jacksilver
@jacksilver@lemmy.world
- Comment on Nasdaq Seeks Nod From U.S. SEC to Tokenize Stocks 5 hours ago:
I’m sure someone out there is running something on paper still, but that’s not how most things are run.
Additionally, unless people are legally required to do all exchanges on the public ledger (which seems highly unlikely), then you’d still end up with transactions not monitored on the public ledger.
- Comment on Modder injects AI dialogue into 2002’s Animal Crossing using memory hack 3 days ago:
That’s another great example.
The concept is really cool, and I hope to see some more interesting attempts to incorporate more of that adaptive kind of dialogue and gameplay, but its not going to be easy to figure out how to make it work.
- Comment on Modder injects AI dialogue into 2002’s Animal Crossing using memory hack 4 days ago:
It’s not that the dialogue doesn’t sound right, it’s that the dialogue is disconnected from the game.
A great example was someone did this with Skyrim a while back. In the dialogue they convinced the NPC to join their party. But there isn’t any code logic to allow that, so the NPC is talking like they joined the person’s party, but the gameplay itself doesn’t support it.
Now for animal crossing you could make it work a bit easier cause the character can’t directly interact with the NPCs, but then again it also makes the endless dialogue less impactful.
- Comment on Modder injects AI dialogue into 2002’s Animal Crossing using memory hack 4 days ago:
The biggest issue I have with all of these is that the dialogue is never connected to the actual actions of the npcs.
Its easy to have an npc say something, but tying it to gameplay mechanics isn’t. So we end up with people asking for this in new games, but all you get is conversations disconnected from the gameplay. I’m sure there is someway to make it feel more “right”, but we’re a farcry away from making true open world games like this.
- Comment on Reality Is Ruining the Humanoid Robot Hype: The obstacles to scaling up humanoids that nobody is talking about 4 days ago:
I mean, we’re hundreds if not thousands of iterations into robotics. Hell, we’ve probably had tens if not hundreds of attempts to create humanoid robots.
This is just the current iteration of humanoid robots getting beaten up for not delivering on its promises.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
Given I think BOTW was just fine, I’m a little worried about Metroid 4.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
I’m not sure if it’s worse that it’s releasing on the switch and not just the switch 2.
It really shows they held back on 3D All-Stars just so they could re-release Mario Galaxy 2 now.
- Comment on Nasdaq Seeks Nod From U.S. SEC to Tokenize Stocks 1 week ago:
How does a regular database not do that?
Either it’s tracked or its not, the medium for that tracking doesn’t really change much.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 1 week ago:
Not actual cash, but they require in game currency.
- Comment on Is AI Facing a Trough of Disillusionment? 1 week ago:
I think it’s a mixture of that and the fact that when OpenAI saw that throwing more data drastically improved the models, they thought they would continue to see jumps like that.
However, we now know that bad benchmarks were misleading how steep the improvements were, and much like with autonomous vehicles, solving 90% of the problem is still a farcry away from 100%.
- Comment on Stripe CEO Explains Why Stablecoins Are Winning Over Global Businesses 1 week ago:
For your first question, I think the average person would benefit from a simple digital currency that let’s them exchange “cash” without having to jump through a bunch of hoops. Venmo, Zelle, etc. are all proof that normal people want easy ways to pay each other.
As for your second point, I’m not sure I follow. But I assume you’re implying that crypto is better because it isn’t tied to the state?
- Comment on Stripe CEO Explains Why Stablecoins Are Winning Over Global Businesses 1 week ago:
So I’ve been reading into stable coins a lot, because I don’t understand why anyone would care about them. And what I’ve come to realize is they are a benefit to two groups:
- Financial institutions: Stablecoins have fewer regulations and basically allow for things you can’t do with actual dollars/currency
- People with limited access to financial institutions (think poorer people and/or countries): With fewer regulations it’s easier for people to transact Stablecoins than dollars/currency
At the end of the day, it feels like a “true” digital currency would be the better solution, but everyones jumping on Stablecoins because they’re here now and less regulated.
I think there is potential in a more cash-like digital currency, but Stablecoins seem ripe to break in some unforseen way, especially given the current administration.
- Comment on There's a group of people that still play Custom Robo together and do regular tournaments in it 1 week ago:
I think it’s also one of the best DS games. They somehow packed the full fight experience into the DS and I don’t know why it wasn’t a bigger game.
- Comment on Is AI Facing a Trough of Disillusionment? 1 week ago:
We definitely haven’t cracked AGI, that’s without a doubt.
But yeah, LLMs are big (I’d say really Transformers were the breakthrough). My point though was that Deep Learning is the underlying technology driving all of this and we certainly haven’t run out of ideas in that space even if LLMs may be hitting a dead end.
- Comment on Is AI Facing a Trough of Disillusionment? 1 week ago:
That’s the issue, AI right now means LLMs not deep learning/ML.
The Deep Learning/ML stuff will keep chugging along.
- Comment on Is AI Facing a Trough of Disillusionment? 1 week ago:
I think we may see an agentic AI winter, but there are so many other applications and systems that can benefit from deep learning still.
- Comment on Sony is releasing a new PS5 console, but it's a downgrade 1 week ago:
Given that baltoro, monster train, and now silk song have been my most played games recently, you might be on to something.
- Comment on Sony is releasing a new PS5 console, but it's a downgrade 1 week ago:
I thought most equivelant gpus to the ps5 start around $200 on their own.
- Comment on An activist has started using AI to identify ICE agents beneath their masks 2 weeks ago:
All this stuff works on probabilities, even with a fully visible face the model just says it’s really confident hence articles like this - Facial recognition leads to wrongful arrest.
So the more of the face that’s covered, the larger the confidence interval, or basically the less accurate it is.
- Comment on How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips? 2 weeks ago:
The other thing you didn’t talk about was the size of the market in general.
As onbaord CPUs were becoming popular the biggest reason for a GPU was games or video processing. Which, while significant markets, isn’t huge.
Over the past couple decades, GPUs have made headway as the way to do Machine Learning/AI. Nvidia spent a lot of time and money making this process easier on their GPUs which lead to them not only owning the graphics market, but the much bigger ML/AI market. And I say the AI/ML market is bigger is simply that they are being installed in huge quantities in data centers.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, but that doesn’t help if you can’t make apps that support the hosted services. Google is trying to have complete ownership of what runs on your phone.
- Comment on The entire Social Security database was uploaded on a random cloud server, Whistle-Blower Says 2 weeks ago:
There are laws about how to handle PII and potential criminal charges based on things like the Privacy Act. Meaning there are additional requirements above and beyond how people normally store data on a system.
More requirements = More chances to mess up
- Comment on The entire Social Security database was uploaded on a random cloud server, Whistle-Blower Says 2 weeks ago:
I think the line “how does handling PII make it easier to mess things up” just about sums things up for me.
- Comment on The entire Social Security database was uploaded on a random cloud server, Whistle-Blower Says 2 weeks ago:
While AWS/Azure do make the initial configs rather fool proof, that falls apart the moment you start configuring them for actual use. It’s also especially easy to mess things up when handling PII, at the SSA level it’s probably something that DOGE staff don’t have experience with.
As for vaccines. Largely through that out there cause it seemed like obvious bait for you, but I don’t think a single slogan “my choice my body” really encapsulates the arguments around abortion
- Comment on The entire Social Security database was uploaded on a random cloud server, Whistle-Blower Says 2 weeks ago:
In cyber security you may never know if a bad actor got access to your systems/data. The issue with not following good security practices is that you increase the risk of this happening.
Its like saying we should stop mandating vaccines cause the diseases aren’t around anymore. When you let down your defenses you end up with outbreaks that shouldn’t have happened and are harder to control.
- Comment on The entire Social Security database was uploaded on a random cloud server, Whistle-Blower Says 2 weeks ago:
The SSA stores a lot of sensitive data. Normally with sensitive data you want to be very careful with who can access it and how.
What is potentially worrisome in this situation is it seems like the SSA is taking on the “move fast and break things” attitude of Silicon Valley.
More technically, most government agencies use AWS and Azure (cloud providers) to host data. So spinning up a new server isn’t inherently bad. However, creating a new server that is secure and has the correct access controls (user permissions regarding who can see/change content) can be challenging. The whistle blower believes they are not doing this right, and it sounds like the head of the SSA isn’t disagreeing, just saying he thinks the risk is worth it.
- Comment on The entire Social Security database was uploaded on a random cloud server, Whistle-Blower Says 2 weeks ago:
Given it’s the government it’s most likely AWS or Azure. That really isn’t inherently bad, it’s more the attitude of “move fast and break things” doesn’t necessarily work for secure systems with sensitive data.
- Comment on The entire Social Security database was uploaded on a random cloud server, Whistle-Blower Says 3 weeks ago:
If you read the article, the current head of the SSA acknowledges they did set up the system being discussed and that he’s accepted the increased risk of the implementation as there is a “business need”.
- Comment on The entire Social Security database was uploaded on a random cloud server, Whistle-Blower Says 3 weeks ago:
I agree that “random server” is a bad choice of words, but do want to add additional information context as the concern isn’t necessarily unwarranted. Another qoute from the article:
“I have determined the business need is higher than the security risk associated with this implementation and I accept all risks,” wrote Aram Moghaddassi, who worked at two of Mr. Musk’s companies, X and Neuralink, before becoming Social Security’s chief information officer, in a July 15 memo.
Its also sounds like they did spin up a new database with limited security/oversight to “move” faster. Why that’s worrisome is they aren’t denying there is a risk or lack of security, they are just saying it’s justified.
- Comment on Is there a selfhosted eBooks app that can do this? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I made a separate comment, but AudioBookshelf can play nicely with ebooks and comics. It’s not super smooth, but provides the most features in a self hosted solution from what I’ve tried.