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I'm German and we had to read the book in school. Born in the 80s. I also think It's set around where I live, but it's been a while.

don't we? We call somewhere and revoke the Passport, atleast in Germany.


But does that propagate to every entity worldwide using passports for identification, including all non-government-affiliated companies and KYC providers?


That's very true for a lot of PKI systems too. The revocation lists are published, but nobody is reading them.


At least they exist. I've tried looking into this in the past, and I haven't really found any public passport revocation list, even of just numbers (i.e. without disclosing associated names or any other sensitive data).


What kind of hardware do you run it on?


Framework Desktop (AMD Strix Halo with 128GB). Runs it around 27 tok/sec which is quite acceptable.


Just FYI, Firefox reader mode does the same thing. It's a little button in the address bar.


Reading mode in chrome does this too. Although the tts sounds like it's far behind sota


Probably because it needs to run locally on older CPUs, so it's likely using an old-school phonemizer that will run on a 15 year old computer.


But you need to verify everything unless it’s self evident. The number of times CoPilot (Sonnett 4) still hallucinates Browser APIs is astonishing. Imaging trying to learn something that can’t be checked easily, like Egyptian archeology or something.


You have to verify everything from human developers too. They hallucinate APIs when they try to write code from memory. So we have:

  - documentation
  - design reviews
  - type systems
  - code review
  - unit tests
  - continuous integration
  - integration testing
  - Q&A process
  - etc.
It turns out when include all these processes, teams of error-prone human developers can produce complex working software. Mostly -- sometimes there are bugs. Kind of a lot actually. But we get things done.

Is it not the same with AI? With the right processes you can get consistent results from inconsistent tools.


Taking the example of egyptian archeology, if you're reading the work of someone who is well regarded as an expert in the field, you can trust their word a lot more than you can trust the word of an AI, even if the AI is provided the text you're reading.

This is a pretty massive difference between the two, and your narrative is part of why AI is proving to be so harmful for education in general. Delusional dreamers and greedy CEOs talking about AI being able to do "PhD level work" have potentially ruined a significant chunk of the next generation into thinking they are genuinely learning from asking AI "a few questions" and taking the answers at face value instead of struggling through the material to build true understanding.


The vast majority of people trying to do any given thing simply don’t have access to experts in the field, though.

I’ll take a potential solution I can validate over no idea whatsoever of my own any day.


So you would prefer "Yes, the moon is indeed made of cheese!" over "I don't know what the moon is made of"?

If any answer is acceptable, just get your local toddler to babble some nonsense for you.


There needs to be a reasonable chance of correctness. At least the local toddlers around here don’t randomly provide a solution to a problem that would take me hours to find but only minutes to validate.


>I'll take a potential solution I can validate over no idea whatsoever of my own any day.

If you have to validate what the LLM says, I assume you'd do that by researching primary sources and works by other experts. At that point, the LLM did nothing except charge you for a few tokens before you went down the usual research path. I could see LLMs being good for providing an outline of what you'd need to research, which is definitely helpful but not in a singularity way.


> If you have to validate what the LLM says, I assume you'd do that by researching primary sources and works by other experts.

For research, yes, and the utility there is a bit more limited. They’re still great at digesting and contextualizing dozens or hundreds of sources in a few minutes which would take me hours.

But what I mean by “easily testable” is usually writing code. If I already have good failing tests, verification is indeed very very cheap. (Essentially boils down to checking if the LLM hacked around the test cases or even deleted some.)

> At that point, the LLM did nothing […]

I’d pay actual money for a junior dev or research assistant capable of reading, summarizing, and coming up with proofs of concept at any hour of the day without getting bored at the level of current LLMs, but I’ve got the feeling $20/month wouldn’t be appealing to most candidates.


All of the information available from an LLM (and probably more) is available in books or published on the internet. They can go to a library and a read a book. They can be fairly certain books written by subject matter experts aren’t just made up.


What are books?


Sure, I just gave the Browser API example as evidence that the 'hallucination' problem is not gone. OP said it's like "talking to a professor" and you can use it to learn college level stuff. This is where I disagree. I did not double check my professors or text books usually.


The trick is to put them in contexts where they can validate their purported solutions and then iterate on them.


There are some matters at the council that just need a qualified majority to move forward.

Other matters, notably foreign policy, require unanimity.


I can't reproduce the "worst case" i.e. that if I ping "google.com" it gets first sent to "google.com.fritz.box". I'm on windows 10 and have a FRITZ!Box 7590.

If I ping "google.com" It just queries google.com If I ping a domain I have never visited it just does a query for that domain.

It only appends .fritz.box if I, e.g. only ping "google".

So maybe they fixed it? I also changed quite a lot of settings throughout the years.


There's a registry key

  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\DNSClient\AppendToMultiLabelName
  [default value - 0 (Do not Append Suffix)]
which resolver built into Windows (DNS Client) respects.

nslookup contains its own DNS resolver and does not rely on the resolver built into the operating system. The DNS (multi-label) query packets sent by the nslookup tool will append the domains listed in the suffix search order (or primary DNS suffix if the list is empty) irrespective of that registry key.

In summary, don't use nslookup to try to get insight into what actually happens when apps/services try to resolve names. ping is probably a better bet, at least it uses Windows resolver which honours the above registry key.


Cache perhaps?


No, I think windows by default only applies suffixes to Domains with 0 dots maybe?


Yes, by default DNS suffixes are appended to short unqualified names only.


I think I agree, if that is legally possible. I don't think apple provides any important infrastructure like Amazon, Microsoft and Google do. It's basically a luxury company. Might be bad for the people who already own iOS devices and need it to survive in one way or another (e.g. as a wallet).


Well apple could still operate the devices that they've sold, they just wouldn't be able to sell for a specified period of time, doubtful apple removes support anyways because then they customer trust.


FYI: According to the twitter comments, the Cybertruck does not have autopilot.


Wow wtf? One that this person is doing this without autopilot is crazy. But also crazy that Tesla would ship the Cybertruck without autopilot support.


Yeah, Cybertruck is shipping without some of its major features enabled. They also have diff lockers that can't be engaged. :facepalm


Autopilot is a standard Tesla feature which is different than full self driving or FSD.


True, but it isn't available on Cybertruck yet. The software is effectively incomplete.


As a non-native speaker, I have never heard of dissaving. Is it a common word?


As plenty of others have said - nope, dissaving is very uncommon word. As a native American English speaker, I don't recall ever seeing it either.

One clue for future reference - the linked article had to clarify the meaning of the word _in the title_. That strongly indicates to me that, even if in certain areas the word is well understood, the author expected there to be confusion.


No. I've been a native English speaker my whole life and it was a very weird sounding title IMO.


No, it's a real word but it's not commonly used. It may be more common in some specialized areas, like economics.


As a native speaker, it was my first time seeing the word, too. Not common at all.


As a native speaker, this is the first I can recall seeing or hearing it.


It's an old word, but not a common word. Most of us (native English speakers) would never use it.


No, it might be common in economic circles but I've never heard it either.


It is common in economics


Nope, I’d never heard it either.


I guess "living beyond their means" is too plebeian for snooty economic type in their ivory towers?


“Dissaving” is more practical:

- succinct

- also applied to governments


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