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Please fix the title in HN to match the actual paper's superior title: "What the F*ck Is Artificial General Intelligence?"

We don't have an issue with profanity on HN but we do take out clickbait.

Edit: ok you guys, I take the point and have put the original title back. More at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45430354.


Replace it with “what the cuss”?

The word 'fuck' isn't the issue. The issue is that "What the fuck is AGI", as a title, doesn't add anything besides sensationalism to "What is AGI".

I don’t know. They typically read entirely differently to me, in the sense that what I would expect to see after clicking the link is different.

I admit though the in this case “What is AGI?” better matches expectation to reality. Before I noticed the domain, “What the f*ck is AGI?” would have led me to expect more of a technical blog post with a playful presentation rather than the review article it actually is.


It communicates that the paper will probably be a lot less "stuffy" than the typical fancy science PDF

I agree with blooalien - that's a great point. To me it doesn't feel quite enough to overcome the baity/provocative effects, but since several commenters have made good points about this, I we might as well put the original title back.

I've kept "f*ck" in the title since that's in the original and arguably adds some subtlety in this case. Normally we'd replace it with the real word since we don't like bowdlerisms.


> "It communicates that the paper will probably be a lot less "stuffy" than the typical fancy science PDF"

You pose an excellent point... I tend to agree.


Does stroppy mean angry where you're from? Where's that?

I’m from the UK

It does yes but more like in a bad mood. A teenager who is rolling their eyes and making a comment because they’ve been asked not to do something could be described as having a strop.


Any negative perception of JD Vance is due to his recent behavior and statements, not from his awkward youth.

I wouldn't be surprised if spurious criticisms about an awkward youth and couch fucking have inured him to very real criticism of his governance.

Which is why they went the non-democratic/illegal route by avoiding congress.

Imagine if people made a Trump joke whenever New York City came up in conversation.

When talking to foreigners and someone mentions USA, it's about 50/50 I get a trump joke or a fat joke. I don't think HN is the place for it, but stereotyping countries is pretty common.

It should be trivial to combine them into one for a 100% score.

The throwaway's comment has been flagged. Who was he joking about? Mozart? Freud? Arnie?

You can enable [Show Dead] in your profile preferences and see for yourself.

It was the usual no effort reference to a failed Austrian artist who later led Germany.


Wow. Didn't know he was a failed artist.

To confirm, and also to check if big G's AI could infer it, I searched for:

a failed Austrian artist who later led Germany

Worked.


Yeah, I could tell. I was playing dumb while pointing out some good Austrians.

Didn't know about [Show Dead] though, thanks for the tip!


Take the opportunity and interest to read up on the history of WW2. It is a riveting read.

Pardon my missing the playing dumb :/ Glad the tip was appreciated.

Still, hashtag NotAllAustrians: Russell Crowe, John Clarke, Jacinda Ardern, Keith Urban, Jane Campion, the Finn brothers et al. all raised the bar.


Meh. Your joke here, like a kangaroo, has too many leaps. None of these were even born on the West Island.

I'm in Brazil and that happens often

So uh... wonderful women, good social skills, awesome parties... those are just true :)

Yes, just imagine if trump was brought up often no matter the subject.... I can't imagine what point you think you're making.

tbf Trump is at least somewhat relevant to whether the US is a good place to live right now. It's more like inserting a Charles Manson joke when someone says why they like California...

Beats use Apple’s Bluetooth chips. My Beats Studio headphones work great with all my Apple devices, and was much cheaper than the Max.

Not to mention they're 120g lighter than the Max, since Beats aren't subject to Apples mandate of making everything out of metal.

Ah, an excellent example of the trade-offs we face. The plastics in your Beats-branded device are made from petrochemicals freshly brought to the surface of the earth and will be sent to a landfill for ever and ever after you are done with them, while the metal in the Apple-branded device was recycled before and will be recycled again.

Take your pick


I assume you're vegan?

The amount of plastic in any single consumer device is negligible compared to companies and norms.

If we wanted to save earth, we need to target corporations and norms, not make snarky comments about individual's consumerist behaviors.

Though as I under it it's already too late and we're just figuring out how to live in comfort in an environment getting more and more damaged.


Does it sync automatically? It was really confusing googling for this stuff. I love my Airpod Pros but the mic is dead on them. I hate having to switch back and forth from bluetooth to wired.


Naught Dog hasn't even released a new game for PS5 yet.

I get an https error at https://docs.wasmer.io/: net::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID

I started playing Silksong on my Steam Deck using the linux build. Only to discover that it maxed out at 720p (docked), and wouldn't bind right/left trigger for my controller. Enabling proton (to play the windows build) worked great. Controller worked flawlessly and the game ran smoothly at 1080p.

Yes, and sadly this is very commonplace. At this juncture, Linux builds don't make a lot of sense anymore, especially if they are not going to receive much attention when it comes to debugging. The performance penalty of Proton is small enough that it rarely matters. The worst I have seen is perhaps -20% FPS in Helldivers 2 (with an Nvidia GPU), but normally the impact is in the 0 to 10% range, so negligible for all intents and purposes.

Probably a good time to tell people that SF operates a "Text Before Tow Program" where you can get a warning that you're about to get towed: https://www.sfmta.com/text-tow-program

> This service only applies to parking more than 72-hours, blocked driveway, construction, and temporary no-parking (special event or moving truck) zones. Peak-hour tow-away lanes, hazards, yellow or white zones and other violations are not included.

Still great though. That would have saved me $500 6 years ago.


It would have saved me $600 two weeks ago.

This is fantastic. It really signals that the point is not to get money from you, but to free up the parking spot.

I’ve long believed that “first one free” would be a great way to help reduce the impact of tickets on people while still achieving the same goal

Often it's unofficially the policy. For PT ticket fines in Melbourne, I've never heard of someone having a fine enforced for the first problem. It's pretty much always just a warning logged against you.

They gave me a $50 discount on the ~$600 fee for getting towed in SF due to it being a first time violation. Not quite free, but I'll take it?

They also ticket without towing, where the point is entirely to get money from you.

Or to say "don't do this"

Where I'm from there's no concept of towing on any parking violations. No one has the right to touch your vehicle, and if the police is involved they'd just contact the owner. The police would only move a car if it's a danger to the public.

A tow truck is only something you'd call for assistance, not something you fear seeing.

(Parking fines suck, but the municipal ones are usually more reasonable here, even if they don't always get the rules right. It's the parking companies managing large private parking lots, often for free to the lot owner, that are absurd.)


Where I'm from there's no concept of using public space to store your personal belongings without paying for it.

Care to elaborate, as that sounds rather extreme?

I don't know of a country that requires all bicycle parking in any non-private location to be paid, nor a country that requires payment for roadside parking on country roads outside cities. Heck, even within cities, only the very dense ones seem to require paid parking on smaller roads.

Public space does not imply free of any use, but rather that it is freely used by all. The purpose of paid roadside parking is to reduce demand on what quickly becomes a limited resource in dense cities.


What about e-scooters?

Towing makes perfect sense when a car is blocking access. Parked in front of driveways for example.

Here (Denmark), blocking a drive-way would not be a parking violation handled by a parking inspector, but a traffic violation handled by the police. They would contact you directly and have you sprint to your car.

Parking tickets are also considered fees, paid to those managing the parking area (municipality for public roads), as opposed to fines issued by the police or a judge and subject to very specific rules.


I've seen news stories about cops impounding nearby Teslas if they think its cameras might have caught something related.

>> A tow truck will be dispatched in conjunction with the text message notification and could be there in as few as five minutes.

If only they operate in good faith, and that is something I'd highly doubt given its SFMTA. As in they could call tow truck ahead of time, so that its almost unlikely the person will be able to get to their car in time.


Why should roads, walkways, and construction sites be blocked just to let someone have more time to avoid a ticket? I imagine the text goes out from SF's servers simultaneously with the tow truck summons. It's a fair shot for both.

I totally agree with you on that, but then why have this program at first place then?

I'm just saying that given its SFMTA -- if the tow truck will take say 30 min, they will probably try to wait and issue the ticket later right before tow truck can arrive so that they can get the fines. SFMTA relies heavily on fining people for their revenue and hence incentivized to not act on good faith here. Obviously, it an accusation based on anecdotes and personal experience and by no means an evidence, and I may very well be wrong, but overall I've very very little faith in SFMTA.

>> I imagine the text goes out from SF's servers simultaneously with the tow truck. These systems are often old. I wouldn't assume anything here.


If they really want to free up the spot there’s a good chance the driver is closer than the tow truck.

What does the city care? Whether it gets towed or moved by the owner it's still gone

Fines are big source of revenue for MTA. Citation would be $110 something, and if it gets towed its additional $700 for first X hours and then more later.

The OP example ticket in his info is for something like $480

There is citation fine + tow fee + administrative fee + storage fee.

https://www.sfmta.com/getting-around/drive-park/towed-vehicl...


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