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Ask HN: On the Threats of AI
I'm fascinated and excited about the latest advancements in AI. As a software engineer, used to see computers do exactly what we program them to do, when I see AI able to reply in a human like way, with these emergent behavior from a statistical model it feels like magic.
But although excited, I can see many ways how AI can be a threat to humanity. And I'm not only referring to SuperAGI wiping out humanity with determination as it's primary goal, or even indifference as a side effect while pursuing a completely unrelated goal.
Or even more immediately used by bad actors to spread misinformation, deep fakes that could have dramatic political outcomes, or for really elaborate scams. Or even a threat for many different roles in the job market.

All of those things are a possibility and many people has discussed them.

What I have not seen discussed is, we see how seemingly good AI can be to diagnose medical patients, as a lawyer, as a programmer or software engineer, and so on. This is now, imagine in 10 years.

What happens when AI is so good at all those things that new generations of humans don't have an incentive to learn and study and become experts in any of those fields because what's the point if AI is so good!

As the old generation of experts in different fields retires, there will be no more human experts on those fields anymore, how will research and advancement continue? We should have delegated all knowledge to AI and humans would be ignorant of most advanced things, isn't that a terrifying though? I think that would lead to the collapse of our civilization.

What do you think?
Because researchers need to publish papers.

It's a lot less work to start with a language that's as simple as possible so you can focus on the problem that you're interested in solving, instead of spending years to figure out how your idea would interact with all the existing features of some existing language.

If it turns out that your idea might actually work and improve something, somebody else can take it and figure out how to add it to some existing language.
I've never even seen that happen. What causes this?
This exercises the happy path, but otherwise works surprisingly badly for testing. You already know what the game is supposed to be about, so you can't really tell how well the interface communicates things to someone who doesn't, and you more or less automatically play it the way you're "supposed to", so you rarely hit the sorts of buggy or game breaking corner cases testing is supposed to discover.
Relaunching my personal website as planetjones.net
expo won't void warranty. amd replaces expo'd processors. they make advertisments with expo. in the eu/uk they would not stand a chance to refuse any rma whatsoever when expo was enabled.
Look at the developers who have historically been working on Xorg. Look at the organizations and projects which have historically been working on Xorg. Look at what they're working on now. Look at what Red Hat and GNOME and KDE are up to. They're not working on Xorg, except for parts relevant for XWayland.

The statement "Xorg isn't well-maintained anymore" isn't an attempt at a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's a statement of fact. The people and companies and organizations who used to do the work on X11 are now working on Wayland. The same people and groups are doing the same kind of work, just on a different protocol.
Anyone relying on a dynamic language with state of the art compilers instead of rewriting code in C and Fortran for usable performance.
... and? I'm really not sure what your point is. Bribing more than one person/group and dealing with probabilities is a normal state of affairs, what about it?
I think it often is more like "We have issue supporting xorg, if you want us to support xorg it is on you to find a solution to our problems; we might support you but likely wont put our resources toward it"
Sorry, I forgot to say that I didn't know a two-character solution to level 14. I am curious what it is, too. I only have a generic solution not optimized for the level.

While I loved my time with the game, I skipped to the end after level 11 because the levels were getting repetitive, then went back and found short solutions for a couple of levels before the end. I am glad I played this way instead of progressing into the tens: I might have quit before the final level, 21. Level 21 is by far my favorite. It is very clever.

You can contact me through my website (in the profile). I will give you a two-character solution to the first level.

Edit: Found it for level 14. It was another "think in terms of completions, not answers" prompt.
It might not be a published novel but I really enjoy "War Queen", a web novel about first contact from the (hive mind) aliens' perspective.

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/46850/war-queen
Personally, I attribute this more to Wikipedia's non-commercial nature. It's goal has a clear end state because it isn't chasing endless growth that for-profit/vc-backed companies do.

I believe also it's possible to have a social media network that is non-commercial and is successful because it has no need to pump engagement to chase endless growth.
Breaking the rules and cheating has been a celebrated strategy here and in the startup community. Remember that Uber and AirBnB were blatantly illegal when they launched and made millions. Remember how YC was encouraging people who advertised how to lie to skip covid vaccine wait lines as a "social hack"?
> and I feel fortunate to have been born in New Zealand

Just make sure you don't have the wrong opinions. Such as not going with the medical coercion and banning of civil rights that occured from 2020.

Oh, my bad, that authoranianism is good and they deserved it - Signed, Mr G.
"Finding meaning means seeing what makes you feel."

What about late stage cancer patients. They do feel pain. Does this mean, they find it meaningful to suffer till they die?

Or a mother that lost her only child, feeling now only misery?

So I would rephrase that to:

Finding meaning means doing what feels right.

So yes, in your specific case it meant, allowing yourself to feel again at all, to understand what you want to do.

I hope you manage.
I’ve been running a few VMs at Hetzner for years and never had anything like that. Are you sure this is Hetzner related?
> the new macOS Dock, the new daemon launcher, the new documentation system, package infrastructure, the new background services, the server side frameworks, the new photos picker, playgrounds are all written in Swift.

The Dock is an app, not a framework. The things you listed are not frameworks, aside from whatever you mean by "the server side frameworks", which being server-side would by definition not be in macOS.

"Framework" has a very specific meaning in the OS: a .framework bundle, providing a linkable executable and typically an API, with the system frameworks residing in /System/Library/Frameworks.

"Other than Metal, all the Objective-C code predates Swift, and is ongoing maintenaince work nothing else"

This is still false, you have nothing but anecdotal, cherry-picked evidence, the numbers from the blog posts I cited suggest otherwise, you appear to be quite ignorant, and I'm tired of arguing with you, so I'm indeed DONE here.
>someone who has created several LLM-based applications running in production

Come and talk about what you are doing and challenges of it at our LLM in production virtual conference? https://home.mlops.community/home/events/llm-in-prod-part-ii...
Do they require the additional docs when you top up the account or when try using those money/transfer out?
Research Machines made a sizable inroad into UK schools with their range of computers from the late 1970s to early 1990s.

One such example is the RM Nimbus: https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/41537/RM-Nimbus-PC-(...

It had a 186 from the very first models, and was later re-branded as PC-186 when they introduced their 286 model.
It actually kind of has the opposite effect. Turns out the people that want to pay to have their opinions heard probably don't have great things to say, so it creates an easy demarcation in the replies. You can just ignore all the posts at the top with a blue check, and then go down to the higher quality organic posts at the bottom.
> and outside a war
> don't have them at all.

Who? Customers?
Artists must be allowed to make bad work
Could you provide one example of communism that did not end up an authoritarian regime?

Communism is just not compatible with freedom. When free to choose, societies do not become communist, they embrace production and trade. You cannot achieve what communists want without extensive use of force
It is not at all specialized on a single plant. It seems to like almost any leguminous plant. The reason it's considered invasive is because of the large variety of commercially important crops it also feeds on like cowpeas, soy beans, green beans, etc. Kudzu, wisteria, etc are not as commercially important but also are eaten
There is also wifi box if you want to use a slightly cursed solution that seems to work well enough.

https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox
I can only hope that it becomes so good that it trains people that no matter how sneaky they think they are they will get caught if they break the rules. Then I hope so many people improve their driving habits that this project ends up reducing the revenue made from driving offences.
Love the idea, but Sixels are a can of worms - it’s inefficient and it’s unclear how they should map to physical pixels - most do 1:1 but I’d prefer a more historically accurate mapping similar to the original terminals that supported them. It was originally designed for dot-matrix printing and later implemented in CRT terminals.

Also, ReGIS and Tektronix (disclaimer: I proposed including Tek graphics in VTE) could also be very useful.
Thanks for the blog suggestion - didn't know that one. In the topic of getting old, just bought a couple split keyboards to solve some wrist issues.
Do you have to think to know that you are?
If you don't care, why mentioning it?
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Working at Home over the Decades
“the three companies have agreed to pay $615,000 in penalties and disgorgement”

Is this actually a significant punishment? Will the decisions based on these fake comments be reconsidered or reversed?

Someone should sue these companies in civil court for damage done.
to avoid the collapse from transitive equality, I think rhyming would need to work in pairs, rather than in lines, something like AABBAACCAABBAADD... (giving an ostinato effect, similar to a ghazal?)

(...GCAABBCDEEFFDG... might be interesting to write with the quatrains displayed block inline but the longer-range rhymes just set as normal prose; it would be up to the reader to notice the maintenance of metre and rhyme in the nominally "prose" sections)
> authentication is only available with `mix phx.gen.auth`.

What do you mean? You can use other libraries, for instance Guardian or POW.
I haven't been able to find a solution for this either. Most people seem to just use docker for this and just deal with all the baggage that comes with it.
You can't rewrite something complex. If you try to rewrite it you'll not achieve feature parity so it will be something different at least when you're building it. And you will perpetually chase your target. You MAY try to build something somewhat compatible starting small (not a replacement) or you can fork and gradually diverge
While I agree I dont think tech execs give a damn about carbon footprint or your mental health.
I find it exciting to live in a time that things are changing fast, to be honest.
https://youtu.be/MhvvxoIgNPg sure it is
More useful == cheaper. Centralize your profits to a major metropolitan area (where your executives and maybe board live) then use global labor markets to suppress the wages of your employees.
What about just "come an work in my home office"? Seems like a similar thing.

I'd totally do that now and again if it were available in my area.
I drove over few highways that had raised reflective markers installed with no other lighting. Worked exceptionally well and the experience was far better than any other road lighting. One of the problems with lighting is that it can be fatiguing after some time. Point sources of light create uneven illumination which are not the most comfortable. You are also exposed to the bright source from time to time which causes your eyes to adjust constantly. With reflective lighting you have none of these drawbacks. You're not surrounded by lights all the time, so you get a dark and soothing atmosphere. They are also down on the road, which allows you to follow the contour of the road very easily. The biggest benefit, they consume no power at all.
With the lack of proper multitouch support, using X11 on a laptop feels so terrible. The gestures don't work, and if you make them work, they're delayed and off.

There's plenty wrong with the current Wayland system on many platforms (once again looking at you and your drivers, Nvidia) but if the hardware support is there, Wayland just is a lot nicer to use.

I bet once the major players switch to Wayland by default, this is just going to be one of those things people will fight over till the very end, like how some people still get enraged if someone doesn't write a SystemV init script for them and only packages a systemd service file.

X11 may work because it has become the de facto standard for open GUIs, but it's a weird, janky system being abused for things it wasn't designed to do in the first place. The missing support for some stuff is very annoying, but that will pass. The underlying API design just makes so much more sense than X11 ever did.
Marketing on Hacker News (Learnings from Tailscale)
Wouldn't this be solved by just choosing a random linux distros out there and use the options that come preinstalled? Unless one proactively looks for features of the alternative there won't ever be the situation where one has to deal with these kinds of things.

Other than that I think having options / alternatives is a great thing. And if option a) intends to replace option b), then there will be compatibility issues in various degrees.

It's not that different than with other computer components, like CPU architecture (ARM vs x86/x64), GPU chips (Nvidia vs. AMD) and many more. Choosing the most popular option will usually result in the least amount of potential compatibility issues, but any of those options will work well in most situations.
So what happens to people who try to make open-source firmware? They get a secret cease and desist slash gag order?
Is Lisp being used today for anything particularly significant, like C and JavaScript are, or is it merely a niche academic language, like Haskell and Rust?
The Steve Losh link is dead for me. Here is one from the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20230505132018/https://stevelosh...
> For you "meaning" seems to mean something. For me "meaning" was a null pointer exception.

No it’s the same for me. The thing is that I don’t care at all about that when I’m well. I haven’t thought about the meaning of life for a year probably (ok I’m very busy). When I was in a bad place (also was raised by narcissists), I obsessed over meaning and purpose all the time. But that’s just a symptom of depression IMO. Like I said, my take is that the search for purpose is a proxy for concrete problems that need solving. Something that the conscious part comes up with that feels like finding a solution to would make us feel better.
Thanks for the advice, but I think I will just continue to ignore Twitter.

Important things will still probably reach me in embedded shape or quote on other sites, but currently I cannot remember a single tweet at all, that not reading it, would have changed my life for the worse.

So no doubt good content is hidden underneath, but all this drama makes it not worth it for me.
Blocking blue ticks also works well for this
Vim is awesome. Not just for programming but I use it pretty much everywhere I can configure Vim (Vimium is my favorite non-terminal plugin I use frequently).

Also for those interested, there is a really good talk given by Theena Kumaragurunathan (novelist from Sri Lanka) in VimConf 2021 where he goes about explaining how Vim changed his life (from a non-programmer perspective). Very inspirational. Must watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ORWaIqyj7k
Is it an empirical study or do they have a theory?
If something is fishy they can still catch him.
Moving from Blame to Accountability (2017)
idk how TikTok gets the signal but I find myself doing the same manually on Reddit. Scroll through my usual subs then I'll reflexively go through r/all and pay more attention/look into sad/enraging posts. It's a cycle of trying to get a hit of it and emotional sledgehammers works well.
This was also the name of the awesome downtown Berkeley gaming store that recently closed down.

RIP
If you consider Rust (is in the Windows and Linux kernels, powers Discord,...) a niche academic language, then I guess Common Lisp (used for the Grammarly backend, powers ITA software) is a niche academic language as well.
>> it reduces ones carbon footprint

Is this proven (it probably can't be proven given the huge variety of commutes, office spaces, heating sources etc.)? It would be my default assumption but I feel like heating one office with 100 people in it is much more efficient than heating 100 homes in winter. And if people are in a location where publish transport is the norm then it might be better in terms of carbon impact to be in office.
you’d be an easy prey to the idea that people can explain their successes and/or attribute it to the one enabler. but you’d be wrong. haphazard systems have won over well-crafted ones when the well-crafted has underestimated the folly of the crowd and its propensity to stick with a bad choice. i submit for your consideration the success and monopoly of javascript. is it because of a yet unpenned doctrine by brendan rich, who, if anything, has only rendered apologies for certain bad decisions.

point is, success doesn’t necessary mean a coherence of thought and practice. especially in rails’ case where we’re talking about its popularity among humans, the most irrational of beings. the crowd elected rails, not for its doctrines. i’m a rails developer and contributor, and none of that arrived by virtue of the doctrine dhh (and by extension, you) espouse.
> India is actually a very small market for cars.

It's a small market for foreign cars, which have a huge import duty slapped on them. Indians love buying Tatas, Mahindras, Maruti Suzukis, and locally-built Hyundais and Hondas.
Can you give an example of something can only be done in a native app?

And why wouldn't a hybrid approach work? I.e. the majority of the code using the cross platform toolkit, and a small amount of code per platform using the native API.
The "Irish Wake" is this... but _before_ the funeral.

And Ireland is VERY Catholic.
Yeah this really seems like sour grapes. You get a soapbox but not unfettered access to my ears.
Does Sixel have a spec? I.e. how large are the pixels, whether there's a newline after the image (couldn't find how to turn that _off_)?

Recently discovered Kitty's graphics protocol (https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol/) which has more features or at least more documented ones :)
I'm not sure that's the case. It has an ever expanding budget and picks up new political causes often.
Scale. A 15th century king might have been nominally in charge, but he couldn't exercise much authority without his various ranks of human minions, whose individual power weakened down the chain, and individual pushback increased.

Now a modern "king" has immense power and resources to affect everyone with very few easily replaceable lieutenants to dilute it, and AI is bound to be a magnifier of that power. They also have more insight into the population than a 15th century King could ever do -- they didn't know you existed, but a modern king knows everything from your movements to your shopping habits. From face recognition to tracking your browser's fingerprints that information is stored and logged permanently, to be mined and used whenever the kings want.
What value would learning Lisp provide, if you're not curious and learning for the love of learning, or you're not an emacs user?
A lot of employees not wanting to return to the office have suddenly become more environmentally aware too!
Wikipedia actually has value. Twitter never had even a fraction of that and it's shedding it quickly under Musk. It's in no position to negotiate anything. The only thing it can do is fold.
Define “suppress the wages”.

If I live in a lower COL area, I get a significantly higher wage than expected in my area, my employer saves money, and I get full remote work that I like, I call that a “win-win”.
Finishing things is overrated.

I think I have the same problem. I solved it by accepting it.
Idea amplification is the potential of generative AI
Devil Mode for Emacs
Kitty term has it's own modern protocol which gets more traction.
Been using Wayland since it had became default on Fedora. But some applications are still having issues when running with Wayland compositor under GNOME. Qt applications are the usual suspect, e.g. KeepassXC, OBS Studio and others.
My own personal 'hack' has been focusing around a core and doing things fast. I've done a range of things but they've always been roughly relevant to the same field, so I can apply what I've learnt previously onto new things. This has also resulted in being able to make things faster due to familiarity and having dealt with the friction points before. I put 'hack' in quotes because it was about a decade(and a lot of money in domain renewals) until things started coming together regularly for me.
I wish someone would do this. A single permanent desk in a WeWork is surprisingly expensive.
Oops! (sp) 'dodgy coin'
Me too, yet I can see how that can lead to future generations not pursuing a career to become experts in anything.
But people will be heating their home in winter in any case, whether they're remote or on-site.
https://thecritic.co.uk/the-left-wing-bias-of-wikipedia/

is an example of coverage that comes up if you google it, even Wikipedia acknowledges it grudgingly.

The problem is IMO probably down to the natural demographic of Wikipedia editors drawn to those sorts of pages (cf. academic liberal bias, and - in the opposite direction - the police draw more conservative types).

It's unlikely an easy problem to solve but the point is that Wikipedia is in no position to parade on the issue.
I often get stunned over how wrong facebook's algorithms constantly are. I get that they try out things a lot and it results in some weird stuff happening but facebook is overall the worst from my point of view.
I think the evidence is strong he broke the laws, he said might be broken if one was rash enough to do this. The carcase of the deer being pretty conclusive. Those don't look like shotgun hits, or post morbidity testing.