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> This will hardly seem like a controversial opinion, but LLM are overhyped. Its certainly impressive to see the things people do with them, but they seem pretty cherry-picked to me. When I sat down with ChatGPT for a day to see if it could help me with literally any project I'm currently actually interested in doing it mostly failed or took so much prompting and fiddling that I'd rather have just written the code or done the reading myself.

> You have to be very credulous to think for even a second that anything like a human or even animal mentation is going on with these models unless your interaction with them is anything but glancing.

I've used ChatGPT, and I'd say it's right now as useful as a google search, which is already a lot. Most humans would be absolutely unable to help me (and probably you) for your projects because they aren't specialized in that area. That's not even talking about animals. I love my cats but they've never really helped me when programming.
But what about the privacy of the people not using google at all. All other trackers are (or should) be blocked by my adblocker, but my adblocker can't block the google sign-in button because some people use that. So another way to defeat anti-tracking software.

Plus those google sign-in buttons have recently become extra-obnoxious, opening a modal window over every page I visit to invite me to sign-in with google. This is really back to the 90s!
> Now that they are banning cash

You're talking as if introducing a nationwide speed limit is equivalent to banning cars. The regulation of a given operation is not akin to outright banning it and to assert that is hyperbole.
The company's profits are not taken from the worker. The company provides a framework within which the worker can produce value, and the company therefore gets a share of it.

Otherwise, the worker could do the work outside of the company and get it all.
My 2013 BMW has 8 physical buttons that can be easily programmed to do whatever I want. It's awesome. Unfortunately this feature has been deleted from the newest models...
That is not accurate. Have you seen the video of "multi-millionaire entrepreneur" Elon Musk taking delivery of a $1 million dollar McLaren car, before PayPal?
You can be abetting someone to evade tax. If you do it knowingly, you might also be culpable.
> Appointed by the politicians in charge.

I am not sure where you got this idea. In Italy most judges/DAs go through a selection process that is entirely within the judiciary. Only one third of the Constitutional Court is appointed by the Parliament.
Is it feasible to generate electricity with a “heatpump combustion engine”?
In a democracy, 60 years of electing corrupt politicians mean Greeks or the Greek society or whatever you want to put it are guilty too along with all their corrupt governments. It runs deep in the society. I am Greek.
That was golden time for developers. Their public status was like movie stars.

And for West it was normal price, because even considering wide usage of also cheap CP/M, on some level of organization size, was unavoidable to switch to Unixes or to mainframe - CP/M just was too limited, was not capable to handle big business load.

When BSD first appear, Unix machines also where too small and slow for big business, but very soon appear client-server architecture, and later clouds (Beowulf, I think, oldest wide used private cloud soft), Unixes become unlimited.
Welp, I couldn't back out of that site after making 100 url changes. Your argument would be a lot more convincing if you addressed that issue. That's such an old issue, please don't bring that back with your new throw-back style.
TBH my experience with HP inkjet printers has been so outright crappy that I would never buy an HP laserjet either. They don't deserve my business and can go fuck off.

I'm sure there's a lot of people out there who feel the same way. It's like the opposite of the halo effect.
The biggest problem with front-end development is that it goes all the way from static websites to complex web apps, and developers can't tell the difference.

Everyone jumps on the latest hype, going from either server to front-end, or nowadays front-end to server side, without thinking where your application resides on that scale.
Did Elon advertise a system built with # miles training videos & FLOPS spent on training or, or did he advertise a working system? I don't care about how much work went into it (well I do actually, but that's beside the point) I care about how well it does what they say it does.
I like to go back to the basics. It irks me that folks don’t think HTML/CSS/JavaScript are good enough as-is—but nowadays the default browser capabilities are incredible compared to a decade ago. We basically have a full programming environment and add WASM to the mix! Back in the day the frameworks were first-and-foremost a platform compatibility solution.

People often have it ingrained in their psyche that reinventing the wheel is evil, but it’s not—we do it all the time when we write paragraphs.

It’s of course tempting to grab a library but there’s a learning curve and an often hidden long-term cost with using libraries.
So you think that Latvia, which has 8K EUR cash limit, is forced by be Germany and France to not allow cash payments over 10K EUR and you are dreaming of the destruction of EU so you can do above 10K EUR cash transactions? Are you counting on Latvia not enforcing its own laws for that? What’s your reasoning here?
Im returning to this late but I think the comment is disingenuous. My post made it clear that this is an uneasy compromise. I’m not sure what the solution is, but -a the moment- apple seems more aligned with my interests than google or the myriad of fraudsters who would love to abuse an open platform.

I’ll be interested to return to this conversation in 10 years because as a priviledged, not-politically-radical (or at least not activist) person my hunch is that apple will still be a reasonable home for me. What I worry about is that it won’t be so comfortable for people who want to protest, or are in the margins in some other way.

I do care about this and would love another solution that worked.

Similarly I’d love not to use WhatsApp/fb and avoid as far as I can, but I want to play tennis or meet friends for bike rides and there is just no way of avoiding it right now without making substantial personal sacrifices.

I think the only solution long term is more regulation of large tech companies so that they act in the common good. That’s a hard problem though.
I tend to use redis but in my experience Mongo works for a similar purpose (plus has querying which is nice.). Use Mongo/Redis as the working store (build data client side, sync to mongo/redis which then inserts into db when it gets the chance.)
Given the jobs are plentiful, isn't that an incentive to raise the wages? If you actually want somebody at your horrible job, you have to incentivize them to do yours and not somebody else's
Airlines lobbying FAA to have only one pilot in the cockpit
I think it's actually often worse in AI papers. Fortunately at least some bigger journals/conferences encourage or require releasing source code, which makes it easier to track down subtle details that the authors didn't clearly mention in the paper.

On top of that due to its dependence on data and the ability to 'fudge' statistics, a lot of AI papers aren't really that replicable even if there aren't any implementation subtleties. For example, I've run into papers on image generation which describe some trick to improve quality, but focus entirely on standardized scores without providing any visual comparisons (and thus as feared turning out to not have as much of a visual improvement as the scores would suggest on other datasets).

While in a lot of sciences or engineering many things can be attributed to being standard practice for experts in the field, AI moves too fast to have such standards and tends to be a bit too arbitrary for such standards to mean much.
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Isn't it dangerous to give out your bank account number in the US, people can withdraw from it if they know it or something?
I'm a relative old-timer, so have lived through plenty of times when electronic payments weren't commonplace, and have also bought a number of second-hand cars. I never used cash - I used banker's drafts, because I didn't want to be mugged and the untraceable cash to go missing. (And even then, they were all worth under €10k).
Combine the limit of 10k with rampant inflation and 10 years from now you won't be able to buy a TV with cash, they won't update the limit based on inflation.
The Greeks are hesitant about taxes because they know from experience that their governments (of any flavour) have invariably been historically corrupt. The Germans experience (post-war at least) was not that. I doubt very much if the Germans of the Weimar republic were too fussed with their taxes.

To your last point, if I'm not trustworthy, don't let me in. Are you familiar with the story of the scorpion and the frog?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog
I remember reading a study that said women’s appreciation increased as the amount of domestic labor he took on increased. However, her sexual attraction for him increased as his gym / other cool activities increased, even if it was done with time taken from domestic activities.

So if you want to be friends, do the dishes. If you want better sex, hit the gym.
Where I live people in my generation have been primarily cashless at least the last quarter of a century, and yet we still significantly outrank the US in the freedom indexes, which isn't exactly a high bar these days, but still serves to underline that the typical American centrist argument that using primarily paper cash somehow improves freedom is wrong.
It may be surprising, but there are people who live outside of the google ecosystem too.
>It's not negated because a passive attacker that records communications and then, in the (potentially far) future, somehow can obtain the key (say, by exploiting some weakness and/or brute-forcing), still cannot decrypt your past communications, regardless of whether everybody saves old messages or not.

If someone breaks the encryption somehow then forward secrecy is also negated. They get the encrypted material directly. Forward secrecy is only effective in messaging if the attacker does something like break into your device to get the secret key material. At that point they will also get any saved messages that are still accessible to you, in whatever way they are accessible.

Now in theory a messaging client could reencrypt old messages to something like a public key pair where the secret key material was protected by a strong passphrase. But no one does that because that would mean you would have to type in the passphrase whenever you wanted to see an old message. At that point you might as well just use encrypted email and leave everything encrypted all the time.
That does not sound accurate. The 'ghost' station described is an original, pre-extension station. When the line was extended beyond Harvard Sq., they moved the station just up the street around a sharp bend.[1] Very MBTA. I respect the journalistic source, but it seems exceedingly unlikely anyone ever tried to cut off the existing station and run it through Harvard Yard, much less got so far as to construct a ghost station.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_station
The uppercase tells me you have strong feelings about this and maybe I’m missing something obvious. Would you explain why my freedom will be diminished by this? I can still pay and buy whatever I want. It just happens faster and more secure.
Here is one example:
https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/eastern-europes-bigg...

Then there’s banking, oil, and other resources. And of course the audacity to veto countries schengen membership unless more control over these is granted. Hiding behind made up excuses.
That’s factually incorrect. Cf most of Northern Europe for the past 60 years.
There are so many transit improvements that should and could happen in the NYC metro area that never will... Simply because NY and NJ are two separate states that can't agree on what should be done and who should pay for it.
There is negative value in rebuilding things that could have been downloaded for free from the internet. Postgres, MySql, Sqlite, RabbitMQ, Redis, Kafka and all the other common tools each have had thousands upon thousands of hours sunk into bugfixes, correctness guarantees and performance work. Rebuilding a poor version of that does not provide shareholder value at all.
>I hate this because I want to believe technology and AI and will result in modern medicine where everyone has long healthy lives.

Medical technology and AI is not even close to any major improvement in life expectancy, except in much rare cases (heart transplants is one example: they're insignificant in raising overall life expectancy, as they're statistically too rare to matter).

The big majority of the improvement in life expectancy in the 20th century was from low-hanging stuff like running water, sterilization, waste disposal, and basic antibiotics, not from the high-tech transplants, DNA research, fancy drugs and so on.
Agree 100%. Also makes me laugh when people talk about server side rendering. Serving a html page isn’t rendering. The fact that a couple of megabytes of JavaScript ever became responsible for making the simplest of pages even display is possibly the worst technology regression I’ve ever seen.
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but from a non-practitioner's perspective, how or why is this sensible?

Most of the cutting edge papers are trained on several $100k worth of GPU time, so does it even make sense to implement the algorithm without the available data & compute? How can you be sure that your implementation is correct, if you can't train it (hence you can't run proper inference with a good model)?

Compare that to e.g. reimplementing a pure CS paper, almost anything can be reimplemented in a simple way - even something like "distributed database over 1000 nodes", well you don't technically need 1000 servers, you can just, you know, simulate them quite cheaply.

Of course there might be similar techniques for ML but I'm just not aware of them.
That’s a good point. Maybe one of the shocking things about chatGPT is how good it is at math, given that it’s supposed to be a cook.

With better known programming problems it actually does a great job.
> What’s the alternative?

Just a bank transfer.
>I guess I'm just emphasizing that it's hard to believe that such a person is even a good data scientist.

Odd take to be honest. Like suggesting you cannot believe someone is a good materials scientist, because their CAD/mechanical design skills
are not up to par with a mechanical engineer.
Create it. Otherwise it’s just SEO spam, IMHO.
Edit - ah, I think you mean politicians? My comment still stands though. I don’t know the polling in the US, but spending on social programmes in Europe is broadly inline with public opinion, so the insunuation of a democratic deficit is misplaced, at least here.
>Without access to serious weight, lower body training is usually pretty ineffective, strength wise.

Doesn't matter, 1x or even less is still 100% enough for life expectancy and general health.
Ads, unfortunately.
Another shill for Brother here. It's a good service day when I can trade HP's hostility circus for a Brother laser.
No, it’s that it is incredibly rare for someone to actually want to liquidate their account because the reason people do is usually to move banks and that use-case is better served with a cashier’s check. It’s not at all surprising that random branches don’t keep that much cash.
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Yikes. This has all the humor of such classic lines as "what's the deal with airplane food" and "check pleeeaaasse...".
C++ in 1994 was very primitive. It didn’t even have a standard string class. The STL with all the containers and algorithms did not come until the C++ standard in 1998.
> Whenever someone introduces new restrictions to freedoms, there is always someone who says, 'relax, it will affect only few people'. Rinse and repeat, and this way, piece by piece, all your freedoms will be taken away.

Yes, now I don't have the freedom to drive over the speed limit. They took that away from me!
Employee uses employee perks... what is there to see here other than not-so-thinly-veiled sexism?
On a tangent, learning the story of the demolition of the original Penn Station made me seriously sad. It was magnificient and served for only 50 years or so. Thinking of all that craftsmanshift, the millions of work-hours and the pride of builders makes me ill.

On that front the late 60's and 70's were a demented disaster here in France also.
It's a DCP-9020cdw. Sadly I don't think they're still made. Looking it up, I paid about £210 for it in 2018.
The part where you guarantee to your users that the person you authenticated is who they seem to be. In this particular example: "Is this invoice I'm about to pay for the service I purchased, or is it fraud?"

Farming that responsibility off to Google or Facebook and letting them handle the edge cases (for free, I might add) has genuine security value.
Having fun repeatedly building that exact same strawman and pushing it over there?
That is easier than handing a clerk a banknote?
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You can say it's not about liberal cities or progressivism but about "big business" hollowing out the city, but when all of the cities in question are 60 to 80% democrats favored and only ever vote Democrat, as well as the large multinationals that headquarter there making explicit devotionals to progressive causes ("ESG" investing) - you do not escape entirely the idea that these may be related.
Maybe you do, but not all countries function as well as yours. I'm Greek, and I remember a few years ago when we could only withdraw 50 euros a day from ATMs.

You're on the happy path, and wondering why anyone would complain when the path is so happy. The problem is what happens when that breaks down, and when that happens you definitely want to be able to use cash.
evidence suggests the optimal amount law breaking is non-zero. that’s going to be very difficult against a regime that can track the movements of all money.
Around here, the septic tank cleaners tend to be owner-operators. They own their tank truck and cleaning business, and they make decent money.
> So why would I use this format?

Because the size is smaller and the quality is the same? Literally the same reason why you'd use any new image format, except that this benefit also applies to existing images, not just new ones?

I'm not against AVIF or anything, if you want to add future images which are using fancy animation features from AVIF then that's cool. You don't have to choose between image formats, you can (and already do!) use the right one for the task.

> tldr: I'm looking for a reason to care that I can losslessly re-transcode my old JPEGs. Ok, the re-transcoded images are smaller and exactly the same as before, but what is a real world reason why I would need that vs. using the old JPEG directly or re-transcoding it to AVIF?

You can use the old JPEG directly, but then your library takes up more space. If you re-transcode your old JPEGs to AVIF, you're losing quality or at the very least irreversibly changing the images.

I'm not arguing that it's the world's biggest deal or anything, but a free 20% size reduction on all photos in an image library and all JPEGs sent over the web doesn't seem like a bad deal.
It's not your money. It's partly mine and everyone else's in the country. Just like my money is partially yours. It's my business that you're paying your way in society in a correct manner so that I and others can benefit as part of a collective.

(Not that it's always fair but that's a different argument.)
You keep seeming to come back to "needing the source code.". You know you can reverse engineer a program extremely easily right? Especially a C# one? It's really not the gotcha you think it is. And you can easily see from heuristics that it shouldn't take nearly a minute to gather all the filenames from subdirectories as with GCI. Doesn't take an Einstein to do that.

As for the safety aspect. Can you tell me what Rust means by "Safety"? Alot of Rustacians throw it out, but it really only means "No Undefined behavior". It can help hint at issues, but as someone who writes C code day in and day out, a proper coding technique like SESE can prevent all the issues Rust prevents, and a Static Analyzer like SAL goes far and beyond it. And then with all the icky runtime checks Rust adds, you can't get that in the Kernel, you can't get that "for free". And speaking of reversing your code, it throws in your path names, your file names, and information about the code into each of these. It's definitely not safe opsec wise for a dissident in a dicatorship or an activist!

You also seem to claim C# is "Windows only". Neither C#, nor Powershell, are "Windows Only". C# can run on just the same targets Rust can. WASM, Linux, Windows, etc. You said I wasn't talking about things I was knowledgable on, but despite multiple "hints" on that it's not "Windows Only", you don't seem to want to accept that. It's been the case for years. Being that stale with tech would be retire or fire territory, or just an indicator of incompetence.

And I never said you were a good coder, I said you did a decent job writing RipGrep based off of performance. I personally think from your comments that you have a very small amount of experience with Language design or low level programming, and would not hire you and would put in my review "Does not take hints, is very rude and stubborn."

You call my claims baseless, I went and did testing on the PS commandlets and said they were not fast. I have a program i'm testing right now which matches RG in performance. I'm going to name it "RipGrep But Not Ass". I'll have it on github for you whenever I get the time to finish it. Then you can "Analyze the source code". This conversation is dumb, and you are honestly one of the worst people i've encountered in the coding community.
If what you need is a simple work queue, you really need to scale very far away (in the magnitude of several thousands of requests per second) to overgrow a solution built on top of PostgreSQL.
Are you complaining that the amount you could do in a single contactless transaction went up? I can't tell what you're arguing.

If you're talking about fees I thought those were capped a while ago and haven't increased.
As in, it flat doesn't work, or it's just not economical enough at current energy prices?
What works: make something good for building infrastructure and give it away. It will grow enormously. You will only take a small piece off this giant pie, but it will be large enough in absolute terms. Examples: Unix, IBM PC, Netscape, Android, Chrome, a huge lot of others.

What also works: make something completely unique which nobody is able to competently reproduce or replace. Lock it down heavily, reap the benefits. Examples: Apple, maybe Nintendo. Hardly anyone else: the order is really tall.

What does not work: make something fine but not uniquely great, lock it down. Failures are by the thousand.
In the early 2000's, I spent 5 years growing 'herbal medicine' in the basement of a couple of homes I lived in. One of the best experiences of my life. I learned everything about it, by just reading stuff on the internet and then actually doing it and experimenting with things. I don't think that we will ever lose that knowledge again though. It will just be a matter of continuously rediscovering it.
All humans are indefinitely tied to land and property. They need it to live. The question is simply if they ever have a chance of owning it themselves. You propose taking that away.