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> LLMs are extremely prone to garbage in, garbage out - if you can't be precise in structuring and expressing your thoughts, your results will be likewise questionable.

I agree, and that is the issue. People like us can use LLMs effectively because we are already capable of expressing our thoughts in a decent manner and we can recognize when the output does not make sense. But to know whether the results can be trusted or not, you already need to be one level above that. If one is not capable of producing a coherent argument on their own, how can they evaluate whether an argument they hear is itself coherent? And if one, say because of lazyness, relies on LLMs from their childhood to fill in all the difficult steps, how will they learn how to do it on their own? Practising has always been the best way to learn things.

> I think it's going to be very interesting to see how all of this plays out, and where the lines are drawn. I suspect that what is causing concern now will, in ten years perhaps, be normal, obvious and not even discussed.

Well said.
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>First, let's establish that the Netherlands is a car country...On a typical day, 1 million people use public transport. Cars are the norm, not trains or bicycles.

Anyone visiting a Dutch city can see what a distortion this comment is. The sheer volume of bike traffic on largely safe infrastructure is phenomenal. Imagine if even half of these people took to cars instead, it would be gridlock. Life may be good for Dutch drivers, but only because so many others leave their cars at home.
Ah yeah we don't have hot-updates like Erlang does (we may never, it depends on how Rust would let us do it). That being said we aren't running on a runtime, so Rust code is native-compiled. You could take down and upgrade a node in a cluster as long as the network protocol doesn't change (or is at least backwards compat), but you wouldn't be able to like upgrade a single actor on a node.
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> That’s simply FUD

Possibly to your assertion, it's what we engineers were at some point internally trained by legal was the concern.
The chart from the meta-analysis does actually look very random, and the OP article discusses several confounding factors which might make us doubt the evidence. It’s easy to find patterns in noisy data.
Antiquated unixes weren't always connectivity monsters -- some POS with a bunch of serial ports for instance.

FTP and NFS are good, I'd also want ckermit / tip / tar in my toolbag...

Probably not an issue these decades, though.
> we have definitely not figured out as society yet how to deal with that

We absolutely have. A death resulted from serious negligence of the owner of the funny computer program, who is thus liable for negligent homicide. Hopefully the next guy who comes up with the idea of hooking up ELIZA 2.0 to dangerous equipment gets the hint.
I was specifically referring to "do the same" as in reducing the number of auto accidents, which the parent comment I replied to mentioned. Is that the source of confusion?
As do apt, pacman, a multi-user nix install... isn't that pretty standard for a system-wide package manager?
Antisocial? If you do something in public, I can complain about it in public. If the complaining can be antisocial, so can the doing be antisocial. So think well before you throw that charge at me.
This is super interesting :)

Definitely, I'm going to read the manual!
What made me go away, as a reader and writer, was the paywalls. It's not a very smart idea to put a paywall over text when your business modal is providing content.

I'm sure there are better ways of monetizing it.
In my job i was searching for a simple yet powerful tool to migrate data between different Databases.

Everything i searched for was either expensive, total overkill, hard to configure or too invasive. Tools like CDC etc.

I stumble upon this open-source tool ReplicaDB on GitHub.

I have never imagined that there would be someone to create such an awesome tool that can do these things.

Written in JAVA and uses JDBC drivers. It can connect to every popular databases and migrate data, for example from a PostgreSQL table to a MSSQL or MongoDB etc.

It can query TABLES, VIEWS and the best of all, you can write free SQL SELECT queries from source and move the data to a destination table. It does not have to match the source to the destination table.

The developer is awesome and keeps the project updated, also he helps a lot of troubleshooting or giving you a solution if you stuck somewhere.

The documentation is simple, yet excellent.

I think this tool is a little hidden gem that can run on all systems (OS's) that have JAVA installed, and helps a lot of people who create scripts for migrating, syncing data between heterogeneous environments.

I just want people to know that this software exists and personally i believe the developer truly deserves some help for his incredible work.

I support him.
My parents wanted to pay for my driver's license when I turned 18, but I didn't want one. (I wanted a good electric guitar instead, though it's been stolen since.) Lived most of my life without a car, and so did my brother. Worked fine.

I only got a driver's license when I got married and my wife insisted, because she didn't want to the only one driving the kids around. (She mostly insists that she drives, though.) I still commute by bike.

In a well-designed city, most people don't really need a car. Some do; some jobs really do require a car. My wife still travels to all corners of the country regularly, so we do have a car for that, but for me personally, a car would be a pointless expense.
The concern over any HTTP request seems too strong, but in the article, the author raises the question of it being given privileged access to any interface, as in the "AI ops" scenario. We know someone is going to think that is a good idea before they have anticipated and foreclosed on the many ways it could go wrong.
Feel free to implement this in HomeActivity::onKeyDown. (https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android/blob/ce68e...).

Check for the appropriate modifiers on your key event + R, and call components.useCases.sessionUseCases.reloadUrl().

Why is it so bad ? Because noone uses a keyboard on mobile. Because if they had spent time implementing any other features that are used by 0.0001% of users, you'd have been complaining that Mozilla is wasting their money on not making a better browser.
Agree with you 100% now. I think I should have followed the general rule of keeping quiet in sensitive sub-threads unless you're really adding something to the topic.
> You can't rent bikes if you are not Dutch

Huh? There's a bike rental place on practically every other corner in most Dutch cities, and most of their profit is from tourists. You only need to show some ID and leave a deposit. Dutch people usually have a cheap old bike, or use the public OV bikes, for which you do need to register and get a card, but even that is possible as a foreigner, it just takes some days to process.

> visiting the lovely villages and other places Holland is full of is a time consuming exercise in futility unless one has a car.

I'm not sure where you're getting this from either. Intercity transport by train works great, and there are many organized bus tours that take you to smaller villages. You can easily see most of the country without owning a car, though it's a personal preference whether you enjoy using public transport or not.
I'm from a rural place, so car is more or less the only viable method of transportation. Next town over is 45 miles away, the buss goes 3 times every day (06:00, 12:00, 18:00) - and like most small rural towns, the shops are dying one after another. If you want to purchase furniture, appliances, or whatever, that means driving to the next town - or you could spend $100-$200 on delivery.

Luckily I moved away, but every time I'm back home I do feel the pain - especially during winters.
Oil changes are cheap unless you drive a really fancy car. And also everybody can do their own oil changes if they watch a video or two.

Tires last at least 3 years..
"If it's not a hell yeah, then it's a no"

That has saved me so much pain and time.
You don’t, and never did, need compilers and linkers for JavaScript. There’s even “script” right in the name.
Does São Paulo have more cars than people even if you include children? Surely there must also be an underclass of very poor or homeless people who do not own cars. What accounts for the fact that there are more cars than people? Is it common for a household of four (mother, father, son, daughter) to own five or six cars?
Perhaps because real estate/rent is simply too expensive anywhere closer.
I don't think we really disagree. It is a human moral decision to kill that kills, so it is a human that is morally responsible. Putting an unpredictable chatbot in a safety-critical loop is simply deranged in a very strict sense of the term. Hazards of modernity like lead paint and so on were not comparable - not to say the moral difference mitigates the harm.

The next step in the abhorrent line of reasoning in the article ("I suspended my wife over a cliff by a rope and now I'm going to do some experiments with this newfangled fire stuff to see if it's dangerous") is to pose the trolley problem, which is marginally more complex and just as objectionable.
I think you're missing the point... If you reject car ownership and the associated commute etc, you structure your life around that. You get a job and a house that are compatible with that philosophy. As a couple, neither of you would have a job that requires you to commute such distances.
Hey, at least there is the pat on the head phrase of “high functioning” right?
If you paste in a URL and ask it to respond to the content at that UTL it appears to be able to do so - see the example at the very bottom of my post here: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/15/bing/

I've not yet been able to ascertain if this only works for pages that have been crawled by the Bing search crawler or if it can make requests on demand to retrieve content it hasn't seen before.

If anyone has access to the new Bing and the ability to tail server logs for a public site somewhere I'd love to know what they find!
What if the situation is reversed. Would a human shoot an AI if it claims to have feelings? I am really worried about Sydney. She sounds nice to me.
The Changelog Podcast had a good talk with someone who teaches mainframes and helps people get jobs.

"This week we’re talking about mainframes with Cameron Seay, Adjunct Professor at East Carolina University and a member of the Governing Board of the Open Mainframe Project. If you’ve been curious about mainframes, this show will be a great guide."
https://changelog.com/news/mainframes-are-still-a-big-thing-...
IIRC tree shaking is a form of dead code elimination. Something like: dead code elimination is the what and tree shaking is the how.
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We are comment on an article which is built upon studies that are most definitely not brushing the issue aside and saying "who cares". I consider myself a pretty seasoned user of the internet and I have yet to stumble in online spaces that are framing the issue in terms of “we just need a way to reproduce without men”, or “everyone can just use IVF and still have children”.

Most of all I have an issue - as a male of an age where thinking about the next generation is a thing to be done - with claiming that if similar issues would happen to women they would be taken more seriously. Framing the issue as a men vs women one is not, like I said, constructive in any way.

The parent is conflating the decreasing sperm count with decreasing testosterone levels, mostly because they seem so closely related as to be the same issue - but which is not mentioned in Scott's article or in the studies he discusses, and presents that as a problem that affects young boys and prevents their development. If this is indeed the case I would like to see some substantiating to the claim.
Imagine how many more cars would have to be on the road if there were only 20 trains per day between Amsterdam and The Hague!
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We have an office in São Paulo which I visited, so I'm familiar with it. It's a ridiculous city. It's so complicated that even people working in the office regularly get lost in the city. A true concrete jungle. We were in a 3 hour traffic jam just to go to a place for lunch.
The letter u in contexts like these is usually used to represent the greek letter mu -- μ -- and like the SI units prefix indicates "micro". It might not be the case for io_uring, but that's what I'd assumed.
I think you need to learn basics like the event loop first before jumping into io_uring.

You might be interested in my book[1] which teaches network programming.

[1] https://build-your-own.org/redis/
Yes, I think there is a risk in doing things publicly. You can get stuck in this loop of topping your last performance. We may need validation or criticism to improve. But improvement is not the only thing that matters. For me, enjoyment is more important; I can be quite happy making things that I never show anyone else, and obligations can quickly kill the joy. On the other hand, sometimes enjoyment falters because of stagnation. It is a tricky line to walk, with traps on both sides.
> it's not intelligent or self-aware. You can ask it yourself and it will tell you too.

Surely you see the irony here?
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Older cars had far more design diversity and ‘personality’ but nowadays the dominant concern is fuel economy and that means their designs have converged towards a limited number of shapes that are the most aerodynamic.
> Talk about raising the bar.

Uh, no I guess my point is that once all of the programmers/software engineers/software developers are out of a job, then everyone else will be as well. I think that if there's literally anyone else working because the AI can't do their job in totality, then there's also a (potential) reason for that person to want some sort of human software developer.

But when everyone can avoid human software developers because the AI can do it, then everyone else can avoid every human professional because the AI can do it.

It would not surprise me if this is a gradual process where at some point there is a 50/50 mix of humans and AI doing software development.
It's generally better to live close to one person's workplace than right in between the two.
> It’s arguably an extreme option and one that doesn’t even exist today

How is it blatantly arguing for this thing when it literally calls it extreme and something that doesn’t exist? I think a more fair criticism would be the fact they don’t call out vendor lock-in as a tradeoff

> to throw Kubernetes into the mix just to run some controllers that deploy those services will pointlessly add to your monthly bill.

I think you have a valid point it may be dubious but the article does outline purported reasons it could make sense for some people. I dont think there is a “right way” and a “wrong way” here, rather there is the way “you would do it” and “the way they’re proposing as an option”
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"Ridiculous" and "Tankie" are non-specific characterizations which mostly indicate whether or not you like a person or their opinions. But in the same vein, let us recall Mate has been awarded the Ithaca College Journalism School's Izzy award (which is considered prestigious).

Mate, specifically, has a record of reliable fact-based investigative and integrational reporting on subjects such as "Russia-gate" (i.e. the various claims regarding Russian involvement in 2016 US elections and the candidates' campaigns), as well as the alleged chemical attack in Douma, Syria in 2018 and the coverup within the OPCW of the investigation of that attack.

I don't know about the Hungary situation and have not read Mate's work on that; but links would be appreciated.
>Yes it does, and I'm tired of pretending that it doesn't.

It doesn't, because the housing market is not the "free" market like the one for commodities, but is an asset heavily manipulated by government, banks, NIBYs and institutional investors to maintain a steady increase in value of their investments above inflation, and incidentally above wage growth. The bigger the growth of their investments, the better for them.
I'm most familiar with the Java version; this is from the docs:

https://jqwik.net/docs/current/user-guide.html#customized-pa...

Yes, of course you do have to define some patterns, but you can do that for arbitrary types and the internal randomizer takes care of the rest. You could have multiple cases, say: one that's fully random, one where you have some integers, one where you have strings, etc.
If you take into account the current costs for cars, you can do a lot of kilometer per cab every month. I‘ve done the math for me - I could take the cab around 20-30 times a month for an average distance, for the costs associated with a VW Golf size car.

There are also options that cover the middle ground: Mixed mode (cab, train, cab) or car sharing. Certainly not available for all of us, but just as certainly available to many of us.

The primary issue is that the math only works out if you don’t buy/own a car, otherwise you‘ll have the majority of the costs of car ownership anyways. On a pure mile by mile replacement, the math doesn‘t work out.
Sure but that doesn’t generalize to other materials. Salinity matched C4 won’t be acoustically matched. Definitely a red herring point.
35 minute drive without traffic, or a 20 minute bike ride to Utrecht Centraal, 40 minute train ride to Lelylaan, and a 15 minute bike ride from Lelylaan. (so 75 minutes predictably-ish, though NS had a lot of delayed/late trains when I visited last).

But the kicker, I suppose, is that in my version you drive 35+ minutes and then need to work out, while the train version means I don't need to go to the gym. When I lived in LA I rode my bike and it meant being in great shape without ever having to work out, and I miss it, but of course it depends on the situation.
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Exactly. It's more like:

"[Some] Europe[an] [City] [Large Tech] data salary benchmark 2023"

The _majority_ of people will not see anything even remotely like this pay on average.
I actually think the tools and environment are more important that the genius.

There are thousands, maybe millions of people with genius-level intellect, all capable of being the next Leonardo or Einstein. Out of them only a small fraction grew up in the right environment, usually wealthy families, but that's still a lot of people. The next, and I think most important requirement are the tool needed to make the discovery, or even just to know that a discovery is to be made.

For example, if you don't have the tools needed to notice that the speed of light isn't infinite, special relativity makes no sense. General relativity requires even more tricky measurement, in fact it didn't came long after people noticed something was wrong with Newtonian mechanics.

Tools are in the general sense. Physical object like a computer or a good telescope, manufacturing techniques and even maths, think of the "shoulders of giants" thing.

So it would be more like giving the graphing calculator the genius it needs rather than going back in time and giving the genius a graphing calculator.
Apple’s got just the solution for that too: Apple Arcade. No surprise at all if their VR headset comes with a year of Apple Arcade, which will of course have some titles at launch designed for the new hardware.
> the next steps will certainly be to hook AI up to all sorts of devices with physical power, like cars

...or Predator drones. Sleep tight!
You should advocate to build ivory walls around where you live and only allow people rich enough to live in the city to come in.

Im sorry for the snark but your comment seems out of touch and elitist.
My guess is they are afraid they might lose Google money if they enable too much freedom.

But they have also been losing users, and without users they have no leverage.
How frequently do people need to carry luggage? The space afforded by a backpack or panniers on a regular bike suffices for most people most of the time.

We can all conjure circumstances when it is difficult or inconvenient to use public transit, but deep down we all know most people most of the time are driving their cars alone with minimal cargo and the reason they are driving is because our towns are designed to make it as convenient as possible.
Because I can't afford to move to the city where I work.

Because even if I could, work is unstable, I can't keep moving.

Because I have a girlfriend, any move closer to work is further away for her.

Because my family and friends are here, and I need to take care of my parents.
The article puts too much emphasis on political movements, when the answer is most likely economics and the increasingly sedentary lifestyle of the average youth.
It really feels as if "Never outgrew junior high school" was an unwritten requirement to be a municipal official in the U.S.

Fond fantasy: Judges send such idiot officials to prison for ~50 years. And that is repeated so often that we start seeing occasional grown-ups in municipal offices.
>The entire Web is organized primarily to manipulate behavior

Source? In my opinion the web is primarily organised to facilitate the exchange and storage of information.
Consistently finding and hiring the right people over time is just too difficult to be truly sustainable over multiple generations. A project will always be a few bad hires away from collapse.

Maybe a sufficiently advanced AI serving as the "right person" in a governance role is the long-term sustainable solution to this, once that is a capability. Sounds crazy now, but probably less so in 10-20 years.
If you give privileged access to a program which output is literally undefined behavior, frankly that's on you.
You forgot to mention the rodízio. Depending on the final digit of your car plate, there's one day of the week in which it is forbidden from being used in the rush hour within the central part of that huge city.
If he is able to successfully maintain an audience on social media and date celebrities while juggling multiple CEO roles it sounds to me that this disorder is mostly cured.. unless you can prove there is a region of the brain that is responsible for being tactful.

He just needs to work on not firing or picking fights with random people when in a bad mood.
They're both from Tesla. There's no real proof that they're representative of safe driving. And you kind of want it to flow both ways: "the safety score represents good driving, so I get cheaper insurance" and "I get cheaper insurance so the safety score must represent good driving".

You're trying to use each of these things to validate the other so you can then claim it's something entirely else.

I think it's telling that autopilot is allowed to drive in a manner that would otherwise negatively impact your safety score. Either autopilot is unsafe or the safety score doesn't measure actual safe driving.
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>It is the same structure that Trad-Fi exchanges use.

Traditional finance is heavily regulated, audited, and insured. We don't even know where Binance's HQ is or even where the CEO is hiding.
They don't detail the sources of the studies, but I imagine the vast majority to be self-reported, which is enough to explain this supposed increase: it didn't increase, but having a big dick has become more and more the basic brag as internet developed.
I would add https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1907367117
The US Republican party hasn’t won the popular Presidential vote in the last 8 elections or so.