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Rails is convenient and intuitive, I don't think anyone reasonable is arguing that.

My point is that if the stack regularly falls over then the programmer convenience has to be sacrificed in favor of stable and mega-fast alternative that requires more programmer energy.

I love working with dynamic languages. I can prototype almost anything that I want to do, in hours. But I also recognized the need for a hardcore stack for a previous contract and went the long and painful route with Rust.

Result: the project is running for 7 months now, has only been restarted 4 times for updating it (re-deployment), never crashed once, handles 5000+ network connections and streams data from them 24/7.

Peak CPU usage on a 4-core VPS: 27%.

Peak memory usage: 180MB. Normal average memory usage: 80MB.

Right tool for the job.
How can therapy help for ADHD? In perhaps in other words, how has it specifically helped you? I have been recommended to try it, but based on past experiences, I find the whole process to be somewhat cathartic but otherwise of little value or utility.
Yes there's definitely a yearning for a person with crap politics to be also a fraud and under-performer. The most famous auto maker of the last century was a Nazi sympathizer and the previous space program darling an SS officer, you'd think people figure it out by now.
Old Memory from the 1990's: Some high-end (back then) CPU had large (for then), fast L2 caches...which were merely 2(?)-way associative. But to mitigate the performance hit from cache thrashing, it also had a small-ish 64(?)-way associative "helper" D-cache.

(It might have been HP PA-RISC, from an article in Byte Magazine - but that's digging deep into the old memory murk.)

Might anyone recall more?
> The amount of 90% sensible, 10% ridiculously wrong computer generated crap we’re about to send

Agreed. Sooner or later a company is going to do this with its customers, in ways that are fine 95% of the time but cause outrage or even harm on outliers.

And if that company is anyone like Google, it'll be almost impossible for the customers to speak to a human to rectify things.
NixOS 22.11 – Release schedule #193585
> It makes the days going back to the office feel more refreshing, like I have more oxygen

For some reason, every time I'm in a conference room I inevitably pass out. Even if I'm not tired and perfectly energetic on the way in, I can count on one hand the number of times I haven't just mentally gone while in one. Wonder why.
A century ago we did a lot of things, the most important aspect is the ROI and tradeoff. If you're creating more emissions from cleaning than producing a new bottle, you've got a net impact but you'll get to do a lot of virtue signaling to make sure it is justified.
Also, programming jobs in finance can be really boring.

There are a few neat technical challenges, but usually the subject matter is quite dry and fairly annoying (regulatory frameworks, etc.). Also there's usually a lot of red tape to get anything done.

I don't want to work for a financial company again if I can help it.
Merely "positively influenced"? Come on, without Musk those companies would not exist.

> insufferable megalomaniac

Nah. He's arrogant, to be sure, but nobody would attempt SpaceX or Tesla without being arrogant. It's a feature, not a bug.

> I don't think his goals at twitter are long term profitability or a healthier American society/democracy

Do you really think he spent $44B on Twitter to lose money on purpose?
His publicist will care, and they probably charge him way, way more per month than $20.

SK will hem and haw but 6 months from now his team will quietly reinstate the account.
The Tale of Exactly Once Semantics (2020)
Are you asking why alternatives exist in this world?
This seems correct.

Things move fast until something bad happens; then layers and layers of oversight are added to avoid bad things happening again. Years go by without bad things happening and people begin to wonder why we need so much oversight so they begin to peel them back. Rinse and repeat.

In that context, a major mishap is a very big risk to SpaceX because it can erode their efficiency. One of the advantages of the CCP approach is that there is much less oversight, so things can move quicker. I'm not so sure NASA will be okay with that if they lose an astronaut.
well good news for you then, a year from now they’ll just say inflation rose 2% from November 2022

despite still being 10% above November 2021

and your people will say “we did it guys!”
Starvation because you can't afford enough food in the US is incredibly rare.
I like the idea of a natural language interface for manual requests. I wonder how that system could be applied at scale to an entire business. I know there are tools that can discover and classify data (for example, personally identifiable information) in storage. Maybe the AI system could proactively display known legal requirements for the types of data a business actually retains.
Fauci and the CDC have used the networks and elite newspapers to sell the idea that the vaccine prevented transmission of COVID, which has now shown to have been a known lie. How far down this rabbit hole do you want to go? I mean, this kind of media manipulation has been going around since doctors endorsed smoking as good for your health on TV ads. My personal take -- RE: Twitter -- is that this sort of thing needs sunlight and fresh air to sanitize it, not the government or corporations trying to filter it out.
I've never understood this position. How often do you add a dependency to your project, compile your project, and then never run your project ever? I can't think of a single case where this would have protected me.
There hasn't been enough time. Mortgage rates have only been high (-ish, not really that high historically) for a matter of months. Home sales are down quite a bit, so people are now sitting on houses that are priced at old prices, but are slow to sell because buyers consider it "too much". The sellers will be forced to cut prices to make sales, but that takes a while because it's emotional.
The slur filter is optional. You don't have to use it.
Abstract:

Social intelligence and Theory of Mind (ToM), i.e., the ability to reason about the different mental states, intents, and reactions of all people involved, allow humans to effectively navigate and understand everyday social interactions. As NLP systems are used in increasingly complex social situations, their ability to grasp social dynamics becomes crucial.

In this work, we examine the open question of social intelligence and Theory of Mind in modern NLP systems from an empirical and theory-based perspective. We show that one of today's largest language models (GPT-3; Brown et al., 2020) lacks this kind of social intelligence out-of-the box, using two tasks: SocialIQa (Sap et al., 2019), which measures models' ability to understand intents and reactions of participants of social interactions, and ToMi (Le et al., 2019), which measures whether models can infer mental states and realities of participants of situations.

Our results show that models struggle substantially at these Theory of Mind tasks, with well-below-human accuracies of 55% and 60% on SocialIQa and ToMi, respectively. To conclude, we draw on theories from pragmatics to contextualize this shortcoming of large language models, by examining the limitations stemming from their data, neural architecture, and training paradigms. Challenging the prevalent narrative that only scale is needed, we posit that person-centric NLP approaches might be more effective towards neural Theory of Mind.
Japan’s Commercial Jet Failure
My Dad used to work for the City of Tucson Water Department doing maintenance and repairs on the massive engines used to pump groundwater to the surface. I recall back in the 80's, the city began a conservation campaign dubbed "Beat the Peak", trying to persuade residents to limit water usage during peak hours in the summertime, probably 11am - 4pm, or something similar. (The campaign even had a cheesy mascot duck, Pete the Beak I think?)

Anyways, the city's campaign was so successful in getting residents to limit their water usage, they announced in the next fiscal year they had to raise water rates because of lost revenue! After that my Dad would come home from work in his city employee uniform, and go water all the plants in the front yard during peak hours, on purpose so the whole neighborhood could see him LOL.
Hi Ryan, thanks for chiming in ! I just wanted to make it clear that the current HEAD doesn't implement this but maybe I'm just nitpicking.
Even Firefox and Chrome's extension "stores" don't get this right. In either, a once trusted extension can be sold to a malicious company who then pushes new updates which automatically get downloaded by Firefox and Chrome by default, with no warning. Quite possibly without Mozilla and Google having any way of knowing it happened at all.

One way to address this is to move to a traditional "debian" style system, where packages are people affiliated with / known by Debian/Mozilla/Google, and specifically aren't the developers of the software themselves. The software is written by Developer X, but is then packaged and distributed by Packager Y, who ideally has no commercial affiliation with Developer X. If Developer X sells out to Malware Corp Z, end users can hope that Packager Y isn't part of that deal and prevents the malware from being packaged and distributed. This still isn't bullet-proof, but it's a lot better.
There's a third option to switch from Google Authenticator to Aegis. You can simply scan those export QR codes of Google Authenticator with Aegis.
I'm aware of, and agree with, the points you've so clearly articulated. But to my mind, being blissfully unaware of the context of one's material success is an example of naivety.
That poster is correct, SolarCity was an utter disaster, with a generous helping of self-dealing.

People aren't pissing on him when he's right, they are pissing on him when he's wildly, wildly wrong, because he can't stay in his lane. Pedo guy submarine cave rescue is a great example of that. Covid will go away by April 2020 was another. Full Self-driving Tesla robotaxi that makes you money while you sleep in 201? is a third...
But most measures of demand for durable goods show that it is up.
Ah yes, the almighty Fed which knew exactly what to do in 2020, 2008, 2001, 1990, 1987...
Glass is heavier and breaks into dangerous shards if you drop it. Paper bags get soggy and tear when it's raining. Plastic is used because it's better.
Well, that didn't last long.
On the reproducibility problem, there are several tools for working on the reproducibility at the byte-level. That's a strength of cargo that people can work on those problems and make it part of the ecosystem.
So that’s what they teach in MBAs!
I think partially because housing is inelastic, the demand outweighs the supply. People already in homes would rather not move than sell at a loss, especially those who have a low mortgage rate from the past few years locked in. New homes being built were delayed due to COVID(and now maybe due to interest rates?).

So even with rising rates its moreso a matter of staying stagnant rather than rising more, at least up to a certain point.

At least thats how I've read it explained.
Totally agree. There should be a 30 day pe
> Oil dropped in the US because the current administration is depleting the strategic reserve. It's almost gone but the current administration doesn't care.

This is not exactly true, there are still hundreds of millions of barrels in the reserve, well over 50% of its alleged capacity.

While it is true that stock has been dropping more quickly in the past year, the reserve has been slowly depleting since February of 2017.

https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=M...
And if they don't, I'm happy the government doesn't foist that on the people, unlike in other places.
>Has BoringSSL been widely adopted?

It was never meant to be, it's only providing a subset of the features openssl has.

>The OpenBSD people forked to LibreSSL which looked very promising (coming from people who make their main obsession about security) but seemed to quickly burn out at least on Linux hosts

In the beginning yes it was, they moved fast on cleaning up OpenSSL codebase. The problems began because it's not explicitly a goal to maintain OpenSSL compatibility, so distros had a huge maintenance burden patching things to work with it. Eventually the distros that were maintaining it (Void and Gentoo?) got tired of it and decided OpenSSL had gotten through the worst of its problems.

Then OpenSSL 3 dropped, once again making it annoying to patch for and introducing issues like this CVE. I think Alpine was discussing looking at LibreSSL again but I think that ship has sailed.
And yet there’s an interstate system, collection of national parks, and space program. It can’t be by design if it hasn’t always been this broken.
Most real-world spreadsheets contained significant errors in this 2005 review: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228662532_What_We_K...

Is there any reason to think the situation has substantially improved since then?
I once added a "very simple" string manipulation utility function that was "obviously correct" and "didn't need any tests", then pushed directly to master. Suffice to say I don't do that any more.
If you can drive the price ($ per ton to orbit) down, more demand will be created.
Historically and right now the payload cost dwarfs the rocket costs.
That will change and be reversed over time.
I'm completely stunned that people will compromise safety to avoid taking a few steps. The idea of filling my home network with iffy iot devices and having a single point of failure for things like lighting my home and unlocking my doors is absolutely crazy to me. Not to mention all the meta data these devices might leak about my routine and whereabouts. I have no idea why people think these are reasonable trade-offs. Maybe I'm crazy.
The Logos/the Network State
There's a lag in the index, but in August (most recent data available) housing prices were down 0.7% month over month, and 0.6% the month before https://www.fhfa.gov/AboutUs/Reports/Pages/US-House-Price-In....

But, as others have pointed out, housing prices are sticky for a variety of reasons.
2008 was clearly a failure for the Fed but I would love to see the counterfactuals of no Fed action for many of the other times you are mentioning.
As someone who has been painfully self-teaching C++ for the last ~1.5 years on and on, these are my hangups:

- The features that make C++ decent are often found in C++ 20/23, for which there are woefully few resources

- Code taking advantage of coroutines and generators isn't commonplace yet, rare to find examples

- C++ 20 concepts are a near mirror copy of Rust Traits and enable composition that's an alternative to inheritance, again difficult to find examples of

- C++'s way of "implementing" interfaces (IE iterator<T>) by having a magic defined set of type aliases and methods is not intuitive for me

- Writing code to control things like parallelization and thread scheduling that's portable across libraries is difficult. I think std:: executor is supposed to fix this but if I'm manually scheduling threads and I want to use IE oneTBB it's not obvious how to do this.

- Dependency and package management is a nightmare. Need to condense CMake + vcpkg into a Cargo like tool and make it a standard

- error messages are indecipherable. GCC 13-dev colors make this a bit better but human-written "ELI-5" errors succinctly explaining the problem and suggesting a solution (like Rust)

- flags like "-fsanitize=address,leak,undefined -fanalyzer -Wthread-safety -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=" should be baked in to a default "dev"/"debug" mode newbies shouldn't need to know/think about

- Profiling and instrumenting/monitoring should be a few CLI flags with nice UI visualizers (IE LLVM X-ray)

- I have to Google what headers cstd/std stuff comes from half the time
This is a pretty blanket statement. That same down payment will not be effective at all. Current interest rates have definitely impacted housing prices but its not significant enough to make up for the difference in monthly payment. Think of it this way:

Scenario 0: 500k house, 30yr/3% interest rate, 100k down (20% standard) = 400k total loan amount and 1,686 monthly payment

Scenario 1: 400k house, 30yr/7% interest rate, 100k down (let's say you still have that cash and put it all towards down payment) = 300k total loan amount and 1,996 monthly payment.

This is assuming in your housing market prices have cooled by 20%, I'm not seeing drops like that in my market. Your monthly payment just increased $300.
Maybe? Is it really going to be all that different from the past thousand years where we've had 90% sensible, 10% ridiculously wrong[0] human-generated crap?

[0] https://ncse.ngo/americans-scientific-knowledge-and-beliefs-...
Next, do this for pairs of major politicians.
Go is a great language to replace sysadmin scripts written in python or shellscript. I used to imediately jump to python when a shell script would get a little complicated, now I always pick Go.
It already seems to have had an impact on inflation though - we are in a much better place today than 6 months ago with inflation. If real wages decline, and housing declines (both tied to interest rates), then rents will decline. If we need to get energy prices down, we have abundant domestic supply waiting for extraction. High prices are currently a executive branch policy choice.
Space is a big waste of money. At best it's a zero sum game playing field between countries. Regular people will never benefit from space.

Commentators and pundits were fooled by GPS , Sat-TV and Internet and are extrapolating loads of quality of life which would come from space if only could be cheaper to send stuff up there.

The world is increasingly urbanised. Fiber and 5G for telecomms will always be cheaper in an urban setting compared with sat-internet.
Oh, no, this was super common. When the Arduino (and, soon afterwards, the Pi) were launched, for several years, about 20% of my time was spent explaining higher-ups why there's a very wide gap to cross between a junior's "I can control a motor with Arduino in 30 minutes" and "We can manufacture this and make a profit and you can safely ship it to customers".

Don't get me wrong, the Arduino is one of the best things that ever happened to engineering education. Back in college I had to save money for months to buy an entry-level development kit. But it made the non-technical part of my job exponentially harder.
While of course one will do every reasonable attempt not to offend another part gratuitously, and also noting that the problem of misperception should call for a correction in the perception itself (and more contextually, if "«alter[ation]»" has been caused there should be investments in treatments), if you allowed events to affect innocent structures you would arrive at absurdities such as "avoid that formerly common gesture because it is now the signature of controversial group G". Which would also be a form of foolish treason, empowering that contemptible part - they have now modified your culture - that should have instead been relegated in its narrow place.
Just hopping in to say : it's laughable to claim that open source projects have "hard-coded" anything. It's literally impossible to hard code things when anyone can download the source, edit it, compile it and run it on any machine they own
Those wealthy clients are already heavily "in." You can make up motives for anything, I guess, but the obvious motive for the Feds actions is surging prices.
I bank with a local credit union, and their online banking originally only supported SMS. I wrote to them about the many security issues with that, and an executive responded and acknowledged my concerns.

A few months later they added TOTP support. Not sure if I influenced that at all, but it's just another reason why I will only ever use a credit union as my main bank.
> composition vs inheritance

This is not a mild a difference in practice.

> .NET and Java, both garbage collected, are just as fast or faster with a much larger ecosystem.

Go executables don't require a runtime.
It's not gone but -35% YoY certainly doesn't look good. Especially when it's the 'better' medium-sore oil that is getting depleted faster:

https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_ending_stocks_of_crude_oil...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/energy/the-us-is-dep...
Development should be more exploratory and experimental than prod. For the past decade I've had a similar strategy: I freely install and demo new dependencies on separate dev hardware (or a VM when I'm on the road). Then I code review (incl. locked dependencies) and deploy from a trusted environment with reduced supply chain exposure.
Oops, I didn't mean to mislead. I updated the title to be more clear.
That's not quite right, because if you only reduce demand you could also reduce supply and prices would be unchanged. Higher interest rates reduces money supply (which can induce a recession) but does not necessarily reduce the supply of goods. Less money chasing the same amount of goods (ideally) causes lower prices.

I don't think you are wrong intuitively. I am just trying to be a little more specific because get very vague about monetary policy and it leads to some bad assumptions.
Eh, it really depends. Some people find trees easier to navigate through recursion than iteration, same for lists and graphs. Some do better using decomposition on a list to get a combined value or create permutations than doing it through iteration and indexing. FP commonly becomes problematic when things are far more trivial to do stateful than stateless, with side-effects than without, and more.

FP usually shines in small sections of easily isolated code, where it is still trivial to grasp for most and its strengths show more than its weaknesses. Given that code isn't more easily expressed using iteration, anyway. The moment things have to be woven together and not leave any side-effects is when the difficulty jumps to 11.
Feel free to elaborate on your point. I'm not doing your research for you.
And if the brick-wall learning curve, for being able to work on the most-complex 0.5% of the code, is X,000 hours tall...
But we're not talking about obfuscation; we're talking about the data you're describing not being there. If you ask the AI to spit out a 1-for-1 copy of Hollie Mengert's work, it can't. I suspect it can't spit out coherent individual pieces of it either (I might be wrong in that assertion, as I haven't run this Stable Diffusion). It spits out content in her style.

You generally cannot copyright a style.

If it spits out entire chunks of pre-existing works, that's an entirely different story; but what it seems to do is (via the learning and subsequent diffusion process) receive an input like "Wonder Woman on a hill" and (to falsely anthropomorphize a giant math puzzle) say "I know what a Wonder Woman looks like, and I know that 'correct pictures' have some certain ratios of straight lines and angles and tend to use some particular color triplets, so I'm biasing the thing that matches to my 'Wonder Woman' shape structure with those lines, angles, and colors." The result is a picture Hollie Mengert has never drawn, which an observer could assume is done by her because the style is so spot-on.

And aping an artist's style is not illegal for humans and we have no law to make it illegal for machines. Should it be illegal is an interesting question, but it will require new law to make it so.