“Why Would I Buy This Useless, Evil Thing? - Aftermath”
This x1000. Just… why?
Google laid off their python lang team. This is a bad idea:
- Google is all-in on “AI” and python is integral to ML
- Other lang teams should be worried. If something as core to ML like python gets axed in an AI Bubble, what hope do other langs have?
Right now his research organization is only allowed to work on AI.
FFS
One of the worst things that can happen to a new idea for reforming software development is to have DHH swoop in with a half-assed shitty implementation of it, poisoning the idea for a generation of devs
None of this is surprising (as an end user, WordPress’s trajectory towards shit has been all too obvious IMO and I’ve heard similar from others) but it’s still eye-opening to read
This feels broadly accurate. The UX for passkeys is, well… unusable.
That feeling when you do a customer survey for a SaaS investigating generative model features and nowhere in the survey does “I don’t want or need AI features” appear even once
I’m thinking “says it’s a good idea to ban TikTok” is my new rubric for assessing whether somebody in tech is likely to have poor judgement
On pretty much every concrete measure on “undermining the rule of law or democracy Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and tech billionaires are much worse than TikTok
“Scalable Extraction of Training Data from (Production) Language Models”
We show an adversary can extract gigabytes of training data from open-source language models like Pythia or GPT-Neo, semi-open models like LLaMA or Falcon, and closed models like ChatGPT
Surprise!
So, it turns out that my granddad’s taste in leisure reading was way more interesting before he went all-in on Clancy and Hornblower.
At my grandma’s place for the first day of summer (it’s an Icelandic thing) listening to her tell stories on what it was like growing up during the occupation of Iceland. Honestly strange to think it happened here.
“The many (many) ways I’ve backdoored your dependencies and other supply chain attacks”
“Why Meta Stock Is Plummetting After Earnings Beat Expectations - Barron’s”
The problem with using rituals and magic incantations to juke the stock market—VR!, AR!, AI!—is that eventually incantations backfire and have the opposite effect. This is, like, Folklore 101.
“Civil War (the movie) is a blunt object. - by Dave Karpf”
This review makes me actually want to go out and see this movie
“Spotify CEO Daniel Ek surprised at negative impact of laying off 1,500 Spotify employees | Fortune”
I’d say tech execs are clowns who don’t take their job seriously and are just spouting nonsense for the stock market while their orgs burn…
But genuine clowns would actually do a better job
It’ll be interesting to see next week what effect posting pro-worker stuff next week on International Worker’s Day will have on each social media platform
My guess? I think Mastodon and the corner of BlueSky I’m on are broadly pro-union. But Linkedin? Probably not
‘The Labor Movement Must Learn How to Exploit “Choke Points”’
This seems broadly appropriate as International Worker’s Day draws near.
Reminder: mass layoffs usually trigger a cycle of dysfunction. So, to take a hypothetical example, if an already dysfunctional car company lays off 10-20% of their staff—much of which will be sales staff—odds are that their overall numbers a year from now will be much worse, not better
“WSJ: The AI industry spent 17x more on Nvidia chips than it brought in in revenue”
Linking to a reddit thread just for the headline quote they found in a paywalled WSJ article feels a bit weird but…
This 17x number is just for chips so the actual cost x revenue multiplier is much higher in reality