> It's not intelligence. It's processing.

Its like a souped up search engine;

Its very good at not only finding the answers to a query, but recognizing the question even if it is worded differently than it has been in the past, finding the existing answers, and presenting those answers even if it has to tweak or assemble or rearrange them.

What it cannot do is actually solve novel problems missing from its training set, any more than a search engine can find an match for a document that does not exist.

Exactly; if their plans were not profitable without endless supplies of tax money flowing into their pockets, they never really intended to build anything.

The established theory held. The gold exploded as expected.

The only interesting thing about this finding seems to be that they have a very fast thermometer, so fast it could get a reading of temperature within the trillionth of a second window as the gold was in the process of exploding.

Also, can anyone envision a "spaceflight" application of this? I wasnt aware speedy thermometers were a major barrier to space flight development.

if a hackathon amounts to gluing together a hosted 3rd party api with python... and only using its canned features in the most trivial way... it wasnt much of a "programming" contest in the first place.

It almost seems more like an advertisment for a hosted web service ... turns out thats exactly what it was...

> Every doctor youâ(TM)ve met could probably become a software engineer. Same for most lawyers.

I dont know how many doctors or lawyers this guy has met, but I'm guessing zero.

I have yet to find a single doctor or lawyer who could learn to code.

The sun is hurtling around the solar system at ~230 kps (relative to the local standard rest frame), but so is the asteroid.

Since both objects can be considered to be orbiting the milky way at the same speed, we generally consider that speed to be zero for the purposes of comparison, and only compare the two objects motion relative to each other.

Its actually very good news that CO2 is up. We should be hoping for ~1000ppm, which would make the earth absolutely lush and gardenlike.

> Google Deepmind has a definition for AGI,

Thats not a definition, its just a set of subjective heuristics for measuring. And its not even as useful as the basic turing test, which is a much more concise yardstick.

Definitions of AI all seem to come down to "we'll know it when we see it" which is the exact same thing as saying "we have no idea what it is"

lol, no, unicode is not broken. Human languages are just complex things, and there is no universal way to upper/lowercase things.

Changing the case of a string is language specific, and thus should not and cannot be well implemented at this filesystem level, because a file system should work for any language.

Linus is right.

> So Signal knows where you are, at what time, and your phone number.

exactly; its a mass invitation to get spied on while thinking you are secure.

Signal also has truly terrible user identification design, as the recent war planning leak shows. Instead of requiring in person exchange of certificates, and having any kind of external certificate validation system, its basically "blindly trust someone based on their phone number".

i dont think there is any safe way to operate signal, due to the lethal combination of closed source parts, centralized servers, and extremely bad user identification and authorization practices.

look at the price of the dollar over the last 110 years. It went up exactly once and almost destroyed the country.

Thats what microstrategy is betting against: the US dollar.

Considering the limits of fed policy, its pretty much a guaranteed win.

Unless the government bans bitcoin or somehow prevents microstrategy from holding it, they cant really lose. The dollar cannot change its stripes.

> LN isn't all that it's cracked up to be. From a strictly technical PoV, a chain that can achieve high throughput on the main chain without sidechains or "payment channels" is going to win out.

Lol, this is such an insane comment.

You think every single micro-purchase of a coffee needs to be memorialized on a world-wide extremely replicated immutable ledger for all of time?

If you dont see why that is a bad idea, then you arent really qualified to have an opinion on the matter.

Obviously, only the most important and largest transactions truly belong there, and mostly everything else small and ephemeral belongs on a second or third layer above that.

Nothing is going to beat bitcoin, ever. Bitcoin is not a thing or even a specific technology even; its an economic concept with a continuously evolving and adapting set of supporting technologies.

> there always needs to be less secure means of authentication because hardware-based authentication must be replaced, sooner or later.

Thats not the case; there is a much better approach which doesnt require a security compromise: spare passkeys pre-configured as fallbacks apriori.

Google already implements this by requiring 2 passkeys when you enable their highest security settings. One is the active/primary, and the other serves as a backup in case your primary passkey gets lost or destroyed. So you can leave one at home in a safe place and keep your primary with you. You can be confident the hardware passkeys have zero ability to export secrets whatsoever, so cannot be cloned nor leaked. And you are not limited to one spare, you can have many spare passkeys if you suspect you will need them.

Allowing secret exports utterly undermines the very foundational security of passkeys in the first place. If a secret can be exported, it can be intercepted. People are going to get phished of their passkeys via the backup mechanism - because a big part of the design of passkeys was that average users are not smart about handling secret keys so they should neither need nor have the ability to leak them.

And the vast majority of passkey hardware devices are not set up with the needed mechanisms to even enable advanced users to do such an export safely. (basically a on-device dedicated screen and keyboard would be needed to safely export with zero risk of intercept)

The real motive for backups is of course to allow centralized service providers to have the option to spy on the secrets and/or monitor user activity across sites for ad farming.