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Fun fact: Suppressed/hidden/lost memories due to trauma that appear to re-surface through therapy are not a real thing, as previously thought (and still by some psychotherapists). Nowadays it's understood by psychology that any memories "re-surfacing" in therapy are in fact newly created, although the patient themselves cannot tell the difference. Allegedly, whole accusations of childhood abuse may have been created out of thin air, without the victim realizing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recovered-memory_therapy (see research section)

Moore's law also started coming to an end a few years ago.

Maybe in a few decades, people will look back at how naive it was to talk about AGI at this point, just like the last few times since the 1960s whenever AI had a (perceived) breakthrough. It's always a few decades away.

But to get any meaningful result, you'd need to insert them in unusual ways or amounts, likely breaking formatting rules. Trailing whitespace or excessive line breaks should be caught by linting tools and/or code review.

It's not like questioning the authenticity of a photo is a new thing "in the age of AI". Manipulating photos has always been a thing, long before photoshop even.

Lol, lost it at the "Laser Safety Officer" fake id... :'D

Why not just indicate non-printable characters in code review tools? I've always wondered that, regardless of security implications. They are super rare in real code (except line breaks and tabs maybe), so no disruption in most cases.

Also, as notes in other comments, you can't do shady stuff purely with invisible code.

The article seems bit sensationalist to me.

Same here. I guess it's an issue with (system) dark theme (you can simulate that in dev tools. Android here, so must be Chrome.

That doesn't really look like an actual XBox controller. Yes, it's impressive what it can generate, but not really on par with what professional humans could do.

As usual, the model can get like 95% close to the gold standard, but the last few percent are the hardest ones. I honestly think that most dream scenarios of AI applications will remain dreams for exactly that reason, and the AI bubble will burst badly.

Yes, there are real use cases for the current generation of LLMs and generative models, but they make up only a small fraction of what some of the big companies would like to believe.

I agree, but in some cases it makes sense to protect the print. Although I habe no idea if it actually helps.

Not American myself, and never been there - are there really $1 notes and coins, or am I missing something here?

Somehow I like the random unrelated ramblings about vintage movies and the author's trip to tokyo at the beginning.

All I keep hearing is that storage is crazy expensive. Otherwise this would be a very obvious solution to everyone.

It won't be hard at all to take it away if only few people are using it. And I assume the vast majority is using smartphones and won't understand the need for anything else.

> [...] that Apple would sue Sun if they moved forward to commercialize it – Jobs felt the project infringed Apple's intellectual property.

Classic Apple.

Has "genode" any meaning in English, or is it just an artistic blend of "generic" and "node" or similar?

I'm asking because my brain read "Genocide OS" at the first pass, which seems a bit unfortunate.

Are you African by any chance?

Google generally uses data from free users to train ML models etc., but no data from paying customers. I don't have a link to back it up though.

Note that good-looking doesn't necessarily translate into well-usable. The examples of alignment and icon weight are more on the side of aesthetics. If there's too much consistency, e.g. everything aligned in the same color with same weight and similar icons, it gets hard to quickly orient on the page and find things. This seems to be a common oversight, even by large companies.

Visual "breaks", such as color changes, spaces, or variation in contrast can help a lot (and still look good). A good example are paragraphs in text: A large chunk of text is more difficult to go through, or re-discover some section, than one divided into paragraphs.

> Nothing raises my suspicions quite like something calling itself "safe".

Ah yes, it's like a country having "democratic republic" in it's name - if you have to say it, it's probably not true.

Note that the people making these slides are one the selling side, so they have a natural incentive to downplay the problem, and the slide smells a bit like that to me. (And by selling side I don't necessarily mean sales people, but also the engineers involved in designing, building, or at least working on the product.)

I think the problem is that most people, especially non-engineers, are over-selling and over-promising all the time. Being honest about risks, issues, and short-comings makes a project or product look bad in comparison.

The most feasible way to get X done is saying "X is a great option, the risks are managable, and it's fairly quick". Then, it will unexpectedly take a bit longer, plus some unforeseen trade-offs will need to be made.

> assume you haven't changed position since you last powered on

Sounds like a classic case of programmers ignoring corner cases: Towing, ferries, car trains, pushing the car because it broke down...

It's when you find messages in the log like "this should never happen".

Or google the error message, click first link, blindly copy-paste whatever code snippet comes up and re-run code/test.

Yes, such workflows (jobs or) may become obsolete with some of the modern AI tools. Is that a bad thing? Not sure...

Well, more money flows in one direction in such cases, which might or might not be intended. As long as there's enough influx of money from other places, this can even be long-term sustainable (e.g. a triangle of trade).

It seems that China is currently a "sink" in the global flow of money, which will obviously change the landscape in the long run. How? Hard to tell, probably not in such a bad as many people fear. I think it will eventually drive up prices of Chinese export goods, which will force importers to look for alternatives, which is likely better in many regards than having one country manufacturing everything for everyone in the world. But don't trust me, I'm just a random poster on the internet.

I put some effort to choose high-CRI light sources at home, but I have to say the difference is not very notable in many everyday situations, only when doing specific things (e.g. playing a board game where colors matter). What irritates me more are badly dimmed LEDs, i.e. too low frequency, causing a visual "stuttering" effect on moving things, espcially reflective objects.

But generally, I agree.

There you go:

  let i = 0;
  function bump() {
      document.body.style.filter=`hue-rotate(${i+=2}deg)`, 16;
      requestAnimationFrame(bump);
  }
  requestAnimationFrame(bump);

As a quick workaround, you can set a CSS filter on the whole page: Either use dev tools to put a rule `filter: hue-rotate(60deg);` on the `body` element, or simply run `javascript:void(document.body.style.filter='hue-rotate(60deg)')` from the url bar.

> True end-user programming and product manager programming are coming, probably pretty soon.

I'm placing my bets rather on this new object-oriented programming thing. It will make programming jobs obsolete any day now...

I'm no expert and a bit tired, but: Is the problem around hashing password + salt for a key just about the fact it can be brute-forced with enough recources, or did I miss something?