The assumption with these weapons was that they would require too much energy to be portable enough to be undetectable in all of these circumstances (at least based on other reporting on the subject).

If the device doesn't require a lot of power, then it's entirely possible that American military commanders and research leadership would miss it.

Add to that an incentive to avoid helping the victims from a cost and overhead perspective, and you get a big ol' mess.

What I don't see in this article that should be explicit:

If your data is in this database, it's gone. Other people have it. Your sensitive data that you handed over to their teams has vanished in a puff of smoke. You should probably ask if your data was part of the leak.

Fail to see how a state actor would not have come across this already.

I anticipate they will fix this by adding better AI evaluation tools that work better to test their infra and changes.

In the meantime they will be quite a bit slower I’d imagine.

Also wonder if those seniors will ever get to actually do any engineering themselves now that they’re the bottleneck. :)

I loved HyperCard. Using it you really felt like you were building something of consequence - it was pretty magical to go from simple word processing to this in one model leap of a school computer.

Not sure how much this happens in practice anymore - any smart utility is going to use your solar / house battery to cover their spikes and reduce overall costs so they don’t have to keep an old dormant coal plant on the books for the Super Bowl. At least, that’s what I’d expect from my utility.

I think it's mostly for cases where people get 95% of the energy from solar but stay connected to the grid. The fixed costs of a house's connection to the grid are roughly constant, but historically utilities amortized it in their energy prices. We saw something similar in my area during the California droughts when people were "too good" at conserving water, but I guess a lot of the infra costs don't scale linearly with usage

Likely also depends on whether you get your power from a Co-op, investor-owned utility, or some other source. The IOUs will definitely want to amortize infra investment, whereas coops might be more focused on best-power-for-price for consumers, etc.

I don’t believe they will. They will be thrown out soon enough and hard - but the incumbents will fight like hell to make sure people’s voices are silenced, diluted, or not counted.

Through the magic of serendipity it just so happens that the states that decide for us happen to be MI, WI, and PA and so this concept of backlashes is quite amusing. Tech workers live in a bubble away from these states minus Philly.

Dear leader says prices are down. So they are down. He tells me I’m doing better than ever before. So I must be.

“Unexpectedly” lol

We’ve been digging ourselves a giant AI-inflated hole in the economy for months and folks have just been playing musical chairs to grab as much money as possible before the music stops.

Hard to believe it’s taken this long. I never wanted to live through the late 70s / early 80s economically but I guess I’ll have my chance!

I hate to break it to, you but AI is not the reason why the numbers are down. AI makes everyone productive - for every engineer that is laid off due to AI from big tech, that person still has skills that when coupled with AI makes them eligible for slightly lower paying job.

The reason the numbers are down should be pretty obvious.

Where is the evidence AI makes people more productive?

Are you denying that the current administration dumbfuckery is the sole reason for poor job markets?

No he's pretty clearly asking you for evidence that AI improves productivity.

How can you trade on projected jobs numbers? The stock market seems detached from macroeconomics anyway.

You could do it directly in the various gambling apps like Kalshi, or indirectly through other types of trades in the market.

Projected by people who have no idea?

If they're bad at it, you could become obscenely wealthy by betting against expectations.

Same.

There isn’t really a distinction day to day on this in practice. It covers everybody - just easier to say than all the official titles and typically for morale helps to carry the name all the way to the back office to connect to what’s happening at the pointy end.