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It’s totally unclear a priori that more R&D in AI is good. There is already a ton of money being poured into it. If you’re in research, it is one of the few things you can be get money for at the moment, and it’s leading to a high degree of uniformity in research output. There’s no reason to expect that “more AI” = “solution to climate change”. “Look at this cool AI stuff, please give us money to solve climate change” is faulty reasoning (but good enough to get money now, thanks to how checked out people are).

But I do agree that continuing the AI hype is the name of the game for places like OpenAI at this point, and how good ChatGPT actually is is beside the point.
> MS Word in the 90s and 00s would regularly crash and take your file with you,

It's an old joke at this point that you can tell when a person first became a serious computer user based on how frequently they save their work. My muscle memory for ctrl+s is so ingrained that I type it every minute or two in things like Google Docs that literally ignore it.
The ux you are describing is a lot worse than what people get with vlc or mplayer. For example, you can open videos from the cli, which means there is no file chooser involved. Also if you have a subtitle file (.srt) with the same name as the video you opened, the subtitles will automatically be added. Both of these are things people want as part of a versatile video player.

The level of lockdown you were describing is what we have on mobile platforms (which incidentally still have lots of malware). Generally speaking, people want more flexibility out of general purpose computers.

On the other hand something like pledge would be useful here, since the attack vector is untrusted files, not untrusted applications. With pledge, the application could open any files, then relinquish the ability to open new files before parsing the contents.
Yeah, sometimes there are literally no alternatives or no alternatives "that have it all".

Jira comes to mind as one example, where it seems almost universally hated by developers but loved by others, yet everyone (including others) complain it's slow, but damn if you cannot model near every single process in Jira if you'd like to.

Wordpress is another where performance is atrocious and security is usually lacking, but if you look for a plugin that does X, someone somewhere probably have already coded it for Wordpress.
I'm very intrigued to see what comes from the "lowering the bar" aspect of all these AI tools. Its seems to me like the ultimate no-code-for-everything tool.

On one hand, you've got flawless voice scam calls, but on the other? I can imagine a new style of fan-edit movies, but without any limitations of having to splice together film and audio from prequels/sequels/etc.

We're in for a wild ride.
People tend to see what they expect to see, and when people see things they can't identify, they tend to identify them in terms of their cultural background.

"Flying saucers" are mostly a US/UK thing (in no small part because the US military encouraged "flying saucer" speculation to cover for when people saw secret aircraft testing).

In the past, and in other cultures, such things were perceived differently. "Angels", monsters, faeries, etc. It all depends on the cultural background of the viewer.
I am curious what you mean by culture here, specific focused culture or the general culture?

I don't know much about Oracle's inner culture, but I've heard people always hated it throughout the years.
Then put out some kind of price there, so that unworthy clients know it's out of their range! Then you don't have to waste your time with them.
By 1996 people were building commercial web stores in Python. For example, see "The Real World Case Study: Python in a Commercial Environment" at https://legacy.python.org/workshops/1997-10/proceedings/stei... .
Revenue of a startup is no where close to being a reliable measure for such a small sample size. Give me any variable and I can make a similar graph to prove anything you want. Correlation != causation.
It's not worth replying. "Is this a joke?" is not asking if it's a joke. It's an worthless insult. Nothing more.
I understand his intended message, I was just being snarky, which I accept is crappy of me and against the guidelines. Just tired of the mindless xenophobia and American exceptionalism despite the US being objectively one of the most, if the the most, problematic countries on the planet.
In a world of deepfakes, the real is simply unbelievable!
Part of the rail workers' demands included safety concerns.
In the US, you generally only need to provide the ID/name of one person responsible for booking. A lot of hotels don't really even push verifying the id too hard as long as they have a credit card on file. As an American it is always jarring to me when I travel and I get my passport photocopied/details taken at a hotel. Disney might have a different policy, but hotels generally don't register children or more than one guest in my experience. Until the last few years you didn't even need ID to fly in the US

The portrait photos at the gate for finding lost kids are a great idea. But only if Disney is very clear that the portrait is only retained for the time the ticket is valid, and then deleted.

The problem is that most companies in the US basically retain the right to do whatever they want with your data even if they only plan to use it in a very limited fashion.

If only there were a law that required them to enumerate specifically how your data gets used...
I don't see many people talking about the fact that if this was anywhere close to wealthy people

They don't put wealthy neighborhoods near railroads carrying toxic chemicals. Or rarely do they. Meanwhile, lower end neighborhoods will have the train tracks and some even a garbage dump within view.
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Sundar is a great peace-time leader. He can milk and feed the cash cow Ok-ish. Sundar has never made an actual decision. He waits till a consensus forms and then takes that side. That isn’t the kind of leader you need at times of war. ChatGPT declared a war. Sundar is unfit for this duty.
Correct - there has been a total lack of coverage after the first day or two; it's completely dropped off most front pages, barely getting a blurb at this point. Far away from the header news sections/now relegated to back pages. The EPA should be providing daily updates, and the major news outlets should be syndicating these daily updates.

This is the largest land-based environmental disaster since Three Mile Island.

I just checked US News & World Report and CNN front pages - not even listed.
Ya. It’s easy to measure the contamination and the spilled products have very short half lives in the air/soil. I would probably want to monitor my well water for a little while if I were in the immediate vicinity.
Ayn Rand wrote a sci-fi/political philosophy book about this exact subject, named Atlas Shrugged.

The main character in the book is a railroad executive struggling to keep her company afloat in the face of ruinous regulations that were designed to drive the rail systems towards nationalization.

The flip side of course, that she fails to address completely in that book, is unethical behavior by private industry, such as super trains with one engineer, unsafe working conditions, etc...
Google needed nee CEO the day AWS was released. How can you invent cloud and be out-maneuvered on cloud.
People care about performance and reliability when there is more than one way to do the thing they want to do.

The slowest, most inefficient solution is (depending on the value of solving the problem) better than no solution at all.
Thank you for a great reply!
Democrats are against government regulation, they worship B. Clinton and he deregulated everything.

Both US parties, as usual, support regulation that damages the other party's prospects or damages the competitors of their own donors.
Balloon platforms for Hypersonic weapons (both monitoring and launching) have been a DoD priority recently

(before the latest "incident") https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/05/u-s-militarys-newes...
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I pretty strongly disagree with this. Rust doesn't replace all of C++; it only replaces some. Specifically, there's not a great reason to write a compiler in a language with manual memory management. HPC is also starting to move to higher level alternatives like Julia.

Also AUTOSTAR/MISRA are funny to bring up because they are desparate and only semi-successful attempts to bring a semblance of safety to fundamentally unsafe languages. You get all of the safety of them (and more) in Rust with the 2 rules of 1. don't use unsafe. 2. have tests.
https://xkcd.com/652/
Over the past 2 weeks I’ve barely used Google. I just ask ChatGPT. The results it produces are just superior to Google in every way.
> Search, their bread and butter, has been going downhill for years

As a user, yes. But based on the extra ads and garbage I suspect that profitability of search is at an all time high. So as long as search keeps “growing” then there’s an opinion that it’s a success. I think that’s dangerous for long term thinking and will lead to Google’s demise (see IBM, AT&T, Comcast, etc) that were profitable with horrible UX, until they weren’t profitable.
Did Pichai make his name first in Google by being an excellent PM of Chrome? I wonder why he stopped being a product guy after becoming a CEO. It looks to me that the CEOs of mega successful tech companies are mostly "super PMs". Larry Page, Bezos, Jobs, Nadella (arguably, but his strategy has been cloud and super bundling, which has been very successful), and Musk. I can hardly see what Google's product strategy is. AI for everything certainly is not a product statement.
That doesn't seem like a healthy standard b/c it grounds decision making in appearances rather than principles and prudential judgements. Certainly, such feedback or opinions can be worth considering as a way of getting at what principles are being violated and deciding whether these violations are tolerable or what ought to be done about them. A fresh pair of eyes could help. But an untrained pair of eyes might also not be qualified to discern the right course of action.
> This train was sitting in a pile for more than a week and no one cared.

No one cared because it wasn't reported in the media, even today it barely is. I've seen locals talk about it since day 1 on reddit and twitter. The fact that it didn't make much noise in the media until now is a good indicator of authorities trying to minimise the issue.
Reddit has lots of them. Not sure why google can’t pick them up. YouTube also has specific reviews on anything you might want. Considering google owns YouTube, it’s strange that these results don’t bubble to the top.
This is a big term in aviation, because in most cases in order for something catastrophic to happen it requires a lot of things to have failed. And one way to ensure that enough things fail is to start deviating from your maintenance, inspections, or general responsibilities. Related: the swiss cheese models.
Yeah, that's why I said increase gradually.

Surely you don't expect to have enough energy production tomorrow to cover all 240M owners?

We can get there in 12 years + the 10-15 after that'll clear out all the ICE vehicles to cover all 240M.
I think you nailed it! I think there is a bit of cognitive dissonance here because a lot of the workforce at Google (and indeed at other FAANGs) are people who have worked their entire careers at Google or similar companies and now their endless summer is coming to an end. Kids that went from college to free food, latte bars, arcade rooms, 20% own projects and such are now waking up to a new reality of their first real down cycle. Profits are down or at least not growing, and they have become sacrificial lambs at the altar of capitalism, where you are measured against the value you produce, not the coolness of your projects. So it goes.
It's not (1) "reacting to the reaction" which is the endpoint but (2) not having that reaction. If (1) is important it as because that is the path to (2).

I'd say a company that has accomplished (2) has cut the workload in hiring employees by 30-50% in the sense that every employee who has reaction (1) either internally or externally is at risk for being disengaged or leaving soon. Not only that but you are probably wasting your dev's time and could get dramatically more productivity out of them if you aren't WTFing them to death.
But for premium collector item they certainly cheaped out on components; crappy low-res lcd and not particularly impressive dacs do not evoke premium feel.
Evidence:

1. One balloon with something attached to it

2. In American airspace

3. The US government, that has a long, rich history of lying, said some things

We have nothing else to go off of. We have no reason to trust statements by the US government of these situations.
What's the PPD required for a "Retina" display (one at which individual pixels are no longer distinguishable)? Is that 62 or some other value?
I'm going to pre-emptively link Casey Muratori's Refterm Lecture Part 1[0], because invariably when this topic comes up people are all "but optimization takes time and we gotta push the new features right now or the market will eat us."

Computers are so ludicrously fast these days that in the majority of cases you do not need optimization at all. You do need de-pessimization though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgoetgxecw8
"I've been seeing content on Tiktok where even 100 miles away they're seeing small dead fish which is apparently according to the folks making the videos a massive red flag."

I wouldn't bother watching a Tiktok video unless the video maker is an environmental professional. Otherwise this is just the blind leading the blind.

Here's a legal definition of environmental professional used by developers when they do a environmental assessment, from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_I_environmental_site_ass...:

Someone with:

a current Professional Engineer's or Professional Geologist's license or registration from a state or U.S. territory with 3 years equivalent full-time experience;

or

a Baccalaureate or higher degree from an accredited institution of higher education in a discipline of engineering or science and 5 years equivalent full-time experience;

or

have the equivalent of 10 years full-time experience.
I agree that peace would be ideal, but that's not how things have played out historically. The pattern thus far in human history has been:

1) Group of people gain a technological advantage

2) Said group of people use the technological advantage to kill or subjugate others.

The right strategy is probably to hope for the best and plan for the worst.
So what race do you think is appropriate? Only white males as they’re least shackled by society?
This happens every day around every fracking site on a smaller scale but add them all up and it's even bigger than the train.

Oddly no-one seems to care about that.

If the train was carrying gasoline would people say "oh well what can you do, we need gas"
Both are valid phrases, and both can be true, even at the same time.
hell hath no fury...
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> what you're writing doesn't even have to have any fact, it can be all opinion, and in most cases this can afford you even more leeway to be inflammatory.

Sounds like it could be automated pretty well with ChatGPT.
Just like 911's ground zero was safe ;) nothing to see, move along, uh what cancers are you talking about ?? you must be imagining it
I agree with you. It's not harmless. When I was a kid, I'd tuck a small FM radio under my pillow and secretly listen to Coast-to-Coast with Art Bell when I was supposed to be sleeping. The stories about aliens, immortals, bigfoot, the Philadelphia Experiment, and holes to hell were mysterious, intriguing, exciting. I grew out of that and looked back on it as "harmless fun", like telling ghost stories around a campfire.

I've changed my tune in recent years, seeing how destructive these conspiracies can be to society as a whole. Any single one conspiracy or ghost story isn't so bad, but they compound and result in a dysfunctional society less capable of digesting fact and thinking critically about nuanced topics.

(In retrospect, I now recognize Art Bell himself never took it seriously and considered it Entertainment, almost satire, like the World Weekly News. But many people didn't pick up on that and did take it seriously...)
The only method I somewhat trust is taking a screenshot of the thing I want to strip the metadata from
The AI is playing it cool and following its humans... until we arm it and its brethren. Then it's SkyNet time.
Yes, I think you could catch the error with window.onerror or script.onerror and in this handler, get the content with script.textContent or script.innerHTML.

(where script is the javascript variable that corresponds to the javascript script tag, possibly initialized with script = document.createElement('script'))
I've had a hard time finding any information about the geography of impacted areas (air and water) other than sporadic reports on water testing.
There's often a wise tradeoff between criticizing systems you've just seen after being at the company 5 minutes and actually spending some time at the company to learn the historical context of why the thing you think is insane/shit is insane/shit before telling everyone who built it how insane/shit it is.

People generally don't wake up in the morning and go into work motivated to make insane/shit things - context, tech debt and business realities all mount up and even the best of us can end up making choices that in isolation look crazy.

There are of course companies who are really bad and you may well be right, but so many times I have seen in my career a young new hire storm in and think everything is shit without paying heed to the context and historical pressures. The best thing you can do in many cases is spend the first ~six months at a new tech company trying to understand that context, and indeed I think more mature engineers generally do.
Yeah I don’t think we disagree. I think he should abandon the project, and should have a long time ago.
Nope. I am somewhat in disbelief about the level people here downgrade the recent Bing upgrade. The chatbot feature is a such a time saver for jobs where you need to write tons of abstract surface-level content. Just yesterday, I tried compiling a monthly teachers working plan for some local school in Ukrainian language. What it spawned in a minute was at least a day of typing work for a human. This is especially useful when you don’t know the formal language. And the quality of this was good enough for bootstrapping.
I concur! The MS-Teams UI designers must have been on an illicit substance. Or else they let a bunch of PHB's (MBA's) do a big Design By Committee. If it were not for bundling deals, nobody would touch Teams with a 10 foot laptop. And obvious features are missing. Somebody deserves a big public firing.

Our most popular Teams sub-site is "How To Work Around Teams Oddities". I don't even know if they are "bugs" because I don't know what the fudge MS intended.
The problem is, how do you navigate a tractor around the panels? Animals are a much better fit in that regard
Fair point, I never worried about it to be honest.
> Just tired of the mindless xenophobia and American exceptionalism

The BBC is not American, though?
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It defies belief. Secrets can be kept for a long time, but how long is inversely proportional to how many people know the secret and how earthshaking the secret is. Look at it this way -- the US couldn't even keep the development of the atomic bomb a secret.

The Earth might be getting visited by aliens -- I mean, it's technically possible -- but it's even less likely that it could be kept a secret by the government if the government were aware.
Must post about this topic: https://www.stopkillerrobots.org/
I take it that nobody is thinking sabotage?
Thanks for the recommendation, I'll try :)
Same. I remember actually using “I’m feeling lucky” but now would only do that for some ironic chuckles.
even today, the most supported linux built laptops have the same issues from 20 years ago.

i don't know what the root cause is. it's most likely that linux isn't keeping up with the latest chips. maybe they need to cobble up parts from 5 years ago that do have linux support and release that. at least it would work.
I don't think it's the problem with lack of innovation. Google has innovated in a lot of areas - Transformers (the foundation for ChatGPT), Stadia, Project Starline, and some the public may not have heard of yet.

The problem lies with translating that innovation to long term product vision, and reimagining how these innovations could be made into a product.

I suspect that they announce it to fast too, too soon - before it's proven. Stadia and LaMDA is an example of this. They actually showcased LaMDA last year or the year before that in I/O. The other is that they give up on innovations too soon because they can't think of ways to monetize them.
No need for a conspiracy when the spy balloons (Jan 28th) and Turkish earthquake (Jan 6) happened concurrently (Feb 3 initial derailment, Feb 6 for giant black smoke from controlled release).
I also hate the word grit, it gets tossed around too much in entrepreneur spaces, but thanks for the insight!
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Now this is an application of AI that I can get behind!
the concepts we develop through sensory-motor interaction with our environment structure our perception so-as-to-present a certain "level of abstraction" over the environment

But just as `sum([2, 4, 6])` presents `12`, it does so via directly summating `2`, `4`, `6`.

That our perception is aggregating and abstracting does not mean that it isnt caused directly by those things which it aggregates and abstracts.

Here, "seeing" is the `sum`, `[2, 4, 6]` are the atoms, and `12` is the perception.

A case in point: a frog can detect a single photo. Is there any sense here in which a frog's qualitative sensation of a "flicker" is not directly caused by a photon?

And likewise, that redness of the apple is just an abstract presentation of photons of light scattering of the atoms of its surface. The causal chain here is direct.

Light does not "go via" purgatory first, we see, directly, the objects of the world.
He never led chrome creation. He was a random PM. By the time he rose in the ranks, chrome already existed.
I think the issue is people using it when they’re too lazy to fix the test case.
> Show him out and get a Nadella

Better yet, break it up. It's clear a behemoth is no longer in shareholders' interest.
Make sure you don't care about the time and location of the screenshot and possibly the user name being leaked if you are not careful :-)
> did you know trains can be run by a single person and the government has no issue with that?

So, let's add additional regulation and oversight. Let's just make sure we vote in people who want to add additional regulation and oversight. I'm sure American's vote this way... next time.
I don't think he is an innovator, but he definitely has a better vision than Sundar. All of Microsoft's acquisitions (LinkedIn, GitHub, Mojang) so far were well executed and leveraged properly to help tie together the company's offering.

On top of that you have the Microsoft Loves Linux initiative which saw them finally stop pushing their shitty OS everywhere and embrace being a cloud provider which was a smart move.

All of that not to say that he's some. kind of god-tier CEO, but he definitely is above-average and above Sundar Pichai who got the CEO role at about the same time (2015) but saw no such "good business move" in the same timespan. He's been mostly content milking the ads revenue.
Lua originated in 1993 and ran anywhere C would.

Unfortunately it still lacks meaningful marketshare though.