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> It's telling how ignorant AI doomsday people are of things like robotics and material sciences.

35 years ago, when I was a teenager, I remember having discussions with a couple of pilots, where one was a hobbyist pilot and engineer the other a former fighter pilot turned airline pilot.

Both claimed that computers would never be able pilot planes. The engineer gave a particularily bad (I thought) reason, claiming that turbulent air was mathematically chaotic, so a computer would never be able to fully calculate the exact airflow around the wings, and would therefore, not be able to fly the plane.

My objection at the time, was that the computer would not have to do exact calculations of the air flow. In the worst case, they would need to do whatever calculations humans were doing. More likely though, their ability to do many types of calculations more quickly than humans, would make them able to fly relatively well even before AGI became available.

A couple of decades later, drones flying fully autonomously was quite common.

My reasoning when it comes to robots contructing robots is based on the same idea. If biological robots, such as humans, can reproduce themselves relatively cheaply, robots will at some point be able to do the same.

At the latest, that would be when nanotech catches up to biological cells in terms of economy and efficiency. Before that time, though, I expect they will be able to make copies of themselves using our traditional manufacturing workflows.

Once they are able to do that, they can increase their manufacturing capacity exponentially for as long as needed, provided access to raw materials are met.

I would be VERY surprised if this doesn't become possible within 50 years of AGI coming online.

Both Teslas and military robots are designed with limited autonomy.

For a tesla to be able to drive without even a human in the car, is only a software update away. The same is the case for drones "loyal wingmen" any aircraft designed to be optionally manned.

Even if their current software currently requires a human in the killchain, that's a requirement that can be removed by a simple software change.

While fuel supply creates a dependency on humans today, that part, may change radically over the next 50 years, at least if my assumptions above about the economy of robots in general are correct.
I recently went in to do an exchange of a band I bought bundled with a watch and had to help the person helping me because their system didn’t understand it was a bundle and therefore had to be rung up differently. Same deal with them treating me like an 80 year old (I’m mid-20s). It’s almost like they need to be trained to recognize a person who doesn’t need a ton of support in their purchase. I would do better with self-checkout honestly.
jeez, way to make it personal

I agree that copyright is done for in an age of generative models, and as a pirate I'm kind of rooting for it, but i'm not so sure it's unequivocally a Good Thing. I'm interested to understand history better, how art and science was produced and distributed before the legal fiction of intellectual property. the point of allowing someone a monopoly on their work is to share it with the public, same as patents. without the legal framework, the way to protect your work may be to not publish it at all, which is where I see the internet going from here, private enclaves that go to great lengths to prevent LLMs from drinking their milkshake.
> Around 1991.

how do you know that?
Apple brings my snark out. After I went through all the BS to buy the base airpod for my kid, from the store, I then requested a printed receipt rather than give them my email addr.

Apparently the apple store near my house rarely gives people paper receipts anymore. It took 10+ mins for the poor sales drone to try every table in the store before he found the one that could actually still print receipts.

So I got to be the smart ass who said on the way out "goodness printing a receipt isn't that complex, i thought apple was a technology company."
I get that Category Theory is literally a highly theory-based branch of Mathematics, but would it kill its adherents to list an actual practical example?

I watched the associated talk[1], and David mentions that Poly is "applicable to database migrations".

Okay, how exactly? What practical problems can I solve with it? Can anyone demonstrate Poly being used somehow for a 1000-table database migration more elegantly than could be achieved using other methods? Is there an O(n^2) or O(exp(n)) scaling lurking in there somewhere, or is this the magic sauce we've all been looking for?

Looking in from the outside, I get the distinct impression that category theorists tend to turn up, simply name things that other people have spent their lives working on, call it "understood", and walk away as-if they've just explained everything that needs to be known about the topic they've merely labelled. They seem like the bug-collectors of mathematics. Okay fine, you've got an impressive collection of bugs, but have you understood evolution well enough from that to help industry with increasing pesticide resistance? Yes? No?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp5_o2lDqj0
I think you mean 19th/20th, but that would be quite hilarious.
There is actually dilemma about potential security issues; since the development has been stopped, no new features are introduced and hence no new bugs.

Windows 7 is quite battle-tested.
Can the system be so stable that there aren't security issues anymore?
On the other hand, one is too much if it is not fixed.

> windows always provide new APIs and changes to old ones

I don't think that is visible or significant. Windows changes APIs but always provides backwards compatibility. It is the major reason why it is dominating in many industry areas. You can run Windows 2000 apps in Windows 11.
It's not a "subtle metalinguistic joke". You're just redefining words. The algorithm isn't constant in complexity theory terms and it's also not constant in "wall-clock time" (I'm not sure why you think the two are unrelated?), except if you use a model of computation that is so bonkers that it would be of no value.

Maybe it works as a sort of dadaistic literature, like the ones where they redefine "chair" to mean "table" and so on, but beyond that?

Both your article and this comment of yours show that you're annoyed at algorithmic interview questions, so you're trying (well, at least in this fantasy) to one-up your interviewers by being smarter, and technically correct, but in an unexpected way. I understand the sentiment, but unfortunately, this only works when you're actually at least technically correct.
I mean yes, but that's because Saagar _is_ an authority. He's worked at at least one company that requires far greater amounts of knowledge and understand of Xcode, macOS, iOS, etc than the overwhelming majority of Mac+iOS devs.[1]

This is a case where an "appeal to authority" is reasonable - CyclOp posted an opinion, that claimed Saagar was incorrect, but provided no supporting evidence for the claim, e.g. they have at best appealed to cynicism, or more realistically themselves as the 'authority'.

Now if CyclOp had presented actual support for their claim, or the erroneousness of Saagar's comment just responding with "Saagar knows more than you" would be BS, but that isn't what happened here.

In honesty, I'd also consider lapcat an authority on Mac and iOS dev as well.
> for each exercise you should have 2 weights: warmup and the weight you are working on.

DYEL? There is no safe way to have a single warmup set for a high deadlift weight. It feels like you recently discovered Stronglifts.
This could have been easily mitigated with a giant red ugly banner "YOUR DATA WILL BE LOST IN X DAYS. MIGRATE NOW".

Three emails clearly wasn't enough right? Now their name is in the dumps, customers are pissed and my only exposure to influxdb is a negative one.

I hope other saas guys learn this very expensive lesson.
Hallucinations will be squelched out pretty soon. Check perplexity ai app, it works pretty well with little/no hallucination imo.
Apple grew from ~300 to ~500 stores between 2010 and 2020.

https://www.aboveavalon.com/notes/2021/3/10/the-future-of-ap...
I think you are better off with only the second sentence. The first sentence is something your users likely already intuit.
You're completely right, but I want to build one so bad! It's up there with Jacob's Ladders as the most Sciency thing I can think of, in terms of visual effect.
Long live the PowerShell. Yes, old control panel was much more manageable. Most of the important settings have been hidden from the end-user these days.
Many people even by their mid 20s begin to lose the ability to embrace or even enjoy paradigm shifts. Moving from flat gaming to fully immersive 3D gaming just doesn't do enough to budge the hardened neural pathways that have embraced 2D gaming over the years. It's a frankly common case of being "stuck in ones way".

Will VR and AR be the future? Absolutely, and a large part of the current population will be left behind. Happens with every new technology.
Using charged language of bringing children into the equation is not a good way in having a discussion.
Second-order effects are real - removing copyright would hurt authors. (See cstross comments in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35761641 e.g.)
Since taking on a new job exactly 2 years ago, my RHR has spiked by 5-7 points. The value of RHR as a predictor of longevity has been long known but there is controversy around the genetic vs. behavioral factors.

However, I was interested in the life expectancy reduction for every point increase in RHR. This study showed:

Every beat increase in heart rate from 1993 was associated with a 3% higher risk for all-cause death, 1% higher risk for CVD and 2% higher risk for CHD

Yikes.
> Having a base salary plus incentive pay for meeting objective goals is commonplace. Companies wouldn't do that if it didn't work.

Management methods are full of cargo cult "science".
It’s because we all forget how complex all this shit is. I’m 60. In my early 20s I used to sell early computers (Apple //s, etc.). Even then I would tell buyers their computer will be the most complex thing they ever buy and use. Today’s hardware and software is only about 1,000x more complex.
Also, piracy exists and is perfectly reasonable for an individual, especially when they are not able to afford the book, to use to get access to a book.
i'm starting to see this as well.

it's frustrating because capacity planning expects that all engineers / ICs write code at least 75% of their time. the effect is that titles+headcount no longer accurately reflects what are and arent reasonable deliverables / deadlines for a team.
I don't think that's quite as damning a problem with Savage as with some people, he is an inveterate tinkerer afterall.
Wow, that's pretty pathetic and your attitude "we can't help our customers" is even more damning. Email is not reliable enough to simply rely on a few email blasts for this.

I would expect:

* Those 3 "email blast" notifications. I'm guessing one of two things happened here:

* You sent them as an "email blast" from a marketing-type email service. These hit email filters because they came from a known spam IP.

* You sent them as a transactional email, but blasted them too quickly and got pegged for spam. Never hit the inbox.

* Increasingly common "you haven't migrated emails" if you still detect traffic on these instances. This is pretty critical since some companies might not realize they have affected They should, but things get complex.

* Ideally, an automated transfer to another region with automated forwarding. It's okay to have poor performance, but it's not okay to go "poof" entirely.

* A soft-delete at the deadline, with 90 to 180 days to finalize migration. If this is costing you dearly, then drive prices up, but don't hard delete data.

Frankly, the last one is the real issue. It's literally unbelievable that a database provider didn't soft-delete. Further, I would expect that you'd be able to migrate these to another region to get customers back up an running.
I know that this is a stressful time and it’s all hindsight, but there are two different contact methods that don’t rely on email available to you in migrations like this:

Going read-only, waiting 2 weeks, and then deleting. The contact method is peoples’ alerting systems as writes stop working.

Putting a message on your service dashboard indicating the upcoming action. The contact method is exactly what it sounds like, and it’s the only other place you can stick text and know for sure all your customers can access it.

It will probably help customer relations if you don’t hide behind the defense of only having email - there are a few strategies for this that you can use in the future. Best of luck on the road ahead - I know this must be a particularly stressful time.
Right, the question is, when my computer requests a file from your computer, which one of us is "making a copy" ? It becomes less ambiguous to ask who is doing the publishing.

In a physical analogy, if someone is selling bootleg DVDs on the street, I don't think anyone ever got busted for being a customer.
I'm basing this on what US courts have decided. You're free to disagree with them all you'd like, but AI-generated art is not copyrightable. We're seeing an explosion in non-copyrightable art, and when we get down to some small fraction of art being copyrightable, nobody will give a shit about copyright anymore. You also talk about the economy, and guess where the economoc incentives are aligned towards? Hint: it's not towards having expensive humans generate art.

I guess we'll just have to feel that the other is wrong as we wait to see what happens, but I'm betting on existing US regulation and basic human behavior. That's a tall order to bet against.
VS Code also has a Markdown preview that shows images.
If you search “swirling donuts of pollution”, you’ll see that it was used elsewhere referencing the Post article. There are also links to the Post article referencing that headline. It’s not unusual for online news sources to test engagement with multiple headlines for an article. Though, the “donuts of pollution” headline is admittedly quite ridiculous.
You're analyzing the factors with respect to the output of the model, not the weights:

> The purpose and character is absolutely heavily commercial and makes a great deal of money for the companies building the AIs.

That's assuming that it's Microsoft/OpenAI. Suppose a non-profit trains a model and releases the weights for free.

> There's nothing about the works used for AI training that makes them any less entitled to copyright protections or more permissive of fair use than anything else. They're not unpublished, they're not merely collections of facts or ideas, etc.

The models aren't trained on works of a particular nature, they're trained on whatever they can find, so this doesn't really mean anything until you're talking about a specific work.

> AI training uses entire works, not excerpts.

The weights don't contain entire works. They contain statistics about entire works, but that's not the same thing. You can't find a copy of any specific work anywhere in the weights. Nobody can give you a piece of code that will decode the weights into all the original works.

> AI models are having a massive effect on the market for and value of the works they train on, as is being widely discussed in multiple industries.

That's not how that factor works (and it's the most important one). No one is buying the model weights so they can read them like a novel. Typically the consumers of the weights are software developers or content creators, whereas the consumers of the original text or image are fans.

To make this a little clearer, suppose the purpose of the model isn't to generate content, it's to generate recommendations. Then the company operating it takes a list of content anyone likes, uses the model to show you a list of all the other content you might like and lets you sort by price. Which makes it easier to find competing content which is available for less money, which increases competition. The incumbents might hate this, and it might even lower their profits, but that's not the kind of effect on the market this factor is supposed to be about.

Moreover, suppose you had a model trained entirely on public domain works. Obviously this can't be copyright infringement even if it's extremely effective at producing new works that compete heavily with works still under copyright. But if you added some specific work still under copyright to the model, it would only be a marginal difference. The effect on the market for that specific work of adding that specific work to the model would be negligible. It's the technology itself that provides the competition, not the accretion of any particular work in the weights.
> Moderation is the organic balance

To me, it seems very inorganic outside of specific platform niches that allow for self moderation of subsets of the network (Reddit somewhat, IRC, discord, Mastadon, etc.). A single globally shared moderation policy with local deviances to accommodate local customs and laws does not seem “organic” as much as forced.

Compare this to the real world.

If I go to my local business networking group, there is one set of moderation policies that is strictly enforced.

If I go to my local pub, there is a very different set of moderation policies that is loosely enforced.

If I went to my business networking group and behaved as if I was under the moderation policies of my local pub the contrast in behavior would be stark.

Church has one set, school another, the local swingers club another, the gentleman’s club another, etc.

Compare this to many social media platforms where it seems like the moderation policies attempt to moderate a baseline of behavior consistently across all communities regardless of whether they are pubs, business groups, or otherwise.

I suspect (maybe hope?) we are going to start seeing organic social start happening as groups start trying to increasingly assert their own identities and moderation policies that are incompatible with a global standard.
Should it become idempotent after a certain number of iterations? What were the results?
I can understand the outrage about deleted data, but has anyone figured out why they are shutting down in Belgium?
I doubt that amount will help cover removing it from just about all the rainwater on the planet.[0][1]

[0] https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.2c02765

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-62391069
As a CTO, you should make yourself aware of what a scream test is

https://www.v-wiki.net/scream-test-meaning/

Basically, you just turn stuff off, and make people scream, while they can turn it back on. You could have did this a month ago, as a critical warning of impending termination of systems.

You didn't do that.

Instead, you sent a few emails, which itself isn't even a guaranteed delivery. Again, as a CTO, you should know that email is not a guaranteed deliverable.
They’ve also got an infringement info page that seems pretty aggressive… maybe they’ve had a lot of trouble with knockoffs or something?
It's a way to connect with youth, and to demonstrate their prowess with technology.

Same reason TI put out the Speak-n-Spell.
Wow.

You've literally just told the world "you shouldn't rely on us for your data. When our business needs to drop you, we will and you might not receive notice."
Since lots of people are accidentally flagging on mobile and I'm currently revisiting my Hacker News extension to add a Safari version, I'm adding something which will let you choose your preferred solution for this (hide the flag control or require a confirm):

https://github.com/insin/hn-comments-owl/issues/14#issuecomm...
I agree it's not an entirely new issue. But it's a little different from search results. Say I use the generative paint brush in photoshop. It reproduces a portion of the copyrighted work. I then use the image on an advertising campaign, other merchandise, or post the final product as my own work. Would I be responsible? Would Adobe? Given that retraining these models is not simple, or cheap, would this be just 'cost of doing business?' Would I be able to buy insurance for this?

Enquiring minds want to know.
Netlify is superb for this
I as a user haven't seen any reason to care about Wayland. And losing/dropping X11's network transparency seems rather surprising in a heavily networked world...
Imagine if github was fired upon from the Death Star. The disturbance of the force would be epic as millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
>That seems entirely reductive, even weird

I won't argue your assessment, but I've played and cheated in enough games to have an experienced opinion. Games can embrace designs that obviate the use of cheats, but this takes a lot of work. It's far easier to create a zero-sum multiplayer experience instead.
I take screen shots just fine on my Wayland system without needing to jump through any security hoops.

None of the apps I use regularly need XWayland: they've all been ported to talk directly to the Wayland server.

I like Wayland.
Ask HN: How is Apple's text recognition so good?
My iPhone's ability to quickly identify text across the thousands of photos I have taken is very good. For example, today I searched a word that was found in small print in a newspaper I had taken a photo of. What makes this technology so good? Is it possible to build something similarly good myself? Are there any great open-source text recognition packages?
Dear Mr. Smith:

Your employer has generously agreed to offer you a position, quite reasonable, and with many great benefits at the venerable firm of 'Zumba'. Our interest is that you should join our staff forthwith and at the earliest date. A cab and man has been sent to retrieve you and bring you to our offices to sign all the necessary documents. Our offer is for a monthly stipend of five pounds, two shillings, and sixpence to be paid at the end of the month.

Thank you,

Most Humbly,

Hirebot 2347
No, I have anecdotal evidence using it. How does it compare in your usage of OpenAI and competitors?
Well I guess all the bad publicity was worth it for the "business"
Yes. At least right now. For me the goal of the warmup is to practice/remember the correct movement under load.
Also remember the 2 preconditions i mentioned one of which was optimizing for time (there is nothing wrong in doing it progressively like you do, but again remember we are "efficient" and optimizing for time). Somehow I doubt that if you are squatting 3 plates you can do this exercises continuously without breaks between sets.

My squat right now is at 280.
I load 1 plate (135) and warm up with that.
After that I go to 280 and do 5x5.
If you just repeat the same number a million times, then the threads will all be scheduled to run at the same time, but of course, your computer doesn't have a million cores, so the threads will have to be executed partially in sequence. That means, even if you assume the largest integer is a constant (valid for some integer types, but notably not Integer in Haskell), the runtime will be proportional to the number of elements in the list.
White people were enslaved a lot in the Roman Empire and following into the Middle Ages.
Then most people stop writing books because they can't get paid for their time/effort and ~every child will be stuck with outdated knowledge within a decade.
I get slammed with emails. In fact, nearly all of my email is automated content or junk. I would hope that these emails would catch my attention, but I can easily see how'd I'd miss them.

Further, they might be going to some alias/group that's not frequently monitored. If a vendor is going to delete all of my data, I expect way more noise than 3 random emails blasts.
no no no bro. DYEL.

Let's share some stats here if you want to go that route. tell me how much you lift and I'll do the same.
Funny Youtube showed an ad from some game which showed people balancing on barrels which I momentarily thought was related to the topic.