These services usually have the ability to debit whatever your bill is, and then suddenly their system fucks up, or you get hacked and someone commits fraud, and before you know it a $5000 payment comes out of your account instead of the expected $30.00.
It’s better to have that set up on a credit card in case something happens and you get a much better chance to dispute it.
The same principal has been tried with crypto mining to reduce waste / cost.
Capture the heat and use it elsewhere like to heat the building.
Downside for heating buildings though is unless you’re doing it somewhere where it’s always cold, you eventually still end up with heat you can’t use, and at that scale, there’s better heating choices. I heard the city of vancouver was looking into heating a swimming pool with it, at least that would have a constant use.
Then you still end up with the issue of the mining cards only being good for 2-3 years before the tech improves and they aren’t mining efficiently anymore, which then just leads to more e-waste.
But imagine if the cards themselves had a really long useful life or were super cheap and easily recyclable, we could put miners in things like space / baseboard heaters which were already going to be doing resistive heating and then gain something from that instead of just heat.
Imagine doing something like having a GPU based baseboard heater that folds proteins whenever it’s on, where it doesn’t become completely obsolete in a couple years. If the chips were cheap enough it’d be way better than just doing heat.
Edit: Taking the idea further… imagine if governments mandated reuse of the heat generated by data centers instead of piping it outside? You want to build a data center here? Build a public pool and heat the building / water with your excess heat. Then that commercial zone also gets a fitness center for anyone nearby.
It’s like he said decades ago, or near decades ago. Piracy is a quality of service problem.
When you do the right thing the right way, people will come and you can make a shit load of money. It doesn’t even mean he has to have done everything right, but you do enough right non-anti-competitive things like that, and it makes a difference.
Same thing like you said about SteamOS. They didn’t have to make it open, and could have made money, but the ecosystem that can be built around an open platform, and the people you can draw to it are going to be miles better than a closed system where thats the mindset from the top.
It’d be cool if these mandated these things be solar/battery/sail powered.
7of9 as captain movie with a fresh crew?
when they have absolutely nothing to do with AI other than their poorly chosen marketing name
I worked somewhere once where they had an algorithm that placed items according to rules it was given, and it would output variations based on the rules to give the user some output options to work with. Think A or B could go here, and the different outcomes based on if you started with A or B.
It was pretty complex, but ultimately it was just a deterministic outcome of many possible deterministic outcomes based off the rules and what you started with.
They marketed that shit as AI.
It infuriated me.
No machine learning, no neural nets, no reinforcement learning, or learning of any kind, just placing things based off rules.
And don’t get me wrong, it was good, just not AI.
Hopefully there are people still working on non-llm type general AI, because i don’t think we’re ever going to get there with LLMs. The architecture just seems wrong to ever get there, and even Altman has said they probably can’t solve hallucinations. We can probably go very far down this road and get them pretty good, but it’s the wrong road if you want a real AI.
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I think the normalize is a big part. When I go to music festivals there are quite a lot of topless women and no one cares. It kinda feels novel the first time or two, and then it’s like, okay, this is normal.
Normalizing it in the general public would be a lot harder though.
My point is, all she did was change butter for oil. She didn’t do anything special or fancy like your suggesting.
When you look at some of the cookie mixes today from them, its use the box, 1/3 cup of butter (or whatever it is, already forgotten the exact amount), and 2 eggs.
Their family recipe in the article was use the box, 2 eggs and a 1/3 cup of oil.
I’m all for using box mixes like this to make something easier if you wanna bake shit… but this seems a bit odd…
“It’s just so upsetting,” says Judith, whose cookie recipe was passed down by her mother. These “perfect little cookies” once made the rounds at bake sales, Christmas cookie exchanges, and birthdays. She now calls them “unusable.” She could buy an additional box to make up the difference, she acknowledges, “but out of principle, I just can’t.”
It was a box mix… does that really need passing down? It looks like she sub’d oil for butter and thats it. I’m sure the box suggests a little less butter now… so like, a little less oil? I can’t imagine the box mix cookies are just plain trash now either, unless they just are.
Nah, it was ThisIsMyRedditName (jk)
I wouldn’t call that an ideal implementation, but if they implemented it properly, there’s no way for the website to know who you are, and there’s no way for the website to tell the authority you visited their site. If there is, it’s not actually a ZKP and it’s a failure of the technology (and I assume at that point be against the law). The only abuse that should ever be possible is that the authority knows you are using tokens, not where.
The only required trust that should be needed, is that the authority proved your age in the first place, such as when you get your drivers license, and that they actually implemented all the cryptography properly (which a 3rd party could verify)
Edit: And if there’s concern about token sharing somehow, it should be locked behind your biometics in a way that again doesn’t leak any information, which they saw you encode when they verified your identity.
Edit: think something like a programmable credit card with a key that can’t be removed, but the card can be programmed with an age by the authority and locked by a biometric. You go in, plug the card in, they add the age and their part of the key, you scan your fingerprint on it, and then you’re done. They never see your key. You then use it anywhere it’s needed and it never goes back to the central authority. Give it a limited lifespan so it has to be renewed once a year or something.
Well that’s awesome. I had heard Germany did a ZKP solution, I didn’t realize it was EU law.
I don’t really expect anywhere but the EU to do that though. ZKP are really the only way to do it if it’s going to be done.
but this doesn’t necessarily mean that the identity verification company is reporting to the government which people have initiated age verification, or for which websites.
Oh sweet summer child.
Unless it’s designed to not be capable of doing it (its not), they are doing it and it’s the intended plan.
I keep a $50 bill hidden between my phone/case so I always have some if i lose/forget my wallet, but that’s definitely a prime target for being stolen… might toss one in a shoe as well, that’s a good idea.
Cursor is just an IDE (integrated development environment), you can set it up to use all sorts of LLMs either directly through Cursor, or with your own API keys for the sources.
This file content just goes into the initial context to help the LLM act how you want.
That’s the dream really. Whether that thing you love makes money or not, that’s what you can do once you have enough.
That’s definitely a UK/EU thing then. If you get a $5000 cellphone bill in NA because someone did long distance fraud and you have pre authorized debits set up, $5000 is coming out of your account in Canada and USA.
Edit: assuming you have 5k and or have overdraft on the account. Not sure what happens if you have less than 5k and no overdraft. Like I don’t know if it’d take you to $0, or fail and charge you a insufficient fund fee.