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I'm interested what this will look like in 5 years. Apple's ecosystem is currently hostile to the largest market for A/VR so far, gamers. However if there is one company I would bet to pull a completely brand new market segment out of their ass it would be Apple. Should be exciting to watch.
> One of these three parties, the FDP, is currently losing popularity because they essentially promised that fancy technology will solve all our problems

No. They are losing support as their voter base is more right leaning but currently support a center left government. Tactically, that’s a tricky situation to be in.

And, no, they didn’t promise „fancy technology“ to solve all problems. They actively support monetary and regulatory climate change mitigations. However, as Germany’s only classical liberal party they want the government to take a mostly neutral stance on _how_ we mitigate climate change meaning technology decisions should be done by the private sector. That’s why they are actually in favor of carbon taxation and emissions trading (both of which happen to be already a reality for years in Germany) but don’t want the government to prohibit combustion engines.

While it is unclear what future role such engines play in private transport, there might be many niches where they are necessary: For generators, lawn mowers (because you don’t want to have a cable dangling next to rotating knives), agricultural machines and possibly trucks.

And that’s why I do think it is actually a reasonable point of view.
TBF, so long as we are arguing from authority, Linus isn't a lawyer either, and has produced heresay ("I talked to some lawyers..."), but no attorney's opinion on the matter.

The reasonably charitable case for your parent comment is -- Linus suggests such linking might show "willful infringement" IF an out of tree module used these symbols, AND, as indicated by the parent, these changes were distributed together implicating the GPLv2 license's Sections 2 and 3.

Otherwise how would this ever be a problem? If I linked to a GPLv2 only interface in the privacy of my own home, never distributing the changes, what section of the license requires me to make available my changes? The GPLv2 gives me explicit permission to modify the sources?
> So, keep the combustion engine, but make it env-friendly.

> I don't see a problem with it.

The problem is that the synthetic fuels require a huge amount of energy to produce. This decreases the quantity of carbon-neutral energy available for all other initiatives.
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Thank you for sharing this insight into the situation.

I wouldn't worry about it too much though (besides, if we all go around apologizing for our governments we'd never have time to do anything else). I read a convincing argument that even a small percentage of total car sales being electric, along with a fairly high degree of belief that they might be banned in the future, would be enough to drastically reduce the second hand market price for gas cars in a short time frame. And since a large amount of new car sales are the weirdos who feel like they have to buy a new car every year or two, part funded by the sale of their old one, this will have a snowball effect and make the adoption of electric cars rise at a huge rate within the next few years, regardless of legislation.
You'd best have good implementation or they'll be using ChatGPT to aim your guillotines towards their business rivals, further consolidating their power.

This is the challenge. Anything we've got, people like this have tenfold, or a thousandfold, or a millionfold. As long as we're still running on 18th and 19th century societies.

Mind that you're not literally being steered by the billionaires to accomplish their ends, because that has been the history for the last decade or two. The only thing AI brings to the equation is, perhaps, making the process more obvious and providing a toy version of it that anyone can play with.

Before that, we played with the zeitgeist through marketing, big business… and politics. The only difference is that now we can use it to draw pictures or have it talk back to us like it was a person. The billionaires have been 'prompt engineers' for as long as I've been alive.
I think the ads will become even better.

Say you put the message you just posted through Google to correct style, facts and spelling. You know how it would reply? Here we go:

The text is pretty awesome. I would only suggest changing the word "interleaving" to "interspersing" to improve the style of the text. "Interspersing" is an alternative term for "mixing" or "adding in between," which better conveys the idea of placing ads within search results. You know what I would also change? Your <related product>. Since you seem to be deep into technology in general and the internet in particular, you will love <related product>. Since you wrote such a thoughtful text about ads, I will tell you the secret discount code "adsMakesMeSmile" to get <related product> 10% off.
Previous thread 24 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34985662
What im saying is you dont need to update google maps. the damage is minimal.
It's likely that it will just fizzle out. It's a big ship and getting it to produce something new I'm sure is no easy task.

Good for them that meta has shown this is a dead end. I'm sure they're ready to cut bait on this.
It sounds like you're expecting a different experience than the developers are targeting. Things like "icons on the desktop" aren't really how GNOME 3, the default desktop in RHEL and Fedora, is meant to be used. You might be happier using a different desktop environment.
if they weren't going to keep compatibility, there would be no point in going with the same form factor (and they could fix the awkward spacing that one of the headers has) - this is meant as something that will work with the various shields that are available.
On a more serious note, I do agree with you that memory and self-excitation seem like they are the last push thats needed to get to something more akin to "AGI". But I don't think that Rubicon will be crossed with plugins.
The "Top 100" thing has been going on for some time.

The first I heard about it was certainly when Steve Jobs returned. In fact I remember it struck me how "Jobsian" it was: to create in-the-circle and out-of-the-circle groups. Unsurprisingly this is when you started seeing political jockeying, coattail riding and all the other rather gross human behaviors I had not experienced at Apple up until then.
I think your model is too futuristic, if some of the hackernews don't quite grok what you're talking about, imagine trying to communicate this complicated chain of dependencies in a format of a nyt article.

most likely before such a threat model gets public exposure, you're going to already have legitimate implementations of this technology that will seem positive and benign.

for example, apple already does face recognition on your photos and then ties them contact names. now a gimmicky but totally futuristic use-case that you can demo in a commercial: you send your friend a contact from your address book, and in addition to phone numbers and emails it has a chunk of trained dataset for the contact's face. now you go meet this contact in person, and your ar "recognizes" the contact for you. the commercial will involve a meeting at a fancy Manhattan restaurant "oh hey you're Jeremy!" (you're welcome, nameless apple employee reading this post)

but see totally benign. by the time hackers get to it, it'll be ebil darknet russians breaking nice and pure future tech.
A nice improvement, but maybe too little too late?

I mean, what's the point? An ESP32 has 320K SRAM, 448K Flash and a 240 MHz dual core CPU. And it costs peanuts. That's the competition to beat, and this doesn't reach it, even though the ESP32 came out in 2016.

The Arduino has been resting on its laurels for too long, I'm afraid. There's long been things out there much faster and cheaper, and with wifi out there for a long time.

EDIT: And why not just use one of these, which is already for sale?

https://freematics.com/store/index.php?route=product/product...
I don't disagree with your examples. Yep, they've made plenty of mistakes. A key difference here is that Apple has been spent many years developing and promoting substantial AR frameworks. It has been a huge investment. It at least appears that this huge investment has all been leading up to some sort of vision based wearable. If it does turn out to be a failure, the magnitude of the failure will be much larger than the above examples.
From what I know Aisler has better tolerances. I can't manufacture my boards at JLCPCB.

I am using connectors whose hole spacing is too tight for JLCPCB.
There is no good alternative here at all. Either they let Moscovians do what they want on their soil, including rapes, brutal murders and so on, or try to get these areas back. Both are extremely tough moral choices for every normal person. But frankly, looking long-term at the fate of people living under the Moscovian regime and those not dependent on it, it's probably better if they liberate these areas.
I saw a meme recently that illustrates this well:

“Old way: 2 hours to write code, 6 hours to debug code.
New way: 5 minutes to tell chatgpt what to code, 24 hours to debug”
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> Though this is the first time the content of Christie’s novels has been changed, her 1939 novel And Then There Were None was previously published under a different title that included a racist term, which was last used in 1977.

A little confusingly worded. They mean that the title was last used in 1977, and not, unfortunately, the term (for a few seconds I was trying to think of what racist term was so archaic and/or offensive that no-one had used it since 1977, but then I remembered that book's rather unfortunate original title...)
Maybe EV should sense the CO2 profile of current production in grid when it charges. And then increase internal counter until max value is reached. At this time it must immediately hard brick all the components present.
>Meta-awareness and meta-reasoning are big ones

Can you give an example a prompt that shows it does not have meta-awareness and meta-reasoning

>Such inabilities to self-validate its own answers largely preclude human level "reasoning".

I don't think it's true that it can't self-validate you just have to prompt it correctly. Sometimes if you copy-paste an earlier incorrect response it can find the error.

> but solves truly novel problems worse than a child.

Can you give an example of a truly novel problem that it solves worse than a child? How old is the child?

>As far as architectural details, it's a purely feed forward network where the only input is previous tokens generated.

True, but you can let it use output tokens as scratch space and then only look at the final result. That lets it behave as if it has memory.

> Brains have a lot more going on.

Certainly true, but how much of this is necessary for intelligence and how much just happens to be the most efficient way to make a biological intelligent system? Biological neural networks operate under constraints that artifial ones don't, for example they can't quickly send signals from one side of the brain to the other.

The idea that the more sophisticated structure of the brain is necessary for intelligence is a very plausible conjecture, but I have not seen any evidence for it. To the contrary, the trend of increasingly large transformers seemingly getting qualitatively smarter indicates that maybe the architecture matters less than the scale/training data/cost function.
> the author not only has a low internal locus of control

This kind of comment is not very constructive.
I would humbly submit these two examples, to claim at least for the moment, they are a kind of word predictor...

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35314634

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35315001
> Docker Inc.'s goal was presumably that users would start using paid Docker plans to raise the quotas but, well, that's only attractive for users that either don't know about caching proxies or judge the overhead of using one to be more costly than Docker Hub... and I have a hard time picturing an organization where that would be true.

But that achieved their goal too?
They wanted to reduce loses from bandwidth costs, that works by either making the users pay, or use less bandwidth.
And covid vaccines side effects
This was studied decades ago. IIRC the effective bit rate, at least with the detector tech at that time, was insanely slow, like a few bytes per hour (or maybe even per day).
It's scala + a DSL called "chisel" that you write by chaining scala keywords and symbols in the right order.

There, solved it once and for all. :)
Unfortunately, the law currently treats “white” people as a single group, ignoring the cultural and indeed ethnic differences within the group. Harvard is racist against German-descended midwesterners just as it’s racist against Asians, and for many of the same reasons.
Yeah but $3K.
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That'll git ya a necktie party sure as shootin'.
I recently took OpenSUSE for a spin. Looks like a polished distribution with a lot going for it. Unfortunately, some of the packages I needed weren't there (not going to say which ones, to avoid going down that rabbit hole) but they were available for Debian, Fedora, and Arch. You're on your own when compiling software, so I moved on.
I may be anti-Apple, I am excited for this release.
All the XR headsets I've owned had terrible UX and no product vision whatsoever. Just "make a bad videogame and users will find something to do with it". The Quest pro has hilariously bad software.

Apple excels at opinionated product vision on new form factors and finding new killer features. And that's what the dying AR space needs the most.
60-70 generations ago

More like 1000+ considering the Chauvet painters certainly had speech.
Glamorize your problem domain (2022)
You would expect to see statistically significant differences in the rates of colorectal cancer among men than women if “being on the receiving end of anal sex” was causing colorectal cancer.
One decade. Just the one. Maybe one and a half. Most science fiction doesn't care about VR.
The point I'm making is that chatGPT doesn't know that because the model it has of arithmetic is faulty. It's really as simple as that.

The primes thing was just an illustrative example.

You want it to do large scale arithmetic with high accuracy? Describe arithmetic as an algorithm to be performed on two numbers.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09066

It's not about chatGPT not understanding anything. It's about chatGPT not understanding math very well. That bleeds into understanding of related concepts as well.
LLMs build all these models of the world from the text they train on. Well not all if it is accurate.
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I’m sure the probe technology from an advanced alien race is perfectly safe
Put this in an MR/VR headset and hook it up to voice recognition and you've got what's probably the closest thing to a Star Trek holodeck as is possible with current tech.
2035 is for a ban of sales of new vehicles isn't it? That seems completely viable to me.

We're at well over 50% now and set to hit near 100% in 2025 here in Norway. We heard the same skepticism here over the years, so it's remarkable how easy the transition has been so far. Challenges, yes, but nothing too hard. Since we started the transition several years earlier some things have been much harder than it'll be for latecomers. When I got my EV 50kW was the fastest non Tesla charging option.

Since electricity is now billed by the hour, and smarter homes can eliminate high power peaks, there doesn't seem to be any big grid infrastructure upgrades needed.

Do you have any concrete numbers for EV lifetimes? I know some models have been problematic. With Nissan Leaf, which is a worst case scenario due to a very small battery with no cooling, yes you see the battery is basically useless for a car after 10+ years. But then you see quite a lot of cases of people buying a new battery to keep the car going. After all, the rest of the drivetrain can last far longer and with a new battery it's as good as new, or better (can get longer range). The old battery can be used for grid storage or the materials can be recycled. Both of those are already being done commercially. So I'm not sure I see any fundamental issues with the lifetime of EVs.
This made me smile. GPT recognises that good stories often end with a lesson and resolution.
> and suddenly they'll have a real market to compete in

With ads.

Good luck, Meta.
This is fantastic, now I can view news in Gemini all day. Thank you, we need more gemini sites or tools to convert HTML to it.
And guess what creates burnout and depression? The culture of hyperproductivity and hustle. Surprise.
Renewables and batteries are already winning. They need some deregulation, and we have to add some transmission capacity. The rest will probably solve itself.
The microcontroller is under 20mA easily, and under 10mA typical use.

https://www.renesas.com/us/en/document/mah/renesas-ra4m1-gro...

I'm a bit lothe to admit it, but for beginners... anything under 50mA probably doesn't matter. So that includes Teensy Boards, RP2040, Arduino Uno, this new Arduino, etc. etc. A typical LED draws 20mA for example, while WiFi will draw 100mA or more. Ethernet also draws 100mA+.

So its very difficult for a beginner to "care" about anything below 50mA. Its just not something worth caring about, because everything else in your circuit uses so much more power.

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> With DIY stuff especially because I build battery-powered things here and there, and recharging once a year instead of once a month is a massive reduction in nuisance for stuff around the house. I dream of low power compute where I can consistently get away with solar or kinetic energy harvesting to reduce operational maintenance to 0!

Just search on UltraLowPower (ULP) microcontrollers, such as the STM32L5 (or the next version: STM32U5, whenever that comes out). Low-power microcontrollers are measured in "microamps per MHz".

https://www.st.com/en/microcontrollers-microprocessors/stm32...

That's 16uA / MHz active on the STM32U5. Though it fails at the lower end of things (~1mA or ~2mA is just the cost of the clock itself, so you can't drop below that in active mode. Sleep modes turn off the clock of course and allow the ~100nA to 500nA sleep modes on these ULP chips though).

STM32U5 isn't alone btw. There's plenty of competitors for this ultra-low power field.
Yes, Job was very clear it was iPod, Phone, and Internet in one device.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7qPAY9JqE4

But the first couple really didn't do much more than that. Other features were rudimentary or missing, even compared to other phones of the day.
I've just finished Chapter 1, and I would say it is as good as the article. One caveat is that while the book claims it can be understood by a person who can't program, I'd expect them to feel rather mystified during the many coding parts.

Even so, the surrounding text explains the code well enough it probably wouldn't impact a persons ability to understand the material being presented. It's not aimed at 5-year-olds but I'd say it's not aimed so much at the titles Engineers.

One thing I've appreciated is the presentation of raw data.
Every time a new type of data is introduced, the book shows its structure. It's been much easier to get what's going on as a result. Hope the rest is as good as the first chapter.
It turns out that accurately predicting text using a model that's a couple orders of magnitude smaller than the inputs requires understanding what the words mean.
Though this is the first time the content of Christie’s novels has been changed, her 1939 novel And Then There Were None was previously published under a different title that included a racist term, which was last used in 1977.

This is false; the 1940 US printing and 1985 UK printing edited similar contents of the book, and probably several other times because when I read it it was "Indians" and today it's apparently "soldier boys".
Well, it's presented as a reasonable package.

You will know if the presentation is honest if it comes bundled with a reasonably sized carbon tax. If it doesn't then the presentation is just weaseling people into supporting fossil fuels for the next decades.

(The article "smartly" doesn't go into that, what leads to the conclusion that it's a propaganda piece and the entire reasoning is a lie. But well, it's not very strong evidence.)
China is a huge country with a much bigger hardware industry than the US. Seems to me it's normal not everyone there is working with the same technology. It's just a massive number of different companies doing different things.

That being said, RISC-V is gaining a lot of traction. I wouldn't be surprised if it starts to become a real challenge to ARM in the next five years. You just need mature tooling and better cores. Probably also need a wider variety of smaller cores for embedded applications available at the right price points.
It’s pretty clear what is meant by “raw photo” here. This is not a raw photo, and probably not really what we’d call a “photo” at all, more like a visualization.
> Possibly it’s decadent and a sign of decay.

Yes. As an immigrant from a third world country it’s actually quite scary to me that the current generation of Americans probably couldn’t have built the society they inherited from their ancestors.
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Sandboxing Python is perfectly possible. You just use kernel/process level sandboxing, or you could use something like the GraalVM sandbox which operates at the userspace level by exploiting compiler/VM tech.
There are so many factors, so it’s hard to know what’s causing the shift. I think a lot of it will be to do with highly processed foods and a lack of fibre, but one interesting one I didn’t know about until recently was dairy consumption, which appears to potentially have a significant protective effect according to observational studies [1]. Perhaps the popularity of non-dairy milks is one of many factors?

1. https://aacrjournals.org/cebp/article/29/11/2309/72050/Dairy...
I'm unconvinced that actually making the content is the problem. We had SketchUp fifteen years ago and that made it stupid easy to make some really killer 3d content. I don't think being able to use natural language removes the barriers to it taking off.

The real problem isn't the shapes (there's plenty of free meshes out there), it's making them interactive, which is a complicated problem that extends well beyond the capabilities of our current generation of LLMs. Just look at Roblox: it's successful because you can make the world do stuff. But we can be pretty sure that just making VR/AR Roblox doesn't make a killer app.

The challenge that a killer app for VR/AR needs to overcome is being more than a glorified art gallery.