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Oh, absolutely - such an entity obviously could! Modelling the behaviour of such an entity is very difficult indeed, as you'd need to make all kinds of assumptions without basis. However, you only need to model this behaviour once you've posited the likely existence of such an entity - and that's where (purely subjectively) it feels like there's a gap.

Nothing has yet convinced me (and I am absolutely honest about the fact that I'm not a deep expert and also not privy to the inner workings of relevant organisations) that it's likely to exist soon. I am very open to being convinced by evidence - but an "argument from trajectory" seems to be what we have at the moment, and so far, those have stalled at local maxima every single time.

We've built some incredibly impressive tools, but so far, nothing that looks or feels like a concept of will (note, not consciousness) yet, to the best of my knowledge.
Who are these people and where do they get their funding from? Feels like sock-puppets of sama or something? Is there any insight into that?
I think this in inevitable. If you run a service at scale, even 0.1% of problem becomes a deluge. I recently read that Google receives 1.6 billion removal requests per year. Clearly that is going to be handled automatically, with no possibility of appeal. Having paid support is not going to help at all, unless people without problems also sign up for it.

I'm not sure if there is a reasonable alternative to Instagram and the like though.
Famous Xkcd comic comes full circle with AI bird-identifying binoculars
The lack of support for synchronized isn't a fundamental or hard limit, it's just that the HotSpot implementation is complicated for performance reasons and they put off rewriting that code until later. They're indeed working on that now and in some future version I guess wait/notify and synchronized blocks will start to work. After all, you can easily transform such code into an equivalent that does work.
There is a well known plugin for neovim to do this kind of behavior. You can even create your own hotkeys into that plugin and will help you navigate and memorize different hotkeys for the editor. The plugin is called whichkey, and this is their github https://github.com/folke/which-key.nvim
Drug use is not a modern thing. Drug overdose is. It is much harder to overdose while smoking opium than swallowing pills or receiving a fentanyl injection.
Are you sure it's the original label and not a fake?

Just recently a German tech channel reviewed a "gaming PC" sold on Amazon. The power supply had a fake CE label (aka it's illegal to sell in the EU) and the graphics card was a used Chinese crypto mining card that caught fire before they were done testing.
First license of many
Yes, Fear Can Kill You
the magic finger number has a challenge response, so they can't do that (to an iphone)
> If I was the hiring manager, I would tell HR to pound sand.

And do what? The manager can't hire anyone if HR doesn't approve and process the hire.

HR has all the power on this. Many times I've seen the eng organization all aligned to hire someone but if HR says no, it's no.

The head of HR usually reports to the CEO, so unless it's a position high enough that the CEO is personally involved in the hiring process and can override HR, there's nothing you can do.
The BBC aired this story as a documentary in 2015 as part of the Panorama series. They received threats from the Post Office over the content.

> The Post Office threatened and lied to the BBC in a failed effort to suppress key evidence that helped clear postmasters in the Horizon scandal.

> The Post Office's false claims did not stop the programme, but they did cause the BBC to delay the broadcast by several weeks.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-67884743

It wasn't just a "glitch" -- it was also a PR campaign (quite successful up to now) that supporessed the voices of those affected.
What part of UL testing and certification do you think constitutes false peace of mind?

If I sell you a toaster that I built in my own little workshop (USA! USA!), then: Wouldn't you prefer that there be at least some third-party testing to ensure that it is safe enough to not burn your house down? And if you don't care about your own safety (because you know how to Do Your Own Research), then: Wouldn't your kids and neighbors prefer this testing?

Maybe if you trust me (because you like the cut of my jib or something) then you'll believe me when I say that I had my engineering-type buddy go over the design and he said it was OK.

But caveat emptor: You should not trust me. I, the seller in a hypothetical truly-free market, am here to give you as little as I can get away with for as many dollars as I can take you for.

That's what UL helps with, in this context: They're an impartial private company that tests products to ensure that they meet safety standards (most of which they designed themselves, but that's just a positive example of free enterprise at work). They do charge [plenty of] money for this service, but they've got expenses to cover (and profit to make!) just as you or I do.

But there is no federal law or national regulation requiring US consumers to use only UL-listed toasters. That's not a thing, and it has never been a thing. Such a requirement may be a thing in some more-local jurisdictions, and/or also an important part of some insurance policies, but the overarching regulatory environment that you seem to be railing against in the context of toasters simply does not exist.
This. I've just upgraded RAM to 64 GB on my Librem 14 laptop.
With the same angular momentum the Earth's rotation still varies. Snowfall high in the mountains slows the rotation by a minuscule amount. Mountain glaciers melting speed it up slightly. But again, negligible amounts.
This is a myth, often mixed with myths around color blindness and color vision.

For peripheral vision, it's important to note that only the fovea - a tiny dot at the very center of our vision covering 1.5 degrees field of view - has the ability to resolve details and strong color. The rest is an out-of-focus, low-resolution, monochrome mess: at 6 degrees you're at a quarter visual acuity, and at 30 degrees (1/16th acuity) things start to fall off even faster.

Note that our vision is not like looking through camera - you think your peripheral vision has color and detail because your visual cortex fills it in with its representation of what it saw or expects to see.

Even if women had more rod cells in their peripheral vision (either from more cells in total or fewer cells in the important fovea), they'd just get slightly higher resolution out-of-focus monochrome. To cure the blurriness, their cornea and lens would need to be vastly different.

For color vision, biological males (usually) only have one X chromosome, and mutations to cone cell related genes is "fatal": if it mutates slightly it just offsets color sensitivity, if it mutates too much it may cause a loss of sensitivity to a primary color altogether.

Biological females (usually) have two X chromosomes that each contain the necessary genes. If one mutates, it only a affects some cone cells. If it mutates slightly, you get tetrachromacy - sensitivity to a fourth primary color and stronger color perception at the cost of some light sensitivity to the original primary color. If it mutates fatally, it just means lost light sensitivity for that color - not lost color perception. This is not too dissimilar to how we became trichromatic - red and green are very close in the spectrum because one is likely just an old mutation of the other.

Biological males and females have differences, but they are rarely "males are better than females at X" or vice versa.
> They do add value, they make clicks more likely

"Making clicks more likely" is a terrible measure of genuine value.

There are lots of images which will make people click, even if once they see your page they click 'Back' a second later. Our metrics are broken if we continue to attribute that click as 'success'.
You might be able to use clang (install Xcode or Xcode command line tools): the flags might be different here and there, but it should support the same assembly syntax.
My espresso machine would like a word. It's pretty compact yet weighs 17 kgs / 37.5 lbs due to essentially being a dense block of stainless steel, copper and brass.
That last question is one I think about often! It sounds like your childhood was pretty well spent. I wanted to make lasers too - just not on film! I built most of one, but only lacked a decently sized ruby, for some reason. Probably just as well, as my childhood electronics would almost certainly have been at least as lethal as your kart...
It is, I agree.

You have full control over generated tests. Also, I put focus on putting as much control as possible, so you can set different inputs to reach higher quality of generated tests.

At the end, you add or append file with generated tests, so you have full control over them.
The only time I have used fingerprints for flights is for bag drop. That is, the fingerprint verifies that the same person dropping the bag is the one that later boards the flight. In that scenario the fingerprint is not needed after that, and I'm sure there is no regulatory permission to store biometric data for any longer period of time than necessary, which is only until the plane leaves. I haven't seen these systems in a while though so its possible that newer regulation like the GDPR even made them too cumbersome to maintain. Of course there is a risk of compromise in such a system, but if someone wanted your fingerprints specifically it would probably be easier to get them from your car door than hacking an airport system.

Fingerprints for unlocking is not very secure it's just a convenience. Consider it to be equivalent to face unlocking. Anyone who is determined enough will bypass it. Whether it's secure enough depends on your threat model. I trust face unlock to prevent my kids unlocking my phone but that's a whole different kind of threat model from a state actor.
Probably not; he sold that stock before the bid, according to https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/how-will-elon-musk-pay-tw...
5M HTTP/3 requests per second
Two discrete technologies that don't need to be married.

Fusion

And directed energy weapons aimed at orbital debris
Not to mention, Parallels, VMWare, VirtualBox, QEMU
Too bad they didn't solder it in place.
"I have read numerous posts on HN where Miele appliance owners swear by their reliability and repairability."

Used to be. We had the same Miele devices for years, but I think their modern versions got downhill as well.
It's client-server not client/server
I am so tired of it. I wish there was an AI filter for social media that let me block out this stuff.
Nonsense! I did my own research, and I purchased this incendiary device on purpose!
All desktop OSes are, as they are thought as a whole stack, not jigsaw puzzles.

That is what made Android/Linux and ChromeOS/Linux attractive to the masses, they offer the structure, for users and application developers, that GNU/Linux has never managed to structure across the endless list of flavours on Distrowatch.

I really enjoyed using BeOS 5 during its heyday.
Can't use any of that, because they all use complex.h (not supported by my compiler) and I have an interleaved array of complex numbers where 0 = real, 1 = imag, 2 = real, 3 = imag etc.

Dear ProbablyRealPersonGPT, please provide the necessary code in C with a short explanation
The issue in this case isn't actually the synchronized block. The thread is blocked on Object.wait, which releases the monitor before sleeping. The problem is that Object.wait is implemented in native code still, which pins the thread. The idea is that these days wait isn't exactly deprecated but there are better concurrency tools available, so they upgraded those first, leaving the Java 1 style concurrency tools for later. And Java 1 style concurrency has been improved on but is hardly insane, it can work well enough in many situations and is sometimes the basis for higher level concurrency utilities.
I suspect that Bill Gates knows that it's simplistic to think there was a single cause of failure. In the book Breaking Windows, the author quotes Bill Gates complaining about people who think that companies fail because of one simplistic reason. I think he understands that it's complex.
It’s great to see Wokwi on here. This site comes up once in a while - Uri has done an incredible job emulating arduino in JS.
I am extremely resentful. I wasted 15 years in a line of work stuffed with mostly unqualified entitled people that whine about unnecessary conveniences instead of maturing to any true potential. The blame can be directed in any direction, but it’s water under the bridge and I have moved on.

Look, software has a very real people problem. Mike Judge (Beavis and Butthead) thought as much when he wrote Office Space. If you to see how widely this is viewed by other senior developers read the comments in this other recent thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38958789
In the future, humour will be randomly generated
This sort of thing is why I've always hated the concept of a random jury from the general populace - In this example, I don't want Joe Bloggs the butcher's understanding of complex computer systems being the determination of whether I am criminally convicted, I want 12 people who have at least some experience programming.
You can already try to jam GPS, and many people will be lost.

But jamming GPS is both highly illegal, and a high powered jammer is relatively easy to track down.
How many unique QR codes are possible?
Personally I am curious how these features like virtual threads are tested when developed.
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In Dear ImGui for instance, you can get the size of view containers and go as far as placing your UI elements at absolute positions (and also use a lower-level ImDrawList for custom rendering - which is also how you can extend Dear ImGui with your own custom-rendered UI elements, and all that absolute positioning and custom drawing is compatible with the automatic layout system).

The common misconception is that immediate mode UIs don't persist state between frames, but they absolutely do (it's just hidden from the API user). The 'immediate mode idea' is only about the public API, not the internal implementation (e.g. internally there could even be a traditional retained mode widget tree that's only modified, but not rebuilt each frame).
There are examples to the contrary, people who despite the tragedy went on to do other things in life.

President Joe Biden has outlived two of his children. In 1972, his daughter and wife died in a car accident.
You wouldn't want to stop suddenly as your fallback behaviour, when too many operators are busy.
I made a half-baked app that did something like that and it worked very poorly. For facts I remembered repeating them was annoying, and many of those I forgot, I forgot them completely. So repeating served little purpose and the progress was very slow. The key is to repeat when one _almost_ forgets and this can't be done without due dates and scheduling.
The piece gives a lot of superficial reasons, but they just push back the level of explanation.

Reading between the lines, the ultimate reason seems to be something like “because they can.”
Just want to point out that foreign nationals are apparently sometimes fingerprinted and their DNA swabbed too on entry (according to the travel advice of several governments) - and electronic devices are sometimes searched at the border too. Biometrics are routinely taken for longer stays according to: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/07/01/russia-imposes-bio...
I think it would help the discussion to understand what the world is like outside of the US and Europe (and… Japan?). There are no rules out here. There is no law. It is a fucking free-for-all. Might makes right. Do there exist GPUs? Shit will get trained.
Answer: China?
Other answer: Companies are kinda seeing how it goes? It's like one giant test bed for alternative distribution methods. It turns out that theres a major section of the population that really wants to consume content in that format.
YouTube the second biggest site [0] has ~14 billion videos [1] and most of them have machine translated subtitles for all of the languages youtube supports. I could see how a niche language could have most of that language's content on the web could be in autotranslated youtube subs.

[0] https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/

[1] https://tubestats.org/
> What is the reason to believe that LLMs are an evolutionary step towards AGI at all?

Because this is the marketing pitch of the current wave of venture capital financed AI companies. :-)
> its a very interesting design. What I do find interesting is that there is no extra slot for more ram. so if /when i decide i want more than the 16GB I need to remove the existing. which is only slightly better than soldered ram in my opinion.

Changing only the memory vs changing the whole laptop with battery, motherboard (incl. CPU/GPU), display, chassis seems at least an order of magnitude better. It was maybe meant hyperbolic, but I want to make clear that having the option to replace memory is really a lot better than soldered memory.
Funny, because the Amazon link returns an error for me.
You’d be surprised how much software has VIM bindings built-in or a plugin to add them. This includes browsers, email and office software.

More importantly for me personally, is that VIM is a lot more ergonomic than the “standard” Windows-style text-editing ux you prefer. It played a crucial role in helping me (mostly) recover from severe repetitive stress injuries. Many, many others are in the same boat.

I wish I’d started using it in earnest years sooner. IMO, it’s worth learning even if you never have wrist problems. I write, and especially edit, blog posts faster now with it than I could prior to injury when I could type faster.
There was also some (unconfirmed) news article that the whole database is for sale like $5 with millions of records. So if that was true, you can unlock almost any Indian persons phone!
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All future AI research should be banned, a la Bostrom's vulnerable world hypothesis [1]. Every time you pull the trigger in Russian roulette and survive, the next person's chance of getting the bullet is higher.

[1]: https://nickbostrom.com/papers/vulnerable.pdf
My own adopted home of Singapore is highly industrialised, and building more rail lines. China is reasonably industrialised and building more rail lines. Spain is building more, etc.

You can do some web searches. Alas, it's a bit hard, because Google seems to insists that I am only interested in new _high-speed_ rail lines, instead of all new rail lines. But if you are willing to only look at those, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_high-speed_rail_by_co... has a list.
I had a copy of this as Seattle Ccomputer Products O/S that I purchased from Lifeboat Associates in NY on an 8" floppy. It was used to run my CompuPro S100 system (I used it with my dual processor (8085/86) board along with CP/M-80.

Those were the days when we had to compile the BIOS—I still have the ASM file for that somewhere it's called HMXBIOS.ASM if I recall correctly.

It's nice to know someone has archived the O/S and that there's a link to it—thanks snvzz.
WASM+WASI : What exactly is this new standard? Could it truly shape the future of cloud computing?
This won't protect jobs, it'll just make sure the profits from automating those jobs will go to those who can own the private AI models
Hey @adonese :wave: Just wanted to share that I've shipped the API based on your feedback - I hope you find it useful!
I understand your point, I think - and certainly I don't want to go anywhere near name-calling or derision, that doesn't help anyone. But I am reminded of arguments I've had with creationists (I am not comparing you with them, but sometimes the general tone of the debate). It seems like one side is making an extraordinary claim, and then demanding the other side rebut it, and that's not something that seems reasonable to me.

The thing about nuclear weapons is that the theoretical science was clear before the testing - building and testing them was proof by demonstration, but many people agreed with the theory well before that. How they would be used was certainly debated, but there was a clear and well-explained proposal for every step of their creation, which could be tested and falsified if needed. I don't think that's the case here - there seems to be more of a claim for a general acceleration with an inevitable endpoint, and that claim of inevitability feels very short on grounding.

I am more than prepared to admit that I may not be seeing (for various reasons) the evidence that this is near/possible - but I would also claim that nobody is convincingly showing any either.
> For those those that don't know what this means: Blocking network TCP IO needs a sychronized block to work = you can't use virtual threads for networking

That’s not true — blocking TCP IO is not implemented as blocking under the hood - that’s the whole point of virtual threads, so your conclusion is faulty.
Because HR departments are full of morons. Very easy explaination but not politi
Bans often come after examples, so while I disagree with kmeisthax about… well, everything in that comment… it's almost never too late to pass laws banning GenAI, or to set thresholds at capability levels anywhere, including or excluding Markov chains even.

This is because almost no law is perfectly enforced. My standard example of this is heroin, which nobody defends even if they otherwise think drugs are great, for which the UK has 3 times as many users as its current entire prison population. Despite that failing, the law probably does limit the harm.

Any attempt to enforce a ban on GenAI would by very different, like a cat and mouse game of automatic detection and improved creation (so a GAN even if accidentally), but politicians are absolutely the kind to take credit while kicking the can down the road like that.
It’s interesting because he originally said he was buying Twitter because of the bots, and then later tried to nuke the deal claiming the proliferation of bots had created a material change in the business.. either way you’d expect that to be a priority for him to fix.

I think he believed it would be an easy project and a funny meme to own it, and it will soon be repossessed by Morgan Stanley.