torchtriton dep? Is this targeting LLM users like OpenAI? This attack was only discovered after a few days. I wonder if the attacker succeeded in getting something?
They stopped the treatment for one person in the experiment group treated with 25 microgram dosage, because they showed a side-effect of itchy skin.
There is a bunch of white blood cells that produce things called cytokines which act as messengers on immune response. When you want to kill a pathogen you produce Th1. When you produce too much of it you risk killing your own tissue to cancel that you produce Th2. A balance between Th1 and Th2 is needed so that you don't kill yourself while trying to kill pathogens.
Odd... I remember editing Word documents in Microsofts cloud offering as far back as 2012 ~ 2013. Maybe even sooner? Point being this is just a marketing piece. In Microsofts case you likely will still be able to work offline. I was editing files on both desktop and web at my former job. Its nothing new to Microsoft. Personally I prefer Office to Google Docs.
It's generally wise to be skeptical of this sort of demonstration. It's been my experience that the cool stuff that Microsoft shows off at these events might actually land in six months to a year, sometimes farther out, if it actually comes about at all. I've been beating my head against the wall with Teams for a couple years now, as features drip out like molasses - there are things I saw demoed almost a year ago that won't land before Christmas this year.
Also when people start the hand-waving about plugging in arbitrary bits of AI to help out with tasks, my engineer brain explodes a little bit, because that is hard to do right, beyond cute little proof-of-concept demos. It's great to demonstrate and put in the marketing material, but the real-world usage and effectiveness often leaves a lot to desire.
They could show ads to pay for the API usage. I'd be ok with that. After all, it's not free for Google to host its service. Somebody has to pay, and Google really doesn't have an obligation to make it free.
The bus companies could provide a free tier of data to Google, like one bus line, and after that Google Maps users would have to watch bus company ads for 30 seconds if they wanted to know where the bus was. After all, it costs money to track all those busses.
A lot of cities don't have any transit timetables at all on Google Maps, let alone realtime bus tracking, simply because the bus company considers it's timetables to be copyright, and wants licensing money to use them commercially, which Google is unwilling to pay.
Those cities usually have local route planning apps, of various levels of craptastic-ness. When travelling round the world, trying to figure out which app is good for local public transit is always on my checklist next to 'buy local data sim' and 'figure out which currency they use here and what the exchange rate is'.
That is Google using their network effect to reap the cash, they know everyone has Maps installed.
If the metro transport companies weren't so dumb and greedy they would pool their dev resources more, but I think they get suckered by signing contracts for outsourced app dev where they don't get IP rights, because that company is planning to sell the same code to 10 different customers. It usually gets tied up with the payments system (like Oyster/Octopus etc) and the morass of legacy embedded equipment.
If metro companies could act collectively they could make transit data available with an API key, which would at least allow better apps.
Agreed! I like the UI. The snippets aroused my interest in the actual content linked a lot more than a bland (and often misleading) title.
These days I often scroll past pages of hacker news without clicking on anything. I used to check out the comments often. But now no longer. The snippets seem revitalize the site for me a bit.
Google assistant is miles better than Siri. Processor speed matters but having an actually usable voice control interface is simply a gamer changer. I've had iPhone since 3GS. Now I'm a pixel convert, and I'm not turning back to iPhone just because it's faster.
"Actually usable" seems to be going a bit too far for rhetorical purposes. I use Siri probably two dozen times a day-
-messaging people
-setting alarms
-setting reminders
-taking notes
-weather queries
-occasionally some informational thing like the time of a game (e.g. "When do the Lions play next")
-set timers
-query on the status of alarms and timers
-occasionally sunrise, sunset
-volume up/down / next / previous / skip
-phone people
It operates at close to perfect effectiveness for the real-world usage that I have. I don't expect it to ever be as good as Google as it operates on a tiny fraction of the data that Google has on the average user, but it's perfectly effective for that.
It's pretty hard to use Google assistant on an iPhone. The integration just isn't as good, and I suspect different speech models are used given that on device models depend a lot on hardware. It'll be nice to try it on a pixel phone and feel the difference yourself, but I don't know how you can do that without buying a new phone :) I switched to Pixel 3a initially for its camera and also I'm holding off a premium phone purchase until 5G comes about. I'm impressed with what Pixel 3a does with camera via better software. But what's genuinely surprising is the google assistant speech model quality and integration. I ended up buying a home mini and am planning to buy a smart display to get more of that. I'm unusual in that I don't really care about data privacy issues with Google. The convenience is worth it for me personally. But my main point is the processor benchmark matters, but it's not the only thing that matters :)
