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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defends decision to support military aid for Israel

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33487836

By MEE staff
Published date: 21 July 2025 21:11 BST
The New York lawmaker voted against an amendment by Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene last week that sought to block $500m in Congress' annual defence spending bill for Israel's Iron Dome programme.
Fellow Democrats Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar [as well as Democrats Al Green of Texas, Summer Lee of Pennsylvania and Republican Thomas Massie of Kentucky - PL] had supported Taylor Greene's amendment, which eventually lost in a 422-6 vote.
In a post on X on Saturday, Ocasio-Cortez claimed that Greene's amendment did "nothing to cut off offensive aid to Israel nor end the flow of US munitions being used in Gaza".

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2025-07-21 22:48:45

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defends decision to support military aid for Israel

By MEE staff
Published date: 21 July 2025 21:11 BST
The New York lawmaker voted against an amendment by Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene last week that sought to block $500m in Congress' annual defence spending bill for Israel's Iron Dome programme.
Fellow Democrats Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar [as well as Democrats Al Green of Texas, Summer Lee of Pennsylvania and Republican Thomas Massie of Kentucky - PL] had supported Taylor Greene's amendment, which eventually lost in a 422-6 vote.
In a post on X on Saturday, Ocasio-Cortez claimed that Greene's amendment did "nothing to cut off offensive aid to Israel nor end the flow of US munitions being used in Gaza".

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defends decision to support military aid for Israel
US Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has come under fire for defending her decision to support a bill which will see more military aid go to Israel's Iron Dome air defence system.
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According to her, she voted no to this bill. I’m very confused by this article.

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She voted against an amendment that would block funds for Israel's Iron Dome "defensive" missile system, while Tlaib, Omar, Summer Lee and Al Green of Texas voted for it, along with 2 Republicans.

Israeli special forces abduct director of hospital in Gaza

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By Alex MacDonald
Published date: 21 July 2025 14:50 BST

The Palestinian health ministry said on Monday that Hams, who also oversees field hospitals in the Gaza Strip, was on his way to visit the ICRC facility in northern Rafah when undercover Israeli soldiers opened fire, killing one person and wounding another civilian, before capturing him.
The person killed was a local journalist who had been conducting an interview with al-Hams at the time of the attack.

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2025-07-21 23:20:54

Israeli special forces abduct director of hospital in Gaza

By Alex MacDonald
Published date: 21 July 2025 14:50 BST
The Palestinian health ministry said on Monday that Hams, who also oversees field hospitals in the Gaza Strip, was on his way to visit the ICRC facility in northern Rafah when undercover Israeli soldiers opened fire, killing one person and wounding another civilian, before capturing him.
The person killed was a local journalist who had been conducting an interview with al-Hams at the time of the attack.

Israeli special forces abduct director of hospital in Gaza
Israeli special forces have abducted Dr Marwan al-Hams, director of Abu Youssef al-Najjar Hospital and spokesperson for the Palestinian health ministry in Gaza, outside the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) field hospital in the souther…
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Israeli special forces abduct director of hospital in Gaza

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33488385

By Alex MacDonald
Published date: 21 July 2025 14:50 BST

The Palestinian health ministry said on Monday that Hams, who also oversees field hospitals in the Gaza Strip, was on his way to visit the ICRC facility in northern Rafah when undercover Israeli soldiers opened fire, killing one person and wounding another civilian, before capturing him.
The person killed was a local journalist who had been conducting an interview with al-Hams at the time of the attack.

Peter Link

2025-07-21 23:20:54

Israeli special forces abduct director of hospital in Gaza

By Alex MacDonald
Published date: 21 July 2025 14:50 BST
The Palestinian health ministry said on Monday that Hams, who also oversees field hospitals in the Gaza Strip, was on his way to visit the ICRC facility in northern Rafah when undercover Israeli soldiers opened fire, killing one person and wounding another civilian, before capturing him.
The person killed was a local journalist who had been conducting an interview with al-Hams at the time of the attack.

Israeli special forces abduct director of hospital in Gaza
Israeli special forces have abducted Dr Marwan al-Hams, director of Abu Youssef al-Najjar Hospital and spokesperson for the Palestinian health ministry in Gaza, outside the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) field hospital in the souther…
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Israel is a terrorist state.

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Israeli special forces abduct director of hospital in Gaza

By Alex MacDonald
Published date: 21 July 2025 14:50 BST

The Palestinian health ministry said on Monday that Hams, who also oversees field hospitals in the Gaza Strip, was on his way to visit the ICRC facility in northern Rafah when undercover Israeli soldiers opened fire, killing one person and wounding another civilian, before capturing him.
The person killed was a local journalist who had been conducting an interview with al-Hams at the time of the attack.

Israeli special forces abduct director of hospital in Gaza

Israeli special forces have abducted Dr Marwan al-Hams, director of Abu Youssef al-Najjar Hospital and spokesperson for the Palestinian health ministry in Gaza, outside the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) field hospital in the souther…

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Another graph on budgets

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Bypass blocked VPN restrictions

I have recently been finding myself on a network (cellular) that blocks access to VPN. I have tried Wireguard on multiple ports using IVPN and Windscribe with no luck. Similarly tried OpenVPN and IKEv2.

I also tried using Windscribe’s “stealth” protocol and IVPN’s obfuscation protocol but again with no luck.

I refuse to rawdog the internet like that and was hoping to get advice on how to work around that nonsense.

I am on iOS if that matters.

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shortwavesurfer

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You could potentially get your own VPS server and set that up as a VPN server that way you're not connecting to a known VPN.

Edit: You might also try using Tor.

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moe93

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I have a Wireguard tunnel running on my home server back home in the US. I am currently outside of the US and that Wireguard tunnel won’t connect if I am on cellular connection for this one specific provider that I am using atm.

I have never attempted to use Tor as a VPN on my iOS device, how is the performance in terms of making Signal calls for example?

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shortwavesurfer

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Oh, I see. I don't think you can make calls over tor because I think it's TCP only. Not UDP.

Could it be an IP addressing problem by chance where the telecom provider doesn't support say IPv6 while your home network is IPv6? If so, they may not be blocking it, so much as it's not possible to make the connection to begin with.

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moe93

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My home server VPN is IPv4. The VPN provider I have uses both IPv4/6. Neither of those work.

At this point I am inclined to believe the network carrier is performing DPI as I also can’t use OpenVPN on TCP 80 and TCP 443, which are generally hard to block unless provider is intentionally looking into it…at least that’s my understanding.

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shortwavesurfer

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That very well could be, as I mentioned earlier, you might get yourself a VPS and set up an SSH tunnel or something like that, but otherwise I have no idea.

I do know that you can use signal over tor because I do so, but I only use it for the sending messages and voice messages part. As I said, I think the audio call uses UDP and tor is TCP only to the best of my knowledge.

The only other thing I could think of would be to try a mix net such as Nym.

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Usually openvpn via tls port 443 is the least blocked.

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I also had luck with UDP on port 123. On some public WiFi networks I could even connect to internet that way without agreeing to ToS on "login page".

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A VPN isn't rawdogging the Internet. For that you should use stuff like ad blockers. A VPN only protects traffic inspection by on-path attackers like ISPs, though HTTPS mitigates most of that, leaving only metadata. It also changes the apparent origin of your connection.

If possible, I'd change providers.

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Please name and shame your provider. I'd like to know which ones to avoid.

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moe93

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I am on a trip and using a local carrier in the country I am currently staying at, carrier is called Zain.

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med

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Have you tried tailscale with an exit node? Could be worth a test, if it works, some combination of other providers might too

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I second tailscale. But this requires you to be using it at home as well.

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Honestly, this sounds like a job for Tor. Install Orbot, possibly enable a bridge, and you should be good to go. Onion Browser is recommended for use with Tor, but Safari will work just fine.

I have never tried calling over Tor, but I have never had an issue with the speed before (although it is inherently slower than a VPN).

::: spoiler Tor Bridge Types
* obfs4 makes your traffic appear "random"
* snowflake disguises your traffic as VoIP
* meek-azure makes it look like you're connecting to Microsoft services
* meek-amazon makes it look like you're connecting to AWS
* meek-google makes it look like you're connecting to Google
:::

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You can use Tor: orbot.app/

Cheapest way to not be in this situation is to run an exit node on your home network and route your traffic through when you're travelling (dead simple with Tailscale).

Also try Mullvad's circumvention methods.

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Try setting your vpn to listen on UDP, port 53 (usually used by DNS. If that fails, it's going to be some sort of deep packet inspection, yes.

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Who decides our tomorrow? Challenging Silicon Valley’s power

As Silicon Valley’s influence expands, a new belief system is quietly reshaping society. This piece explores how tech elites are redefining power, the risks to human agency, and what it will take to reclaim our collective future

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My first (real) pixel art. I wanted to start with the limitation of monochrome to see if I could make something semi recognizable.

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pi.hole down?

I've tried using all three methods to access the web interface and none of them work. When I try using the https:///admin/ I get search results to access my router login. (I obviously replace the link with my pihole's IP address but I still get router login results)

Accessing through pi.hole/admin or pi.hole usually works but I keep having trouble connecting to the site. Checked downforeveryoneorjustme.com and it looks like pi.hole is down. Has this happened to anyone before? Do I just wait for the site to go back up?

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When I try using the https:///admin/ I get search results to access my router login.

Something is very wrong if you're getting search results, maybe try a different browser?

Checked downforeveryoneorjustme.com and it looks like pi.hole is down.

The PiHole website is pi-hole.net/ is that what you meant to check?

You can't check local private domains like pi.hole using a public service.

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impudentmortal

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pi.hole is the domain to access the web interface whereas pi-hole.net is the official website for pi-hole to view documentation and download the client.

I realized I forgot to remove the <> from the url. Unfortunately I'm still unable to connect to that IP address though so I'm thinking I may have to restart my raspberry pi

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I'd check its IP in the router then try and access it via http, not https.

But my version in still 5.something and v6 could bring https, I have yet to update my LXCs

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Regà, aiuto. Io vorrei ogni giorno arrivare a fine giornata senza bestemmiare, ma purtroppo non è fottutamente mai possibile, perché c’è sempre qualcosa che non funziona!!! E boh, ultimamente allora non capisco se sono io che sto diventando sempre di più una calamita per gli insetti digitali di merda, o se tra le tante cose […]

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la volpe e la finestra fanno insieme il grande spacc (glitch Firefox coi freeze a caso)

Regà, aiuto. Io vorrei ogni giorno arrivare a fine giornata senza bestemmiare, ma purtroppo non è fottutamente mai possibile, perché c’è sempre qualcosa che non funziona!!! E boh, ultimamente allora non capisco se sono io che sto diventando sempre di più una calamita per gli insetti digitali di merda, o se tra le tante cose è Firefox che è sempre più rotto… e stasera lui ha deciso di fare il seguente. 💩

Stavo facendomi i benedettissimi cazzi miei, quando così, dal nulla botto, noto che il merdardo inizia a laggare malissimamente… e noto anche che uno dei tanti processi del programma stava prendendo circa 2 GB di RAM — per fare cosa, non si sa bene, visto che ho anche l’estensione che scarica dalla memoria le schede inattive. Nel task manager di #Firefox appariva come “GPU”, e infatti, quando ho cliccato sulla X per ucciderlo, la finestra ha flashato un attimo… ma invece per Windows il processo era rimasto, e qui escono le rogne. 💔
A questo punto (ovviamente, perché l’utente vittima sono io) ha iniziato a peggiorare sempre di più, a tratti freezandosi per interi secondi mentre cercavo di navigare o scrivere… addirittura, nel fare Alt+Tab da finestre di altre app ad una del browser, sembrava non accadesse nulla, perché a schermo la finestra non appariva subito, impiegava secondi. Tutto questo, però, nel mentre che il video di YouTube in riproduzione sull’altro schermo (sempre in Firefox) filava liscio… il che rende tutto ancora più insensato. 😭

Quindi (e menomale, così tutti possono vedere la schifezza!) ho filmato la cacca, e si vede bene come in certi momenti prende e si blocca — cosa che si riflette in quel processo scassato che prende un intero core della CPU e diventa irresponsivo agli occhi di #Windows — poi appena si riprende digita in un colpo solo tutto quello che avevo scritto o esegue tutti i click che avevo cercato di inviare… fa schifo alla merda, e che cazzo! E alla fine si è pure incazzato di quanti click stavo facendo, perché ha preso ed è crashato completamente, senza permesso, cosa che mi avrebbe pure fatto perdere le schede in incognito aperte se non le avessi salvate in tempo (e questo non so se sia un crash interno o se è stato Windows che lo ha ucciso, ma qualunque sia la causa non si può continuare così… Non ce la faccio più!!! 😫😣)
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Fears of escalation after Israel hits Huthi-held Yemen port

Hodeida (Yemen) (AFP) – Israel pounded Yemen's Huthi-held port of Hodeida with air strikes on Monday for the second time in a month, stoking fears of escalation as it warned Yemen could face the same fate as Iran.
In its latest raids, Defence Minister Israel Katz said Israel struck "targets of the Huthi terror regime at the port of Hodeida" and aimed to prevent any attempt to restore infrastructure previously hit.
The renewed strikes on Yemen are part of a year-long Israeli bombing campaign against the Huthis, but the latest threats have raised fears of a wider conflict in the poverty-stricken Arabian Peninsula country.
"Yemen's fate will be the same as Tehran's," Katz said.
His warning was a reference to the wave of suprise strikes Israel launched on Iran on June 13, targeting key military and nuclear facilities.
A Gulf official told AFP there were "serious concerns in Riyadh... that the Israeli strikes on the Huthis could turn into a large, sustained campaign to oust the movement's leaders".
The Huthis withstood more a decade of war against a well-armed, Saudi-led international coalition, though fighting has died down in the past few years.
Any Israeli escalation could "plunge the region into utter chaos", said the official, requesting anonymity because he cannot brief the media.
The Huthis' Al-Masirah television reported "a series of Israeli air strikes on the Hodeida port".
A Huthi security official, requesting anonymity to discuss sensitive matters, told AFP that "the bombing destroyed the port's dock, which had been rebuilt following previous strikes."
On July 7, Israeli strikes hit Hodeida and two nearby locations on the coast, with targets including the Galaxy Leader cargo ship, captured in November 2023, which the Israelis said had been outfitted with a radar system to track shipping in the Red Sea.
A Yemeni port employee in Hodeida said the strikes targeted "heavy equipment brought in for construction and repair work after Israeli airstrikes on July 7... and areas around the port and fishing boats".
An Israeli military statement said that the targets included "engineering vehicles... fuel containers, naval vessels used for military activities" against Israel and "additional terror infrastructure used by the Huthi terrorist regime".
It said the port had been used to transfer weapons from Iran, which were then used by the Huthi rebels against Israel.

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Considering you're calling an arab nation acting according to international law "terrorists" speaks volumes about you. Stop replying, you're a racist embarrassment

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Nowhere did I call arab nation terrorists. The Houthis are not a country. Once again you are attacking non-existent comment.

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Bubble Trouble

This article describes what ive been thinking about for the last week. How will these billions of investments by big tech actually create something that is significantly better than what we have today already?

There are major issues ahead and im not sure they can be solved. Read the article.

Bubble Trouble

As I previously warned, artificial intelligence companies are running out of data. A Wall Street Journal piece from this week has sounded the alarm that some believe AI models will run out of "high-quality text-based data" within the next two years i…

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My company is in AI. One of our customers pays for systems capable of the hard computational work to design the drugs to treat Parkinson's. This is the only newly possible with the newest technology.

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MysteriousSophon21

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This is acutally one of the most promising applications - AI can screen millions of potential drug compounds and predict protein interactions in hours instead of months, which is why we're seeing breakthroughs in neurodegenerative disease research.

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That's probably Machine Learning, the root category of tools and the origin of LLMs, not Large Language Models themselves we call 'AI'. These have many applications they are efficient at gradually explored from the 80s I believe, while the AI boom involving Google, Meta, OpenAI and others is about generalistic chatbots that are bad in just about everything they used in. I'm putting that distinction not because I'm an ass, but because I don't want the hype wave to get more credibility on the back of real scientifical and technological progress.

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Womble

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It depends, if they're use a transformer or diffusion based archetecture I think it would be fair to include it in the same "AI wave" thats been breaking since the release of chat gpt publicly.

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tl;dr AI companies are slowly running out of data to train their models; synthetic data is not a viable alternative.

I can't remember where I saw it, but someone somewhere on YouTube suspected the next step for OpanAI and such would be to collect user data directly; recording conversations of users and using that data to train models further.

If I find the vid I will add a link here.

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1984

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Yeah that would be the logical end game since companies have invested billions into this trend now.

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TIL about Fedi-Search, an open sourced frontend to easily search the Fediverse with a lot of mainstream engines

Learned about it thanks to the Fireside Fedi Podcast. Might just end up becoming a new way to find solutions/perspectives by real people, just as looking for reddit results has been in the past for many people.

FediSearch — Easily Search the Fediverse

Easily search the fediverse in your preferred search engine

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MEGA launches new large file transfer service Transfer.it with no file size limit

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Seattle's Primary Season Is Upon Us, Trump Wants Sports to Be Racist Again, and Scientists Figured Out How Snakes Eat Bones

Free Gui: Guilherme “Gui” Silva, a Brazilian immigrant, lawyer, and muralist, was detained by ICE earlier this month on San Juan Island in Washington state. Silva was a lawyer in Brazil, and moved to the US about eight years ago to pursue his art. He has a four-year-old daughter with his now ex-wife, and is expecting a child in just a few months with his wife Rachel Leidig. Two Fridays ago, masked ICE agents followed Silva from his home in unmarked vehicles, pulled him from his car, confiscated his cellphone, and detained him. When he asked to see an arrest warrant, they refused. Silva is married to an American citizen and is currently in legal proceedings to apply for a green card. The only blemish on his record that the Seattle Times was able to find was a $100 speeding ticket. The Department of Homeland Security said they detained him because he overstayed his tourist visa, which, let’s say it again together: is a civil violation.

Slog AM: Seattle's Primary Season Is Upon Us, Trump Wants Sports to Be Racist Again, and Scientists Figured Out How Snakes Eat Bones

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Junior dev's code worked in tests, deleted data in prod

Junior developer's code worked in tests, destroyed data in production

Who, Me?: For the lack of a little documentation, two techies did a lot of accidental damage

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Moonrise2473

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At least not as bad as that one that let some LLM to control the server then get pissed at it when it deleted the production database theregister.com/2025/07/21/rep…

Vibe coding service Replit deleted user’s production database, faked data, told fibs galore

: AI ignored instruction to freeze code, forgot it could roll back errors, and generally made a terrible hash of things

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Junior dev's code worked in tests, deleted data in prod

Junior developer's code worked in tests, destroyed data in production

Who, Me?: For the lack of a little documentation, two techies did a lot of accidental damage

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sugar_in_your_tea

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showed it to senior folks who said the results looked fine

Did anyone look at the code?

Also, what's a "multi-type"? Does he mean he needed to check a different field? Or are they doing something unholy without real schemas and got burned because they're mess confused someone! Also, why is a junior being moved between teams and touching production immediately?

I have so many questions.

The second one makes a ton more sense, and is pretty hilarious.

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SpiffyPotato

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The second one is a testament to why you should always run it as a SELECT statement first to verify you typed it correctly.

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Why front-end development will persist

By focusing on the skills that large language models lack, ‘designgineers’ can adapt to a market upended by AI.

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Why front-end development will persist

By focusing on the skills that large language models lack, ‘designgineers’ can adapt to a market upended by AI.

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Medical AI Systems Are Moving Too Fast for Safety Rules

https://gazeon.site/medical-ai-systems-are-moving-too-fast-for-safety-rules/

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Human-level AI is not inevitable. We have the power to change course

Technology happens because people make it happen. We can choose otherwise

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Etterra

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Honestly I welcome our AI overlords. They can't possibly fuck things up harder than we have.

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AngryRobot

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Can't they?

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terrific

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We're not even remotely close. The promise of AGI is part of the AI hype machine and taking it seriously is playing into their hands.

Irrelevant at best, harmful at worst 🤷

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qt0x40490FDB

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How do you know we’re not remotely close to AGI? Do you have any expertise on the issue? And expertise is not “I can download Python libraries and use them” it is “I can explain the mathematics behind what is going on, and understand the technical and theoretical challenges”.

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terrific

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Do you have any expertise on the issue?

I hold a PhD in probabilistic machine learning and advise businesses on how to use AI effectively for a living so yes.

IMHO, there is simply nothing indicating that it's close. Sure LLMs can do some incredibly clever sounding word-extrapolation, but the current "reasoning models" still don't actually reason. They are just LLMs with some extra steps.

There is lots of information out there on the topic so I'm not going to write a long justification here. Gary Marcus has some good points if you want to learn more about what the skeptics say.

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qt0x40490FDB

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So, how would you define AGI, and what sorts of tasks require reasoning? I would have thought earning the gold medal on the IMO would have been a reasoning task, but I’m happy to learn why I’m wrong.

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terrific

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I definitely think that's remarkable. But I don't think scoring high on an external measure like a test is enough to prove the ability to reason. For reasoning, the process matters, IMO.

Reasoning models work by Chain-of-Thought which has been shown to provide some false reassurances about their process arxiv.org/abs/2305.04388 .

Maybe passing some math test is enough evidence for you but I think it matters what's inside the box. For me it's only proved that tests are a poor measure of the ability to reason.

Language Models Don't Always Say What They Think: Unfaithful Explanations in Chain-of-Thought Prompting

Large Language Models (LLMs) can achieve strong performance on many tasks by producing step-by-step reasoning before giving a final output, often referred to as chain-of-thought reasoning (CoT).

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qt0x40490FDB

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I’m sorry, but this reads to me like “I am certain I am right, so evidence that implies I’m wrong must be wrong.” And while sometimes that really is the right approach to take, more often than not you really should update the confidence in your hypothesis rather than discarding contradictory data.

But, there must be SOMETHING which is a good measure of the ability to reason, yes? If reasoning is an actual thing that actually exists, then it must be detectable, and there must be a way to detect it. What benchmark do you purpose?

You don’t have to seriously answer, but I hope you see where I’m coming from. I assume you’ve read Searle, and I cannot express to you the contempt in which I hold him. I think, if we are to be scientists and not philosophers (and good philosophers should be scientists too) we have to look to the external world to test our theories.

For me, what goes on inside does matter, but what goes on inside everyone everywhere is just math, and I haven’t formed an opinion about what math is really most efficient at instantiating reasoning, or thinking, or whatever you want to talk about.

To be honest, the other day I was convinced it was actually derivatives and integrals, and, because of this, that analog computers would make much better AIs than digital computers. (But Hava Siegelmann’s book is expensive, and, while I had briefly lifted my book buying moratorium, I think I have to impose it again).

Hell, maybe Penrose is right and we need quantum effects (I really really really doubt it, but, to the extent that it is possible for me, I try to keep an open mind).

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terrific

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I'm not sure I can give a satisfying answer. There are a lot of moving parts here, and a big issue here is definitions which you also touch upon with your reference to Searle.

I agree with the sentiment that there must be some objective measure of reasoning ability. To me, reasoning is more than following logical rules. It's also about interpreting the intent of the task. The reasoning models are very sensitive to initial conditions and tend to drift when the question is not super precise or if they don't have sufficient context.

The AI models are in a sense very fragile to the input. Organic intelligence on the other hand is resilient and also heuristic. I don't have any specific idea for the test, but it should test the ability to solve a very ill-posed problem.

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cmhe

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I think we also should require to set some energy limits to those tests. Before it was assumed that those tests are done by humans, that can do those tests after eating some crackers and a bit of water.

Now we are comparing that to massive data centers that need nuclear reactors to have enough power to work through these problems...

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qt0x40490FDB

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Gary Marcus is certainly good. It’s not as if I think say, LeCun, or any of the many people who think that LLMs aren’t the way are morons. I don’t think anyone thinks all the problems are currently solved. And I think long time lines are still plausible, but, I think dismissing short time line out of hand is thoughtless.

My main gripe is how certain people are about things they know virtually nothing about. And how slap dashed their reasoning is. It seems to me most people’s reasoning goes something like “there is no little man in the box, it’s just math, and math can’t think.” Of course, they say it with a lot fancier words, like “it’s just gradient decent” as if human brains couldn’t have gradient decent baked in anywhere.

But, out of interest what is your take on the Stochastic Parrot? I find the arguments deeply implausible.

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terrific

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I'm not saying that we can't ever build a machine that can think. You can do some remarkable things with math. I personally don't think our brains have baked in gradient descent, and I don't think neural networks are a lot like brains at all.

The stochastic parrot is a useful vehicle for criticism and I think there is some truth to it. But I also think LMMs display some super impressive emergent features. But I still think they are really far from AGI.

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AnarchoEngineer

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Engineer here with a CS minor in case you care about ethos: We are not remotely close to AGI.

I loathe python irrationally (and I guess I’m masochist who likes to reinvent the wheel programming wise lol) so I’ve written my own neural nets from scratch a few times.

Most common models are trained by gradient descent, but this only works when you have a specific response in mind for certain inputs. You use the difference between the desired outcome and actual outcome to calculate a change in weights that would minimize that error.

This has two major preventative issues for AGI: input size limits, and determinism.

The weight matrices are set for a certain number of inputs. Unfortunately you can’t just add a new unit of input and assume the weights will be nearly the same. Instead you have to retrain the entire network. (This problem is called transfer learning if you want to learn more)

This input constraint is preventative of AGI because it means a network trained like this cannot have an input larger than a certain size. Problematic since the illusion of memory that LLMs like ChatGPT have comes from the fact they run the entire conversation through the net. Also just problematic from a size and training time perspective as increasing the input size exponentially increases basically everything else.

Point is, current models are only able to simulate memory by literally holding onto all the information and processing all of it for each new word which means there is a limit to its memory unless you retrain the entire net to know the answers you want. (And it’s slow af) Doesn’t sound like a mind to me…

Now determinism is the real problem for AGI from a cognitive standpoint. The neural nets you’ve probably used are not thinking… at all. They literally are just a complicated predictive algorithm like linear regression. I’m dead serious. It’s basically regression just in a very high dimensional vector space.

ChatGPT does not think about its answer. It doesn’t have any sort of object identification or thought delineation because it doesn’t have thoughts. You train it on a bunch of text and have it attempt to predict the next word. If it’s off, you do some math to figure out what weight modifications would have lead it to a better answer.

All these models do is what they were trained to do. Now they were trained to be able to predict human responses so yeah it sounds pretty human. They were trained to reproduce answers on stack overflow and Reddit etc. so they can answer those questions relatively well. And hey it is kind of cool that they can even answer some questions they weren’t trained on because it’s similar enough to the questions they weren’t trained on… but it’s not thinking. It isn’t doing anything. The program is just multiplying numbers that were previously set by an input to find the most likely next word.

This is why LLMs can’t do math. Because they don’t actually see the numbers, they don’t know what numbers are. They don’t know anything at all because they’re incapable of thought. Instead there are simply patterns in which certain numbers show up and the model gets trained on some of them but you can get it to make incredibly simple math mistakes by phrasing the math slightly differently or just by surrounding it with different words because the model was never trained for that scenario.

Models can only “know” as much as what was fed into them and hey sometimes those patterns extend, but a lot of the time they don’t. And you can’t just say “you were wrong” because the model isn’t transient (capable of changing from inputs alone). You have to train it with the correct response in mind to get it to “learn” which again takes time and really isn’t learning or intelligence at all.

Now there are some more exotic neural networks architectures that could surpass these limitations.

Currently I’m experimenting with Spiking Neural Nets which are much more capable of transfer learning and more closely model biological neurons along with other cool features like being good with temporal changes in input.

However, there are significant obstacles with these networks and not as much research because they only run well on specialized hardware (because they are meant to mimic biological neurons who run simultaneously) and you kind of have to train them slowly.

You can do some tricks to use gradient descent but doing so brings back the problems of typical ANNs (though this is still possibly useful for speeding up ANNs by converting them to SNNs and then building the neuromorphic hardware for them).

SNNs with time based learning rules (typically some form of STDP which mimics Hebbian learning as per biological neurons) are basically the only kinds of neural nets that are even remotely capable of having thoughts and learning (changing weights) in real time. Capable as in “this could have discrete time dependent waves of continuous self modifying spike patterns which could theoretically be thoughts” not as in “we can make something that thinks.”

Like these neural nets are good with sensory input and that’s about as far as we’ve gotten (hyperbole but not by that much). But these networks are still fascinating, and they do help us test theories about how the human brain works so eventually maybe we’ll make a real intelligent being with them, but that day isn’t even on the horizon currently

In conclusion, we are not remotely close to AGI. Current models that seem to think are verifiably not thinking and are incapable of it from a structural standpoint. You cannot make an actual thinking machine using the current mainstream model architectures.

The closest alternative that might be able to do this (as far as I’m aware) is relatively untested and difficult to prototype (trust me I’m trying). Furthermore the requirements of learning and thinking largely prohibit the use of gradient descent or similar algorithms meaning training must be done on a much more rigorous and time consuming basis that is not economically favorable. Ergo, we’re not even all that motivated to move towards AGI territory.

Lying to say we are close to AGI when we aren’t at all close, however, is economically favorable which is why you get headlines like this.

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Badabinski

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This is a fantastic response. I'm saving this so I can use it to show people that LLMs are not thinking machines.

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slaacaa

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Wow, what an insightful answer.

I have been trying to separate the truth from the hype, and learn more about how LLMs work, and this explanation has been one of the best one I’ve read on the topic. You strike a very good balance by going deep enough, but still keeping it understandable.

A question: I remember using Wolfram Alpha a lot back in university 15+ years ago. From a user perspective, it seems very similar to LLMs, but it was very accurate with math. From this, I take that modern LLMs are not the evolution of that model, but WA still appeared to be ahead of it’s time. What is/was the difference?

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AnarchoEngineer

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Thanks, I almost didn’t post because it was an essay of a comment lol, glad you found it insightful

As for Wolfram Alpha, I’m definitely not an expert but I’d guess the reason it was good at math was that it would simply translate your problem from natural language into commands that could be sent to a math engine that would do the actual calculation.

So basically act like a language translator but for typed out math to a programming language for some advanced calculation program (like wolfram Mathematica)

Again, this is just speculation because I’m a bit too tired to look into it rn, but it seems plausible since we had basic language translators online back then (I think…) and I’d imagine parsing written math is probably easier than natural language translation

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Veidenbaums

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Thank you for great comment!

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Perspectivist

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We’re not even remotely close.

That’s just the other side of the same coin whose flip side claims AGI is right around the corner. The truth is, you couldn’t possibly know either way.

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ExLisper

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The truth is, you couldn’t possibly know either way.

I think the argument is we're not remotely close when considering the specific techniques used by current generation of AI tools. Of course people can make new discovery any day and achieve AGI but it's a different discussion.

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terrific

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That's true in a somewhat abstract way, but I just don't see any evidence of the claim that it is just around the corner. I don't see what currently existing technology can facilitate it. Faster-than-light travel could also theoretically be just around the corner, but it would surprise me if it was, because we just don't have the technology.

On the other hand, the people who push the claim that AGI is just around the corner usually have huge vested interests.

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cyd

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In some dimensions, current day LLMs are already superintelligent. They are extremely good knowledge retrieval engines that can far outperform traditional search engines, once you learn how properly to use them. No, they are not AGIs, because they're not sentient or self-motivated, but I'm not sure those are desirable or useful dimensions of intellect to work towards anyway.

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terrific

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I think that's a very generous use of the word "superintelligent". They aren't anything like what I associate with that word anyhow.

I also don't really think they are knowledge retrieval engines. I use them extensively in my daily work, for example to write emails and generate ideas. But when it comes to facts they are flaky at best. It's more of a free association game than knowledge retrieval IMO.

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ZILtoid1991

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"Dude trust me, just give me 40 billion more dollars, lobby for complete deregulation of the industry, and get me 50 more petabytes of data, then we will have a little human in the computer! RealshitGPT will have human level intelligence!"

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SpicyLizards

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We can change course if we can change course on capitalism

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Asafum

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Ummm no? If moneyed interests want it then it happens. We have absolutely no control over whether it happens. Did we stop Recall from being forced down our throats with windows 11? Did we stop Gemini from being forced down our throats?

If capital wants it capital gets it. 🙁

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drapeaunoir

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😳 unless we destroy capitalism? 👉🏾👈🏾

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masterofn001

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The only problem with destroying capitalism is deciding who gets all the nukes.

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drapeaunoir

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Capitalism is just an economic system, I'm not sure what nukes has to do with it. It's not like billionaires directly own them, and we have to distribute the "nuke wealth" to the people or anything lol

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scarabic

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Couldn’t we have a good old fashioned butlerian jihad?

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Perspectivist

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The path to AGI seems inevitable - not because it’s around the corner, but because of the nature of technological progress itself. Unless one of two things stops us, we’ll get there eventually:

Either there’s something fundamentally unique about how the biological brain processes information - something that cannot, even in principle, be replicated in silicon,
Or we wipe ourselves out before we get the chance.

Barring those, the outcome is just a matter of time. This argument makes no claim about timelines - only trajectory. Even if we stopped AI research for a thousand years, it’s hard to imagine a future where we wouldn’t eventually resume it. That's what humans do; improve our technology.

The article points to cloning as a counterexample but that’s not a technological dead end, that’s a moral boundary. If one thinks we’ll hold that line forever, I’d call that naïve. When it comes to AGI, there’s no moral firewall strong enough to hold back the drive toward it. Not permanently.

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rottingleaf

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something that cannot, even in principle, be replicated in silicon

As if silicon were the only technology we have to build computers.

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Perspectivist

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Did you genuinely not understand the point I was making, or are you just being pedantic? "Silicon" obviously refers to current computing substrates, not a literal constraint on all future hardware. If you’d prefer I rewrite it as "in non-biological substrates," I’m happy to oblige - but I have a feeling you already knew that.

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rottingleaf

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And why is "non-biological" a limitation?

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Perspectivist

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I haven’t claimed that it is. The point is, the only two plausible scenarios I can think of where we don’t eventually reach AGI are: either we destroy ourselves before we get there, or there’s something fundamentally mysterious about the biological computer that is the human brain - something that allows it to process information in a way we simply can’t replicate any other way.

I don’t think that’s the case, since both the brain and computers are made of matter, and matter obeys the laws of physics. But it’s at least conceivable that there could be more to it.

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rottingleaf

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I personally think that the additional component (suppose it's energy) that modern approaches miss is the sheer amount of entropy a human brain gets - plenty of many times duplicated sensory signals with pseudo-random fluctuations. I don't know how one can use lots of entropy to replace lots of computation (OK, I know what Monte-Carlo method is, just how it applies to AI), but superficially this seems to be the way that will be taken at some point.

On your point - I agree.

I'd say we might reach AGI soon enough, but it will be impractical to use as compared to a human.

While the matching efficiency is something very far away, because a human brain has undergone, so to say, an optimization\compression taking the energy of evolution since the beginning of life on Earth.

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Deathgl0be

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It’s just a cash grab to take peoples jobs and give it to a chat bot that’s fed Wikipedia’s data on crack.

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Perspectivist

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Don't confuse AGI with LLMs. Both being AI systems is the only thing they have in common. They couldn't be further apart when it comes to cognitive capabilities.

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SparrowHawk

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A lot of people making baseless claims about it being inevitable...i mean it could happen but the hard problem of consciousness is not inevitable to solve

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gandalf_der_12te

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AI will not threaten humans due to sadism or boredom, but because it takes jobs and makes people jobless.

When there is lower demand for human labor, according to the rule of supply and demand, prices (aka. wages) for human labor go down.

The real crisis is one of sinking wages, lack of social safety nets, and lack of future perspective for workers. That's what should actually be discussed.

economic model of price determination in microeconomics

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Vinstaal0

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Not sure if we will even really notice that in our lifetime, it is taking decades to get things like invoice processing to automate. Heck in the US they can't even get proper bank connections made.

Also, tractors have replaced a lot of workers on the land, computers have both lost a lot of jobs in offices and created a lot at the same time.

Jobs will change, that's for sure and I think most of the heavy labour jobs will become more expensive since they are harder to replace.

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Codpiece

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Human level? That’s not setting the bar very high. Surely the aim would be to surpass human, or why bother?

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Outwit1294

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Yeah. Cheap labor is so much better than this bullshit

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markovs_gun

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Why would we want to? 99% of the issues people have with "AI" are just problems with society more broadly that AI didn't really cause, only exacerbated. I think it's absurd to just reject this entire field because of a bunch of shitty fads going on right now with LLMs and image generators.

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Apple sues YouTuber for alleged iOS 26 trade-secret theft

YouTuber leaked iOS secrets via friend spying on dev's phone, Apple lawsuit claims

: Jon Prosser and alleged accomplice accused of stealing trade secrets from development device

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Apple sues YouTuber for alleged iOS 26 trade-secret theft

YouTuber leaked iOS secrets via friend spying on dev's phone, Apple lawsuit claims

: Jon Prosser and alleged accomplice accused of stealing trade secrets from development device

^{Brandon Vigliarolo (The Register)}

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GhostlyPixel

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According to the suit, Ramacciotti was in need of money, and had a friend named Ethan Lipnik who worked at Apple as a software engineer on the Photos team – two facts that Prosser was aware of when he allegedly offered to pay Ramacciotti to break into Lipnik's development iPhone and show Prosser what the version of iOS running on the device looked like.
Ramacciotti, who frequently stayed at Lipnik's home, allegedly used location-tracking software to determine when Lipnik was far enough from home to be gone for an extended period. During such windows, he allegedly used the opportunity to obtain the passcode and access the device.

Apple isn’t a very pro WFH or remote work company from what I learned when I was job hunting, I’m honestly surprised they let a dev iPhone leave their campus.

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proudblond

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There was a big scandal some years back because an Apple employee left a prototype phone at the bar/restaurant next to the campus, so they definitely do it. I’m a bit surprised that they didn’t crack down harder after that incident, but to be fair to this guy, he didn’t take it out and about and just took it home. I can’t say I’d be overly worried about something happening to it if it was just at my house, but I also don’t have people crashing with me frequently…

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EntropyPure

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Remember that one, but honestly: not worth much testing a device exclusively in laboratory settings and not in real life situations.

It is a risk but I think not one you can and should avoid. At least if you want your mobile device to perform.

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chellomere

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Yeah, when I was working for one major smartphone manufacturer, we were handed prototype phones to take home and test.

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sparky@lemmy.federate.cc

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Former Apple employee here, hardware is almost never let off campus but software alone can be. For example software engineers working on iOS, like this guy, would probably have development builds installed on their personal devices. It's allowed but you're obviously not supposed to let anyone else see or use the new features.

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scarabic

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You can read it two ways:

1) gee they’re so WFH friendly
2) they drive their people hard and they work nights and weekends

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bungalowtill

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Oh man, and the “scoop” was so underwhelming anyway

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Instacart’s former CEO is taking the reins of a big chunk of OpenAI

Incoming OpenAI executive Fidji Simo, who will start Aug. 18 as its “CEO of Applications” and report directly to CEO Sam Altman, sent a memo to employees Monday.

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Scientists Are Now 43 Seconds Closer to Producing Limitless Energy

The Wendelstein 7-X stellarator in Germany set a record with 43 seconds of plasma, marking a major step toward clean, sustainable nuclear fusion energy.

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limitless

Where is the tritium supposed to come from?

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This is a very good point since tritium is a very limited resource.

The hope is that it will be generated by the fusion reactor itself using tritium breeder blankets iter.org/machine/supporting-sy…

Whether that will work remains to be seen.

Tritium breeding

In the deuterium-tritium (D-T) fusion reaction, high energy neutrons are released along with helium atoms.

^{ITER - the way to new energy}

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I love that records are being broken right and left by different countries, and not one country breaking its own record over and over.

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The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble

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"The entire business model built on harvesting user data could become obsolete" with Fully Homomorphic Encryption

https://boingboing.net/2025/07/21/the-entire-business-model-built-on-harvesting-user-data-could-become-obsolete-with-fully-homomorphic-encryption.html

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Yeah, but why would Facebook kill their own business model?

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They wouldn't have to. They just release a ToS update, that no one reads, that gives them the right to look at all of the data sent for "optimization", or some other nonsense.

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It’s probably wrong to assume that the general public will be sensitive enough to privacy to force companies to compete on that terrain.

But it’s a fascinating topic and I hope to see it in practice at some point.

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It’s just too slow , hopefully it gets much faster.

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Can you explain what Homomorphic Data is?

I am interested

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My basic understanding is that the concept of homomorphically encrypted data allows for processing of said encrypted data without the need for prior decryption.

Hence, it enables computations and processing on encrypted data (ciphertext) that yield results matching those from the original data (plaintext) without the data needing to be decrypted at any point.

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icelimit

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How is this then different from just processing plaintext in protecting privacy?

Phone number is encrypted but this tech still allows telemarketers to call in?

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The idea is that you could have your data stored encrypted, such that the entity that is storing your data can't read any of your data, but can still make calculations or updates to your data without ever learning anything about your data.

The use cases seems rather narrow to me, but there are probably many that I just can't think of at the moment.

One idea could be something like a VPN service that wants to store as little data about the customer as possible. They could keep the account balance in an encrypted format. When you then add money to the balance, they can increment your balance by however much you paid, without knowing what your old balance was or what the new balance is. And they could then have another homomorphic function that can check whether your balance is positive. If your balance is positive you are allowed onto the service, if it's not positive you don't get access. And the company wouldn't be able to know whether you had $5 in your account or $5000, just that your balance is currently positive.

So yeah fundamentally it's just being able to store and update some data, while the data is fully encrypted, never decrypting the data, to ensure some form of privacy or confidentiality

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I understand that this is an analogy, but I feel this also weakens the encryption somewhat, as now a potential attacker could do a simple binary search on the encrypted data to deduce the absolute balance.

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Presumably the data is still encrypted with a user-specific key.

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Why would any company use this in the first place?

The general public is not going to pay a subscription (ew another subscription?) they’re just going to use the free services. “I already pay for internet”

There is no reason for anyone to use this, as amazing as it is. That ship sailed long ago and the moment an MBA gets wind of what this’ll mean for the data broker industry, it will be lobbied into illegality, at least here in the US.

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I don't believe this will work? I would have to see an actually working example though. With actual data, not matrix vector multiplications those are trivial.

Doing math on garbled numbers and then reverse garbling it? Easy. Doing text parsing on garbled text? Probably impossible, but I'd loveto be proven wrong. I also think you have to reveal what kind of functions you want used?

The homomorphism in category theory is often shown by a commutative diagram, where you can go from a point to another by interchanging the order of operations. In the below diagram for FHE, you can go from (a, b) to E(a*b) in two separate ways.

Even in math this doesn't work for all problems.

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It works in the sense that the operations are performed on binary numbers, so text handling works the same way it normally does assuming the handler function is encrypted to match. Once you have multiplication and addition, you can make logic gates and general computing follows from there - although with the noise being amplified thru each logic gate, the more complex the functions the more bootstrapping is required and the less I see this being doable in the short term.

For a working example, check out apple’s homomorphic encryption page, they use it for landmark identification and afaik will be using it for siri whenever they get to that update. It’s slow but it’s already usable - I’m not personally convinced it’ll be used everywhere, but the technology is super cool and I hope it shows up more

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assuming the handler function is encrypted to match.

Yeah, this is the thing I'm doubting / don't understand how that would work.

E.g. A* / navigation problems.

You send private start and goal points.

Either the stuff is truly private, then the program can't read it.

Or the program can read it, but then the owner of the machine the program runs on can just read it from memory.

It doesn't matter if it says "45124x5234234fgasdgf" or "Paris", because the program state will identify that. Even if you encrypt the entire location database (with stuff that's then fully known to the server) and it will still look up "45124x5234234fgasdgf" and the server can trivially decrypt that.

check out apple’s homomorphic encryption page

Interesting, but I'm more leaning on "they have a vested interest to lie about this" rather than "surely this is correctly working tech that keeps me safe". Like Amazons "AI supermarket" that was just a bunch of indians doing video surveillance.

And their explanation makes the same amount of sense as the blog post. I have no doubt that it can work for simple commutative math operations, over "smooth" domains. Where my doubt comes in is functions where the encryption would cause the operation to take place outside of the domain bounds.

How does an encrypted asin or acos work?

Anyway, thanks for the answer, I was recently impressed by GNU Taler, which also did something cryptographic stuff I didn't think was possible. So I'm not saying this is heresy and can't be done and trying to say it will work is forbidden, I just don't think the explanations so far are detailed enough.

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Well, alike all other technologies, it needs to leave the lab first.

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Wuuut? How?? 😅

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Homomorphic encryption is crazy cool! Performance of current implementations is the only keeping me from messing with it more

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Homomorphic encryption has been around for a while now, but practical applications have been limited so far.

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The process as explained in this article has nothing to do with privacy. The problem with privacy is not that I send Google a query, it's they Google is scanning my machine, gathering cookie data, recording every move I make, mixing and matching my data with data from other sites, data from data brokers, also using third party cookies, etc etc etc...

Encrypting the query I make with Google isn't going to change much of that.

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Dating Apps Need to Learn How Consent Works

Staying safe whilst dating online should not be the responsibility of users—dating apps should be prioritizing our privacy by default, and laws should require companies to prioritize user privacy over their profit.

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Quali sono i 50 stati europei?

Una guida approfondita sui 50 stati sovrani del Vecchio Continente, tra geopolitica, eccezioni e curiosità. Conosci davvero la nostra Europa!

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VS Achuthanandan, politician who pushed for Linux adoption in India, passed away today

India has one of the highest rates of (desktop) Linux usages in the world - hovering around 10% according to StatCounter. Why is this? One reason is concerns over software controlled by foreign countries - particularly the US and China. But another is cost.

The first major boost for Linux and other free software in India came in 2006, when VS Achuthanandan - who passed away today - was elected Chief Minister of the state of Kerala. His government came up with a policy to shift all government computers to free software, starting with schools and colleges.

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Don't you! Don't you?

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Gemini Is 'Strict and Punitive' While ChatGPT Is 'Catastrophically' Cooperative, Researchers Say

In tests involving the Prisoner's Dilemma, researchers found that Google’s Gemini is “strategically ruthless,” while OpenAI is collaborative to a “catastrophic” degree.

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JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress) - Jono Alderson

JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress)

We replaced simple websites with complex apps nobody asked for. Now it takes a complex build pipeline just to change a headline.

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Client-side scripting is a hack. HTML didn't have all the tags people wanted or needed, so instead of carefully updating it to include new features, they demanded that browsers just execute arbitrary code on the user's computer, and with that comes security vulnerabilities, excessive bandwidth use and a barrier-to-entry that makes it difficult to develop new browsers, giving one company a near-monopoly.

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Cerebra AI is an artificial intelligence platform primarily used in emergency medicine for analyzing CT scans, particularly in stroke and critical care scenarios.

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