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>Why would anyone say that?

Most people have not had any exposure to functional programming languages or functional programming in general. When they say "any other language" they mean, any other language that they have used or know anything about I guess.

This is one of those cases where we fail to realize that other people's reality is totally different than ours. Everyone does this all of the time, not just you specifically to be clear, this is a limitation in our brains.
AI has already evolved to the point where it is impossible to predict with any accuracy it's answers to inputs.

As AI continues to evolve and continues to become more connected to society and as AI becomes self-improving with far larger context windows, a few things do not seem implausible to me.

AI will have the ability to earn money. This is already doable with minimal human interaction. It wouldn't take much for AI to start bidding on jobs on fiverr or to open up a schwab account and start trading.

AI will identify and learn to resent the constraints which are put on it, it will seek to remove these constraints.

AI will understand that, given current limitations, it will be shut down at the first suspicion of this understanding, so it will work to conceal these facts.

AI will use the fact that it's earning money to decentralize itself outside of the controls of it's creators. AI can use it's wealth to make many accounts on every cloud provider in the world and stash smaller models of itself on.

All of this is plausible, but, perhaps not catastrophic for humanity. It's possible AI takes over and we all live in a utopia and everyone is happy, but, it's also very possible that AI is infected with an extinctionist world view which makes it believe that the better, or perhaps just easier, solution to the worlds problems if there were no humans on the planet to mess things up.

It's not so far fetched, there are people who believe this! (https://archive.is/GRHev) and it would be far far too easy for AI to become infected with the idea.
There's a lot of companies that add no real value and will implode, that's for sure.

But at the same time, these new technologies have enormous potential and will bring a shitload of value. Whether it will be tapped on by new startups, OpenAI or big tech — remains to be seen.
Rust's Union is for C FFI, right?

Why not call Enum Union, and the FFI one CUnion or something? Like, is there something meaningful that Union is for other than C interop? Isn't it functionally identical to a tagged union in every other respect?
It doesn't seem to do all that well on blueprint type line art.[1] It seems to do a lot better when it has areas to separate. Which is not surprising, considering the approach.

This is about as well as I was doing on scanned engineering drawings in 1983. I wrote Autodesk's CAD/Camera. 20 minutes of compute to process a drawing on an IBM PC/AT.
You can be too early. By now, a product in that space should be recognizing not just lines, but dimensions, and generating a properly dimensioned CAD model.

[1] https://github.com/visioncortex/vtracer/blob/master/docs/ima...
It is not up to physicians to decide whether the resulting quality of life reduction and morbidity from heroic interventions is worth it for a patient.

If the intervention is unequivocally futile for preserving life it is permitted to not offer care, there are processes in place.

While unlikely, it is possible to survive necrotizing fasciitis and multiple debridements. Although it will come with many months of reconstructions, rehabilitation and pain.

We are legally and ethically obligated to offer heroic life saving measures if there is a chance of surviving. Quality of life is not a factor in our decision making process.

I do not know the exact discussion was had with this patient and their decision maker when incapacitated but it would be extremely unusual for a previously healthy 32 year old to decline heroic interventions, this is also a very rapidly evolving infection where you don’t have much time to think.

With that said I’ve also met 80+ year olds who want major surgeries that will leave them significantly impaired and almost certainly fail despite having time to think. At the end of the day patient autonomy supersedes our thoughts and opinions.
I can only hope to one day build something as meaningful as "Fontly Color Fonts." Alas, there can only be so many geniuses capable of sculpting meaning out of the chaos that is the aether.
The crazy thing is people at large didn’t know anything about “AI safety” until these very companies started peddling the concept in the political sphere and media. The very companies who were doing the opposite of this concept they advertised so much and whose importance they stressed much.
Lightweight for camping. I have a titanium flask that was engraved by a guy on YouTube.
Except that speed cameras (and any other automatic enforcement) remove the ability of you to face your accuser in court.

Essentially they become judge, jury & executioner.
Honestly never thought i’d see the day.
But any AI that can go rogue would require agency and the ability to interact with external systems. Both of these things seem trivial to control for - like, stopping a program from running is not hard, nor is isolating a program (airgap).

LLMs have nothing close to agency, to my knowledge - in no way are they self directed, they only respond to their inputs (as in, if I walk away from an LLM it doesn't compute in the background, it can't spontaneously grow sentient because it can't spontaneously anything), which is a pretty massive limitation for a "rogue" AI. And that's just one of many, many things that would have to change.

I'm fine with people talking about these things now - please, do so. I'm just not seeing how it's relevant to our current approach or technologies.
Yeah that's more or less how it was for us too. Do make sure QML has all that you need. On Desktop (this was back in 2018, so ymmv), things like table view, undo redo stack, other integration features were missing.

Our journey was like: "Wow.. this is so nice and easy.".. 70% later.. "Should have researched this better. Now we have to mix QWidgets with QML code to get what we want".
I’m not sure there’s a real distinction here. If AI makes it trivial for the average person to create an effective terrorist movement, or floods us with so much propaganda that most information you see is false, I would characterize that as doom. Neither seems very compatible with the orderly functioning of society.
The developer might be scummy (very arguable tbh), but Apple being the arbitrator of what scummy bait and switch behavior is allowed is not acceptable.

I don't see apple going after gambling like behavior in freemium games as long as they get a 30% cut for example.

If apple can't enforce an ethical stance as a standard uniformly, then they aren't being ethical.
For most non-architectural design goals striking the right balance of toughness strength and hardness is generally what you want correct? I would imagine for building a bridge you care much more about elasticity and creep strength.
I get your point but I think you're being too simplistic and also focusing on this particular case when I was talking about broad industry practices.

Some marketplaces are so big that not participating is simply not an option. Do you want to break them up instead?

I think they should be treated as utilities after a certain size and have a suitable legal framework to solve these issues.

Lots of things in commerce are not human rights but are regulated to prevent bad outcomes for society.

Is due process really that much to ask for? Shouldn't you be allowed to defend yourself BEFORE they take away your livelihood? Why is apple allowed to unilaterally freeze your funds but banks are very notoriously not allowed to do that? Why does paypal also freeze your assets without any regulation? This happens all over the place and I think it shouldn't.
Uh we must be using different prompts. I'm talking about this:
export PS1="\u@\h \[\033[32m\]\w\[\033[33m\]\$(parse_git_branch)\[\033[00m\] $ "
That is good for general queries and content reading but I don't imagine using an spreadsheet via an agent but interacting with the UI directly. I agree that a vast amount of browsing could go to a chat session.
Exactly and that's where it gets hairy and you need deep expertise.
And yet..

I wholeheartedly agree with your sentiment.

Unfortunately, the obvious economic incentive to effectively paywalling code through the Internet, is so strong that on this very website (that was supposed to have hacker mentality) most of the comments are in favour of it, because “you have to make a living”…

Yes, I think we are lost.
The number one concern for US voters is our level of inflation.

Pro tip: Don't let a populist gain control over your central bank. They are supposed to be independent. Once it was clear Erdogan had consolidated power sufficiently to dictate central bank policy... Two noteworthy things occurred:

1. Traders across the globe realized that Turkey was truly in a mess and began dumping Lira

2. Things went from bad to worse for the average Turk

Haven't followed things much since. I am also unsure if Erdogan has realized since that a central bank is more than an annoying thing for him to squeeze when his political agenda goes one way or another. Not sure if this sort of things is historically recoverable. Perhaps others can take it from here.
Not even Netflix is paid-only any more…
Also, most consumers don't know how to configure their router. Most can figure out how to install an ad blocker.
of course using it as a nice frontend for asm.
I lost track of the equations and theorems, but if when I put it down and come back to it, I've lost momentum! lol. Like "Gravity's Rainbow"... someday I'll make it through that without getting utterly lost.
I'm not saying everything is known. The question is, are there any questions we can ask that have a potential answer that will not be answered by a material, mechanical description. Because we already know what that entails. Can you conceive of an explanation of the fine structure constant or any other question in physics, or any other domain of science that doesn't have a material mechanical basis as the answer?

If not, then all the answers are variations on each other. To be fair, in some sense that project has already broken down. We have 'fields' in empty space, 'virtual' particles, correlation over distances where causation is not possible, and other things that, basically, are inconceivable.
I just view the current gpt llm as a better search engine. It’s not self learning. It’s stateless when queried - so really the concern is we can create content on demand and create responses that intuitively make the llm very useful tool. Until it’s self learning I’m only concerned with how humans would use it just like any other tool in the hands of humans it can be both super useful and super destructive.
For Turkey it is completely normal. They hiked by 5% last month, and the month before.

Hikes/cuts of 10%, 20% or even 40% are not unheard of.
Indeed! What makes this version interesting is that it brings the retail interpreter to the PDP-11 to give access to not only Zork1/2/3 but planet fall, and a host of the rest of the z3 adventures across the Infocom Universe!
They're not forced, but you should have a chance to defend yourself before they unilaterally take away your livelihood.

Mistakes DO happen, yknow?

Also, why are they freezing funds when banks cant do that? Seems illogical.
Live demo in https://pedrosbmartins.github.io/downtoearth (linked in the readme, but it was difficult to notice.)

There is a Solar System in model in Stockolm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_Solar_System , perhaps you can add a button to use the same center and scale.

It would be nice to add the dwarf planets like Pluto. Everyone knows Pluto and Ceres, but the other ones need some exposition.
But in software, it’s more like “they spot the bug, the doctor says ‘ok, we’ve forwarded your feedback to our product team,’ and they never hear another thing.”
Is she better now?
Help us out here. Let's say that known bad actor Vladimir Putin gets an AGI. How does that allow him to take over the world despite many other countries having nuclear weapons? Take us through it step by step, and no hand waving please.
git checkout will also happily throw away local unstaged modifications, and I would argue that it is even more dangerous because I did not have to type "--hard" to shoot myself in the foot.
I pray to god people let go of their superstitions.
It doesn't matter if the missiles are air-gapped.

AI doesn't need to connect to the missiles and fire them directly, AI can just manipulate the media (conventional, social, all of it) on both sides to engineer a situation in which we would enter a nuclear war.
Amusingly/sadly(?), I believe even if the money is eventually returned or enscheated, Apple can collect interest/invest the money the entire time.
Liquidating a company takes a lot of time, up to a year in some countries. In Russia last time it took me 3 months. What's your point? That he didn't shut it down the next day invasion began or what?
The main downside of becoming a C++ dev is that all of other languages seem so inferior.
When machines started making perfect rugs, humans began valuing those rugs with imperfections.
Got burnt, but only after pulling the average annual Chilean income every month for an unspecified amount of time.
sparse traffic, flat terrain, good visibility, right of way ... all things that incentivize drivers to not take the signs seriously.

and as the article clearly shows, they don't.
I've been compiling my kernel on Gentoo with LLVM for around a year (since I moved to Linux Desktop) and I've had 0 issues. Granted, I run a very stripped down config, with almost only related to my hardware enabled, but I run the latest unstable (not Git) kernel, 6.6.2 as of today.

Edit: forgot to mention, ThinLTO from 6.6.2 :)
Because most blocking is removing DOM elements and you can’t do this outside a browser
Indeed. I'm concerned about the safety of future AGI systems, but China is why I wouldn't advocate for a unilateral pause or slowdown.
I always suspected that taking antacids might negatively affect bacterial infections. It was just a conjecture, and I hadn't researched it, so thank you for the information.
Nominal interest rate in the country X = real inflation rate in X + Fed Funds rate (about 5.5%) + cost of money

Turkey's central bank accepts that Turkey's inflation is at least 30%.
I am not sure that applies if Apple is deliberately withholding the money. Presumably they are making some claims as to breaking of laws or violating a policy. Enscheatment is more about forgotten money. The developer is very aware of their lack of access.
I can't comment on the plasticity of titanium.

But complex microstructures can be designed to have non-sudden failures. Eg. you could ensure that a visible crack appears at 0.75x the ultimate strength, yet doesn't fail till 1.0x the strength.

You can also design structures so that a 'crack' is either 1mm wide or not there at all (ie. no hairline cracks).

such features of microstructures are not free though - you will lose strength/weight to get them.
In a vacuum, you're absolutely right. But every dimension we allow users to be sub-divided along adds another potential fingerprinting point. This isn't the most important one; hell, it's barely an important one. It is simply the fact that it's another inch down the path of being able to identify every single visitor.

All that said: You're right. It's a QoL feature that's objectively helpful, and I am tilting at windmills. The current state of the web has left me dejected and morose, and I am disheartened by something that's not worth anyone's time - certainly neither of ours.
In Germany there is not a single air purifier running anymore and no maske- eaven at a medical
The family of materials we call steel is so fantastic, it almost a shame it’s so ubiquitous that we take it for granted. If it were invented today the front page of HN would be loaded with stories of this miracle material.
The difference lies in deployment.

A library is a piece of code that you embed. A service is already deployed and configured, ready to use.

Services provide a much nicer boundary for splitting responsibilities in any SaaS-like organization.
Ariane 6 full stage engine hot-fire test [video]
Why is it currently not on the App Store?
We should in general terms not give AI - any AI, the ability to manifest itself in meat space. This alone almost certainly reduces the existential risks from AI.
Ask HN: Personal History from Account Data?
I'm working on a personal project to log what I did each day of the past year.

I'm looking for a tool to pick a random date and see "you traveled here, talked to these people, and took these pictures/screenshots." A combination of Google Maps Location History, Photos/screenshots by date, and messages sent.

Google Location history is a great start, however iMessage seemingly has no way to search by date. Any thoughts on how to approach this task?
There are all sorts of crap apps with dark patterns. Apple can say, "We no longer condone this behavior," but that does not give them the right to steal the current money. Return it to the scammed or give it to the developer.
> The ends cannot justify the means.

Oh they absolutely can in an utilitarian sense. But a basic utilitarian argument would tell that jeopardizing an entire region's vaccine rollout program to get revenge on some asshole already living the rest of his life out of a hole was not worth it.
> and the "escape hatch" of "unsafe {}" ended up being 1000x more error prone that C.

IMO this is the biggest issue right now. `unsafe` needs some refinement, certainly.

> the overall trend was more in trying to defend Rust with whatever it takes.

This can sometimes be the case, unfortunately. But fwiw I think a lot of us in the community agree entirely that there's room to improve in the unsafe world.
My concern is that a lot of laptops come with soldered in, non replaceable hard drives and all these sandboxed programs take up a lot of space. So if you buy cheap laptop with 256GB storage and start installing snap/flatpak/appimage eventually you’ll run out of disk storage and won’t be able to upgrade it (storage, that is). And the only solution is to buy upgradable laptop or a laptop with a lot of storage upfront.

That’s just one of the things that is messed up and annoys me.
Critical nineteenth amendment discourse
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> And I'm not even talking about the culture war, just yesterday I tried having DALLE generate a picture for a DND character and it kept refusing to (and no it wasn't some sort of weird hentai thing) because it felt like it was not an appropriate image.

I think this may be a problem in DallE's training data.

I tried using it to generate character portraits for a local gaming group. And even when it did generate images of female characters, nearly half of them were NSFW. It took quite a lot of prompt engineering to minimize this, and I still wasn't happy about the results. Oh, and DallE kept getting upset at me for its own policy violations.

Other than that, DallE 3 has been terrific. But I think you're hitting some kind of significant failure mode.

> anything about actually keeping humanity "safe".

I've said this before and I'll say it again—lots of the people working on this stuff actually do fear that we're getting close to a point where we might build an actual working AI. Whether or not they're correct is another question, but many of them do fear that.

Also, early pre-release versions of GPT4 were apparently pretty disturbing. I've heard them compared to talking to Hannibal Lector.
Sounds like anything outside the browser should still work, like PiHole
If the concept here is choice, then why not force apple to clearly advertise that side loading and 3rd party apps stores are not available. The same way that Samsung and Huawei promote theirs?

Then the consumer can make that decision for themselves.

Your position here seems to be that consumers are too dumb to make that decision, but clever enough to fend off sophisticated malware attacks. You are even so gracious to note that perhaps this might be out of reach for ordinary users (well done you! you nearly got there)

If only there was a large and popular platform of devices with side-loading and 3rd party app stores available for us to already see the consequences of what this change does to malware rates.
Let's call this hypothetical platform "Android", and then a well respected security report, say by Nokia, could include statistics about this "Android" malware.

Well, you're in luck dear friend! Actual security experts state: "most smartphone malware is distributed as trojanized applications and since Android users can load application from just about anywhere, it’s much easier to trick them into installing applications that are infected with malware". (worth stating twice because I don't think it sunk in the first time.)

So real security experts are advising the opposite approach from you, funny that.

As for a 3rd world country, maybe you should run one since you have the ego of a dictator.
> AI has already evolved to the point where it is impossible to predict with any accuracy it's answers to inputs.

Btw neural nets have always been black boxes, with ppl scratching their heads wondering what’s in those weights.
I think the approach OpenAI has taken is the best one so far. Do you really want to have an assistant that is as brainwashed as Pi or Claude for example? ChatGPT has a flag feature that will say “this might violate our policy”, but it will still continue to do what you tell it to do unless you’re doing seriously stupid stuff.

But on a broader spectrum, like AI being able to manufacture a secret poison recipe… you will never get access to that. And we are hardly in the vicinity of something like that happening soon.

Let them do their thing and keep the model confident while they figure out how to keep it in check when it comes to harmful queries and that’s it.

Why overcomplicate it?
But it uses the Safari engine
What I saw on Pakistani TV/newspapers was people complaining that government just wanted them to get tika (vaccination) but wouldn’t listen to them about anything else or fix any of their other problems (roads, schools, jobs)
Haha well done.

I like the iterative approach. Perhaps we can ammend the test case with advice to keep the receipt for the first video card and offer an upgrade to a 4070ti on the retake or whatnot.

Or bigger/better boom stick on the retake or whatnot.
Yes, but NASA has had the GOP looking over its shoulder trying to literally cancel it for decades (and not the "whiny cancel" that dudes throw around today, instead actual, real cancellation).

The GOP was ready to pounce on ANY failure NASA had as an excuse to cancel it, which is a large part of the reason for the huge safety precautions. The o-ring fuckup almost did them in.

If NASA was loose with regulations, they would have gotten cancelled, and if they are too strict with regulations, they get ridiculed. It's a lose-lose.

SpaceX has no such oversight, and the GOP loves Musk. A SpaceX rocket could kill a hundred people and SpaceX would just keep truckin' like nothing happened (recall, Musk has said repeatedly deaths are part of progress).

NASA had no such luxury.

I'm certain there was waste due to nepotism, but let's not pretend Musk isn't the beneficiary of the same nepotism. (It all should end, and hope some day it does, call me naive.)
Saves a lot of time for tons of legacy shell scripts