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> No one could understand log4j back then

If you're scoffing at this, I want you to do an experiment. Imagine yourself at 26, when you just knew enough to be dangerous. Or as the person you're currently mentoring/would like to mentor. Now go into your application code, set a breakpoint on one of the moderately complex `logger.info()` calls, run your application and step into log4j. All the way down, until it writes to disk.

If you don't say "what the fuck" out loud at least once, you're a soulless monster and should go live in a cave.

If your application has a pretty good architecture, you may well discover that the code leading up to the `logger.info()` call is substantially less complex than the code below it. Just to write some text to the end of a single-writer file.

It chaps my ass that log4js, which claims specifically not to be a javascript port of log4j, has the same pattern of layers and weird indirection (some of which are avoided by monkey patching, which is in many respects even worse from a legibility standpoint, and absolutely from a discoverability standpoint). Much of this is chasing after not implementing the same 1 line function 6 times, which is made weirder by the fact that you have to write individual unit tests for each of the log levels, so you've already written 95% of the duplicated code.

Logging frameworks are a nearly canonical example of DRY as an antipattern.
My partner is very impressionable when she see's food in a TV show. Immediately has a craving for it. This thing is like, limitless porn for her gluttony.
> Why shouldn't payment for work be tied to local price ranges and cost of living?

Why should it be? You pay someone enough to get them to work for you instead of someone else. That's the sole reason you pay someone anything at all. And there's no reason to pay them any more than that. How do local prices and cost of living fit into that equation?
Automation saved humanity from spending a large chunk of their lifetimes sowing and reaping. Humanity found other works to do.
What do you think why Sony started to bring their used to be exclusive games to PC?
Tesla to demo Steam for more in-car gaming soon using Linux and Proton
I wonder if that's in the context of a civil war. As in was the question something like: "In the event of a civil war, would you...?" Because than it makes more sense to me.

It's one thing to be willing to fight in a civil war, which involves all of the things you just mentioned, and another thing entirely to want to instigate those things.
It’s hard for me to gauge the difference in attitudes now and in the past. Things seem worse now, but maybe that is just because I’m more aware.
Political power and cultural dominance/self-interest
No, not just you.

Here's the code I see:

def get_temp(sorted_temps: list[float], el: float) -> int:
"""
Search through the sorted temperatures array to find the
index of the temperature that matches the element
:param sorted_temps: sorted list of temperatures
:param el: the target element
:return: the index of the matched element
Author: Richard Hendricks
"""
i = 0
while el != sorted_temps[i] and len(sorted_temps) > i):
i += 1
return i if i < len(sorted_temps) else -1;

Some problems I see:

1. the `return ...` line needs to be dedented, otherwise, if `el == sorted_temps[0]` then the return value is None

2. even if dedented, the docstring needs to report that get_temp() returns -1 if the index isn't found

3. there's an extra `)` in `> i):`, and the semi-colon is unneeded

4. the test for `len(sorted_temps) > i` must done before `el != sorted_temps[i]`,

The corrected version would be:

def get_temp(sorted_temps: list[float], el: float) -> int:
i = 0
while len(sorted_temps) > i and el != sorted_temps[i]:
i += 1
return i if i < len(sorted_temps) else -1

Furthermore, here are some alternatives:

5. I would expect the following to be faster, and more easily understood:

for i, temp in enumerate(sorted_temps):
if temp == el:
return i
return -1

5. Or since the type signature says it's supposed to be a list of floats:

try:
return sorted_temps.index(el)
except ValueError:
return -1

6: Or, since the values are supposed to be a sorted list, perhaps a binary search:

import bisect
i = bisect.bisect_left(sorted_temps, el)
if sorted_temps[i] == el:
return i
return -1
Sadly, even a small, concerted group of violent actors can terrorize a society. I don't think the paramilitary core of the Nazis were a particularly large part of German Society, for example. That doesn't mean that an outright civil war would break out, but it does mean that all it takes is an organized group to upset the political balance, and disturb long respected norms.
Maybe I'm too naive, but I feel absolutely no need nor desire to act violent towards my fellow Americans. I feel the divineness growing, I don't know what a "civil war" would actually look like. It seems like most Americans already live in bubbles where most people are aligned politically, so who are they going to fight?
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I think the complaint was about being able to use NFC hardware outside of Apple Pay.

See also, Aussie banks who wanted the same thing.

How anyone would ever think this is a good idea, with third parties having unmediated access to hardware has not thought this through.
Remind me also how many believe in astrology and young earth creationism?

Also, to even entertain this idea, where would the battle lines be drawn? Political differences aren't even blue state/red state anymore, let alone North vs. South: it's more like urban vs. a spectrum of less urban.
Anyone who wishes for a civil war has never seen war, full stop.
Are forum platforms dead?
The great majority of that 50 percent belong to one political party, that is fond of carrying around gallows, encouraging people to be locked up after being chained, etc.

They're willing things to happen, as Q predications let them down.
Rap Battles! (says the guy who finally watched Hamilton)
> If you can't figure out why the market still has brokers, you are destined to make the same mistakes that everyone who sunk time and money into this before has made.

100%, this is a societal (political or otherwise) problem to solve - it’s not for lack of an app to facilitate the tx.
> Training requires even more GPUs, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they used more than 100 and trained over 3 months.

Based on this blog post where they scale to 7,500 'nodes', they say:

> A large machine learning job spans many nodes and runs most efficiently when it has access to all of the hardware resources on each node.

So I wouldn't be surprised if they do have a total of 7500+ GPUs to balance workloads between. TO add, OpenAI has a long history of getting unlimited access to Google's clusters of GPUs (nowadays they pay for it, though). When they were training 'OpenAI Five' to play Dota 2 at the highest level, they were using 256 P100 GPUs on GCP[0] and they casually threw 256 GPUs at 'clip' for a short while in January of 2021[1].

As for how they do it, see these posts:

https://openai.com/blog/techniques-for-training-large-neural...

https://openai.com/blog/triton/

0: https://openai.com/blog/openai-five/

1: https://openai.com/blog/clip/
> How many of today's startups are just servicing each other with VC money?

The B2B SaaS ones.
it's a natural occurrence when fascists go a little too far.
Absolutely. What the "this person probably made 3-5M a year" comments say to me is "if you pay someone enough, you can do whatever you want to them". We got rid of "right to contract" > 100 years ago for a reason: it's deeply exploitative.

> There is actually no reason to believe that Stripe was successful because of its culture.

Even if there is (and I agree there isn't), I would argue that cultures like this exist in order to compete in a race to the bottom of who can exploit their workers the most. That's certainly the feeling in presidential campaigns: you can't control a lot, but you can control how hard you work, so work the hardest. We need legislation to protect workers here, but in the absence of that, we need unions and leaders in the workplace to firmly reject this culture.

> Nobody would care what this person thought about work culture (or hire them to consult on the topic) if they didn't graduate from a SV unicorn that generated mythic profit.

Again agree. I will say there were some things in there that I liked and didn't think were toxic: the encouragement of open communication, the focus on precise language (something I constantly fail at), an emphasis on documentation, building teams (relying on others and being a person that can be relied on). But the overwork is just pure toxicity, e.g. this quote:

> He looked down at his coffee for a moment. “I’m afraid I’m never going to see my best work again.”

Far from being my best work, my worst work materialized because I worked 16-18 hours a day, 7 days a week, and my brain was so broken afterwards I was afraid I would never see my best work again. I've mostly recovered, but I can still feel a difference. My experience isn't singular or even rare, though I don't know if it's the norm. I've read about this happening to others in other sectors (gaming, FAANG through stress and toxicity). It's a real concern.

I'm being pretty stark and unsentimental because I want to push strongly against any notion that this is romantic or honorable. Like you said, there's a real danger of this kind of mentality spreading and causing significant harm. Again, worth it for war (and maybe politics, I'm bearish though); not worth it for SV.
Actually it's so much worse than that. Chess has a branching factor of ~30, not 16, IIRC. A lot of those moves will be nonsensical though.
True but then it is a "you" problem rather than a company->employee expectation problem no? ie passion to a company's purpose is more of a selling point (and bargaining factor even for lower comp) than a daily pledge of allegiance job requirement. I am pretty sure when my parents worked in a postal office sorting mail as new (and highly qualified) immigrants they did it to feed me and my siblings rather than due to a passion for mail sorting.
mmmmmmmmmmm, the science.org writeup of the actual study somewhat exaggerates the findings.

The survey was not primarily about this question, but here's how it was worded:

"In the next few years, there will be civil war in the United States."

The allowed responses were: "Do not agree", "Somewhat agree", "Strongly agree", "Very Strongly agree"

47.8% said that they "Do not agree" and a further 36.4% responded "Somewhat agree". A further 2.1% did not respond. So, only 13.7% gave one of the top half of the answers ("Strongly agree" or "Very strongly agree").

This paper was just posted to medrxiv today, but I've seen this list of survey questions elsewhere (perhaps this was posted elsewhere a month or two ago?). It's not a great paper -- many of the survey questions are pretty slanted (though this civil war-related one is not), and they're slanted exactly the way you would expect given the conflicts-of-interest disclosure in the paper that every author on the paper is a member of multiple left-wing anti-gun political organizations.

Still, have a look at the actual survey questions and responses. They're somewhat interesting despite the study's problems: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.07.15.22277693v...
A deeply religious conservative America, or a secular progressive America.

Groups are not seeing eye to eye on the fundamental role of government, and lines in the sand are being drawn.
One of the biggest problems is that most current gun violence doesn't necessarily represent any sort of targeted pattern (i.e. shooting up a political convention or party headquarters). It's malls and schools because that's such an easy way to create shock and awe.

If we do wind up in some sort of civil conflict, I imagine it will look a lot like Ireland from the 60's to the 90's, which was by no means a good time.[0]

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles
I guess it depends on what you count as "over politics" - I think a lot of people would be willing to engage in violent resistance to something like "the president declares the constitution suspended and all elections indefinitely postponed", but not to something like "the Supreme Court overturns Obergefell vs Hodges". I find the referenced numbers perfectly plausible if they interpret the question to mean something like the former.
I think this is a purely New York problem because NYC has been captured by an alliance of property owners and leftist activists who both oppose new development (albeit for differing reasons)

The result is that there is a shortage of housing in NYC and this system pops up to try and extract economic rents from the situation.
> commercial property tends to change ownership and undergo construction more often

Definitely going to need to see a reference on that one.
One side believes that woke transgender illegals are stealing their jobs, homes, and children. It only takes one side to start a civil war.
Funding local public schools through property taxes is terrible, and makes sure that kids from wealthier neighborhoods get better public schools. Kids are a special case; we even expect people without kids to pay for kids. Public education should be uniform and high-quality, not dependent on local political dynamics and neighborhood wealth (and wealth disparities.)
more than half of americans are unfit for a bar fight let alone a war. I hate to say it but these kinds of surveys are pretty weak. I recall a friend who's a history buff telling me something along the lines of non-professional soldiers often refuse to shoot their firearms, or intentionally miss, because people often don't truly want to kill. A quick google suggests some credibility to this claim[1].

I always try to remember that survey science simply tells us what people say on surveys, not what is actually the truth.

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/killing-does-not-com...
Any app that really wants to can just make a request to a plain IP, or have their own DoT/DoH resolver.

DNS-based blocking will never block a determined tracker.
EAI/Emad/et al's 'Stable Diffusion' model will be coming out in the next month or so. I don't know if it will hit DALL-E 2 level but a lot of people will be using it based on the during-training samples they've been releasing on Twitter.
Need is a strong word. Consider it a sustainable niche born of misaligned incentives and a stunted marketplace. Renting is so profitable that landlords paying a broker to mitigate risk is an obvious choice. Craigslist and other free website options have been seething cesspools of scams, stale data, and disinforming SEO. So brokers are a useful filter for renters too, as the other sources are poisoned.

Also know that the oft-shared window we get on it from individual newcomers to NYC isn’t one the market particularly cares about. Brokers hustling 3br in Sunset Park to quartets of Oberlin grads are the starving underclass of New York real estate industry. They know it and, in their overworked misery, condescend to their market.

Avoiding a brokers fee is a popular tip given to new renters…but it’s availability is largely a function of privilege. If you have the right background and connect with a landlord who appreciates that, you have a fighting chance. (Finding a building you like and asking existing tenants if they know of anything opening is the recommended path to this.) It’s still a low probability event without connections.
Funnily enough, I came across this library a few weeks ago and made a PR to set the right version of the library that throws the errors. If you incorporate this, these will likely all disappear.
Unless every property in the area is owned by the same person each individual owner will want to build a more expensive building because their individual action has minimal effect on land value. Basically if you don’t build big someone else will and you r lvt will go up either way.
Well, the incorrect part of you analysis is implying that right leaning states would start the war here.

Given the current state of upcoming election polls, local politics, and the supreme court, the right leaning states are going to get most of what they want.

They have no reason to secede, when they are winning the current politics battles, and are likely to win future elections in the next few years.
And between where? Every state has strong red and blue regions. A second "civil war" is more likely to be terrorist campaigns like the IRA conducted rather than a war like the one the that northern states fought against southern states a century and a half ago.
In beta, maybe, but I don't think "available" means what they think it means.

I have been on the waitlist from the very beginning. Still waiting.
Monopoly power is not the same as a literal monopoly. The FTC has a pretty good definition of it:

https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/gui...
They aren't people, but every additional thing they have to contend with affects only people. The abstract company is just a common understanding of what people are doing and what group of people they are dealing with when they buy a product.
I love the smart use of incentives this story highlights. But it doesn't go far enough: IRS and SEC agents should be allowed to audit any company with revenue over $5 million per annum - if the audit results in a fine of at least $500,000 then the agent gets a $100,000 bonus. Conversely if the audit doesn't result in a large fine, the agent has his or her bonus pool reduced by $10,000. This would provide a great incentive to weed out people who cheat the system.
A lot of people became "VC"s during the bull run. They brought nothing to the table like YC did. Instead some previously reputable VCs like a16z became crypto grifters. So it's good the market clears a bunch of them so that the YCs and next generation of VCs who actually bring something new to the table come to the forefront.
> I don't even pay property taxes to the city, I pay them to the county.

The county is still a lot more local than a bank that might have an HQ across the country and is barely accountable even there. Also, most people's property taxes do go to their town or city, so your sample-of-one is not really a basis for a policy statement.
> Source is apparently a preprint (that is, not peer-reviewed)

Virtually no political polling is. I know of no political polling agency/company that submits their polls to peer-reviewed journals.
> My point is that a lot of (and maybe most) 90 year olds are not really capable of moving.

And mine is that a lot of (and maybe most) 90 year olds wouldn't need to move. The ones who would be motivated to move are also largely the ones who are wealthy enough to do so.
Because then you’re effectively subsidizing CO2 emissions by penalizing the significantly lower emissions vehicles.
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My heart sank when I saw the pricing model.

I’ve been creating generative art since 2016 and I’ve been anxiously waiting for my invite. I wont be able to afford to generate the volume of images it takes to get good ones at this price point.

I can afford $20/mo for something like this but I just can’t swing $200 to $300 it realistically takes to get interesting art out of these CLIP-centric models.

Heck, the initial 50 images isn’t even enough to get the hang of how the model behaves.
Another user saying that OA has said it's OK to remove the watermark: https://www.reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/w3qsxd/dalle_now_av...

The commercial use language appears pretty clear to me to allow NFTs. (But note the absence of any discussion of derivative works...)
bit flip?
Speak for yourself. Sometime one wants their thoughts "provoked," other times one wants to laugh, or relax, or be thrilled by something scary.

I continue to read the somewhat mediocre wheel of time series mostly because it's familiar and thereby comforting, and there's a lot of it. I listened to "parable of the sower" (a more high-brow fiction by Octavia Butler) audiobook recently and while it was more "thought provoking" it was also depressing, and I've got enough stressors in my life right now without spending my leisure time reading about made-up tragedies. So I instead opt for something less mentally challenging when I want to relax.

Most importantly, appreciating "real art" doesn't make you better than someone who likes to binge on MCU movies. It's condescending and superior to call someone "hypnotized" for liking something you don't, and comments like that tell us more about you than the person you're judging.
you might get a bonus all-expenses-paid vacation!
> Firefox-based engine : Firefox, GNU Icecat.

Plus many others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Web_browsers_based_on...
Yeah. I guess it's supposed to imply a red vs blue state conflict. Proud Boys versus Antifa fighting in the streets! MSNBC fans firing tear gas at Tucker Carlson viewers! Reylo shippers versus original trilogy fans, hitting each other with plastic lightsabers!

What's supposed to happen? Texas is going to invade California?
This is seriously incredible. Coolest thing I have seen in a very long time. Curious how long it takes to render one of the short example clips shown.
I feel after January 6th it's definitely possible. I don't want it, and I wouldn't do anything to start it, but I could see it happening. And that honestly scares me the most. So maybe I'm one of those half.
Making little bit of progress consistently every day will get you very far in the long run.

If you read 10 pages a day, you'll finish a typical book in about a month.

Personal impact: I think I've accomplished many things over the years by just chipping away at them slowly.
I use a jailbreak tweak for this: http://cydia.saurik.com/package/com.itortrix.stopplayin12/
To elaborate, the above is a table highlighting all the benefits of Full Remote over Hybrid Remote.
People saying we should replace a fuel tax with a weight tax (without a replacement CO2 tax) are suggesting that.
Do you have some examples where this intuition has turned out to be false and the author meant the former case?
Chicken and egg; we've (in the US) culturally encoded public transport as inconvenient, inefficient, and for "poor people," all but ensuring that it remains that way. Other parts of the world don't have that stigma, and are better off for it.
In case you don’t know, you can at least PM the MidJourney bot so you have an uncluttered workspace.

It’s clearly personally preference, but I loathe Discord but love it for MidJourney. As you said, there’s an interactive element where I see other people doing cool things and adapting part of their prompts and vice versa. It really is fun. And when you do it in a PM, you have all your efforts saved. DALL-E is pretty clunky in that you have to manually save an image or lose it once your history rolls off.
Using the power of the sun to roast green chile
Coming from a state with a higher property tax rate I can qualify this by saying higher is not better. Taxes are always a disincentive. While the author claims it is a disincentive to sitting on a property and is comparing it to the effect on price like the FED's interests rates, these comparisons are myopic. He misses the bigger picture of longevity of private property ownership, the Constitutional protections of a property owner, and the inevitable results of the state seizing the property for back taxes. The long term benefits of the first two are long proven and the cold destruction of a member of a community the result of the last.

Oh yeah, and the higher tax gets passed to the renter/leasee in higher rents and is a further disincentive to usage and investment.
I'm guessing there's way less positions at FAANGs in France per million people than there are in the US. Hence, it makes them more elite and not a fair comparison.
History is full of civil wars which were fought for very clear reasons. Do we truly have CLEAR reasons?