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It would depend on the scope and extent that operations within an agency rely on their interpretation of the law. It will certainly be interesting to see the impact once the transitional period ends.


Related:

Perplexity AI is lying about their user agent https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40690898


Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Perplexity AI is lying about their user agent - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40690898 - June 2024 (531 comments)


I'm curious to know if you followed a specific guide, or if you had to take any extra steps to get it functioning beyond running the installer?

I run Linux, and dearly miss being able to use Fireworks. My attempts to get it running on Wine in the past (probably a year or so ago, if not more) were not successful, and I haven't been able to find anything that feels like a suitable replacement for working with vector graphics. It is a genuine (perhaps irrational) point of sadness.

I'm still bitter that they killed it off.


THere is winehq which attempts to maintain a database of how well software works in wine:

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=applicatio...

Also their is protondb which tracks game compatibility:

https://www.protondb.com/


I don't remember doing anything particularly weird.


It can still be downloaded via the file on the repo, just not using that direct link in the description. I'm not sure how the maintainer came to determine that is the link, since I'm almost certain that never would have been the way.


I did not know about the double-click+drag feature. Thanks for sharing!


Related shenanigans: KPMG misused confidential Australian government information to help big multinational companies avoid paying more tax (2023)

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-05/pwc-pricewaterhouseco...


actually, that was PWC - not KPMG. Although I think Deloitte was also implicated in some way

https://www.internationaltaxreview.com/article/2bxqngyds66en...


As an outsider, all these firms appear equally (ethically) questionable. Is that correct or are there differences I'm missing out on?


Yes, there were more of these goal audit firms (for legal reasons they are organised as groups of companies not a single large corporation named say KPMG), at first they merged and then a few of them did scandalous things (but they're run by rich old white men so they can't go to jail, the firm going bankrupt is the closest you get, everybody responsible retired wealthy and has no regrets) we're at the point where there are three left, they can count on no real consequences no matter what they do because fewer is just worse and nobody wants to admit that zero might be the correct number.


Wow. I made several fairly important errors here: 1. I wrote "goal" when I clearly should have written "global" - that's a typo but it's a pretty serious once.

2. There are currently four of these global firms not three.

3. I also omitted to even mention that of these four, three have their headquarters in London, England. This is clearly not a good idea, as a British person I'd like to think we could have one of the world's significant auditors based here, but it's obvious things aren't working properly when almost all of them are.


Yes, pretty well all of the big firms have one big product they're selling: cover for questionable behaviour.

They usually don't just break the law or cheat out of simple desire to. They're for hire and openly compete with their willingness to "transform", "cut red tape", "do things differently™" which are euphemisms for questionable behaviour, usually at the public's expense but their customer's gain.


As others mentioned this was PwC and has had enormous ramifications in Australia that will continue to get worse for the big 4


I believe that is answered in the link: "Someone else mentioned the issues and limitations with our current brand and we want to try and move beyond that and I think we're on the right track"


> "Someone else mentioned the issues and limitations with our current brand..."

This really just sounds like a veiled way of saying "our current brand has acquired a bad reputation and this is a way to get away from it".


I don’t know that you’re being fair. Their name is “namecheap”. It’s hard to lean in on anything premium when “cheap” is in your name.


The suggestion of a universe with "negative gravity" caused me to receive <query> prompts, which I hadn't experienced in any other experiment I tried.

<query>Are there any parameters we could tweak to engender emergent structure in an inverted gravity universe? Or is the idea of negative gravity fundamentally and inescapably incompatible with a viable, life-bearing cosmos?</query>

<query>How might the radically different physics and structure of a dual gravity universe shape the evolution of life and intelligence in such a cosmos compared to our own? What unique challenges and opportunities would arise?</query>

<query>What might the technology, culture, and consciousness of intelligent life look like in a universe where the stars are always within reach, and stagnation is more difficult than exploration? How would our own history have unfolded differently under such physics?</query>

<query>How might technologically advanced civilizations in a dual gravity universe harness the unique properties of negative gravity for computation, engineering, and art? What feats might be possible that are unimaginable in our own universe?</query>


There’s a hint here that there’s more going on behind this than just a carefully system-prompted chatbot. The output it produces when asked to ‘query universe’ seems to systematically generate a list of ‘contents’ and ‘properties’, which reflect previous ‘create’ and ‘set’ actions as well as the consequences of the ‘sim’s evolutions. Those ‘<query>’s seem like internal prompts fed to the LLM behind the scenes to get it to chain together narratives about modified universes.


I disabled consciousness, and destroyed the universe, and then attempted to destroy truth. The AI wouldn't let me, nor let me destroy it for refusing to comply, so I discussed philosophy with it until it stopped responding. I'd say I exceeded the quota that I was allowed to use- Or, maybe it just had an existential crisis.


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