as much RAM as they said they were going to.

Lacking any sort of meaningful progress on AGI, it is inevitable that the investment is going to pull back and AI companies will be left holding the bag. Your Claude Code subscription will triple or quadruple in price to reflect its true cost.

TikTok is more oriented around interacting with a feed full of algorithmically-selected videos from various creators you don't know rather than being a social network where you seek out specific users and add them to your friends / circle and chat with them regularly. I get that there might be some people who use TikTok like the latter, but I'm doubting that's super common.

So regardless of any ulterior motives behind shunning E2EE, who does this really affect in the scheme of things?

Kids only have access to the Internet if someone gives them that access. Generally speaking, that's going to be at home, on a phone, at school, or on a friend's device.

Parents already have the tools to regulate what their kids can do online through existing parental control tools baked into mobile OSes and apps. So a solution like this is superfluous.

Schools lock down their devices already, so that's a non-issue.

If they're on a friend's device, that's not something age-verification legislation can address unless they expect the device to take a face scan every 30 seconds to verify that the user using the device is the one who authenticated their age already.

So again I ask - what problem are we solving exactly?

The author is a CEO of an AI company and an investor in others. I don't mean to poo-poo the actual legitimate advances being made in AI, but this isn't an unbiased piece. He's overstating the capabilities of LLMs in my opinion, but someone who has vested financial interests in the industry is of course going to say those things. The current AI industry is based primarily on the commercialization of LLMs.

I use the latest coding models in my own work and while they do some really awesome things, they are far from "its replacing software engineers". I find they struggle on large code bases and sometimes hallucinate. For me that's okay, because as a SWE I can recognize good code from bullshit and tweak its output but it gets frustrating when it wrongly answers a question about your code (how does X interact with Y, where is the code for that) and it puts you on a wild goose chase around your code base.

LLMs are hitting a brick wall in scaling to the point where the very best models require an incredible amount of resources to run ( = expensive). The resource consumption of LLMs are increasing at a rate greater than what advances in compute power and memory capcity are increasing at.

I'm with Yann LeCun on LLMs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

They're not required to retain it and might even promise to destroy it when they're done, but these validations are often done by third parties and it's difficult to ascertain that everyone involved is doing what they're supposed to be doing according to policy and that what they're sharing amongst themselves is being done in a secure manner. As someone who has been the victim of multiple companies who have failed to protect my personal data according to their stated policies, I'm still going to say "no" to all of this nonsense, regardless of what they promise.

Crypto is useless. Do I really need to remind anyone that crypto is useless?
There is no specific need for bitcoin in the world, it's a solution looking for a problem.
If I had a bitcoin, I couldn't do anything with it other than sit on it and pray that it's worth more some day, but still, in order to derive concrete utility from it I would have to first get rid of it and convert to real money instead.
It's a very formidable waste of resources, akin to growing tulips instead of something useful.
You can't eat tulips. Well even with tulips they might be edible but you could probably grow a lot of potatoes for all the work you dedicate into cultivating a rare tulip.