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Which events are you referring to? The “false” panics or the “real” ones?

Because when people invoke moral panic as an argument against AI concerns, it’s almost universally as a device to completely invalidate the concerns.

> we managed to solve the issues involved with them, and move on

Even if the point is that “see, we worked through these past issues just fine”, it’s not clear why working through those issues tells us anything about the present. The only structure holding the analogy together is “we had a problem” and “we solved the problem”. If the nature of the problem is not the same, it’s unclear why this analogy carries any weight at all.

The reality is that we have not solved the issues related to many “real” panics. We just don’t refer to them as panics anymore.

Prohibition may have been a deeply misguided solution, but the social problem of alcoholism was and continues to be real. “Moving on” means that 13K people are killed every year in alcohol related traffic deaths, and over 130K each year from other alcohol related afflictions. I’m not arguing for a ban on alcohol, but pointing out that we rarely do a good job of solving these messy issues. They just become a new accepted societal norm.

I think this can be roughly broken down into four buckets:

1. Panics that turned out to be bullshit

2. Panics that resulted in action and an eventual solution

3. Panics that resulted in the worst fears being fully realized

4. Panics for which we have no current answer or solution

The issue I have with your argument is that it seems to dismiss the possibility of 3 and 4.
Australia and New Zealand just 'celebrated' ANZAC day, our day of 'remember everyone who died in wars'. It coincides with our attack on Turkey at Gallipoli (now Gelibolu) in 1915.

Now that I live in Europe, I occasionally work with Turks (who haven't heard about it - or about the Aussie war buffs who make the trek out to Turkey to celebrate ANZAC day at the landing site.)

What the hell was Australia doing invading Turkey in 1915? "Churchill believed the invasion would give the British a clear sea route to their ally Russia." [1]

What's the LOTR version of that? Gandalf showing up and telling the Hobbits to launch an all-out invasion of Harad, to clear the route between Gondor and its ally Isengard?

> Tolkien knew whereof he wrote. A veteran of World War I, he watched with dismay the approach of a second great conflagration. Sipping pints of bitter and puffing his pipe in “The Shire” — his idealized Middle England

This American opinion piece can idolise Tolkien idolising England. But since America has actually been at war with England, maybe that's not worth much.

[1] https://www.history.com/news/winston-churchills-world-war-di...
Given that RISC-V doesn't require a license to use and the ISA is open, there is no way to enforce the U.S. government's will on the matter. China doesn't need to license designs, it can just make them if it wants to. RISC-V is also "based" in Switzerland, which is isolated enough from the U.S. that I don't see them being able to put enough pressure on even if they had an angle.
Well some authoritarian regime would otherwise just do it whenever it got started, and it would require maybe a week?
>When someone tells me to arrive 3 hours before my scheduled departure time, to me it's disrespectful that they would waste so much of my time so unapologetically.

Technically most airlines only require you to arrive 60-75 minutes before departure for check-in. The 3 hour advice is just advice that you're free to ignore, but is probably a bad idea to do so given how much money/time is on the line. The 60-75 minutes might still sound like a lot, but gates typically close 20 minutes prior to departure, and boarding starts 40-60 minutes prior to departure, so they're only really asking you "waste" 20-30 minutes.

>There's no other situation in my life where people can control what I wear, or presume to separate me from my keys and wallet.

courts/some government buildings do similar security checks, and in some countries they do such checks in even more public places (eg. subways/malls/cultural sites).
I dunno. This seems like a reasonable summary for a headline. Plus the research is actually looking at political orientation rather than how you vote. Having said that, I'm skeptical of these reinventions of phrenology.
I read a lot of being a good programmer, but I am far from one, so perhaps this is only true in some circumstances. ;)
Wow, never thought I'd see Enfora mentioned in a thread in 2024. I worked there for a year or so, supporting those early GPRS cards.

I remember sending ICQ messages to friends while sitting in traffic on I-635. It was kinda unbelievable to be online in a car
Any service built on cryptocurrency is a terrible idea for the future; there exists no such thing as scarcity in cyberspace.
Hopefully I’m beyond the draft age of it comes to it but I don’t want a shooting war in my lifetime.
one of the most popular things in modern society,'modern music' (whatever that means)is not different from 'junk food'.. 'Modern music' is to your brain what junk food is to your body! Modern music with its repetitive beats optimized to give you a brief 'dopamine' have a similar effect on your brain as junk food does on your body!! in the same way that junk food provides a quick burst of pleasure but lacks nutritional value, modern music offers instant gratification through repetitive beats and catchy melodies while offering little to no informational value to the brain . .... "junk food", "short videos", "porn" and "modern music" these things are all designed to give you a brief dopamine rush ;)
Burned remains at Maya pyramid reveal dramatic regime change
AI is just a way to market software. In the 70s and 80s we had "expert systems". Knowledge packed into software. Now when you buy hardware such as the new 3d xray systems for airports it can use high and low energy xray and density data to guess the substance of objects. This is an expert system, but it's trivialized to the point where it's not labelled as something special, it's just a feature.

This is a natural process. Hype up new stuff as "intelligent", "expert", "AI". Down the line it will be just another piece of software functionality. Doesn't mean anything special.

Right now "generative AI" is being heavily subsidized to gain market share. All these prompts generating text and image cost A LOT of money in training, inference, etc. If we were charged the real cost, it wouldn't seem like such a magical thing.
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Europe is the continent

EU is the exclusive area/group/wtv
What happened to not using sarcasm when dealing with serious issues? Seems like pretty infantile behavior to me.
Selling energy back isn't as efficient as it sounds. Transmission losses are a major factor for delivering power. In a star topology, any power you generate must go back to a local base station before being delivered to your neighbour, at minimum doubling the transit distance.

So, of course, the next step is (to my point): Let's rely on a mesh network to deliver power locally and directly. Sure, until one of your batteries has an issue or its a rainy day and the batteries are depleted. Suddenly your neighbour needs to source power from somewhere else. That somewhere else could be other neighbours, who are, due to local weather conditions, experiencing the same issues. Okay, let's go back to the grid. Now this weather is affecting multiple locations at the same time, and the grid itself is under-provisioned since it was reliant on these local sources of power. If the grid has sufficient capacity to deal with this failure mode, then it has sufficient capacity to be the regular, default power source.

Power generation and delivery are hard problems that require big thinking. Wishing it were simple (oh just do this!) doesn't make it so.
Somehow This $10k Flame-Thrower Robot Dog Is Completely Legal in 48 States
I'm giving it to you straight. Feel proud if you like about the SaaS aspect or that you built something. That's fair. But don't fool yourself that this "product" does anything actually useful.

I read a couple of the example ebooks and I also got a few previews on topics I am familiar with and unsurprisingly it's inane, generic, regurgitated crap. There is no learning to be found. Certainly not "efficient, thorough learning" as you claim.

The "Drug Legalization and Harm Reduction" example is exactly the type of topic that requires citations along with data including tables and charts to illustrate the points being made. The Space Exploration example jumps around wildly, going from 1969 to 1990 as if nothing happened in between, and places "The Race to the Moon" in the "current technologies" section which makes zero sense. It then becomes incoherent fantasy in the "future technologies" section. The Ethics and AI example makes numerous claims about the things that AI can do that seem to hit a wall with the simple question "How?". Each of these reads like a bad essay that would struggle to get a passing grade were it written for a class.

This has no value for learning. In my opinion you are doing a disservice to knowledge and learning with this.
I use it to install a bunch of Homebrew casks and a small number of regular packages to support those casks. It works perfectly well!

My biggest annoyance is that Homebrew is really slow; the Homebrew part of my Nix-Darwin rebuilds usuay takes 3-5x as long as everything else combined. Homebrew is really slow even when it has nothing to do.

The only caveat worth mentioning is that the module built into Nix-Darwin doesn't support installing Homebrew itself. Instead you tell it the prefix for an existing Homebrew installation.

(There is an out-of-tree module for installing Homebrew as well, but I haven't tried it.)
> Is there anything I didn't really notice that feels rewarding on higher levels?

The thought that you put into strategy matters more when the game is harder.
Personally, I don't find it fun past ascension 17 but if I play at a0 it's a bit mindless which is not as fun anymore.
They speak French in Louisiana, German in Amish Country, Gullah in North Carolina... Your ignorance doesn't make you correct.
For those who didn't know, KYC stands for "know your customer". It's a good idea to spell out abbreviations the first time they're used, especially since the abbreviation itself is not used in the linked article. It's also worth noting that the proposal is about US infrastructure as a service (IaaS) products specifically, not "internet services" in general.
This is about foreign customers only, so as an attempt to abolish the constitution, it is severely flawed in respecting it enough to keep its distance.

I can't think of any US service I am using that doesn't already require KYC? None of the large providers will let you get far without a credit card, as far as I remember?

Since the discussion here will consider itself mostly with upright revolutionaries being disenfranchised by such insult to their liberties, it is worth noting that when the revolutionaries are foreigners, the US often doesn't have the same incentive to disenfranchise them as it might have for domestic troublemakers.

In fact the US has quite a track record of granting rights to foreigners in excess of what they find at home, and even when it concerns allies: request by European courts and law enforcement are regularly rejected based on US norms when, for example, someone hosts their hat speech blog with an US-only provider.
Skimming through the article, it seems like the extent of this is to require IAAS (Infrastructure) providers to verify the identity of those who are using their services to train AI. It's an attempt to stymie sanctioned or malicious actors, from training AI and especially from hopping between services or using aliases to continue training on their model.

It seems a bit benign and I don't understand the parallels others on this HN discussion are making. Is it that it's a slippery slope or perhaps I'm being naïve in regards to the scope?
Ask HN: How to (realistically) get recourse from a large tech corporation?
I have pretty conclusive proof that a well-known software glitched and wrongfully performed an operation. In this case it affects several users monetarily.

Something is clearly in error, and we now have a conclusive paper trail about this glitch. Despite extended conversation, the company's support refuses to acknowledge the glitch or take any responsibility for it. To the point of blatantly refusing to honor their own invoices or stated agreements.

When you have a large tech corporation clearly in the wrong, with a conclusive paper trail that they are wrong, but they refuse to do anything about it? The stakes are fairly low (<$200) - what's realistically the next option? An internal email campaign? Small claims court? Document the glitch for posterity?
Well the thing is that it's code that's already been written, and honestly is kind of a mess. It would take more effort than it's worth to try and rewrite using a different GUI framework.

I much prefer Qt but this was written before I started here so it is what it is :/

The longer the test runs we end up losing data because they're looping over a dataframe that keeps growing and growing and the program just can't finish that loop in the 2 seconds that it has to run. But it's not a big enough deal for us to fix
This seems just completely wrong. The trend for drones is that features and capabilities are increasing and costs are decreasing because they're based on cheap software and cheap consumer hardware. The trend for unguided mortar rounds or artillery shells is that they're as cheap as they're ever likely to be at thousands of dollars a round, plus the cost of the gun and its replacement barrels and crew. (guided artillery shells or missiles are so expensive they're a separate conversation)

If these small drones provide capabilities that are, as your comment implies, not new but they do it with a cost effectiveness that blows away anything that came before, that's a pretty big deal.
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I guess your assumption about repetition is due to originally, because otherwise I don't see anything that could lead to that assumption, but that assumption is also rather tenuous, because originally berthed would still be a relevant phrasing to use if the boat becomes unmoored.

That is to say originally berthed also works for having been berthed once and adrift ever since, at least in English which tends to be forgiving about this kind of thing.
It is great that you ask a question, because we live in a world with the freedom to opine on things. What could be considered a massive issue to me may not be a massive issue to another; and if we feel the world will be better by debating our positions, we have the right to do so.

Today, anonymity and pseudonymity exist and allow people to speak freely without risk of backlash for having a different opinion as often times the right opinion may differ with that of social consensus.

If KYC is introduced, the ability to maintain freedom of speech, online, will likely diminish.

This is of negative consequence to the people of the world.

Further, with internet 'forever data', LLM NLP and so forth, character profiles are too easy to develop for people which can cause further harm as we begin segregating based on said profiles.

I believe this KYC requirement can even extend to blockchain node operators and so forth as well.

These are just a few reasons but there are many more.
This is fascinating, I had been wondering about wind chimes for a while now. This talks about sound attenuation at a distance, and limitations of human hearing at low frequencies, note selections, all very interesting.
WHOAH.

Is this article really equating Palmer Lucky to Oppenheimer?
There are more possible moves to consider in STS than Go? I've dumped a hundred hours into the former and thousands into the latter and I wouldn't agree.
You seem to not see a possibility for opposing companies like Anduril using names from fiction and also not liking other military companies from other opposing countries but such a position is valid.
Does this actually remove anonymity on the internet?

It seems to de-anonymize a set of IaaS customers, sure; but that's not nearly the same thing as removing anonymity completely. I've only just scanned this but it seems at first glance to mean that a foreign company can't anonymously spin up an AWS instance, that's all. Am I reading this incorrectly?
That's a strange definition, because it excludes the majority of the world's dark skinned population. If only the descendants of slaves brought to the Americas can claim to be Black, then there are no Black people in Africa. Hell, even Barack Obama can't claim to be Black, since he is a child of immigrants, not slaves.
Not only did it have a swappable battery, it also had wireless charging eight years before the iPhone.
Wanted to check if this actually provides a unified api? E.g. each category of integration will return the exact same data shape? From the looks of the video I'm still making a call to slack's API `users.list` and have to write the code to paginate slacks api (e.g. the next cursor).
Just remember that, unless your goal is just to kill everyone and scorch the earth, the aim of warfare is to occupy and control territory, which at some point necessitates humans to do the occupation. Nobody is yet trying to create permanent wastelands inhabited only by robots. It may become increasingly dangerous, but whether it's helicopters or some other means of transportation, you have to get humans into the land you're trying to take.

There are limits to autonomy as well. Presumably they mean these things can find targets and maneuver in real time without continual human intervention, but they still have human operators and someone has to give them a target. My brother-in-law works for Anduril, as a forward-deployed trainer of the drone operators. There are very much plenty of humans involved here. They can't just ship you a pallet of machines that you turn on and then they go fight a war for you.

Also remember that exactly what you're describing (all the grunts are pinned down by artillery and can't move) is exactly what happened in WWI. That didn't mean it was the future of war. Offensive forces adapted. Heavy armor, airborne troop insertion, long-range counter-battery. Having the upper hand in an arms race is never enduring. The other side always adapts.
I've got some single-source tea in my fridge that's significantly better than the supermarket blend. It's different every season though. https://obubutea.com
I find it amusing how something that’s stereotyping like this is considered news, while other predictions are considered dystopian.

Totally ridiculous.
Getting your Haskell executable statically linked without Nix
For those of us who don't know what this is, an explanation is a bit down the page:

> To address these threats, the President issued E.O. 13984, “Taking Additional Steps To Address the National Emergency With Respect to Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities,” which provides the Department with authority to require U.S. IaaS providers to verify the identity of foreign users of U.S. IaaS products, to issue standards and procedures that the Department may use to make a finding to exempt IaaS providers from such a requirement, to impose recordkeeping obligations with respect to foreign users of U.S. IaaS products, and to limit certain foreign actors' access to U.S. IaaS products in appropriate circumstances. The President subsequently issued E.O. 14110, “Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence,” which calls for the Department to require U.S. IaaS providers to ensure that their foreign resellers verify the identity of foreign users. E.O. 14110 also provides the Department with authority to require U.S. IaaS providers submit a report to the Department whenever a foreign person transacts with them to train a large AI model with potential capabilities that could be used in malicious cyber-enabled activity.
Where did I say people engage relatively casually with music? I highlighted a form of engagement that is (a) extremely serious, but (b) actively undermined by novelty.

You're right that a lot of people seem to view lyrics as being at best an annoyance; I've seen multiple people on HN argue with a straight face that in order to translate a song from one language to another language, it's not necessary for the meaning of the new lyrics to be similar to the meaning of the old lyrics.

This is not a sense of "translation" that I'm familiar with for other linguistic phenomena.

I've also seen people take offense at the idea that the concept of a "song" might involve singing.
Those in authority don't want us sharing information with anyone they can't track. So many of the websites I use are already blocking VPN access, and it's only getting worse. Codifying it as law will just be the last step to protect the censors from prosecution for violating the 1st Amendment.
I dunno, still do not get the value of LTS Ubuntu, when Debian is almost exactly same in terms of user experience.
You still need to bootstrap and maintain DHT/torrent corpus state/data in a potentially adversarial environment, correct? Solving for durable storage seems to be a challenge to overcome (unless that itself is served as a mutable torrent? or append only immutable torrents?).
I can tell by what color you dye your hair.
Please humor me for a moment, because I'm having trouble seeing why this is not just true by definition. Doesn't "training to the same performance" mean that you get the same responses? Or from a different angle: given that the goal of the model is to generate plausible completions based on a training dataset, it seems like plausibility (and therefore performance) is obviously defined by the dataset.
FWIW Apple always had an iTunes "now playing" thing for iChat back in the day so it's not like nobody over there thought of doing something like that.
Yeah this is a very industry standard term in banking and anyone in that industry is going to immediately know what you are talking about, but outside of that industry, chances are high that a layman will not
Because we have plenty of real life examples for cars that have a lot less age.
Yes I mentioned this in my first comment.
It is known and at least somewhat documented that some criminal organizations have used video games "for children" for communication. US intelligence agencies see multi-player video games as a way for terrorists to communicate, so it makes sense they would sanction if that's their fear.
Here is the audio clip in question: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2NEEDrMo8_/
google's wavenet solved all of those problems years ago
Looks a lot like Raycast one :)
>Whether we optimize for widgets per hour or dollars per hour, we end up at the same place

That might be true, but was not your original assertion.

Your earlier comment stated that the type of economy didn't matter: socialism, capitalism, etc. weren't the problem; only the Industrial Revolution.

Socialists agreed with you about the Industrial Revolution crushing souls. They also believed capitalism was to blame (specifically, laissez-faire capitalism).

We don't measure widgets. We measure money. That has everything to do with capitalism, and little to do with the Industrial Revolution.

And, even less to do with socialism.
AI is mentioned, but the scope is significantly larger if you read the fulltext.
> Is it some kind of React Native?

No! It is built using native web browser components, HTML/JSS/CSS. But with projects like PWABuilder you can deploy to Android, iOS and other platforms. Much better than React Native! (but your app will run on a browser, native apps have way more APIs).
Tell them there is NO WAY that is normal. I have left my Renault Zoe for a month and a half with a few percent loss.

You have a warranty issue. Get it fixed before it's too late.
Surely the records are somewhere deep in the system/database?
Also, 100m for an ERP for a organization that does only $3bn in revenue. That's an absurd ripoff