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I think you are overestimating the relevance of minor bits of American (or historic) culture.

We can easily work out from the context what 60lb means. The precise figure is less relevant than the rest of the scene anyway — is a soldier carrying this backpack? An injured child?

All kinds of knowledge are relevant when reading a book. Is the backpack to be carried from Warsaw to Prague? Maybe I have a greater understanding of what that entails than you, even though I'm less sure about the 60lb.
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> Frankly, what surprises me is that the AI community

I came here thinking about this exact part. Well, many of them, but this one in particularly.

What surprises me about Elon is how much he can talk about other peoples' work without doing any of it himself. And yet each time I hear him talk about something I'm well-versed in, he sounds fairly oblivious yet totally unaware of that fact.

His go-to strategy seems to be hand waving with a bit of "how hard could it be"?

He's very fortunate he has competent staff.
For me, being number 1 is overrated. My ego naturally knows no bounds already, so I don't really seek validation outside of the echo chamber of my own mind (especially from strangers on the internet)

As long as I'm number "anything", it means I'm still alive, and I get another day to keep on keepin' on doing the stuff that I do.

And yes, I realize how folksy and unhelpful and "Joe Dirt" that comes off, but the truth of the matter is, you gotta find your own happiness and personally decide what success means to you and shoot for that. We live in a period of humanity where 'achievements' are often overblown by media, misrepresented, packaged and sold to us as branding exercises in such a subtle fashion that we don't even realize it.

Plus, they say "never meet your idols" because it's quickly laid bare how human they really are -- best to leave something to the imagination and seek inspiration from the one-dimensional representation of them that you hold in your mind than to find out how flawed and fallible they actually are.

Anyways dude, unless you're completely miserable at your day job, you're probably doing just fine and are on the right path. Enjoy the journey. It's cool to aim high but it's just as cool to never actually get there too.

A lot of the time, "there" turns out to be a cold, lonely, shitty place anyways!
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Do you think you would describe yourself as above or below average in technical ability?

For example, do you know what terms like "3-2-1 backup" and "swap file" mean?

If you answered yes to either, I don't think you are the primary customer. You are the type of person who will turn this off and move on with their day.

I think this argument you are making is essentially the same that a person would make for preferring a manual transmission car instead of automatic. But we all know that 90% of people just want the car to go when the right pedal is pressed down, they don't really care about their ability to tell the car exactly what to do.

Personally I think the average person would be very excited to have a feature that can recall things they were working on or looking at that they forgot to save. I don't know how many times I've had to tell the non-tech inclined "sorry you didn't save it, it's gone."

As far as capturing sensitive information, I'm not really sure it's all that much worse than anything else the non-technical people do. I think at all these attack vectors are no worse than someone convincing you to install conventional malware. Both require you to elevate permissions and dismiss strong warnings.
> Every definition you say?

When I was growing up, "very smart" people had a law degree or a medical degree or understood quantum physics and/or relativity (but all three would be silly), or spoke perhaps three or four languages (but thirty would be a joke). They might perhaps also be above average at games of skill like chess, or perhaps could improvise poetry in some specific style (but every style would be a bit of a Mary Sue).

I may not trust ChatGPT's medical diagnosis or legal analysis, but it does pass those exams; I may not expect much novel insights about unifying QM and GR, but it seems to "know" the topics well enough for people to worry it may lead to cheating in those subjects and most others besides.

And the chess score may not be the absolute best, but it's way above the average human player.

And it seems entirely adequate in quite a lot of languages (though not native), and most styles of poetry (again, not what anyone would call the Nobel committee for, but way above what most people can dream of).

> https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com/post/3lclo77koj22y

We also didn't have spellcheck running all the time when I was growing up, and when we did there was quite a lot of red, but even that misses things like "I'm applying for collage" and "what lovely wether*" which were also real mistakes made by actual humans.

* spelled like that it means "castrated ram"
Fun fact: we know the Vesuvius eruption, whatever the date, was on a Wednesday. How? Because we found a bread called Panis Quadratus that was only baked on Wednesdays [1].

Pompeii (and Herculaneum) are endlessly fascinating and about a third of Pompeii remains underground and hasn't been examinted yet.

[1]: https://www.visitnaples.eu/en/neapolitanity/flavours-of-napl...
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Sam Altman said this around a year ago: "i expect ai to be capable of superhuman persuasion well before it is superhuman at general intelligence, which may lead to some very strange outcomes". I am wondering whether AI has any input for this piece that tries to persuade the public to believe the people that are accusing me is not good either.
yeah i agree. one of my goals is to inspire and honor those that work on open source AI.

people who work on open source tend to be motivated by things like impact and the excitement of being part of something bigger than themselves - at least that's how i always feel when i'm around Berkeley and get to meet or work with OG BSD hackers and people who helped invent core internet protocols or the guys who invented RISC or more recently RISC-V

those people are going to do this kind of OSS work and share it with the world anyway, without any cash prize. i think of this as a sort of thank you gift for them. and also a way to maybe convince a few people to explore that path who might not have otherwise.
Not him but as someone in a similar position- I didn't like how the steam release axed the UI that had stayed more or less the same for the decade I had been playing DF for on and off in favor of a new one. I still love the game and highly recommend it, it (and the devs) are gems. But it put me off playing the steam release because while the new UI is cleaner it also (from the limited time I spent with it) felt less deep and less powerful. The old text UI was a kludged together mess that used just about every key and sometimes combinations of keys on your keyboard and had little to no consistency in layout or navigation between screens but once you got the muscle memory down you could navigate the menus and input commands blazingly fast compared to the new mouse and graphical oriented UI. I completely understand why they had to change however because it wasn't user friendly.
Only if one delves.
Did you really just compare the thing that makes me able to code and ship 5x faster to... NFTs?
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Crazy stuff. Everyone’s covering how exciting all these are (especially LCM and the non-tokenizing-tokenizer), but I have to ask in case anyone’s been paying attention: why are they using the term “advanced machine intelligence”?

My initial thought is that they want to please/distract the doomers, but I’m prolly just self-centered!
Is their existence just speculation or is there mathematical / empirical observations that suggest they exist we just don’t know about them? Is it guaranteed, or highly likely, that one exists we just haven’t found it?
Right. But the context here is whether languages can make the (very big) decision to default to a CSPRNG, in which case: you make that decision once, for all your users, and when you do, you don't use "/dev/random".
lol

just a lot less (overt) slurs and slightly more intelligible formatting
I’m the same - I slow down dramatically with technical topics unless I’m very comfortable with the material.

There’s no pleasure in speed reading through literature. It’s like a gourmet meal - you don’t enjoy the food if you wolf it down in 10 minutes.
I can see how you might suspect that, but I got a different read from it. The constant references to the topic as the "IPv6 Cat" struck me as another in the long tradition of authors who became too attached to a clumsy and ineffective analogy they thought was good enough™ and banged it like a drum. That strikes me as an all-too-human thing to do (especially since I've been guilty of it myself before) rather than an AI artifact. I enjoyed the piece nevertheless, and I agree with its premise that market forces are not enough to continue the trend of IPv6 penetration growth and that public policy carrots and sticks are both needed and justifiable to ensure it comes to pass.

On another matter, whose brainchild is IPv6+? I haven't heard of that one before.
This would massively complicate kernel path resolution on many systems. Taking Linux as an example, even in the simplest cases, ~user expansion as typically implemented — via the getpwnam(3) libc function, which in itself implies a rather unfortunate dependency — requires reading and parsing /etc/passwd, and may also require access to network directory services like LDAP.
> but it's the letter's content that's important

Yes, and the letter says SpaceX wants the town incorporated so they can turn over functions that they're currently doing to the new public body. So literally the opposite of the claim of a company town is happening.
I agree, 'room temp' isn't exactly precise. Even if it could work at 'room temp' if it didn't work just above that it would be too finicky for a lot of applications. Somewhere around there is likely the 'magic' point for a huge number of applications that will change the world. The perfect would be, of course, one with a very broad range of environments it could perform in. I think we are on track to figure out how to make something truly sci-fi in its properties: Strong, wide range of temp/conditions, flexible, etc etc. Once we get the theory perfect I bet the world will really open up.
Kodachrome is an amazing archival color film that when stored properly will last centuries. b&w negative film is even more stable.

You make a good point about the lack of durability and instability of many types of chemical photo processes (especially color negative and print processing). I do think many digital formats will be lost to time when a color transparency or b&w negative will still be viewable without much aid into the future.

One of my favorite photo books is the re-photographic survey project by Mark Klett. He went around re-capturing the exact locations (and camera position) of notable images of the American West from the early days of the US geological survey when they had a plate photographer on the team. We are talking about a time period just after the US Civil War. So we see a landscape captured in time 10 decades or more after the original.

I've been a pro photographer for over 30 years. All my earliest digital work is archived in RAW so I have the original shooting data. It all triple backed up and I have a friend that allows me store one of my backups at his home. I've been amazed at how many photographers lost track of or throw away their older work. I'm still licensing my work hundreds of times a year and some of this older material is becoming even more valuable simply due to scarcity. The redundancy of digital is great of you take archiving seriously.

Yet, I still have drawers of original film from the late 80's - to early 2000's I'm scanning a few but will probably let many be disposed of . . .
Constructivism is not mainstream mathematics.

The theorem that every vector space has a basis, something that is used fairly often, is actually equivalent to the axiom of choice, something that isn't valid in constructive logic. For many vector spaces you won't be able to write down a basis. And there are other examples, e.g. almost none of the automorphisms of C can be written down (only the identity and the conjugate map).
I guess “apparently” doesn’t mean what I thought it did. My apologies.
If things are bad enough, some people will think Mars sounds better. It won’t be, but people will want to believe it will and marketing will suggest it.
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Why didn’t Intel call the Pentium the 586? Because they added 486+100 on the first one they made and got 585.999999987.
This is the only place that OP has posted, at least at the time of that comment.
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True, #fff on #000 might not be the best, but say, #ADADAD on #2B2B2B is a lot worse. The lower contrast version technically passes accessibility guidelines, but there's a reason why accessibility guidelines don't disallow the higher contrast colors.

A lot of these themes are being pushed by people who are senior designers and have done their homework, but as someone who does have astigmatism, I'd say low contrast is worse than high contrast.
Yeah, haven’t you seen how much they charge for Dippin Dots??
Black holes have had two different singularities in general relativity:

(1) the event horizon was the first singularity, but that turned out to be a free choice of the coordinate system, i.e. a mistake in the maths — and we can't see past the event horizons anyway, so we don't know what happens on the other side of them even though they're not "real" singularities

(2) the point in the centre where the geodesics stop, which everyone in the field knows is incompatible with (a) the assumption in the maths of relativity that spacetime is smooth and can be differentiated everywhere, and (b) quantum mechanics
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Reinventing the wheel is fun, but 3d printer boards already exist, and are literally mcu+stepper drivers, could be bought for pennies from people who upgraded their 3d printers to aftermarket ones.
Love the subway surfers loading screen LMAO. cool app!
"Just a pump with a group head" is still pretty cool. It isn't revolutionary, temp control is a "big deal" in the community, but it's pretty cool that OP created that.

The pump absolutely is a "big deal" though if they can deliver on it. It has been attempted (Decent is trying to make one - actually they have been trying for years) and no one has delivered on a pump like that to date.
From https://blog.3mdeb.com/2024/2024-12-13-ram-data-decay-resear... :

> The main goal is to determine the time required after powering off the platform for all the data to be irrecoverably lost from RAM.

Cold boot attack:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_boot_attack

Data remnance:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_remanence

Ironically, quantum computers have the opposite problem; coherence times for QC qubits are still less than a second: there is not yet a way to store qubits for even one second.

(2024: 291±6µs, 2022: 20µs)

"Cryogenically frozen RAM bypasses all disk encryption methods" (2008)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/cryogenically-frozen-ram-bypas...

And that's part of why secure enclaves and TPM.
It was on HN a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41418301
Can't turn on ecg without connecting to garmin and sharing your location.

Other than that, you can use garmin watches entirely offline and I highly recommend them.
I think this issue better addressed in HTML spec. Basic functionality to include html snippets files in other HTML files should be standard. What am I missing?
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I would guess it’s in response to the recent market studies showing that the general public views anything labeled “AI” as a likely scam and untrustworthy.
Are you familiar with epidurals? Generally they give morphine or fentanyl through the epidural.
Interest rates are still well below their historical average right now.

And yes, venture capital investing involves high risk, of which all participants are fully aware, and intentionally looking for.

We're talking <2 years since ChatGPT went viral for the first time. Generally these stories take at least 10 years to play out. Uber was unprofitable for 15 years. Now they're profitable. Every VC-backed startup is unprofitable and barely keeping the lights on for many years. None have reached 100M active users in a matter of weeks like ChatGPT.

They absolutely might fail. But the level of pessimism here is just plain funny. How much money are you willing to bet against them ever getting profitable?
And not only the beginnings of the CRPG. The 1977 PLATO game Oubliette definitely was the model for the 1981 Apple II/C64 (and later NES) gane Wizardry and the later games like The Bard's Tale and Might & Magic.
Having IPv4 just for your public facing servers is a small expense, and within the private network you can still use private IPv4. The biggest pressure is to allow your servers to call out into the internet without an IPv4 address or a NAT. That's pressure on APIs, SaaS services consumed by backend servers, update servers, etc.

Maybe that's enough to remove the friction around IPv6 and make it "just work" to the point that everyone just keeps it on. Or maybe it doesn't and we get a divide where everything consumed by machines moves to IPv6 while content consumed by humans keeps preferring IPv4.
I would say that laws covering right-to-repair are almost entirely a different subject than laws governing retail competition.

Being forced to buy a vehicle from the manufacturer would be exactly like being forced to buy Indiana Jones and the Great Circle only from Microsoft. But it's a lot better to be able to buy it from multiple game stores, many of which compete on price.

https://www.cheapshark.com/search#q:Indiana%20Jones%20and%20...

Overall I think it's totally fine that Tesla wants to sell cars direct, and any manufacturer should be able to. But they should also be obligated to sell to dealerships at a fair price (they shouldn't be able to just pretend that their own selling process has no cost associated with it).
At his level of wealth and power he can unfortunately peddle in all sorts of highfalutin technical-sounding nonsense with zero accountability.

Few people like Yann LeCun can afford to call his bullshit and survive the reality distortion field.
> he actively empathised with the protestors.

I have significant doubt that Sam is capable of empathy, period. It seems like what he's capable of is an extremely convincing caricature of it which he has practiced for many years.
Are AI Agents Just Hallucinations in a Digital Dialogue?
Are AI agents overrated and ultimately just hallucinations that are forwarded and used as input to hallucinate even more? I notice that people describe AI agents, but also the system prompts, as if they were talking to a human being. They use polite phrases, repeat themselves, some even claim that being polite to an AI created better results etc…

I say it works like this: An agent receives a task written in human-readable form with politeness and such. Then it creates some other human-readable statement and sends it to another AI. Every time there is some hallucination. If the end result is not totally off, the inventors say: it works.

It bugs me that I am yet again the only one to address this, everyone else in those low-quality videos on youtube praises ai agents just like the next open source model that now has even more parameters.

It feels like those people in praising videos like “Two minute papers” or similar, they are not even real people, at least they are pathologically autistic.
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Or randomInsecure() and randomCryptographic() to avoid any ambiguity around the word 'weak' for non-security minded programmers[0], and to avoid using the substring 'secure' twice[1] in two very different functions.

[0] In my experience, most of them -- who reads documentation these days...? Or programmers using editors like vim (no slight on vim by the way, don't shoot me!) which (generally) won't alert the programmer to the library options, unless it's been set up with a suggestion/completion/intellisense plugin?

[1] randomSecure() vs randomInsecure(), which can look similar at 3:00am on three hours sleep. Naming the functions explicitly differently makes it patently clear which function is cryptographically safe. Also helps when the interpreter/compiler won't understand the context the function is being called in, therefore can't throw warnings or errors to alert the overtired/overworked programmer that they're using insecure random number generation for crypto.

Big brain idea: Perhaps cryptographically-weak/insecure random number generators should be type incompatible by default, requiring an explicit cast to integer/float? Probably overkill, but definitely wards off mistakes and/or misuses by forcing the developer to type cast out, otherwise the compiler simply refuses, then explains why by fatal error at compile time, or by exception thrown.

But then why not make secure random number generators type incompatible by default? Because we're trying to encourage secure-by-default programming, making it slightly harder (but not onerous) to use the equivalent insecure function over secure one. Create a speed bump to prompt the programmer to think about their code, not a road block.
The auditors would either be captured or rendered powerless in short order. There is a great deal of money that can be used for effective lobbying.
The pump doesn’t appear to offer any meaningful controls. The espresso machine itself seems just voltage controlled. How is that innovative?
This. I remember in the 90's working on a software to control a plastic molding machine that made plastic cups, and hit enter and feel the power of a pneumatic system pushing up the platform where i was standing.