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ApolloFortyNine

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ApolloFortyNine
·vorgestern·discuss
Well at this point the goal is for Iran to stop randomly blowing up innocent cargo ships. Or firing missiles at airports and cities in retaliation.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/iran-war-live-us-says-iranian-...
ApolloFortyNine
·vorgestern·discuss
Makes sense, drone technology has come an insane distance since these were developed.

Probably the biggest learning from the Ukraine war alone is the effectiveness of cheap drones. It was suspected for years but hadn't been put to the test yet.
ApolloFortyNine
·vor 16 Tagen·discuss
>Hacker news has a lot of owners, managers and what John Steinbeck called "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" (e.g. future failed startup founders).

This way of thinking is so depressing to read about. If we ignore the strawman argument and just look at what 'point' you're making, you're basically making fun of people for having high aspirations. A bit of a 'look at this guy, he thinks he can run his own business! Dummy' energy.

>I'm sure many of them are reaching for the downvote as they read this.

In a perfect world enough people would have hit flag by now where I wouldn't have had to read this at all.
ApolloFortyNine
·vor 17 Tagen·discuss
>Commercial airlines make heavy use of it, and serious failures are vanishingly rare.

Is this a joke? There's a major outage effecting flights at least yearly. The Delta one is from May...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Southwest_Airlines_schedu... [2] https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/airline-news/2026/05/0...
ApolloFortyNine
·vor 17 Tagen·discuss
I got one, it's pretty cool that it's small enough to just magnet to the back of your phone. If your someone who needs to use a large font on their ereader to read its certainly not for you, but the screen size is good enough for regular sized text.

It's also cool that it's chip is just an ESP32.
ApolloFortyNine
·vor 17 Tagen·discuss
I truly don't doubt it's possible for the AI to be 'racist'.

>If the AI had recommended Black and Asian candidates at the same rate as it recommended the most-favored group (typically white applicants), 40,000 more of their applications would have advanced to the next stage of hiring.

I don't think this is the right benchmark here, or at least, it would be very interesting if the actual outcome, offer or rejected, was considered at the end.
ApolloFortyNine
·vor 18 Tagen·discuss
>“Our estimate is that about 200 to 400 pedestrians a year would not have died if vehicles had remained approximately the same size over the past quarter-century,” the report continued. “That represents about 10 percent of the recent increase in pedestrian deaths.”

Am I crazy? The article itself points out that only 10% of the increase would have been 'saved' if cars had remained the same size. This goes directly against the title no?

There's certainly more than one reason, my gut would point to more smart phone use both by drivers and even by pedestrians themselves.

I wonder if one day using a smart phone while driving will have the same stigma as a DUI (and similar punishment). I struggle to argue it shouldn't, its sometimes a little crazy to think about that if the person in the other lane gets distracted on their phone, I might be involved in a head on collision at 60+mph.
ApolloFortyNine
·vor 18 Tagen·discuss
You can install whatever apk you want on your Oculus Quest.
ApolloFortyNine
·vor 20 Tagen·discuss
The calculus teacher I had had a 4.7 ap test average (it's a test score 1-5).

My physics teacher had a 2.2.

But even still, these teachers have 20+ students. If you struggle with a topic it can pay dividends to have it explained for you.
ApolloFortyNine
·vor 21 Tagen·discuss
Honestly, what do you think a teacher does that an llm can't? If you want to learn you absolutely can ask an llm how to _solve_ x and explain the steps and why.

My leaving out the word solve seems to have led some of you astray, I apologize.

Again the problem is you have the option to solve your problem and move on without understanding it. That does not mean you can not use the tool to understand the problem and how to _solve_ it.

I live in fear that instead of learning how to use the tool, some might just vote to ban the tool.
ApolloFortyNine
·vor 21 Tagen·discuss
I'm sorry the wording of my post didn't match what you wanted.

Type in "Explain how to solve a simple linear algebra problem" into the AI of your choice instead.
ApolloFortyNine
·vor 21 Tagen·discuss
>I think so too. But we haven’t demonstrated we’ve found how, in kids or in adults.

Ask chatgpt or claude, on their highest model (probably unnecessary but I'm sensing a vibe) to explain a simple linear algebra problem, and if you don't understand it, ask about what part you don't understand.

And if you truly believe it made something up, prove it.

This is seriously the easiest thing to prove out there, you can see for yourself in the next 5 minutes.
ApolloFortyNine
·vor 21 Tagen·discuss
I think AI could (and by some students probably already is) be used to help a student better understand the material, and faster than you could before. I still recall some parts of Physics taking a while to click, and often having to reread different sections of a textbook to try and understand the what and why behind something.

The biggest issue is a child has to want to do that, since they also could just ask the AI for the answer and then go back to playing video games. End of the day past age 13 or so I just don't see legislation making any difference, they'll find a way past any law blocking them from using AI. Like a lot of education it'll probably come down to parenting.
ApolloFortyNine
·vor 25 Tagen·discuss
This links to some other blog post for the bulk of it's 'why', and that blog post mostly seems to be annoyed about "You cannot invalidate individual JWT tokens". Which every time I've implemented, the general guideline is to check for invalidated nonces somewhere. Which resolves that random blog posts second point too.

>The JWT specification itself is not trusted by security experts.

This feels like it needs more evidence than just one blog post. And that blog post seems to just largely blame bad implementations? Something that will plague any standard.

Overall, I don't know what I expected clicking a random gist link.
ApolloFortyNine
·vor 25 Tagen·discuss
Wallpaper Engine is pretty old now, and I remember using it years ago reading warning about not downloading unknown wallpapers. I believe there's even settings in the configuration not to run arbitrary code. 8 year old post about it, but honestly pretty sure it's been warned since day 1. [1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/wallpaperengine/comments/7xg27d/rem...
ApolloFortyNine
·vor 25 Tagen·discuss
UBlock Origin Lite has been working fine (I had no idea MV2 wasn't actually disabled yet), and uses MV3.
ApolloFortyNine
·vor 27 Tagen·discuss
Lol I get chips got autocorrected to chops in my post but surely you could see I referenced that.
ApolloFortyNine
·vor 27 Tagen·discuss
>https://darioamodei.com/post/policy-on-the-ai-exponential

Dario even called for export restrictions just 2 days ago, though he wanted it limited to chips. But the entire post is about increased regulation.

Hard not to see this as a you reap what you sow scenario.
ApolloFortyNine
·vor 28 Tagen·discuss
The CEO's post even mentions supporting export controls, all be it in regards to chip exports. [1]

They suggested the use of the very law used against them here...

[1] https://darioamodei.com/post/policy-on-the-ai-exponential
ApolloFortyNine
·vor 28 Tagen·discuss
Someone disagreeing with you doesn't make it reddit.

Two days ago Antheopic's CEO made a lengthy post calling for most government oversight on AI. He even mentions support export controls, even though he wanted them applied only to chops [1].

Anthropic literally asked for this, though they might have hoped it wouldn't be used against themselves.

[1] https://darioamodei.com/post/policy-on-the-ai-exponential