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>artificial general intelligence (AGI)—by which we mean highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work

Then we already have AGI, automated farming equipment outperforms humans in 90% of jobs*.

*Jobs in 1700. As things got automated the jobs changed and we now do different things.
Thats actually a real life metric for the two years of standard return policy in the parts of the EU. You achieve it with planed obsolesce.
In the short term, this makes them much less dependent on their first EUV process, since that's now only used for a small chiplet of just the CPU cores, while the rest is on a more affordable and reliable TSMC process. That risk reduction may have been critical to being ready to ship this year.

In the long run, I think they also need this kind of packaging to become affordable enough to use across their consumer lineup, not just for the exotic data center parts. Making a big change like this mobile-first and bringing it to desktop in a subsequent generation worked out alright for them with Ice Lake and their 10nm process, so I'm not surprised to see them do it again.
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But what if this person has direct access to the database? I’m a developer for my local government and have direct read/write access to many system’s production data. I could not only read but also update important info about people without going through an application all while logged in as the applications SQL ID. In fact I have to do this to handle tickets that are caused by limitations in the system.
Legal pad of paper and pen.
Planned obsolescence has entered the chat.

On a real note, it is hard to do accidentally, but very much possible to do on purpose - so much so that it is currrently a driving factor of our evonomies.
He is guilty (as in they lost this lawsuit for millions in damages) of letting the Fremont, California factory run like this [1]:

Robert Hurtado, a supervisor at Tesla, called Diaz the N-word over 30 times, including by saying “[N-word], hurry up,” “[N-words] are lazy,” and “I wish I can get all you [N-words] fired.” Tr. 3:604:23-606:8. Ramon Martinez, another Tesla supervisor, called Diaz the N-word over thirty times, said “I hate you, [N-word],” and told him “to go back to Africa.” Tr. 3-603:11604:20. Diaz's supervisor, Tamotsu “Tom” Kawasaki, testified that Martinez often used the words “mayate” and “chongo,” both racial slurs in Spanish. Tr. 2-281:9-12. Wayne Jackson, a Black program manager at Tesla, confirmed that Martinez used the word “mayate.” Tr. 2-381:17382:7. Martinez denied all of this. Tr. 3-584:18-585:1.

Diaz also testified that he complained to Romero several times about being called the N-word. Tr. 3-613:5-14. Romero agreed that he learned Diaz had been complaining about racist conduct, see Tr. 3-542:22-24, 543:13-14, though Romero said Diaz did not complain directly to Romero at least until the Timbreza incident, Tr. 3:561:1-4. Romero testified that he did not personally investigate Diaz's complaints and was specifically told by Tesla to not personally investigate the Timbreza incident. Tr. 3-541:22-542:1, 544:21-545:2, 549:13-550:16. Diaz and Romero both testified that Tesla never fired anyone for using the N-word. Tr. 3-552:10-19, 615:13-15.

Jackson testified that the use of the N-word was “[r]ampant,” as in it was used “[e]very day,” “[m]ore than several times a day.” Tr. 2-381:3-15. He found the N-word “[e]xtremely” offensive and “very derogatory” when it was used, regardless of how it was said. Tr. 2-383:15384:2. He said that these words should not be used in a workplace, but that there was “nothing” he could do to stop their use “[b]ecause Tesla allowed it. They didn't stop it.” Tr. 2-384:12-22.

[1] https://casetext.com/case/diaz-v-tesla-inc-7
Google's AI Search Tool: A Traffic Nightmare for Publishers?
Formally verifying does no good if the compiler is infected. In the stuxnet example, formal verification wouldn't even help - how do you formally verify centrifuge timings?

Unlike what your sibling comment claims, I'm not saying all software is equally important, or must have equal effort invested in securing it. But insecurity absolutely is infectious, and the more insecure the general environment is, the harder it is to secure a small part of it.

For example, you'll want a compiler. How secure is the web stack of the page that delivers your gcc/clang? How secure is its host's infrastructure, and of the DNS provider? The browser you're downloading it with? Did you ever visit any other page that might have compromised it? What about your text editor, your OS, the SDK you're using to flash code onto the pacemaker.. And all of them have vast supply-chain networks.
I remember hacking on the same Ruby projects as you, then running into you the same way in the Erlang world. Man, that was almost 15 years ago! You’ve built some awesome stuff along the way… congrats, and keep hackin’!!
That's how I remember it. I was on desktop projects but following closely and the rewrite was a death march and people working on it moved or left along the way too.

We should have listened to Hyatt back in 2003-ish when he basically said of XUL, "it's never gonna be great on *nix or Mac but it's good enough on Windows." Because of solid desktop horsepower growth over the 2000s, we were able to make XUL go for the three desktop platforms pretty well but it should never have gone to mobile and replacing it with a native front end was absolutely the right thing to do, despite the pain.
Just SSH into the box. Easy.
Training a GPT on all that Cobol could be invaluable at least as a “footgun catcher” for less experienced devs to act as a code reviewer.
I'm guessing most ted talks reference ""science"" that can't be replicated as well.

It's ironic that this of happening immediately before we enter the ai fueled post-truth era.
Good news, once Apple implements RCS next year, no more postage-stamp sized MMS! Halleloo!
You'd be surprised what abstract science missions will propel smart people to do.

When everyone isn't focused on salary but is motivated by an idea to solve the problem there are massive gains.
Because usually precedents are not so narrow as to apply towards trillion dollar companies only, and even if they are they can be expanded upon. If you would be against a trillion dollar company forcing a small competitor to open up, you should rightly be worried about allowing the reverse, because the principles by which they justify it are unlikely to discern based on company size.
For those without a TV, you may still require a license to watch live streams on your computer/smartphone.

https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/faqs/FAQ33
> I’m guessing “hotfix” commits don’t exist in this domain

well, actually...
https://thenewstack.io/nasa-programmer-remembers-debugging-l...
Procedural Planets
I did but the FCC had some words to say to me
Sure. It's a tradeoff space. Gain portability and ergonomics, lose throughput. For applications that are throttled by TOPS at low precisions (ie most ML inferencing) then the performance drop from not being able to use tensor cores is going to be unacceptable. Glad you found something that works for you, but it certainly doesn't spell the end of CUDA.
If you're good at prompt engineering, you can get people and AIs to do a lot of surprising things
The thing is: it is not locking in. At the moment through SMS and it will support RCS next year.

And RCS will solve it all. If group chats and high quality media work, people will only complain about the one thing they hate most:

The bubbles will still be green.

But I am from Europe, we don't care around here and I don't like iMessage that much. Compared to Telegram/Whatsapp, it's slow at loading old messages, has sync issues and only gut swipe to reply this year.
Reactions and gifs work fine for you. They work poorly for the android user. When a friend on an iphone heart emoji reacts to a text, on my end I get a text that says "<user> loved a text".

It's obviously not a huge deal, but it's pretty badly executed.
I looked at a few ways to regain total control of DNS inside a corporate network, given the slow advance of DoH.
I disagree. Much of the value of iMessage is the high degree of confidence in its security. Apple controls, end-to-end, the delivery of iMessages from device-to-device. This includes how it handles storage of messages, attachments, app diagnostics, crash reports, etc.. Beeper is an unauthorized user of this supposed-to-be closed-system, and I think it's deteriorating the trust users have in the platform entirely.
Otellini wasn't an engineer but still he made the historical x86-mac deal, pushed like crazy for x86-android and owned the top500 with xeon phi.

The downfall began with Krzanich who had no goal besides raising the stock price and no strategy other than cutting long-term projects and other costs that got in the way. What a shame.
If a 'superintelligence' achieves the same outcomes as humans without engaging in the same class of intellectual tasks that humans do, wouldnt it still be a superitelligence? Deep blue was beating everybody at chess without engaging in the same process as humans. If chess is a metaphor for life, it seems some algorithm might do better at all the things a human does while not arriving at its decisions in a remotely similar way.
Kurzweil's best arguments are really quite simple. If you plot computer per dollar on a log graph it forms a fairly smooth line like:

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/SPIkvg3D8tlFQvQJ8OEjFpTRdV...

And you can get out pen and project it into the future. The line is actually a bit faster increasing than exponential so curves up.

You can then compare that to human capabilities to get rough dates for stuff https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Kurzweils-8-71-chart-of-...

and that's pretty much all there is to it. It's held up quite well so far and has a good chance of doing so in the future.

It's not really that the increases were slow in the old days but that your old pc going faster didn't really mean much to people whereas overtaking human capabilities may be more of a thing.
> Back in the day there was ICQ, Yahoo Chat, MSN Messenger (and no doubt a dozen I forget).

Yes, and you could combine them all into a single multi-protocol messaging app like Adium, Trillian, Gaim, Pidgin, etc. to provide a single convenient unified experience.
Why let them intervene? The government isn't there to cure all ills, nor should we want it to be. This seems like something the market can handle. Messenging systems have come and gone (ICQ, AIM, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, Blackberry, etc., etc., etc.). They've been locked to hardware, semi-open, and completely open. There will be dozens more, all with their own benefits and drawbacks. Fortunately, not one is required for any part of life.
In the Black Mirror episode U.S.S Callister, the game development firm is located on the 13th floor :)
I wasn’t aware they paused ads if you clicked away. That certainly feels like an abuse of browser APIs, and I agree that’s inappropriate behavior.

As for the TV analogy, it’s a paid option which still serves ads. YouTube offers a paid option which does not serve ads. Should they ever try to cross the line of charging money and still serving ads then all bets are off.
Yup, some use raised letters to avoid descender. Had a Casio, I think, organizer like that, and it always bugged me. Looks weird.
Nvidia could have shifted the model by firing the customers and bringing things in-house. That'd involve phasing out ARM licensees and buying up leading node fab capacity to manufacture their own stuff.

If they pulled that off, that Nvidia would have been very powerful. CUDA + ARM + leading node would have put them in a similar position that Intel had with x86 back in the day.

The competition would have struggled there - nobody has CUDA equivalent, only AMD has GPU equivalent, nobody has install base of software like ARM. RISC-V (or intel) even executing super fast would have been years away from being competitive across the board like this.

It might have also wrecked AMD, since the weak point of their GPU strategy is reliance on x86. If Nvidia+ARM came on strong, that'd weaken x86's stranglehold on PCs, which would ultimately weaken AMD since they don't have a leading position in other markets to fall back on.

Nvidia would have a lock on mobile devices, the increasingly AI-based datacenters, as well as some degree of PC side including gamers. Microsoft would pick up on the software side and we'd have Winvidia instead of Wintel.
Pardon? Are you saying that because a human can't heal from all kinds of sickness, healing from some kinds isn't "a thing a human can do"?
People absolutely do buy Apple devices purely because of the lock-in. Many people in my own family have. Obviously there are others that just prefer iMessage on its own quality, that goes without saying (which is why GP didn't mention it).
>Enterprise IT spending doesn't come from salaries.

But it's directly related. If you save money on salaries, you'll save money on IT equipment, office rent, perks, as well.

I've been working in central Europe for a decade and never worked at a compony offering Macs to its workforce. If you move to the super expensive cities, Munich, London, Stockholm, Amsterdam, etc, where wages are much higher, you'll start seeing more Macbooks being offered by emplyers because when you pay a single worker 100k/year and spend millions on your office building, what's another 3k/employee for a laptop? Peanuts. Similarly it's rare to see jobs paid 2k Euros/month but get a 3k Macbook from your employer.
Don't teams assign points to their own tickets? So how could one compare the points between teams?
> so keen on doing what the researcher wants them to do, and they think that the psychologist wants them to behave in one way

This was the dark conclusion of the Milgram experiment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
The time to think of replacements has long passed, not to fly by the outer planets, but to achieve a greater velocity than the Voyagers and continue exploring the interstellar medium.

Some other comments here mentioned the tech to do that:

- ion propulsion

- light sail

And also nuclear fission might be an option, I like the fission fragment idea for its simplicity. [1][2]

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/general/aerogel-core-fission-fragment-r...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fission-fragment_rocket
It certainly seems like it would have to be a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

If you recall, Aaron Swartz was hounded to death using that law after accessing JSTOR's servers without permission.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Swartz
TED Talks are a disaster in general. Lots of charlatans and bad science. People should treat them aa entertainment, not as a reputable, fact-checked publication of science.
Learning by doing is obviously the best way, but not every role has that kind of opportunity. You can build something on the side and scale it, but it's easier to just do that in a company :)

I'm no expert on system architecture, but I have noticed that reading a lot of docs and blogs on how other companies do things successfully has helped me:

Quastor: quastor.org - Engineering blog posts and summaries

Engineer's Codex: read.engineerscodex.com - Case studies and summaries of Big Tech systems and software architectures

SWE Quiz: swequiz.com - Bunch of useful questions that has helped me a lot at work

TLDR Web Dev: tldr.tech/webdev - Good for keeping up on engineering-specific stuff in general.

I have a Feedly set up with these blogs too: https://blog.bytebytego.com/p/79-engineering-blogs-to-level-...

ByteByteGo is good too, though that's an obvious one that everyone already knows about.
Everyone's heard the stories of how it was "fake." How many of you have actually read Dr. Zimbardo's own response to the debunking?

https://www.prisonexp.org/response
Make a 3D Photo
A little demo to add 3D-like effect to a photo, running locally on device.
Paraphrasing a post on Twitter / X:

Things will only get better from here.

i.e.

AI capabilities are strictly monotonically increasing (as they have been for decades), and in this case, the capabilities are recursively self-improving: I'm already seeing personal ~20-30% productivity gains in coding with AI auto-complete, AI-based refactoring, and AI auto-generated code review diffs from comments.

I feel like we've hit a Intel-in-the-90s era of AI. To make your code 2x as fast, you just had to wait for the next rev. of Intel CPUs. Now it's AI models, once you have parts of a business flow hooked up with a LLM system (e.g. coding, customer support, bug triaging), "improving" the system amounts to swapping out the model name.

We can expect a "everything kinda getting magically better" over the next few years, with minimal effort beyond the initial integration.
Kairos' Hermes Secures First NRC Acceptance for Advanced Nuclear Non-LWR Reactor
Yeah, you don't even need to know it's debunked to know the experimental setup is garbage. We talked about that when it was the seminar discussion in undergraduate anthro, back in the last century sometime. That it's also been recently debunked makes it double-garbage.
Really cool story, especially because that same product now makes over $50k MRR
I imagine being born, growing up, falling in love with science and engineering and space, going to college, getting a job at NASA, joining the Voyager team, and remotely troubleshooting a spacecraft that had left the Earth before being born.
There is an anecdote that is often used in India about how the Parsis (Zoroastrians who escaped the Islamic conquest of Persia) came to India and assimilated into the society.

When a group of Parsis landed in Gujarat (Western India), the local chieftain posed a question to the leader of the group in the form of a glass of milk. The leader responded by adding a spoon of sugar to the glass and stirring the contents. The answer was found to be acceptable and the Parsis, the tiniest of the minorities, continue to live and prosper in India to this day.

Would they have managed this if the leader had smashed the glass, danced on the fragments, and then taken a hammer to the face of the principal deity at the local temple?

Immigration wiped out Native American tribes, and many other peoples, because the people who immigrated were different and were in no mood to assimilate. Europe is facing this kind of immigration, not the Parsis.

A father who wonders if his daughter will be stabbed in school today may not vocalize such sentiment, but when the time to cast a vote comes, that vote will go to Geert Wilders.
Done!

CODE REDUX: Legacy Preserved

"In a world where the past and present collide, a family's legacy becomes the key to saving the future."

https://chat.openai.com/share/2f0c9eec-c3b8-4145-86d7-2c617a...
President Kennedy's 1962 "Moon Speech" (1962) [video]
So I kind of agree that most projects don’t need multi cloud but any enterprise will have a bunch of different things which can be managed by Terraform. There is real value in being able to use the same tool to manage AWS/GCP/Azure/etc., Cloudflare, GitLab, VMware, and even racks of Cisco kit in the basement.

If you’re doing it that way, you avoid most of those multicloud drawbacks because you’re using the full native functionality, not building abstraction layers or racking up technical debt by sticking with the lowest common denominator.
I suspect they're angling to be bought out. Whether they maintain it, or kill it, they're likely just hoping to survive long enough that Apple decides buying them out is easier.
Big (well written) wall of text about payments => patio11
Especially because it has some classic maze sections like the original Zelda did in the lost woods. I wonder how they handle those sections.
How is being able to send iMessages to your Android-user friends from your iPhone not to your advantage as an Apple customer?
That's not what he means when he says multi-cloud.

He means his product supports multiple clouds, through terraforms providers, for example.

Doing the same infra, across multiple clouds, is a different thing, it's not a Hashi thing.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38647410

New York Times article that "that brought open source on the radar of the CEO".

Sharing Software, IBM to Release Mail Program Blueprint. John Markoff. December 14, 1998.

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/...
Taking this to the extreme:

Van Eck Phreaking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_phreaking
Mechanical methods certainly work, but they seem like a copout. I would find a chemical solution more elegant/satisfying just for curiosity's sake.
Telephone numbers in North Korea
Why are y’all so intent on using iMessage? I (honestly) don’t understand the serious passion behind forcing Apple to open it to everyone.

SMS still gets through, and other apps still work. It seems weird to focus so much on this and not on just using something that fits your use case, but maybe I’m missing something.
It doesn't work if you're going against GPUs. All the nice goodies we are accustomed to on large desktop x86 machines with gigantic caches and huge branch predictor area and OOO execution engines -- the features that yield the performance profile we expect -- simply do not translate or scale up to thousands of cores per die. To scale that up, you need to redesign the microarchitecture in a fundamental way to allow more compute-per-mm^2 of area, but at that point none of the original software will work in any meaningful capacity because the pipeline is so radically different, it might as well be a different architecture entirely. That means you might as well just write an entirely different software stack, too, and if you're rewriting the software, well, a different ISA is actually the easy part. And no, shoving sockets on the mobo does not change this; it doesn't matter if it's a single die or multi socket. The same dynamics apply.
Tangram open sourced their package manager code
What type of infrastructure and operations do you think is necessary to handle 8.4B messages per day. So far, the cost of those systems and teams has come from hardware sales. The benefit is that it is effectively a paid for service and doesn't need external support from advertisers or by selling user data.
a small notebook with a monthly,weekly,daily todo list, then I transfer it online.

I have a todo flow in sparksnip.com and then i have todo.monthlies, todo.weeklies, todo.dailies for tracking.

Then I break down everything into extremely reasonable, managable, actionable chunks. Every day I choose a "big 3". I always have so many todos per day (which is unreasonable), but I choose a non-negotiable 3 to finish no matter what. If I finish those three, then the day is a success.
This is one of the few times I can tell Google closing down a product / feature is good. Less spam in usenet groups.
People have been pointing out problems long before Levitt; pretty much since publication. What was new in 2018 were the allegations of outright fabrication of evidence (although those weren't entirely new either IIRC, but the evidence for the allegations was), and in general people have become a bit more willing to call "Scientific Studies" out on their bullshit, rather than "it's a scientific paper, so it must be truth".
Sounds good! I would love to be able to do that.
The NASA press release is written: "In addition, commands from mission controllers on Earth take 22.5 hours to reach Voyager 1, ... That means the engineering team has to wait 45 hours to get a response"

The CNN writing looks uncannily similar but without the same meaning. I'm not saying it's machine generated, but I won't say it isn't.