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Agreed. The 2016 were self-serving grifters that didn’t understand the mechanisms of government and were mostly bumbling around. The 2024 team are also self-serving grifters but have a much more coherent plan to shape things to their liking and much smarter people in play. Miller - arguably one of the smartest but also someone to whom the “evil” label perhaps best applies - plays a much bigger role this time around.
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The term wasn't coined for censorship: “AI safety” used to mean “how do we make sure we're not building skynet”.

But then companies wanted to sell AI chatbots and they realized that having uncensored AI would lead to bad press, especially in the US. (Microsoft people still make nightmares about Tay) so they decided they'd censor their AI but censorship isn't good either in terms of marketing and they decided to repurpose the “AI safety” phrase (and also “alignment”)
That's really smart. You should suggest it to Kagi directly: https://kagifeedback.org/
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I have a very similar experience but using 6.4 installed from 6 (six) CD's.

Took me forever to get internet working, first dial-up then ISDN.
"In addition to compiling personal information — such as the Social Security numbers and addresses of those whose posts are flagged — the contractor will also provide ICE with a “photograph, partial legal name, partial date of birth, possible city, possible work affiliations, possible school or university affiliation, and any identified possible family members or associates.”

What's up with all of the "partial" if they have your SSN, they have you. This is the lamest attempt at whatever the fuck they are attempting. Why can't they just say they are doxxing anyone who has anything negative to say about <insertRecipientOfComplaints> as they continue to be the eye of sauron?
Americans will (and often do) insist that their "well regulated militia" is an absolute bulwark against tyranny, because their government cowers in terror of the wrath of an armed populace. Mention school shootings, mass shootings or any other kind of gun violence stats and they'll lecture you on your naivety, because all of that is a price worth paying for liberty in the only truly free society on earth. They'll wax poetic about "watering the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants," and state “when the people fear the government, that's tyranny; when the government fears the people, that's freedom."

But Americans were more up in arms (literally) over the minor inconvenience of COVID restrictions than this. An imaginary communist plot to steal the election? Americans riot and try to burn down the Capitol. An actual authoritarian takeover of the executive branch takes place...

Because of course the Second Amendment isn't about defending liberty against tyranny, and never was. It's about white supremacists defending their privilege and their franchise for violence against an increasingly progressive and multicultural society, and has been since the days when the "well regulated militias" were used to suppress slave revolts and Native American uprisings.

And all of those guys with all of those guns will be just fine and dandy watching everything burn until the leopards-eating-your-face party finally turns on them as well.
Posts made amongst closed groups of friends on social media are now routinely policed by tech companies for "bad" words.

Frankly, I find it "regarded" such puritanism is tolerated.
Related?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36435498 ("LexisNexis is selling personal data to ICE so it can try to predict crimes" (2023), 114 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26672613 ("LexisNexis to Provide Giant Database of Personal Information to ICE" (2021), 26 comments)
he's either delusional, or more likely lying. what he's saying is absolute nonsense and he should know better, but if he said the truth people might ask why he needs tens of billions of dollars
it is also the "right thing to do" IMHO.
It's not even spiritual, it's just care. If you care about something you build, and you are able to put in the required time and effort, there is a great possibility your output will be high-quality.

Unfortunately, high-quality is playing second fiddle to low-cost (and does the job) for the majority.
Any unique benefits over using this vs something like Repomix?
https://github.com/yamadashy/repomix
Added Podcast search, which makes the podcast transcribe functionality a lot easier to use.
If you agree that sounds ridiculous then we will need some concrete reasons why this will be true, merely because there is an exchange with less regulation:

> This will be the golden age of white collar crime, cons, and machinations.
It's taboo to talk about how much you use it? Tell that to my LinkedIn feed. Everyone is desperate to tell me how desperately I need to use AI or I will fall behind in the rat race. Every app has an animated glowing starry "use our new AI features!" thingy that I mentally block out, no matter how much it (often literally) jumps up and down and waves at me. There is no question in my mind how badly the powerful want me to use AI and get others to use it.
IMO it is better not to assume a comment is trying to support one of two sides of an argument. For example, it might be critiquing the general way the argument has been framed (where the line’s been drawn between the two sides), or the method of making the argument (if everyone is sitting around looking at some obviously incomplete data and trying to tweak it to push their point, it is worth pointing out that whatever conclusion the group comes to is probably meaningless).

Or it could just the a bit vague and hard to interpret.
I feel like that's people not yet knowing how to use them. With just a little bit of context-setting, they can be force multipliers. I do agree with you that you need the underlying skills. Frequently I use them to do something I've done before, bypassing the time for me to look up syntax, etc.
I use jellyfin and findroid or symfonium atm. Jellyfin can be slightly finicky at times but mostly just works. Don't be afraid to use the refresh metadata button though, its file watcher isn't good at picking up changes in the files' tags in my experience.
Unfortunately every single political, economic, and societal force is drifting aimlessly toward this end.
I know some guys who order water with no ice, honestly, I think it's weird, should I report them?
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Yes. The relevant regulation is Reg NMS [1].

[1] https://www.sec.gov/files/rules/final/34-51808.pdf
Same question here. I have found repomix to get the job done really well.
The wife finishing your sentences is an interesting analogy... My wife and I are usually on the same page about things, so for many topics we can use short-hand or otherwise cut discussions short. It's like in the movie _Hackers_: "It's in the place I put that thing that time." We can say just enough between us that we verify we have a shared state, and if we aren't sure we can verify and adjust.

With an LLM, if what I'm starting to say gives it a direction on where I'm going, I'd like to see what it thinks, so if it's largely or entirely right I can just continue on.

For example, I just asked ChatGPT o3-mini to complete the code "def download_uri_to_file(", and it came up with the entire function including type annotations, a very reasonable docstring, error handling, and streaming download. In fact, reviewing the code I'm sure it's better than I would have written the first pass through (I probably wouldn't have done the error handling or the streaming (unless I knew up front that I was going to be downloading huge files).
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Dismissed idea: acting in a way that wouldn't cast them in a negative light.
> I swear, the richest businesses in America could be so much richer if they banded together to lobby Congress for legislation that benefits all of them. Example: Imagine if the US switched to a single-payer healthcare system; how much money that would save the big tech companies.

You're misunderstanding how the corruption works.

Single-payer isn't the thing that causes other countries to pay less for healthcare. For example, Medicare and Medicaid pay significantly more per-patient than healthcare systems do in other countries, even for patients in the same demographic groups. Other countries with hybrid or private healthcare systems also have lower costs than the US.

The US system is so expensive because it has been captured by healthcare companies. If you change the funding source without changing the other aspects of the system, it doesn't get any cheaper; if you change the other aspects of the system, it gets cheaper regardless of the funding source.

But the healthcare industry makes the tech industry look like chumps. US healthcare spending is $4.9 trillion. The people getting all that money don't want it to cost less and lobby Congress to make sure it doesn't.

And it's to their advantage to deflect blame to insurance companies so they can propose laws that make it even worse, like capping insurance company profits to a percent of claims to keep the insurer's incentives aligned with increasing rather than decreasing costs, because then the only way for the insurer to make more money themselves is to pay out more claims to the healthcare companies, depriving them of the opportunity to profit from reducing waste.
Please add vim leader support to vim mode! :)
There’s no hope for someone if they take Zakaria seriously about anything. He’s the pinnacle of vacuous talking head infotainment.

It used to be generally well known that Zakaria-types were for dimwits who mistook the appearance of insight for insight, but in an increasingly vacuous, video-soaked world, what used to be obviously pap for the plebs seems now solidly respectable, middle-brow.
> it's not exactly a case of 'lost their original vision'.

Considering that one person that says that he worked at the beginning of the project writes that the original idea wasn't to compete with flathub and given the current state of affairs I would argue that the project today doesn't have the original vision anymore.

As for creating a ton of projects, today with LLMs I'm pretty sure that I can write code that scrapes github repos for installation instructions and use it to create thousands of packages for everything that can run in Linux, doesn't mean that I should because there would be no quality control at all.

It is a noble idea to create packages to help create critical mass, but even with simple packages, seven hundred are more than anyone can use specially when we're talking about software that most likely have a GUI, and if you never really use most of the packages that you create you are bound to create these issues with QA.

All of that could be avoided (or minimized) if the fedora project created two flatpak repos, one for core software and one for contrib software, but that probably would be clear competition to flathub and probably be mostly ignored.
Unfortunately I haven’t found a Kobo with an even backlight. They also went backwards with their screens for the smaller sizes, opting for indented instead of flush on all but the Elipsa.
I doubt the average Meta employee has to worry about finding a job so is this scenario actually realistic?
The next decade will be interesting, when the chatgpt babies hit the market, having done 100% of their homework with AI, passed their interviews thanks to AI, then enter code bases written by AI.

The other problem is that unless we hit AGI real fast the quality can go nowhere but down, there will be less and less non polluted data to train from, the code bases will become more and more bloated because let's be real LLMs don't produce very good code, &c.

In the meantime we're left with AI generated scams, AI generated cooking recipes which don't work, AI generated art that look like ass, AI bots flooding social media, &c.
As for AI, I use codeium and vim-ai. Codeium has upstream vim support, which is excellent, however the chat functionality is very basic, clumsier than in vscode, but good enough for my use case. I expect things will improve.
People using open source models will be a vast minority, akin to those willing to using Linux in the desktop now. I can't fault them for ignoring us.
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From what I can tell, Trump believes, rightly or wrongly, that the reason why he did decent, for a Republican, with young people is because he had a decent number of supporters on tiktok who weren't banned or censored.
I was an early adopter of the Internet and never doubted its potential. I was also an early adopter of LLMs and have been much less impressed.

Why not talk about the other side of the coin - things that have been predicted to be amazing and fell flat, like Pets.com and Alexa?
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Oh look - the dirtbags at ICE are trying to go full Stasi... go figure the trash arm of US law enforcement is cowering in fear rather than being productive. It's best that every last ICE agent is an incompetent twat - like seriously, the best way to know someone is unqualified for the job is that they applied to ICE - otherwise things could get really ugly for people here legally too.

Fortunately I don't have to worry about the morons, cowards, and completely useless trash at ICE_- apparently my negative comment scares them into whining about people saying mean things. I wish they have a really really shitty day - the fools at ICE that is.
Surely it damages Meta - I can't see why they would do it. Investors might care - but there are specific channels for communicating with them and it isn't clear that they would believe the narrative.

Microsoft are doing the same thing, so I presume there's a reason for it.
Can confirm, I recently gave up on learning anything new re: data visualization and have just been using matplotlib instead. Training data for it has been piling up since 2008. The AI's are so good at it that you hardly ever have to look at the code, just ask for changes to the graph and iterate.

Honestly it's been kind of fun, but I do feel like the door is closing on certain categories of new thing. Local maxima are getting stickier, because even a marginal competence is enough to keep you there--since the AI will amplify that competence in well-trained domains by so much.

Emacs lisp is another one. I'd kind of like to build a map of these.
> they can be force multipliers.

Like phones can be, but give that to an unsupervised 10 years old and it's not a given that the outcome will be a net positive
I have been using their contact form [1] to self report whenever I say something negative about ICE. I think they kind of suck. Oh whelp there I go again! Better let them know. The linked form has a "cybercrime" category, which I believe thought crimes fall under.

[1] https://www.ice.gov/webform/ice-tip-form
It's not the spirituality of it. It's the longevity.

If you own your living place or have an expectation of stability, well-built furniture is an investment -- not necessarily a hugely expensive one -- that can last your entire life.

If you have to move frequently -- one year rentals, turbulent economy -- anything that's heavy and bulky doesn't fit into your plans. Or not as much of it. But the depressing thing is that the flatpack stuff is prone to breaking when you move it, so it becomes disposable much faster.

Vimes' boots.
Assuming the mean the popular definition of "the internet", it wasn't new 20 years ago. If you want to relate the current state of LLMs, you'd have to go back 30.
It's like having a personal assistant for free. For example tell it what you want to do that day, and it can schedule your day. Ask for markdown check list. Ask it to improve your health and it can make a cookimg and shoppimg list for you. It gives you ideas you can then improve.
Great time saver too...

Ask how to do something obscure in the terminal and it just returns the commands in seconds you would need to research for hours.
If you broaden the notion of "accomplishment" enough then I guess this sentiment is ok. But raising a family, enjoying nature, or attaining good health (for example) don't really seem like things a chatbot could help with much. I guess, charitably, AI could increase the amount of wealth in society to the point where people have more time to pursue those things, but I'm not sure that's the most likely outcome.
> the SEC should grow the courage

In the current political environment, I don't see SEC (or any other gov't agency) growing courage anytime soon. Well, other than DOGE acting like an energy vampire growing stronger off of its victims.
Yeah even on HN where I would expect above average observational and critical thinking skills, there are plenty of people who don’t see or refuse to see what’s going on. Pretty shocking really.
It's the sweet dream of raising far right. Of course, "the best" will be decided not through the AI enhanced productivity, but through the ability to utilize "the rest" and keep them where they are or dump even lower.
Yes, and isn't this a much better rebuttal than putting words into their mouth?
A little bit of victim blaming goes a long way, eh?
> After he demonstrated this, I decided to try to help. I followed the wires that were wrapped. Two of them. To my surprise they were not connected at either end. This was insane, and yet his study - and my own observation - demonstrated that wrapping these two wires which were completely disconnected caused his car to start. Now there is causality for you.

You didn't show causality, though. You never randomized anything. His study and your observation was purely observational. At no point did you open the hood, get ready to wrap the wires, and flip a coin to decide whether to wrap the wires or do a placebo wrapping somewhere else.

Had you done that, you would have found, per your ultimate explanation, that the wrapping made no causal difference: you did the procedure, and either way, the car turned on. Hence, there is no causality for you.
Not meant as a reply to the commenter above but to anyone else on hn, how come there's such incredible, richly detailed comments on, say, the history of S.U.S.E. (personal stories of people who grew up with it, people who used to work directly on it etc), but with international politics it steeply goes downhill?

I feel like the same minds being brought to bear on the latter subject could be similarly interesting.
how many of the people on your linkedin feed have a financial incentive to talk up AI and LLMs? LinkedIn is truly a fascinatingly weird social media
To some extend I agree, that if you are professional in some are, current LLMs may not solve the issues you are facing. But, while I consider myself as "expert" in one very specific area, and don't find huge help from ChatGPT in that domain, I don't live in a bubble. I have to sometime touch on completely orthogonal skills where I am not expert at all. And in these areas, I get huge benefit even though LLMs give me "average" responses. It is still better than my own, below average judgements. That is very strong point.
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The Supreme Court just made it up in the 1960s.
If an employee demonstrates the same level of productivity without using AI, most managers would likely be fine with that approach. However, if a manager observes that several team members are more productive with AI and are achieving business goals more quickly, they will naturally expect everyone to adopt it. Those who refuse to use AI and cannot match the efficiency of their peers may eventually be replaced. While this outcome may be emotionally challenging, economic realities primarily drive these decisions.
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I'm curious why people bother tolerating modern versions of MS Office when they could instead use an offline version like 2019 and call it a day?

Are the more recent versions really that necessary or useful for features? I miss using 2007 when the ribbon was introduced and the UI finally felt organized.
I wonder how hard this will hit Houston.
This another "Wat?" story I expect to see videos on TCRL[0], WeThePeopleUniversity[1], Steve Lehto[2], and maybe even LegalEagle[3].

0. https://www.youtube.com/@thecivilrightslawyer/videos

1. https://www.youtube.com/c/WeThePeopleUniversity/videos

2. https://www.youtube.com/@stevelehto/videos

3. https://www.youtube.com/c/LegalEagle/videos
The devil is probably in the details. I don't stop watching someone because I disagree with them, if they have a generally calm and moderate tone, that's good enough for me (Fareed is awesome in that regard). The best way to see if someone is compelling on a topic is to see if they discuss it on a regular basis.

Fareed is very good on the middle-east, for example. AI is a big topic, but so is transgenderism. Not everyone should be talking about it (this is indictment of many, Joe Rogan a major culprit). I'll leave it there.
Searched this guy a bit and found him also being a piece of shit in 2001: https://www.bluemountaineagle.com/news/judicial-candidate-ba...

“I clearly made a mistake in 2001,” Carpenter told the Eagle. “I took immediate measures to correct that behavior and make it right with the victim. Since then I have been diligent with the courts, other attorneys, and the public in building a relationship of trust and veracity.”

Yeah. He learned nothing. These kinds of people learn nothing because we only give them slap on the wrist "punishments". We tell them they were naughty...and nothing else happens to them. He continued his career without any real impact from that 2001 event, just as he will after this event.

Is it any surprise at all that they don't behave better, when it's clear they will never actually face a consequence?
USA has shown they will support corrupt companies with tax dollars. This will be another 2008 crash where the government welfare for companies will continue. Real capitalism would let those entities fail so others can pick them apart and attempt to do better.

How long will it manifest, 4, 8, 10, 20 years? The deregulated mortgage started in the 1980s and it took almost 25 years to break everything.

Most likely it will hit foreign the hardest and set off a global recession for those countries that bought in.

Will there be any that are smarter and either buy in early and sell early or go to another country for a stable investment? Those would be the ones to most easily weather the storm.

Guessing USA retirement investments will take a big hit. So more homeless.

Also foresee politics pushing companies to invest in the Texas stock market for tax subsidies and to gain government contracts and benefits. Could be bigger than 2008.
>On the plus side, some software engineers save a couple minutes here and there with a slightly nicer autocomplete, white collar workers can get some advice on email style, and maybe it helps with sifting through millions of pages of legal discovery.

Lol get a grip. Jeff Dean just said 25% of the code being checked into Google's internal codebase is now AI generated. If you think it's just kids using it for homework and engineers saving a few minutes here and there you're kidding yourself.

https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/jeff-dean-and-noam-shazeer

>I am hopeful for some of the more advanced applications, e.g. proof assistance in math,

"I expect, say, 2026-level AI, when used properly, will be a trustworthy co-author in mathematical research, and in many other fields as well." You just aren't in the same universe as what the top experts are saying about this tech.

https://unlocked.microsoft.com/ai-anthology/terence-tao/

You seem like one of those people that used GPT3.5 once and hasn't updated at all since then. You're criticizing the wright flyer and we're already at turboprops.