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I agree Merkel was bad, but not that bad - Kohl was inarguably worse.

> Japan has a nuclear accident, caused by a tsunami and partly due to known issues in the power plant. Merkel: "Oh no, let's close down all our nuclear power plants right away."

The entire country was calling for the dismantling of the NPPs, and no one sans the FDP and the Nazis cares much about them any more, not even their operators.. As for the gas pipeline, thank former Chancellor Schröder for that one.

> Putin has been rattling his weapons on the border or Ukraine since 2014. Merkel: "No problem, I called my buddy Putin and he said he will not attack. And by the way, no need for us to invest in our defense. We can continue to have Europe's weakest army per capita as Putin said he would not attack."

A valid point, but one shared across the political spectrum except the Greens - everyone else from left to right and the entire leadership of the German industry was blinded by the prospect of cheap energy. It is unfair IMO to single out Merkel there.

> Migrant crisis in 2015. Merkel: "Everyone is welcome! Smugglers, just send them here, we will show our solidarity. Oh, we do not have enough schools, daycare, hospitals to take care of them all? Oh, many are lost teenagers and children without parents who took the chance now when we said everyone was welcome? Well, I guess they can earn their living selling drugs and sex."

The first part is a blank reproduction of common Nazi conspiracy myths - the "pull factor" has been thoroughly disproven by now, even with the EU being a deadly fortress at its borders, still thousands of people attempt to cross the Mediterranean each year. The latter is one of the worst interpretations you can give - I'd put that one rather on bland disinterest and fear of the far-right, not an intention to push people off to selling drugs.
Depending on how the hospital operates and whether there is a reason to be concerned some pediatric units will allow you to do the introduction on-unit. I'm sure things can change day to day, but that's the case for the hospital my wife works at, and is what we were advised to do when we're going to attempt some food re-introductions in a few months for our child.
Did you forget /s?

/s
Sure, using 64bits is one way but many devices i.e. IOT don't need 64bit support. 64 bit will definitely be a standard, but a concurrent standard can be implemented to allow keeping the time in 32 bits. Starting a new epoch every 50 years could be one. So starting from 1 Jan 2020 we're in epoch 2 now
negligible isn't zero, and time at a universe scale may be longer.
(I was answering to the previous comment wondering if ramdisks still have any interesting usage nowadays.)

About 150 TBW endurance on a 250 GB Samsung M.2 NVMe Evo 970+. On paper that is, but since it is the OS SSD with Windows Server 2022 STD (sole DC AD/DHCP/DNS/Hyper-V), in production, I won't take any risk. RAID 1 in this scenario would have changed nothing. On the side, I have 40 TB RAID10 for storage.

So I cancelled the first C2 exec (with C2 encrypt on) when I reached 195 TBW on the SSD. Monitoring the ramdisk use still shows about 3:4 ratio on complete snapshot.

I have about 1 million files on the 2,29 TB data to backup.

I had indeed the RAM sticks available for free, simply had to take them (2x16 GB ) from a decomissioned ML350 Gen9 (which uses DDR4-2133P ECC Reg). It now serves me as a bench, litterally.
«Computationally universal»? Are you quite sure? Hoo boy pass the nitroglycerin hooooo aaah ohh after 80 years Turing was proven right after all ghasp
Obviously, there are exceptions in every direction and not all whiskeys are made the same, but bourbon is probably a lot closer to "barrel strength" than you think, it's a big part of why older bourbons are generally more expensive (higher proof, lower volume). Most bourbons aren't sold at barrel strength simply because they are blends of multiple barrels.

To my understanding, for bourbon any water added to the product is generally done prior to aging in the barrel. After that most of bottle proof comes from blending different ages of bourbon (because barrel ABV generally increases with age due to the angel's share and other factors) or different barrels of the same age that started at different (water cut) proofs to begin with (depending on the type of bourbon and its age statements).

On the factor of age, it is my understanding 60-70% ABV is expected for something closer to 7-10 year old bourbon and 3-5 years old (which is often the majority) is "naturally" closer to that 45-50% you see in the majority of bottles on store shelves.
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For some reason, seeing wrong comment after wrong comment like the above is just exhausting.

Why are people struggling so hard to understand that it's not just regurgitating its training set? Is it motivated reasoning?

Apologies if your comment was meant as parody of this view, it's hard for me to tell at this point.
Time moving in one direction actually has decent reasoning and is not a superstition. It's just we can't detect time moving backwards with now-current instruments. As soon as instruments allow, humanity will change rather quickly.
Nevermind he just updated the thread.

>Terms of the bet: ideally someone can set up a smart contract where BTC is worth >$1M in 90 days, then I win. If it's worth less than $1M in 90 days, then the counterparty gets the $1M in USD.

https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1636827051419389952?s=20
I just this week did something similar for a line of business app API I'm migrating. I added code to the API to record all unique requests to a .http/.rest format file (natively supported in vlatest Visual Studio 22 and via extension in VS Code). I can then play those back manually or via automated integration tests that read the .http files. Yes, I'm hand-waving over authentication and downstream database and 3rd party APIs, but overall it's working well to quickly test against tons of production-like API calls.
>You are not an independent contractor if you perform services that can be controlled by an employer (what will be done and how it will be done)."

I never understood what this means exactly, and I think a lot of other people are confused.

It clearly doesn't mean that a contractor decide to install a sink when I asked them to install a toilet. It doesnt mean that if I pay them to do it to code, they can decide to disregard the codes.
why? it's no worse than drupal or any other CMS.
Do these fiery debates help? I say as someone who also was like this in my late teens.

I do local advocacy for transit and civic planning related purposes in a US city. A lot of the "work" is really boring, just going to long public meetings and listening to SMEs drone about very specific issues. But that's where the sausage gets made. Our local transportation department is very receptive to the public's urban concerns and is doing a lot of great work. But they're blocked right now. Not just because their funding is uncertain or due to cranky old neighbors, but mostly because they have staff shortages as Baby Boomers retire. There's nothing we activists can do about this, we can't campaign for a measure or bill that puts butts into seats.

If you go to Youtube or online North American urbanist forums though, folks aren't interested in these local issues at all. A lot of it is raving and ranting about how the US puts cars first and hates its people. This is fun to get emotional about (and believe me I've had enough close run-ins with cars as a pedestrian or cyclist to feel the rage) but doesn't actually materially affect our local urban conditions. But it's a lot less fun to talk about budget appropriation and staffing politics and much more fun to get angry at the GM Streetcar Conspiracy, so nobody does.

I'm not saying these topics aren't important; if you're new to the issue it's important to understand why North American built environments are the way they are. But what's more important is working to change the reality around you, not getting wrapped up in online debates.
Of course they want to you to drink it however you like, the more you drink the more money they make.
it's funny you mention flashlights. NO matter how many times I tell people not to point their flashlight at people's eyes, it happens (by accident) over and over. It bothers me a lot because I am very good at getting my eyes dark-adapted and as soon as somebody flashes me, I lose about 10 minutes of dark vision.
Neat concept. In regulated environments, how would you propose implementing this to minimize the spread of live, regulated data into non-prod environments? think full PANs (PCI) etc.

I don't know that there's necessarily a wrong answer here (well, there probably are, but wrong only in the sense that a given solution might be prohibited by the regulation), just want to see how y'all have thought through the prompt.
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Hey same! My last minipc had intel, and it was so bad I just ran it in 2.4ghz mode.

My latest one has an MTK chip by no choice of my own, and it works fantastic. Shame on Intel.
Interesting, this isn't the only life changing invention. Riding horseback was one of them. Cars, then GPS. Internet instead of books. Social sites instead of in-person skills. And so on.

The main danger of AI 'experts' is, in my opinion, the information bubble they create. They not only suggest, eventually they will drive your thoughts. In the direction their builders want. That will be crowd control even worst than Facebook was at it's peak. Currently we know that ChatGPT has woke bias embedded. But that's not the end, right?
Hjälp mig med en uppsats om Ventimiglia i Italien. Den skall handla om fredagsmarknaden.
I will try another analogy. What if we have a parrot with exceptional memory, which can not only repeat things it heard some time ago, but to continue words it hearing now. I come to the cage and say: "Cogito?" and parrot continue "Ergo sum!". Is parrot intelligent and able to reason, even if I do not know about Descartes?
No I don't think it's in kernel support, I think that Nobara linux has been patched to support it.

It's not a recommendation to go and buy a Realtek card, I was just sharing my anecdote.
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> My scotch drinking friends think it antithetical to add a splash or even drink on the rocks.

The flavor compounds in each liquor are different, and volatile chemical reactions take place depending on dilution and temperature. You literally can't taste some things unless you add water or lower temperature. If they never add water or cold/ice, they're just missing out on flavor.

https://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i5/whisky-and-how-do-you-bes...

"Although Hughes’s specialty is on the chemistry of distillation, he has some advice for appreciating whisky: Add some water to the spirit to increase your experience of the flavor.

Here’s his logic: When you add water to alcohol that’s at 40% concentration—as it is in whisky—the combination doesn’t mix into a homogeneous solution, Hughes says. It may appear that way by eye, but on a molecular level, you have clusters of alcohol in a background of water. Without added water, he says, those hydrophobic clusters hold onto flavor, and the drinker doesn’t get the full effect of whisky in the mouth. But, Hughes explains, when you start adding water, those hydrophobic clusters begin to break up, so more of the flavor reaches the tongue.

Hughes recommends adding a little bit of water to the spirit at a time until you find a flavor profile you like or you reach a 2:1 whisky-to-water ratio.

“Often people say you shouldn’t add water to whisky,” Hughes says. “But I’m of the view that it’s your drink and you can do what you like with it.”"
> It just didn't work: senior engineers simply didn't find the things we could offer them compelling enough.

I wonder if you would would have had better luck targeting engineers on the cusp, or people with significant experience who didn't have the confidence to identify as senior.

That was my situation when I started using Triplebyte, and the assessments did wonders for my confidence.

I did however end up taking a counter-offer from my company that promoted me to lead.

However, I raved about Triplebyte to everyone I knew (similarly unconfident engineers considering a job change), and would have loved to continue doing so, as well as using it on my next job search.

I'm really sad to hear you couldn't make it work, it was excellent from the candidate side of things.
Your Scotch drinking friends are wrong.

Source: previous contributing researcher & author on a whisky book. Member of the Scotch Malt Whisky Society. Lived in Scotland. But also, just visit any distillery there. They’ll serve it with a very small pitcher of water, usually from the same stream they use to produce it. IIRC The Macallan even sell bottles of the water from their stream so you can mix it with the same water yourself at home.
Volcanoes on Venus?
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Agree. someone I know involved in the field views LLMs precisely this way : they are a direct attack on human psychology, because their primary training criteria is to make up sets of words that humans believe sound plausible. Not truth, fact based and certainly not in our interests. Just, "what would a human be unable to reject as implausible". When you view it this way, they are almost like human brain viruses - a foreign element that is specifically designed to plug into our brains in an undetectable way and then influence us. And this virus is something that nothing in human evolution has prepared us for. Deployed at scale for any kind of influence operation (advertising or otherwise) it is kind of terrifying to think about.
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My uber-obscure question that guaranteed a confident hallucination got fixed in the next update after I mentioned it. Probably just a coincidence.
Is meatloaf really unhealthy?
Sure and it will be used widely. What I'm proposing is how to measure the time with only 32 bit used and the solution could be a new epoch every 50 years.
Repeating what others have said in this thread:

The author claims: chatGPT has a 1400 chess ELO based on games played.

You appear to think author claims: chatGPT plays chess like a human rated 1400.

Your observations do not contradict the authors’ claim that based on games won and lost against opponents of a specific strength, the estimated ELO is 1400.

A non-human player can make illegal moves at a much higher rate and make up for that by being stronger when it does not make illegal moves to achieve the same rating as a human player who plays the game in a completely different way.
California minimum wage is $15.50/hr, and in San Francisco it is $17/hr. There is no guarantee that rideshare drivers make anything close to that much while they are on the job. When you factor in vehicle depreciation, fuel, payroll taxes, health and auto insurance and all other costs associated with the job (that the employer doesn't have to pay because you are an independent contractor), a lot of them are actually losing money.
For me, the reason is simply that I like having a blog. Truth be told, I have no readers. I only post once in a blue moon, or whenever inspiration strikes, so that's to be expected.

A good blog can surely lead to all of what you're mentioning, but personally I wouldn't get into blogging with high expectations of any such benefit.

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I’m convinced he is trolling, he posted another tweet where he says this:

> This isn't your typical fractional reserve situation. The problem is that there isn't enough in the banks on a mark-to-market basis to cover withdrawals.

How are people going to withdraw money and not put it into another bank? This guy is just saying ridiculous shit for attention, there’s no way he’s this stupid.

Again, his thesis is that bank withdrawals will cause banks to collapse and hyperinflation. It’s not possible for this to happen, there’s not enough physical cash to cause banks to collapse from withdrawals, and if you take money out of a bank in a non-cash form, where will you put it?
> What does that mean, to "need" to talk? What are you looking to get out of the conversation? Do you need advice because you don't know what to do? Do you feel alone and isolated and need evidence that you are not?

I had the exact same experience as you, and have zero faith in the institution of psychology, but also had a recent revelation that led me to appreciate the "talk about it" angle.

In cases of things like perceived injustice, sometimes you just need some validation. Using CSA as an example, something may feel very wrong, but all other signs (and even perhaps the people around you) suggest that everything is as it should be. It creates a crippling cognitive dissonance. Doesn't help that everyone and their dog knows what gaslighting is these days-- and are generous in dispensing it.

You can't punch your way out of that situation; it's unhelpful in every way. The people around you may be criminally complicit and actually colluding against you. You can't bottle it up either; it'll eat away at you and manifest in some nasty ways later. Short of faking your own death and moving to Thailand, the only way out of that fog is to solicit a second opinion from an outside, objective source so you can address it.

It's less about advice and more about closure. You feel like something is wrong, and you want to be told (a) you're crazy and here's a treatment plan, or (b) you were right all along and by-the-way-I-called-CPS.

(Of course, the kids are gaming this with therapists in telling only the favorable half of the story; you get out of therapy what you put into it. Bullshit in, bullshit out.)
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Not sure if you appreciate this, but if you repeat the shaking experiment enough times, you will see it return to perfect order- at some exceptionally tiny probability. I'm pretty sure you are saying that but instead of "practical amount", it's easier to say it's just exceptionally unlikely.
fair point - but pretty cool about your ruby script - taking a look :)

Thanks
When I saw a link to this page I was expecting some light announcement about how important AI is to the UK and a couple of other vague thoughts.

So was pleasantly surprised to see they've already produced a (little) bit of a range of content. Possibly one or more of their pieces would be of more interest for someone else to submit to discuss around the actual content rather than this topic of ICO/AI overall...
Yes.

Though to be clear you can do this on any browser now, since PDF.js is the tool which gained this functionality, and is openly distributed and widely used.
I’m not confident the “moral norms” prevalent in SV and/or US academia are common, if by that you mean norms that are prevalent in the general populace.
Personally it reads like they are talking about a problem they perceive the world is doing. If therapy was the “go to” thing, wouldn’t more people be in it? Wouldn’t it be more accessible by now? Maybe 20% of people seek it in a year.

What about how many people see the “go to” thing as a sign of weakness? It’s just hard to make these blanket statements, that’s why I commented.
1) It's mistaken responses ('hallucinations') come largely from it missing data and having to interpolate something in spite of that; if you ask it about things that it definitely has information on it can be pretty reliable (though not perfect I'm sure). ('missing data' is definitely a simplification, but it's roughly the idea.)

2) It has the potential to be far superior to a search engine because its data is indexed not only by casual natural language, but via your personal 'vocabulary': e.g. you could say things like, "what was that song Jules' friend recommended to me last week?". Not that you could get very far with current models, but what'd be required is a matter of magnitude rather than kind: e.g. for the above scenario, for it to over time aggregate info about an acquaintance or your schedule etc., it mostly just needs an extended 'memory,' which is something inroads are already being made on in GPT-4.
I'm just curious, what do you think should happen here?

Imagine you are hosting a demo for fun, and people do some nefarious (by your own estimation) things with it. So, rationally, you decide to not allow that sort of thing anymore.

You don't really owe people an explanation, it's a free country and all, but it's nice to avoid getting bombarded with questions. Now what do you write up? Spend hours writing an essay on the moral boundaries for LLMs? Maybe shove a note onto the internet and go back to all the copious spare time you have as grad student?
What a pretentious bunch of gatekeeping nonsense.

Clearly, ESR (and anyone following the tenets of documents like this) are not actually interested in teaching anyone anything. They have a truly transactional perspective on "Question Asking" in that some questions are "worthy of answering" and others aren't. People who "Take without giving back" (his words) are exactly those who you're teaching. They absorb knowledge directly from those providing the answers.

Teaching is the act of understanding where your audience is in the learning process, and leading/guiding them through that journey in a kind and patient way. The truly ignorant don't know how to ask the question. Think of a child who's first learning computer programming. Think of an adult who's studying a foreign language for the first time. Think of the questions of a child who's never experienced snow.

> What we are, unapologetically, is hostile to people who seem to be unwilling to think or to do their own homework before asking questions. People like that are time sinks — they take without giving back, and they waste time we could have spent on another question more interesting and another person more worthy of an answer. We call people like this “losers” (and for historical reasons we sometimes spell it “lusers”).

And this is why "internet hostility" is a thing. Good job creating this horrible culture right from the start.

Please don't follow the advice of this column. Be patient. Encourage anyone and everyone to ask questions, even if they're "duplicates" or "easy to answer". Use the Socratic Method (ask questions that lead to more questions). Actually teach people things.
I had an ex that did this based on fantasy novels. "Why can't you be more of a man's man?" "What, from your romance novels?" "Yes!" "Ummm..."

Ironically, the thought never even occurred to me to respond with "Why can't you be more of a <insert stereotypical sought after characterization here>?"

Oh well, we haven't been together for a long time. :)

Point being, it's not just instagram or even social media at large. They've just made the situation worse. This is deep rooted in most of society and isn't going to end any time soon. Just need to find people that are strong enough to not fall victim to this (even if they don't bring it up, like our partners did).
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When our persona becomes our prison
Yeah, in USSR we also had these corn puffs(Кукурузные Палочки). Bamba is different despite looking the same. It has very "peanutty" taste (and ingridient) unlike the corn puffs which are just sweet.
It should be possible to attach 'accelerators' or 'special skills'. So that when playing with ChatGPT you will be actually facing GNU Chess.
> Therapy can be helpful but we’re leaving a lot on the table if that is the only solution we have.

Doesn't sound like you disagree with the author. She's not saying therapy is always bad, just that it's not always good. This seems common sense. The question is, when is it better to get therapy than not to get therapy, what kind of therapy, with whom, and so on.
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