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>The problem isn't so much the price that they charge people, it's that they cannot substantiate these costs - they're extra profit, pure and simple.

Since money is fungible, isn't it true by definition that any mandatory fees are "pure profit"?
I think you underestimate the richness of your cat's autonomy even keeping it inside to avoid destroying wildlife. It can freely explore within its bounds. No LLM currently can.

We are far away from the intelligence of a cat in any software or AI algorithm, much less the intelligence of a human.

If we were letting unbound adaptive autonomous AI explore freely. I would be worried about accidentally making a digital hitler. I haven't seen anything with even remotely close to that level of autonomy or intelligence to implement self-improvement or grow bounds.

The hype still outpaces the reality. It won't forever, but I believe we are at least 40 years from even cat-level general intelligence. And even then, an ai-cat's life worth of training and data has to go into making the ai-cat intelligent. We are spending enormous resources to make a single fixed model. The need for those input resources won't magically go away.
If you read the article, you will find that this rant only appeases your pre-existing biases against certain worldviews, and does not actually refer to any of the article's content.
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> If you ask google this same thing, you could still get the wrong answer, what if there's two games called 'inside', or it mistakes 'inside' the game for the Pixar movie of the same name.

To me the difference is the quality of the hallucinations. If I ask Google about the secret Inside endings, and it gives me something about a space adventure, I know something is off. There's no "space" in the Inside I know.

But ChatGPT when asked about 10 secret endings hallucinates completely sensible endings that make sense for Inside... it's just that none of them actually exist. That's a major difference between Google's incorrect search results and what ChatGPT provides.
> From one point of view it's good that Apple still develops his browser and didn't choose to use Chromium like all the others (except Firefox)

Technically, sure, and I'm all for browser diversity... but i'm kind of tired of this comment because Apple barely put any work or money into webkit while being excessively profitable (and there are good "business" reasons for them not doing this). At this point it's just not excusable for Apple... The way to support browser diversity would be for Apple to fund webkit properly rather than keep it on life support, locking their OS to safari is not the healthy solution for the web, it's the healthy solution for the App store's bottom line.
I have been trying to help folks understand what the underlying mechanisms of these generative LLM's are so it's not such a surprise when we get wrong answers from them by putting together some youtube videos on the topic.

* [On the question of replacing Engineers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMmIol4mnLo)

* [On AI Plagiarism](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whbNCSZb3c8)

The consensus seems to be building now on HackerNews that there is a huge over-hype. Hopefully these two videos help see some of the nuance behind why it's an over-hype.

That being said, being that language generation is probabilistic, a given language model which is transformer based can either be trained or fine-tuned to have fewer errors in a particular domain - so this is all far from settled.

Long-term, I think we're going to see something closer to human intelligence from CNN's and other forms of neural networks than from transformers, which are really a poor man's NN. As hardware advances and NN's inevitably become cheaper to run, we will continue to see scarier and scarier A.I. -- I'm talking over a 10-20 year timeframe.
Make no mistake, all companies are one leveraged buy-out away from full private equity ruthlessness. Even if the current owners are great – people get older, they'll want to retire... and we all die. Eventually the ownership can pass to someone who really wants to turn the screws.
I mean, it's possible for something to be simultaneously overzealous and not strict enough. If the code focuses on the wrong measures, it could end up putting unnecessary red tape, while completely failing to provide adequate safety.

I don't know enough about fire code to know whether it applies here.
Simultaneously: https://www.theurbanist.org/2023/02/07/one-stairway-is-enoug...

There are building codes that are designed to increase authentic safety, and those that are actually trying to achieve other ends, like decreasing the supply of available housing, via the claim of "safety."

"Safetyism" is everywhere: https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/safetyism-is-the-water-...
ambigrams are cool you can rotate the term you want to ambigram-ize and write it underneath the word and gently merge them together, "column by column" it's nice you ask because I recently saw a "youtube short" about the name Klint that nicely depicts the idea (volume warning) https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3I6rkpAQXmI
No company is loyal to its employees. People are capable of loyalty, but companies are simply not capable of loyalty.

One of my neighbors a few years back worked at a lumber mill for 30+ years, including some serious downturns in demand for lumber when the owner of the company took little or no pay to make sure he could keep on his employees. The owner of the company? Super loyal.

The owner died, and his daughter, who inherited the company, didn't want to run it, so she sold it to a local investor who took one look at the books and laid off almost all the staff including my neighbor, replacing them with minimum-wage-ish workers. I don't think the daughter intended this to happen, she just didn't have the business knowledge to prevent it.

Luckily my ex-neighbor had less than a year left on his mortgage when this happened, and was able to pay off his house before unemployment ran out, but he wasn't able to find work (probably in part due to ageism). Last I heard (just before the pandemic) his attempt at starting a knife-sharpening business out of his home had failed and he was trying to sell the business, with still a few more years before he could collect social security (and give up full social security benefits by doing so).
It's a business relationship and should be treated as such by the employees. Employee loyalty is ridiculous because it's clearly only one-way loyalty.
More effective
If that was a DMCA takedown, sounds like clearcut DMCA abuse. Copyright is not an arbitrary paywall enforcement system for corporations!
The Howey test is a test for investment contracts, not securities in general.

Securities are much broader and can even include things expected to yield a loss (such as negative yield-to-maturity bonds).
And before social media news feeds, people were doing that with newspapers for generations. Those people have always been around.
American English speaker here. At least in the region where I live, "lads" is definitely gendered (plus uncommon and old-fashioned sounding and, applied to adults, a bit insulting), but "guys" isn't—which leads to friction when we interact with people from areas where, I gather, "guys" remains strongly gendered.
We don't mind and haven't decided yet, so long as it is secure and private.

Do you have any suggestions?

We don't anticipate any personalised emails at the moment and would rather keep personal data of users (besides the email) as far from 3rd parties as possible, if there's anything like that you know of?
So are you arguing that being in orbit is not sufficient? Perhaps, but I'd say it's at least a necessary condition.
We're in a rental for the month in Florida. We're from the midwest, so where gas is used for almost everything. The backlash against heat pumps and electric stoves, ovens, water heaters, etc is normally the ol' "gas gets hotter and is faster" mantra. The unit we're renting is exactly why people think that way. The water heater is old, nor well maintained, and small. The stove is your old coil-top running off a 120v@30A circuit and the heat pump is an old unit that uses the hot water for emergency heat.

So yes, based on this experience it really sucks. That's what you get for the cheapest obsolete tech. It'd be great if people realized there's better electric appliances out there.
> Have you forgotten that the world is full of bad actors who are literally trying to eat people?

Your premise here is false. If X thing is bad, a number of other people doing it doesn’t make it OK. If anything, it makes it worse, not better. If all your friends jumped off the edge of a cliff to suicide, would you do it?
This story features part of the world going Black Mirror at the same time as another part goes (arguably) White Mirror:

Manna – Two Views of Humanity's Future by Marshall Brain https://marshallbrain.com/manna1
> big tech wouldn't have closed shop in Russia for their crimes

Do you really believe big tech cared about some wArCrImEs, instead of getting a call from their lobbyist/investor/gov.account advising them to play along, or else?

JFYI, YouTube (and the whole of Google) is still operational in Russia, I can still use my iPhone, pay for iCloud, and buy a new one as soon as I want.

Business is business, I don't understand why people ever suppose it would be fighting for their political goals.
Doesn't look like it, the Megane X has inside-out tracking which the Beyond doesn't.
The article asserts that javascript is interpreted and was is bytecompiled so its faster.

I think this ignores modern JIT based javascript engines like v8. They're very good at optimizing hot path javascript code as native code. WASM should be easier to optimize give the lack of variability and permissiveness in calls. BUt as far as I know, this hasn't been done yet for WASM so it runs more slowly than it could.
The fact that this is the exception is so sad. I don’t know how our species made it so far in spite of its own nature.

I can’t imagine how much pressure and intimidation this mayor suffered to refuse bribes from (probably very) well resourced and connected individuals/cartels.
> think BI tools, analytics dashboards for exploratory analysis, or even just exploratory analysis on the terminal with it's rich query capabilities

I thought about that, but I'd never use DuckDB for it because DuckDB is locked into a single process. I can't figure out a benefit of being suck with one core when I always have between 2 and 32 available to me.
There is no point in hyping about a 'better search engine' when this continues to hallucinate incorrect and inaccurate results. It is now reduced to a 'intelligent sophist' instead of a search engine. Once many realise that it also frequently hallucinates nonsense, it is essentially no better than Google Bard.

After looking at the limitations of ChatGPT and Bing AI it is now clear that they aren't reliable enough to even begin to challenge search engines or even cite their sources properly. LLMs are just limited to bullshit generators which is what this current AI hype is all about.

Until all of these AI models are open-sourced and transparent enough to be trustworthy or if a competitor does it instead, then there is nothing revolutionary about this AI hype other than a AI SaaS using a creative Clubhouse-like waitlist mania.
I don't think a pay-per-article model really works; Blendle[1] tried this, and they ended up switching to a subscription model. Having to decide "do I want to pay for this article?" isn't really what I want; I also paid for some articles that I ended up finding seriously shallow/disappointing.

Many publishers have also stopped publishing on Blendle over the years. I guess they decided it wasn't profitable for them (or not profitable enough). The platform is still around, but I expect it won't be in a few years. It's still around, but the offering is severely reduced compared to a few years ago; I don't expect it will be around in a few years.

I do agree it's a problem; I don't really want to subscribe to one or two newspapers in particular, but rather get interesting stuff from HN and other sources from a wide variety of publications. It would be prohibitively expensive to subscribe, so, I subscribe to two publications and bypass the paywalls on the rest. I don't know what else to do beyond, I guess, just not read it at all...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blendle
There's some point where the robot is realistic enough that it's functionally no different than a nanny. I agree it would be dystopian as hell if the kid was just raised by the robot, but giving the parents a bit more sleep and an opportunity to have a date night once a week would help them be way better parents.

As an extreme case, some parents get so stressed and chronically sleep deprived that they get frustrated at their babies for continually crying and shake them, leading to permanent brain damage and even death.[0] To be clear, these parents don't mean to hurt their child but they're not operating coherently anymore. A robot that can give parents a breather here and there would significantly improve quality of care for soooo many babies.

[0] https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/shaken-baby-s...
This whole moment of exuberance just reminds me of Bitcoin in 2020, or NFTs in 2021 or so, just a bunch of hype and a few grifters jumping immediately to the biggest thing, but when you peel back the layers and look at the actual thing, it underwhelms. Again, AI will get to being interesting and useful but I too don't see it there today myself.
My unwavering opinion on current LLMs
> Because the 90/9/1 rule applies to most things

I'm not very convinced by that line of reasoning.

By that logic, most people don't care whether or not their government is a dictatorship. Which is (I hope) obviously not true.
Fractal Cities
To follow up on the author's example Bing search doesn't even know when the new Avatar is film is actually out (DECEMBER 17 2021?)

https://www.bing.com/search?q=when+is+the+new+avatar+film+ou...

Bing AI doesn't stand a chance.
Yup he gets things done. Just like he got a pogrom done and shown their place.

Also thank you for proving my point above. Lol
Out of interest, what did the source used as reference for the 31-24 say exactly? Was it a prediction website and Bing thought it was the actual result, or did the source not mention these numbers at all.
As far as I know Microsoft's CEO hasn't done a demo that went wrong like happened with Google. So far, from what I've seen, it is users testing Bing to find errors. The outcome, that they're both giving poor results, is the same, but with a company CEO and a live demo involved, it's always going to get more attention than someone on Reddit putting the product through its paces and finding it lacking.

>A Microsoft executive declined CBS News' request to test some of those mechanisms, indicating the functionality was "probably not the best thing" on the version in use for the demonstration.

Microsoft apparently isn't acting from a position of panic, so they have been savvier with how they've presented their product to the media and the world. Google panicked and set their CEO up for embarrassment.
> Bing AI did a great job of creating media hype, but their product is no better than Google’s Bard

Remind me, how do I access Bard?
I think there is a second part to this conversation that may vary by culture. The author walked away from the exercise trying to empathize with future recipients. You could also walk away with the mentality of I survived this, so others should too, and you’re weak if you can’t.
> But, what's the real-world advantage over something like SQLite?

This very specific question is what I'm trying to understand. SQLite can be run in memory and as a temporary store.
Beeper- One Chat App to Rule Them All? – PupOnTech
I think the docs are pretty good, but the main "problem" is the same problem as anything else in Clojure: you have a lot of options, and maybe even documentation, but not a lot of guidance. Which I don't think the community broadly views as much of a problem, but it does make it difficult for new people getting into the language.

There are some within the community working on this but unless it becomes a blessed solution it can still be kinda difficult for new developers to onramp into the language.

E.g. compared to something like Elixir, the road is much more arduous with Clojure.

The problem with things like spec is it kills interest in other libraries solving the same problem. Note that Malli released after spec, and after spec all but killed off a few spec-like libraries, my general observation seems to be that many in the community have moved on from spec.
I'm trying to decide if this is a valid arms race or jumping the gun. Kind of feels like if someone came up with auto racing before the invention of the ICE and so they spend a bunch of time pushing race cars around the track only for them all to realize this isn't working and give upon the whole idea.
Here's a quick summary: [1]. Or for a longer treatise [2]. Basically, property owners enjoyed certain rights prior to the new data center construction that the data center is infringing upon.

1: https://mises.org/wire/when-pollution-violation-property-rig...
2: https://mises.org/library/law-property-rights-and-air-pollut...
China has over 300 satellites of which over a 100 are known to be military. These balloons have been around for a long time. Why do they care now?

Maybe:

1) Distraction from bad domestic economy news
2) Distraction from bad Ukraine news
3) Preparing public for war with China, as that general said.
4) All of above.
Clojure user here since 2010(my earliest Clojure project on Github), and while I agree with the fun point, the iceberg wart for me at this point is the inelegance of the interface hierarchy and its structure behind the scenes.

Clojure's forward-facing interface (a hundred functions that operate on one data structure) ended up breaking down for me at some point and became 10 functions on 10 data structures and those data structures became AFn, APersistentSet, APersistentMap, APersistentVector, IFn, IPersistentSet, IPersistentMap, IPersistentVector, ITransientMap, ITransientVector, IndexedSeq, LazySeq, &c, &c, &c.

Maybe I started writing code wrong. Maybe I dived too deep into the internals, Maybe it was something else. But at the end, there wasn't one data structure, there were dozens and dozens each with justifiable differences, but even so, that's not what was advertised. It took a decade to reach that point and perhaps the vast majority of folks never will.

The sad part is that I know none of it is up for change without creating a Clojure2, and that highlights the problem. Why should changing the internals need to break backwards compatibility? There is one unspeakable reason: the illusion wasn't complete and they weren't really internals to begin with.
I frequently use ChatGPT to research various topics. I've noticed that eight out of 10 times I ask it to recommend some books about a topic it recommends non-existing books. There's no way I'd trust a search engine built on it.
ChatGPT confronts, but humans always adapt to new tech – ask the Mesopotamians
I don't like USB C. Just recently I bought a couple of dual-ported flash drives that fail dangerously on my new MacBook Air M2. When connected via the USB C port they get extremely hot, almost hot enough to burn my hand, and they somehow lock up the Finder and several other apps. Oddly, they work fine on an Intel NUC mini-PC I have running Windows. Fortunately they don't seem to have done any permanent hardware damage to my machine. Is this a driver bug or something? Who knows? But I don't trust USB C, especially with its high-current charging nightmarish mess of standards. Do I have to use it sometimes? Absolutely, but I'd prefer not to, and I try not to use it for charging or high current needs.

Personally I like Lightning. I've never had a Lightning cable fail unless a baby chewed on it. I like the way they snap securely into the sockets. I like that they DON'T support high current. I think the idea of getting other vendors to adopt it is very unlikely, but I'd be fine with Apple continuing to support lightning for phones and tables indefinitely. It would mean I could avoid replacing a few hundred dollars worth of cables and adapters.

This article comes at it from the perspective of the Android ecosystem but it's not wrong. https://www.androidauthority.com/state-of-usb-c-870996/
Interesting. I need to think about this one a little bit. Thank you.

Is there a reason "in-core" is a specific requirement here?
I believe that the crucial test of real AI will be if a group of such AIs invent their own language to allow them to cooperate - much like intelligent animal species such as ourselves. The richness of the language indicates the depth of intelligence.

Any such language would necessarily be limited to their 'domain of existence' - you can't invent words for colours if your world has no light. Thus we'd need to give the AIs a full domain of existence for a full AI. They would need eyes (and ears?) and locomotion so they have a real world to reason about and talk about to each other (and us?)

The point being that emergent language is the only general way to gauge intelligence (above and beyond the somewhat anachronistic Turing test). I also conjecture that human language (in fact any human language) is complete in the sense that any and everything can be described within it (e.g. you could explain General Relativity to any human from any time, using their own language, as the basic concepts are already present, you just build on them - whereas this might not be possible with bird calls).

Furthermore, if our language is indeed complete, then we could suggest that any intelligent alien species we might encounter will also have at best a similarly complete language - and thus cannot be meaningfully more intelligent than us, as there is no 'higher' language, no concepts inaccessible to us.
This would be the smart thing to do. Still baffled that they don't do it. Maybe no visionaries work there.
HN was always going to be overly pessimistic with regards to this stuff, so this was utterly predictable.

I work in this field & it almost pains me to see it come into the mainstream and see all of the terrible takes that pundits can contort this into, ie. LLM as a "lossy jpeg of the internet" (bad, but honestly one of the better ones).
All this to rebuild the wonderful WebSQL that Microsoft and Mozilla conspired to kill and replace with the grossly inferior IndexedDB (just see what grotesque contortions are required to do something as simple as SELECT COUNT(*) FROM some_table; to see what I mean).
What positions are you hiring?
Prove that this is actually happening.
Computers help generating gigabytes if not petabytes of (garbage) content that is consumed by billions of people in HD+ 24/7. AI will soon increase that even further. Or that doesn't count as a productivity boost?
You should read the proposal. It collects a batch of per user statistics (counters).

So there is no issue of per-invocation tracking.
Having a non-majority of something doesn't make it "not true" or "not matter".

Why in the world would you include a statistic about the Catholic church in this conversation? Are you insinuating something? You can do better.

You really need to put more context around your last comment. It's confusing at best.
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