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The Angular API has been pretty stable for the past 6-7 years since v2 (well, since v4 if you count the Router changes), and the upgrade process between major versions is pretty smooth. Especially since the Ivy release, they've matured a lot... That's one of the reasons I still prefer it over React, especially in enterprise settings. (Although with their latest versions they are again trying to keep up with the cool kids by introducing standalone components and signals... not sure what to think about that yet)
OpenAI with 400 employees are breaking Google’s ankles on the court. What do you guys think? Is Google in trouble? Their entire business model is in jeopardy. If Google releases a oroduct as as good as ChatGPT 4, which is unlikely, they’ll
kill their revenue. If they don’t release it, they’ll gradually lose market share. They are in an unwinnable situation.
I mean, you're just a continuous chain of chemical reactions.

Because it's so common for people to say other people like them aren't "human" or don't feelings. Or, that animals didn't have feelings or sense of self was persisted for so long, I don't think humanity is the best judge of this character.

We tend to bias the questions in our favor, and many of us only allow the answers that say 'we win'.
Mandrake and Mageia use urpmi. It's a tool similar to apt, yum and zypper. It has been in existence since 1999. It can be used to install packages and also to upgrade a complete system, it will take care of dependencies for you.
Please don't quote me out of context. You literally didn't even quote the whole sentence. You haven't responded to what I actually said.
AR goggles require a built-in camera. Presumably the glasses will be portable.

The hardware required for AR glasses to do what they are advertised to do (eg: translate street signs, overlay advertisements while you're trying to eat, etc) is sufficient to identify anyone walking by*.

Not hard to write software to display on the wearer's HUD, for example, random photos and social media posts of whoever enters their field of view.

*providing the other things in my comment are in place.
The only way to get to carbon neutrality is to stop moving by anything but muscular or wind power. And by wind I mean sails, not wind turbine provided electricity.

We've got way enough need of electrical power for everything else, personal transportation should be done by muscle and sails assistance.

But this won't ever happen so goodbye carbon neutrality, climate is doomed and there is no way we can reverse what we have already done. The only question mark is how fast will we reach extinction of most animal species (including human) we currently know and how fast our quality of life and expectancy will degrade.

Anyone still operating a powered vehicle for personnal transportation, or considering purchasing one, be it EV or ICE, is commiting a crime against humanity and against his/her own children.
>In fact a lot of food doesn't really expire at all if properly stored.

I would have to argue with the use of the word food here. We have been convinced items available in grocery stores is food, when it is really highly processed ingredients with loads of preservatives presented as food. I consider food the items sold along the exterior walls of the stores (at least in typical US store layouts).
There is something to be said about how dangerous it is to offload your entire workflow to entities that you are competing with. Or have unpredictable morals.

Say you start relying on some AI to build all your applications or generate all of your art, or copy. What if you start developing something that competes with the business interests of the entity that owns the AI? At that point, that entity is incentivized to lock you out of their system, leaving you with a project that cannot be finished because no one in your organization knows how to develop that kind of project.

Or, say you are developing an application that helps some marginalized group or is working to expose some kind of corruption. But, as it turns out, the owner of the AI profits from that marginalization or corruption in some way. So they lock you out and blacklist you in some way.

When it is all said and done, AI will be owned and operated by the same people that own everything else in the tech industry - Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Apple. Are you really content with only being allowed to express yourself in the way they deem appropriate?
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> Seriously, I think developing empathy for a piece of software that emulates consciousness is a very tricky area. Whether it "has feelings", whatever that means, can't be the criteria for giving it human rights.

I'm not so sure. We as humans often define ourselves by the compassion we hold for others like ourselves, and differentiate ourselves from those we deem different. If a machine exhibits signs of emotions similar to a humans and we don't take this into account - don't we risk mistreating something which, in a different (e.g. human) form, would without question deserve our empathy?

I definitely agree that we are not there yet. Current LLMs are very, very far from this (probably absolutely impossible right now due to the way we execute them, leaving no chance for actual "living"). But I'm sure we will at some point get closer. And I'd rather err on the side of "too much empathy" than "too little".
We don't know the mechanism. It could be sitting on our asses for all we know. Or, more plausibly, lots more anal sex (which is great for a few reasons - we know how to stop viruses and more sex is good).

We have more homework to do.
It’s tempting to suspect something awful like that, but looking at high quality meta analyses of the lifestyles of people who get most common diseases will reveal just how harmful our diets are — even without pesticides and industrial additives bearing teeth. It’s consistent the world over; you can plainly eat, drink, and sit yourself to death.

I’m not saying the pesticides and preservatives don’t matter, I just doubt anything new has popped up to make things worse. It’s already been pretty bad for many decades.

In the case of Lawson, it could have been a case of genetics rather than diet; she appears relatively healthy and is very young. But these outliers aren’t unheard of, and make for a kind of shocking story when presented with statistics about cancer rates in younger adults increasing. The average age is much higher though, and the health of the average person getting these cancers is likely worse. This isn’t anything all that new, and more so a continuation of trends.
how is this different than git cloning an already done hello world style app/using a blog article with a code sample?
I am doubtful their VR product will be great if released within this or next year.

> Apple Watch got so extremely lucky

But given that others have tried and arguably failed to have the same impact, this is not sizably attributed to luck at all.
Ubuntu semi-annual release? I only upgrade every 2 years when the new LTS comes out. Disabling snap is a small pain but other than that, no issues.
> In the new edition of the 1964 Miss Marple novel A Caribbean Mystery, the amateur detective’s musing that a hotel worker smiling at her has “such lovely white teeth” has been removed, the newspaper added.

This is absurd, if the reason was to avoid using the term white.
First of all, this law isn't going anywhere. Second, I was in China ten years ago and their internet was absolute garbage. Any site not on the approved list was blocked or throttled. I had to use a VPN the entire time. China does some thing well, but its internet policies are absolute trash.
This will be a great comment section full of people with their own pre-baked pet theories on what exactly is causing this. I’m sure microplastics, chemicals in foods, and “kids these days” will certainly make an appearance.
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Have you used Modo News?

It would be nice if your interface sorted the sources by bias and let you side between different summaries. In the upper right corner of Modo you can swap between timeline view (seeing past incarnations of a story as it progresses, or lean view that let’s you see various bias.)
It takes months to years to write a well researched and in-depth book and subject matter experts are not necessarily good authors. Beyond that, each book only moves the needle a little bit as well because of the size of the training corpus. If there's going to be improvement from that path, it will be at best slow and incremental.
Nitpick: you really can't compare Z80 vs 6502 performance by looking at the clock frequency - and that comes from a Z80 fan ;)
Which thought terminating cliche specifically are you referring to?
Why would they kill their revenue? They'd just include ads.
...and the obvious best quick fix is offering the HPV vaccine to everyone at all ages.
I dual booted my machine Win10 and Arch on ZFS Root. Admittedly I used Win10 like 99% so there was always a laundry list of updates when I booted into Arch. It seemed ZFS broke 20% of the time I updated. It was either the silly GRUB config fix that wasn't upstreamed getting overwritten or the ZFS module build somehow failed. I got so frustrated that I just nuked the whole install.

I realize that ZFS is a weird bolt-on but the fact that kernel modules failing to build doesn't cause significant error messages and/or failure is silly. Arch is great but Arch on ZFS felt like my Gentoo days: I want to have fun using my computer, not constantly fiddling to make my computer usable.
Probably more than you're comfortable with. Seriously reach out to the email in profile.
I've rarely seen completely wrong answers. When I did see them it was because I was too prescriptive.

Like, I might ask "using this library, implement that feature" in the hopes that there it has learned of some way to do a thing I haven't been able to figure out. In those cases I see it hallucinate, which I assume means it's just combining information from multiple distinct environments.

If I'm not too specific, it does a pretty good job.

IMO its biggest fault is that it is not good at admitting it doesn't know something. If they can crank up the minimum confidence values (or whatever, the values used to guess the next token), maybe we'll see better results.
Exactly. Thanks
The only path to substantial change is and has always been violent revolution. I welcome anyone to try that.
I was thinking of that or maybe pesticides. Something like pesticides could be visible from different effects in different countries.
In Germany they were usually called what translates to "home computer".
Do you like all of anything you do? Hobbies, raising children or pets, even going on vacation all have parts that can be frustrating or annoying, but many people do these things anyway because on the whole they find them fulfilling and enjoyable. Given that, insisting that 100% of work is enjoyable seems like an unfair standard.
No it does not. It simply means that it’s far from impossible. Many things that are “far from impossible” are blatantly false.
> My guess would be more processed food.

Mine would be colon proximity to pockets where we carry our omnipresent smartphones all day around. I think a simple test to this hypothesis is to see if there is correlation between tumor position and if the person is left or right handed, as the phone probably will be stored in a preferred side pocket, according to handedness.
Pretty much everything you described could be done pretty easily already by anyone half inclined to do so.

If there was any point in doing it, people would’ve already done it 1000x, the LLM adds no value here.
Meaningful work can be very relaxing.

I really like coding my own personal projects. Many times I do it precisely to find flow and relax.

Same with designing parts to 3D print, or printing them afterwards.

Solving real world problems that I care about can be extremely rewarding and often quite relaxing.

I actually think most of the stress from work comes from the fact that you either perform or you might not have enough for food and shelter, for yourself and your family.

Take that away and failure becomes nothing more than an opportunity to learn. I find that very relaxing.
Not complaining about moderation but I do wonder why someone would disagree with the advice above.
1000 people using the same prompt will get 1000 different results. LLMs are completely non-deterministic.
If anyone does it, it will be financial firms putting them under stock exchanges to get milliseconds of advantage over anyone following the curvature of the earth.
Releasing a LLM would not kill Google's revenue. It would increase it. Because more people would use Google than before. And they could still show relevant ads.

The big question is if they can catch up with OpenAI. OpenAI is a moving target. And it seems they are moving fast.

It could still be possible that Google catches up because of the UI though. Many people don't like having to log in to ChatGPT. Bing's UI is a disaster and you have to log in.

I always thought that Google won the search war not only because of their good search results, but also because of their clean UI.
And LunaCoin wasn't. And Gemini Earn was mostly cryptocoins failing as well. And FTX was just a liar sitting in the Bahamas and everyone stupidly giving their money to him.

The issue is that Stablecoins suck in general, and that cryptocoins in general are filled with Conmen who will misuse your money. And none of the cryptocoin community has _any_ form of defense (legal, or otherwise) that determines who is, or isn't, trustworthy. Because the cryptocoin community is too religious about believing that cryptocoins are innately trustless or something.

Make a stablecoin without any banking like Lunacoin, and you'll collapse. Make a stablecoin like USDC connected to banks, and you'll earn less than the FFR / Money Market funds. Lie about it all like Gemini and you lose your shirt (lol 18%+ APY returns. An obvious lie, to me at least. But my friends didn't believe me).

The naked cronyism, conmen, and assholes have ruined the cryptocoin experiment in every way possible. DeFi, CeFi, whatever. Its all just excuses, I'm fairly certain that I can list off a failure that matches whatever methodology you wish to bring up.
Unnecessary hyperbole. Here's what's happening:

Article title: Not all water is good for you

Person A: What if I like water? I enjoy drinking it

Person B: Water in all contexts isn't great, for example you can drown. So what qualities about water do you specifically like?

You see how it's less absurd? Hopefully that's made clear now. For future reference, turning everything into exaggerated hyperbole is only going to keep you contained in your isolated bubbles online and make you all the more sensitive to any sort of pushback/disagreement/criticism.
What's missing from this announcement for me is a comparison of current draw, sleep states, etc.

It's nice to get more powerful within a form factor and voltage and so on, and I realize many applications don't care about energy use, but increasingly the metric I care about with DIY/MCU gear (and my phone and my laptop is) "watt-for-watt performance increase".

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!
Oh would it be nice if ZFS wasn't CDDL or if the CDDL/GPL compatibility would be settled.

For all practical purposes, it doesn't appear to be a problem. Ubuntu has shipped ZFS for years. As much bellyaching as we hear from some quarters about the hypothetical harms this has caused, no one has brought a suit, because my guess is -- it would be a pretty terrible case for a copyright holder from the Linux side. See [0] in addition to all the other ink that has been spilled re: this matter.

Linus may not feel comfortable with ZFS included in mainline. I'm not sure distro maintainers need to feel the same way.

[0]: https://www.networkworld.com/article/2301697/encouraging-clo...
E fuels can be 0 carbon. But they are still bad for air quality because of oxidizing Nitrogen during combustion. These Nitrous oxides then react in the atmosphere with other compounds (even terpenes from forests) then form the small particles (PM2.5) that we now know are deadly because they pass though all of our body barriers.

The way I see it is that efuels will eventually be there to satisfy the demand of legacy hardware in the transition period, and maybe a bit later for recreational purposes (aka for car collectors, racing etc).

They are not a permanent solution for our transportation energy needs.
I don't really understand why Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora have no system configuration tool. Sure, there is a configuration for the user desktop. But nothing for the system in general. It is only SuSE and Mandrake/Mageia that have such a thing, and those were built in the 1990s.
What has increased is the consumption of sugar, HFC and/or faux sweeteners.

All are seen as harmless and normalized. You can thank Big Sugar for that. The type and level of sugars is historically abnormal (as is the consumption of animal proteins).

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074...
The article looks laser focused on Linux distros for running inside a container.

You don't want any data to actually change inside a container, since you want to be able to delete and create them at will. But I do agree that's a very bad name, since there are more to data immutability than the containerization practices, and there is more to mutability than filesystem data.

On the first point, there's already a reply about people wanting to edit /home and /etc. On a container that's something you really don't want to do. But on other applications of immutable filesystem data, that's what you want.
> Is Russia wrong for starting a war? Yes. Is it completely its fault and totally unprovoked? Probably not. Is the Ukraine completely free of sin? Also probably not.

So tell me exactly, what was the grave sin that Ukraine committed that would justify the invasion and all the atrocities that followed?
Thank you for posting the top risk factor, interesting that it’s not diet.

HPV is also the big driver of throat cancer. I’ll leave it for readers to connect the dots as to what risky behavior looks like for HPV-driven anal cancer and why it might be rising in younger adults
> what were the most important battles of the Boer War?

The thing is, some humans are amazing at random trivia and could potential answer huge numbers of questions you ask them on random topics.

Not me, I didn't even know the wild pigs had a war. But some people could answer that question and the next hundred you throw at them.

I guess a better version of that test would be to ask five million random trivia questions in a row, without taking a break. But if we're assuming an AI that's been adversarially designed to be as human like as possible, it would also be possible to program it to need breaks after a while, or to start answering questions wrong/erratically past a certain time without breaks.
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There's billions of years of compressed knowledge in those 4 year olds. Lots of useful priors.
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These things happen in high COL areas. Of course the rents are going to rise when people are willing to pay more. This is supply demand. In a lot of cases, property taxes are assessed based on the value, and the people renting and paying the higher rent are actually making more money than the landlord. Also you don't blame companies for charging you for a product that you like the price they do, considering that it takes much, much less to actually make it - are those companies being greedy?

People get displaced, move outside of the area, and find places to live. In some cases, they buy houses in rural areas for a lower cost, and then 5-6 years later the gentrification radius grows and their house goes up in value. Look at Northern Virginia for example of this.

The main that is missing is good public transport system (or government level investment in autonomous driving). In Europe, its natural to commute about an hour or so to work, often from a different town to a bigger city. In US this happens as well, the difference though is that you have to sit in traffic in a car.
Don't we already have a vaccine for HPV?
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I was able to use GPT4 to write a small, self-contained JavaScript function and it worked okay. But writing out the function is painfully slow, particularly if you want to iterate. Which you’ll need to do because sometimes it introduces bugs. You can tell it to fix them and it can, but then you have to wait.
We do, but uptake is not great in the US versus other developed countries [1]. There are efforts to improve this [2]. Australia’s high uptake rate is leading to possible eradication of cervical cancer by 2035 [3].

Tangentially, there is substantial evidence viruses lead to various cancers, and with vaccines being such high leverage wrt cost:value, we should be leaning hard into prevention (although mRNA and CRISPR will still be necessary paths for cancer treatment).

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6482788/

[2] http://hpvroundtable.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/05_Schoo...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/feb/02/austr...
The population is divided too. I see it in a couple forums that green energy is said to be too costly and the people in our country can‘t afford new cars and that more trust in new tech (decarbonization and fusion) is needed.

Change is needed but no one wants it. USA and China take no action and Germans are pissed they have to solve the problem. That‘s what people here are thinking.
The same way you know how to compute the average of 135 billion numbers. You can't look at all 135 billion numbers in the input data, but you can easily understand that preference and originality aren't going to emerge from computing averages.

Obviously the function of an LLM is a lot more complicated than the "average()" function, but it's not beyond human understanding. I'd venture it can be understood by an average 3rd-year undergraduate CS student.
And where I'm at I'd have to pull an extension cord from my electric stove out the window from the fifth floor to wherever within some 100m I found a free parking spot on the street.
> Well, I can tell you that the first time I see some sufficiently advanced AI walking in the streets between the public, I will grab my baseball bat and smash it to pieces.

Describing an AI walking the streets, or smashing it to pieces, necessarily carries with it the implication that the AI is located within a physical body that moves on legs.

And those words you used are very explicitly about destroying an actual machine.

But if you wish to claim that was merely a linguistic turn of phrase not meant to be taken as an implied literal belief of the location of thought? Ok, but it remains the case that what you propose against a "sufficiently advanced" AI, is somewhere between petty vandalism and a pogrom, depending on questions of if "sufficiently advanced" comes as a package deal with "sentience".

Which is a totally different, and in the latter case much more severe, problem.
For your interest, SuSE was once started as a Slackware clone with RPMs bolted on, together with YaST the system configuration tool.