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MS is such a behemoth it doesn't really need to try. They know a captive audience of Windows and Office users are just going to use whatever they build because it's there, not because it's better than the competition.

Why pay for an email client when you have Outlook? Why pay for Slack when you have Teams? Why pay for cloud storage when you have OneDrive?

Could make the same argument for any giant corporation really: they don't need to innovate to survive, they don't need to do better to survive, they just have to keep using their muscle and their size to stay ahead.
Pfizer's decision in the '90s cost them a stronghold in the GLP-1 market
If decentralized networks strike your interest, also look into Anonet, DN42, IRC, UUCP and Usenet. (Not all things on this list are still operable)
What even is "bad art" or "good art" ? Art is art, there is no classifier. Certain art works might have mass appeal or something, but I don't really think it can be put into boxes like that.
My experience was the opposite.

GPT4 and variants would only respond in vagaries, and had to be endlessly prompted forward,

Claude was the opposite, wrote actual code, answered in detail, zero vagueness, could appropriately re-write and hoist bits of code.
> There's no accounting for taste, but keep in mind that all of these services are currently losing money, so how much would you actually be willing to pay for the service you're currently getting in order to let it break even

Ok models already run locally; that aside, as the hosted ones are kinda similar quality to interns (though varying by field), the answer is "what you'd pay an intern". Could easily be £1500/month, depending on domain.
Because it’s required?

I’ve released over 20 apps, over the years, and have learned to add some basic stuff to each app.

Truth be told, it was really sort of a self-deprecating joke.

I’m not a marketer, so I don’t have the training to write the kind of stuff users expect on the Store, and could use all the help I can get

Over the years, I’ve learned that owning my limitations, can be even more important, than knowing my strengths.
It's called gambling. Sometimes by doing this your money increases 1000000% but most of the time it decreases 100%.
> After some googling I found out that cups-browsed is indeed part of the CUPS system and it is responsible for discovering new printers and automatically adding them to the system. Very interesting, I had no idea Linux just added anything found on a network before the user can even accept or be notified. The more you know!

I don't know, last time i bought a new printer i plugged it into my LAN and my Apple machines automatically showed it to me and I could print to it.

Why blame Linux?
Wow, signing that petition was shockingky smooth with my national e-ID. I thought it was just a random petition site, but its an official EU system that verifies your identity. And it just worked with the ID app I have installed. Nice.
I don't think if complexity is the right metric.

front-end JS can easily also become very complex

I think a better metric is how close you are to reinventing a wheel for the thousands time. Because that is what LLMs are good at: Helping you write code which nearly the same way has already been written thousands of times.

But that is also something you find in backend code, too.

But that is also something where we as a industry kinda failed to produce good tooling. And worse if you are in the industry it's kinda hard to spot without very carefully taking a hounded (mental) steps back from what you are used to and what biases you might have.
That's interesting, but technology has always been about augmenting or mimicking human intelligence, though. The Turing test is literally about computers being able to mimic humans so well that real humans wouldn't be able to tell them apart. We're now past that point in some areas, but we never really prioritized thinking about what intelligence _actually_ is, and how we can best reproduce it.

At the end of the day, does it matter? If humans can be fooled by artificial intelligence in pretty much all areas, and that intelligence surpasses ours by every possible measurement, does it really matter that it's not powered by biological brains? We haven't quite reached that stage yet, but I don't think this will matter when we do.
Reminds me of autonomous vehicles a couple of years back. Or even AI a couple of years back, remember Watson? The hype cycle was faster to close that time.
> There will be hardly any, if any, jobs left only a human can do.

A highly white-collar perspective. The great irony of technologist-led industrial revolution is that we set out to automate the mundane, physical labor, but instead cannibalised the creative jobs first. It's a wonderful example of Conway's law, as the creators modelled the solution after themselves. However, even with a lot of programmers and lawyers and architects going out of business, the majority of the population working in factories, building houses, cutting people's hair, or tending to gardens, is still in business—and will not be replaced any time soon.

The contenders for "superhuman AI", for now, are glorified approximations of what a random Redditor might utter next.
> And if AI will let us live, but continue to pursue its own goals, humanity will from then on only be a small footnote in the history of intelligence. That relatively unintelligent species from the planet "Earth" that gave rise to advanced intelligence in the cosmos.

That is an interesting statement. Wouldn't you say this is inevitable? Humans, in our current form, are incapable of being that "advanced intelligence". We're limited by our biology primarily with regards to how much we can learn, how far we can travel, where we can travel, etc. We could invest in advancing our biotech to make humans more resilient to these things, but I think that would be such a shift from what it means to be human that I think that would also be more a of new type of intelligence. So it seems like our fate will always be to be forgotten as individuals and only be remembered by our descendants. But this is in a way the most human thing of all, living, dying, and creating descendants to carry the torch of life, and perhaps more generally the torch of intelligence, forward.

I think everything you've said are valid concerns, but I'll raise a positive angle I sometimes thing about. One of the things I find most exciting about AI, is that it's the product of almost all human expression that has ever existed. Or at least everything that's been recorded and wound up online. But that's still more than any other human endeavour. A building might be the by-product of maybe hundreds or even thousands of hands, but an AI model has been touched by probably millions, maybe billions of human hands and minds! Humans have created so much data online that's impossible for one person, or even a team to read it all and make any sense of it. But an AI sort of can. And in a way that you can then ask questions of it all. Like you, there are definitely things I'm uncertain about with the future as a result, but I find the tech absolutely awe-inspiring.
In my annecdata experience deep discharge (< 5%) and partly charging (like 40 to only 60%) affect the capacity severely. There the annecdata of the OP is not very relevant.
Show HN: Open-source, offline, local password app
Local Lock is an Android app with the only goal of being a secure, locked, no-third party, completely local open source password saving app.

Very useful for less important frequently changing secure password storage
Probably these services are so tuned (not as in "fine-tuned" ML style) to each individual user that it's hard to get any sort of collective sense of what works and what doesn't. Not having any transparency what so ever into how they tune the model for individual users doesn't help either.
I think the reason the text editor experience hasn't improved that much is because it's not often a bottleneck.

Thinking and learning are the hardest parts of programming. Typing faster doesn't help that much.
And the GP was clearly stating that it was about adults. You're either arguing in bad faith or not paying attention.
You can make a slow cooked steak on it then? Looks useful!
It would suck to build a system only to find out the PSU isn't up to snuff but my 4090 and overclocked CPU run fine on an 850w PSU.

I may upgrade preemptively to beat the PSU rush when their next cards release.
Hackernews comments and getting bogged down on minutiae and missing the overall point, is there a more iconic pairing?
Comedy Theory (2022)
Ran into this today. From doing comedy for about 7 years now, this basically correct. Although most comedians approach joke writing organically rather than with this approach
Instead of hidden sleaze it's now very much in your face.
> you trusted what you read before. For me, LLMs don't change anything. I already questioned the information before and continue to do so. [...]
Why do you think that you could trust what you read before?

A human communicator is, in a sense, testifying when communicating. Humans have skin in the social game.

We try to educate people, we do want people to be well-informed and to think critically about what they read and hear. In the marketplace of information, we tend very strongly to trust non-delusional, non-hallucinating members of society. Human society is a social-confidence network.

In social media, where there is a cloak of anonymity (or obscurity), people may behave very badly. But they are usually full of excuses when the cloak is torn away; they are usually remarkably contrite before a judge.

A human communicator can face social, legal, and economic consequences for false testimony. Humans in a corporation, and the corporation itself, may be held accountable. They may allocate large sums of money to their defence, but reputation has value and their defence is not without social cost and monetary cost.

It is literally less effort at every scale to consult a trusted and trustworthy source of information.

It is literally more effort at every scale to feed oneself untrustworthy communication.
It’s collections like this that sometimes turn out to have the only surviving copy of the Apollo moon landing broadcast. I would digitize the report of what is in there and make it available on the Internet as fast as possible, so that people who are interested in this stuff can see if there’s anything that is not available elsewhere
Even if that's the case, the disagreement is in semantics. Let's take your definition of theft. There's physical theft (actually taking something) and there's digital theft (merely copying).

The point of anti-copyright advocates are that merely copying is not ethically wrong. In fact, Why Software Must Be Free made the argument that preventing people from copying is ethically wrong because it limited the spread of culture and reuse.

That is the crux of the disagreement. You may rephrase our argument as "physical theft may be bad, but digital theft is not bad, and in fact preventing digital theft is in itself bad", but the argument does not change.

Of course, there is additional disagreement in the implied moral value of the word "theft". In that case I agree with you that pro-copyright/anti-AI advocates have made their point by the usage of that word. Of course, we disagree, but... it is what it is I suppose.
I wish I knew about this when I set up my grandmother's new computer earlier this year. She has gotten used to using windows mail and I had to explain to her how to tell the difference between her own emails and ads that look exactly like her own emails.
Curious to hear who is using it still. I experimented with it 2010/2011 IIRC but never build a real project with it.
Thanks! Actually this current rabbit-hole side quest was sparked by a arc of nostalgia around 90s IRC. Download a client, joint chat rooms and just chat. Anything like that today? No setup required.
Do the latest models still give us people with a vagina dick?
One map to visualize 70 years of targeted assassinations by Israel
Just like robo-taxis are supposed to be driving us around or self driving cars. Not to mention the non-fiat currency everyone can easily use to buy goods nowadays.
Misaligned expectations strike again. The man had a totally reasonable expectation that the state would protect his land with erosion control measures, but failing that, he did it himself and then got in trouble for doing so. Meanwhile the state thought he knew about this when he bought the property and knew he'd have to simply demolish the structure that was getting eroded.

The less stringent the rules are, the more flexibility there is to bend the two sides to meet in the middle, but capitalist property ownership has become so central to people's lives that it's become so mired down in regulations that they can't meet and nobody wins here.
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Current status of the fibre optic dispute and FTTH rollout in Switzerland [video]
Not only that, but also hating on memory safety (for no reason at all) is just dumb. Most of his software is just simple projects, except maybe this, it's definitely not something I'd use in my day to day life.

My opinion on him is the same as my opinion on Terry Davis (if he would contribute to Linux (or other FOSS projects, instead of making his own useless TempleOS), he would leave a way better legacy)
In the long term, sure. Short term, when that happens, we're going to be on Wile E. Cyote physics and keep up until we look down and notice the absence of ground.
This is not so much than human are "really bad" at this. Here they're facing other human (scientists, psychologists, artists, marketers), computers, algorithms, spending all their waking hours devising scheme to make them addicted.

The C language may not help you much with clean memory allocation, but at least they are not using A/B testing and emotional appeal to coerce you into doing deadly memory management.
Maybe I'm behind on the trends since I mostly just apply directly to companies, or through one of the major job sites (Indeed, LinkedIn, etc). I checked out those two websites and now I'm confused. You can't perform searches on grazily (try searching something, it doesn't do anything). Also it still lists jobs from over a year ago? The website seems like student's school project.
Correction: a whole industry of AI that will fix what AI has created.
>Speeding on the highway and jaywalking may seem harmless

These two are not at all the same, and one is much more dangerous and asocial than the other.
Huh? What original article? The Toms Hardware article is a copy and paste of the NYT one.
It's obviously a personal taste thing, but a lot of people 'want' as much detail as possible; the satisfaction for them being that if they sat down in those cockpits, they'd have a good chance of being able to fly.. for a few minutes before crashing horrible anyway :)

That was my motivation and narrative for playing it anyway, and judging by some of the paid realism mods, I don't think I was the only one
And he does it in decimal, which breaks my brain.
> they hide behind when people get their sites exploited

It's all in the GPL under "no warranty" and the license is attached to the WP source.
Thanks for the recommendation, I'm going to give it a try!

To be fair to MSFS they're not that well suited to the military side of flying. GA and airliners are great now though so I always thought of DCS and MSFS filling different niches and having a completely different focus.
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How does agriculture, or cars, or penicillin augment or mimick human intelligence?
States changed their laws around cannabis as a measure to gather votes and to increase tax revenues. Theories of markets and economics have little to do with it.
Going plastic free is very hard today. I'd be interested to know if people have managed inroads on this problem in their own lives.
Gambling triggers capitalism to ruin lives. If we had a well-designed society, you could lose a lot by gambling, but you could end up with $0 and still not be completely "ruined".
Probably Googling for terms which led to a specific post but if you goto https://nickjanetakis.com/blog there is a list of tags at the top, Vim is one of them.
I think the issue is that: I’m not going to be using as a calculator any time soon.

Unfortunately, there’s a lot of people out there, working on a lot of products, some of which I need to use, or will be exposed to, and some of them aren’t going to have the same qualms about “language model thinks 2+2=5”.

There’s a guy on Twitter scoring how well ChatGPT models can do multiplication.

A founder at a previous workplace wanted to wholesale dump data into ChatGPT and “make it do causal analysis!!!” (Only slightly paraphrased). These tools enable some frighteningly large-scale weaponised stupidity.
This is likely a different problem than the article describes. Most newer hard drives will move the actuator arm back and forth every few seconds when the drive is inactive. It has to do with evenly distributing the lubrication on the arm to increase the life of the drive.
Definitely. My time is valuable and I would spend multiples more on the current subscription costs.
Sequoia wrote 13,000 words about how Sam Bankman-Fried was god's gift to mankind. VCs are not serious.

> Bankman-Fried's first pitch meeting with the VC firm's partners during its Series B round is also included in the profile, in which the founder laid out his vision to investors for FTX to become a super-app — all while he was playing the video game "League of Legends" on his computer.
US personal saving rate was 4.8 percent in August
Usually I learn my way around the reference docs for most languages I use but CSS has about 50 documents to navigate. I’ve found Copilot does a great job with CSS questions though for Java I really do run into cases where it tells me that Optional doesn’t have a method that I know is there.
> OpenAI’s business model, as it exists today, doesn’t really inspire confidence, as it seems to exist on the promise of ‘jam tomorrow.’ Specifically, the firm has an income of approximately $3 billion per year, which is put in deep shade by its $7 billion annual expenditure.

So a yearly loss of 4 billion dollars or losing $10 million daily. The IPOs basically (mostly) have been operating just the way Bitcoin has been - Next bigger fool theory. That you pass on the potato to the next bigger fool till it ends to the last in the chain like Twitter who doesn't know what to do to churn out those inflated sums paid along the chain.

Not sure how many days OpenAI can afford to lose 10 million dollars daily but current macroeconomic environment, prospects aren't great.
My mistake. I misunderstood the question.
The industrial revolution didn't lay everyone off, it just made everyone's jobs worse in every possible sense.
Much could be said about open source libraries that companies release for free to use (kubernetes, react, firecracker, etc). It might be strategically make sense for them so in the meantime we’ll just reap the benefits.
If you are alcoholic enough, alcohol withdrawal can literally kill you. Likewise, consequences on family and your own outcomes are massive even before that stage.
How is the hypothetical person's nationality in any way relevant? Oh, yes, it's relevant, because the Western society hates racists, so if he is something the society doesn't want, then he must be mentally ill!

No. This guy is actually mentally ill. If I were a betting man, I'd wager that it's some kind of BPD and I think a psychologist could analyze this better than me, a layman.
That’s hilarious.
Maybe there’ll be an episode in some show a decade from now, inspired by this.
I see you haven’t tried the latest FSD build from Tesla.
2 charts to try and settle the endless washing machine tariff debate
,yes
but unfortunately plain text does not allow for
reverb,echo, and huge vocal equivilants
what would be "groundshaking" is an asteroid or
meteor fragment containing clearly visible allien fossils
statisticaly,such things must exist
"This is actually good for Bitcoin"
The spammers have been given a tool that’s capable of higher quality at much higher volumes.

If nothing else, it’s now much more feasible for them to be successful by sheer force of drowning out any “worthwhile” material.
That kind of requirement is the exact thing that someone can make some money on by doing the conversion and then selling them on eBay. I would gladly spend a couple hundred dollars for something like that if I needed to do VHS conversion.
The Physics of Colliding Balls
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For what it’s worth, I really really enjoy flying over places I did/will travel to. Last year, I had a backpacking trip of Yosemite valley planned I was very nervous about. I flew the route a few times (in an F-22) and it calmed me down, knowing when I’ll be climbing, when I’ll have the best views, etc. Probably not a standard use, just my $0.02
Hopefully it will be able to also reduce boilerplate and do reasonable DRY abstractions if repetition becomes too much.

E.g. I feel like it should be possible to first blast out a lot of repetitive code and then for LLM to go over all of it and abstract it reasonably, while tests are still passing.
more like “anime pfp anon”
No they are not. At best they are a minor contributor. If people want security latches and whatnot they can buy them and pay accordingly. An easy to steal care beats no car every day of the week.

I live in a not great part of what's arguably the bluest state in the nation (which is to say this isn't some dumb red state "tough on crime" thing) and I can't imagine someone being able to go around checking windows or car doors for very long without a free ride in a cop car. Windows here are unlatched from May to September. I bet a lot of those houses have Kias in the driveway that they've had no theft problems with as we only have about a dozen car thefts per year here.

Ford Superduties over a huge year range can be stolen much the same way (you also have to punch out a lock before taking a screwdriver to the column) until very recently as PATS was not standard on the higher GVW stuff but those are expensive trucks so shitting on them doesn't scratch the same "validate my $50k purchase of something else" itch that crapping on Kia does.
It's not only VRAM. more cores, more bandwith, better power delivery, workstation features...
I have yet to watch people be THAT more productive using, say, Copilot. Outside of some annoying boilerplate that I did not have to write myself, I don't know what kind of code you are writing that makes it all so much easier. This gets worse if you are using less trendy languages.

No offense, but I have only seen people who barely coded before describe being "very productive" with AI. And, sure, if you dabble, these systems will spit out scripts and simpler code for you, making you feel empowered, but they are not anywhere near being helpful with a semi-complex codebase.
>ethnic differences

Show me the differences between a French Basque and a Spaniard Basque. The first one it's called a French White and the other, Hispanic.
Yet they are virtually the same.

Then, the differences between a Catalan and some French Occitan.

Or some Galician and a Northern Portuguese.