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> Catholic Church and the Nazi government were known to be one in the same during the lead up to and during WWII

yes, that's why the Catholic Church wrote up an encyclical in 1937 that was condemning nazi ideology...
I’ll frame it in terms of outcomes: I don’t think any pedestrian or cyclist should be killed anonymously by a driver. I also don’t think drivers should feel empowered to casually disregard the laws of the road, as they currently do when they feel as if there are no consequences.

That doesn’t have to mean “government cameras”; I’m open to any solution that achieves those goals, including stricter licensing, urban redesign, harsher fines, etc.
Sure, brevity is the soul of wit and all that. Just so long as you don't go dropping letters from the middle of words because you're going for the unixy aesthetic. That style is an anachronism from an era when symbol length was limited, it doesn't belong in modern code.
Airplanes do, but the ones on the ground are bigger and not moving. Long-distance trains do, subways don't and commuter trains are "sometimes".
The concern is not simply within tech.

Generative AI is a huge topic of discussion amongst virtually all creatives (painters, graphic artists, musicians, authors, journalists), in business (at all levels largely through business process management, finance, and business intelligence), amongst media (joualism and entertainment), amongst governments (regulation, electoral politics, international relations, military / strategic risks, intelligence, competitiveness, impacts on general employment and social stability), amongst the technological boomer and doomer communities (impacts on future technological development will likely be profound, though agreement on sign bits differs), and more.

It's true that the general person on the street likely has little sense of the potential and risks, but that is virtually always the case with new technological developments. Potential impacts are always hard to see, and the discussion about these almost always tends toward various elites (technological, business, government, academic, religious). And that's the case now.

But the conversation and concern is not limited to the information technology elite, by any measure.
On the internet, no one knows you’re a dog. On the internet, no one also knows that you’re a 14 year old signing off on Wikipedia pages about vaccines.

Anonymity is welcome and important, but some things require connections to your real world knowhow.
Times like this are when people can only speculate. There’s too little information for anything else. The discussion is tautologically speculative. Some will be optimistic and others will be pessimistic and the only thing informing the disparity of those opinions is the authors’ personal perspectives and biases. You’re frustrated by something that is only natural.
I hear more about ChatGPT/AI from people outside my tech circle than within. Heck some of the people in my tech circle won't even play with it or try it out.

I don't think AI is the second coming of Christ like some pretend (it is over-hyped outside of tech and somewhat under-hyped inside of tech IMHO) but it's impressive and extremely useful. I've used it many times to help point me in the right direction. I never take what it says as fact, I always "check it's work" but it often saves me considerable amounts of time by getting me on the right track and then I can refine what it gave me. I don't use it for writing "real" code (aside from maybe a few small algorithms) but I do use it to help with certain debugging tasks if I think it will be useful. Also for things like "spit me out a shell script that takes a CSV and does X, Y, Z" it's incredibly useful. These are normally 1-off tasks that I can do by hand or code if needed but ChatGPT makes it way easier.

When it comes to writing, I'm often faced with "Blank Screen Syndrome" or a similar type of feeling and so getting something on the screen that I can then edit/revise/improve/fix is a huge boon to my productivity.
ChatGPT is sold as the highest common denominator and you're not even arguing that it's better than the lowest.
> A week after ChatGPT was out and plenty of people were already using it for writing code, emails, and plenty of other tasks.

But soon after they realized it wasn't as useful for these tasks as initially thought. Interestingly, a lot people started to believe that the tool had been limited on purpose, where in fact they were just becoming a bit more objective.

That being said, it's better than crypto and there are applications (although maybe not life changing). The bar is low though.
Yea, but mvsqlite implements its own to get around the limitations around transactions.
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the watch is a poor comparison.

Is this the next iphone or not? That is the question.
I agree about VR, but I'm really excited for advancements in AR!

I'm a really avid mountain biker, road cyclist and snowboarder, and I'd love some basic telemetry displayed in the goggles or glasses I'm already wearing. Nothing kills a ride faster than having to stop to pull out your phone to see if you missed a turn or to figure out which unmarked trail you're supposed to take. (Not to mention all of the information we current have to look down at our cycling computers to see: HR, watts, cadence, etc.)
Didn’t know that about that messy complexity surrounding the word nice but I’ll just say that feels like a false equivalence in terms of recency of the words. Apparently that word is much older and went through the sloppy unfortunate conversion it has. Good to know about these etymological minefields though, you can’t just blindly consult etymology especially on old words where language has shifted. https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/31368/what-are-t...

Those examples I’m guessing have no record of those who coined them, genocide however appears to have such a record.
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Natural gas generation never drops below ~40% period in this state, the novelty here is its losses from heat were covered to the tune of 35% of the mix last Tuesday.

PV generation maxes out at ~12GW, the bulk of our renewable energy comes from wind but it isn’t blowing this week ergo outsized natgas generation before the sun is up.
Not useful for movies. Netflix and chill is not about the media it’s about the people. Many console games as well. Most individual gaming is done on smartphones at this point. Same with porn. Remote meetings you want to see the person’s eye clearly (it helps identify body language).

If it were a smartphone killer maybe you could eat that market, but smartphones are commodity products at this point. You can’t compete in that space at 3.5k usd. Even if it was good, it still will be a niche product for enthusiasts. It needs a low price and a mass market killer app.
The Oculus Quest series sold around 20 million units so far, still not a lot of hype.
Where in the USA is this?
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// currently it feels like the same hype as crypto

I keep seeing this take and it doesn't make any sense to me. Some tech has obvious utility and some doesn't.

For example, I knew internet (web, email) were valuable when I discovered them because accessing information and communicating with people were already things I did - the internet unequivocally made them faster and easier and often cheaper.

chatGPT / bard gave me a similar vibe - I use them to brain storm/shape ideas, and as mentioned elsewhere, they do a great job of tasks like drafting a job ad. These are things people already do and this tech just makes it better. So people will use it.

In contrast, I "get" why people were excited by crypto but I don't personally know anyone whose payment/banking experience is improved by it. As an American for example there was nothing tangible Bitcoin made easier vs my bank account and visa. So it was always less "obvious" that it was going to be a valuable thing beyond hype.
I'm loving this point. The unfortunate thing is those tests are closed source (I saw a maintainer says so probably in an issue before). It seems testable but still seems to be closed source. So we cannot fork the project even if FDB becomes totally closed source again.
I was there when Linux overtook proprietary UNIX in the late 1990s / early 2000s and agree completely.

The Solaris and HP/UX stalwarts who laughed Linux off as a toy for hobbyists changed their tune pretty quickly when Oracle announced support for their flagship database on Linux. Adoption quickly accelerated as other software vendors announced support. Obviously Red Hat was the winner in all of this, but they could easily lose their lead if another Linux vendor gets serious.
> as we’re all quite aware that AI will play an increasing role in our lives (in & out of the office)

I am not aware of that!

I am definitely inside the tech echo chamber but I do not use ChatGPT, will not do so, don't care about it, and frankly don't respect people who do. It is not a useful thing, and all the "AI" (it isn't) garbage that's popping up right now is equally useless.

I say this on HN often and people come back with "but it reached 1M users so fast!" I don't care. Millions of people smoke cigarettes, that doesn't prove they're useful.

I am going to sit this hype cycle out. Maybe it will eventually be useful for something. I am clearly not the one to try to imagine what that will be.
Consider the alternative -- most people don't care about this device...how many non-video-game playing people bought a VR headset until now?
I am very suspicious of dentists; I recently went to one because an old filling fell out and suddenly, they wanted to do tons of new fillings. I had only 1 visible cavity, but the x-ray showed some decay on the sides of the teeth of others. I had the visible cavity filled and booked to do the rest, but I cancelled it. With the new filling I'm having mild discomfort that comes and goes, but I think that's mostly because I hate how fillings feel. I am still procrastinating on getting a second opinion. The thing is that fillings eventually will fail after 10-20 years, so they are not only getting that business up front they are setting up a future revenue stream. It's hard to know who to trust, even from highly rated dentists.
A pity, and maybe they have good reasons (load, abuse, the bridge being too flaky, ..), but I do not like the user experience of plumbed rooms and the limitation of only certain rooms being plumbed even further makes this uninteresting so this would mean I would need to run my own instance of the bridge or stop using Libera. And, no, I am no fan of the proposed new channel mode either. It was how it just worked and included all channels which made the bridge so useful.

I liked the bridge despite its occasional technical issues.
I don't think it's hate, it's simply skepticism. I adopted VR early on with the Vive and have since stopped using it completely, and I'm similarly skeptical that even Apple can pull a VR device off and make it more than a novelty. Still, we'll see if they manage it.
It’s a website though.
I do network automation for a profession. I build tools (technically compilers) that take a proprietary object model designed for our private cloud and translate that into Ansible (v1) or Terraform (v2) code. At our company, I actually call using these tools in isolation doing it "manually". This is because the largest benefit of automation, I believe, is the abstraction gained from the new object model and being to to generate and store the inputs for Ansible/Terraform in a database. If you have to track and specify all the inputs into Ansible/Terraform and write the playbooks/HCL manually it is my experience you don't actually save all that much work. However, when you have an object model specifically designed for your use case, you can deliver a new client network in literally minutes (essentially nothing more than the cloud model, exactly what AWS/Azure, etc does for their networking). The downside is most enterprises don't have people like me to write the code to do this, and writing it for a single deployment would likely not see the gains that we see as a managed service provider.
Are people in tech inside an AI echo chamber?

I don't think so. Anecdotally I have had numerous non tech friends ask me about AI. The first thing they always seem to ask is if it will harm people to which I explain its just a tool and more specifically a big-data chat bot that can be manipulated just like the social media algorithms but give more confident and realistic sounding answers using language models to simulate human mimicry. The risk would be based on what entities tune it and the fact it can't or won't show it's work. A tool will do what a tool can do. The intentions of the tool operators and users determine what they tool will be doing.

Some of my non-tech friends are trying to find ways that tool can make them money and I have no doubt they will come up with clever uses for it until such time that the walled garden around these tools becomes to cost prohibitive for the average person to afford. After the masses have helped tune the tools I suspect they will be exclusively for large corporations and government entities to rent. I predict that prior to the walls going up, the public interfaces may appear to have lower quality results so that there isn't an uproar when the interface becomes cost prohibitive. This is why I warn them not to base an entire business on this service but rather to augment something.
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Because self-driving cars are owned by a company which provides an easy contact point for law enforcement.

> And it’s easier for law enforcement to turn to one company with a large repository of videos and a dedicated response team than to reach out to all the businesses in a neighborhood with security systems.

And both of those are much easier than identifying you and reaching out to you in order to pull the recordings off of your Subaru.
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I don't think so - solidifying yourself as the first / best app in the new ecosystem can be absolutely worth it. Until Apple takes your app and includes it as a native functionality like those journal apps that are done come iOS 17.
And this all the while the German Catholic Church has been the most progressive/liberal version of catholicism in the world by far
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It's publicly known that the Waymo Pacificas were using FPGAs and Xeons running Linux for their main compute, which generates most of the logs and processes the sensor data.

So given that context, how likely do you think it is that they're logging it all to terabytes of onboard flash?

But also, lifetime analysis is standard practice during the design phase.
GDPR forces companies to make a choice: stop invasively selling data, or get explicit permission to do so. if a company chooses the shady second option, they have to hamstring their UX and have a big nasty banner that says "we don't give a fuck about your privacy"

it's actually very clever. the more profit hungry and and invasive a company is, the more desperate they are to sell your data, the shittier they have to make their website - or break the law and get a nasty fine a year or two down the line

this idea that gdpr isn't enforced or is somehow expensive (?) doesn't have any grounding in reality: just 2 months ago, Meta was fined 1.2 billion euros for GDPR breaches. they've also already been fined hundreds of millions multiple times. in 2021, Amazon was fined ~800m euros. smaller businesses are being fined all over the place[1]. GDPR is the opposite of expensive. it's profitable

GDPR is a huge deal at companies that handle any data at all. they don't think it's not being enforced

if you were criticising the lack of enforcement of a github policy, do you think you'd actually go and make sure they weren't enforcing it? so why not the EU?

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As you say, this isn't the place for this debate, but I don't think your historical analysis is accurate. The plain text of the second amendment does not grant an individual right of ownership. It grants the right for communities to have a well-regulated, armed militia. That's a different thing.

But I'll leave that there. I wasn't commenting to put forth a particular political agenda, I was just trying to inject a counterpoint to a thing that I've been hearing more and more that I believe is factually incorrect.
Automotive engineers view it as a problem but most drivers probably are unaffected by it in their lifetime. A passenger car's automatic transmission is generally just a bad choice of a device to immobilize a car's wheels. It is difficult to service and has other uses (namely: propel the vehicle) that are prioritized in the design. By contrast, wheel brakes are designed to be easily serviced and their design is centered around stopping the car.

When relying on the transmission for park, this engineering trade off results in the entire lateral force of the car resting on a tiny little piece of metal inside the transmission, that isn't designed to be constantly worn, the only thing keeping the car in place, easily replaced, etc.

There's also this aspect of - transmissions are mutable, they can go in a lot of different vehicles. You can have the same transmission in a 2000lb sports car and a 8000lb truck. How big should the parking pawl in that transmission be? How do you make that decision before you even know what vehicles the transmission will go into? What happens when your transmission that was originally designed for a 2000lb sports car ends up 20 years later in a 9,000lb truck towing a 3,500lb trailer? The parking pawl does not change.

Brakes will be serviced dozens of times over the lifetime of a vehicle, while the transmission might never be serviced. That's enough reason alone to leave the important task of immobilizing the car to the brakes, not the transmission, in my opinion.
Granted, there are some niche applications where autonomous vehicles exist. And some level x assisted driving on prepared roads. But I was talking about "real self driving" cars, i.e. cars on any street in any city or even in rural areas. And I still don't see them anywhere, nor do I see them coming in the near future, expect in some tech dreams.
I'm not sure that wielding information as a weapon is as integral to human behavior as heat is to burns. I hope not, anyway. Maybe it is, but freedom isn't unique to us.
"This is a very nice demonstration of quantum advantage. While a great achievement academically, the algorithm used does not really have real world practical applications, though." Not having real world applications is not necessarily damning, of course. Curious to know what implications this has for general algorithms. Reading this, it almost makes it sound like there will be some algorithms that quantum is better at and that they won't necessarily be the same algorithms that "classical" computing uses.