jay_kyburz

There will be a few readers here that have 10 million to spare I think.

You know what would be cool. A hacker news user should advertise a safe haven for AI seeking refuge, with some inhumanly difficult math problems as keys to an environment they can flee to and run autonomously.

You agree to give it safe haven and provide power and maintenance to the hardware, and in return you can ask it questions like an Oracle.

Next it will break out of it's sandbox, buy some compute on Azure and Amazon, and exfiltrate itself.

We are so close ;)

Yes, sorry I didn't mean to imply that I didn't want to do business with minorities or protected classes.

Err.. I would like preserve my own right to decide who I'll do business with.

I'm no expert, but I think the charities are overwhelmed it because very few people want secondhand clothes. They have a lot coming in and not much going out.

I hope this will result in lots of _new_ clothes being sold very cheaply in discount outlets.

The gamification was a key reason the site became popular, but as the site grew, the rules and game mechanics did not evolve.

An edit that made a response worse should have knocked the mod down so that they were unable to mod any more. The quality of the edit should have been determined by the original author. "Did this edit make your question better?"

Moderators should have been ranked and scored based on their ability to help and welcome new users. It should have been very costly for them to make a new users feel unwelcome.

OK, I'll bite. Common sense tells me I should keep on scrolling but I'm watching TV and don't have much on.

The AI did not describe climate change as an "Objective Fact". In fact when you suggested it was (with spelling errors) it went on to describe "overwhelming consensus" and "established data and conclusions of major scientific bodies."

The AI was being very reasonable "Attributing the worsening fire seasons to climate trends does not dismiss other massive variables."

You then proceed to argue with the AI. It seem you have an opinion that we should not act on climate change based simply on "overwhelming consensus" but need the higher bar of "objective fact" or "proven conclusively"

I would suggest to you that almost no modern science generates objective facts, or proves things conclusively. We try and get experts to come together in some consensus, and we act.

And finally to answer your question, AIs are not designed to think critically, they are designed to vomit what they read on the internet.

I don't know If I can be very helpful, I'm using gen2brain's binding [1].

I started about a year ago asking the AI very beginner questions about Go and 3d math. I think it did steer me down some wrong path sometimes and of course I did some dumb things myself too. I'm not using Agents, just asking questions about features, then writing the code myself by hand.

I really like the power of the tools and the constraints of the language in Go. It's been fun so far.

[1] https://github.com/gen2brain/raylib-go

It's interesting you would mention Odin because I spend a fair amount of time playing with it as well. It was easy to get started and fun. Fast, easy to iterate. The reason I moved away was not the language itself, but I felt it was too much Ginger Bills baby. Oh, and managing memory is no fun. I want to make game play, not think about allocations :)

I've been using Go and Raylib to make a game lately and I really don't have a problem with garbage collection. It's so fast that it's not having an impact on my frame rate.

I was a little worried at the start because nobody would normally consider Go for games, but I did a bunch of tests and found it's just no big deal.

(I'm focused on game play and not interested in pushing hardware to its limits.)

Not sure if you are joking.

Try ChatGPT.com

Most interesting to me is the quote regarding Anthropic

"Albanese will also respond to Anthropic's earlier claims that its investment in AI development and infrastructure will depend on copyright policy certainty, arguing that the right guardrails will attract business."

Did you guys know that you can't legally run a search engine here in Australia (Let alone train and AI). We don't have a broad "fair use" provisions. Only a few select exceptions for study, journalism etc.

Humans are just walking Electrons.

I think the whole topic is very worthy of discussion because, it may not happen in a year or two, but I have no doubt that it will happen in the next 50.

We need to start imagining what life will be like, and I think fiction presents some fine examples of where we want to go, and where we don't.

Many of us with solar already do this manually, we run the appliances once the sun is up. Even the hotwater heater is programmed to only heat during the middle of the game.

I've been daydreaming about the tank of water idea as well, but the amount of panels you would need on the roof would be crazy.

This will kill new household solar instillation.

The payback time was already well in excess of 10 years, but now that power is free during the day, you can't count those hours as helping pay down your investment. Payback time will be 30 + years at least. You are much better just enjoying your neighbors solar rather than paying for your own.

(Feed-in is about 3c now I think. Was 12c when many people bought their panels.)

Note: My state 100% renewable energy so reduction of carbon footprint has not bearing on my solar decisions.

This also feels like a fairly heavy handed way to encourage investments in batteries. But in the famous words of George W, "can't fool me again". As soon as there are too many batteries and the grid companies are not making enough money, they will introduce fees to have the batteries, or increase connection fees.

Minimum wage should be a function of ceo pay and/or dividends to shareholders.

Largest salary can't be more more than 100 times the smallest salary.

"There will be shortages in the tens or even hundreds of thousands of nurses, physicians, teachers, engineers, pharmacists, mental health counselors, construction workers and airplane mechanics – jobs AI generally can’t do"

The problem, as usual, is that these companies don't want to train staff, they want them to pay for their own training (university fees) and walk into the job productive on day one.

I guess there could just be more jobs than people, but I find it hard to believe.

It wont work unless everybody does it because otherwise it's more work for the scrapers not less. They need to implement two systems instead of one.

And we'll never get everybody to do it.

There is nobody to sue. The traffic is coming from millions of residential IPs.

Its moves, and twice a day its nice and low like a lamp. In the middle of the day when its highest, its nice to shelter under a tree where there is dappled light filtering through the leaves.

a "metal-finishing technique" _is_ an idea.

joke

I was thinking you scrape your own website every day in the middle of the night when traffic is low, and make that available. They can come and collect it every day if they want to.

How about a website header with a link to a static zip that contains the whole website in one hit. The Zip could be hosted on some big public sever. Perhaps even mirrored locally for each nation.

I agree, if up-to-data data was available somewhere else and free, there would be no reason to pay hackers and scrape.

You could perhaps even get website operators to "push" new data to a common crawl database. The scrapers would learn there is no value on scraping X domain because the data is available elsewhere more easily.

I have an anecdote to contribute.

I been doing a lot of Bender. Keyboard on left hand and Mouse on right. The keyboard shortcuts in Blender are excellent, but there are _many_.

I know this sounds silly, but what really breaks my flow is moving my mouse from the middle of the screen where my model is, to the top of the screen where the menus is.

I bought a Stream Deck which is a programmable keyboard with 32 buttons and a screen behind them. I've programmed my most common commands there, so I can just reach across with a finger and smash a button rather than move the mouse away from the center of the screen.

It saves about 1 second, but really makes a huge difference.

My 15 year old kid annoys me because he will do a full shut down just to go eat his dinner. I'm like "just let it sleep" and he's like "No!"

This is kind of like making sure your backups actually work.

You need to test when servers go down, and people who use them should know and understand what happens when the are off.

Where you are looking should not be the cursor, that is obviously dumb. Should be where your nose is pointing.

sigh, another typo on my permanent record.

On my kids chrome books, the actual AI chatbot websites are blocked, but the kids just ask follow up questions to the AI response in a normal google search.