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It's entirely the second paragraph and not part of certificate expiration, in and of itself, lends to being MITM. Firefox tells me what the problem is, expired, wrong name, etc. So, it's not just saying "oh no, something is wrong." I can tell what is wrong before I choose to proceed.

100% of OSes are better than Linux in this regard as long as overcommit is the default.

I always turn off swap and that solves this problem. I really don't understand why it is on by default anymore. If you need swap, you are doing something very wrong somewhere else.

So, it depends on how much RAM do you have. Also with a swap enabled system can swap out some very rarely used memory pages, and cache some frequently used files instead - so by disabling swap you rob yourself of this opportunity :)

I have 64 GB RAM on my workstation, yet i still have swap enabled (but with lowered swappiness value).


It's even sillier than that. You can look at populations in the modern world and see there are huge differences in intelligence due to various factors such as cousin marriage and nutrition.

Trying to distinguish happiness from all those other feelings is like trying to separate depressed from all the negative things you feel during a day. Some words do not describe specific emotions, but instead indicate a general state which has all kinds of internal variation and magnitudes. A person who doesn't have much financial stress, their kid isn't having issues that require lots of problem solving from the parent, their job is fine, they are not arguing with their spouse regularly. They would say they are happy. Alternately one can have accomplishments , new PR at the gym, solved an issue at work, but still think of themselves as unhappy because they have things that they prioritize more highly that are not going well.

If you can't do a thing safely and without harm, perhaps you should not be doing the thing? It blows my mind the number of tech people who just say "it's too hard to do it safely and without harm so we'll just do it anyway and externalize the damage to other people." Lazy, greedy, amoral douche bags.

Cars? Airplanes? Motorcycles? Child birth? Life itself? Nothing could be done 100% safely and 100% without harm. Obsession with safety is what helps governments become totalitarian even in traditionally-democratic countries. Obsession with safety is the reason terrorists win.

Edit: Personally I think betting on war is immoral and should be condemned by all sane people, but saying that everything needs 100% safety and 100% no harm is very naive.


The items you've listed are all quite safe and palatable in their harm when contrasted with the benefits they bring. I'm not seeing the same picture when looking at polymarket - I don't see the great gain we're accomplishing as a society in exchange for an addicting platform that breeds organized crime. Some inventions are just plain dangerous and a bad idea.

It should be a litigable offense.

The only reason for a multicore benchmark is when the benchmark represents some common task that is not embarrassingly parallel. If your multicore benchmark is just a single threaded test run on a bunch of cores, it’s pointless. I can simply do math to find that result, max(single core performance multiplied by the number of cores, memory bandwidth divide by bandwidth required per thread).

A good benchmark will be something people actually do.


When a copyright holder dies, their copy rights pass on to their heirs. Depending on the state, this means it can go to cousins or twelfth cousins twice removed if that's all that is alive. Failing that, it goes to the state. Any/all of these could potentially sue if there is money in it.


They could, which is why I said when the copyright holder loses the ability to sue, not when the creator dies.

When it's a twelfth cousin they won't even know they have the copyright. Because it's an implicit right, they don't enumerate all your copyrights and tell your heir about them. The heir has to know.


Sprites mods did one a few years ago. A Mac Plus in a tiny chassis with a 1.5" monitor.

https://spritesmods.com/?art=minimacplus&page=7


Last week I put "was val kilmer in heat" into the search box on my browser. The AI answer came back with "No, Val Kilmer was not in heat. Val Kilmer played Chris Shiherlis in the movie Heat but the film did not indicate that he was pregnant or in heat. His performance was nuanced and skilled and represents a high point of the film." I was not curious about whether he was pregnant.

We are not only not close to human level of intelligence, we are not even at dog, cat, or mouse levels of intelligence. We are not actually at any level of intelligence. Devices that produce text, images, or code do not demonstrate intelligence any more than a printer producing pages of beautiful art demonstrate intelligence.


Honestly, when I read your first sentence, given the lack of a capital H, my brain initially went the same direction the AI did. Then I realized what you meant but since I already went there, I might have made a similar response as a joke. For the sake of my ego I'm forced to reject your claim that this is evidence of stupidity.


It's clearly just a hallucination. Everyone knows there was never a movie called Heat, Val Kilmer did not play Chris Shiherlis in it, and he has always been pregnant.


> I was not curious about whether he was pregnant.

I interpreted the question the same way the AI did.


The model that processes search results is tiny and dumb. You shouldn't compare it to the frontier models that are solving complex math problems.


On Google, just clicking "AI Mode" gives you a substantially smarter model, and it's still pretty weak. But I assume the OP wasn't talking about Google because it doesn't seem to make this mistake even in a search.


It was bing as that is the default for Edge as supplied on my work laptop. It doesn't do this now, but it does do something else quite weird:

search: was val kilmer pregnant or in heat

answer: Not pregnant Val Kilmer was not pregnant or in heat during the events of "Heat." His character, Chris Shiherlis, is involved in a shootout and is shot, which indicates he is not in a reproductive or mating state at that time.

And then cites wikipedia as the source of information.

In terms of cognition the answer is meaningless. Nothing in the question implies or suggests that the question has to do with a movie. Additionally, "involved in a shootout and is shot, which indicates he is not in a reproductive or mating state" makes no sense at all.

AI as deployed shows no intelligence.


If you asked a three-year-old a question that they proceeded to completely flub, would you then assume that all humans are incapable of answering questions correctly?

Nobody is arguing for the quality of the search overviews. The models that impress us are several orders of magnitude larger in scale, and are capable of doing things like assisting preeminent computer scientists (the topic of discussion) and mathematicians (https://github.com/teorth/erdosproblems/wiki/AI-contribution...).


Microsoft is bad at AI and this is a great example. I'm wondering if someone saw your post on HN and tried to hardcode a rule here, because I agree, it's nonsense. None of the actual AI companies are emitting nonsense like this.


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