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LLMs literally can’t compute any complex algorithm, they can’t simulate different steps in chess to get which version is best, nor execute some non-trivial algorithm.

They are nowhere near close to human intelligence.
Everyone on HN will have the same questions: how can you prevent data loss or snooping by admins?

To answer this, you have written a privacy policy, which mentions the word "encryption" exactly 0 times.

https://backupdiary.com/privacy
On a related note. Problem decomposition is also the reason why we should all be worried about AI, even with it's current capabilities. After all, every nefarious goal, once decomposed into smaller units, is not necessarily recognizably nefarious any longer. The challenges of organized crime are more in the logistics and HR departments more than anywhere else and their problems, once framed in that context, won't make any AI suspicious, however much training openAI does on its LLM.
> One would think it should be the least dangerous one, due to being so similar to a natural molecule.

Research enantiomers and, more generally, chirality.

The laws governing Chemistry don't align well with the human intuitive understanding of similarity.
Generally speaking when someone asks that question it is with an eye to disqualifying a speaker they don't want to listen to, on the basis of ad-hominem.

Latin America? "You're ignorant, you know nothing!"

China? "You're under their sway!"

America? "Hypocrite!"

I tend to prefer to simply not allow the discussion to veer in that direction, and keep people guessing if they must.
I was recently obliged for the first time to drop my son off at school by car. It took 50% longer than cycling. I can't understate the temporal dimension of using a car. When dropping and picking up a kid at school...etc etc
I thought TOML was nice until I tried writing a parser that handled nested tables. There's very little convergence between libraries because it's such a hard / ambiguous problem.

I thought I was making good progress until I tried burntsushi's edge case test suite. It reminded me of implementing YAML.

TOML is slightly nicer to write than JSON if your structure is flat, like a php.ini or Cargo.toml file. Other than that, I prefer the simplicity of JSON as well as the buy-in of JSON Schema support in apps like VS Code.

We too often do this thing as craftspeople where we dramatize how much minor pain points impact our lives while ignoring the upsides.
Bike theft is a big problem at least here in Finland, especially for expensive bikes.
I asked a Mastodon howto question, and got an answer almost immediately.

A week later, someone else helpfully provided the same answer, because the previous answer had not federated to his server. It's not a matter of which app you use: conversations will silently be missing bits.
PHV which stands for "Private Hire Vehicle"
Certain versions of iTunes on windows still allow this, although you’ll be prompted to upgrade to 2FA anytime you sign in on a modern device.
Quick note that the forked project doesn't have the CI feature released in 1.9, which is the primary subject of this thread.
My personal experience: Many of these topics are electives. Database Systems, Concurrent Programming, and Network Programming were all topics that were covered in classes that are not part of the core curriculum. I found the same to be true in graduate school since it's more specialized.

Personally, I definitely lacked knowledge of a few things when I graduated from undergrad (2008)

* Source Control. This wasn't as commonplace back in 2008.

* Linear Algebra. This wasn't a required class, but I took it after I graduated and proved to be invaluable.

* Concurrency. I ended up learning this myself, since this was only very lightly touched on.

No one is going to be familiar with everything when they're fresh out of undergrad. But usually you have at least some specialty (mine was 3D graphics at the time).
RPC over SCTP could be interesting, not sure of any libraries that support it out of the box. Could also be hell for enterprises/firewall admins.
Very cool. Do you offer consulting if someone wanted to bake this into their solution?
> it's about community decision-making procedures (which have been removed during the incorporation)

A quick clarification here, the new TOC is comprised of three company members and three community members, with community members having a slight advantage should there be a split vote on anything.
I played an HTC Vive once, it was fun but it was a lot of stuff to play... I don't have the space for anything like that. Happy with consoles and Steam Deck (mostly in desktop mode) for video games lately.
Although you didn't imply a preference one way or the other, this made me think: if policy that is driven by suburbanite lifestyles leads to the destruction of the planet, is it truly "live and let live"? A more accurate description of the US ideology as someone who has lived in both ultra-rural and urban environments in the midwest and west coast is: "I want to do whatever I want/believe is best, regardless of the impact it has on people outside of my circle."
CGP Grey also had a great video on it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrObZ_HZZUc

He also had a video on the mayor of The City of London

https://youtu.be/z1ROpIKZe-c
Actually, if you want to increase innovation, keeping a bunch of smart people around with a lot of leeway in investigating stuff that interests them seem like a good way. Examples are AT&T Bell Labs and Xerox PARC.
> When do I start learning more about other things like systems, algorithms, databases, etc?

At work.
That's pretty common, though? It's the whole reason the census has the concept of metro statistical areas. Phoenix, Portland, Seattle, all have this same effect to varying degrees.

But none of them have a rule saying the POTUS cannot visit with the Mayor approving, so there's that. And "City of London" is tiny compared to the rest of the London metro.
Wazero from Tetrate
Have you tried using content from this blog in prompts to chat GPT wheel you produce the content yourself?
That is a fair comment
A cynic's take on this -- having gone through this process with direct reports for whom I was applying for H1B visa's for -- is that it is required for us as a part of the H1B application process.

I had to do this more than once. Post job description, collect resumes, show evidence of job posting, and interviewed candidates.
I'm convinced this is what is going on.

People aren't converting dollars to BTC, they're converting stablecoins (whatever that means) to BTC. They're supposedly worth a dollar, but people are starting to realize that is very likely not true.

Crypto is going through a stablecoin crisis. The market is waking up and realizing that stablecoins may not be fully backed, and are likely worth less than the dollar face value. So BTC holders are demanding more stablecoins in return for BTC. BTC might not be worth much, but it's becoming clear stablecoins are no dollar substitute.

Stablecoin purchasing power is decreasing, that's all that's happening here.
That is precisely the signal I received from this headline.
OK: how will their respond?

Imagine you live in a valley where elderly people die of heat stroke every summer: 100 three years ago, 500 the summer after, 2,000 last summer. Your parents are 70 and 71 and barely made it. You immigrate, with your children, right? To where? The big city with worse heat management?

Repeat with peasants who can’t grow crops without expensive feedstock, or pig farmers whose water supply is dry. Where will they go?

People will want to flock to places that are currently openly considering tall walls and machine guns to prevent immigration — and that’s when thousands are coming at a time.

You think that having several millions every year will not make that situation a lot more tense?
If we don't come to the office, then the communists win! We must somehow pull people back into the office. Even if we can't find people to hire, we must do that. There are lots of companies that are pushing this view.

In reality, I think for beginning people coming to the office does help them get started, if there are people to work with them. For experienced people it's not as clear. I'm happy to work from home the past few years, and I can't see working in an office again.
I actually agree totally. My experiences doing hiring and then subsequently working alongside folks for the past decade or so have led me to view FAANG experience on a resume as a moderate negative signal. It’s not at all that I don’t think the folks who work there aren’t smart or talented- they have just disproportionately been difficult in the interview process and had impossible salary demands while being not being stronger performers than their peers.
To be fair, many human software engineers can't generate meaningful tests.
Does anyone have a list of these HN ask-resource threads?
It’s a long way away. Assuming it will be based on MRI imaging of axons/neurons etc., the resolution of the current state of the art is too low. There’s no foreseeable advances in this area, so the only hope is a paradigm shift or serious breakthrough.

The Human Connectome Project might interest you. It is the closest thing we have to this right now.

Also the Open Worm project. We have successfuly uploaded nematodes (by countless dissections and microscopically mapping the neuron/axon connections).
Plagiarism and copyright/licensing violations are only tangentially related.

If you have the license to use some source code (e.g. it's public domain, or you purchased a license which allows royalty-free redistribution) then you have no copyright issue. If you submit that code to your school as your assignment, or part of your assignment without attribution, then that is plagiarism nonetheless. It's a problem between you and the school (and the world at large), not between you and the author of the code, who allowed your use.

The GNU license is not concerned with academic misconduct. Users are encouraged to use the code as the basis for making something that works for them. It has to be redistributed according to certain rules so that the freedoms originally granted to the users are preserved. The concern isn't that the correct author has been identified to the users, but that they can get the source code and build that same thing, and also redistribute it with their modifications, if they wish. If you tell the users that this is based on GPLed code from such and such, but don't give them the code, then you are innocent of plagiarism, but still in violation of the license.

Most programs use code that their author didn't write---often, a lot of code; that is understood. When I see an announcement like "Glaze: Protecting artists from style mimicry" and read its synopsis, I'm assuming that 90% of it is cobbed from libraries and adapations of other people's code. We don't think of it as plagiarism unless the central, distinguishing idea of the work is something that was consciously taken from someone else and presented by the purported authors as their own.

And even then, if that plagiarized idea is effective in implementing something which prevents plagiarism, that just amounts to irony. Irony is a real philosophical construct, but not a software defect.
I've wondered how much of the cloud spend in the world is just junk like this.

I don't mean that cynically or sarcastically. The cloud makes it legitimately more easy to deploy resources; I've experienced this in my own teams. But the flip side is that it is easier to deploy things without thinking about the costs, or deploy things and forget about them, and management can just shrug and say "yes, it's cloud, it must be cheaper and better".

This is by no means a cloud-unique problem. Watch any datacenter a company has been at for a few years get shut down and moved to the cloud. The stream of "hey, who owns this?" and "are we still using this?" and "I just yanked the network cable, has anyone noticed?" is morbidly amusing. Even if you think you're tracking everything, you quite likely aren't, because the owners don't update their own tracking info very well.

But cloud makes this worse.

So I just find myself wondering how much of AWS profit is on this sort of stuff.

I myself have S3 buckets full of crap. As I do watch my spend, said buckets full of crap are in the ~10-50$/month range. At that price point it is difficult to justify engineering time to clean out the crap. But it's not hard to imagine that scaling up by three or more factors of magnitude.
Oh my Sweet Summer Child, you really have an unplaced faith in humanity - especially given our track record. "The sky is shifting" - is a hand-wave to the life-changing impacts headed our way and what our collective response to those impacts will be. Look how nuts people are getting over what are mere trivialities in comparison. Wait until there's crop failures threatening our food supply, fresh water supplies being threatened, property damage on the scale never seen in history, the religious blaming the non-religious for all our woes - the list goes on.

That's some "shifting."
If we taxed suburbs what they actually cost us as a society, no one would want to live in suburbs. The land use is abysmal compared to cities. Suburbs are effectively subsidized by the cities they are near, and those living in suburbs get off way too easy. That's a good thing if you have an extractivist, individualist mindset, but if we are to continue functioning as a whole society, something needs to give.

We love our farmers. Keep the fields going. But this business with allocating half-acre lots per 4 people (lots which are empty for literally 1/3 of the day) has got to end, or else local utilities should stop servicing those far-flung places. You want to be without the burdens of living in a society -- fine! Figure out water and power for yourself. It's easier than ever and there's still federal- and state-level rebate programs for renewables.
> collapse the banking system

Exactly.

> screw over millions of people

People who loaned their money to the banks. Why shouldn't there be consequences for lenders?
I mean... not really?

The goals of Deno and Node are different, the architecture is different.

Adding a compatibility layer helps Deno grow while maintaining its original goals.

I doubt this adds much complexity if done properly...
This is not one of those problems that goes away by pointing a finger.
Maybe in some Upper Div Philosophy class when he inevitably goes down as another cornerstone in the history of Philosophy.
Minecraft?

Why must the metaverse be the result of billions Facebook invested? Maybe Facebook spent billions on attempting to clone Minecraft, and failed?
Yep, we're in the same boat. About 4mo ago we started looking more closely at AWS costs. Tons of low-hanging fruit.
He’s saying that the company is internally open and transparent. But does not share confidential information to the outside world. There is no contradiction here.
I can't speak for other people but I'm not gonna go after you or anything. It's not unreasonable or anything to see freedom as in liberty as contradictory in nature, people say the same thing about the paradox of tolerance or tragedy of the commons. It's one of those things things if you say viewing freedom from a systems perspective is invalid then its the natural conclusion.

I don't really see it as doublethink. There's plenty of
examples were rules make people more free. Our whole system of laws is based on that idea.

I can drive on public roads and get where I want to quickly and safely because we all follow traffic laws. I have greater freedom to travel because there are rules.

I can mostly (well during the day at least, give it up for being a woman) walk around freely and completely defenseless because of the laws about assault, murder, and theft.

Right now we're on a forum where good discussion can be had because the mods will drop the banhammer if you start posting hate. If you know that posting anything about a controversial topic or just being a person who's identity is controversial at the moment will bring out a tidal wave of green accounts hurling insults against, you likely wouldn't post. Would you feel comfortable existing in the public sphere as a trans person if when you tweet you about any topic you got a hundred replies telling you to kill yourself already? Would you want to hang out in an IRC channel where any time you talk someone says, "shut up woman, get back to the kitchen?"

If you believe your right to swing your arm ends where my face begins then whether you think it's right to restrict hate speech or not I think there should at least be some recognition that my position is at least logically consistent because I see hate speech as an act that restricts others' speech.
I haven't done my research but from what I've gathered from news over the years hasn't London had very high car tax, tolls, super expensive gas, and just outright closing streets and eliminating parking?

So with a big enough stick and very little carrot anything is possible? Is that a win? Aren't we hearing that actual residents really don't like these "15 minute" cities?
Ahhh this removes reverse proxy auth for the api!

This is horrible!

While reverse proxy auth should be disabled by default, this is critical. This breaking change makes gitea unsuitable for me going forward.

Reverse proxy auth is perfectly secure when correctly setup and is sensible in many configurations.
> I think it was that an American company took it over,

No, Gitea Ltd is a new _Hong Kong_ for-profit company. No American companies are involved in any of this whatsoever.

The Gitea head honcho claims to be in Shanghai, China: https://gitea.com/lunny

> not that a company took it over.

No, the Forgejo folks were angry that the previously community-run project was taken into ownership of a for-profit company, without any notice, and against previous promises: https://gitea-open-letter.coding.social

> They didn't AGPL forego

Uh, they CAN'T relicense it to AGPL or anything else. The Gitea authors and contributors still hold the copyright on the code, which is MIT-licensed.
I'm sorry this just reads like a pile of sad excuses for being bad at human resource management. (And I use the dehumanizing term "human resources" on purpose here...)

"Some may ask why we didn’t announce these role reductions with the ones we announced a couple months ago. The short answer is that not all of the teams were done with their analyses in the late fall; and rather than rush through these assessments without the appropriate diligence, we chose to share these decisions as we’ve made them so people had the information as soon as possible. The same is true for this note as the impacted teams are not yet finished making final decisions on precisely which roles will be impacted. "

So people [Amazon employees, the market] are just supposed to just excuse them not just for being crappy at analyzing project costing and the market and overhiring like crazy last year.. but also being crappy at their job at managing the layoffs this year, too?

... We're overstaffed... but we can't tell you who we're overstaffed with. (So just a hunch then?). But we have to do these layoffs. We, uh, just didn't want to rush who they, uh, were, uh, back then... before... so, trust us, we need this number of people gone. So we'll announce this, to put you on the edge of your seat that it might be you... because, y'know, it'd be rude to, announce who, uh, before we're ready?

Barely even trying to hide that it's really just about making Stock Price # Go Up (it didn't go up enough with the last round, I guess) and keep employees on their toes.
I think you're going to find this at nearly all software companies, FAANG or smaller. The sad state of our industry is that everything is so poorly written that it's falling apart daily, and each company has an army of people trying to toss water on the last fire that popped up. This is the natural steady state of an industry that prioritizes schedule and feature cram over quality and craftsmanship, and prioritizes human heroics/toil over process and automation. Move fast and break things.
I love hand waving polls as a premise for a story, bonus points awarded if they are a twitter poll.

In other news - Nearly half of firms doing nothing about ChatGPT use.
I wonder, why there is not dealds between land speculation and public transportation. One party buys fields from farmers, the other creates a privately financed railroad/subway out in the "new suburbs", shooting the areas value through the roof. Then build denser, better citycore, connected to the old citycore.
Clearly you've never seen the at least 2 talks that Ryan Dahl has given about how he viewed package.json and npm as the two biggest blunders of Node's life and he was going to correct that in Deno.

And here we are.
The Dutch have passable weather for most of the year, of course that it’s easy for them to say that.
An ounce a day would be 10 kg per year, that's an awful lot of dark chocolate!

According to Statista the average per capita consumption of chocolate confectionery in the US is about 9 kg so most people are well below the danger levels.
Eh ... they report pretty good alignment with other studies on the topic, so there's at least some signal. Whether their labels contribute any new information is unknown, and the forecasts of any of the literature they cite are untestable (expect by the wait-and-see approach).

That said, some attempts at prognostication are preferable to a collective shrug, and people at OpenAI are better positioned than others to assess what GPT-4+ is (will be) capable of, while clearly under-equipped to map that capabilities to the intricacies of 1000 occupational categories.
I'm surprised the blog post does not mention Cloudflare's own library, tubular [0], the "BSD socket API on steroids":

> The control plane for BPF socket lookup. Steers traffic that arrives via the tubes of the Internet to processes running on the machine. Its much more flexible than traditional BSD bind semantics:

> * You can bind to all ports on an IP

> * You can bind to a subnet instead of an IP

> * You can bind to all ports on a subnet

I played with it once and found it to be pretty awesome.

[0] https://github.com/cloudflare/tubular
The way these sites usually work is that there‘s a small group of people uploading a lot and distributing these links everywhere (All the piracy boards). That‘s what gets people to your site and in turn ad impressions.

Getting rid of your top uploaded will not be beneficial to your bottom line.
Found some powershell too, but curiously, they seem to be all mixed together.
As with nearly all security, nothing is perfect. You are just raising the bar high enough to lower risk to an acceptable level. Cutting an entire row of racks and hauling off all the bikes is a bigger, noisier, longer job, requiring more coordination, than taking one. It presents more risk to the thieves themselves, which means there are going to be fewer thieves willing or able to take it on.
Don't they have an automated resume hiring bot ?
Le Musée Mécanique
Moritz: SVB provided for tech when everyone else ignored us
Thanks. Just for the sake of fleshing out the speeding angle:

Car, 64 kph => 164% of car at 50 kph

Car, 110 kph => 480% of car at 50 kph
Vessels claiming to be Chinese warships are messing with passenger planes