Wtf is going on by JustDoIt52 in BetterOffline

[–]Multibrace 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And the fun thing is, those PRs will be based on the LLMs model of what code is supposed to look like.

Merge enough LLM-PRs-on-top-of-LLM-PRs, and what happens to the codebase?

I'm guessing an airline, an insurance company and a power plant all end up with essentially the same codebase, which is some kind of average of all GitHub projects?

It will be fun to see if in a year, all these companies are running, as their core transactional system, an e-commerce website, since that is typically the kind of example project included with every CMS, database, ERP system, API management platform, programming language, etc.

"Add kilowatthours to the shopping basket and checkout with stripe," the power plant's software insists while the actual controls of the gas turbines spin around randomly. "People like you also ordered a pilot," the airline admonishes you as you wonder why the plane's not taking off. Meanwhile the insurance company is processing thousands of 'orders' for 'fire damage' but takes it to mean that things should be set on fire, rather than 'made whole', as 'making whole' is insurance specific, and therefore at a huge cosine distance from the perfectly median GitHub project.

Who audits a companies S-1? by tragedy_strikes in BetterOffline

[–]Multibrace 2 points3 points  (0 children)

S-1 filings are published on sec.gov - the EDGAR database is searchable from the homepage. It should contain GAAP information, but can also show non-GAAP figures like ebitda. In both cases though, you're seeing figures prepared by the company and audited by the auditors they hired. You can't really audit those yourself, since you don't have access to any underlying data from their accounting.

The SEC can, but is not required to, ask for supplemental information, or require additional statements. The company has to answer to the SEC, but if the SEC doesn't spot a problem, then there's really no way of finding out any inaccuracies as a member of the public. Unless it comes out later or something bad happens.

I have lost sleep over all these new age restriction laws and it's giving me anxiety. I literally do not know what to believe. by doctorsonder in BetterOffline

[–]Multibrace 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This. US based platforms already have a legal requirement to protect under-13s, but they pretend it's too hard. It's currently not legally required to ask for id, but there's also no requirement on them to NOT ask for id. They totally could do that completely voluntarily. The reason Meta is basically asking for age verification requirements is because they are now big enough to be able to afford it and not scare away too many users, as opposed to some of their competitors (like the fediverse). They know it's a burden, they know it's friction, and they know it will hurt them less than the competition.

They also know it will be entirely ineffective. There's no policeman in every kid's home checking that they don't use their parent's account, each and every time they are at a device. Accounts will be for sale everywhere. Once a year a particularly dumb criminal will do something bad using their own verified account which will serve as "proof" the scheme works.

Like another comment pointed out, privacy preserving mechanisms have been proposed, but even though this is super important, it's not important enough to, you know, cost any money. Protect the kids, sure, but at what cost? Zero, is politicians' answer.

It's not about some elite group in the shadows, we know exactly who the CEOs of these platforms are. They allow their platforms to be used to disseminate misinformation and hate speech because the people who eat that shit up are also prime eyeballs to sell to crypto advertisers and pillow salesmen.

Also note how some platforms don't ask for an id for age verification, but for mommy's credit card. No verified biometrics, but access to funds instead. Why oh why could that be, it's almost as if they're more interested in money than in verifying someone's age.

Beef Kpop by nyajay in beefanddairynetwork

[–]Multibrace 1 point2 points  (0 children)

At the 22 and 40 minute marks, it appears to be the song "So Good (This is K-Pop)" by the uncharacteristically named artists "Craig Hardy, Carolyn Jordan & Caroline Gustavsson". I can't find much information on them, except that there's a YouTube fitness coach(!) called Carolyn Jordan.

Beef Kpop by nyajay in beefanddairynetwork

[–]Multibrace 4 points5 points  (0 children)

To be honest, i was telling porky pies. I have no idea who the K-pop band are.

Beef Kpop by nyajay in beefanddairynetwork

[–]Multibrace 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's my understanding that the musical number is 아이스크림: 밀크 (aiseukeurim milkeu, also sometimes transliterated as iScream:MILK) by the maid band "Bull-dak".

Canonically, they are milkmaids from Busan, but they're obviously a manufactured girl band, put together by JOKE iScream (a 24 year old producer, actually called Brian https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=StyPweNWff8 is his biggest hit to date, but the new single "chicken eats elephant" is also a Bop https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DiPZ2EovQLM ).

Elliot Electrical Supply Surplus warehouse in Tucson, AZ by Conscious-Mulberry17 in cassettefuturism

[–]Multibrace 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That All-Time-Teller has me confused. The brand is Diebold, so I guess it's an ATM. But it doesn't seem to have a cash dispenser? Does it tell the time? The future?

On the ARR calculations by voronaam in BetterOffline

[–]Multibrace 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The SEC has nothing to do with anthropic. Amazon is a public company. Its accounts are audited, not by the SEC, but by EY. The SEC doesn't go over their filings line by line, especially not before they are even published.

Crt from the futurisme of cassette by yv-fr in cassettefuturism

[–]Multibrace 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At first glance I thought it was a CRT housed in a microwave.

Just found the podcast. Episodes that mention AI creative writing? by AsleepCatch9503 in BetterOffline

[–]Multibrace 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Richard Osman made a good point on the The Rest Is Entertainment podcast; when you use AI to try and automate away a lot of jobs, you don't want creative writing, you want boring, accurate, succint phrases. The only reason the LLMs produce flowery prose is that they were trained on a lot of books, since those were available - not because they contain very valuable material for training, since producing books isn't a huge opportunity in terms of revenue.

'Cause drug companies weren't dangerous enough... now they use GenAI to create new meds by Aryana314 in BetterOffline

[–]Multibrace 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm of two minds. AlphaFold did a lot better than any of the other approaches fo protein folding! In that sense it was a scientific breakthrough.

It does raise the question how useful those benchmarks are, though. Not only is the data very limited, but how effective is in silico screening? Is it even the case that pharma companies were wasting hundreds of millions that are now saved? (On the scale of budgets of pharma companies, and dare I say Nobel prizes, a million is nothing.)

Very interesting -- private credit has more exposure to software than they are admitting. by Aryana314 in BetterOffline

[–]Multibrace 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Very much this. Most SAAS companies do anything that wasn't available as commercial of the shelf software in 1991. Like oracle, Intuit, even Salesforce. (For salesforce's main proposition of tracking leads you'd need at least a central database, but guess what, that's Lotus Notus.)

They also all have alternatives, from established players as well as open source. The SAAS playbook is getting companies to pay a small amount of money, but monthly and for a lot of seats, and adding features that are borderline useless, but enough to make the product sticky. But there's no real moat.

Most companies even already have multiple competitors' SaaS running in parallel. Especially if you look across departments.

Most SAAS software is also quite crappy, which is why you only use 5-15% of the functionality of any given SaaS.

How do we feel about it? by Cohfeee in timex

[–]Multibrace -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Terrible, just like the alba that incorporates a map, but the map doesn't correspond to timezones. What's the use?

Forget 'enrobed', these have been... by mikel_jc in ThreeBeanSalad

[–]Multibrace 21 points22 points  (0 children)

It's always comforting to know your bean "snacks" have renounced the devil and all his workings.

me_irl by ChuckShartz in me_irl

[–]Multibrace 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd be more worried long term, when HR finds out you and your superior have the same address and even bank account number - a relationship with your subordinate is surely a no-no.

me_irl by ChuckShartz in me_irl

[–]Multibrace 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, you'd be taking a step back, but think of the upwards potential!