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> It seems inherently dangerous to me

In the old days, it kinda was - at least to your hardware.

Then people realized that blowing up components because a fan failed, or became unplugged, or a filter clogged with dust, maybe wasn't a great user experience and/or caused more in-warranty returns that required replacing hardware ($$expensive$$!), and implemented thermal throttling and thermal cutoffs. Nearly two decades ago at this point, I helped a friend diagnose his computer randomly turning off. It turned out to be a CPU fan unplugged itself, causing overheating to trigger a thermal cutoff. No other apparent harm done.

Fans aren't the only means of limiting heat: slowing stuff down and turning stuff off also works. And it turns out users sometimes would rather stuff run slow than run loud, and maybe your crappy motherboard vendor shouldn't be writing a ton of code running in kernel space - with all the potential stability and security issues that might entail - for whatever network-connected bloatware syncs your RGB lighting and fan settings to the cloud. And they will do exactly that, if that's what's required to give their customers what they want.

Just exposing fan RPMs to userspace might be far less dangerous.
A History of WebAssembly
Why is only Mearsheimer's reasoning correct and the one you subscribe to? You are ignoring a plethora of other political scientists, because you've subscribed to his ideas. That's why you are fucking stupid.

Mearsheimer has as his political philosophy his own offensive realism theory, where great powers only act only on their desires to become hegemonies, that's why I believe he is not entirely correct (not fucking stupid as you) on his take on Russia, there's more at play than just this real politik of offensive realism.

I don't think that great powers will only act to achieve hegemony (as does a number of other political scientists that aren't Mearsheimer). And if those powers do, we carrying the values of human dignity and rights believe that nations shouldn't annex other nations in the 21st century and so it doesn't matter that by offensive realism he states that Russia is correct, morally Russia is wrong and we judge the actions of nations by this morality.

He has developed this theory and so has to be the main supporter of it, and the real believer in it. It doesn't make it true because he has decades of political science studies. People like Herman Lundborg studied medicine and developed a theory where he stated some people of a specific skin colour were genetically better than another set of people of a different skin colour, he studied it for decades, doesn't make him right.

You didn't answer: where does your morality take you? You are not answering any of my prompts and focusing on one aspect to try to focus my attention into it, stop this bullshit and answer: what are your morals? Do you align yourself with Putin's morals? Do you believe it's right for a country to invade a neighbouring country in the 21st century? Do you believe it's right for the government of a country to call for the annihilation of a different nation?

CATO Institute is something that I would not touch with a 10m pole, you are agreeing with the think tank backed by Charles Koch, I hope I don't have to expand much on that after naming him. Yes, CATO Institute is fucking dumb :)

So yes, I'm exhausted, you are a coward hiding behind a throwaway and throwing dumb shit around, that's life I guess.

And again, stop running away from my morality questions, fucking coward.
Same here, computer flagged, nothing happens.
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Well there’s an upside. Automobiles in America should obviously be speed limited to 75mph, but that’s politically and commercially impossible. If this were normalized, we could sort of get better safety as a side-effect.
As a young man I used to drive a 1980s Ford Ranger. It had manual transmission, an AM/FM radio, shitty A/C, bare metal interior, crank windows, and a bent driveshaft that meant it could really only safely go about 50 mph. You had to carry a few gallons of water in the bed in case the radiator needed a refill.

It was genuinely, with no sarcasm, my favorite vehicle I ever owned. It was mine and it felt like freedom. (Also, with no upholstery, no amount of smoking could stink it up, so an extra helping of freedom).

I miss the shit out of that busted old pile of junk.
I don't think "DMD is a reference compiler and not meant as a production tool" is a great way to characterize it. There are certainly valid reasons for choosing LLVM and GCC for "production", but also valid reasons for choosing DMD.
Mercedes used to have high resale value due to durability. They even commissioned an internal study (when deciding if they should cheap out to compete with companies like Nissan) the study found that car companies that have high resale values have higher profit margins.

Locking quality behind a subscription is 100% incompatible with that pattern.
Some short-sighted executives just sold Mercedes’ long-term future for a couple extra bucks.

Just blacklist and ignore them, they’ll figure it out eventually.
This applies to owners and is an attempt to redefine 'ownership' of vehicles such that 'ownership' becomes a debt-like instrument entailing a stream of cash flows to Mercedes after you have 'purchased' your vehicle.

You can see the option for yourself here:

https://shop.mbusa.com/en-us/connect/pdp/Acceleration-Increa...

It would also apply to leased vehicles but to your point is not nearly as offensive there given you already have car as a service as the underlying model.
> I have some vague typed notes, but I can’t recall the technical details I need to finish my work. No one is available to answer my question. It’s then that it hits me: I should have written down notes by hand during the meeting.

I've been done with handwriting ever since laptops became common. I can type much faster than I can write and also much more legibly for a given speed.

Of course, this is on a laptop with something resembling a real keyboard. I can see how handwritten notes are better than typing on a smartphone. Of course this is fixed with a Bluetooth keyboard, a good full-size one like an Apple one or Logitech.

Is it ridiculous to be typing on a big keyboard to smartphone that's probably about half the size of the keyboard? Sure, but no one has ever not wanted me to do this in a meeting.
The people that buy these things tend to be the elderly. I shamefully worked as a telemarketer when I got my work permit as a child; almost no one at their top mental acuity game is buying this shit on a whim from these kind of techniques.
It's pretty sad. And almost all the 'salesmen' were high on xanax and other anti-anxiety medication to deal with both the rejection and to drown away their feelings about what they were doing.
1. We must do something because AIs can be dangerous.

2. AI safety research attempts to mitigate some AI dangers.

3. Therefore we must fund AI safety research.

Yup, checks out.
No. Because of market power, if they can rake in more money with pricing strategies like this, BMW and VAG can also raise their prices.
Tesla also has a paid acceleration boost option in their app and its more expensive than $1200.
No data to back up the headline? Anecdotally, sure there are a lot of layoffs, but what percentage of the total tech workforce is it? And how does the number of laid-off people compare to the number of existing open positions for devs?

According to this[1], there are 3.85mm tech jobs and 193,900 jobs added this year, so overall the industry grew. It reminds me of the people expecting house prices to fall 30% because interest rates went up a little -- there is still a ton of demand compared to the slightly increased supply on the market, so prices won't shift that much.

[1] https://www.computerworld.com/article/3542681/how-many-jobs-...
Prevents spread, like original mRNA claims, which pfizer admitted wasn't even tested for. All current vaccines merely prevents serious cases, that PRC traditional vaccines with booster is about as competent in, but will still lead to millions of death + more when limited medical resources overwhelmed.

Hence zero covid if sustainable > any current vaccine. A vaccine that prevents spread = dynamic zero / quarantining individuals instead of neighbourhoods would still be viable strategy. The alternative is do what everyone else does, living with covid, and assume % of elderly/vunerable population will die, which with PRC's population denominator = millions.
> Just like the awesome lists on GitHub.

What are these lists you're talking about? Could you give an example?
A house price slump is coming. Rising unemployment could make it much worse
By the way, it is fairly easy to purchase a flag that has been flown over the capital. Just contact your senator or representative. California even seems to have an automated flow: https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/flag-purch....
I agree with this prima facie. My cynical view based on my own witnessing of history is what concerns me. When people are required to install an interlock, that makes sense and is a good balance of enforcement and allowing a person to still function in society.

My concern is that when such a process starts to utilize a simple remote computer interface, it will just be a matter of time when the scope of such controls are broadened and abused by humans, or worse, by some machine learning that makes decisions based on calculated risk rather than an in-person court hearing. Maybe this never happens, I surely hope it doesn't. Over time I have lost confidence in people to do what is right vs. what is easy.

Another concern is that computers will set the Geo-fenced parameters by specific GPS limits that cut off some streets required for access to work or the store without implementing soft-limit buffer zones. At least I could see people accidentally leaving out such a safety feature and then the former DUI convict crosses over an arbitrary line, their car signals the police, the police press a button, car pulls over and driver is off to jail thus forcing that person to feed the prison industrial complex even more.

In short, when they implement this, there had best be a buffer-zone warning alert to keep drivers away from the edge. [1]

[1] - https://youtu.be/ChgNB_7bcOU?t=88
> The pinout is wrong, is it not?

Not if both connectors are drawn looking top-down.

Note the ribbing and clip on the female connector, the bottom of the female connector is at the bottom of the drawing. You'd mate these by lifting the female straight up, rotating about 90 degrees along the vertical axis, and pushing down onto the male connector. And when mated that way, the labeled pin-outs line up perfectly.
We've had after market solution to modify the power train of combustion engines for a long time, I remember ones that used a palm pilot. Once it is yours, you should be able to do what you want, especially on such a large ticket item.
Author here!

C++ has serious problems. Linus Torvalds agrees. Bryan Cantrill agrees. Many, many experienced systems programmers agree. Rust solves many of the problems with C++, as a systems programming language. That is the scope of my argument.

I am not really sure in the modern software development world what problem dynamic linking of stdlib solves, especially since so much of stdlib would be monomorphized and/or inlined. C++ with any level of templates is far more unfriendly to dynamic linking -- and again, that is the only language of comparison in scope for this article.
Disclaimer: I am now medicated for ADHD, but I was unmedicated for most of my life. Most of these suggestions come from when I was unmedicated. In addition to medications I'm taking a multivitaminic / multimineral supplement to which I sometimes add more vitamin D (helps with depression) and magnesium (helps with energy).

I have similar phases - I'm personally trying to reduce this variability as it annoys me too (not only a problem with my job). I was feeling literally burned out after as little as a week of focus, and all the other aspects of my life tend to fail when I'm burned out.

What I find really helpful is having set routines that don't change easily or are easy to maintain - for example, eating at the same time everyday, going to sleep at roughly the same time. It can feel like jail starting to do this while unmedicated (and likely depressed)

For the routines, weekends are usually my bane as they are an interruption in most of them - I try to stick to my personal routines week-long.

If you can start work with a really low load - I ended up in sick leave for untreated ADHD and I'm currently ramping work hours little at a time, and it seems to help.

It also helps a lot to have set times for work and to drop work as soon as you are done with the hours - you won't be able to make up for lost time anyway, and it only adds to the stress. I'm planning to go to the gym every day after work, so that I cannot "slouch" back into working until late.

(This is with me medicated) To reduce the social media effect on me I time an hour from when I wake up to when I'm allowed to go to my phone and my PC - it's strangely effective, after a week I didn't feel the need to check social media anymore (this from being 8/9 hours a day on it). I got a lot of time and energy back from this. (If I check social media during the day I "get back" at when I was checking them all day long, feeling wise, but it's getting less and less difficult to do so).
When I was unmedicated I used various timers for social media (leechblock, for example) and they helped a bit. I also had a routine for studying that required a couple of hours before starting to study (gaming a bit / checking social media / convincing myself to start studying). I prefer having time in the morning before work to do roughly the same now.
No, but it's considered. What you may have heard is car returned and feature being removed when sold to someone else.
Yeah, normal people largely do what they ought and rich idiots get to pay and get a pass. What a lovely future.
It's already the case that driving a newish Mercedes is like having a bumper sticker:

I Have Too Much Money and Not Enough Taste

Buying one is like opening a vein. You've given permission for them to take all they want.
I think there's a case to be made for autopilot subscriptions; once autopilot finally does what is says on the tin.

These things require access to accurate and up-to-date road and traffic info, need updates to stay compliant with local regulations, and may (need to) include insurance.

These are all factors that nudge towards a monthly subscription, instead of a one-time purchase. Once the seller goes bust, you wouldn't be able to use your 'purchase' anyhow.
I noticed a drop in usability about the time they went with ML.
Same question I had before: where are the numbers?

Seems like some companies are hoping to get great talent on the cheap (and pieces like this are trying to fan the flame of reduced employee costs), but I don't believe most of these layoffs affected large numbers of software engineers.

Would love for some numbers regarding this, but until I see stats on number of now-available software engineers I don't see any reason to believe this piece.
The proportion of the population that is actually good at retaining information is too small to sample, but I'd bet that they don't take notes on average.

Retaining information shouldnt have anything to do with how you ingest it. You need to have a place to put it. This means working with that information. Relating it to other pieces of information, imagining examples in real time, or, more formally, writing the shortest program you can that outputs the thing (modulo the constraint that you write it out of other programs stored in your head).
I totally agree. I had zero interest in Universal Control when it came out but now I use it every day. Some things just work better on the Mac, some work better on the iPad, and it's really nice to be able to seamlessly use both at once.

I'd say it's the most impactful OS innovation for me in recent years. I can't think of another recent feature of any OS that I use this much.
You people love to talk yourselves in circles for no reason. Poverty is a fiction made up by capitalists.
The title of this post should tell you everything you need to know about its bias against LeCun, but both sides are in the wrong here. Meta shouldn't be over-hyping tools that have serious problems and the anti AI bunch need to stop beating a dead horse by only judging AI's progress soley by how it can be abused.
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I'm not sure what OPs particular point was, but Yan seemed to argue over and over again that testing Galactica with adversial inputs is why "we can't have nice things" which to me seems not just defensive but kind of comical.

Any AI model needs to be designed with adversarial usage in mind. And I don't even think random people trying to abuse the thing for five minutes to get it to output false or vile info counts as a sophisticated attack.

Clearly before they published that demo Facebook had again put zero thought into what bad actors can do with this technology and the appropriate response to people testing that out is certainly not blaming them.
In the US, there's plenty of places with a speed limit of 80: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_limits_in_the_United_Sta...

And many more places with 75 - which people effectively treat as 80.
RK4 is about as unstable. The backwards Euler method is baby's first stable ODE solver. If you want to make RK4 stable, you have to change it into the implicit RK4 method.

However, the Lorenz system isn't stiff, which is usually what you use stable solvers for, nor any of the other systems here, I believe. RK4 should be fine, or even normal Euler with a reasonable step size. The chaos you see in these systems is not due to numerical inaccuracy. They're inherently chaotic. That's what makes chaos a subject worth studying.
Sounds like the same excuses i keep hear for over a decade already, i don't buy it, and i'll even say it's bullshit

Apple had time to properly transition from PPC to Intel to ARM with their own chip, develop new experiences from Smartphone to Tablets to SmartWatch, Microsoft failed at all of them, including SERVERS!!, something they took for granted for decades

So no, you can't just say "they have LSTC wich is a non bloated windows", no, the tech remains the same, the problems remains the same, they even lost the embedded market... c'mon

Windows is being operated as if it was a students weekend school project, but he prefer to go play outside with his friends instead, friends that are now grow up adults with a beautiful house, smart kids and beautiful wife, microsoft is stuck with that hooker that try to sell him some qualcomm drugs
There's one complaint here that seems valid:

> gives us a false sense of confidence in how much we know about the biological world

A false sense of confidence could make people vulnerable to bold false claims, which might lead to poor consumer choices and poor policy choices.

Beyond that, the approach seems really wrong-headed. Popular science education has a successful approach when you want people to understand the limitations of a model: you hook people with a fun headline of "COOL NEWS, THINGS ARE MUCH WEIRDER THAN YOU THINK!" You teach forward from the oversimplified model.

You aren't going to reach many people with a negative, moralizing message that people need to go backwards and give up a model that has given them insight. "Oh, we should never have given you this, you're not smart enough for it, you're going to make a mess."

The sad thing is that the information conveyed here is really cool, and it could easily be framed in a fun way! Instead, it's presented in a way that sends the message, "Look, you need to understand how dumb and dangerous it was for you to think you had any insight into this."

> It's finally dawning on us that the cell is not a machine

I really, really, really don't understand the sense of moralistic fear infusing this whole presentation. Reading the piece and watching the video, I feel like I'm reading and watching a religious sermon on the spiritual dangers of materialism instead of a piece of popular education to help the public have a better-informed understanding of science.
For sure if you own the car, you can modify it.

Tesla has been doing something similar for a while on the extended range model 3 where you can pay a one time fee to get a boost in performance.

Interestingly, there is a Canadian company that has reversed engineered what happen when it is unlocked and is selling a device that you plug on the car CAN bus and you get the same performance boost. They obviously sell this for less that what Tesla charges and as far as I understand, the only risk is that you might void your warranty if Tesla "catches" you doing it.

So I kind of agree that it seems similar to getting a factory approved chip tuned. When you chiptune your ICE car, you will often pay several hundred euros for a shop with the right hardware to modify your car (and loose your warranty). In this case, if the setting change is increasing failure rate but your warranty is not affected maybe it's not such a bad deal.
There's an argument to be made that differing opinions of equity spread across many dozens of public servants might be a better approximation of true equity than a single opaque model embedded into a computer and applied to all.
So you don't believe in democracy? What exactly do you believe in, can't really tell because you are a coward hiding behind a façade slinging shit.
That’s been common for like… the past 50 years?
Length doesn't make it harder to crack, entropy does.

Length is a good way to add entropy if the characters are not predictable.

"Ava234ncqli3h23rn2f" is a lot stronger than "Ava234ncqli3"

"DonaldTrump" is barely stronger than "Donald"

Hopefully that makes sense.
I'd be curious to see Mastodon attempt to add features which help instances pay for hosting. Otherwise i don't see how this can survive.

I'm sitting here waiting for a slot to open up on `mastodon.art`, but the same story will play out there i'm sure too. How is it paid for? How can i help? Most people won't, but i'm happy to pay a small fee to hopefully offset my footprint cost. I just think Mastodon needs features to reduce this friction as best as possible.

.. though maybe it has them already? I've never hosted an instance so what do i know?
>Windows ME

I'm sorry to hear that
If reducing friction is the priority, then maybe skip email completely. Let people sign up with any username and don't require an email at all, like HN allows. Most sites that require an email don't need an email, and only ask for it so they can spam users with nonsense like product updates.
The NYRB, and to a lesser extent the LRB, is pretty infamous for that. They are also infamous for long essays that only reference the book under review in the very last paragraph. It's more like the "review" is a pretense to spiral out long essays on the topics, which are often very interesting and they always have very good writing. NYRB also is, in my opinion, way too focused on non-fiction, especially after Bob Silvers passed. The occasional "Fiction" issue they have is always fascinating and I wish they'd open it up a bit to more fiction.

I'm very excited for a recent newbie: The European Review of Books, for its focus on non-english works which I think is an enormously untapped reservoir. They publish annually; the format is like a book.
Could you make your post more substantive by e.g. sharing rough engagement numbers? Otherwise as an outsider this just reads as pretty mean-spirited.

Sad because I am an Ars Technica fan, but can empathize with GP's point about AI coverage being repetitive and often over-hyping results.
> Automobiles in America should obviously be speed limited to 75mph

Why? There are speed limits greater than that in a few states. The flow of traffic in Southern California is often even faster.
Safety features and emissions regulations might put a dent in that as a long-term plan.