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> Perhaps your perspective is distorted by survivorship bias

Have you considered that perhaps it is your viewpoint who is suffering from survivorship bias? For a civilisation to be considered “great” many many things has to go just right. A wide variety of things can and do go wrong to curtail human societies. Prolonged bad weather can ruin the harvest, and the resulting unrest break up the “civilisation”. Random sparks of religuous fervour can catch and destabilise the region. The ruling class can be wrecked by succession wars. Outside threats can conquer all of them. Their civilisation can fail due to economic or demographic changes.

Is it possible that when you are asking how they succeed on such a large scale while others did not you are just observing that they were lucky in many aspects until one day they were no longer lucky? And then wondering what their secret of success was is indeed just survivorship bias.

Obviously it is still an interesting question to study how did they operate, how did they live and so on and so on. But searching for their “secret sauce” might be a fools errand. Because they very possibly didn’t had one.
Reasonable advice. But I am in a fortunate position where I can do somethings just for thrills.
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Where is the obligatory "WHAT THE FUCK" comment?
Double checking, I don't think I saw anything about video generation. Not sure if those fall under the "LLM" umbrella. It came very late in the year, but the Google Veo 2 limited testing are astounding. There are at least a half-dozen other services where you can pay to generate video.
"true communism has never been tried"
People come to volunteer with the interests and skills they have. It’s easier to let problems that are hard or not interesting fall to the wayside, and for the maintainers to take what they can get (especially if they think that happy contributors will contribute more).
For the benefit of those without Twitter accounts like myself, the preprint of the textbook seems to be at https://www2.math.upenn.edu/~ghrist/preprints/LAEF.pdf
How would you know if it is AI written? Every article on how to write a resume even before LLMs gave the same advice and mostly read the same.

Non AI driven resumes were the same slop.
Steam added a P2P caching mechanism recently and allows downloading games for other local machines that already have the game installed. Greatly helps with avoiding duplicate downloads on a steam deck, for example.

I also added a similar mechanism to my own product years ago. Works flawlessly. Using content based addressing already made it quite easy to implement.
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Phone number is not an identity document, and you can rent a number cheaply on a black market. Also, there should be no verification for small amounts of money. We can use cash anonymously, why we cannot transfer money anonymously?
Don't wanna be that typical hackernews guy but I couldnt resist... if your app is "quite complex" there is probably a way or ways you can break it down into much simpler parts. Easier for you AND the LLM. It always comes back to architecture and composition ;)
It would be cool to get the full covid origin data from China but unlikely. It's hard enough getting it in the US where at least there are freedom of information laws.

The new worry is bird flu of course. Just as well we'll have top scientific minds like RFK Jr dealing with it.
If you'll indulge some conspiratorial thinking on my part:

In the past decade, powerful groups all over the world have realized the importance of presenting their viewpoint (read: propaganda) over social media. Numerous online "reputation management" firms have been born from the existing edifices of marketing and PR. People like Elon pay big money to have a combined-forces army of humans and bots pushing their views in every online venue imaginable. LLMs are the newest and most potent tool in their arsenal.

This is compounded by the genuine human users who, once they have been sufficiently propagandized, will start to participate in this effort unknowingly.
Many people do enjoy hard work over simple pleasures. It is very prominent in Asians I think.
ha, good point, hermano :) [1]

I bet they don't know, either, that cuba is pronounced koobaa, or that [1] hermano (brother) is pronounced ermaano, or that jesus is pronounced haysoos, or even that george (jorje) is pronounced horhay :)

I learned that about koobaa from a kooban :) friend in high school, and about horhay from my aunt who went to the US, did her PhD there, and became a univ prof and a US citizen, and about ermaano from google:

https://www.google.com/search?q=brother+in+Spanish

¡feliz año nuevo!

to all :)

wow, that upside down exclamation mark is cool! I wonder whether it has any particular significance, compared to the upside up one ;)

of course that is from an English speaker standpoint, Spanish speakers may well say that it is normal, and they would be right, of course. there are no rules that prescribe what is right or wrong when it comes to language or even culture.

which is part of my overall point.

I think I first saw it long back when I used to read western cowboy novels and comics as a kid.
Watched it for the first time today.

Horny men + women being the butt of every single joke. As if it was written by a horny teenage boy. Sure it’s the product of its time but it’s for the good “they don't make films like that anymore”
I once found a company selling a password server like Thycotic Secret Server that must have been written by a madman. It used secret sharing to split the passwords into 3 of 5 shards and stored them on 5 different servers. He wrote the server in two different languages and it was meant to run on both windows and Linux and BSD to prevent common bugs. I don't remember the name and can't find it anymore.

AWS is using a lot of Formal Verification and Automated theorem proving on their core systems like S3 and TLS to increase reliability.
I agree, the core aspect of a ponzi scheme is that it redistributes the newly invested funds to previous investors, making it highly profitable to anyone joining early and incentivising early joiners to get new investors.

This just doesn't hold true for open ai
This depends on what a hypothetical 'AGI' actually costs. If a real AGI is achieved, but it costs more per unit of work than a human does... it won't do anyone much good.
I'd heard of it as a thing some years ago, but never actually saw it "in the wild" until I was skiing in Norway over Christmas a few years ago. The hotel had it on in one of the lounges, which filled with a variety of nationalities to watch it, notably lacking the British. We're quite mystified.
Are tax payers subsiding that particular activity of Google or Amazon? If they do, “they make enough money” to cover costs. If they don’t, how does it become profitable if it doesn’t even cover the cost of one of the inputs?
I'm vehemently against the whole Apple Intelligence feature of summarizing personal communications, like the AI-generated break-up text summaries that were floating around. But I've found most other AI summarizing to be pretty useful. The problem is the lack of trust and reliability, so even when those summaries seem to save me time, if the topic is of any actual significance or value I'm forced to read the original materials anyway, which ultimately results in spending more time consuming the same information.
I use them successfully on larger project all the time.

"Here's some example JavaScript code that sends an email through the SendGrid REST API. Write me a python function for sending an email that accepts an email address, subject, path to a Jinja template and a dictionary of template context. It should return true or false for if the email was sent without errors, and log any error messages to stderr"

That prompt is equally effective for a project that's 500 lines or 5,000,000 lines of code.

I also use them for code spelunking - you can pipe quite a lot of code into Gemini and ask questions like "which modules handle incoming API request validation?" - that's why I built https://github.com/simonw/files-to-prompt
Honestly never needed to summarise emails in my life. It's a useless use case.
Sure, I agree.

When in the "move fast and break things" phase, yeah, LLMs can be useful. But do you ever move out to clear the tech debt or do you just always break things and leave a mess behind?

The issue is that it all depends. If something doesn't matter, then yeah, who fucking cares how inefficient or broken it is. But if it does, it's probably better to go the slow way because that knowledge will compound and be important later. You are going to miss lessons. Maybe you don't need them, maybe you don't need them now. It depends and is hard so say. But I would say that for juniors, it is bad to become reliant upon LLMs.

It's dangerous in exactly the same way as having a solution manual. They can be quite useful and make you learn a lot faster. OR they can completely rob you of the learning experience. It all depends how you use it, right? And for what purpose. That's the point I'm trying to get across.

> it took me an entire week to figure out I was missing some quotes around $@ when passing arguments from one script to the next

This is a common issue, and one I faced too (though not that long). But it also led to more understanding. I learned a lot more about the quotes and variable passing. If someone had just given me the answer, I wouldn't have gotten the rest. Don't undermine the utility of second order effects.
This is not true. We don’t build apps for customers, although there are Glide agencies that we match customers with. We’ve learned that some businesses prefer to pay for someone else to build for them no matter the platform, so we’re happy to facilitate that given our agency ecosystem.
>The goal is to make the number at the bottom of the piece of paper bigger by a large enough margin in the next ninety days. If you can prove that there's the imminent risk of a specific cyberattack in the next 90 days and that it will have an adverse impact on getting that number bigger, fine, company leadership will pay attention, but that's rarely the case.

1. Capitalists seem pretty content with money losing ventures for far more than "the next ninety days", as long as they think it'll bring them future profits. Amazon and Uber are famous examples.

2. You think the government (or whatever the capitalism alternative is) aren't under the same pressure? Unless we live in a post scarcity economy, there's always going to be a beancounter looking at the balance sheet and scrutinizing expenses.
That applies mostly to online-service apps, which are in a bit of different category as their usefulness without a connection is extremely restricted. Most apps don’t need to fall into the bucket.
I’m probably gonna get downvoted into oblivion for this but did anyone else notice the kid in the trench coat has six fingers on his right hand?
Same. I have only a few apps installed that my phone didn't come with. No games. No social media apps. Even email I access via Safari. If I absolutely must use an app for something, I typically install it, do what I need, and then delete it.
The position you're taking here is that "young" suspects in crime reporting should be unnamed? If so, what's an example of a newspaper that respects that norm?
I am getting

> "error": "Text to speech is not available. Please set Azure speech credentials in .env"
The US Treasury just announced they had an incursion by Chinese threat actors. Their "cyber security vendor" had a remote access key compromised, enabling the attackers access to endpoints within Treasury.
> There were options to take to whistle blow the surveillance of citizens...

You should read Snowden's statements on the official channels he attempted to use, and those he disregarded. You should also go read up on what Daniel Ellsberg thought of Snowden's chances for getting a fair trial after publicly blowing the whistle on the long-running violation of federal domestic spying law. [0]

[0] In the mid-1970's, FedGov treated whistleblowers who released classified information very, very poorly. These days (and back in the mid 2000's), FedGov fucking crucifies such people behind closed doors.
Here's a direct podcast URL you can add via your favorite podcast app:

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/gangster/id1562843329
The main complaint seems to be "the company lured users to its personal finance app by advertising cash advances of up to $500 that many never receive" yet the "response" you link never bring that up.
Whatever method is available to American law enforcement is eventually going to become available to Chinese spies. The record of keeping this kind of secret is abysmal. If by no other means, then by social engineering the same access that local police departments were supposed to have.

Salt Typhoon - which this discussion is about - is an example. Tools for tracking people that were supposed to be for our side, turn out to also be used by the Chinese. Plus the act of creating partial security often creates new security holes that can be exploited in unexpected ways.

Either you build things to be secure, or you have to assume that it will someday be broken. There is no in between.
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> UNIX system calls never do this. The kernel won't keep references to pointers you pass them and write to them later. It just isn't in the DNA. The only exceptions I can think of would be clone(), which is abstracted by the POSIX threads runtime, and Windows-inspired non-standard system calls like epoll.

I mean, this is because the UNIX model was based on readiness rather than completion. Which is slower. Hence the newer I/O models.
At my college if you were rich and driven you could get a Masters in around 1/2 or more reasonably 2/3 the normal time. The thing was most people were spending half their time on a research assistantship, which traded a ton of brain cells to a professor’s agenda in exchange for a heavy discount on tuition. You spent half your time working on the professor’s ideas and half taking classes.
Like all stubborn anti-AI know-it-alls, you sound like you’ve tried a couple of times to do something and have decided to label all LLMs with the same brush.

What models have you tried, and what are you trying to do with them? Give us an example prompt too so we can see how you’re coaxing it so we can rule out skill issue.

And a big strength LLMs have is summarizing things - I’d like to see you summarize the latest 10 arxiv papers relating to prompt engineering and produce a report geared towards non-techies. And do this every 30 mins please. Also produce social media threads with that info. Is this a task you could do yourself, better than LLMs?
Which suggests that total AGI compute doesn't matter that much, as India isn't the world leader the amount of human compute they posses would suggest then.

What matters is how you use the AGI, not how much you have, with wrong or bad or limiting regulations it will not lead anywhere.
>HTML alone is not sufficient for a decent looking UI

Well that's some nonsense. HTML can absolutely achieve 1:1 on any UI you care to mention. It isn't even difficult if you have any skill at all.

>And then there’s JS.

And then there's another person who didn't take the time to learn JS and just hates it for reasons.

>Rails, htmx, and a few others seem like the only ones who really get that a simple web app should be 50-100loc

Show me a native app with a polished UI and any useful functionality in only 50-100loc.
In this case, usually the infrastructure provider owns the keys, and if not, they would have easy access to them. So I don't see how encrypted disk really solves anything besides accidental leakage to a peer infra user, or someone sneaking into the datacenter and physically removing the disks.
Exploitation can look like rejection if you have self worth.
That was 12 month ago.

"on January 1 2024, the animated short Steamboat Willie, featuring the first appearance of a mouse named Mickey, entered public domain in the US."
Technically they might be right, because your father might not trust you to access the account, so you need some kind of written permission.

> he'll just lie and claim to be the business/account owner.

He can lie, but he doesn't have another person's passport to prove his lies.
And I haven't seen anyone make a billion dollars off it yet either.
It depends. Technology products have been deflating for decades. It is actually what keeps the overall inflation in check.
> Each vehicle on the road contains around a hundred microcontrollers (MCUs) to operate lower-level functions, such as electric seats, transmission changes, and range reporting.

https://www.arm.com/markets/automotive/zonal-microcontroller....

The software that runs on these microcontrollers is not bug free. At the very minimum, having an OTA update fix a bug reduces the number of journeys with the bug by one vs driving to the service centre and wasting your own time.

Also, I realise it’s a common hn trope to want a technology-free car, but having a coffee at lunch time and watching Netflix on the big screen is one of the few times I get to myself in a post-child world. All of the infotainment technology is great to be honest, from the charging experience to the Apple Music integration.
I started a book about CIAM (customer identity and access management) using Claude to help outline a chapter. I'd edit and refine the outline to make sure it covered everything.

Then I'd have Claude create text. I'd then edit/refine each chapter's text.

Wow, was it unpleasant. It was kinda cool to see all the words put together, but editing the output was a slog.

It's bad enough editing your own writing, but for some reason this was even worse.
> you could still just calculate the profit as if trades would have happened

Depending on the type of trades, the volume of the equities, etc.. it can be very difficult to simulate the ability to open/close positions with sufficient accuracy to evaluate the strategies.
For better or worse, UNIX has won on embedded and server room.

I think this is the HN bubble at work. Maybe you mean something qualitatively or quantitatively different than I do when you say server room but every client I've worked with in my extremely conservative industry in the past ten years has been running on site, coloc, or cloud "server rooms" on windows.
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> can print fake cola codes for infinite refills

You misunderstood what kind of "refills" are being talked about here.

> Also, "one in a million" assuming this tech is only being used by this specific product. if anyone else is going to use the same schema for anything else, numbers will dry up much faster. bringing oats as valid cola bottle is funny. if you add prefix, it'll eat up these sweet sweet bytes

I completely disagree with how you're using numbers here. Whether a number is a valid coke ID has no relation to whether it's a valid oats ID.

The thing the ID is attached to already acts like a prefix, while costing 0 bits.

The only way this could possibly make a difference is if you're scanning through hundreds of thousands of other packages and checking if their numbers happen to be a valid coke ID so you can cut it out and stick it on a coke bottle, all to avoid printing it yourself. That sounds unlikely. In particular you still need to check every number, so you're basically using other packages as a very very slow RNG to save two cents of printing costs.

> also, 1/million is not that much - you can spam online check api (and you need one with just IDs) to filter out existing ones

Mass-spamming an API that has even the slightest of anti-spam measures is a pain in the ass, especially if you want more than a couple IDs. The threat of "just find one of the many billions of real bottles and copy the ID off it" is always there, so if technical attacks are orders of magnitude harder then they don't matter.
My elder female dog loves to play and the way in which she plays has only gotten more nuanced over time. She's even adapted to play with me, play with other dogs, play with smaller dogs, and play with puppies.

The basic semantics of her language of play are all the same: she bows, she'll yawn, she barks and does that side-eye glance. Sometimes she'll dance. If she gets really hyped up she'll get the zoomies.

Dogs, from what I've observed, are incredibly intelligent and social animals as they exist today.
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Requiring that Gemini take over the job that Google Assistant did when installing the Gemini APK really rubbed me the wrong way. I get it. I just don't like that it was required for use.
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Exactly. I continually fail to see how "the entire human economy ends" overnight with another human like agent out there - especially if its confined to a server in the first place - it can't even "go home" :)
Not just Safari and Firefox, on iOS all browsers are forced to use Safari's web view, because Apple wants to force developers to write apps so they can make 30% revenue from the app should any money exchange hands. They can't force developers to write apps if web browsers on iOS are allowed to access bluetooth and other modern browser APIs.
> If you're not changing any syntax and are just using normal function calls, that's an API and that's direct.

No. Sorry. Wrong. Look SICP where they explain the concept of embedded DSl. Hint: you may be conflating syntax and language.
There's another side to it, which you allude to with the give away of credit monitoring services that data breaches result in. The whole reason the data is valuable is for account takeover and identity theft because identity verification uses publicly available information (largely publicly available, or at least discoverable, even without breaches). But no one wants to put in the effort to do appropriate identity verification, and consumers don't want to be bothered to jump through stricter identity verification process hoops and delays---they'll just go to a competitor who isn't as strict.

So we could make the PII less valuable by not using for things that attract fraudsters.
Their best hope now is to hire John Carmack :-)
You could give only them location access then they wouldn't be able to see what apps are installed, contacts and family photos or listen on the mic.

You are afraid of a browser so you give system access?
it we're thinking of the same one it's this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01oeaBb85Xc

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Same with Microsoft and all their Copilots, which are built on OpenAI. Not to mention all the other companies using OpenAI since it’s still the best.
The New Testament has similar passages. One of the most well known has Jesus attacking pilgrims and money changers in the temple. John is rather obviously antijewish. "I have not come with peace" is another well known, not very palatable one.
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You will also be dismayed to hear that a 2011 iPhone is no longer state-of-the-art, and indeed can't run most modern apps.
No, it appears that you are missing the point.

The OP was suggesting that a role-playing fantasy game should not allow strong warrior women characters because that would somehow not allow women to fantasize about being the character because women are weaker at the very extremes of strength so a strong female character is really somehow just a man.

But as demonstrated, strong females actually exist in the real world, and the sex-based strength differences are irrelevant unless the GM deliberately creates a scenario in which those differences matter, which would mean a scenario requiring a character to bench more than 450 pounds, squat more than 600 pounds, or deadlift more than 700 pounds (all of which are under the women's world records).

The argument about protecting "female physicality" is just a MRA argument that was soundly rejected by D&D because it has no basis in the real world, and thus no basis in a fantasy world filled with dragons and magic.