just cancelled my hulu/disney bundle and requested to delete my disney account which was processed immediately and was very easy to find.

deleting the hulu account took me effort, had to search for it and log into a special site and only a submit request to yet to be processed.

so actually props to disney for not being user hostile.

Im glad people are actually following through and actually canceling, this is how you send a message.

I had to go through a number of "are you sure?!" pages but I was surprised at how easy it was

people here keep saying that this is targeted at big companies/corporations. the big company that i work for explicitly block uploads of data to these services and we're forbidden to put anything company related in there for many reasons, even if you use your own account, we don't have 'company accounts'.

so no, i can't see companies getting all excited about buying $250mo/user licenses for their employees for google or chatgpt to suck in their proprietary data.

There are enterprise offerings that solve that. Guarantees that the data won’t be trained on etc.

I’m at a major financial company and we’ve had access to ChatGPT for over a year along with explicit approval to upload anything while it’s in enterprise mode

It’s a solved problem - technical, regulatory, legal.

We have the same for GitLab Duo. Again, I work for a "global mega-corp" who would never want to leak their internal data. Do you know if your ChatGPT runs on-prem? I wondered that about our GitLab Duo access.

no sane company would go for this with proprietary data - local models only. the “solved problem - technical, regulatory, legal” is that… until it isn’t … and that time always comes

>no sane company would go for this with proprietary data

Well then you might want to pull your pension and investments and keep it under your pillow in gold bar format. In fact maybe check out of the worlds financial system entirely.

I don't know the technical details on how they arrived at that, but I assure you the big dogs have concluded this works.

Besides half the world runs on excel files saved in the cloud.

I don't think I've ever worked somewhere where you wouldn't get fired for sending company data to a party that doesn't have an NDA signed with the company, regardless of whatever ToS they have.

What is everyone using GitHub and AWS doing? They certainly all do not have NDAs with their code hosts and cloud providers

It's in their interest to do right by their customers data, otherwise there will be a heap of legal troubles and major reputation hit, both impact bottom line more than training on your data. They can and do in fact make more money by offering to train dedicated models for your company on your data.without bringing that back to their own models.

Everywhere I've worked has been strictly on-prem for source code (even when using Github), but I imagine company lawyers get involved with any kind of SaaS procurement? Like as an individual I'm not authorized to agree to any terms with anyone on behalf of my company. I know I've been in sales calls with suppliers where we had to wait for NDAs to be in place on both sides before we could talk.

I can relay that NDAs are very rare in typical saas procurement and that the ToS with data addendums are satisfactory for most people

Yeah, and who will make them accountable? How can you verify that they’re noteworthy stealing your data anyways? This companies don’t give a shit about copyright or privacy.

They say that, but how would you know if they lie?

last week i broke down and bought the 20$ subscription because i was excel lazy and wanted to see what supposedly state of the art AI could do to help me parse my kids baseball team's statistic... and boy am i confident more than ever that humanity is not doomed and there won't be AI taking over jobs anytime soon.

the amount of time i spend typing out "you've changed something i didn't ask" is incredible, the only positive i get is that it's fun to verbally abuse AI for how inaccurate and deliberate with errors it is.

i would not take a single answer from chatgpt without actually doing a sanity check. if it throws up on an excel that has 12x30 data matrix of one dimensional data, i couldn't imagine the garbage it spews out if you're using it to modify something actually business essential.

You don't want to ask AI to directly manipulate 360 distinct data points for the same reason you wouldn't ask a human to do that.

Get it to write a script to process the data instead.

In my experience more often than not it'll do that for you and run the code to give you the answer.

E.g just now I ran:

~~~

What's the inverse of this matrix?

[[0.0759688880587972, 0.3299493758880664, 0.14599823333009276, 0.09897577338235164], [0.7478951343477207, 0.9006422280032432, 0.3137352150172843, 0.5974301357799204], [0.5568700534103693, 0.648666832906366, 0.5280912469659284, 0.5753861797637815], [0.7905984807343551, 0.053757547259005944, 0.9632727273522135, 0.44727851917969785]]

~~~

Reasoning output:

~~~

The user is asking for the inverse of a matrix. Since they want the result, I will compute it and present it as a matrix in Markdown. I’ll use Python for the calculation but won’t include any code in the final answer. It’s best to show the resulting matrix in Markdown so the user sees only the output, as requested. I’ll use Python to compute it and then provide the result without extra code.

import sympy as sp import numpy as np

# define the matrix M = np.array([ [0.0759688880587972, 0.3299493758880664, 0.14599823333009276, 0.09897577338235164], [0.7478951343477207, 0.9006422280032432, 0.3137352150172843, 0.5974301357799204], [0.5568700534103693, 0.648666832906366, 0.5280912469659284, 0.5753861797637815], [0.7905984807343551, 0.053757547259005944, 0.9632727273522135, 0.44727851917969785] ], dtype=float)

# calculate inverse invM = np.linalg.inv(M)

invM

~~~

And then I get a nicely formatted latex matrix as the final outcome.

(edit: that's 04-mini-high)

that's literally no different than what Google Maps does in my car while in CarPlay mode. It's like Apple neuters it and don't give it full gyro/compass data, because when driving it constantly moves the "car" anywhere from 90 to 270 degress and keeps it there for a few seconds until it figures this out again. I checked all possible permissions and still can't figure it out.

Never happens on the Apple Maps, although I have 0 trust in siri and apple maps, especially when we travel to europe, i feel like i'm an experiment for apple to see how much off straight forward route it can make me take.

I have the same thing happen on Google Maps - on top of my car just spinning in circles, it will also show up 100-300 feet to the right of the road I'm driving on, constantly doing navigation updates to the nearest street. When I unplug from carplay, it's fine, and back on the road, then when I plug it into the car it pops to the right again and starts doing updates.

Interesting. A number of years ago google maps on apple didn't behave that way. Then one trip I noticed my wife's maps were freaking out in a city with a lot of large curves and clover leaf onramps.

Of course my android with Google maps behaves as expected, though in a few places with stacked interchanges it can get confused if traffic is moving slow.

all the tramp stamps and terrible back tattoos from early 2000s?

i see more aging hipsters than ever with sleeves and they seem to keep adding, so i wonder if this is "genre" specific.

You get a tramp stamp because your drunk friends decided it was a good idea. You get a sleeve when you've thought about it for a while, and budgeted for a $1500+ expenditure. I think it's a different mindset.

The only people I know who got a sleeve lazered off did it because they wanted to replace it, not because they wanted to be ink free.

Tattoos come and go in fads, and it's weird how some people will insist their quirky line tattoo is an ephemeral trend

the above is absolutely true on the commercial engine side, especially for government subsidized companies such as RR... there is a big contention against RR's practices but most mfgs still give the engines at a very large discount, not negative. i don't think it's true for the actual airframe, the numbers would be completely off and airframe does not have the same going back to the factory for refurb requirements.

Probably not negative, but component maintenance is a huge longtail revenue stream for avionics. Pretty much every electronic and mechanical component has to be pulled periodically and tested, which costs, and replaced or refurbished. My first proper job, that's how they made the majority of their revenue. They lost money on the development effort, maybe broke even after initial sales, and profited off the fact that aircraft are kept around for decades and every 5 years their part had to be pulled and sent back to them for testing and replacement.

The more Airbus or Boeing own inside the aircraft, the more they can play into this model. 787 is a great example of Boeing hurting themselves through their outsourcing, but greatly assisting their suppliers.

yes, what you're talking about is true for the supplier side, but it's still not accurate for A/C mfg. operators own the a/c and all the associated bits that would end up getting sent out for service, and they're the ones that are paying service fees to those OEM suppliers that supplied the A/C in the first place.

these day's there's not many "parts" outside of fuselage and flight IP that someone like Boeing/EMB, etc. owns that wasn't outsourced:engines, air data system, actuations, cabin, flight controls, landing gear, etc.. THere's nothing really that the A/C mfg could "service" to ever make back a 300mil airframe. the A/C sell for the fixed cost, sometimes the operator gets to select their own engine, but othewise they buy it for cash, not for future services. boeing and other A/Cs would not survive on maintenance plans because there's very little they actually maintain.

Yes, now you say that, I think what I read was actually about the engines.

in past life i worked on the engine...

during development and going into first flight, it was fairly open discussion that israel 'was' an original partner whom was funded by usa, and thus why israeli flag was not on the a/c during promo but israel and their tech companies had input into development.

many times it was also discussed that israeli pilots would ask to have their engines deliver above spec thrust, sort of like tunning your turbo car... it created a whole logistical black hole but it certainly was technically possible. perhaps 15 years later someone finally figure out how to cater to that market.

this is another distraction product from apple's core that took away resources, time and overall effort of maintain the base product at the expense of branching out and growth chasing.

i never understood TV+ and used to get it for a long time, until the latest price increase, as part of the apple one package. and we still never watched it. it seems there are some hard core fans of the limited content, but to me apple was always like 'disney' and disney already has a phenomenal family-wide content for relatively stupid cheap, why apple would think they can take that on was beyond me.

Yes Apple of the 2020s era seems to be trying to do EVERYTHING while also their scale means almost nothing moves the needle for them unless its huge.

I do not understand why they desire to have also-ran versions of Netflix, Spotify, Steam, Peloton, Kindle, etc. Maintaining what 5 segmented computing OSes - Mac, iPad, iOS, WatchOS, VisionOS..?

Continuing to flood each of their hardware lines with confusing overlap.. very 2010s Samsung to me.

why is your tool so hard to use on ios? the website instructions say you need a companion siri shortcut, but no where is there actually a shortcut listed.

combing and coming through searches and reddit all comes up with non-working siri shortcuts that complain that the url is not found.