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There's literally no chance of OpenAI being anywhere close to AGI, and they know it.

There's literally no chance of doomsday scenarios, and they know it.

However, they do know that AI/ML is used in many applications where mistakes are costly, they don't know how to properly deal with it and don't care as long as they can get people to use it. So they are paying little more than lip service to safety because they know no one will be able to verify their claims.
> The police spent the day searching her house. Inside, they found a note with the heading “NOT GOOD ENOUGH.” There were several phrases scrawled across the page at random angles and without punctuation: “There are no words”; “I can’t breathe”; “Slander Discrimination”; “I’ll never have children or marry I’ll never know what it’s like to have a family”; “WHY ME?”; “I haven’t done anything wrong”; “I killed them on purpose because I’m not good enough to care for them”; “I AM EVIL I DID THIS.”

> On another scrap of paper, she had written, three times, “Everything is manageable,” a phrase that a colleague had said to her. At the bottom of the page, she had written, “I just want life to be as it was. I want to be happy in the job that I loved with a team who I felt a part of. Really, I don’t belong anywhere. I’m a problem to those who do know me.” On another piece of paper, found in her handbag, she had written, “I can’t do this any more. I want someone to help me but they can’t.” She also wrote, “We tried our best and it wasn’t enough.”

Calling this an admission of guilt is ridiculous. The only one that doesn’t say she didn’t do it says it happened because she wasn’t good enough. Self-blame when everyone is calling you a murdered is completely expected; the article says later that she had PTSD.

Is that the evidence she’s getting slammed based on?
They’re a monopoly on Apple *platform*.
I think the people with the mean comments are rarely active open source developers/contributers themselves — that is consumer-mentality on display.

If you are a good open source contributer and you know better you either write a pull request or you write a suggestion how a better installation process would look like, what your pain points were etc.
You're completely right, and if the shoe was on the other foot I'd probably do the same. I'd be happy to be a one hit wonder if it paid the bills and let me keep on rocking in the free world.

But at the same time, Norman Greenbaum doesn't release a new version of Spirit in the Sky every few years expecting to get a pat on the head. In fact, that'd be an insane choice to make. Cyan is making their new albums, but they're also releasing Myst[club-remix].mp3 and Riven[feat-shiny-bs].mp3 on a regular schedule, and part of you has to wonder when it's ok to embrace the one hit and maybe quit beating the dead horse (apparently there's money in the horse, instead of organs and horse meat, so they CAN beat it but why?)
Announced. Not shipping.
> If these aliens can not only travel but do resource extraction at interstellar distances, that implies having highly advanced fusion or annihilation reactors.

No, it doesn't. You don't know what you don't know. Aliens can have tech based on some rare isotope/mineral/whatever.

> Minerals are just chemical reaction products, and therefore necessarily cost negligible energy to synthesize compared to interstellar travel. It's easier to just make the minerals you need.

Unless these minerals require special rare isotopes or some other material we're not yet aware.

> Isotopes are finite in number, and we already know and largely understand all the ones are likely to ever be useful.

No, we do not. Google "island of stability".

> At the lower end of the tech levels where you can have interstellar industry, the only "amazingly high-energy isotope/mineral" is hydrogen fusion fuel.

That statement isn't a fact. Unless you magically synthesized all possible isotopes and materials. Which you didn't.

> There's nothing in the Earth's crust or core that could be useful for them

But maybe there was, that's the argument.

> Matter annihilation (e.g. via microscopic black holes)

Again, you're talking about known science. Not everything. You don't know what you don't know.

> A single Jupiter with basic fusion reactors could easily sustain quadrillions of humans in enormously inefficient utopian living conditions for trillions of years.

Yes, but that has nothing to do with the argument we're having. It doesn't disprove that there might have been some rare resource (or maybe it's still here, we just didn't get to it).
The majority of people pay online. Obviously the mail and phone options need to be available too though.
This probably isn't true: we don't even have enough conventional weapons to destroy our own planet, and we've been optimizing that for centuries. A relativistic missile is a conventional weapon scaled up.
Ask HN: Do you still use Google search?
Between Kagi and Perplexity AI, I haven't bothered with Google search in over a year and I don't miss it at all. I'm wondering if other HN users are using Google search, and if not, which alternatives are you using?
As a developer, sure, I have no choice in this.

As a user, I was quite happy with my personal Android phone while developing for iOS, both for hardware and software, because absolutely nothing is requiring consumers to buy Apple in the first place as basically every App you care about is shipped to both platforms anyway.
Agreed. It was unclear from your original post if you were talking about coarse-grained sandboxs or more fine-grained systems.

To clarify, a system that defines coarse classes of sandboxs could declare a class of sandbox for non-networked applications, a sandbox for games, a sandbox for applications with storage exclusively for configuration data, etc. Such a system is different in many respects from a system that defines relatively fine-grained composable requirements. Obviously, a fine-grained system could be composed to present a model at the coarse abstraction level, but the way you target a application differs based on what abstraction level you are targeting.
You know... they could be just another malicious actor. I mean they appeal to emotions, github is not showing them as active in the community, pseudonym without any details in the profile. And by malicious actor I do not mean that they are trying to gain access, they could be just trolling Larhzu.
Fjall v1.0: LSM-based embeddable key-value storage engine written in Rust
Isn't this standard door-in-face technique? Throw an absurd proposal in your face to make the next proposal look reasonable even if it is not even close to the original demand?
I'm not sure I'll use it if it requires me reading a long whitepaper to understand how it works.
Ask HN: How to get Cloudflare to take phishing reports taken seriously
So I got scammed this site though a verified Facebook advert which is on cloudflares DNS:
http://seasaltscornwall.com it is a very convincing clone of http://seasaltcornwall.com

Apparently this has been going on for a while targeting other retailers https://www.reddit.com/r/Scams/comments/1ae338j/online_shopping_scam/
> I am putting aside emotional pressures and processes and only considering the results which are ultimately all that matters.

But what results are you really considering? The "dead is dead" approach makes everything equally meaningless, because in couple hundred million years the Sun will burn the Earth to cinders and everything here will be dead too. Or, some 100-120 years from now, everyone now alive will be dead, etc.

Processes, and emotional pressures which steer those processes, matter too. In theory, machine guns could be used to kill everyone on the planet; in practice, it's economically and socially impossible - too much effort, too many people involved. Nuclear weapons, on the other hand, can realistically achieve this outcome. Which is why nukes can be used to keep the world mostly at peace through MAD, while conventional weapons can not.
Apple may not have a monopoly, but they have enormous market power. By themselves, monopoly or market power are neither illegal or even undesirable.

However, they become undesirable when they are abused to undermine cometition in other markets. For example: Apple has successfully prevented competition to Apple Pay for a long time, by only allowing their own products access to NFC. This meant that parties that were already specialized in handling payments, had no chance to compete, despite them being in an excellent position to do so.

If this behaviour is left unchecked, over time we will end up with one single company dominating most markets. I feel that's undesirable. Given the number of dystopian novels on that premise, most of society considers that future to be undesirable.

Preventing that future is a major part of DMA.
The idea is that, because of the risk of a technological explosion, any sentient species is a threat.

I don’t really buy the idea though - cooperation has been the strongest strength of humanity and is one of our greatest evolutionary edges. Why wouldn’t that apply on the interstellar scale too?
Yes, you are right, I guess charging batteries in seconds is possible with any battery technology if they are assembled from a very large number of very small cells.

This induces a cabling problem. The weight and cost of copper could become very large except if they are very high voltage batteries which means high electronics cost.

Somehow fuel cells are a much better idea than electrical batteries for fast "charging", in addition, they offer a clean and efficient way to generate electricity possibly by absorbing CO2.
What's your point here? Sabotaging democracy is ok against nations that handled pandemics in ways you don't agree with?
Leverage LLMs in Development [video]
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It’s not a fraud, but it’s scummy.
Kotlin is like a Rust with garbage collection. It has a bunch of good ergonomics, safety features and modernity, and the 2.0 release is just about to happen.

You can use Kotlin as a mobile frontend language as well, it's especially good on Android. And there are both JS and wasm outputs available.
According to Wikipedia it's about 180 widebodies for Lufthansa group

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lufthansa_Group
If all you have is a Rusty hammer, everything is a nail.

Third party module dev is harder now for yara-x. And I wonder how the python module will turn out.

Neither 3rd party/go clients nor the official virustotal C client could meet my requirements, I had to write a scanner in python on at least two different times and having to do it again soon. The main issues are resource usage, result shuffling and supporting very large proprietary ruled that depend on specific yara modules.

Crowsresponse by crowdstrike is better too but it still has limits. Python is the best way to yara.
I wish there was a way to sort these by date.
I’ll tell you why - because the government promoted it. Fannie and Freddie were complicit.
I’m a bit of an AI skeptic and find the way people talk vaguely about the “dangers” of AI weird and maybe just more hype (or efforts for regulatory capture) rather than actual cause for concern.

Still, to me, it seems like the two big scary things that might fall out of recent developments in generative AI are:

1. It might vacuum up an enormous number of jobs very quickly; enough jobs and quickly enough to cause serious social unrest.

2. The ability to generate convincing fake videos of basically anything might catastrophically erode our sense of truth or reality.

Both of these strike me as plausible concerns in the near future (arguably they’re already happening). Not really sure what we could do about them, though - the cat is kind of out of the bag.
In the video, Savage says the falling of the sword was not CG.
Not ideal. It is very slow. It takes 8 seconds for 3400 strings. That might be fine for occasional offline usage, but not for frequent usage, and certainly not for use in the backend (although I agree it should not be used there). I guess it matches all regexps against each string.

It also misses some really common user agents, basically all iOS 11 and 12. They may be rare nowadays, but they still occur.
The Ukrainian stamps in my passport suggest I’ve spent more than 30 seconds talking with them…
That would be a net win for Europe, European citizens and companies.

As soon as Apple/Meta/Google/... sulk and leave, other companies would find the space to grow and fill that space with similar products which would respect the users.

Users outside of Europe would realise it's possible to have those kinds of products without abusive practices, and would start demanding Apple/Meta/Google/... for the same.
Russia, China 'manipulating UK opinion by promoting pro-Palestinian influencers'
> Imagine a world in which the EU instead funded research & implementation of public protocols to undermine US big tech?

That was tried, decades ago. Machines Bull. Plan Calcul. Cyclades. Minitel. Didn't win.
It is much easier and cheaper to endanger a especie than to recover it.

Once that you reach a point of small number of individuals the lack of genetic variability and the problems finding a matting companion makes it hard to recover
Not anymore. These days PlayStore is roughly on the same level. Source: I have both.
There's no question that general standards of living have improved enormously, with some areas having much more improvement than others.

The comparison isn't US$1000 exchanged to Somali Shillings and looking at purchasing power. A Somali quartet is not earning anywhere near $1000 after conversion, and the price of many other products and services would be much cheaper compared to the US as well.

Nor is the comparison $1000 US dollars in 2024 and looking at what that same nominal amount would purchase in distant history.The quartet would be earning much less in nominal amounts, but the nominal amounts of everything are cheaper as well.

Here are some hard figures. Using the year 1800 as the comparison.

USA economy
$1000 in 2024 = $40 in 1800. A 2388% increase attributed to inflation.

String quartet gig in 2024 = $1000
For 1800 it's hard to find earnings for anything outside of labor and manufacturing however the wage for a teacher was around $1 per day.

If we make a big assumption that teachers and musicians pay were equivalent, then it would appear that the purchasing power of a string quartet has 10x the purchasing power today after accounting for inflation $40 / 4 persons / $1 = 10).

10x is quite consistent across all occupations that I can find equivalents for (skewed heavily toward labouring and manufacturing, very few services are reported in 1800).

So in that sense the string quartet isn't an outlier, for the most part we are all enjoying around 10x the purchasing power since 1800.

One day's earnings now is equivalent to 10 days in 1800. This is great, but not anywhere near 1 day = 1 year.

Estimating inflation back to 1100 would be very difficult .. as would determining day wages, the economic system was very different.

Sources:
Inflation - https://www.officialdata.org/us/inflation/1800?

Labor wages in 1800 - https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89071501472&seq=17...

Current wages - bis.gov
There is lots of work done on it in the SETI field. The dark forest theory doesn’t hold up under game theoretic analysis (hiding is not the optimal strategy, nor is predation), and is pretty resounding rejected.

Not sure what the best resource would be for an outsider to delve into this field though.
Isn’t Apple already in China? There must be a reason why they are not selling much there already, but perhaps they could dump prices and increase marketing. Although China and US is in a trade war right now, so prices are more likely to increase as China increase import taxes to balance ones the US has put on imports from China.
It already dominates the market though, at least in the US, the wealthiest market there is.
The A380 has higher ceilings than other planes. Doesn't help the knees but makes it feel a lot more airy.
I mostly use chatgpt. don't do google much unless i'm looking to shop or something, but then I usually just go to amazon or yelp
> If no, what capabilities is this AI assumed to have that a human can never have?

If we're talking AGI, then:

- An intelligence qualitatively greater than any human or human group alive.

- A system of values that's not that of a human saint.
He read a sci-fi story with a catchy title that claimed it, that’s why. Game theory doesn’t show hiding to be an optimal strategy.
It's the same in Germany and France I think, but then you have Denmark where iMessage is like huge. The point is that the EU isn't particularly homogeneous in terms of messaging platforms. The only thing that is true across the EU is that Facebook/Meta is in control of most of messaging.
It’s also in the Russian constitution that Putin basically gets to be president for life. Guess that makes it okay…
Ask HN: Which is the best HTTP library Python?
It should beat all of its alternatives on its benchmarks
On IBM 360/370 etc stuff, at least.
Interesting... Looks like it would be good for RAG. Maybe add Ollama support for local hosting?
Been using Kagi for 2 full years, all is well!
Hard, the only platform I could realistically get more than 50% of friends and family on is Facebook, but I don't have Facebook.

Switching is super hard when your primary platform just fallback to SMS.
> Some seem to think that if iMessage goes away, people will just switch to WhatsApp or Signal. NO, they'll fallback to SMS/MMS.

In the US? Maybe. In Europe, where many people have Android phones and iPhone users need WhatsApp/Messenger anyway? I doubt it.
I have lived in Germany and The Netherlands. Not having iMessage would be a mild inconvenience. Not having WhatsApp would be social suicide. Everything, from sports to kids school stuff is arranged through WhatsApp.

I know many iPhone users here who don’t even use iMessage. It’s activated, so it would show in the stats, but they’ll message everyone through WhatsApp.
Tariffs help to fight the government-subsidized Chinese EVs. Prices of which are only low because the Chinese taxpayer is paying for the difference between the real price to produce and the sales price.

Without tariffs China can destroy every single US industry, one at a time, by flooding the marked with subsidized products.
Its probably not just the tech industry that soured on this, it was just much more common in tech. I don't think accountancy firms and hospitals are keen on their employees fighting endlessly about politics when they're at work.
I still use it on a couple of devices where I haven't been bothered to change the default. On devices I use a lot, I normally use Duckduckgo or Ecosia
The other problem for big tech is that most countries are modeling their tech legislation based on the EU.

At this point the GDPR is something you have to consider whether you’re in the EU or not because several non EU countries have similar laws and many more are thinking of implementing them, and to the extent many haven’t already it’s because it’s unnecessary since tech companies are following GDPR already.

Essentially GDPR has become a de facto global law at this point.

It wouldn’t be surprising if the same would also be true of other legislation coming out of the EU considering that most tech products are global.
That's not the sense I meant it in. Yes, people will of course not be idle while they get the UBI, but they are no longer likely to be these integrated cogs in a machine.

If you work in a team programming something or similar, then you are co-operating to produce a product, and if you've got a civilised company you'll all end up friends. You've had a common goal and you've worked towards it together in an honest way. Furthermore, you are necessary to society. Even if the political and economic elite are not in on this work, and are not participating in it in an honest way, the success of your work is something they need, thus they need you.

But here the reason why we're instituting UBI is that people are no longer necessary to production.

This is similar to something about the resource curse. When countries need their workers for wealth they tend to need to ensure that their workers have good conditions, but if they can get away with just extracting oil or natural resources, then the good conditions disappear. AI will reduce the need for workers to the point of UBI, so it will become more like the extractive work in these states with less good conditions.

So my objection isn't to UBI as such, it's that I think UBI doesn't go far enough. Having thought some more since yesterday evening I think it may even be so that for the situation to be stable the people on UBI need to basically rule the country full-time. A mega-parliament with very great power. So as society moves away from work ordinary people need to move away from work and towards ruling.
One point to recall on this as well is that if we do develop an intelligent AI, it may have taken us millions of years, but we did it. An intelligent AI would potentially be able to iterate and self develop much faster than we have been able to.

It probably won’t take long to go from ‘human equivalent’ to being beyond that.
Of course uucp and the internet are different, but seismo, later uunet, run by the same person, were central hubs where they connected, and ftp.uu.net was one of the main software distribution points. Before seismo became the most popular, it was Bell Labs ihnp4 (Indian Hill), decvax, ucbvax, mcvax in Europe, etc.

That's why email addresses in signatures and mailing lists were usually expressed relative to seismo like "...!seismo!foo!bar!baz!user" (pure uucp routing), or "foo!bar!baz!user@seismo" (mixed internet/usenet routing), or later "user%foo%bar%baz@uunet.uu.net" (uunet gateway with fully qualified domain name), because everybody knew how to get to seismo (later uunet).
There's an EU parliament election in a few weeks or so, how is that undemocratic?
And yet, "it shouldn't be this hard" is an incredibly pertinent observation perhaps with the intention to make the maintainer understand that offloading tons of work on many other people has an impact.
Why would you avoid .NET?
Mmm... Hydrogenated cottonseed oil.
While the Commission have mostly free hands to govern, European Parliament, elected by Europeans can veto their laws and can even veto the commission itself.

European Commission is nothing else than an unelected government controlled by a parliament like it happens in most countries.

Also, ultimately, the commission is nominated by elected representatives of each country so, depending on how you see the thing, we could even say that they are more democratically nominated than most governments.

The only major difference between EU and most countries is that the parliament don’t have legislative power.
iMessage is “hugely popular” only because it essentially replaces SMS. No one actually goes out of their way to communicate through iMessage.

WhatsApp, OTOH, is huge, and that’s an app that’s not installed by default and automatically consists of your entire address book as contacts but instead you have to go ahead and download it and explicitly add contacts to it, and yet it’s almost certainly bigger than imesssage outside the U.S. and is growing rapidly within the U.S.