And judging by the recent Claude Sonnet 3.5 results, OpenAI may not even be the top AI company anymore.

The ironic thing is that if it weren’t for free software, the entire AI industry would likely be a decade behind where it is today, if not more.

There used to be a “loophole”, where if you changed to a different plan, it restarted the 7 day period during which you could cancel with no fee. Not sure if they ever changed that though.

On the other hand, many parts of Android, including the default system WebView, are updated from the Play Store like regular apps, and don’t need a full OS update.

I guess the ones they stopped just weren’t covert enough.

Kotlin is a really nice language with plenty of users, good tooling support, gets rid of a lot of the boilerplate that older languages have, and it instills many good practices early on (most variables are immutable unless specified otherwise, types are not nullable by default unless specified otherwise, etc)

But to get the most “bang for your buck” early on, you can’t beat JavaScript (with TypeScript to help you make sense of your codebase as it keeps changing and growing).

You will probably want to develop stuff that has some user interface and you’ll want to show it to people, and there is no better platform for that than the web. And JS is by far the most supported language on the web.

And the browser devtools are right there, an indispensable tool.

That’s trivial to filter if you just look at how much time has passed between posting and editing. Reddit comments are only very rarely updated after more than a day.

Flutter - the framework - is great. Dart as a language is tolerable - lot of ugly boilerplate, manual codegen, and things you can’t quite express correctly are everywhere, but if you’re not too much of a stickler, Flutter is still worth it (at least until Compose Multiplatform matures - if ever).

Shouldn’t AI be good at detecting and flagging ads like these?

With enough technological advances, they might be able to just switch to salt water.

It’s silly to imagine all these “way out there” scenarios without also imagining progress in other areas.

Pretty sure these things need to be certified and there are laws about what parts you are and are not allowed to use.

Not saying highly regulated industries don’t ever have problems (look at Boeing), but it’s not like they can just arbitrarily decide to cut costs wherever.

There are many different types of capacitors, most of which don’t contain any liquid at all (including the most common type - ceramic capacitors).

But in general, you would use specially rated components and materials if you need them to last decades - not the cheapest most basic parts you can find.

Other types of implanted devices have dealt with the same things decades ago.

Some already give you a 30% “discount” (i.e. the regular price is just higher) if you sign up for an entire year.

Until what? 100% replacement of human-driven cars? Being rolled out for areas covering 50% of the population? Where is the goal line here?

We are already at the stage of commercial operation, with rides available to the general public - even though only in a few locations.

Sure, it’s far from being everywhere, but why pretend that progress has stalled, when it clearly hasn’t?

Yes actually (except more than a few years).

Waymo is already operating a robotaxi service in 3 cities, now they just need to expand and find a way to make it not lose money.

The right way to implement this is where they don’t even have any persistent identifier that could be used for tracking. They should only ever see a derived single-use signature that after verification gives them a yes/no answer and nothing more.

Do you have the full text of the notification that you could post here? Kinda hard discussing the specifics otherwise.

If it really contains the quote “Congress is planning a total ban of TikTok”, I do consider that misleading.

People here are often making a lot of noise about disinformation campaigns on sites like Facebook and Twitter and YouTube (and that’s just from user-posted content that the sites fail to moderate, not posted by the sites themselves), so I don’t see why this would get a pass.

But why couldn’t an AI do the same?

Why are you assuming it can never get good enough to correctly figure out the intent and find the best possible response it is capable of?

Sure, it’s not there today, but this doesn’t seem like some insurmountable challenge.

I also just noticed in the article:

TikTok urged its users to protest the bill, sending a notification that said, “Congress is planning a total ban of TikTok… Let Congress know what TikTok means to you and tell them to vote NO.”

Also from a BBC article about the same thing:

Earlier, users of the app had received a notification urging them to act to “stop a TikTok shutdown.”

So they were literally sending out misleading notifications (because a forced sale is not a total ban), and then the users wrote to Congress based on that…

The probability that they will sell seems really high to me, as the same thing almost happened back in 2020.

Are they “taking it away” though? Do normal people care about who owns it? Are they just worried about an unlikely ban?