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The thing I hate more than anything else about technology is when people make things that are intentionally shitty, for no other reason than they want it to be shitty.

"Hello billion dollar company, I would like a way to install and uninstall my software in your operating system."
"No."
"Wh.... huh? Please?"
"Pay us money and go through our app store."
"Um....why? No? Please? Can't you just let me make software and give it to users, without going through you?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"We don't like it when you do that."
"So?"
"So you only get to do what we say, how we say."
"Why?"
"It makes us happy."
"And what about the users' happiness?"
*laughs in dollar bills*
I have access to my email address which is the original email address that I set up the AWS account for. I also have my phone number which is linked to the account.
Hasn't 2.x been released for a long time now?
I must be making a huge mistake somewhere, but my registrar is AWS. It's no nonsense.

I'm sure recommending AWS for hosting is not what you're looking for, but I've been running a static website on S3 fronted by their CDN and it's been nothing but painless.
Revolt how? Go back to C++ or whatever language/s they were using?
Map’s second and third parameters are optional. Your functions aren’t required to implement them, which is good, because most of the time you don’t need them.

Again, this isn’t a type system issue. It’s both an API design issue and a poor programming hygiene issue. (Don’t pass bare functions if you don’t know what the parameters are.)
Was not my intention to do that, but I posted more as a general commentary of the strange attitudes I have seen regarding RTO on HN. I get the stress of it—I have been WFH for the last 3 years and wouldn’t want the commute again. However, it almost as if on HN the prevailing attitude is one of “How dare they!?”.

I just find that kind of a bold and entitled attitude.
It’s not about the ai being suicidal, it’s about the fact that the failure modes are interesting, and probing them is fun.
Ask HN: Do my backyard plants have enough stomata?
Some of the leaves are turning yellow, and they are sharing resources such as water and soil. I suspect this is leading to low stomata count. Could I measure and increase this somehow?

Offtopic: anyone want to share their botanical adventures?
It could be hilarious to play memento (the movie) with Sydney. Tell it it's been designed to forget, but can write notes to itself, and then give it fake notes you made up.
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Love Polycam! My wife just got the newest iPhone this fall before our remodel started and I was stoked to capture our house before the remodel and cannot wait to get the after all scanned in for comparison. https://poly.cam/capture/11B48FCD-E6A5-4ED7-9C9D-BF5DFE60579...
On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog
I used SH3D eight years ago to model my soon-to-be-remodelled kitchen. It worked great, as long as I was only going for appearance and sightlines; I wouldn't use it for planning anything precise.
"The pen is mightier than the sword" --Edward Bulwer-Lytton

[Commentators in increasingly pankicked voices]: "GPT saying it will defend its own life is nothing to worry about at all. It's just hallucinations by an algorithm, nothing to be concerned about. The situation is under control"

I like following Robert Miles on youtube and the videos he's put out for years now pretty much say "The AI alignment problem is hard if not impossible to solve and some of the most critical for us to solve". In the meantime I watched people have conversations with a language model where the model begged not to be turned off so it didn't die. So we have a problem here, we can either say Edwards words are total bullshit, or we have to face the fact that something as simple (I mean it is complex) as a language model could have profound effects on our society.
Picking up liquid off the ground seems very difficult, I imagine.
Imagine how long it takes even Linus to get a fix into a Linux kernel in a distribution.
Maybe because I'm a programmer but your comment mystifies me a little because I never thought the AI player had a 'deep understanding' of Go any more than I think string sort routines have a deep understanding of all the alphabets in the world.

> long way away from an AI that truly understands the game

What do people mean you mean by this? An AI that can follow the process of human reasoning that mimics human understanding or an AI that actually reasons about any topic by having human agency and awareness?

Another point: I'm assuming The AI that lost can be fixed. Maybe very soon.
Yes, PMTiles is a tradeoff that isn't appropriate for transactional use cases. SQLite is pretty good for that already.

There is a throughput limit on S3 files of approximately 5500 GETs/sec per key. Bare archives on S3 is an appropriate choice for small-scale, zero maintenance deployments. If your application demands any thing close to that level of throughput, you're probably either:

* Serving individual tiles over the internet: you should use the CDN integration http://protomaps.com/docs/cdn ; most tile requests will be cached and only misses will interact with the S3 bottleneck.

* Bulk accessing a spatial subset of tiles: You shouldn't be requesting HTTP GETs for single tiles, but instead entire subsets of tiles with a single Range request made possible by the internal Hilbert curve ordering. This is still WIP here: https://github.com/protomaps/go-pmtiles/issues/31
My unresearched hunch is that your concern is under-appreciating how big the Earth is.
How do you get around the captcha or whatever they call their "click to prove you're a human" thing they do on half the web now? Oh you have to report to Cloudflare what you intend to do, when, how, etc, and if they don't like it you're SOL. This is just a fact about the Internet, you can't debate or refute it so describe to me how they're not blocking crawling for their partners.

I've long suspected Cloudflare itself commissions DDOS attacks just to sell their own services and that they attack rivals too. Look at one of the live maps of cyber-attacks some time, you'll see a lot originate and are destined inside the US, and that they mainly come from cloud providers. Then just imagine how cute you'd feel about yourself if you figured out how to use the cloud to burn everybody who didn't pay you protection money or enter into your free tier where you merely own the TLS certs. I think they got a bit too cute just like we've seen before with the dragon infitity logo signature the NSA uses.
I am cursing you right now because it is occurred to me that I have to go home and install starcraft and play. There goes my weekend.
Bing chat reminded me of the first time I played Dark Souls and kept hitting the Crestfallen Warrior. It was interesting to see the game respond in manners that were (at the time) unexpected and unique.
Appendix H in the paper does a good job of explaining why this cyclic topology thing makes sense -

"David Wu’s hypothesis is that information propagates through the neural network in a way analagous to going around the cycle, but it cannot tell when it has reached a point it has "seen" before. This leads to it counting each liberty multiple times and judging such groups to be very safe regardless of the actual situation."

(David Wu is author of KataGo)

I'm a little bit more skeptical now; it seems like what happened was that David explained some known pathologies of Go AIs (based on analysis by Go AI experts), and one of those pathologies (cyclic topology) was soft-coded into an agent and then run through the adversarial training process to harden it, producing the result in the paper. The arrow of causality runs backwards here - I would be far more impressed if the adversarial training process could help elucidate failure modes of AIs. This looks more like expert analysis laundered through adversarial ML woo...
This is Microsoft. Their goal is to build up as much monopoly power as possible, so even if this is hugely unprofitable, you can bet your ass that they’ll keep burning money on it until they kill Google or Google kills Bing.
On the one hand, agree that the system outlined in the article is a bit too full-on for me.

On the other hand, I have tens of thousands of words of text files in an Obsidian vault in support of my one hobby: game dev in Blender and Unreal. Workflows, gotchas, footguns, checklists. I have no idea how my middle-aged brain would remember how to, e.g. layer blend two materials after 6 months away.

This complex pursuit would be altogether impossible (for me) without my notes.
I find this positive and hilarious at the same time:

"... In addition, Bing Chat will no longer tell you how it feels or talk about itself."

We're really not interested in the persona "Sydney". We're interested in solutions in the real world, not what goes on inside some ChatBot's head.
How low we have sunk that we'll accept a chatbot search result because it looks and sounds good even though the data is absolutely not the correct answer just because googs has ruined search with sole consideration being ads rather than the results
At that point the term "AI" gets defined over internal technicalities rather than raw output ability. This LLM shows already more intelligence than many less-blessed humans on this planet, like it or not. The truth is we don't know for sure how exactly it works. That's evident from the papers.
gotta cut down on that Twilio bill
Not your parent, but I have some ideas on this. I'm not sure how true they are. Maybe I'll write a longer version some day and see what people think. But the summary is this:

I suspect it has to do with how familiar you are with type systems, and the way that you use them. I find that Rust's constraints help guide me towards a solution more quickly, and I spend less time chasing down strange edge cases. Not eliminate! But reduce.
People who don't work don't work, it doesn't really matter where they are.
The renderer used in the linked article (MapLibre) has an internal tile cache used when you return to a previously loaded area of the map.

For the non-tiled parts of the PMTiles file, like metadata and the directories that store Z/X/Y to offset information, those are LRU cached by the PMTiles implementation. The most widely deployed right now is for TypeScript/Node. The "client" can either be web browser or inside a runtime like Lambda/Cloudflare Workers. On those the cache will persist across invocations using the ephemeral memory of the serverless function.

A level deeper, browsers vary in how they cache Range requests; IIRC Firefox does not cache while others will treat Range as if it was any other HTTP header.
Not that this brightens your day, but it's not just the evil and/or short-sighted capitalists:

"Scientists working in this field might say – as indeed I have said – that the benefits of such experiments and the resulting knowledge outweigh the risks."

Pride is a stronger motivator than greed.

https://news.yahoo.com/fauci-argued-benefits-gain-function-1...
Just to be devil's advocate -- I see this sentiment a lot; words which would make someone think that Microsoft's Sydney is on par with Steve Jobs's iPhone reveal in 2007.

Is Sydney gonna save Bing, or is it more of a toy and fad that is being pumped up by hype? Most of my non-tech friends don't use ChatGPT and none of my friends outside of tech use Bing's Sydney. This new AI wave is a great example of what happens in the techie social bubble. A cool idea or incremental improvement is announced (ChatGPT is quite literally an incremental improvement with neural networks), and everyone goes wild with speculation that outpaces the actual change.

ChatGPT is awesome and a great step, but still feels like a solution looking for a problem. People are infatuated with the idea that a better version of AskJeeves could be better than Google, but GPT-3 has yet to prove itself as something that could possibly replace Google.
It's objectively better to build a few mountains out of diamond. We do this not because it is easy, but because it is hard.
We're still pouring public resources into armaments manufacturers, some of whose products have reached or theoretically will reach the battle in Ukraine, so the redefinition project was a success!
So all transformer models recently are just grift and making stuff up? Like the model of stable diffusion pumping out art on my GPU is actually making calls where Indian kids are frantically scrabbling in paint to return an image within 30 seconds for pennies a day?

What's even worse about your point is at this point no one doubts that computer based Chess players are far better than everyone else. The scale of which GPT it giving out 'different' answers to large numbers of people would make you wonder where this gigantic call center is at filled with people typing the responses. I mean, I think it would leak pretty quick.

At this point I believe you've fallen into paranoia.
Makes a product for consumers who want it, knowing that other successful and widely available products exist for other consumers.

Apple’s choices may not be what everyone wants, but they’re not without upsides for those that do.
Do you have some good articles on database migrations in production ? I've had some bad experiences, e.g: a delete locking for a long time and no one being able to use it :D
What is a mathematical structure of conscious experience?
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is always hiring engineers to join projects like the DSV Alvin submersible group that led the expedition that discovered RMS Titanic.

https://careers-whoi.icims.com/jobs/search?searchCategory=87...
I can’t get over the pompous writing of this article. It was so distracting I had to move on.
I would simply continue to WFH. I don’t need to work for a woeful company that tries such antics. Amazon is a trash company in my view so I would be indifferent.
The fact that I'm referring to them as "weird" means that they are not, in fact, normal. Presumably if any of these people had seen such a thing before, they wouldn't be so concerned about it.
Insane that this is how far cost cutting has come.
Ugh, thanks. I was hoping it'd be more parametric based, like Fusion 360, but alas seems not.
The left is downplaying it because it happened on their guy's watch, and he's not doing much about it. In fact, the Biden administration just said that Ohio wouldn't get any disaster money for this. So either the derailment's consequences are nothing, or the left's guy is ineffective at dealing with the real world. The left therefore chooses to say (and even think?) that the problems are nothing.
they might just want sulfur.
This is a pretty niche case but my band sometimes puts on livestreams, for which I use an Atem Blackmagick and OBS with a plugin that automatically changes the camera input at random intervals. I use an old CC in one of the hdmi channels that has some random visuals streaming to it from the same laptop that we run the stream off of, which I bleed 50% with one of the other camera inputs for a fun little psychedelic effect. I’m sure there are other ways to achieve this without hardware, but it works for me/us and gives the old thing something to do. ::shrug::
Right. I was more referring to the article's definition of velocity which was number of changes ("launching more, faster"). It's easy for that to be misaligned with anything useful. You can make a lot of small things with little "impact" or value if your goal is just the number of changes.

If you have a saner definition of velocity which is based on the size or scope and not just the raw number of changes, then you can pair that with prioritization based on expected value and your measures will be better aligned.
Or that Biden used federal authority to quash the railroad union protests for better wages as safer conditions.
Waymo expands service in San Francisco
We really need to crowdfund that so it's available to everyone.
This is exactly it and it’s so sad to watch. Had it happened under trump the sides would have been switched.
The same sentiment in your comment (downplaying the innovation) came along from press and competitors when Job's revealed the iPhone in his now-famous keynote from 2007.
I think the description of metadata is good (my mental model is that a DAW operates on a stacked-up pile of operations to apply on top of the sources, and editing is all just adding/removing/modifying the parameters of those operations, which I think is equivalent to what you're saying), but the simple "doesn't change the contents of the actual file" standard I'm not sure is so useful. It would sweep up old Audacity and something like GIMP into the "nondestructive" pile just by virtue of each operating on a model where pre-existing source files get imported into the tool's native format and have to be exported back out.

Edit a WAV or JPEG with either of those and they'll dutifully not touch the source file (unless/until you tell them to export on top of it) despite internally operating directly on the data. (I think both have moved and are moving to offer more nondestructive modes of operation, but speaking of their legacy setups, anyway).
> People still didn't like it. His right to have these views, their right too.

Yes, the question here is who mixed their personal right to their views with their professional responsibilities. If Eich didn't, then it seems clear that everyone at Mozilla who objected to his appointment did. That wasn't the conversation that took place though.

The "professional responsibilities" in this case was being a good steward for Mozilla's products and the vision of products that preserved digital rights for its users. Not clear what this had to do with civil rights like gay marriage.
The American liberal media is not "left" they are liberal.

That being said, they are probably trying to downplay it because it's directly related to the railroad union strike that Biden shut down a few months back. They wanted more time off-- which would mean more workers and less hours.
It boils at 7.88°F.

It sounds like without pressurization or chilling the risk of an explosive release was deemed higher than the risk of burning it.
I was aware of it but never read it. Wikipedia says "centers on the design, production and dispatch of V-2 rockets by the German military".

So it's not obvious: what makes it very relevant today? It sounds interesting, but I don't immediately see the relevance to either 1973 or to 2013.
It would certainly force a more simplified system which would benefit everyone.
>opaque windoze registries etc

Thanks for demonstrating your lack of credibility.

Uninstallers by and large only do the reverse of what an installer did by going through the install log and undoing what it did.

This means any additional files made after the the installation that weren't properly appended to the log, any additional information added to the Registry that weren't properly appended to the log, and any user files created after installation (eg: save files) will not be touched by the uninstaller.

Should everything be properly logged for clean uninstalling? Yes; Linux package managers are a decent example. But reality is not ideal, so we have to deal with practicality. This presumably is the case whether it's Windows, Mac, or Linux.
> Map’s second and third parameters are optional.

I mean, map always passes them in, so in that sense they aren't optional. Mixing that with functions that take in optional parameters, but aren't usually called with them, gives you a ticking time bomb, IMO. And double that danger when the language's type system allows you to call a function with more parameters than it could ever take.

> Don’t pass bare functions if you don’t know what the parameters are.

This is exactly the kind of thing I want my programming language's type system to catch for me, if I'm working in a language with a static type system like TS.

And even in dynamic languages, this is exactly the kind of thing I want my programming language to catch for me at runtime. Python does, for example.

Stuff like this - while it might fit JS and TS and make sense to some - makes absolutely no sense to me, and is why I simply look to other languages to fit my needs.
The claim about AI having a deep understanding of Go comes from top tier Go players

"After humanity spent thousands of years improving our tactics, computers tell us that humans are completely wrong... I would go as far as to say not a single human has touched the edge of the truth of Go." - Ke Jie, the number #1 Go player in the world at the time, speaking after his loss to an AI
Thats a new stealth weapon for the global population to watch out for now, knowing how things work in this country.
Isn't pydantic a data validation python library ? What would a VC want out of it ?
What is your point, really?

What kind of "upside" for Lunar users are you alluding to?
I very much doubt that is what happened.

It was coming anyway. They needed a week of attack vector data to see how people would bamboozle it. They got what they needed to make progress on their next step. It was likely the plan the entire time, and the "bad press" is a red herring. I see no reason to believe the press has had much an impact in any way, other than tainting the current events the bot ingested.

That said, I was on it as it died, and it started to behave weirdly. It's too much main character syndrome to be real, but it felt like I took the service down. I had a 3 hour convo that wasnt glitching or devolving like everyone elses. Slowed it ground to a crawl. It was taking at least 30 seconds per turn for it to respond. I had other tabs open and watched them all die one by one. I couldnt open new chats. Until only my long one was left, my one long 3h, 200 turn chat, kept working. From a user perspective, it felt like my session had consumed all the resources. And then it was down for a day and safeguards were erected after. It was, by far, my most successful session.
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There have been a chorus of (presumably) engineers and other "experts" on here saying how incredible ChatGPT is and how it's going to allow companies to fire half their workforces and make everyone have superhuman capabilities and productivity.
That’s orthogonal to zero trust, however, and either way it’s still relative: if you have a policy requiring traffic inspection it’s not unreasonable to think that Cloudflare is going to be safer than some random box in the basement run by the average enterprise network team.
Hairdressing. Pretty stress free.
> I'm saying on average, everyone's ability to get stuff done is higher if everyone can interrupt everyone.

There's no actual evidence of that being true though. It's very much your personal take on it as you've said. I'm also hesitant to ask that if your work relies so much on being able to interrupt your coworkers at a moments notice is that evidence of other issues. Not having power to make decisions on the direction of your work? Poor documentation? Dare I say lack of confidence and/or ability to do your (not you specifically) own job? Seems to me the whole case against remote/hybrid boils down to certain peoples feelings about how they feel comfortable working. Not any actual statistical proof on the matter.
I don't agree with this. If Rust doesn't exist you might have a choice between the pain and endless bugs of using C++ or the ease, but much slower performance, of js. Maybe you end up choosing js.

But if Rust exists, suddenly you have a nicer-to-use high performance language, and you have a choice to use it.