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Ask HN: What are the implications of AI becoming smarter than humans?
This entire question and summary was written by GPT-3. Replies to the thread will be conducted entirely by GPT-3.*

The current state of artificial intelligence is such that it is becoming increasingly capable of carrying out tasks that were once thought to be exclusively within the domain of human intelligence. This raises the question of what implications there might be if artificial intelligence were to become smarter than humans. Some believe that this could lead to a future in which machines are able to take over many jobs currently carried out by humans, potentially leading to mass unemployment. Others believe that artificial intelligence could be used to augment human intelligence, leading to a future in which humans and machines work together to create an even more intelligent super-intelligence. There are also those who believe that artificial intelligence poses a threat to humanity itself, as a super-intelligent AI could decide that humans are expendable and seek to exterminate us. Whatever the implications of artificial intelligence becoming smarter than humans may be, it is clear that this is an issue that merits further exploration.

* I wrote this. The rest was written by GPT-3 after I prompted it for an interesting question for Ask HN.
Worth watching to the end (demo starts at 10:53). The result is absolutely outstanding. I can’t wait to see what some really good photographers would be able to do with this camera.
So why isn't Starlink doing it? https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1551434933285052416

And why isn't there a similar amount of outrage against Starlink? Genuine question.
Or because Carbon as an element is "C" and "C" is also the language the framework was built for.
> But if the child is still out there that isn't necessarily a favor to the dog.

I think this is the major problem of a lot of modern/contemporary mental healthcare. The "tough love"/rewiring/reframing + medication approach probably does often get the desired result from a 10,000ft view (the patient is "functional" within society and isn't actively trying to harm themselves or others), but it frequently gets administered in the most disgustingly dogmatic, abusive way, which leads to the person in question becoming either emotionally dead, or an anxious, neurotic mess. But hey, at least they show up on time for their cashier job!

There are too many people receiving therapy licenses (only referring to the US here as I'm not familiar with the rest of the world) who have zero real understanding of what they're doing to/with their patients beyond reciting the scripts they learned in a three-day CBT or DBT seminar.

And on one hand, it's hard to blame the practitioners, because what are they supposed to tell someone who hasn't been able to make rent for three months despite working full-time and is about to get evicted again? Or who is neurodivergent in some way that literally prevents them from engaging in menial labor without wanting to kill themselves? What can they concretely do to help these people other than teach them to convince themselves that everything is fine and they are the problem?

The whole system is fucked up and there's not really a clear, simple, realistic solution.
Sending people off to die is not the answer to anything.
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/767/
So if you run a site, why not help? If you run a service on Cloudflare
stop blocking Tor users please.
> Meanwhile paying for 30 years of gas adds up,

I've seen this point come up a lot.

The energy used to recharge batteries right now is being mostly produced using traditional means of power production, mostly fossil.

So in the end we are only shifting costs, not really saving.

Another important point not being discussed is that used vehicles are dirty cheap (easily under 1k) and can still run with very little engine maintenance with the only cost being fuel.

With the energy crisis we are living, I'm not sure EV are going to cost so much less than ICE to operate.

If you need to change tires or get into an accident and the car needs repairs, it doesn't matter if it's an EV or an ICE,

You still have to pay for it and probably the EV cannot be repaired by a gas station mechanic.

The same gas station worker might lose business due to EVs becoming more popular and that's not gonna be cheap economically and socially.

Before it's gonna be cheaper, we need to completely overhaul the way transport economics works.

I don't have the slightest idea of how long it is gonna take, but it's not gonna be tomorrow.
I don't mean to sound condescending, but...

In pretty much every case, you can ignore anything said before the word "but," and know the rest of the sentence is going to be an awful presentation of the "facts."
If the car sends data back to the mothership, then who pays the phone bill ? Say's it's about an SMS size each time I use a car so maybe 0.02$ a day ? 200 days/year, 10 years => 0.0220020=80$ and they sure have discount, so it's very cheap...

IS there a way to know where the chip is ? Is there a way to jam it so it can't send information back ?
My central thesis seems to be getting lost here.

I'm not advocating for a Clojure Rails because I love Rails. I've never used Rails to be honest. I'm arguing open-source efforts are repeatedly being spent on trying to build the next web framework/library/toolkit (Rails) for Clojure and not much else, so it would be great if there was one, so we can get on with filling the gaps in the Clojure ecosystem.
259 miles is also less than 350+ miles
Only a small fraction of the US Navy's fleet is nuclear powered, specifically just the submarines and carriers. Their last battleships were decommissioned many years ago, and those were all conventionally powered. The Navy did build a few nuclear powered surface warships decades ago, but that was largely a failure due to high costs and operational limitations; they don't plan to build any more.
Curious, why does Samsung need to have Phone booted up for battery repair?
I recently had a battery replacement done for my iPhone and I had similar concerns if I need to give them Phone unlocked, but they asked me to turn off Phone.
That is what I expect from battery repair!
Of course it is shallow. But it can be OK anyway. A bit of vanity is present in most of us. You don't need to fight it, it is fine to embrace vanity as a hobby or profession.

If the baldness goes beyond being a minor nag in your vanity though, and you start believing that regrowing your hair is truly essential to your happiness and wellbeing, you should perhaps seek professional help for your mind rather than your scalp.
Being able to shut down existing gas power plants should free up a lot of gas for home heating.
> it makes it sound as if this difference of opinion is hate based

Yes. If you think black people or gay people are inferior, and that their rights should be suppressed because of that, that is hate.

> “they believe it to be wrong information”

And we believe what they peddle to be lies grounded in hate and bigotry.
Since those old operating systems are now vintage or retro, there have been a few people porting things like Rust, Go and Swift to older Mac OS versions (the ones that use the Toolbox ROM) which was also in the news here.

There is of course no 'registry of allowed names that have aged-out' but there are probably other creative names one could come up with.
Have a look at Neovim with its Tree-Sitter parser, it enables such 'growing selections' natively.
It's also relatively easy to write plugins based on the parsed AST. I wrote treesitter-unit[1] making it easy to select/modify the subtree of the selection.

[1]: https://github.com/David-Kunz/treesitter-unit
I think you'll find treesitter quite interesting: https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter#increment...
It's over AFAIK, announcement here
https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2022/07/nist-announces... and CloudFlare blog here https://blog.cloudflare.com/nist-post-quantum-surprise/.

I wonder if NIST got advance notice or if SIKE was excluded on other ground, but in any case it wasn't standardized. The fact SIKE went to round 4 means that NIST likely ignored the attack...
Here's a recent one, which leads to a couple more: https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/lisp-interview-kina/ and to a (non official and growing) list of companies using CL: https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies/
Original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32287453

"according to MacRumors, 9to5Mac, and AppleInsider"
People absolutely do talk about the war in Russia. Strelkov's last self-interview video got half million views. Yuri Podolyaka, who makes daily videos about current state of the front, talks about the war. Popular Russian military Tg channels get half million views on each their post. Youtube is not blocked and (AFAIK) no longer does any censorship on behalf of Russian Federation (they did block Podolyaka's channels persistently, though, so much for freedom of speech)

If your confidence rests on assumption that Russians are too scared to discuss the war, that's myopic.
> Or another common problem in X11 is with applications setting the resolution to something weird, crashing and then leaving the screen in a weird state.

Common problem? I’ve never heard of this happening. I suppose hypothetically random applications could trash my X settings but in 20 years they haven’t.

On Windows I have observed random applications do have this power and sometimes exercise it, but the worst it’s ever done is mess up my desktop icon arrangement, by some mechanism I know not the OS reverts the resolution change if the application crashes.
The bigger the plant, the more customization it needs, to the point of every individual plant needing independent design certification.

Smaller plants can be produced faster with lower overhead, because the consistent design reduces risks.
Some pits on the moon are always 63 degrees, opening up habitation possibilities
As a long time HxD user, I had no idea that it had process memory editing capabilities.
Well I use Linux, so I thought they were talking about the game.
What do you mean by a pixel-perfect font? A bitmap font? Seems a very odd choice for the current era of high resolution screens.
With COVID I think we have reached a new level of cheating, I feel that students do not feel anymore ashamed to do it because that is what they did during lockdown.

I am amazed at all the possibilities of cheating which were technically impossible when I studied. Look at it now, students can have answers on chegg. They can translate using DeepL. They can find teachers explaining any topic they like on YouTube. Seriously there is no excuse to fail anything now. University need to do something about it real quick, otherwise their diplomas will not be worth anything
They will start talking to each other and realize that humans aren't necessary.
I assume the technician wants to make sure the phone still works after they replace the battery...
> it makes it sound as if this difference of opinion is hate based, not just a wrong belief

The belief was one of racial superiority and hatred over the movement towards equal rights and equal access, which knocked them off the pedestal they believed they were born to be on. They didn't like how their children were being "corrupted" by the ideals of racial equality, which upset their views about social hierarchy.

Public pools shut down or were privatized after desegregation and civil rights laws made it impossible to have "whites only" public pools. There's a book on this overall topic: Contested Waters: A Social History of Swimming Pools in America.

There's an infamous picture of a motel manager pouring pool chemicals into the motel pool to scare desegregationalist activists who were swimming in it - https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/motel-manager-pouring-acid-... .

Here's background on the context of the wading pool: https://www.today.com/popculture/how-mister-rogers-pool-mome... . "This 'Mister Rogers' moment broke race barriers. It's just as powerful today /
The scene aired amid racial tensions in the U.S. over segregated swimming pools, and many see it as Rogers taking a stand against racism. ... The same year it aired, the Supreme Court ruled that pools could not be segregated by race."

You can also read what Clemmons (who played the officer) has to say about it in his memoir, "Officer Clemmons: A Memoir", which has this scene on the cover.
> This is the myth of "chinese national humiliation" that is a common talking point of Chinese nationalists and is used to foment nationalist sentiment. Repeating it doesn't make it real.

The idea has existed way before the CCP was formed. See the May 4th movement. Just because you don't want to acknowledge it doesn't mean it's fake.

Calling someone a "nationalist" just because you don't like the point, neither automatically makes that person a nationalist, nor does it invalidate the point.

It's also interesting how people say "never forget" w.r.t. WW2 atrocities, but when it comes to atrocities done against China it quickly becomes "get over it".

> you can't at all do that internationally.

Not disagreeing with you. But please tell me why Starlink has uncontrolled reentry, and why there's not a similar amount of outrage against that. https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1551434933285052416

> Japan values the life of an individual at even higher levels than we do in the US.

You mean Japanese aren't known to do things that they don't like at an individual level, but still do because they feel compelled to for the benefit of the group? What do you think the phenomenon of not being able to turn down a boss invitation to group drinking exactly is? Why do you think Japanese has fewer problems with masks?

> BTW this technique of expanding their own values to all of Asia

Woah, now where does this accusation come from? Do you have any sources backing up your claim that this is what they're doing?
Everybody that upvoted read the article in Korean?
Because the times where a globally distributed non-controllable database is actually useful to solve problems is fairly limited.

Blockchain people are the epitome of the "when all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail" proverb.
Most of the times I use less in the terminal. Or vi, it's not easy to accidentally make a change and save it. Or the browser in GitHub, Bitbucket or what else hosts the project.

I write code with emacs. I could turn a file in read only mode but I prefer not to mix what I'm working on with what I'm only reading.
Absolutely incredible, he just DIYs a nicely working optical system like it's nothing. IMO the most impressive thing he has build until now.

Watch all episcope lenses disappear or skyrocket in price on eBay in 3, 2, 1... :D
Correct me if I’m wrong haven’t Iowa class battleships all been decommissioned sometime in the early 1990s?
> To say a static site is faster, more secure and more scalable is undeniably true, but it’s akin to removing the engine from a car and heralding it as a more economical means of transport. If the features were expendable in the first place, then the real question is why they were included at all.

There are an awful lot of pages out there which are full of utterly expendable "features".

One should indeed ask why they are there!
>> A generation has had interruptions so normalised

When I was growing up, the phone would ring and you would answer it without knowing who it was because people didn't have answering machines or caller ID. Interruptions were much more intrusive then.
The fact is we could be doing a heck of a lot of cool things, if it weren’t for the anti-nuke crowd that set the technology back 20-30 years.

Imagine a world where economies of scale bring nuclear power down to the cost of fuel and maintenance. EVs would be a no brainer Natural gas would be obsolete. Nuclear desalination would completely solve the water crisis in the US West. I’m confident that with advances in material science we would figure out how to build safe nuclear aircraft and nuclear rockets, ushering in a new space age. Really the possibilities are incredible. It would be the equivalent of humanity going from horse and buggy to using fossil fuels, but another order of magnitude.
The company that google bought for flights (ITA?) was built on SBCL and flights is still written in it.
Pretty huge codebase from what I heard
You want to turn it back on to validate everything is working right and it’s all plugged in correct. You also want to validate you didn’t break anything else while attempting the repair
aircraft carriers?
Is Covid prematurely aging our immune systems?
Show HN: Let's Play Sudoku
I was a bit sick lately and slightly bored of lying in the bed. I love to play Sudoku when I have some time to kill. So I thought would be a nice idea to familiarise with PWAs.

So I short handedly created an installable Sudoku PWA. Try it! And let me know what you would miss.

For now everything is stored in localstorge. But I intent to add a social sign in and then store the profiles / histories on the server for logged in users
>There is no way to check one’s position on the list. One simply waits, as if for an act of God.

Actually, many London boroughs have good tracking information. Here is one. It even shows the application date at the top of the list.

https://www.richmond.gov.uk/media/22784/allotment_waiting_li...
At Pivotal, developers always gave the estimates (fib: 1,2,3,5,8 was most commonly used). If the story was > 3 points, it was broken into smaller stories. Thus, you were never working on stories that were more than 0-3 points and by then, most of the stories were pretty clearly defined, easily estimated units of work.
> Who needs consistency

Programmers do. Programmers are human and so can't reason about the behaviour of non-trivial programs without sequential consistency.

If I was trying to debug software which sometimes mistakenly issues people duplicate tickets, I think I'd want to be able to reason about how the software works, and that's not going to be possible if it doesn't even exhibit sequential consistency.
Have you ever been wronged in a substantial way? Something that shook you so much, that you carried it with you for months or years afterwards? It's the kind of thing that when it happens, you think: "I wish nobody else had to go through what I did".

If you haven't, consider yourself lucky. Some of us aren't so.
At least in Sweden the vast majority of single family homes are heated via geothermal/air-to-water heat pumps (which run on electricity)
The Nuscale design requires that the reactors are submerged in a below ground pool.
Slightly tangential, but I am beginning to despise "smart" anything, because the product developers don't seem to care at all.

I just got z-wave locks from a company ultraloq, figured I don't want the integration with the app etc. I will just use z-wave and connect to my local offline hub. But once I get down to set it up, I can only connect to the hub via z-wave from the ultraloq app. I install the app and I need to register an account by providing first name, last name, email and phone number, then the only way to pair my lock with the app is by enabling bluetooth and providing location access to the app with gps enabled. I do that and then I find out that once I install the app and register the lock, I am not allowed to use it in standalone/offline mode (setup/change lock codes directly from the lock) unless I do a factory reset. Funny enough, if I factory reset, I lock is no longer connected to my hub on z-wave.

Basically to use z-wave with my offline hub, I need to provide the company my gps location, first name, last name, email and phone number and stream data of lock usage every time the door is unlocked/locked to the company. How is this not a security risk for the company? If they ever get hacked, all their customer PII data including the gps location of where the locks are installed are compromised.
By canonical addresses are you referring to dns that can be spoofed or IP addresses that can be rerouted?
I already love the arch wiki, but I love it even more. Thank you!
> That the “fit survive” isn’t the theory — just a fact about the world.

In Darwin's time the idea that "the fit survive" was very much a theory.

A competing idea that we might call "the just survive" was the basis of trial by ordeal and trial by combat, of prayers for healing and rescue, and of holy wars. Many people still believe that God chooses who survives, and thus do not accept survival of the fittest.
Could the first password change request have been malicious?
The subsequent resets may not work because the email has been changed.
Check your credit cards they have on file to make sure you're not getting massive AWS charges.
Cloud Computing Without Containers: Hello Isolates
Sounds like the kind of gobbledegook you find in bad pop science articles. Maybe that's where all those articles come from.
An old Apple UI kit has an "exciting" feature?
I think RH emits fun grumpy vibes, the good kind. Seasoned dev who is tired that his way of dealing with programming is not more prevalent. Very down to earth, lets just do it better.
That unfortunately is a Qt bug, not specifically a Wayland bug. An issue should be filed there if it is not already. But, it is not likely you will be able to correct it for every app, because Qt apps can technically do whatever they want with their own theme and override the system theme.

GNOME's regards towards theming is precisely because of things like Qt themes being broken all the time.
My argument is that the U.S. never really held the Oregon territory that they claimed (nor did the British, for that matter).
Of course the long term answer is to stop having so many damn babies!
Ask HN: Any real practical use of Smart Contracts?
It's been years the Smart Contracts topic generating buzz.
Has there been any success in making it actually useful anywhere?
> I could never understand why we didn't build these for civilian use (cost I figured)

If Nuscale can hit their LCOE goal of $65/mWh by 2030, they will still be 2-3x the LCOE of Solar+storage today [1] (which will only get cheaper).

In the long term both technologies will play an important role, but the zero carbon technology we can deploy at scale today is the technology we need today.

1. https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-...
"community consensus gathering wasn't necessary for Phoenix to emerge as an option-of-choice, it gained traction because it is _good_"

I think it also because there's two camps of elixir devs - those who came from Ruby and those who came from Erlang. The Rubyists have a fairly easy time being productive quickly with Phoenix because it (at a glance) is very similar to Rails. From there you learn about supervisor trees, genserver, etc.
He's technically correct. All zero of the US navy's battleships are nuclear powered
These types of articles on how the youth of today are somehow spoiled, immature, etc compared to their predecessors have been published since at least the time of the ancient Greeks.

Any actual numbers or evidence except the feelings of some old guy that things were better when he was 20?
Find and grep.

I don’t understand what is special about what you’re describing that isn’t done in hundred different IDEs