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I stopped using Kagi news when I saw it has Russia Today as a source for many articles

As an English-as-second-language speaker and writer

How do you know it's actually better? I'm not trying to be condescending, but this reads to me like vibes :)

This is relevant information for this forum, for good or bad Apple has a lot of impact.

I find your reaction strange, do you read news to be angry and/or afraid? :)

It was announced almost a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43398518

But it was subject to regulatory approval, that's been completed now.

They get the team that built it and have more people on the AI initiative who are consumer-centric.

Who are comfortable releasing systems with horrible security, while proudly stating they never read the code? And with metrics that can be gamed by anyone, but that got reported to literally the entire world?

The lesson here is to spend less time focused on doing what you think is the right thing and spend more time tinkering.

I'd say the lesson here is that clown world keeps on giving, but hey, maybe I'm just jealous ;)

I don’t understand how id-ing the buyer helps? What is the age restricted good here?

Are you saying that kids now buy their phones with pocket money without their parents knowing?

It's obvious we're moving in a direction where we are going to get these restrictions in one way or another

It’s not obvious, it’s just sad. I still hope reason will prevail in this.

I can't see how anyone can think "the exporters pay the tariff" makes any sense. TBH, we'll never know how many people thought it made sense because it didn't matter.

Reading the comments here I see almost everyone posting assumes this is a genuine interaction of an autonomous AI with the repo, not a human driving it.

IMO this take is naive :)

I think this is important - these topics get traction because people like to anthropomorphise LLMs and the attention grab is 'hey, look at what they learned to do now'.

It's much less sexy if it's not autonomous, if this was a person the thread would not get any attention.

There was discussion about this here a couple of weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46458936

Steve Yegge's a famous developer, this is not a joke :) You could say he is an AI maximalist, from your options I'd go with (b) serious with the idea, tongue-in-check in the style and using a lot of self-irony.

It is exaggerated, but this is how he sees things ending up eventually. This is real software.

If things do end up in glorified kanban boards, what does it mean for us? That we can work less and use the spare time reading and doing yoga, or that we'll work the same hours with our attention even more fragmented and with no control over the outputs of these things (=> stress).

I'd really wish that people who think this is good for us and are pushing for this future do a bit better than:

1. More AI 2. ??? 3. Profit

The historical pattern suggests cognitive abilities shift rather than disappear.

Shift to what? This? https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16d...

Not specific to this IPv6 event, but I was wondering what happens to public services during these Internet shutdowns?

Does everything stop or it's mostly business as usual minus some things?

I would imagine hospitals, tax offices etc need the internet to work?

I read Rob’s message as against the AI industry, triggered by this email - it is ‘AI is bad’.

This startup didn’t spend the trillions he’s referencing.

Lex Friedman recently did an interview with Durov: https://lexfridman.com/pavel-durov/

I listened to bits of it and I was disappointed by the lack of push back from Lex who was supper excited because he got to hang out with Durov for a couple of weeks in Dubai - the tl;dr I got from what I heard is that Telegram is amazing and Durov is a visionary freedom fighter. Lex's recent history I'm not surprised though.

Here's the transcript of the section about encryption: https://lexfridman.com/pavel-durov-transcript#chapter15_encr... I'll let you judge for yourself.

I'll comment on another section though because I'm somewhat knowledgeable having followed the subject closely in the media and by knowing the country: https://lexfridman.com/pavel-durov-transcript#chapter7_roman...

He claims: 'So, by the time the head of intelligence services met me to ask about Romania to help them silencing conservative voices in Romania, I was already wary of what can be going on next.'

I call bullshit on this. The 'conservative voices' are muppets doing Russia's bidding who broke all sorts of election laws. There was nothing serious happening on Telegram in Romania that would warrant any foreign intervention, it just doesn't make sense.

Speaking of agents and tests, here's a fun one I had the other day: while refactoring a large code base I told the agent to do something precise to a specific module, refactor with the new change, then ensure the tests are passing.

The test suite is slow and has many moving parts; the tests I asked it to run take ~5 minutes. The thing decided to kill the test run, then it made up another command it said was the 'tests' so when I looked at the agent console in the IDE everything seemed fine collapsed, i.e. 'Tests ran successfully'.

Obviously the code changes also had a subtle bug that I only saw when pushing its refactoring to CI (and more waiting). At least there were tests to catch the problem.

Your point to not rely on good intentions and have systems in place to ensure quality is good - but your comparison to humans didn't go well with me.

Very few humans fill in their task with made up crap then lie about it - I haven't met any in person. And if I did, I wouldn't want to work with them, even if they work 24/7.

Obligatory disclaimer for future employers: I believe in AI, I use it, yada yada. The reason I'm commenting here is I don't believe we should normalise this standard of quality for production work.

Jetbrains IDEs have 'Local History' that keeps a record of all edits to files - I looked in mine now and I have changes from more than 3w ago :)

They probably mean new code not the entire codebase, but even so I think those numbers are ridiculous given my experience.

Is there any evidence of this (anywhere, not just MS or Google)?

I will guess that you are generating orders of magnitude more lines of code with your software than people do when building projects with LLMs - if this is true I don't think the analogy holds.

Why does the title say 'in London'? Everything else I've read in the thread refers to Manchester.

I agree with other posters, unless there's a clear strategy to cash in on the equity, you can consider it (to put it nicely) a bet with bad odds. You say you're friends with the founders, that should decrease the chances of you getting screwed over but it's still a possibility. And that's in the unlikely scenario that you can cash in your shares.

A question for you - if you can get a job at a company with a higher total comp (RSUs, bonus etc), why don't you? If the answer is you haven't looked at this but would be willing, get an offer and come back with it to your founders. You can do that after they give you this current raise.

Also, beware, management is different from doing everything yourself :)

Effects of this are felt today - policing of the population is worse in the countries that were either Nazi occupied or communist compared to the UK.

My point was that measures like this destroy this 'advantage'. (I don't know if advantage is the right word but I can't come up with a better one)

Labour is worse if you look at the past years. They were pushing for harsher restrictions in the pandemic and they said this bill is 'watered down' by the conservatives.

I am so disappointed by this.

I moved to the UK from Eastern Europe and it's hands down better in almost every way if you consider personal freedom, in my opinion.

In terms of policing, it's better than most EU states. See this for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUxiTdRTPMg The argument in the video is that French police is brutal because of the remnants of Nazi collaborationists in the police, and this applies to everywhere in Europe occupied by Nazis. And then you have Eastern Europe with its brutal communism.

I hear a lot of British people complain about how bad society has gotten etc. I'm not saying it's perfect, but it's something to still be proud of. But this kind of shit will break it.

To the people saying it's the fault of people being apathetic, what would you have done?

:(

It's not only the tories:

'Labour pledges to toughen ‘weakened and gutted’ online safety bill' https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/01/labour-pl...

It's very disheartening to see no opposition to this.

I'm curious, who upvotes this and why?

If you've upvoted and see this comment, can you please reply?

FWIW, I agree with the rest of the comments here, I think the points on the list can easily be gamed and should not be used/trusted.

The article's original title is 'SolidGoldMagikarp (plus, prompt generation)', I used the tl;dr.

Since you're here, care to reply to the article?

I'm curious how you are planning to validate that this works and doesn't have negative side-effects.

That’s in part because it’s highly controversial. Little is known about the real-world effect of such deliberate interventions at large scales, but they could have dangerous side effects. The impacts could also be worse in some regions than others, which could provoke geopolitical conflicts.

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By Iseman’s own description, the first two balloon launches were very rudimentary. He says they occurred in April somewhere in the state of Baja California, months before Make Sunsets was incorporated in October. Iseman says he pumped a few grams of sulfur dioxide into weather balloons and added what he estimated would be the right amount of helium to carry them into the stratosphere.

He expected they would burst under pressure at that altitude and release the particles. But it’s not clear whether that happened, where the balloons ended up, or what impact the particles had, because there was no monitoring equipment on board the balloons. Iseman also acknowledges that they did not seek any approvals from government authorities or scientific agencies, in Mexico or elsewhere, before the first two launches.

The article says 1500 in Europe, I read your message to mean 'in England'.

I first thought you're right and the joke is not ok - but it's not a joke: https://archive.ph/Afnyl

How is it sexism if it's true? Or should people not bring this up because she's a woman?

I think the problem is Equifax's record of handling (non-consenting) user's data, and that causes resentment - not that the CISO was a woman.

The article you linked says:

Hammond was right, of course, on his primary counts, as well: the temperature topped 40 degrees at London’s Heathrow airport and over 1,500 people died across Europe as a result of the heat wave.

There was 'literally' one day of temperatures over 40, in a couple of places. I didn't see any data on deaths, but it wasn't 'thousands'.

Before anyone jumps, I believe in climate change :) I just think this hyperbole isn't helpful.