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Actually you are stating 2 different problems at the same time.

A lot of intelligence is based around "Don't die, also, have babies". Well AI doesn't have that issue as long as it produces a good enough answer we'll keep the power flowing to it.

The bigger issue, and one that is likely far more dangerous, is "Ok, what if it could learn like this". You've created super intelligence with access to huge amounts of global information and is pretty much immortal unless humans decide to pull the plug. The expected alignment of your superintelligent machine is to design a scenario where we cannot unplug the AI without suffering some loss (monetary is always a good one, rich people never like to lose money and will let an AI burn the earth first).

The alignment issue on a potential superintelligence is, I don't believe, a solvable problem. Getting people not to be betraying bastards is hard enough at standard intelligence levels, having a thing that could potentially be way smarter and connected to way more data is not going to be controllable in any form or fashion.
I think that's kind of a bigger issue with Dall-E: they just sat in the middle of the two consumer extremes, without a differentiating feature themselves. Midjourney ate away at them from the quality highground while Stable Diffusion bit their ankles from the cost lowground.
What percentage people owned their own homes back then, and what percentage of income did people they spend on their houses mortgages? I'm willing to bet those statistics are telling.
This is actually a big deal. They erred on the side of caution, but as a result the responses are nerfed beyond basic "censorship" level. I saw someone describe this as "desperately posistive" and it really resonated with me. It produces underwhelming / unrealistic responses in negative scenarios.
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No, they can't on this. This procedure requires "only" QMV. That's not to say it'll definitely pass, but there's no veto

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/council-eu/voting-system/...

You can play with possible coalitions on this link, to be fair due to its population and the nature of this law germany is de facto a swing vote
Portland OR is a funny example. We recently moved here from TX and by far the biggest thing that stood out to us is how frequently people stop to let us cross the road. Something I would occasionally see in TX, you see literally constantly here -- it's generally expected to yield to pedestrians. I'm unsure if it's law or culture, but it is very different than other places I have visited.

And yet, the in regards to pedestrian safety it _feels_ less safe for pedestrians here. The visibility is simply much lower in the winter, the roads are smaller, the lights dimmer, and the walkers more abundant. It's a very interesting difference from TX and a few other places I've been.
https://news.ycombinator.com/best ?

from: https://news.ycombinator.com/lists
This is kind of weird in that it's exploiting a vulnerability in the Windows bootloader, but once exploited it's pivoting to using shim+grub (edit: apparently it's not actually grub, it's their own bootloader that's just called grubx64.efi because that's what shim boots by default). There's no absolute requirement to do this, but it's presumably easier to implement their full payload in grub rather than getting it all running in the context of the Windows bootloader. This means it probably doesn't work on the Secured Core PCs that only ship with support for the Windows signing key (but also it can't be used to attack Linux systems that remove trust in the Windows key).

This pivot means that the keys measured into PCR 7 of the TPM will change, which breaks the Bitlocker policy, which is presumably why stage 1 disables Bitlocker before exploiting the bootloader. This means it's also detectable using Remote Attestation (I think Microsoft's Device Health Attestation ought to notice, but haven't verified it), which is nice for all 3 of the people who've rolled that out.

In terms of why the known vulnerable bootloaders weren't already revoked - I have no inside knowledge here, but my guess would be the impact on users with existing install media (including factory restore images). We've revoked a bunch of vulnerable Linux bootloaders, but the level of pain involved in revoking a Windows one is almost certainly way higher.
As I understand it, it's the gaps in the summer that account for the gaps in education. That's Gladwell's assertion. When kids have gaps without learning at an early age, they fall behind quickly and it is devastating.
How do you know it's pruned?
> In theory this should mean that the average representative would be smarter, more capable, and of better moral character.

That's not what I would expect from theory. I'd expect it to make the representative more reflective of the intelligence, capability, and moral character of the constituents. If the constituents are deficient, they'll send deficient representatives.

I think you're suggesting that having representatives better known to the constituents would weed out misbehavior, but I believe it just means fewer eyes on them. If there are red flags, it only takes one person to notice, and can publicize it to all of the rest.

It's not that I'm opposed to expanding the House in this fashion. As HL Mencken said, "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." I believe that the problems we have stem from the voters themselves, not the mechanisms they use, and will not be fixed by any changes to those mechanics. Still, anything we do different is an opportunity to interrupt the vicious cycle of distrust that I think is the core problem.
You are like 2 months out of date. Stable diffusion now has a massive ecosystem around it (civitai/automatic1111), that when used well, completely crushes any competitors in terms of the images it produces.

Midjourney is still competitive, but mostly because its easier to use.

Dalle2 will get you laughed out of the room in any ai art discussion.
No, if you read the thread you’ll see it was picked to be greater than the median at the time the metric was established. So in the first year it was less than 50%, but close. The phrase “grade level” implies a 100% goal, but the math of the metric says you’ll do great to do anything better than 50%.
Oh wow. I forgot that was even a thing. Is that project dead? I assume it is, but would love to be surprised that it still exists, just for the novelty of the entire thing.
You have to rebuild all your prompts when switching providers.
Indeed. That's a neat plugin, each time you lock the database, it rolls forward your HOTP key some number of rounds, then uses the results of those rounds to encrypt a piece of key material for the vault. Then, when you go to decrypt, as long as your HOTP app hasn't generated more than the number of rounds it rolled forward, it can generate the decryption key from the HOTP stream and decrypt the vault. A little fragile, but a neat implementation.

> right after you enter your 2FA malware can steal the decrypted database out of memory.

There's probably a creative protection here where each key is encrypted individually, but you'd still need some solution like the above HOTP trick or the attacker could scrape the key information out of memory, then decrypt each entry individually.
The reason they went with Lightning was because the other option was Micro-USB at the time. Lightning is so so so much more robust than that awful USB connector and can be inserted any way round. Bring on 2015 and USB-C appeared which Apple jumped on pretty quickly with their MacBooks.

The iPhone is an outlier because due to the insane number of devices out there, if you change it now everyone's Lightning accessories are dead in the water. But it doesn't really matter now. Only thing Lightning gets used for most users is charging and it works fine for that and people have cables and chargers already floating around. This isn't a big deal really. They ship a USB-C to Lightning cable with the last 2 iPhones I bought and all my chargers are USB-C.
Car companies have plenty of know-how to predict the future of their field of technology on a 10-15yr timeline. They're perfectly capable of calling obvious bluffs.

While everyone was busy back patting and circle jerking over the 2035 mandates they were investing in new gas engine architectures for commercial vehicles (so like minivans on up to medium duty trucks) because they looked at the state of diesel tech and emissions rules, looked at the state of gas engine tech and emissions rules and looked at the state of battery tech and decided that the box van of the future was gonna have a gas engine option.

At the end of the day you can't legislate a technology jump into existence.
BEVs are unaffordable pretty much everywhere (if there are no government subsidies).

Every single BEV model seems to be 20-50% more expensive than its ICE counterpart. And the "cheap" ones are something like Renault Tweezy, useless to most people.
There just isn't any evidence whatsoever to support there's a real problem.

Consumers buy millions upon millions of cables & chargers, a huge % off brand and uncertified, and the number that have had damage to their phone or created fires is sub-microscopic.

> given that there's not a good standard out there for

Oh please. Abusrd poppycock.

The clutching of pearls for this topic is incredible. There's multiple checks and safeguards in the spec. These systems are just not as fragile as portrayed. If this were just a 48V DC connection, yeah, there'd be some risk, but this is a reasonably well defined, safe-guarded system already. And there's just so little evidence of problems, and such a huge huge install-base already. Is there anyone else on the planet with a fanbase exhibiting even half the Stockholm Syndrome of Apple?
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If the metric “grade level” were defined as the median when the measurement started, do you think 90% is reasonably achievable?
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> uses Face ID or PIN to login

I just tried this and neither LastPass nor any of my banks accept PIN. It’s FaceID or the full 3rd party password only.

Is this a real issue? What banks and password managers allow pin? Only Apples built in manager?
> I'm surprised that they aren't trying to integrated it into the CPU like Qualcomm does with the Snapdragon processors.

Sometimes it's not worth the hit to yield to put it on die. On package might be a better tradeoff.
As always, the truth is somewhere in the middle. The NEC is fairly complex, and there are lots of gotchas and techniques that you really only learn by doing it for some time alongside someone experienced that can guide you. If it was your house, would you want the equivalent of a bootcamp electrician mucking around with minimal oversight? Sure, there are inspectors, but they can't be expected to catch 100% of the issues, and most people wouldn't want the job to take 3 times as long as the junior electrician is forced to redo huge amounts of work.

That said, there should be stricter requirements for offering apprenticeships. If the law requires it to work, anyone that has achieved that status should be mandated to take on X apprentices over their career.
Actual bed-and-breakfasts, maybe?
Indeed, anyone can list whatever URL they want as the "repository" on the crates.io page for any page they link. There's not much of an alternative, given that crates.io is designed to be immutable, and the internet in general is not. (At best, crates.io could provide a link to a browser-rendered directory tree of the code that crates.io has on hand for any given version.)
I used Unity for a long time and I appreciate it as well. Last couple years I havent liked the direction that unity is going. The docs and usability have regressed imo.
Too many unknowns to answer. O/S, available RAM/fixed storage, transport/bandwidth, power consumption... all matter and change the possible approach. Maybe look at Mender.
People are not underperformers, you can't and shouldn't segment the population across some quantitative boundary. Each individual should learn at a difficulty gradient for them that is positive and engaging for each subject. For everyone this will be a different value.

What you are describing is a form of damaging elitism.
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The average US person commutes 40 miles?!? That's like 45 minutes to an hour a day!
Does ChatGPT yet have a debug function to Show Its Work so to speak? I think this will be important in the future when it gets itself into drama, trouble, etc.. Probably also useful to prove how ChatGPT created something rather than being known as an opaque box.
I'm certainly not going to defend Uncle Bob here, but I don't think you have to be a SOLID cultist to think that preferring smaller functions, factoring out oft-repeated patterns, and relying on a language's abstraction features (e.g. polymorphism) are useful heuristics for managing complexity and maintainability in a codebase. Like, the article's author complains at length about the overhead of a virtual function call over a switch statement; I don't think their critique is really focused on the nuanced differences between the various schools of "how to make your code nicer to read" (at least, I didn't read it that way).

That being said, A Philosophy of Software Design looks like a good read. Thanks for the recommendation.
I would guess 2030 or so. With industry pressure and everything.

Actually 2035 is worrying short timeframe. That is less than 12 years now. Which is like two model generations of vehicles...
It is always fascinating how different car sales are in the US when compared to Europe. In Europe, for new cars at least, dealer sell production slots. You configure your car, the dealer gets a delivery date from the OEM, you get yoyr car at that date or pick it up at the factory.

Pre configured cars are either exposition cars, cars registered for a day to move OEM inventory, or dealer inventory, not sold like above. Or they are 6-12 months old and coming from various short term leasing and rental services. This approach makes planning for OEMs a lot easier as well. Oh, and you always pay whatever the ticlet price is,inus negotiated disclunts. Nothing like list price plus, just because the dealer feels like it.
That's not for the cable, that's for the accessory connected to the cable. I thought we were talking about the cables here?

With respect to the cables, that's part of the USB C spec. Not the spec to which you are referring.

The whole point of the E Mark is to signal that it is safe to send otherwise dangerously high speeds and wattage down the cable. So they're just saying that they promise to follow the spec for cables they certify.

Now the accessories, you're right, but I don't know the rules for accessories. I do know them for the cables.
True, but this is still a major upgrade from the $1/hour outsourced drone working in atrocious call-center-like conditions trying to close as many support tickets as possible.
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Very nice description of the bitwise maths, however I'm curious what lead to the need for `(63 - nlz) / 7` in the first place. A divisor of 7 is an odd thing to find when dealing with power-of-2-sized integers. Maybe this expression is used in some sort of expected length calculation to find the number of bytes which would be used for preallocating buffers? In most variable length encoder loops I've seen, you would just do a few bit twiddles to compute your encoded byte values and your exit condition should be a trivial check if there are remaining non-zero bits.
Maybe they meant to link to something like this:

https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/pull/540

Web demo:

https://whisper.ggerganov.com/
Ok so grade level is another word for “median.” So saying 50% of students are above or below the median doesn’t really elicit the same reaction as saying “grade level” - presumably they knew this and picked the name and the metric to induce hand wringing.
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Probably won't be long before it's not economical to stock petrol at many petrol stations in Norway (diesel will likely last longer due to truck use). By 2035, Norway won't be the only place. How long before people have range anxiety when driving petrol cars?

Edit, because I can't reply further: perhaps this won't at first be a problem on long journeys, but if you live in a small town and the nearest petrol is 100km away from where you live, you start to have to plan your daily driving to factor in a long detour occasionally. We're really used to having fuel available everywhere. This will change, the only question is when.
Did you mean to prove your own point like that with your spelling?

Sorry, I couldn't resist the dig. In any case, your own personal feelings without anything to back them up doesn't really help anyone.
> we could sell fully electric vehicles with only ~100km range

E-Bikes exist. But it isn't quite that simple, infrastructure and culture are harder to change than products.
I'm not so sure. Some of the diesel-from-air tech looks promising. It is expensive, more expensive than reasonable battery tech at the moment, but I wouldn't abandon the concept. If BMW wants to research and potentially sell a zero-carbon combustion fuel cycle, more power to them.
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I didn't get scammed but did find the service too annoying to want to use it again. Actual price is very different from quoted nightly rate. Can't tell the actual location of the place before I book, wtf. Got to the place and didn't know the combo to get in; isn't that something the booking email should say? Apparently supposed to log into the site again, go to a chat, and contact the host; it's not simply over SMS.

I get that I'm not paying the extra money for a hotel with 24/7 pro staff, but there's gotta be solid automation in place of that. To each their own, I'll just pay for the hotel.
I do believe that too, at least in the sense of programmers as the 99% working on trivial CRUD apps, which includes pretty much all of us at a given period of their career.

Future engineers will need to up their ante, I suppose. Maybe this was overdue?
While I have no problem with Docker, it probably is worth noting that their entire product is based on a decade and a half of Google engineering invested into the Linux kernel (cgroups).

Not that that demeans or devalues Docker, but it contextualizes its existence as an offshoot of a Google project that aimed to make it possible (and did, but only internally)
I've actually got WebGamepad support built into the pilot station. Start up the game, start a flight, and load up the pilot station. Then plug in your gamepad, wiggle it so the browser recognizes it, and a config icon will appear in the bottom right. From there you should be able to configure every control on that screen to work with the buttons and sticks on your gamepad.

DMX and other show-control features will come much later, after the main gameplay features are completed. But they're my favorite part, so I'll definitely get to them eventually.
It's not the administrators. It is the politicians and some rich donors funding things like banning books, banning sex ed, changing curriculum standards i.e. not teaching about slavery because of political pressure or the threat of prosecution or defunding.

You know, all the stuff that's been in the news for all time as pushed by the conservative agenda?
Range in EVs is interesting because it costs a fortune up front, but for most people doesn't get used very often. Yes, there's some benefit to battery lifespan, but it's hard to justify the thousands of dollars extra when buying the car.

It would be really cool if you could rent/add battery expansion packs to your EV when you do need them - like a big USB power bank - but we need a lot more standardization in the technology first.
I'd look up some Capacitor apps and see if the UI performance with webview is good enough for you. From my experience it's not great on Android, but good on iOS. Meanwhile Flutter is the other way around, and given that iOS is a more important target...this might not be a terrible route to go.

I can't imagine it'll be quicker than Flutter development if you 1) don't have strict design requirements, 2) you're pretty much only targeting mobile, 3) you want something that looks good out of the box.

If you already have a webapp and mobile performance is acceptable, I'd consider just doing Capacitor and migrating to Tauri when the mobile ecosystem is in a good place.

Edit: Oh the ionic CEO already recommended it lol