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> Let's say "anything talking about your product is selling something instead of doing science"

you are gonna be so stunned to find out when more than one thing can be true at the same time

are they doing science? yes. are they selling something? yes.

normally i'd agree, for "most people"

but the author explicitly distinguished between "AI" and "LLM-based AI", and they work for an AI company, where making these distinctions are really important

> I’ve heard from smart, well-informed people who are confident that AI is a few years away from superintelligence, and that superintelligence will be capable of truly terrifying things. And I’ve heard from smart, well-informed people who are equally confident that LLM-based AI is close to a ceiling, that models like Claude won’t even be able to do impressive work in physics, let alone conquer the world.

This is framed as an "or", as if they're contradictory.

IMO, Both of these statements are true.

> they don’t seem to sell anything

i'll give you a hint: they're selling something

apple began evaluating ppc in 1991 and it was the stronger choice in the org, from what i've heard. so yes, it was about dropping ppc

wait until you find out what month is before november lol

> Since it never got past internal demo

it was a joint venture with novell and caldera employees had exposure to the resources, a year or so after the project fell apart.

> just didn’t think there would be enough copies of it to not get lost very quickly

a lot more people had exposure to it than you'd think. it sounds very interesting to us, but honestly, it was probably pretty obvious to everyone involved that it was a bad idea unless apple was serious about dropping ppc

I wouldn't be so pessimistic.

There are a few copies of late shell builds floating around in private collections that have release predicated on the end of someone's legal liability (shall we euphemistically say). I don't know about complete system images, though.

And those guys are all getting up there in years.

there was a common "shock site" called "last measure" that did this. it loaded all sorts of offensive images, blasted a loop of a guy yelling something offensive about pornography, and then proceded to lock up your machine.

No, but we can know that there are zero at fault for Waymo. That's important context.

I am not the one saying "fault doesn't matter as fault is not included in the other stat either".

And yes, I'm aware of the fault of the incidents.

> Waymo says it has 170 million miles and I found 2 fatal accidents it was involved in (fault doesn't matter as fault is not included in the other stat either)

fault absolutely matters. and with two fatal accidents, it should be trivial to find out if waymo is at fault.

it is bad faith, otherwise.

It feels like a made for TV ad for accessibility.

I stopped going. Between the spam and the racist unmoderated AI slop cannon that is discovery there, what's the point

> Non-example 2: There are worries about AI-facilitated biological weapons. I haven’t seen any evidence that’s happening.

https://www.science.org/content/article/made-order-bioweapon...

Being able to use AI to generate the steps to synthesize proteins means that you can use it to use it to generate the steps to synthesize known toxins. Suddenly, once difficult to attain knowledge is now available to everyone.

people in the industry, especially those who work for oai, refer to it as "chat"

at least in the ai industry, chat is like kleenex

depends on the jurisdiction

in the us, entirely legal. you may get law enforcement knocking on your door with questions, from time to time.

best to do it as part of a non profit or other organization, and being open about running a node, so that law enforcement/etc knows what they're dealing with

When someone says

> decades, which is as long as they've been unable to crack double digit users

and you say

> I honestly don't really want you to use it.

then you kinda make their point entirely for them.

I'm not even going to bother addressing the rest of the projection in your post. Whew.

Personally, I just think that LLMs are an artificial line to draw based on current personal preference.

I'm not an AI maximalist, but I really can't see the issue with using it to preserve this hardware (especially into RTL for FPGA), if it's highly accurate.

These machines are dying in real time, and having cycle and operationally accurate emulation options is more important than the bad taste the Glorified Copymachine leaves in my mouth, to be honest.

Honestly, by quantity alone, I've seen more impressive and quality reverse-engineering and documentation work of these platforms done in the last year than i have in the last 20.

> Understatement of the year.

Normally yes. For VPK, actually, no.

The file format that we're describing was part of a proprietary embedded SDK for the PS2. The majority of professional integrations would be using the Sony SDK.

Today, a lot of tooling uses FFMPEG for accessibility of those formats. But I wouldn't say it's the majority.

Hence why I said "(studios)" after offices, and "probably" and not "majorly":

> probably being used in a lot of offices (studios)

Hardly? Credit cards passed cash for retail purchases last year. They're neck and neck.

If you break down by age demographic, you'll probably guess who's using what. And the ones using cash are quickly disappearing.

And let's say it wasn't, and if cash was still king: 10% of Japan's payments infra being weaponized during tariff negotiations would still be a huge dent to their economy. The country had been migrating over heavily, but Trump 2 actions put the brakes on a lot of EMV rollout.

PayPay is an evolution/merge of Line Pay (long story), which struggled to capture market share in Japan past peer-to-peer payments, due to a bunch of factors. You'll see it in stores, of course, but it's adoption isn't amazing (not bad, just not amazing). Suica benefits from FeliCa/NFC-F lock-in, and considerable existing deployment, plus integration with the rail network. Almost everyone in Japan has a FeliCa/NFC-F device with currency loaded.

FWIW I am an American, but I am working on payments infrastructure and billing for a American owned subsidiary of a Japanese corporation. This happens to be a subject that I am wading into on a daily basis, at least from a technical side.

Oh, and you might be interested to hear what's happening in the UK with OysterCard. They recently finished their EMV rollout and then paused all OysterCard sunset timelines. I wonder why.

i imagine not being reliant on american payment networks for your nation's retail economy has lit a fire under their asses.

it's widely used but in "industry" applications. so ffmpeg is probably being used in a lot of offices (studios) and maybe even being included in end user software.

last place i worked at had internal telemetry on end user machines. i dont know the way it was being used, although i suspect it was a document viewer.

> it was called WordPad and no-one used it so they eventually deleted it.

about a third of windows users used wordpad. that's not a small amount

the issue, as i see it, is that they took two tools with two different user communities and slammed them together

The batteries the gshocks use goes for about $15 or less.

Regular batteries may be a better deal but that doesn't include the process of opening the watch, replacing the battery, and then resealing the case.

I'll trade $15 and a 15 minute job once every 15 years for a 15 minute job every 5 years. And no watch with a regular battery will have auto-backlight (for the obvious reason).

And also... if you want a deal, don't buy a $100 watch with auto backlight, capable of setting its own time off of a radio, and capable of ringing your phone when you can't find it.

F91W will do! That's why they're so popular!

imo just get a pixel. unlockable bootloader and almost guaranteed support from pretty much every major privacy-related android fork. and many of them are building support for the titan chip if they dont have it already

10 years ago, 80% of columbian homes had refrigerators and almost every home suffers from at least one blackout a year. this can be hours or days, during certain seasons.

and lastly, cultural reasons inform appliance design, which loops back around: columbian freezers are really small.

https://www.alkosto.com/nevecon-electrolux-side-by-side-423-...

i love the product design aspect of a product that only needs to have one thing set (in this case, the time zone), to be eternally a functional device

which is why i love gshocks, both for design but also specifically the ones with tough solar/multiband 6 (and bluetooth (optional))

they have battery lives in the range of decades (due to solar charging), set themselves (multiband 6 is using atomic clock radio signals) and via bluetooth

you can get gw-b5600-2 and gw-s5600u (auto backlight) for under $200, but usually closer to $100. there are many more models, of course

that sounds expensive, but it's insanely durable construction and battery life means it'll be the only digital watch you'll ever need to buy. and the only configuration it will ever need is the time zone.

"Works for me and if it doesn't work for you, just fix it." Great, I should learn to become a kernel and device driver developer just to have a working desktop environment with non-tearing windowed video (still somehow an issue)?

What a fucking joke lmao. I'll just keep buying Macs.

> Who should do it for you?

People who want me to use it.