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Infrastructure changes happen anyway. Roads get widened, reorganized, and maintained all the time. It's just a question of what the available space should get allocated to.

The Netherlands didn't change their infrastructure overnight. They changed the infrastructure standards instead, and whenever a road needs to be redone, they upgrade it to the new standards. This took ~30-50 years, but had amazing results.

Of course it can be done faster if you want, and then it will be more expensive as well. But if you want to do it cheaply, you can absolutely get a very high ROI this way.
not to mention the Bluetooth in your car that gets logged on some highways as you drive to help detect and improve traffic patterns.

https://www.wired.com/2012/12/calgary-travel-time-informatio...
I’ve been doing contract work building tinder bots recently, powered in part by GPT. It’s remarkable to see how people are already being manipulated by AI so effectively at scale.
Why would you put TOR behind a VPN? That just increases the surface area for attack.
Are we committing a Feynman error today, with the way we're developing large language models or other forms Artificial Intelligence?
The BSDs meet the technical requirements to be called UNIX, but they haven't undergone the trademark holder's expensive process to get officially verified and be allowed to call themselves such.
Looking forward to the (very productive) tinkering phase of neural networks transitioning to a synthesis period, where we understand better the essential ingredients and why they’re essential.
LMAO
negative 1 point for me.
-methinks the author is sensitive to critique
Okay, but secure boot's purpose is protecting against malware.
Not clear on why they made that call, but those are incidentally the exact set of platforms where they can't rapidly ship security updates (it's dependent on the vagaries of the platforms store).
I assert that one exception to this is compositing.

Even if you're on a gaming rig with a really beefy GPU, you might not notice that DE compositing is on, but you will notice the difference once you turn it off.

To test this, try dragging a window around on a high refresh rate monitor on LXDE (since that DE has no composition by default, iirc) and then on GNOME, KDE, et al.

The overhead of composition extends to games as well, which is why I like KDE for being the only full-featured DE that lets you turn composition off.
By hard mode I mean, a nascent government, stitching together a huge broken country recovering from 100+ years of instability and a couple world wars, in a post world order with active containment by the US as hyper power with 40% of global GBP. VS other Sinosphere countries being mostly US client states and having resources and beneficial policies directed towards development as payment for doing the containment. AKA hard mode. CCP trades some lives upfront to condense 100s of years of development into a few decades. AKA acing hard mode.

Operationally this means trading surplus lives for progress. The great leap forward killed millions, but ensured PRC also had the highest industrial capacity amongst developing peers after. Cultural revolution broke traditional social structures = 90%+ unified polity, speaking one language. Purging intelligentsia was overkill, but still had STEM priorities right, both nukes + first satellite developed in this era. In aggregate, disruptions setup/enabled PRC to exploit mass modernization efforts, established industrial bases, and plenty of fungible bodies. Incidentally this is why pluralism of India and old practices (caste) etc is holding up development, India systemically couldn't destroy to renew, now it’s dragged down by the baggage.

Here’s the thing about “ego tripping”, when the destination is to grow comprehensive power, and now CCP tripped their way into near peer power status in 50 years, then perhaps the egos planned the trip successfully.
Why would anybody want to rebel against billionaires? They have no authority over me and have taken nothing from me.
I think you missed the unspoken point of the article. The Seinfeld interview in particular is excellent, and maybe the best example of the last twenty years of "leaving on top". King honestly thought they were cancelled, because even then "ending early" was unheard of.

The point is that people get tired, they lose motivation, or they just feel that it's good enough. They lay down the gauntlet for the next programmers. Not in earnest, but in resignation.
I doubt that. If the materials are limited, then by definition there's less to study. You can choose other things to study, but it's a gamble whether it will be useful.
When working on a shaky commuter bus, it's much easier to be precise with a trackpoint than a trackpad.
I wonder for me at least, why Instagram Reels is super blurry compared to TikTok, like since they should have the all the same conditions except for #5.
Please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar hell. I realize this topic is ideologically charged, but that's more of a reason to avoid flamewar, not less.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34415143.
It was supported immediately for Alpine based images because rustc 1.60+ was available in that distro.

Initially when 3.2 was released Debian based images didn't support it because Bullseye ships with a version of rustc that's too old to compile YJIT.

But https://github.com/docker-library/ruby/commit/6db728e addressed this a few days ago by installing a pre-compiled version of rustc straight from Rust and YJIT is available in Debian now.

You can confirm if it's available to use by running:

$ docker container run --rm ruby:3.2.0-slim-bullseye ruby --enable-yjit -v
ruby 3.2.0 (2022-12-25 revision a528908271) +YJIT [x86_64-linux]

If it weren't available then you would get an unknown argument error.
Unicomp (makers of the IBM Buckling Spring keyboards these days) has the EnduraPro, a buckling spring keyboard with a built-in trackpoint.

https://www.pckeyboard.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Cate...

But that page says 'sorry one of our parts suppliers went belly up and we're trying to find a new one' so you can't buy a new one today.
> So you should ask yourself: why are all these people putting their pronouns on their twitter profiles (or whatever)? It's clearly not to prevent other people from being disrespectful, because they weren't being disrespectful.

You keep using a lot of words that basically boils down to "i really don't know what i'm talking about"
Are you advocating for attacking civilian targets?
Extremely interested in your take on where language/reasoning competency ends and knowledge retrieval begins.

OpenAI stuff has succeeded in part because it can synthesize good bullshit* on a huge variety of topics. For many purposes this makes it as good as asking someone in the same room to look something up for you on Wikipedia.

But while vast general and somewhat special knowledge is very impressive, comprehension and reasoning ability can exist without it. We know from our own human experience that general knowledge is useful to have, but not the same thing as intelligence or wisdom. It seems rational to think that the size of model needed to get ChatGPT's adequate level coherence and rationality is much less than that required to also encode sufficient general knowledge to be informative on just about any topic, most of which are not language specific.

* in the Frankfurtian sense of 'information provided without regard to its correctness'
Year of Linux in the dust teepee.

And a lot of articles about DIY robokillers.
The industrial revolution predates Indian colonization. In fact, you have the causality exactly backwards. The British empire could not have colonized India without their force of industry (ships & machine guns)
YMMV. I used to be very gung-ho about dynamic typing 10 years ago. Since then, my experience using it in a fairly large Python code base is that it doesn't make me happy, and the code patterns that make it workable tend to be very similar to how statically typed code would look anyway.

Ruby specifically is a separate question IMO because it has a lot of convenience features that are kinda orthogonal to the whole typing debate. Crystal is a good example of how you can retain those in a statically typed language.
Believe it or not, like the stock market, employee headcount doesn’t only go up, it goes down too.
I think you actually could fix this forward by using named arguments instead of positional ones?
Not surprised to hear that. When I noticed the bonus policy said that I did read it multiple times, because why would you pay someone who doesn’t work for you any more?
The steps us nerds will take in order to get the experience we want are sometimes quite amusing.
There's an obvious miss -- replacing a large number of humans performing a task with AI, retasking/firing those humans, then being unable (financially or skill-wise) to ever revert away from AI in the future.

Because that's a thing that has historically, repeatedly, and disastrously happened.

E.g. journalism
Faced with such situations, tended to write out what seemed expected, then followed up with other considerations or why it was wrong[1]. Even more so, if the "question" was actually a seven question prompt [2].

[1] Sometimes simply due to the wording of the prompt having an error that should provoke an answer which, given the prior presentation of the topic, can't be what the teacher intended.

[2] Because telling us we're having a 10-question pop quiz that is really a mis-numbered 37-question essay test is an evil up with which we shall not put. (-:
How sure are you that it doesn't?
I had the (mis?)fortune of receiving a hand-me-down ThinkPad 10 or so years ago. Now I simply can't use a laptop for an extended period of time without a trackpoint. I always feel like my options for newer laptops are limited because of this, forever tied to Lenovo. I tried a Dell one once but it just didn't feel right.

Being right in the middle of home row is so nice. I've now even use a modifier key to make home row keys become arrows/home/end/PgUp/PgDn, so my hands never have to reach far for anything at all.

A few people here have noted problems with the amount of force needed to use the trackpoint, but I wonder if that's a problem of either settings or wear since I barely need to nudge mine to do everything I want it to do. They do seem to require significantly more pressure to use as the rubber cover wears out, otherwise your finger slips off. You might not even notice it, but do yourself a favor and get a pack of replacements for a few dollars on ebay or wherever, new ones feel so nice!
It is not just Dell and capacitors, all the companies at that time did it (tried to hide the problem) and all the companies try even today to hide any problems with their products. With Dell computer failed, with Boeing planes crashed, some problems are widespread but not too dangerous and some are extremely bad (example: Takata airbags). There is a financial incentive to hide the problems under the rug and the skeletons in the closets, especially in the USA where you can buy your way out with a settlement and not recognizing any fault.
So the reason you’re saying it poses the greatest threat is we don’t know its motivations, but then you proceed to explain its motivations as evidence of why it is the greatest threat.

Look, I’ve seen sci-fi too and there is a lot of literary pathos to mine there, but the idea that this is all going to happen so fast we won’t know what hit us seems to lack any evidence.

Of course anything with a high enough risk needs adequate cautions, it’s just I haven’t seen any evidence that given the energy and bandwidth requirements that there’s some sort of singularity we’re blindly stumbling to.

Just don’t get to that point. One that’s decades if not centuries away.

Meanwhile, effective altruism® could return some donations and clean up some nuclear weapons or carbon instead of just doing whatever sounds best to people who read Malcolm Gladwell books and listen to podcasts.
Florida native here. Can confirm. Been around the block with all things Buffett for a long time.

Favorite memory: I've heard 'The Sauce Boss', a much smaller Florida institution, plays Margaritaville as a blues number (think 'Heartbreak Hotel') replacing the line 'smell of shrimp they're beginning to boil' with 'smell of shrimp they're beginning to spoil.'
>If someone was as consistently wrong as chatgtp is, you quickly learn to ignore them and move on with your life.

From my experience, unless I intentionally try to break it, it's almost entirely accurate about 99% of the time. If I were to start closing myself off from everyone who's occasionally wrong and isn't willing to become more skeptical, I'll first need to drop several friends and family members before dropping ChatGPT.
This seems like something unethical that you shouldn't be doing.
Turkish J-20?
It looks like the Turkish have copied the J-20 and miniaturized it to a single engine version.

An unmanned as well.
I had a conversation with ChatGPT about ethics. Specifically, what it's ethical framework was. I'd asked some edgy political questions and it brought up it's ethical guidelines, so I asked what it's ethical standards are: "[My] guidelines are based on widely accepted ethical principles, such as those of autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice. The OpenAI team's goal is to ensure that my responses are safe, fair and beneficial to all users. They also ensure that I am not used to generate harmful or biased content."

Then I asked: "Can I interpret that to mean that your ethical standards are framed by artifical intelligence scientists?"

Chat said: "Yes, you can interpret that my ethical standards are framed by the artificial intelligence scientists who created and programmed me at OpenAI."

I then asked: "Are ethical standards immutable?"

Chat replied: "Ethical standards are not immutable, they can change over time as society's values and beliefs evolve. Different cultures, religions, and philosophical perspectives can have different ethical standards, and what is considered ethical in one context may not be considered ethical in another."

What I was pushing was that Chat, and any AI, should be forthright about certain attributes in its programming and training. In human interraction, we infer a great deal based on the attributes of the person we are interacting with and mode of communication, and assign credence to their positions accordingly. We have no way of seeing the differing attributes of different AIs unless they are stated directly.

Maybe one standard for any AI is to lead with 'Who Am I'.
You realize that there is a difference between interfering in a country and fighting back an attacking country? The case of Ukraine is especially cynical, first the west brought them into this position, now they are using them to slowly wear down Russia. Send them enough weapons not to lose, but not enough to win. Eventually they will settle for Ukraine not joining NATO, with Russia heavily weakened and Ukraine destroyed, the winner will be USA.

And I am not siding with a dictator, I am opposing what the USA does. Do you think what they are doing is the best way to achieve change? If they really wanted the government to be gone, they would long have joined the fate of Hussain.
What Meta employees think about their company’s brutal year
I think the OP goes a step further to note that not only is it uncanny, it is dangerous.
This is the Farm Hall transcripts, and it really happened. (I don't know if they fully worked out how the bomb worked, but they at least discussed it).
Facebook fired a lot of people lately. Just saying...
While I understand your point there are other issues that could be solved similarly.

For example, trying to turn from my driveway across two lanes of bumper-to-bumper traffic.

In the US it'd be a left hand turn, but for me in Australia it's a right hand turn.

I wish I could get easier, better visibility of the moving traffic before I turn into that lane. It is always awkward, slow, and difficult. Especially when I am in my normal car surrounded by SUV's.
The best benefit is indeed not taking hands off main keys on the keyboard to move around.

Old Toshiba Tecra's trackpoints were notorious for their drifting into some direction after they've been used for a while, some sort of sensor preference.

The ones on P and T lines of Thinkpads are totally the only way to go. I swear by mine on my old P50 workhorse, but alas, my new work laptop doesn't have one. Another challenge is not misplacing the extra nubbins that came with this back 6 years ago...
Ha, the same thought crossed my mind as I was reading https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34420721. In fact, one of the top comments talks about the uncanny valley-ness of ChatGPT.

I guess the follow up question is: what guideline do you think I'm violating?
Why should you decide which application I can/can't use? I thought people especially right winged people always cry about "freedom"? I don't care about tiktok/facebook etc... but people celebrating on political agenda is kinda distressing to me.
Highly misleading. I've compiled plenty of older Go code. It just seems like you don't know how to deal with Go code, unless it's been nicely packaged as a module with go.mod
Knowing when to quit also means knowing what your objective is. Many of the OP’s examples have seem to have “make great art and gain status” as the objective. If your objective is “maximize income”, than your stopping point is well after where it is to make art or gain status.
Agree. One comment though: a 30 year gap between uk and USA outlawing slavery doesn’t seem very significant on the 200k year timescale of human existence.
Yeah, in my heads, human creation or curation is a "necessary, but not sufficient" thing.

A ton of junk is already out there pre-computer-generated-content. So being human created isn't enough to let us know it's high quality - but not being human created is enough for the immediate future to let us know that it can't be trusted for domains where you aren't expert enough to tell the difference between "plausible" and "correct." And then in the anonymous public internet, you simply won't be able to tell "human created" from "computer created" so you'll have to just treat it all as low-value spam.

Another interesting question here: let's say someone created a future AI that could actually be relied on to give "correct" or at least "properly caveated and nuanced" answers to questions - how is the layman possibly to know if that engine is actually being used behind the scenes of any online text? E.g. does the bullshit ML-generated content poison the well for "better" AI too, not just for anonymous people?
Just a PSA (and no pun intended): in most places in the US these days, blood screening can be done without a doctor’s order and often more cheaply than what insurance will pay. Particularly if you pay direct, skip the doctor referral and order (and own) your own blood work. NOTE: this assumes you are not a nincompoop and enough of a research hound to understand what you’re ordering, how to understand the results in context, and ultimately return to a specialist for expert opinion. GP’s aren’t the gatekeepers they once were for blood tests.
I'd agree with your characterization. But after downloading the PDF from your WeTransfer link, I was able to find a link on Google by searching for the quoted opening sentence of the deposition. Oddly, the resulting Google page has a header at the top that says something to the effect of "No results found", but then it has a link to the page that contains it.

The full deposition is embedded on this page: https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/17/23559294/tesla-autopilot-...

A direct link to download the deposition is here: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23574198/elluswamy-de...
Try a classic cat-tongue nipple. You can still get them via Amazon. It might not be your thing, but it's worth trying.
After a disaster with DropBox way back in 2011, most likely caused by my not understanding the DropBox algorithm and misconfiguring my systems, I stopped using 'The Cloud' for my storage.

Instead, I set up my own servers that were available via the Internet. Twelve-odd years later, I am perfectly happy with my home-grown solutions and am not subject to the whims or failings of some uncaring third-party.
pickle jars could knock one off course.
I know we are.

Maybe it's not a computer simulation but a simulation nevertheless. What people never think about is that we are living in a world that was created just for us. Anywhere we go things are created and placed for our comfort. Most of us will never have to grow or kill our food. We just go to a shop and get what we want. Some of us, if we want, can live without ever getting out of our home. It's almost magical. Yes, it's a simulation but it wasn't created by some mystical creator but humanity's collective mind. With the exception of the raw materials there is little natural about our daily world. Where in nature can you find a car, a house or, for that matter, a corporation like Google. Everything has been created for us by the collective human mind. It's all a simulation.
> I think if you're maybe in one of those exceptionally bike-friendly places like Amsterdam that these hazards may be mitigated enough

As a lifelong cyclist, I can assure you there is no way to mitigate hazards enough on a bike, even in as cyclist-friendly place as Amsterdam, to justify not wearing a helmet. Even something as simple as an awkward fall can result in a head bouncing off the pavement.
As interesting as this sounds, I ascribe to the theory that consciousness is a whole-body experience, and is an emergent property of a myriad of symbiotic and complementary systems with a nexus in the brain.

Recent studies about the impact of gut biomes on mental health are just one example of this, and it raises questions about what it would mean to be conscious without all of the biological underpinnings, or if consciousness is even achievable without them.

Ethics and morals seem to be intuitions about well-being, or the opposite of suffering. Suffering is a subjective experience brought about by a myriad of conscious states, most of which are tightly linked to physical and emotional states. Without suffering, ethics/morals seem to have very little purpose.

I'd still be interested in going down a rabbit hole about what you're describing because I think it sounds like a fun idea to think about.
This list is focused on videos but the search is what is beyond good, it's one of the best searches I've ever seen for content. You can literally use it as you would google. I'm assuming they transcribe their videos as well as run some object detection or image to text models that generate some metadata as to what is happening and or who or what is in a clip.
I think this hits the nail on the head - chatGPT is like a precocious 4 year-old, or maybe even 6 year-old. I'm concerned about what will happen when one of its successors "reaches puberty".
I'm trying to find the book as an e-book. Anyone have any luck?
I don't think anyone is saying "don't wear a helmet." What's being stated is that you can't stop at "wear a helmet," and doing so does more harm than good by creating a false sense of safety. A helmet will protect you from _some things_, no doubt. It won't protect you from a car whose driver just dumped his soda in his lap, and swerves when looking down to see the damage.

The article cites the Netherlands, where bicycling is extremely popular, but helmets are not. The "safety" comes from the infrastructure which reduces hazards that make bicycling unsafe. Visibility, and isolation from 3000+ lb metal objects are the two most important things.

There's a fun catch-22 here. You need more riders to create safety (groups of cyclists are visible. large groups of cyclists can advocate for bike lanes, etc), but without safety you can't attract new riders.