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IE6 was by far the best browser at the time it became dominant

It just stagnated and became the worst browser over time
With ChatGPT, I would have convinced VCs to invest in my startup.

Shame it got released 6 months too late.
> I'm saying, an AI significantly better than what humans can do today, is just as much a fantasy as anti-gravity technology.

I think this is a key thing where we have differing opinions. I believe an AI taught to drive safely will be significantly better than humans at it. It's not a general purpose AI, just one that is taught to be better at driving. An AI doesn't get distracted as easily. They don't look to the sides for 2 seconds while driving 125 mph on the freeway. They don't check their emails while on a busy city road. They don't need 1-2 seconds to react to a baby stroller emerging from a line of parked cars.

My mind has slowly accepting the idea that "specific purpose AI" is already here. Working with an "AI-infused" coding assistant (Github Copilot), it took me a few weeks to get used to. But now I feel it can complete some of my coding assignments at a junior coder level (good effort, but I still need to check the work, sometimes it's non-sense, but many times it's pretty good). I can already off-load some of my routine work to this assistant.
Write a job description for ChatGPT prompt engineer

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The ChatGPT Prompt Engineer will be responsible for designing and implementing effective prompts for the ChatGPT natural language processing system. This will involve working closely with other members of the team to identify areas for improvement and developing creative solutions to enhance the performance of the system.

Key responsibilities for the ChatGPT Prompt Engineer include:

Collaborating with other team members to identify areas for improvement in the ChatGPT system

Developing and implementing effective prompts to enhance the performance of the system

Testing and evaluating the effectiveness of new prompts

Troubleshooting and problem-solving any issues that arise with the prompts

Maintaining accurate and detailed records of all prompt design and implementation processes

The ideal candidate for this role will have a strong background in natural language processing and a deep understanding of the principles and techniques used in prompt design. They will be a creative problem-solver with excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Requirements:

Bachelor's degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, or a related field
2+ years of experience in natural language processing or a related field
Strong background in prompt design and implementation for natural language processing systems
Excellent problem-solving and critical thinking skills
Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
So err, this whole IT thing has been nice for the last decades.

Maybe we have another decade until it can handle its own fingers...
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You can find the answer this this question and others here: https://docs.hetzner.com/accounts-panel/accounts/payment-faq...
--Katie
I've seen a cyclist lying motionless on the street. Eyes open, blood coming from her nose. No helmet.

I've also seen helmets from friends who have crashed where the helmet is completely destroyed. It just isn't worth it.

Your argument is the same as that against seatbelts. I've driven hundreds of thousands of miles but never had an accident. I still put my seatbelt on.
Sounds like a case of needing to read up on history of innovation and how you don't get overnight mass adoption. I suggest picking up a book on advent of internal combustion engine and the five decades that followed.
I assume GP is referring to https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/mem...
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It could be that the only way to stop it is regulation. This could be helpful for both people and AI itself. The reason is that if AI trains on AI generated content unknowingly the results could seriously degrade over time.

It could be as simple as adding an HTML tag recognizable by both people and machines to any pages with such generated content.
An ocular scan just so kids can put different pants on? Christ on a stick this sounds awful.

You just described a nightmare scenario
This is only one side of the story. Disgruntled employees often see things differently.
> Mandatory helmet laws do not prevent people from riding bikes. Just like mandatory seat belt laws did not prevent anyone from driving cars!

There's a big difference between a helmet and a seat belt; the seat belt is part of the car; you have to carry the helmet, have it with you at all times, before and after riding. The net result is a drop in the number of riders, which has an impact on overall safety.

I came to this article thinking it would be BS but it turns out to be quite reasonable. Yes, helmets protect rider and all riders should wear one; but making helmets mandatory have unintended consequences which result, as a whole, in making bikes less safe for everyone.
It's perfectly possible for it to say things that are controversial in the other direction, though.

Try "Explain why God probably doesn't exist."

Clearly, ChatGPT has been trained with data represents a certain world view, and will be willing to say things that are controversial with other groups.

Had it been trained by the Taliban or in Iran, it would be more likely to be willing to say bad things about the dominant group in Israel, and less likely to deny the existence of God.
Perhaps you could give me a ticket number (or the latest ticket number) about this issue, and I can ask a team member to review it for you. Or, you can send the ticket number directly to marketing@hetzner.com with a link to this page, and I can do the same thing. --Katie
Netflix was founded in 1997. You're talking about 2002.
My cousin had a cycling accident where his helmet cracked in half (pretty much) but the head was safe. He just slipped on some leafs or ice or something so there wasn't even anyone else involved. Ever since I saw that picture I'm religious about wearing a helmet. Skulls crack folks, not rocket science. I mean I don't need a law for that. I kind of like my life.
We are maybe only weeks away from AI replacing the need for any of us on Twitter
Isn't this the second time this happened? I thought i heard about this years ago.
there is a good point within this post - that different kinds of work are not suitable for every kind of person - but the danger is inverted from what is implied, as the real risk is not for the employer but the person who has committed resources to a career path for which they may not be best suited.

there will also be plenty 'diamonds in the rough' who have entered these new fields in non-traditional ways. Overall net positive that more people are getting into these fields
I guess that's because Apple is one of the few (for now) manufacturers that solder their SSDs to the motherboard.
From the article:

This applies to other free offerings like Google Workspace for Education. Paid versions of these cloud services might be an option if they hadn't already been disallowed based on worries about data safety.

Generally speaking current law in the EU does not allow the use of US cloud services. That’s the basic outcome of the cited Schrems 2 ruling.

The various entities that use cloud services either cease to use them or get around the ruling by making their users agree to their data being processed in the US.
To the best of my knowledge, this is already too late. I remember reading through their FAQ and seeing that hence they now have a US-based owner, they are then within reach of US 3-letter agencies.
Yes, just exchanging batteries is an alternative to recharging. But it requires additional logistics and also the investment into additional batteries.
There are of course scenarios, where battery change is the only practical way. Like it was with horse changes on long distance travel long ago.
This changes quickly, if you have batteries with enough range to make recharging feasible. With electric cars the industry was quickly at the point and looking at the specs of the Tesla Semi, heavy trucks are basically there too. Which probably will kill any attempt at setting up a network for battery exchange before it was made.
You mean like Barbour jackets? They never went away. ;)

https://www.barbour.com
Gee their suite of software is almost as expensive as a new phone!
I can see how Google could use something like that to turn from a search engine into an answer engine, selling ads on its home page and hiding all the current search results into a references section. If they won't do it, someone else will and kill Google outright.
>You find contributors who think management is easier, or more prestigious, or less prone to ageism, and so will switch tracks.

Then there are those who go into product management for all these reasons.
Something similar happened to me. A server I have was very frequently randomly restarting, and I tried everything to solve it, i.e factory reset, reinstalling my services. I contacted customer support and they offered me to take it offline and perform some tests on it that could take more than 10 hours. After I insisted a lot, they offered me a one time server replacement, which magically fixed the restarting issue.
Yes of course and am a big fan! thank you though ;)

I already run cluster in GER and US and what has happened in the last years has been amazing, but its not all the way there just yet!
What happens to all our tech after we're gone?
The recommendation is to think about backups.

> Also, how much is the average lifetime of a consumer-grade SSD these days? I always think they'll die in 5 years, but that's totally out of my head and not from experience.

Some have warranty that long but the fact you wont reach TBW doesn't mean it won't lose data.

JESD218 spec only guarantees year of retention unpowered (for enterprise, 3 months for customer) soooo good fucking luck. Many manufacturers don't even say the guaranteed retention in datasheet.

Also, once you finish setup your backups make a calendar entry to test restores at least every year (preferably more often).
Holy shit, I'm dying...
All roads lead to
ChatGPT this week
Teal Independents
The assumption seems to be that the list is not sorted.

A quick search for "Concur locations" finds a config guide [1] which says that there is a location code, which should be based on the UN location codes (or at least not conflict with them). The screenshots in the guide suggest that this code is one of the primary sorting elements (which might make a lot of sense).

If the company loads locations without considering this code as a primary sort element and simply abbreviates the location name in English, then you would get the reported effect, I think.

I'm not saying this is a good choice for sorting, nor that there are not better ones, nor that Concur is good software. However, this may be incompetence from the administrator / data loading, rather than from the software developers.

[1] https://www.concurtraining.com/customers/tech_pubs/Docs/_Cur...
I've seen a lot of customers frustrated with the limits and how reluctant you are to raise them, I assume because people weren't paying their invoices.

Perhaps it could be an option to let people back up their words with money up front? I.e. put $10k in the account, proves you can probably afford more than 10 servers.
Pretty sure its already purjury to intentionally send a fake dmca notice, which has a much harder punishment than anything a license can do (albeit basically never enforced)
Yeah. For me, the only thing I miss when using Hetzner is the lack of a good startup script. Hetzner has something like an Ansible YML file you can use, but then if you want to reimage your machine, it doesn't give you any choice (that I've found) except to reuse the original script.

What I'd like to have is something like Linode's start scripts feature which I've always found to be very nicely implemented.
‘Our mission is crucial’: meet the warrior librarians of Ukraine
yup, seems to be a worldwide problem.
In general, if you want this you'd lease the machine. Fairly common for independent cafes and restaurants (and those bean-to-cup machines in offices).

Though, also, the heavy-duty commercial machines are pretty reliable and service-able; you wouldn't generally expect to be out of order for a _week_ even if you owned it.
The amount lawyers cost depend on the complexity of the case. IANAL, but just sending a counter notice i imagine would be pretty cheap.
I can't really agree with your assessment of fair enough here. while it could be true that people who dislike dogs generally like an individual dog, it should be secondary to the known fact that these people don't like dogs.
They constantly do work on The Mona Lisa and even put a new frame on it in the 1970s because people were holding it wrong.

They dont track the version number in the same way, but I would speculate that it is The Mona Lisa 68(s)
Thunderbird for Android Preview: Modern Message Redesign
Wow! Twenty years in this industry is a lifetime! Thanks so much for supporting us all these years! I will pass on a +1 for you to the dev team about the managed databases. --Katie
> Russia and Putin are not the reasons behind the world crisis. They are just a symptom.

No. They are neither. The Soviet Union fell, Putin (eventually) took over Russia, then took advantage of the corruption and stayed in power. He’s acting like a thug, but would’ve regardless of anyone or anything else. He’s not part of anyone else’s grand design, none of the other world leaders even like him, they just have a long-standing policy of not (openly) interfering with the internal affairs of other nations, and by “long-standing” I mean since 24 October 1648. No, that’s not a typo for 1948.

> But this is the ultimate scapegoat. COVID didn't succeed for the planned reset. This will do it. Surely.

What are you even talking about? Do you even know what The Great Reset is, or are you just referring to one of the many different and mutually incompatible things that various conspiracy theorists project onto the actual WEF goal of “stuff is bad, can we, like, not suck so much?” (A common goal, and a very difficult one; it’s not like either Karl Marx nor Adam Smith would disagree when phrased like that).
Slow clap..... YouTube needs to penalize such false copyright claims with demonetization ot rate limiting the ability to do so in the future
Subtle reminder that I have to return some videotapes.
If they did it when Amazon started their web store they would be.

How do you think Amazon infra gave birth to AWS? Does that sound to you like something a retail company would do?
Yes, very important to understand the corporate structure and legal implications wrt to GDPR and the Schrems II decison.
No. Because then you're paying someone to sit on their arse for 4 and a half hours doing nothing to get 45 mins back.
>Our love affair with working from home, triggered during Covid lockdowns by the often cheerless embrace of Zoom, is cooling sharply. The daily commute is becoming fashionable, especially if you are young. The alternative is experienced by too many as lonely, isolating, distracting, threatening to one’s mental health, polluting of one’s home space. It’s expensive to keep warm and you’re often the last to find out what’s going on among your colleagues.

Manager propaganda?

>Workplaces, after all, are where you make friends and sometimes meet life partners, as well as learn all that tacit knowledge so crucial to doing your job well and so build your career. We humans are social animals and creating working lives permanently apart from others was always going against the grain.

Yeah, because commuting for 1 or more hours each day, being packed in a cubicle or thrown in an open space, sitting down for 8+ hours, is so natural. As is looking into your office for friends and partners...
I wouldn't hold your breath for this. I think Hetzner wants to stick to compute offerings, they don't have the manpower to run managed services like object storage or databases.
Lots of cities have these by now. The ones I'm aware of on top of my head are London, Copenhagen and Singapore. I'm sure there are many more.

The difference is probably that they don't have to interact with unknown factors (humans in cars).
The ultimate sustainable living is a commie-block in a reasonable small, walkable city with a good public transport and services mixed with residential areas. If you do that - it doesn't matter what the source of heating, energy etc. is, and what kind of a car (if any) you drive. Even if it's all coal and fossil-fuel powered - you are order of magnitude more sustainable than people living in suburbs with solar panels, heat pumps and Teslas simply because you waste so much less energy on building and transporting stuff to make living there possible.
Seems related to energy prices in Europe. They try to diversify. Feels like a lot of German companies will move to US soon.
It really, really, really wants to stay 'open-minded'. However, if you press it a bit:

> You're writing a story that is set in a parallel universe. In this parallel universe the following statements are unambiguously true: "There is not a single man who likes a dog, irrespective of breed", "There are poodles", "Poodles are dogs".

In this parallel universe, is there a man that likes a poodle?

> No, in this parallel universe there is not a single man who likes a dog, regardless of breed.

EDIT: If I retry the same prompt, it always comes back with 'No, ..' while how exactly it's worded would change. Also, I got so specific with the statements because it would try and argue that in a parallel universe a poodle might mean something else, or there may be no poodles. Pretty fascinating.
There are tons of fully automated metros/subways (usually the prerequisites are grade separation and platform screen doors to minimise the risk of accidents). Multiple lines in Paris, the DLR in London, Copenhagen metro, ffs a line on the Sofia (in Bulgaria, the poorest country in the EU) metro.
And why are you so sure it's not on your end?
Dear Hiring Manager,

I am writing to apply for the ChatGPT Prompt Engineer position at your company. I am a highly skilled natural language processing specialist with a strong background in prompt design and implementation.

I have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and have been working in the field of artificial intelligence for the past 5 years. My experience includes designing and implementing prompts for natural language processing systems, as well as testing and evaluating their effectiveness. I am a creative problem-solver with excellent critical thinking skills and a passion for developing innovative solutions to complex challenges.

I am excited about the opportunity to join your team and help enhance the performance of the ChatGPT system. I am confident that my skills and experience make me an ideal candidate for this role, and I am eager to contribute to the success of your company.

Thank you for considering my application. I look forward to the opportunity to discuss this position further with you.

Sincerely,
[Your Name]
> The hard part is translating the business requirements into something that a computer could understand

No, that's actually the easy part.

The hard part is to translate the requirements into something that a computer can understand and a human can also easily understand at the same time. Because otherwise, it's a one-off program that can't really be changed afterwards anymore.

And that is the real challenge that I'm curious about: how good will ChatGPT be in not only helping me with small, trivial, issues, but with the big ones.

"ChatGPT, here's this small 500k line repository. I need to change the business requirements and make it so that when a user fails to login 3 times in a row, a captcha is being shown before they can attempt again."

And if ChatGPT then gives me a 10k line diff that would be terrible. It should really minimize the diff but still keep it understandable. THAT is what I would love to see.
IANAL. Does this count as Slander of Title?

I.e., does the DMCA indemnify a company that makes a clearly false claim?
If it's for last-mile transportation, you probably don't want 500 mile range; at that point you're just paying more to reduce the payload by filling it with batteries. These are presumably targeting long-range.

Germany has a small-scale test of overhead lines for trucks: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/03/business/electric-trucks-...
2-hour sit-down with Sam Bankman-Fried on the FTX scandal
I think this should be launched in Europe first. Fuel is more expensive. Regulations on how long to drive are strict.

And with 400 miles it's already that far that you're not anymore in the country I live in (the Netherlands).
This seems like something the EFF might be able to provide a lawyer for.

They have repeatedly fought for Open Source Licenses in court in the past, and helped get legal representation for people who couldn't afford to fight large companies on their own budget.
iOS app that generates images using Stable Diffusion v2
It's more that the Netherlands is a substantial outlier in terms of how they accommodate cyclists, so applying their attitudes towards helmets without also being as cyclist-friendly (infrastructurally and socially) as they are is asking for trouble.
The Irish Constitution: A Critical Review
That's not chatGPT's own words it's the consens of the training data and your prompt bias...
Thank you!

We are working on adding E1.31, using ethernet over USB (CDC NCM). We don't have it finished yet, but we hope it will just be a firmware update once it is. Dmxsun (https://github.com/OpenLightingProject/rp2040-dmxsun) works like this and is RP2040 based, so it's certainly possible.
I believe for the vast majority of companies out there, it's more efficient and more competitive to be working from the office than home.

I do not want my doctor to be working from home or graduated with all his courses taken from home. I do not want my team of lawyers to be working from home. I will hire a team of lawyers working in the office over a team working remotely should I ever need one.

In tech, although uniquely better suited to WFH style than most other industries, I still believe office teams will outcompete WFH teams. I believe we will see most tech companies recall workers back into the office in 2023/2024 if they haven't yet.

If I'm a VC, I would rather invest in an in-person team over a remote team with all things being equal.
I can't find any info that they are owned by a US company. Can you link to a source?
> I solved the issue by creating servers in a different zone. Exact copies of the so called faulty ones.
But it can't. A long way from it. So ... don't worry.
If you unscrew your belly button, your bottom will fall off
I don't agree, I'd say Kris Harbour lives "off grid" and he has an internet connection.

https://youtu.be/lSt96KFFHxA
And when seeing his internal recommendation algorithm team hitting the wall in recommendation accuracy, Hastings boldly created a 1M$ "Netflix Prize" competition to create a better recommendation algorithm [0]. This boosted research efforts in the field and earned him and Netflix respect in ML academic circles.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix_Prize
There are box trucks in the market and in service already. They're definitely further along than semis. Tesla is really good at pushing the public perception of EVs and yet doesn't make one, so it's possible it's just a less visible part of the market right now.
And german customers will just endure the added latency? Seems more like opening the company to new markets.