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Not sure if you read my post, but yes I used COBOL as an example of a high level language because it was one of the first attempts. That is what the phrase "long line" refers to. A historical look back at the earliest attempts to do this.

Also, the idea of lowering the bar does not mean you spend 50 years on doing the same thing over and over again. This is also the point I made. First, they dropped the requirement to program in Assembly and created higher level languages such as C or COBOL. Then they dropped the requirement of having a separate toolchain/build infrastructure and created VisualBasic. It is quite foolish to think that VisualBasic was popular because of its syntax. VisualBasic was popular because the developer environment/runtime were bundled into the office suite. Programs were extremely portable and the runtime was everywhere. It is the same reason that javascript became popular. That got rid of a lot of infrastructure and lowered the entry bar. It was the macro feature that made it a success, not the syntax. Then comes the no-code toolkits which have drag and drop and other features which you can get really distracted by, but they really work on the basis of a fixed set of libraries and a fixed set of calling conventions that is intended to simplify the chores of library selection and invocation. Again, the point is to remove or simplify something by automatically providing it.

How much of a success it is will depend on how good it is at removing complexity for the set of tasks it is designed to tackle, which will ultimately be decided by market adoption. But one thing these tools cannot do, is free up people who are already busy. What they can do is lower the entry bar so people who wouldn't be productive because the barriers to entry are too high can be productive at rolling out simple automation tasks. The Marketing exec rolling out some clumsy dashboard reporting tool via a no-code process is the natural evolution of the secretary creating a form with visualbasic, which is itself the natural evolution of an accountant writing a script that calculates a depreciation schedule with COBOL.
My building uses motion-controlled lights. I think they switch themselves off after about 15 minutes of no motion... so about 15 minutes.
100% of donations to the givewell fund go to the charities they support. Their operations are wholly funded by dustin moskovitz. I don't think the center for EA has ever acted like money donated there was going to anything other than org building. Some people believe org building is the most effective use for their money, but for those that don't they can go to givewell.

I'm not a huge fan of the org building stuff, and I think the center for EA especially has been wasteful due to SBF abundance, so my donations go to givewell where I know exactly what I'm "buying".
Define "Successful". I bought a side project from someone else that does about 13k ARR with 90% profit. Not much but it is profitable and even though I don't do much yet on it (been about 10 months), I have plans to try and grow it next year. I already have a reasonable successful bootstrapped SAAS product that keeps me busy but that one is not a 1 person biz.
It's easy to feel dread from it. I totally resonate with that. I do think that PG's tweet there is pretty weird and disconnected from reality too. He claims that founders deserve to be rich. And his proof comes from AI making employees obsolete.

The thing I'm hoping for is that as we as a society lose the need for people to work through automation, the vast majority will begin to recognize that the top 1% of earners in fact do not inherently deserve to hoard wealth and that the only true solution to so many of society's issues is to spread the wealth by closing loopholes and upping taxes massively.

In other words, being born to the right parents with the right genes and the right social standing and being at the right place at the right time with the right product does not mean that you deserve to keep all of the value from the company you create in perpetuity. AI advancements don't mean that you have any more claim to that.

Eventually, we need to detach ourselves from money and status as a society. That is the only way we will become happy.
1250 people is a hell of a lot. Especially if they're paying SV wages that $725m is only going to last a few years. They will have looked at their growth and realised they will run out of money long before reaching profitability.
Sounds like just the sort of task to throw some machine learning at, call it BiasBot and train it on all ideological angles - no matter whether you happen to agree or disagree, the thing needs to know about all angles - and let is loose on whatever source you want to check for bias.
High income has nothing to do with class or wealth.
Shock! Horror! People who own shares in the company, have a view on what management should be doing and expressed it to them!

How dare they. :rollseyes:
you just chat with AWS AutoCode until it makes you a prototype that matches what you wanted and works - and off you go. You get some ML thing to write your SEO & marketing copy, paste it into the box

Honestly this sounds like a sci-fi object synthesizer used by a peasant to make better horseshoes. Ask (naively, just for starters) why AWS AutoBusiness can’t just parse the internet and create all services it needs without you, using direct user feedback.
I have a name for the sort of mundane-yet-employable programming tasks. "Plumbing work". You're not doing the clever problem solving that once sucked you into programming, you're welding pipes together that other people made.
>Google has a fiduciary duty to its shareholders.

"Shareholder Primacy" is the biggest most unethical scam that continues to go unchecked as though it were law, which it is most certainly not. It is an unethical and outdated relic of rapacious greed

"On August 19, 2019, 181 CEOs of America’s largest corporations overturned a 22-year-old policy statement that defined a corporation’s principal purpose as maximizing shareholder return" [1]

[1] https://purpose.businessroundtable.org/
> outright irradiate its user

E.g. Radithor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radithor
So this paragraph summarizes it:

>What was the most challenging part of this research?

>Ren: The most challenging part of this research was that when receiving the long sequences of drum beats, CyberOne needs to assign sequences to each arm and leg and generate continuous collision-free whole-body trajectories within the hardware constraints. So, we extract the basic beats and build our drum beat motion trajectory library offline by optimization. Then, CyberOne can generate continuous trajectories consistent with any drum score. This approach gives more freedom to CyberOne playing drums, and is only limited by the robotics capability.

Nice research, but I'd be more impressed with an online optimizer that only looks ahead about a dozen moves. The point of a humanoid robot is to put them in environments with uncertainty where a limited library of optimized moves won't be enough. Still, AFAICT, it's a fully closed loop from the cameras to the motors so that's nice.
Well, in purely software shops, there's often people dreaming up the 'what to do' and a different group of people actually writing the code. Same with systems design, we have 'architects.'

This should be no different for statistical modelers or other disciplines. Employers are just cheap.
The cultures at the various leading AI research organisations are wildly divergent.

Google is full of people that for a want of a better word are simply arrogant. They think that the purpose of AI is for them to show off their skills and... that's it. At best they'd use it internally for selling you more ads, they don't seem to think other people are worthy of using the output of their efforts in any shape, way, or form.

OpenAI is full of boyscouts that think that AI should be carefully censored so that it represents black, brown, asian, and white people equally. They deliberately skew the training data to enshrine wokeness into the product, while also trying to prevent anyone using their models to generate anything vaguely like porn. Basically, they're digital mormons. No fun.

Stability AI / Stable Diffusion is a bunch of people that had money thrown at them with no guard rails. Anything goes. Download our models and have fun! Make porn if you want to. Whatever.

To nobody's surprise, only the latter is of any interest or use to the general public.

The sad part is that Google had the most resources to spend on training their models, and it's the least accessible.

It's like Tony Stark inventing cold fusion energy and then using only to power his suit instead of... you know... changing the world for the better.
This is a really clear explanation of what’s happening in when someone says “it’s not thinking it’s just pattern-matching” and someone else says “well isn’t that all humans really do too?”

Rather: ChatGPT can engage in some level of System 1 thinking, by pattern-matching and even cleverly recombining the entire corpus of System 1 thinking displayed all over the internet. Humans do engage in this type of thinking and it’s a significant accomplishment for an AI. But humans also engage in System 2 thinking. My bet is AGI requires System 2. It’s not clear if that is a gap of degree or kind for this type of AI.
> "The bot is very deep on gender ideology"

Ok... Totally unbiased statement. /s
Sometimes those small town groups move together as well!

My example: Shortly after college, I moved to the city half way across the country because my high school friend lived there. And then several other of our high school friends (all from a small town) moved there with their spouses as well, and we'd all hang out and even started a company together for a while. We eventually all went our separate ways, at least as far as what states we live in. (There is still some amount of moving to be closer again going on as well. For example my ex's family and a friend from the state we moved to moved closer to her.)
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No idea why you are getting downvoted. You are correct. The white paper section 2.3. Talks exactly about that. The namespace configuration pseudo-code show exactly how this is written. Took me over a year to arrive at this conclusion.
I mean, I for one can't wait to be free of my meat prison, and a future where all of us can be sure seems nice. But we have no guarantee that all of us are going to be brought along for the ride. Who's to say that the rich (who are going to be the ones in control of who gets uploaded) won't just upload the people who can pay them and leave the rest of us behind to suffer?
Yeah, exactly "no code first", which I hadn't heard of before. Cool.
That is a silly reaction given that there are clear examples of woke shibboleths just like there are clear examples of e.g. patriot shibboleths.
Thank you for this comment, I only wish it was at a higher level up in this thread.

The number of ignorant comments in this thread is astounding. All this criticism feels like it was written by back-seat drivers who have no clue about the complexities of language design or compiler implementation.
gRPC has been a pain (customization of the generated clients, automation testing, even usual testing). I haven't heard of Ezy (used BloomRPC, insomnia, and another client, all of them were an incomplete solution). I will be sure to check Ezy next time I have to use gRPC.

Some of the features I couldnt find on the gRPC apps I tried were:
1) the ability to have complete information about the request and the response, and also I couldn't add headers to the grpc request.
2) the ability to automate (run the requests without a GUI), the way newman works for postman.

I just wish gRPC would not be used on any new projects and people would use more sensible solutions.
Nah, the Germans employed forced labor at asbestos mines during WW2. It’s so bad that they gave them respirators.

Imagine something being so toxic that you give the people you’re trying to kill respirators so they don’t die so quickly.
Fair point. Near 0%.
Ha! What happens when I post quickly from the phone. I didn't mean this to be that I thought it was the prime spreader. I thought it was a vector that could explain office and some community spread in ways that other events weren't the same.

Edit: I should say, as I realize it isn't obvious on reread. I posted this as an amusing confession. Not because I think it is a thing.
If we're being specific, they reduce transmission, they don't wholesale prevent it.

My frustration is people will look at "decreases mortality by xx%" or "decreases spread by y%" and conclude that it's not worth taking even when the risks are slim to non existent.

Hacker News is a place where we talk about billion dollar industries that are built on someone doing something 2% better than the other guy, but all that reason goes out the window when it comes to healthcare and it's killing hundreds of thousands of people.
The future is truly dark here. I've seen lots of workflows showing some truly effective ways to use AI like this, especially in data, db, programming. But the the downside, for me, is not worth any of the positives.

AI like this will become popular since it allows people to not make an effort. It is inevitable. You can already generate art/painting NOT made by someone. You can write articles, mainly using AI.

Soon, content sites will be full of articles not written by a human, but generated by human. There will be no irony, humour or clever use of words or phrases. This use of AI is an insult to the creative human mind. The AI has the potential to make people even more lazy and stupid as they start to trust the output blindly.
> There was a time when self-hosting your language made sense.

Why doesn't it now?
Ahh, ok. I was under the impression that the vaccines were to prevent a severe reaction in those at risk due to age or comorbidities, which is why some areas gave priority to the elderly.

Are there places where herd immunity was achieved due to vaccination?
Good question. We are betting that the cost per LLM inference will continue to go down for given level of performance as the market matures over the next few years.
> I’d much rather get something working and then hand it off to someone else who can refactor it for speed and clarity, and have it conform to the desired style conventions, etc. etc.

I've been on the coding end of this - when everyone actually has those fixed roles and goes into it eyes wide open, it goes pretty well! When instead the PhD is assigned to go do the feature, and then the programmer is called in later when it's not implemented well, it tends to go quite poorly and nobody is happy, as everyone's time is wasted.
> Its toxic to not want to be on zoom or have to book a meeting room to talk?

Refusing to work with people because of their office situation is toxic behavior.

How would the PM who is in remission from cancer or the engineer with a disabled child supposed to feel when someone says that they prefer to not work with them because they need to stay home?
While I am not within the 60%, I live about 80km from where I grew up (basically the same metro area), and I feel fortunate enough to not have to move very far for my career. I have only ever worked remote, and truly love where I live.

I have traveled to most US states and about a dozen countries, and wouldn't trade my home for any of them. The structural advantages (family, friends, regional knowledge, activities) are tremendous. If you are planning to have children, having parents/relatives around to share in the childcare is an enormous financial advantage.
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The odds are very good that Lars would have left regardless of how Dart was doing. He has repeatedly told me "I'm a 1.0 guy". He likes shipping new things but he's not the kind of person to spend a decade cultivating an ecosystem and refactoring mature codebases.

I'm really sorry you got burned by the early experience. It was a hard time for Dart users. It was a hard time on the team too. It felt like we were wandering in the wilderness for a while and struggling to agree on what language our users wanted us to build for them.

I think where we've landed is a much better product, but I'm sorry that our churn getting there caused you pain.
The Waze founder left a while ago.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-did-i-leave-google-stay-s...
I’ll take baffling as a compliment.

The opioid thing is relevant because lots of people I grew up with in my home city fucked up their lives, and I’d have done the same had I stayed because social networks, living in poverty, decay and hopelessness etc.

Leaving broke me out of that and gave me access to better social capital which was (perhaps an exaggeration) a difference between life and death.

YMMV but if you’ve grown up in a decaying urban area, you know what I’m talking about.
I gotta admit it's pretty eerie to read what it says once it's "tricked" into going off the rails. Hard to not get the sense that it's reined in pretty hard.

That being said, aside from the transgender stuff, I read the answers as trying to be as inoffensive as possible rather than straight up woke.
I think its ridiculous we still use binary files in native software. I want a world where the operating system stores semantically rich data (imagine if all files on your computer were JSON or something). Instead of an app "saving" by overwriting the entire file, an app could send a patch (diff) to the OS, which could store a transactional change log. Immediately we'd get faster saving, and no chance at data corruption when things get saved. And we could have optional change tracking for everything.

Then rather than loading the data from disk at startup, apps could subscribe to a change feed from the OS. I want to be able to open the same file in 2 apps. As I edit the file in one app, I should see my changes immediately appear in the other app. CLI tools like wc could update the word count of a file live, as its being edited. Compilers could consume code changes live, and update binaries based on super fine-grained incremental compilation, without needing to diff.

And this model could be extended to the cloud. Right now you can't really store a google doc on your local computer and have it sync in an intelligent way with actual google docs. And if you use Dropbox and two users edit the same file, the file ends up in an unresolvable conflict state. With this model, and using CRDTs, we could seamlessly replicate changes between devices and users. So, I could edit a file locally (on a plane), it could replicate over wifi to my phone and I can keep editing it there. And then I could share it with another user, who can see my changes, edit it with me and so on. And the same data could be exposed through a collaborative editor in the browser, or with native apps.

Thats the model I want for computers. None of this "native vs web app" distinction. Just a user's work, transparently replicated.

I'm working on building a platform for this, but I'm not ready to demo it yet.
Servers run until vendor contracts get terminated.

But actual lights? In shared office bldgs it actually depends on the renter's requests to the cleaning service. I've worked many places where the crew would turn the light on/off when entering/leaving (though would be shocked seeing me working in the dark); but I've worked a place or two where they requested all lights stay on all night, because "when mgmt shows up early in the morning they can't find the light switches next to the door" (made up quote but you get it)
It was during a pandemic and in many (all?) countries, an active health crisis which resulted in literally millions of dead (what are we at now, 6 million?). All of us had our freedoms restricted at various levels - lockdowns, travel restrictions, work rules, masks, vaccines. Some of us understood the (potential) gravity of the situation and accepted that, knowing nobody was doing it for fun. Others threw fucking tantrums and refused to follow even elementary rules. It's easy to say in retrospect that some things were unreasonable, but in the middle of a pandemic it's probably better to overreact than underreact. Failing to comprehend that, and the incapability of the smallest of gestures from so many people made me a) despair for humanity in the face of the upcoming crisis such as climate changes and the Russian invasion of Ukraine; b) have very little respect or sympathy for those people. They made the choice to ignore the majority, i make the choice to not give a shit about them or their freedoms
One could argue cocaine is less dangerous than alcohol.
>just a software provider selling you a phone running software that does something that dozens amount to state action.

>Put another way, if you invite me into your house... and I want to search your house

Say Apple did implement client-side scanning. I think you're right here that Apple's would-be actions would not amount to state action. However, we would be allowing a broad-based search of users' personal files whose results may be auto-forwarded to government agencies based on a private actor's whims.

Say there was a private militia searching people's homes, and forwarding anything too suspicious to the police. Say that the only way to buy a house (in Cupertino, or in the entire country) would be signing a deal with an HOA to allow the militia in. Or less than that, that not signing a deal would merely be arduous and subject you to penalties. At which point of annoyance you'd be de facto cancelling 4A?

So there needs to be some sort of a line, and it could be debated where to put it. In this case it seems that multiple separate people have come around to separating the local device from the cloud as a line, and this does have the advantage of being a clear line.

> they can’t sell a phone running software that does the same thing in your phone

Note that this equivalence also works against allowing this search. If Apple (and others) have a widely-accepted equivalent alternative there isn't a need to allow running the scan locally. [EDIT: They could have chosen a different method, like scanning all the files. Or at least implementing while/after doing E2E. Doing it the way they did made the approach appear like crossing a line without any benefit to anyone but Apple, leading to increased backlash.]

IANAL and all.
I enjoy Dart a lot currently, but I can only imagine it being used on the client-side for building an ui, nothing else. It even advertises itself like so.

To me (with my limited knowledge on Dart), it feels like Dart is lacking a lot if it wants to work as a systems language.
Well, despite those handicaps, I trust your risk calculus is still as valid for your situation as mine is for me. Why would you not extend the same courtesy to others? I’m reminded of a Carl Sagan quote:

> One of the great commandments of science is, “Mistrust arguments from authority.” (Scientists, being primates, and thus given to dominance hierarchies, of course do not always follow this commandment). Too many such arguments have proved too painfully wrong. Authorities must prove their contentions like everybody else.
> I believe those bombings were an attempt to put a stop to that killing

This is true American logic...
WASM is platform agnostic, so it is one of the things you start with, along with the compiler source code. It is built on a different computer before the bootstrapping process begins.
I'm responding to a Nix user making this about how Nix does timing. I'm relating it to the common thread of cargo cult'ing shared between systemd and users of Nix as desktop operating systems. They both increase the amount of config files necessary to accomplish what should be almost config-less tasks and spread those config files out across many places instead of a single config store that is for the entire OS.

It's bad policy for desktops even if it's good for you in work environments and so you use it anyway. Normalizing that is bad. I said it like a jerk though. Sorry.