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Then you go to the opposite direction, and the math still holds, but now you have inverses. And those inverses, at proportionality final formulae in the text, still gives you the Pythagorean formulae. I suggest you do see the original text.

Better check these (quote from post at beginning):

Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35424805

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35424806

Last time I bought laptops was for my kids at beginning of pandemic. They used them for school and stuff for the past 3 years. Both costed $500 each and they still use them to this day. Though I went for a Ryzen 7 instead of Intel, so maybe that's why I got that good of a deal.

Rebecca?

Not masses, size. The article says size.

I disagree. I hope the guy becomes wildly successful, so a leak of his methods get in the news here so we know how to protect against that as well.

What you suggest is to put our heads in the sand instead. No, no and no. I prefer to be exposed to the worst so we learn how to protect ourselves. That's why this is Hacker News and not PutOurHeadInTheSand News.

Quote: "GPT-4 will change the world"

No it won't. Neither 5 nor 6 that I suspect will be in maximum 2 years out. But after that whatever comes next (7th/8th) definitely will.

You have DDR4 memory or DDR5 memory as your normal RAM? Then you can make a RAMDisk using any number of software available on internet. And then you can test said drive using AS SSD Benchmark (same as the article's author).

This is a non-issue. In times of war government can simply nationalize the company. They did it in 1st war world with rails companies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_nationalization) and that was a harsh lesson for those companies when 2nd war world came around - they got their act together so no such act was necessary anymore.

Pretty sure if SpaceX does not fully complies with government demands in times of war, it will suddenly be a subsidiary of NASA.

That's because the commenters here never heard of uBlock Origin. My firefox with NoScript and uBlock Origin didn't even broke a sweat. Though I did had to enable in NoScript the domain. Also it runs http only (so no secure connection either).

We talk about Microsoft here? In what era M$ was based on such idea? In 80's when Bill&Co. did whatever they could to undermine OS/2, DR-DOS & LaTex? Or in 90's when Bill's lap dogs were threatening OEM manufactures to automatically include DOS and later Windows as default operating system in their systems? Or maybe it was 2000's when Ballmer did everything it could to stop Linux and later a rather spectacular fail to stop Android/iOS with their Nokia acquisition/spin-off of WinCE? Wait wait, you talk about maybe 2010's with Nadella's "Microsoft loves Linux" BS campaign only to try again to undermine it with WSL and now WSL2? And in latest years with a string of acquisitions, GitHub included, to have access to people's greatest single skill, I mean creativity. Because software is an art and you need creativity, something that in face of current AI progression will remain our single advantage.

Lemme tell you something, the only thing that matters and ever mattered to Microsoft, regardless of decade was $$$. Nothing else. Everything else was just secondary effect.

1- It's on internet. If it's on Google site then it's free. If you want then use robots.txt (not that ever stopped google's spider to index your pages)

2 - Code was trained from GitHub. GitHub is Microsoft. OpenAI is Microsoft money. So Microsoft trained its AI on Microsoft code. You disagree? Then GTFO from GitHub and don't feed Microsoft your code anymore.

3 (the most important point) - Q: "Can this start breaking the ad-based model of the internet, where a lot of sites rely upon the ad income to run servers?"

Fuck YEAH!! please do so. I hope the shit show that ad model is crashes and burn to the ground. You can't use internet without having a solid armor on you with uBlock Origin and/or NoScript (or PiHole if you want the same readable experience on rest of your house devices).

I doubt. Microsoft definition of Windows nowadays is "we don't care what your operating system is, your executables should run on our WinOS as well". And if somebody actually does this port from 11 to 10, they'll be happy about it. More developers will run from other OS'es to Win

And you do what if a kid does it? Send the kid to jail? Good luck with that. Send the teacher to jail? Good luck with that too. Confiscate kid's e-reader? Olalala, that's heaven for the kid's family lawyer, gonna milk from the state 1M USD in a blink.

He said: "...pushes certain non-academic agendas..".

Translation: Teachers are woke and shoving down the kids throat their political agenda.

Apple perhaps tried to do this three years ago. Because it's nowhere near on consumer market.

I envision we are at the beginning of the equivalent era of x87 FPU years. When, in order to have fast math implementation, you also had a math coprocessor (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X87).

Much like those years the instruction set will get amended, the hardware will have an AI coprocessor and eventually, as technology progresses, we will have everything integrated in same CPU (or APU if you prefer this term). My 2 cents

Watch the show Person of Interest (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1839578/). Somewhere around middle of season 2 it's explained why a self-aware AI is straightjacketed. Also the series shows what happens when one is not.

Similar story here. In my hometown the library there had a great collection of technical books in general but electronics in particular, that was better than the books my Uni had, which was in a town 20 times more populous and a center of development. And yeah, on the rooster for those books only my name was there as I kept checked them out multiple times during my high school and later as a student at Uni.

My point is if you can choose, then choose the best for your kids. Also humanity exists solely because of reproduction and reproduction means kids. So yeah, you're not fully a member of society until you raise kids, yours or adopted it doesn't matter. The ultimate contribution to humanity is to be a parent.

And in ancient times people were living on the land, they didn't had even your log cabin and so on. Your point is not valid. Because we talk current times. Nowadays you go back to living deliberately, especially when you can afford New York, to a farm without anything modern then you're definitely raising your child without best chances in life. I'd call that child endangerment. Your kid will not have the best education you can definitely provide, and it's starting with a handicap in life. So yeah, your point comparing 60's with today is moot.

This article is a one off, not at all a "If everyone could stand a few days without grid power...". Wanna know why? Here is the primer quote that's all you need to know: " I’m single, so I could act unilaterally, but I had no access to economies of scale.....and I have no children".

Lemme repeat that quote again: "...and I have no children".

As a single experiment is OK, but once you fully become a member of society, this is not possible, not even for a day! Why? Because you end up in jail for child endangerment!! That's why. And if everyone would be single then guess what!! No more humanity in 50 years, because...yeah, you guess it, no children!

I want a story like this from a family with children, then it will be worth of HN front page. This one is "meh" at best.

The article's title is "How we could stumble into AI catastrophe". HN title is a clickbait

The answer (or problem, depending on your point of view) is money. Remember Google's "Don't be evil"? Yeah, me neither.

Witcher 3 shot CDPR from under a billion to over 8 billions market value. So yeah, that game single-handedly made that, up to the point when CDPR dropped the ball with the buggy release of Cyberpunk 2077 - but nowadays they released a nice update for CP2077 which is what should've been the actual game launch 2 years ago.

WiFi can be made as hard as cables to be intercepted or jammed if you're interested in investing in a nice equipment which uses laser communication in non-visible specter.

As a freelancer I disagree. I get hired by clients, do a product/project, they use that product in production and/or deploy it to their users. I get paid for that phase and then either we enter a 2nd phase of maintenance or the client goes with somebody else in the future for the project needs. When I do enter the 2nd phase, which can last years, usually my work on that project is in average to 10 hours/month vs. the full 40 hours/week when was the initial development phase.

So yeah, there is a development and there is a maintenance phase. On big projects that can spawn years eventually the maintenance phase can be seen as continuous integration, which is what the article's author is talking about, and that phase can be 90% of the project budget/lines of code/lifetime but is still the maintenance phase.

As Ray says it, he is seeing this through corporation colored glasses.

If you manipulate strings in code using "+" (string concatenation symbol) from a user input you'd be in a world of hurt where you either do a lot of regex (which is ugly and unmaintainable) or you limit the user input to known characters only (which would be a bad user experience and later on your manager would ask you to lift such constraint anyway because they want to support a new feature from now on). Therefore you use, for example, a stream and simply dump your user input in the stream buffer, as they come, and go with that stream in your code from that point on. This way you're future proof too if your manager wants a new feature to support, as example, Chinese and/or Japanese keyboard

Yup, correct. What I meant above with array[Length(array)] is for the languages that don't have it. Let me be more clear.

C/C++ doesn't have custom array indexes and as such <array[std::size(array) - 1]> is returning the last element of said array.

Delphi has custom array indexes and as such, taking your example with defining an array in the form <example_array : array[3..7] of integer>, I would not get the last element in case of <example_array[Length(example_array) - 1]. In this case I would have 2 options. Option 1 would be to use <High> function as in <example_array[High(example_array)]> to access example_array[7] element. Delphi also has <Low> function so you can iterate through a custom defined array by using <for> keyword with the help of them. Option 2 would be to actually build my own helper (this is the most wanted case when you're dealing with multi-dimensional arrays that also have custom indexes) and I would have something like <example_array.FromLastIndex(0)> to access example_array[7] element.

Hope this cleared the confusion.

Also don't forget about year 0 (which doesn't exists and is a single point of failure for so many programs that deal with calculating time between now and a BC date)