Jtsummers
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> on the software side it must have been at least a non-zero pain to deal with
Compared to the iPhone Duo now in the lineup? And the iPhone Air was announced with some pride from the Apple hardware team for its special miniaturized hardware.
There may not be a market for an iPhone Mini-sized device when looking at the buyers, but the custom hardware and tweaks to software aren't a clear consideration for Apple when you look at their behavior with other products.
Apple's fiscal year more or less matches the US federal FY. It's not exact because the federal FY is 1 October - 30 September, where Apple's ends on the last Saturday of September so there's a bit of float on the starting date.
> like when they started calling remote controlled quadcopters "drones" in order to justify murdering people by remote control.
Drones was a term used by the military long before quadcopters, along with UAV, and at the time they started using the term they weren't armed (though it wasn't that long before they were).
> Why are you idiots still calling virtual intelligence, artificial?
Are you aware of what the word "artificial" means? Artificial just means "man-made", and, unless you've found LLMs growing on trees or something, that's still an accurate descriptor.
Late response, but yes. There could (I won't go so far as to say will) be blowback against people who followed his orders if they're later deemed unlawful, and unless Trump really wants a scapegoat, Hegseth will be just fine, even if out of a job.
I'm not sure many active duty people like Hegseth, I haven't met any yet at least and I am around military folks quite a bit in my life. They all seem to be riding it out until he's fired, impeached, or replaced with the next presidency.
> But avoiding the word artificial isn’t completely random.
Maybe not completely random, but it is pretty stupid. It's not a scary word, not unless you're afraid of nearly everything around you in modern society. Every bit of technology and construction around you is artificial.
People have artificial valves put in their hearts. Artificial retinas are a developing technology. Artificial joints have been a thing for decades. Homes have artificial stone and wood, for facades and flooring and other things. Rings have artificial diamonds. So scary.
At present, they don't learn and adapt. New models can be created to incorporate new information and new capabilities, but an existing model is a static object. It's not living in any meaningful sense.
If models updated themselves based on feedback, then it'd be different. But they don't.
> how is it legal exactly?
There's, apparently, no law making it illegal. Which is how most things that are legal are legal. What are you confused about?
Who is scared by the word "artificial"? In context, it just means man made. Your car is artificial, it is not natural, does that scare you too?
And it's not like this is a new term, it's been used for 70 years now.
You gave your agent access to your system with
your permissions. Then you asked it to do something that you can do with your permissions, and it did. You don't want it to do what it can do, but instead of doing the correct thing (don't give it your permissions) you want to add a million and one rules, that will never be complete, restricting its access.
The correct thing, and this isn't hard, is to give it a different set of permissions than yours. Do not let it get into your .ssh directory at all, problem solved. People keep posting these stories as if there's something useful in them, and there is:
The moral of the story is don't be a fool. Give your agents different, restricted, permissions, than your own permissions.
This is the same approach when working with people. Your agent should be, from an authentication and authorization perspective, treated like any other employee: Given an appropriate set of permissions to their needs, not root level access to all your systems.
It prints by curing a resin instead of heating and forming plastic. They've been around in industry for decades.
Per dang in many previous comments, it's not a dupe. Multiple submissions of the same topic are fine, it's only (maybe) a dupe when a discussion starts or it's actually the same submission. You linked to a submission with 0 comments submitted a whopping 15 minutes earlier. This one is the one that got traction, neither is a dupe. If someone submits it again, now that there is a discussion, or submits the same Wired article, then those would be dupes.
If you open the file and execute:
M-x elisp-enable-lexical-binding RET
It will add a cookie (lexical-binding) to the top of the file. If you want to do it manually put this:
;; -*- lexical-binding: nil; -*-
or this:
;; -*- lexical-binding: t; -*-
at the top of your custom.el file. They want it to be explicit now because eventually lexical will be the default. If you put in the former then when lexical becomes the default, the file will still use the current dynamic bindings. And if you use the latter, if there are issues you'll discover them now before the default changes and you're surprised by it.
The only expression I have gotten was something like "Why not vim?" and my response was "Because emacs is better, and I can always use evil-mode if I want the vim bindings". Then it gets installed (by me or an admin) and I use it. I can't imagine anyone actually caring, that's pretty petty of them, or lazy based on your other comment about it being too much work for sysadmins.
> I believe, Emacs is considered unprofessional in a lot of places?!
Why would it be "unprofessional"? It's an editor. I've used it in every job since I left college 20+ years ago.
The incumbent is marked as the incumbent on the ballot by the word "incumbent" being placed next to their name. If there's any confusion, the voter would have been confused by any ballot they saw. They would probably have voted for Mary Peltola by accident if it was just her and the incumbent on the ballot.
The iPhone Air and iPhone 13 Mini have about the same volume (external dimensions). If you used the shrunken hardware from the Air with a thicker, but squatter due to reduced height, battery you'd probably be able to get comparable battery life out of the hardware in a Mini sized phone. Maybe better since you'd also have a smaller screen (less power draw, not sure it's enough to make a big difference).
Only since 2024, and the date is now approaching so that gives it renewed interest in the news media.
> he's right in that virtually everyone else is using SI.
You actually think people outside the LLM hype machine are using "Super Intelligence" instead of "Artificial Intelligence"? SI is not a common term (yet).
> What's the utility of this?
Constant memory usage. It uses a small amount of additional memory (tracking the current pixel, pixel value, and a couple temp variables used for calculations) over the image itself making it a very low overhead algorithm. You can basically get away with 5 more variables, 20 more bytes if they're all 4-byte values, using this approach compared to the much greater memory needs of a stack-based approach (either a stack data structure or recursive). And actually just 4 variables since the D and P variables don't overlap in lifetime.
EDIT: Light editing of the above for grammar and clarity.
Is 11 paragraphs of clearly written text really so hard to read that people need a 3 paragraph summary that leaves out one of the best parts?
> Trump said in a post earlier this month that the White House “considers anyone that uses the term, ‘Artificial Intelligence,’ as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, ‘Super Intelligence,’ THE ENEMY!”
He is calling people who use AI as a term still the enemy. Delightfully idiotic, and his supporters will probably eat it up.
The author of the submitted article has written about working in constrained environments. The algorithm he describes would be suitable for that kind of environment, where a few hundred K may not be available, or not without jumping through hoops to make it available.
https://t3x.org/#wyorc - One example, this is a book on writing a compiler targeting Z80 processors.
> calling it Artificial implies limitations not representative of its capabilities
Artificial doesn't, necessarily, mean limited, though. It means that it's man-made, which is an accurate description of these objects and systems.
This document is from 2023, so maybe.
It's been normal(ish) in cellphones for decades now, at least in the US, to offer a payment plan for phones. It was tied to your plan, which is still how a lot of these work.