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OpenAI speedrun to the Google playbook of abandoning founding principles. Impressive that they could get this big this fast and just go full mask off so abruptly. Google made it about 17 years before it removed "Don't be Evil".

It's inevitable that dangerous real time AI capable of formulating plans are going to be developed for military purposes.

The "OODA Loop" is fundamental to combat. (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act) Having a tighter and more potent (in the sense of fast and accurate processing) OODA loop is a fundamental advantage. The economics and game theory of military combat is going to result in units which have potent OODA loops which can overwhelm a human being's OODA loop. Once that happens, competition between different sides will result in an arms race going far above that level of capability.

Once the above happens, it's disturbingly likely that instrumental goals will arise in such entities which are dangerous not only to human beings on the wrong side, but to human beings on any side.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop
> the current system works pretty well. the us doesn't deport most illegals. their children will all be citizens, allowing for a de facto backdoor immigration system (if you're never deported, it doesn't matter as much you don't have citizenship)

I strongly disagree. I think it's disgusting that the US encourages and even prefers to have a massive underclass of easily and very often exploited people without the rights and protections everyone else has.

The current system enables human rights abuses so that businesses can have the next best thing to slaves. It would be a massive improvement if we actually regulated immigration properly, enforced the laws, and made sure that workers in America were typically Americans who earned a decent wage and had equal rights under the law.
I would posit that making some AI-controlled weaponry on par with humans at target identification/recognition is not too hard, and definitely doable with today's tech. Making one that's _better_ than humans though, that's the tricky part.

Another issue is full autonomy: even human soldiers/pilots/etc. are not fully autonomous - they will ask command if there are civilians or friendly units in the AO, as they don't always have enough information to make that decision themselves. To achieve that with machines (not necessarily AI), you either need a fully integrated system (i.e. humans are obsolete for military use), or you need an efficient and functional human-machine interface.

So I don't expect we'll be seeing fully autonomous AI weaponry anytime soon, despite it being technologically possible. AI-_assisted_ weaponry, however, probably already exists.
For most of its history from 1789 to 1943 it was war department.

It is just rebranded not changed in the last 70 years
Are you referring to casting a URL to open a browser on the home hub? I tried that in the past but it was kinda janky. It's definitely possible with something like https://demille.github.io/url-cast-receiver/ though
the tinyrenderer[1] project has been on my todos forever now. glad to see the author is writing more self-paced programming projects.

[1]: https://github.com/ssloy/tinyrenderer
Macs are king when it comes to font rendering. It was prioritized in the original Macintosh and Apple still has the most solid font engine to this day.
"...but can't you just run it in the cloud?" :)
I heard that snakes won't die until sunset.
I remember Mathematica was included with the distribution of the OS for Raspberry Pi. I also remember it being so slow as to being unusable. I guess, you get what you pay for…
Westminster system is not a particularly good example of checks and balances, though, given that whole parliamentary supremacy thing. A Westminster-style Parliament is essentially unanswerable to anyone but the voters; and even then it can unilaterally change election laws, so it can circumvent the voters as well. If the courts deem some act of Parliament unlawful, the latter can just pass another act explicitly declaring it lawful (the recent Safety of Rwanda Bill was a good example of just such an attempt).
Voting.

Unconditional residence. Green card holders have to spend most of their time in the US or lose their permanent resident status.

No time out. Green cards have to be renewed.
I definitely think kids need fathers around (I am a father myself and still debating the level of involvement that is useful or not). I’m just talking about the somewhat unavailable father of the 50s vs. parents of today who flip flop between micromanaging and having their kid stare at a video of Ms.Rachel instead of letting them have downtime and play on their own outside of a very protected area, not sure which is really worse developmentally
I'm finishing up reading Cadillac Desert, a book describing the history of dam building and irrigation project in the US. It goes deep into all aspects of irrigation projects from environmental to economic to political.

Very cool to hear that this dam is getting torn down just 30 years after the book was published.
Agree and correct, unfortunately.
Could you elaborate why this specific dam removal project reveals that?
It's not right IMO to call them slaves if they are free to leave any time they want.
It’s already a thing for dead drop data exchange. Has been for about 20 years now. First with ad-hoc WiFi networks.
It just needs to be high power enough so the is high enough, allowing for less devices needed in the middle to form a circuit.
> You're claiming that things like declining to prosecute a war against the USSR after WWII is an example of an action that acted as an outlet for what would otherwise have become domestic US leftist political violence in the US.

I am making no such claim. My claim is simpler: Scott's argument is that "liberal democracies" are the best way to prevent "state-sponsored violence". But that argument can't possibly be valid if "liberal democracies" in fact cause violence in other countries.

Scott's rebuttal to that claim is to gerrymander the definition of "state-sponsored violence" so that it only counts if it's against the citizens of the "liberal democracies" themselves. But that is exactly the problem: people like Scott can pat themselves on the back about how great "liberal democracies" are only by ignoring the historical record of "liberal democracies" sponsoring all kinds of violence in other states besides their own.

If Scott were to remove the blinders he put on by defining "state-sponsored violence" in such a narrow way and take an honest look at the historical record of "liberal democracies", he would never have even tried to write such an article. Instead he would be directing his intellectual resources towards a much more useful inquiry: why do "liberal democracies" sponsor so much violence in other countries--especially when, in every other country besides their own, sponsoring all that violence never even leads to liberal democracy? Why don't they see the obvious contradiction between their stated principles and the actual results of their actions? But that question isn't even on Scott's radar, because of his ignorance of history.
I tried using Artifact but I found the way they gamified the app to encourage users to come back and click on articles to be very unhealthy. News can often be stressful, it's good to take breaks. It's also healthy to sometimes reduce your news intake to things that specifically affect your life. These things are basically the opposite of how Artifact was designed to be used.
I think people forget that Kagi etc compete with Google as it exists right now, which has been in "degraded experience" mode for at least two years now.
That's merely a first order reaction... The resulting race will leave humans far behind :/
> The vast majority of removed dams have been small, either check dams or those used for water diversions, said Warrick. Little dams can be taken down by a small team with a backhoe, Tullos said.

These dams aren't generating any electricity. Try to read the article before taking the headline as an opportunity to get cheap shots on the outgroup.
I don’t think that’s quite true. I’ve spent less on two entire suites of IKEA furniture that I used for roughly 15 years (as student and young professional) than I spent on the single table that now stands in our living room.
> If crypto poses a legitimate threat to that power and control, it is much easier to remove the threat than to adapt your system to it.

In fact the opposite of this is happening. We are in a discussion about how the SEC was ordered by the courts to further integrate Bitcoin into the existing financial system. Despite their protests and attempts to impose their own will on the rights of the people.
Depends on what kind of data you are storing?
The good news is you can self-host, so it's trivial to spin up a server in your own datacenter that meets your compliance requirements.
You've caught me in a dastardly logic trap! Now I can never present anyone evidence for the beliefs of the FSF/GPL-user social cluster.

You should try arguing in court for FSF legal theories on linking!
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> Trump is probably one of the “worst”* people and held the highest office. And yet despite the fact that it happened, the US is still chugging along.

until the next election occurs we haven't really seen the effect of the damage done in 2020

1 in 3 voters no longer believing that the electoral system is fit for purpose ("the election was stolen") is really very scary
> Linux is not even close to matching Windows in gaming performance.

I'm curious if you've actually, you know, tried linux with proton/wine at all in the last three years. Things have really changed since the Deck. You might wanna try updating your opinion to reflect reality; performance is less an issue than one-off compat issues by far in most circumstances in my experience, IE I'm more likely to have to make config changes to deal with a crash than I am to have a huge disparity in FPS/load times/stuttering/frame dropping between linux and windows.
I hadn't heard of this app. Seems like they're shutting down very quickly. No pivot or anything. Strange.
There are no historical or current examples of societies larger than a tribe that are lacking any form of government.

The thing that is not mandatory, however, is the state, which is not a synonym. State-based government is centralized government, but government does not necessarily need to be centralized to the point where the result is a state.
Many of these dams are actually causing ecological damage and have also outlived their usefulness and are not sustainable to continue operating and may even cause significant environmental problems if left in place.

Do you know of an example of one of these dams being replaced with coal or gas plants?
Gladiators rarely fought to the death: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/wkk22n/did_g...

This was more like a fancy UFC fight. They could end in death and the Romans held public executions in the stadium, but people weren’t THAT bloodthirsty.
Now I'm curious what the macOS CLI binary is!
I get "good evening" but not the corresponding "good morning".
Even if you receive huge benefit you still can say it costs you something.
According to Wikipedia, the Elwha Dam had a hydroelectric capacity of 14.8 MW, which is about five wind turbines. For reference, the US currently has more than 71,000 wind turbines, and on average the US installs 3,000 wind turbines per year, which is 8 per day.
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It doesn't, though. It just means that whatever current arrangement exists on federal level (which is not necessarily devolution!) remains in force.
There is a famously extensive and popular Reddit thread about this!

Which I'm sure someone will link to :-)
I think the point is more "not my son (should use these services)" than "not my daughter (should provide these services)."

Provided, a woman does it safely, and can partition their emotions well, I don't think individual women are really harmed by, for example, running an only fans account. I think the male population is massively harmed by substituting bought commodified sexual attention/stimulation for genuine companionship with a woman.
I believe that's only true for planes flying over/through other countries, and it is not universal. In order for a plane to be sold in EASA governed countries it has to be certified by the EASA. So in effect, the 737 is getting certified twice. In general aviation there's this common misconception that the Cirrus SR line can't recover from a stall, which is because the FAA drops spin recovery testing if you ship with a BRS (parachute). Reality is, when the SR line was certified by the EASA it was required to demonstrate spin recovery. Another discrepancy is that the EASA does not recognize "experimental" has a category of aircraft, so an FAA classified home built experimental that flies to an EASA country would not be allowed to take off after unless the national government has rules that allow it (also applies to ultralights).
Seriously though. The development of every company to just trash faq's or an "assistant" or third party forums is awful. Trying to get help with technology is almost always infuriating now.

I recently had to contact windows help, and they were useless. The windows forum points to a third party software that I am convinced is malware.

And while I'm ranting, why can't the download folders in windows be set to group by "none" and sort by "name" by default? Why are both "most recently edited" by default? AND WHY CAN'T I CHANGE IT MICROSOFT?
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Perhaps Bemi is Debezium-As-A-Service ;)
just do the standard operating procedure and let the military industrial complex friends and allies of america use the service and keep it under the rug

An AI with the capability to be autonomous in any environment, able to plan and execute plans well enough to defeat human opponents, is exactly what the AI doomer POV is rightly afraid of.
Psychedelic therapy, naive reckless pursuers of cosmic insight, more likely. Terence McKenna apparently had such an experience. Only if you pay attention to actually what he said. It comes across as so much incoherent pseudo profound glossolalia word salad. There's a distinct feeling of déjà vu about this :)

“The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Electric_Kool-Aid_Acid_Tes...
I bet China makes it really easy to sell to a big, unified market since the levels of social repression and form-fitting are much higher compared to other parts of the world. It's easy to sell the party bulletin when nothing else is allowed to circulate :^)
Also, the anglosphere consists of many diverse groups of people due to its role as a universal second language. That might make a generalized approach fail with a lot of customers.
That is in part the point of the article, I think. Ultimately this comes down to personal preference. Apple, Microsoft, Linux, everything has ups and downs and it shouldn't be more than personal preference. What becomes an issue is when fans of one group unconditionally defend or deny the flaws of their choice to the point that it's to their own detriment and enables their preferred company to be extremely predatory to their users. That is a phenomenon interesting enough to be worth looking into even if you can sidestep it by just not using Apple, because at the end of the day yes, it is as simple as just choosing your preference.
I don't know if I've ever been more immersed in a game than Cataclysm Dark Days ahead, in ASCII mode. I usually die pretty early but, one time, I survived over a year. Built a huge base, a maxed out RV, explored all the lore I could find, and I was basically indestructible in standard combat. I ended up dying while driving really fast down a road I'd driven hundreds of times before, it was supposed to be clear. A big floating, laser-shooting eyeball hit my my RV. That's was over 5 years ago and I can still "remember" that world, the crazy things that happened in it, and all the scary monsters I fought, as they existed in my imagination at the time, prompted only by ASCII characters and short description of what they were supposed to represent. I guess it's like reading a good book, but I'm in control of the story. There's obviously other ascii based games similar to CDDA, but there's so much detail in the mechanics, so much you can do to affect yourself and the world in a meaningful way, and open-ended lore to spark the imagination, that it ends up being way more immersive than similar games. The game has tile sets you can use instead of ASCII, but I find they put my imagination into cartoon mode, which isn't as deep an experience for me.
The cost of the drone is not the only cost . You still need tank busting munition and the also crucially internet connectivity starlink provides or satellites provide.

Starlink is cheap for its capabilities but it is still startup cost of billions of dollars if you could do it all .
> Luckily, legal emigration is still possible

You can legally leave the US, but only with the permission of the US government. They can deny you a passport, or revoke the one you have, for any reason and at that point you are not allowed to leave. It's kind of weird to think about how we didn't ask to be born here, but we're expected to follow the laws and if we don't like it we can't even leave and go where the rules are more favorable to us without permission from the government we're born under. I'll always poke fun at the crazy sovereign citizen crowd, but on a certain level I can sympathize with the feeling that there's a certain type of injustice being born under the rule of someone else.
apple silicone doesn't need any memory tho

edit: ha I guess people didn't see the /s in the above
All dams have spillways. There are various types and they have several functions: avoiding collapse due to say flooding; allowing controlled release - "spate" - handy for, say, helping salmon to run upstream - yes it is a bit counter-intuitive.

The river Tamar largely delineates Devon and Cornwall in England, UK. It is mostly run off from Dartmoor and hits the sea at Plymouth (which is named after the river Plym). The Tamar is joined by the river Tavy (hence Tavistock, which is a few miles north of Plymouth). The Tamar and Plym run into Plymouth Sound which is the name for the area of sea just south of Plymouth, inside the breakwater. Right, its sodding complicated!

The original dam and reservoir for Plymouth and the surrounding areas was Burrator Reservoir. In the 1980s - Roadford Dam and reservoir was built. I studied Civil Engineering from 1989 to 1991 at Plymouth Polytechnic/Poly South West/Uni of Plymouth - it went through a few changes in a short time!

Roadford has a bellmouth spillway. Basically there is a plughole with a tube to the Tamar in the base of the reservoir with a concrete tower with slits at a set level. Water is heavy stuff and needs to be treated with care so the spill way attempts to dump as much energy as possible, whilst still shifting as much water as possible to down stream.

I left Plymouth in 1996 but I do recall that in 1994 or 5 when there was a dry summer, that a spate was released from Roadford for the salmon. That spate was equivalent to three Burrator reservoirs capacity and it happened over a few days.

Oh and Roadford has the river Wolf downstream 8)
Yeah, it’s highly dependent on the country. I rented a car in Norway this past summer. I didn’t even ask for an EV, that’s just what most cars there are. We drove a ton. It was delightful. My vehicle charged up in 30 mins at a fast charger, the chargers were all over, and most charging locations had cafes or fun things to do nearby. I loved it!

In the US, I have a PHEV but when I’m not at home, I don’t even bother to charge it because there are so few chargers, they’re slow, and the ones that exist are often broken.
To be fair, downtime is often posted for services popular among HN readers, I don’t think there’s malicious intent, it’s merely the acknowledgment of an incident.

The fact that the headline is USUALLY “GitHub was down” says a lot more than the individual post in isolation!
Well, I guess it won't be too long before someone completely rewrites that thing in another language. Or hope.

(My guess is that people don't normally compile latex locally these days -- they do that on Overleaf -- and those who do use are old-school, hardcore users and they either use Linux or Mac)
While I understand (and agree) with your point about a GUI "showing you what's possible", I would like to add some nuance:

1. People have to learn the basics of the GUI. Take someone who lived 50 years without seeing a computer and show them Windows. They will have to learn that they can move the mouse, left/right click, and even move while clicking. They will have to learn that some parts of the UI are interactive (e.g. buttons) and others aren't. It is not as intuitive as people tend to imply. My father still double-clicks on elements that - to me - obviously don't require a double click (like a hyperlink). And many people are completely lost if you move them from their Windows to macOS or some Linux UI. Or even between two flavours of Android.

2. Once you know the basic of GUI ("there is a start menu", "I can click on buttons", ...), the UI does not show you that there exists apps like Photoshop to edit pictures, or like Slack to talk to people. You have to somehow learn about the app from somewhere, install it, and only then you get their UI that "shows you what's possible".

I would argue that the CLI is actually quite similar. Once you have learned the basics ("I can change directory", "I can `man cmd`"), then you have to discover apps somehow (e.g. a friend saying "install git with `apt install git`"), and then you can just open the manual with `man git`, and it will most definitely show you what's possible.

The difference, I think, is that people generally don't really want to learn the CLI (it "looks old", I guess?), and many apps don't provide proper manpages (pretty sure most developers don't know how to even create manpages, or package their app for their distro).
The fact that the targeting part is the output of a multibillion-dollar industry focused on scientific experimentation on humans without informed consent.

Also the fact that they're ads. That's a problem, too. Basically the whole thing is one big downside for everyone who isn't in adtech or trying to sell you shit you otherwise wouldn't buy.
In what could be seen as an interesting contrast to the article, Wikipedia offers the following perspective: "[Cavendish] notes that ... amongst strangers she became bashful, being afraid she might speak or act inappropriately ... while anxious to be well-received and well-liked. She spoke only when necessary [rather than] be seen as wanton or rude."

And: "The epitaph reads: 'Her name was Margaret Lucas, youngest daughter of Lord Lucas, Earl of Colchester, a noble family: for all the brothers were valiant, and all the sisters virtuous.'"
I will fully discard your argument because Windows 95 was a tech marvel of its time, huge leap in consumer OS segment and stayed unchallenged until introduction of Windows 2000 Professional, which was actually more on the workstation side.

BSODs were mostly avoided by using MS-authored drivers.
Why there's a highway sign in kilometers on the Bay Area's Interstate 580
vB itself isn't FOSS. XenForo is the best alternative by a fair margin, but for FOSS there's good old PHPBB.
I live in an affluent community, but the last time I had electrical work done, the government inspector missed 5 serious problems that I found, 3 of which were obvious.

It's really hard for the government to hire and retain competent people to inspect something as easy as residential wiring, even in an affluent community with plenty of money being spent to operate the government.
Just one data point -- my company with over 5,000 developers is completely rewriting nearly all (decades-old) Perl code in Go.