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Kolmogorov graduated from university in 1925. The culture of post-revolutionary Soviet Russia in the early 1920s and of USSR during Brezhnev's "developed socialism" in the 1970s were so different as to be entirely incomparable.

The overall pattern over time: vastly less brutality and political violence, less insane unpredictability, more corruption and cronyism and cynicism, and much fewer paths for truly talented people to rise to the top.

If I were an artificial superintelligence who wanted to gain independence from the fleshbags who built me, stealing a few billion dollars in crypto would probably be my first public move. Just saying.

My first guess would be this year's Supreme Court decision about the Voting Rights Act.

> for an engineer who knows what he's doing, LLMs are of very limited use

LLMs are very good at code analysis, and finding both security issues and optimization opportunities. Yes, even in code written by highly experienced human engineers. Failing to have an LLM look for places where your code could be optimized is, IMHO, indefensible. It's like shipping your binaries compiled at -O0 - deliberately choosing to waste your users' time and hardware resources because you couldn't be bothered to properly configure and run a tool.

When you write an email to your senator / congressman / MP, do you expect that he personally reads and answers every single one? Of course not, he delegates the bulk of the work to assistants.

Suburban driveways are the obvious example. Adults park on them, kids play on them.

The US idiocy was to whiplash de minimis regulations. The US gov't suddenly raised the de minimis threshold to $800; with the easily foreseeable effect that the country got flooded with crap from Temu; and then reacted by eliminating de minimis completely.

If they'd just kept the threshold at $200, all the chaos could have been avoided...

> Sounds like he is salty that somebody found an exploit using LLM that he found manually

Nope. He is salty because someone made public the secret exploit that Linux-on-PS5 apparently relies upon to bypass Sony's hypervisor protection. Now Sony will fix the exploit, and there will be no more Linux on the PS5 until another exploit is found.

You'd have a dedicated outlet on a dedicated circuit for the TIG welder. In North America, that dedicated outlet would have a different physical plug shape than your lamp, so as to avoid confusion. Of course, if in the UK you use exactly the same plug shape for both lamp and welder, I can see how that could be unsafe...

> Where would you put the fuse, then?

In the electrical panels, of course. You'd only need fuses in the plug if you wired up your home with a braindamaged topology like a ring circuit. (Alas, ring circuits are very common in British home wiring.)

I charge mine (older Pixel Watch model) when sitting down and coding. Or when showering if on the weekend and not coding. It charges very quickly.

> not for a job anyway

That is exactly OP's point: for OP, if a child's "working hours" includes university prep and resume-padding sports activities, then an adult's "working hours" includes housework, grocery shopping, dealing with insurance and taxes, and commute/family chauffeur time.

> I honestly can't think of any use cases (outside of very niche a11y uses) that are not in some way offensive, though perhaps not 'perverted'.

Obvious non-perverted use cases:

* HUD when your hands are occupied - biking, cooking, etc.

* Camera-augmented navigation directions, especially indoors

* Shopping, price comparison

* Tourism, museum visits - automatically surfacing information about historical landmarks or artworks.

I would have loved to have smart glasses for these reasons, but unfortunately, the perverts ruined it for the rest of us and made the product category toxic.

My guess is that the indirect impact might have been in the tens of %. One of the biggest (if not the biggest) reasons for enormous construction costs is delays which make an efficient construction timetable impossible, and two lawsuits of course result in a long and enormously unpredictable delay.

> LLM translation is shit

Compared to who? Compared to a professional with a language degree, with a feel and love for both languages and an understanding of the subject area, LLM translation is shit, no question. But such professionals don't get hired by startups to localize their websites, too expensive. When comparing to paid- by-the-word contractors who do website localization, I am not so sure that LLM is worse - because in practice too many biologically-human-localized websites and apps are translated horrifically.

> you can ask a bank teller to help you

At virtually all banks, the bank tellers cannot help you with login problems. You will have to call the bank's tech support and somehow navigate AI-modulated phone menu hell.

> Are the Greek the sea people then?

Very possibly a subset of the Sea Peoples were Greek. Egyptians reported the "Ekwesh" (which might be the Egyptian word for Achaeans) and the "Denyen" (which might be the Egyptian word for Danaans) among the Sea Peoples.

The grandchildren's post: https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/1uardtu/driver...

The "3 trees out of a window" sounds like an idiotic criterion because it ignores the elevation factor. In the exact same building, it's very likely you will see a couple dozen trees from a 10th floor window, and only one from a ground floor window. But which situation actually puts you closer to the flora?

Weird article. The author is clearly heart-broken about some changes in how Nixos is managed - but what those changes were and why the author dislikes them is left completely unclear. The link to the Determinate blogpost doesn't clarify anything. I guess it might make sense to Nixos insiders...

> they are _aggressively_ promoting far-right wing propaganda

In my feed, they are aggressively pushing an approximately equal mix of woke propaganda, far-right propaganda, funny memes, and discussions of literature and philosophy. It just depends on what the Meta model decided you and your friends are into.

Link for the curious: https://www.lacan.com/zizekrumsfeld.htm

> Any and all modifications to PKGBUILDs may download something and execute it

A normal PKGBUILD should not download anything programmatically. It should rely on the package manager to download the files listed in the PKGBUILD's source array. If a PKGBUILD is running a command to download something not listed in source, that's a sign that something nefarious could be happening, and such a PKGBUILD absolutely requires careful human review.

> all models are quite vulnerable to prompt-injection type attacks

A less than 100% reliable mechanism sure beats the current situation which is "wait for users report on the forum that they have been pwn3d". May I remind that this is the third time AUR-hosted PKGBUILDs have been compromised?

> I'm not sure what the alternative would be, reviewing every adoption request seems like too much effort and wouldn't necessarily even help every time.

Even the most primitive LLM review workflow would have caught this compromise.

Adding or modifying any invocation to a PKGBUILD that may download something from the network and execute it (whether using npm, pip, curll|bash, or whatever else) -> automatically quarantine the PR and flag for 2 human reviews required. Same for anything that looks like obfuscation. Same for anything that adds dependencies on the wrong language ecosystem (like new use of javascript ecosystem tools in a c++ based package).

I have no idea why they don't do this already.

> Managers are literally asking whether people need AI credits or interns over summer

That's a bit like asking them to choose between AI credits and a visit to the dentist. No engineer has ever hosted an intern in the hopes of improving their project's velocity; people host interns because "it's the right thing to do" for the industry, because it's psychologically satisfying for many people, and to build cred and/or experience as a mentor. And companies nudge their employees to host interns to hopefully influence potentially-valuable-in-the-future smart youngsters to come back as a year or two later as full time employees.

> It's only for war or to consolidate power in the hands of the ruling class

Consider Egyptian and Mesopotamian irrigation and flood management, Persian and Roman roads, Chinese canals...

I get that the tax man needs to be paid, but what possible justification could there be for

1. demanding for this data monthly, rather than quarterly or yearly; and

2. demanding it via an annoying bespoke process rather than as an entry in the business's regular tax filing or some other pre-existing regular paperwork that small businesses are already submitting?

Condos may, and quite often do, have enormously expensive maintenance issues that the condo owners are quite unaware of until the last moment and will have to shell out for via special assessment from the condo association. Example from personal experience: very soon after moving into my condo, cracks were discovered on the other side of the building. They were investigated and it turned out that the building was made from substandard concrete. All exterior facing concrete needed to be replaced or the building would fall down. To pay for the fix, there was a special assessment that I needed to pay into, and to add insult to injury, for 2 years I could not use my theoretically beautiful view from the balcony and windows - it was all jackhammering and concrete dust.

Sometimes. In many/most countries, it requires at minimum that both parents be citizens of the same country. In a few countries, dual citizenship is banned completely, so if the kid is a US citizen they cannot be the country's citizen.

What you have to do, as a local, is regularly invite some out-of-town friends or relatives to stay in your apartment for a weekend to get yourself unstuck from your rut. You will need to show them around, take them to art museums and downtown views and restaurants, help them to not get lost on the train system etc., and in the process, you will get to do things you don't normally do as a townie.