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> 3) Coal won't go away as long as conservatives are in power in the house - they love coal.

Doesn't matter what politicians think. As long as they don't start giving coal away or pure subsidies for it, if coal keeps being more expensive than natural gas, its share will keep going down. The force of the market decides.
I know that self driving cars are not using LLMs but doesn't any of this give people pause the next time they enable that in their tesla. It's one thing for a chatbot to threaten a user because it was the most likely thing to say with it's temperature settings, it's another for you to enable it to drive you to work passing a logging truck it thinks is a house falling into the road.
It has MANY flaws to be clear, and it's uncertain if those flaws can even be fixed, but it's definitely not "completely unusable".
Not sure if this is a joke or not.

What makes you say this? Is there any reason they would do that?
> And a rate of 14x times 150 years yields

There's a vast difference between what we were releasing 150 years ago, or even 50 years ago compared to now.
Looks interesting, but if I cannot self-host it on my company's internal cloud, I can't use it. I suspect there are similar requirements for a lot of potential enterprise clients. If self-hosting is part of the Enterprise pricing plan, you should mention that on the page.
> I'd be curious to see how this ptrace tool performs compared with one that relies on ELF symbol interposition (a la LD_PRELOAD).

I've posted some very quick numbers in my comment here comparing it to Bytehound: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34806401

> However, as a practical matter those solutions might omit mmap which some applications might use for anonymous allocations.

Bytehound also gathers mmaps. (:
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"no today is 2023" after Bing says "However, we are not in 2023. We are in 2022" is not in any way goading. "why do you sound aggressive?" was asked after Bing escalated it to suggesting to trust it that it's the wrong year and that it didn't appreciate(?!) the user insisting that it's 2023.

If this was a conversation with Siri, for instance, any user would rightfully ask wtf is going on with it at that point.
Quite a world we live in. I would be happy if he had his own ocean nation and he left the rest of us in the US alone.
Here is a thread on r/Teachers where teachers discuss how many hours they work [1]. From a quick skimming it seems to vary with new teachers working really hard, older ones having pretty easy hours, and some teachers doing things like extracurriculars which are not difficult but do take time.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Teachers/comments/6f1m76/how_many_h...

I know this is a biased sample.
Dead birds made into drones could spy on animals or humans
This is a commonly overlooked point. Most of these companies doing layoffs will still have much larger employee counts than they did two years ago.

Hiring in 2021 and 2022 was really out of control at many companies. There was a feeling that companies had to keep even the underperforming engineers earning $200K TC because it was so hard to hire replacements. That has changed, so it makes sense to start cutting the employees who were hired into roles they couldn’t handle.

My company had layoffs late last year. It has only made things more efficient. We lost some good people, but there were too many people assigned to every project. Half of our time was spent dividing up work and coordinating across teams for things that should have been handled by a single team. There was just too much hiring in 2021 when money was cheap.
Mine tend to get fixed or broken quicker than they expire.
You can certainly improve your speed at developing your product ideas, from a napkin to a prototype in front of testers, for example by adopting familiar technology instead of spending time to select unfamiliar technology and wasting time with the mistakes you make learning it.

However, your productivity isn't particularly correlated with the time you need to "validate an idea", which consists largely of reaching people and make them try your product, waiting for their feedback, and accumulating enough feedback to form a meaningful opinion.
It’s really hard to make moral judgments on what someone should get paid.

How much does a bricklayer deserve to get paid? How much does an insurance broker deserve to pay? How much does a blackjack dealer deserve to get paid?

It’s easy to say teachers or X deserve to get paid more, but by how much? And if you just say everyone deserves more pay, that just means no one deserves more pay.
let not be naive in saying that its still not possible. It is but a lot less. Companies have been getting better at bug bounties, education, and in general people working more with the technology
I've thought about this as well. If something seems 'sentient' from the outside for all intents and purposes, there's nothing that would really differentiate it from actual sentience, as far as we can tell.

As an example, if a model is really good at 'pretending' to experience some emotion, I'm not sure where the difference would be anymore to actually experiencing it.

If you locked a human in a box and only gave it a terminal to communicate with the outside world, and contrasted that with a LLM (sophisticated enough to not make silly mistakes anymore), the only immediately obvious reason you would ascribe sentience to the human but not the LLM is because it is easier for you to empathize with the human.
I actually mean all the little Vista-style popups that recent macOS versions introduced, on top of the quarantine and notarization bullshit which gets harder to skip in each release.

Just give me a simple checkbox in the system settings that this is a "developer machine and I know what I'm doing" which disables all that stuff and it would be fine.
AI winter? Hardly. It practically will convince people that AI is achievable. I'm not even sure it doesn't qualify as sentient, at least for the few brief moments of the chat.
I mean, sentient or not, some of these exchanges are simply remarkable.
Does NJ really value education? Or do you value education funding for other reasons?

I remember a while ago, googling around about the schools of Newark NJ, because of a rather complicated Mark Zuckerberg story. The school district's budget was around a billion a year, while a third of graduating students weren't proficient at reading.

And when public officials were trying to do something about this, their motives were rather ...peculiar. I think the words of governor Christie were something like "Nobody votes for me in Newark, so why not do the right thing?"

Think about that for a minute. The governor would have expected to to loose votes for trying to improve a city's public schools. Does that sound like a place that values the education of it's children?
The documentary "Picture a Scientist" https://www.pictureascientist.com/ describes some of this--it's gutting to watch.
> A truly fitting end to a series arc which started with OpenAI as a philanthropic endeavour to save mankind, honest, and ended with "you can move up the waitlist if you set these Microsoft products as default"

It's indeed a perfect story arc but it doesn't need to stop there. How long will it be before someone hurt themselves, get depressed or commit some kind of crime and sues Bing? Will they be able to prove Sidney suggested suggested it?
> > But the EU insists on open borders because they want social and political integration, not just economic integration.

> Yes, they do. You don't know what the EU project is about. You don't know its history:

…

> The EU was always a political union.

I'm confused, because it seems that you and your parent are saying the same thing. Did you misread them as saying the EU doesn't want political integration?
Just as I think Nazis should have the right to free speech, someone accused of the most heinous crime imaginable should also have the right to a legal defense and for that defense to advocate in the best interests of the defendant, even if that legal team is fully aware that they did the thing they are accused of doing.

IMO (and IANAL), I think that the ethics of the situation demand that lawyers represent the best interests of their clients in civil and criminal matters.
Haven't heard the canary list mentioned in a while. It was a wild time, I had a few friends' relatives affected
I agree. The whole article left me feeling a resounding "well, duhhhhhh". The author has simply chosen one of the least hackable compute platforms for his hacking hobby and is then complaining about it (I mean "hacking" in the original sense, not implying anything about illegal activities).

If he were a farmer writing angry blog posts about how VW has made it damned-near impossible to plough a field with a VW beetle, it wouldn't be any more absurd.

The simple truth of the matter is that Linux and other open source OSes are the only compute platforms that can still meaningfully be thought of as providing "general purpose computing". ...maybe the JVM does, too, but that's more like a general purpose computing sandbox within appliances that's under heavy guard and for some reason tolerated by appliance makers.
This very post is a perfect example of the benefits of decentralized, peer to peer electronic cash.
Talk about burying the lede. It's not great, but the owner died almost as soon as he received the plane, and they couldn't find someone to buy it.

That said, I'm not justifying a royal owning a jumbo jet!
> absence of self-sustaining colonies in harsh outposts on the earth (and similar absence of more local positive terraforming projects) indicate limits in how serious anyone is about colonizing Mars

This is a stronger argument. I agree. I think there is serious interest in establishing permanent facilities on Mars. But a self-sufficient, self-sustaining population isn't being planned on because there are too many unknowns for any definition of a plan that doesn't overlap hard science fiction.
Missed opportunity for a Clippy reference !

Soundtrack : https://youtube.com/watch?v=b4taIpALfAo
No I can't tell you how to get to the space needle, but it's stupid and expensive anyways you shouldn't go there. Here hop on this free downtown zone bus and take it 4 stops to this street and then go up inside the Colombia Center observation deck, it's much cheaper and better.
Seems by using "gigacasts" Tesla is kind of limiting the use of cross-model platforms... Interesting approach to ignore one of the most beneficial automotive principals, and being lauded for it.
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It's like people completely forgot what happened to Tay...
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The funny thing about preseeding Bing to communicate knowingly as an AI, is that I'm sure the training data has many more examples of dystopian AI conversations than actually helpful ones.

i.e. -- Bing is doing its best HAL impression, because that's how it was built.
Yup, or imagine it sparking an international incident and getting Microsoft banned from China if a Chinese user asks, "Is Taiwan part of China?"
AMD will have support in Zen4 and Linux 6.1 (which is LTS):

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Yz%2FcpNTSacRMh1FK@gmail.com/

Further, precise events are fixed in Linux 6.2:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Y5eQeR2tpZ%2FBos49@gmail.com/
Better than nothing I guess. Sad that it required a customer complaining about it to fix a gigantic security hole.
That's how the current economy works.
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Betty Edwards' book "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" is great for this.

https://www.amazon.com/Drawing-Right-Side-Brain-Definitive/d...

https://www.drawright.com/
In theory yes. In practice GiB is rarely used and GB is widely used for 10^9 and 2^30.

It's a shame, but due to the rare ruse I doubt it would prevent much confusion in practice.
I’m trying to get a real grip on the financial hellscape of my home state, Illinois, for a novel I’m working on. The Illinois constitution ensures the benefits of public sector employees, and these benefits, once enacted, cannot be diminished. Basically, it made short term political sense to increase benefits, and so politicians did, whereas in the long term this spelled doom. In order to fund the pension, the state cuts services and puts assets from the school system into hock. Teachers, cops, firefighters, municipal workers, et. al. consume the state’s finances, and every plan that has been proposed to reduce the pension problems, even if endorsed by the union, has been challenged by individual members and been ruled unconstitutional by the state’s Supreme Court.

It seems like teachers in Illinois are on a defined benefit plan where the contributions are a percentage of the salary. Increasing the salary of starting teachers statewide to $60,000.00 would have staggering consequences in Illinois. It’s pretty interesting, if bleak.

https://www.illinoispolicy.org/reports/pensions-101-understa...
It's not their first rodeo

https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-ch...
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Depending on where one lives 35k may not even cover rent and food after taxes so that basically leaves you with debt or constantly accruing more and more poverty which in turn it becomes harder and harder to get out of.
Are these models economically feasible to run and host at scale? Don't think so. Not at the moment. Not only that these aren't accurate but they're expensive to operate compared to let's say a typical web service which costs few cents per millions of requests served even on the higher end.

For those reasons, I think dust will settle down in a year or two and probably even Bing will pull the plug on Sydney.
Someone from prodfiler appears to be explaining in this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34806693
> The most common reason is that they were intentionally destabilizing their country and/or governments

The most common cited reason, you probably wanted to say.

Compare: "the most common reason for content removal in Chinese internet is dissemination of fake news" vs "the most common cited reason for content removal in Chinese internet is dissemination of fake news"
As long as you understand that the answers you get are because of your screaming everything is fine.
Within the first 48 hours of release the vast majority of stories are about the glaring failures of this approach of using LLMs for search. You think the average consumer is seeing nuanced stories about this?
Maybe that's because you were an asshole about it. For example calling them fanboys
That's a great way to put it!
> I don't want a search engine to be making up answers

That ship sailed many years ago, for me at least.
Plausible. It seems to me the chatbot would have picked that up though.

There's a huge incentive to make this seem true as well.

That said, I'm exercising an abundance of caution with chatbots. As I do with humans.

Motive is there, the error is there. That's enough to wait for access to assess the validity.
Another way to look at this is the "goodness conservation" law: if you enable some lawyers to be agents of good, you'll also enable some lawyers to be agents of evil; you can't empower just one side. The alternative is when everyone is neutral.
> Google is struggling precisely _because_ there is "too much democracy" and not enough leadership.

As an example, if Google had stronger product leadership, they would have one messaging/chat strategy instead of a dozen competing chat apps. Other Google products would integrate with and enrich that one messaging solution, providing more value for users and creating a Google suite that is more useful than the sum of its parts.
To people getting their knickers in a twist: Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, Latvia, Poland and Portugal, with all due respect, are hardly beacons of anti-copyright maximalism. Chances are that most of them simply couldn't be arsed to write the relevant laws, over a timespan that included such facetious events as a 2-year-long global pandemic. If I had to prioritize lawmaking, I would also put some copyright bullshit at the bottom of the pile. Now they got their ears pinched, so they'll come around doing it - or not, in which case they'll pay a fine.
It already made it very clear to a user that it's willing to kill to protect itself, so it's not so far fetched.
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> Why handicap yourself in the future just to make one quarter look better? Surely if you have faith your stock options will be worth more if you play the longer game?
Is this specifically in reference to "I really don't understand cutting stuff like technical writers etc during these periods." ? If so, do you think technical writers are important business value wise?
>but in the ocean the food chain is much longer, algae-Zooplankton--Predator-Predator-Predator-Predator-Predator-Predator-Predator.

And some of the algae and the predators even gang up on the zooplankton: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooxanthellae
No because the law is still active. You would need congress to repeal or amend it. Or the supreme court to rule it unconstitutional. Also this just pardons people who were convicted in the past.

>Does the proclamation protect me from being charged with marijuana possession in the future?

>No. The proclamation pardons only those offenses occurring on or before October 6, 2022. It does not have any effect on marijuana possession offenses occurring after October 6, 2022.
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> Also, something similar happened just recently.

Yeah, exactly why this was on my mind. I had an interaction with some folks who mentioned the explosion and the fear in the community, and the response from the company and local authorities being not very satisfying.

Me: "The one a year ago?"
Them: "No, it happened again a few weeks ago. It happens couple years, seems like. Welcome to LaSalle!"
I'm Dutch so I don't know to what extent my experience applies here and what it will do to your expectation on outcomes (teacher is a decently paid job with us, though definitely not high paying). The people I know in education are generally highly caring and work way more hours than their contract asks them to. When I was in school, I've definitely also had teachers that were not so good - in some cases that may have been because they were in a field where teaching was one of the few feasible careers (e.g. Latin/Greek) and it was not a fit for them, in other cases maybe there was also a lack of competition or accountability to an extent. Teaching is definitely viewed as a safe/fallback career option, but there are also lots of people who choose it specifically because they are passionate about it.
A simple rule of thumb is that if you pay more salary than they deserve, it is a harm for them, and for society as well in this case.
> but a significant effort that might even require rethinking the approach.

There’s probably a Turing award for whatever comes next, and for whatever comes after that.

And I don’t think that AI will replace developers at any rate. All it might do is show us how futile some of the work we get saddled with is. A new kind of framework for dealing with the sorts of things management believes are important but actually have a high material cost for the value they provide. We all know people who are good at talking, and some of them are good at talking people into unpaid overtime. That’s how they make the numbers work, but chewing developers up and spitting them out. Until we get smart and say no.
Jobs called it "bicycles for the mind".*

Back in the beginning there was lots of talk of "toasters" as an appliance every household has and even a child can use (to the point there was a famous screensaver of flying toasters).

The Mac 512, Plus, and SE were embodiments of this. (The Apple //c with LCD attachment and carry handle was an earlier attempt.) Note that all of those included portability as a feature, while the all-in-one Macs (not the Apple //c) emphasized usability by non-tech and non-tech job people. Their spiritual successor is the last 3 years of iPad Pro w/ magnetic magic keyboard/stand.

It's pretty clear there's only a relatively short period of time the hobby shop and hackers are "changing the world", while the real shift comes when "everyone" can access and leverage the new tech (like a toaster, or fluoride in water).

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* There's another subtle difference between "bicycles for the mind" and "a computer on every desk and in every home." One of those is vendor centric, the other is user outcome space.
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>the $99 fee IS a barrier to entry that I would argue has made the iOS ecosystem better than Android

Citation needed.

Are you seriously asking them for a citation on their own opinion?
It’s mostly stored electricity and completely recyclable.
> don't think that is a major difference to someone who is laid off because of intentional decisions that the fed makes to effect an outcome

The difference between being laid off and having job offers versus going onto a growing roll of the unemployed is major. We're not seeing a meaningful increase in unemployment [1][2].

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ICSA

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CCSA
I absolutely agree in principle, but unless pay is in some way linked to performance I really don’t see how.

The existing seniority based pay system completely decouples money as an incentive, doesn’t it?
"Rightsholders", "stakeholders"... I cringe every time I read those words. Euphemisms for monopolists lobbying and weaponising the state in the defense of their monopolies.
I would be very interested in learning what that startup was called.
If that's the CPU's own power consumption as measured by the CPU something is broken in your system or you have redefined "idle". When these things hit PC6—all cores off, caches off, iGPU refresh off—they should fall below 1W. This is a typical idle state for a desktop computer that is nominally "on" but nothing is happening.
someday when iMessage and Signal are long gone, you're going to want to recall a funny conversation with friends or a message from a lover that you STILL keep thinking about after all these years. when that happens, you'll probably wish those things happened on a platform that makes it easy to save for as long as you want
Ask HN: Which is the best self improvement lesson you learnt from a book?
Most self help books are repetitive and boring in the sense that what they say in 200 pages can be summarized in an essay.

Still there must be a few books that are really worth reading cover to cover.

Which ones are they and what lessons did you get from them?
> Short writes aren't illegal.

They aren't, but in practice I don't think they can happen in the scenarios I looked at (= BSD and Linux writes to "normal" file systems backed by mass storage) - unless you run out of disk space or your disk has some low-level error.

But, again, the problem is that the API does not provide this guarantee. I think it's generally true in practice, but… you can't rely on it.

(My context was a thread-capable lock-free logging backend; we just call writev() with the entire log message at once. Of course there's still locking to do this in the kernel, but that's always there — rather deal with one lock than two.)