Generally the speed of breaking through components of the tech stack. They chain exploits and they move through the system at a rate that's far faster than even a team of humans could pull off
Experienced this with a client as well, all my thoughts to you guys and the team. One thing we struggled with was determining the effective blast radius of compromised credentials. Blocking access was one thing, but the other critical component was whether activity could be reconstructed from independent logs (for this event and in future). Intereseted in whether the postmortem covers how you guys have established those boundaries, would make for some good learnings in general.
Maybe I missed it somewhere in the write up but in what way is the solar system its own backup? It seemed like the battery was just subbed for a combustion system using stored heat?
Not quite. It's a solar thermal (heat generator) that feeds a heat storage facility via an air-flow heat exchanger. That exchanger can alternatively be fed hot air generated using any other technology, including burning fossil fuels.
So, the heat storage facility is "source neutral". In addition, precisely how the stored heat is used "downstream" is also not a central part of the design, but turbines etc. are a likely option.
How've you gone about getting into this btw? I have extensive experience in infra and pipeline rollout but have struggled to find freelance clients for this kind of thing. Would be great to tie it into ML as a learning opportunity there
Spent a year of freetime catching up on everything and learning as much as possible, started sharing what I've found works or not, write a bunch of comments on HN and elsewhere, and have a email in your profile, eventually people will find you if you put out good stuff :)
Also bunch of past workplaces who've adopted AI in various ways who reach out once they find out what my current focus lies, but that's harder for others to replicate unless you've already had a career as a developer.
They're not available everywhere, and the neo-banks in general are tightening their processes to a point where they're becoming difficult to use. I've had multiple situations now where Revolut denied things like a tap payment at a restaurant in NYC because it was an "unknown recipient". Of course they don't notify you of it, leading to an awkward 5 mins with the waiter while I rummage through the app to figure out why I can't use my own money this time. Fast and convenient it ain't
This happens in a number of medical systems of countries across the world and is perfectly feasible, usually through premium subsidies for stuff like planned check ups, buying certain types of food and even installing equipment to monitor your driving behaviour. The thinking is that encouraging customers to be healthy reduces premium claims in the future
Unfortunately in this game first principles requires massive resources, not "some". Building in-house on top of existing open weights is a good way to bootstrap this process, especially since there's nothing inherently magical or particularly expertise-heavy when it comes to weights themselves
OP probably means using the existing open weights as a base for further homegrown development and research, not that the homegrown models are always updated based on whatever US or China are doing in the moment
It is not a given that we should allow computers to exist, the risk of harm is too great.
It is not a given that we should allow vehicles to exist, the risk of harm is too great.
It is not a given that we should allow hammers to exist, the risk of harm is too great.
The argument, even if it weren't moot due to the cat already being long out of the bag, is recursive all the way back to the discovery of fire. As a species we already regulate things that can cause harm in ways that are commensurate with the potential for that harm. Some are regulated more, some less, depending on the region. But all these things exist regardless; you have to decide whether you're comfortable with elites and governments being the only people who should have access to this, especially given that they have a history of not keeping your best interests in mind, or whether it should be democratized and available to all (like most other tools in existence)
I do not believe nuclear weaponry should be "democratized and available to all"; it should not exist. Likewise AI that's capable of step-by-step bioweapon creation for the average person. It shouldn't exist in the hands of governments, either.
This is not a slippery slope, nor do I think your attempted reductio ad absurdum is valid: we can talk about AI and nuclear weaponry and judge them differently than we do computers and hammers.
Volvo is complicated. Basically a lot of these smaller companies and countries realized there was no way they could make the economics work with the cost of electronics and software-related R&D being what they are. So they sold to larger players. But design and final assembly still happens in Gothenburg for high-end models that are typically destined for the EU market. The US now manufactures the SUVs.
Volvo was bought by Ford in 1999 and then sold by Ford to Geely in 2010. It had nothing to do with software related r&d, it was mostly down to Ford needing money after the financial crisis.
Volvo have factories in Sweden, Belgium, USA, and China. The new EX60 is manufactured in Sweden. The US factory makes the EX90, XC60, Polestar 3, and until recently the S60 sedan.
Volvo Cars is still headquartered in Sweden, and employ 22.4k people in Sweden out of 40k globally[1].
Given that the market for Volvo is global, it seems to me that Volvo Cars is still overwhelmingly Swedish, while at the same time being overwhelmingly controlled by Geely.
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