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> Technology doesn’t regress.

I hate this assertion, true technology hasn't gone backwards much in the past 200 years, but honestly technology can and often does regress historically speaking. There have been plenty of times empires have risen and fallen, taking with them much of their knowledge. How much was lost when Rome decayed simply because there wasn't the structure in order to allow technologists to continue creating?

Things are bigger and more interconnected this time so it is harder for an isolated event to cause things to fall backwards, but when it does the impact will be much larger.
So when I move, I have to update Zed with my new address or what? My license is legally invalid? I'm in breach of terms of service?
That's an excellent addition.
Yellow Pages. It's called a phone directory. Before the internet we printed up large lists of local people and businesses.

Yellow Pages is the local business directory.

If you're one of todays 10000, congrats!
> What will the real value of a $1 bond be on your balance sheet the day it matures? exactly $1

The real value in future-date dollars will be $1. In present-day dollars it is likely to be less, the ability to refer to which distinction is the purpose of the formal difference between nominal and real value.
Blew up last week because they had to sell stock and explain why. Which is what she’s light on their liquidity crunch.
>a CDN isn't just about bandwidth, it is about _disk_

The disk performance - is the weakest part of the Peer. It is a part you can't guarantee any QoS on a cheap server. The idea is to keep popular cache on Peers in memory. Everything else we will host from a limited number of regular servers (belong to Farba), with high-performance disk subsystem.

>Cache management (eviction, invalidation, etc) is done where?

yes. You can invalidate either a single URL or a folder with a wildcard

>you are actually doubling your origin traffic just to push to the cache after serving the original client request

this is something we can proxy and do only one request per file. Current implementation was done for simplicity and reliability.

>but I don't see how this can work. Are they going to rewrite the object in a way that doesn't require the host certificate?

you can easily check this up. Please open the network console on our demo-page and see how it works:

- we have two different certificates (one for the main site, for for the Peer)

- everything works flawlessly
I started following a lot of indie games on Reddit, and it was a huge bummer to watch great-looking, fun, polished games crash and burn time after time

It definitely scared me away from investing in my own game ideas.. not sure if that was a good thing or not
Can you link to the paper you read? My search only revealed https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.01195 which has no mention whatsoever of the old fashioned idea of "races".
It's been a while and I cant remember if that was a hypothetical applying his approach to a non-criminal negotiation, or if he was saying it was a real incident... but I remember reading it, and thinking: the only way that works is if the FBI is waiting to arrest you if you refuse. If he was saying those examples were real, I agree it sounds like bullshit. It's at best, a tactic that might be rarely useful.
> So we're going back to the feudal times were artists live in servitude arrangements with the propertied classes?

As if it's any different now. Wanna create something and need money to make it happen? Be prepared to enter into arrangements with rich investors and corporations and producers. The people with the money will literally get credited in your works.

> It's pretty funny how artificial is a pejorative in your world when it precedes 'scarcity' but not when it precedes 'intelligence'.

The "artificial" in intelligence is a technological limitation: it's not a real intelligence because we haven't been able to make one. The "artificial" in artificial scarcity is a condition humans impose on abundant resources in order to create an economy where there is none: we have the technology to copy and distribute these abundant resources but the monopolists won't have it.

So you bet it's pejorative.

> Property rights are the basis for any society in which people have independence and autonomy.

Sure. Real property like land and physical possessions. Not this imaginary property that only exists to let people turn abundance into scarcity.

> I think we should put software developers on sponsorship and donations for a year so that they understand the consequence of an economy like this.

I don't even disagree. Software developers are also creators that exploit their monopolies for gain. Personally I don't even believe in copyleft licenses, they only exist to fix copyright and turn it to our advantage. There should be no copyrights to fix in the first place.
This is what I assume as well. But this is just an assumption I have. I don't even know exactly where it comes from. Is it correct? I just assume I can pay my way out… but what if I can't? I would think it really depends what you are accused of. I really don't know what I'd be able to afford.

And it's even more bizarre to think that's just how it works.
Strange impressions you have and totally disagree. The park is vibrant and full of kids and families over the day.. dealers don't even annoy you usually if you signal strong non-interest or don't fall into typical buyer group.. you can even walk safely through the park at darker times when you stick to the big ways (though I mean to feel safe, I'd say you are almost safe everywhere as safe as you can be in a big german city in darker places everywhere... you are likely even safer there because enough people around vs other scary places)

Yes, they can make a bad and for some an intimidating appearance, and make others mad, but "making the park useless" is a gross exaggeration... how often are you there, and where you from? Just curious..

Most of these people are not as bad, and while this film sure tells a story, I'd suggest to watch the modern version of "Berlin Alexanderplatz" just to get another perspective.
One major reason it doesn't qualify is that it is impossible for it to learn from its input. It's right there in the name: generative pre-trained transformer

GPT basically has two major modes of operation right now, training, which is done by openai, and output, which is what you are doing with the API and with ChatGPT. The model does not update its "brain", its parameters and weights, based on the conversation you have with it.

Even the "conversation" presented by their chat UI is a little misleading, what's happening is that the entire conversation is being replayed into the model every time you hit send. There is also a hidden input provided by openai, responsible for the "I am a large language model" stuff, anything said early in the conversation can constrain the later output, sometimes to the point of uselessness.
SF is a problem is we'd consider any non-San Franciscans as immigrants. And, given size of US, it would be correct. I'm really sorry for the old San Franciscans of the old era. It sucks when your city becomes a magnet of big money.
Winget shipped without PowerShell support
GPT-3.5 is not a Markov chain, this is trivially true. While ‘predicts the next word’ is true, the mechanism of it is of interest and that is most certainly not trivial.
I hadn't thought about human feedback being an adversarial system, but I guess that makes sense, since it's basically a classifier saying "you got this wrong".
What are your thoughts on cursive? I’ve been considering mixing the two in separate screens of the same app but haven’t built the courage to try.
Yeah it's a pretty terrible completion - GPT4 does that MUCH better.

But GPT4 doesn't run on my laptop using ~4GB of RAM.
No one said it was. What some researchers hypothesize is that at the current rate of improvement, it wouldn't be especially unreasonable to expect AGI at GPT-N.
create honeypots :D
I repeat, Mint has always existed at the pleasure of TMobile. This is a no-op.
Agreed! It looks like the droid can only move up and down via the winch so if there was a big gust of wind it seems like the mother drone would have to react very quickly
Given that US and EU wages have about a 3-5x disparity, then you might think a) the US worker is worth that premium, and will fulfil 3-5x of your demand for work as the EU worker, b) you have a need towards hiring in the US (certainly understand this in some cases). Or... c) there is a disparity between supply / demand and salaries - why hire in the US if there is so much cheap supply elsewhere?
Rust is different because it is trying to answer real needs. It is not going to replace Python, and if you're seriously thinking about writing your code in Python you probably shouldn't be thinking of writing it in Rust. There will likely also be less Rust code than Python code. But it can replace C/C++, not completely and not in the near future, but it is possible.
>What's the adoption rate of copilot?

Growing very rapidly[1] with a userbase of millions[2] already

[1] https://www.ciodive.com/news/github-copilot-microsoft-softwa...

[2] https://d3.harvard.edu/platform-digit/submission/github-copi...
Disruptive, absolutely possible.

Releasing a killer drone army... absolutely not... the required intent is absent.

Being abused as a tool by sentient humans to demoralize others (or maybe even to release a drone army - if sufficiently interfaced) sure.
What Is Qortal?
Pretty sure if Tencent wasn’t involved the FTC wouldn’t be this invested into making Epic bleed ..
The house never loses.
The cap is so high as to be meaningless. It's for profit.
Absolutely. Using LLM code without reviewing it is an even worse idea than accepting a PR from a brand new apprentice-level programmer at your company without reviewing it.
re: CentOS7, the VFX Reference Platform (https://vfxplatform.com/) is probably relevant here. Their latest Linux Platform Recommendations report from August last year already covers migrations off of CentOS 7 / RHEL7 before the end of maintenance in 2024

Studios don't want to upgrade fast (e.g. they're not interested in running Debian unstable or CentOS's streaming updates thing)... they're interested in stability for hundreds of artists' workstations.

Getting commercial Linux apps like Maya, Houdini, Nuke, etc. working well at scale is hard enough without the underlying OS changing all the time.
I dislike being around people. More people means more competition for the good stuff like space, a nice view, quiet, delicious fish/game, etc.

You might argue that more people produce more other good stuff, but that is a flawed argument for a few reasons. For starters, a lot of scarcity in our economy is fake and introduced to maximize profit. Second, there's only so much valuable work to be done, but everyone has to have a job, so somewhere between 50-80% of people end up doing meaningless work (think of all the people involved in making/marketing a lot of infomercial garbage and lame tchotchkes like dog bowls shaped like toilets that flush when the dog eats). Nobody would miss those things if they'd never existed, and I'm sure none of the people responsible wanted to do that sort of thing growing up. It's basically a big capitalist circle jerk.
Perhaps a non-obvious approach? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_tractor

> A gravity tractor is a theoretical spacecraft that would deflect another object in space, typically a potentially hazardous asteroid that might impact Earth, without physically contacting it, using only its gravitational field to transmit the required impulse.[1][2] The gravitational force of a nearby space vehicle, though small, is able to alter the path of a much larger asteroid if the vehicle spends enough time close to it; all that is required is that the vehicle thrust in a consistent direction relative to the asteroid's path, and that neither the vehicle nor its expelled reaction mass come in direct contact with the asteroid.
That's a pretty easy 80/20 style solution, sure.

That 20% there is the little fact that all the fences and signs in the world don't keep a certain subset of headstrong people from e.g. leaving the path and falling into geysers in Yellowstone, or getting too close to wildlife.
It seems pretty obvious to me that you chain these guys together. Personality module, planning module, decision making module, internal monologue module.. boatloads of them all blabbering to each other. How you connect them to each other is an architectural question. My easy experiments show that it doesn’t seem so hard, but what do I know.

Sure these guys don’t have memory, but I have one “storage” LLM that accepts vague requests and turns them into SQL, another cleans up the SQL so on and so forth, you need a handful of them each step. Now you have a database. Etc.

Does anybody does this?
Spoken word into microphone implementation:

Run run control with speed argument 100.

AI: "Scheduling you for a speech therapist session to work on your stutter"
>They lost the customer. Unless customer default on the loan, they won't be 'right'

This isn't how banks work. They put in place rules that they consistently adhere to when they decide if they're going to give out a loan to someone or not. The real answer is that if consistently allowing that type of loan would make them more money than it would cost, then they won't be right.
Is it a full refresh from the source each time, or is it incremental, and if incremental, what assumptions do you make or not make about keys, dupes, etc?
In what way does this use ChatGPT? It just looks like a normal job board.
Drugs in Orbit: One Startup’s Big Idea for Microgravity
> Varda Space Industries, based near Los Angeles, is betting that the time for orbital laboratories has finally arrived. It’s developed an automated drug lab that fits into a space capsule.

> plans to use robots to mix, heat and cool chemical compounds suitable for drug development, which will then be converted into a solid form and returned to Earth, where it hopes they’ll serve as the basis for making industrial-size batches of new pharma products in traditional factories. Among the products it is likely to pursue are novel cancer therapies, as well as treatments for diabetes and chronic pain

> Numerous promising drugs can crystallize when stored, rendering them unusable on humans. Infamously, this issue forced a stop to the sales of the pill form of the HIV drug Ritonavir in the late 1990s, after years of research and hundreds of millions of dollars in investment. Varda’s executives think the company can use orbital labs to kick-start development of new versions of many older drugs in safe pill and injectable forms.
Cities don't produce wealth. People produce wealth. Many of the people who work in cities to produce wealth actually live in suburbs. For example, many of the people who drive NYC's economy live in New Jersey, Long Island, and the suburbs north of the Bronx and commute to work. It's wrong to give the city full credit for that wealth creation, which is the fundamental mistake that Strong Towns makes when they assert that cities subsidize the suburbs.
The real problem is also that we have no way of knowing whether the ChatGPT answer is based on factual information. It is very skilled at inventing convincing facts from whole cloth.
>The fundamental lie here is allowing banks to tell you you have “cash” deposited and “available” with them. If the online app showed the truth - how your $10k you deposited turned into some shares in mortgage backed securities or whatnot, the alternative “just pay to park some cash” might be able to survive.

That's basically what bond mutual funds are (including money market mutual funds, which closely simulate savings accounts via $1 share price), and they seem to have a market.
There are numerous times when I encountered a hurdle trying to fix something or set something up and was lucky enough to find a blog of someone else who encountered the very same hurdle and managed to solve it.

Without the efforts of these people I would have continued to waste time trying to figure something that was important to me at the time, but out of my knowledge sphere.

In a way you are giving people life when you share your knowledge.
But if you don't control for it, the analysis is meaningless.
I don't understand what you mean. When I say "game play" I mean the how the game is actually played. Things like available weapons or reachable maps affect game play. Cosmetics don't. Skins and emotes don't make you play the game differently therefore they don't enhance "game play". Just like wearing a fancy shirt doesn't enhance the game play of chess.

Fortnite even allows you to enter competitive tournaments and compete for money without spending a dime. A player that spent $0 and is using the default skin is at no disadvantage vs a player that spent $1000.
Old-school, huh. The skynet is closer than we think i guess.
What is OpenAI's moats? Those companies are valuable because of the moats they've created (users, market position, and economies of scale).

OpenAI is currently the market leader but what is keeping them there? Their competitors have a lot of expertise and access to the compute needed.

If anything because OpenAI is more of an API provider than having their own end-users, any of their current customers could switch to another cheaper/better AI vendor without their end-users even knowing. Diminishing OpenAI's USP even further.
End-to-End AI Demo
> and almost all major medical advances and research comes out of the US

Are you're basing that on the number of clinical trials compared to other countries or regions using the data from the WHO [1]?

As someone who worked for a large pharma company for almost 10 years I'd say it's easy to think that when in reality it's just easier to conduct clinical trials in the US compared to, for example, the EU.
With the US market having the highest margins for pharmaceuticals and no ban on ads for prescription medicine it's also important to spend as much time in the US market while still under patent protection. A quicker way to enter the US market is by doing clinical trials in the US.

The company I worked for is global (like most pharma companies) and, depending on the indication, the research is actually more likely to not have been conducted in the US.

[1]: https://www.who.int/observatories/global-observatory-on-heal...
So, You Recommended a Python Time-Series Package...Now What?
Switch, How to Change Things When Change Is Hard, by Chip and Dan Heath.
It's part of the story. They had a non-diverse group of interconnected customers prone to herd behaviours led by a small influencer elite. Few banks represent such a high risk of a run.
Think of the bright side: Billions of crappy photos from the same things all over the world will contain a lot of the same information, and AI (of course!) guided partial image deduplication will save us many data centers.
I stopped using raspberry pis for this reason. A small form factor refurb PC suits what I am doing way better and I don't have to try to find ARM binaries for everything.
> high level of support of event the tricky things like the scientic and gui stacks

Could it compile an app that uses Pillow and AggDraw and ReportLab and OpenPyXL with a TKInter GUI into a standalone app I can give to a coworker? That would be extremely useful!
Is there any benefit to Amazon Linux compared to Ubuntu or other Linux distributions?
Yeah, I found out it was handling better when I was not logged in compared to when I was logged in.
This is the relevant bit

> If you want to try and get access to the new Bing, then head over to bing.com/new and hit the “join waitlist” button and sign in with your Microsoft Account. You should get access immediately.
Classical Guitar Tablature
There's no problem with making chargebacks in Europe. Maybe you should move to another bank?
UK to invest £900M in supercomputer in bid to build own 'BritGPT'
Ada has no ecosystem, and a lot of the ecosystem that does exist is proprietary, and it brings us back to point #2.
My best advice for any interview is to line another one up.

Don't put too much on any one interview, with the economy the way it is, I think I went through 5 or 6 final round interviews before landing my current role.
I just read about a guy that was jailed for 30 years with a sentence of 400+ years because the 800 years that the prosecutors wanted were too harsh so the judge decided to make the sentence 400ish years to be "fair". the crime this innocent man did that put him in jail for 30 years before being released was driving a getaway car while two other men robbed someone at gunpoint. nobody died to my knowledge. he couldn't give up the information because he was innocent so the prosecutors asked for that because he wasn't telling them what he couldn't know. crazy travesty of justice there. I'm sure there are tons more like this.
You've definitely seen a TV or Movie that used Unreal.

Name a major-studio movie that rendered final camera-ready VFX in Unreal.

For TV, you can name The Mandalorian season one, sure, but even then, ILM switched The Volume to their own in-house real-time engine for season two.
ECR pull through caching is only possible for other ECR repos or quay.io. you cannot use it for Docker hub.
> dealers don't even annoy you usually if you signal strong non-interest or don't fall into typical buyer group

> you can even walk safely through the park at darker times when you stick to the big ways

You have no idea how crazy that sounds for someone that isn't acclimatized to Berlin culture.
and there's still plenty of Arnold and Clarisse houses out there.
This feels achievable in five years.
> govt made a profit from TARP

That's like selling your used car for a "profit" during the recent supply chain issues caused by the pandemic. Sure, you might have gotten more dollars from the sale than you did when you purchased it. But those dollars are worth a lot less now, and you would not be able to repurchase an equivalent car with those dollars.

The TARP profit line is how they deflect some of the outrage from yet another bank bailout. "See, it didn't cost you, the taxpayer, anything!".
While I do think GPT will be quite useful, it's revisionist history to say that people weren't talking about crypto or Blockchain being transformative during the peak of the hype cycle. Plenty of people talking about how blockchain was going to disrupt supply chain logistics, bank settlements and identity management.
Completely skipping over the privacy concern doesn't seem like an amazing look
Uses I've had for crypto: 0

Uses I've had for GPT: Um, lots.

Like, "Hey GPT, dump out some code that does this.... no I'm getting this error with that code. Ok, your last version worked"

I consider a piece of software that provides me useful tools not hype. ChatGPT has provided me with not hype.

Also, if we somehow magically got AGI this week, we'd have a shitload of problems the "This isn't AGI" people have not thought of yet. I hope and pray we are not able to figure out AGI soon because it is simply going to be the most disruptive thing that has ever happened in human history.
With a codebase of any significant size the priority is always to maintain compatibility while improving performance.

If you start with an incompatible, highly performant interpreter, the compatibility "distance" is difficult to measure and could create unknown performance cost. For example, PyPy doesn't support C modules due to the differing memory layout.
Many do, but even if they didn't, it's free to ACH money to your real bank checking account every now and then that you can spend and write checks with.
As someone in tech from the rural Midwest who loves hunting, I can appreciate this little fact a lot. In my 10 year career I've worked for some well known larger tech companies and meeting people with this interest is somewhat rare.
What is AGI?

If an AGI is something that can create and deploy an improved version of itself, then if exponential rate of improvement is preserved, we’ll see it in this decade.