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> OpenAI made the extraordinary and IMO under-discussed decision to use an open API specification format, where every API provider hosts a text file on their website saying how to use their API. This means even this plugin ecosystem isn’t a walled garden that only the first mover controls. I don’t fully understand why they went this way, but I’m grateful they did.

It's a good point and some have already got this to work:

https://twitter.com/vaibhavk97/status/1639281937545150465

Given that there's no technical obstacles to drop-in compatibility here, I wonder if we'll soon start seeing exclusivity requirements and such.
Same, and it was born out of past experience with Nintendo, actually.
Ask HN: Things that blew your mind as a programmer and/or computer scientist?
Things can include anything. It may be a new programming language, a book, a course, a new tool or utility, new theory or algorithm. Just anything that blew your mind in a positive transformative way.
<< Do you think it's difficult to consider the cops in family might be bad?

Not at all..I accept we are all humans.

That said, define bad for me so that we are not talking about fairly relative and abstract terms and can be easily misconstrued.

For example, I do not want to get into specifics and you are certainly right that they would be foolish to disclose their own transgressions if any were committed for several different reasons.

However, the conversations we did have on some events[1] they were not involved in painted a relatively close picture of their thought process and considerations at play. I am going to paraphrase and try to capture the gist of that conversation in sentences that follow where 'they' refers to the cops on the scene ( and to an extent the blue shield/line phenomenon ).

In short, one of their own fucked up. They knew he fucked up, but they tried to protect him from immediate fallout. As related, they said family was paid off, but 'could not keep their mouths shut', which is where the resentment was with those who did not hold up their end of the bargain that was supposedly struck. And naturally, when the case made national news, everyone was pissed, because assumption was that money bought silence on the matter ( who footed the bill for that silence was not clear, but, presumably taxpayer ).

Now, the political fallout makes it more complicated, because the rank and file has had the impression that case was informally settled and, from their perspective, it was 'over'. Rank and file finds out they get no cover from leadership and so the thin blue line only grows stronger as a result.

Now, you might be thinking: "This is exactly what I am talking about. If you participate in any way in this, you are the bad guy.'

I urge you to consider what you would have done. This case was a clearly fucked up case. I would like to think I would have stood up.

That said, as a cop, just like when you are a doctor, or a lawyer or any other high stakes job, you will eventually make a mistake that will result in someone dying. You will fuck up. And in some extreme cases, you will kill someone. That is the reality of that job. And it is a lot to take in.

There are logical consequences to what I just said and I absolutely recognize it can be horrifying. There is a reason I compared cops to doctors and lawyers, because I think this could help offset some of the issues should we ever get to an actual working improvement of police in US, but I don't want to get too far ahead of this conversation.

With that in mind lets go through some of the scenarios:

'if you know your actions in the course of work may end up killing someone are you automatically a bad person?'
'if you identify with a group, because you understand the toll it takes, are you automatically a bad person?'
'if you become a member of that group, because $absolute_number_of_members did $bad_thing, are you automatically a bad person?'

I have more questions along those lines, but I worry that I already threw out a lot into the ether so I am curious of your response.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Laquan_McDonald
This was a reference to some politician (I don't recall which) not knowing the price of a single banana.
Looks wise, it reminds me of my Legion 5i Pro 2022 if only for the back part (I/O, exhaust). There's more laptop behind the display unlike most laptop designs where the display is the edge.
If you won't have kids you are by definition worse off than your parents and all your ancestors since the beginning of time, because reproduction is the definite measure of success.
<< One question I consider: is a cop that never violates anyone’s civil rights, but also does nothing when their coworkers do, considered a good cop?

It is not a bad question to ask. Lets do what lawyers do: change one fact and see how it affects the case at hand.

Issue at hand is bad behavior of individuals in a group. Is individual guilty of actions committed by other individuals while being part of that group?

I suppose it depends.

Is a random US citizen guilty of actions of their politicians?
Is a random US citizen guilty of actions of their sheriffs?
Is a random US citizen guilty of actions of their neighbors?
Is a random US citizen guilty of actions of their partners?
Is a random US citizen guilty of actions of their kids?

I have problem with either of those despite seeing clearly what you are getting at. Starting from the bottom, I have a problem with 'sins of the father' justification all the way to the politician. I see an abstract reasoning that can take us to 'yes, inaction is a choice too', but is it in the same category? Does it even have the same weight?

<< There were even active coverups, Kentucky’s Attorney General went to great lengths to push the idea that the entire thing was perfectly legal!

Chicago is not better. Some stories are heart-wrenching and, as I stated before, I would not be able to be a cop just based on those alone, but I personally think you are trying to spread sin way too thin, which, contrary to what you think you are doing, is only distributing accountability even further and alienate even those, who could reasonably agree with you otherwise.

In very simple terms, if you are gonna define me as bad apple anyway by association only, I might as well stick to my tribe, where at least I will have some level of protection from the outside.

And that, I think, is the true problem.
Water pipe grid throughout the 3D piece?
'Sparks of AGI' – Bombshell GPT-4 Paper: Fully Read with 15 Revelations
I don’t because those experiences are usually frustrating. Website chat bots give you a link to the support docs and leave you to find your answer there and company voice chat is famously limited (“agent” “Agent” “AGENT” 0 0 0 0)

Seems like LLMs would be much better than those right out of the gate.

I will often use “chat with a person” over “call a person” if that is offered because it’s usually easier to be precise in chat and just copy-paste order numbers or whatever.
i was talking about high priced food inflation which GP claimed consumers have no control over.

Not sure how this would be relevant.
So you're saying just because this is an entirely different economy, country, currency, money supply growth rate, central bank and interest rate regimen, that this means the elites aren't conspiring to do the thing they hate more than anything else, the thing that causes them to intentionally decrease jobs and employment to prevent?
> Imagine being a rational human looking at g7 central banks adding 40% to the money supply in <2 years, and your focus is "everything is a factor, there no one culprit" for price inflation.

Imagine being a rational human and deciding that a war involving two of the biggest agricultural exporters in Europe, one of whom is also one of the main exporters of oil and gas, as well as a ton of different important materials (nickel, steel, fertilizers, etc.), after 2 years of pandemic that crippled global supply lines and resulted in explosion of prices in many raw materials, have combined absolutely no impact on prices anywhere.
If you discuss your ideas in public on main street and people got mad at you would you feel the same way? Why is reddit special?
Sometimes it makes sense to stay in your niche. The Thinkpad is never going to be huge in the consumer market; being marginally thinner probably won't have a big impact in the institutional market; having the only decent pointing stick on the market is a deciding factor for a certain niche.

I'm trying to decide whether my next laptop will be a Framework or a Thinkpad. If the Framework was available with a pointing stick, the decision would be made. If the Thinkpad wasn't, the decision would be made. The other things that have attracted me to Thinkpads are repairability and Linux support, but Framework does those better.

I'm on my sixth Thinkpad, and there are definitely more out there with the same preferences.
You showed the evidence in your own post. The return to Biden brought the return of typical American foreign policy, which Trump upset. This foreign policy plan has basically been the same under Bush, Obama, and Biden.

The last time Putin pushed the Ukraine issue was under Obama. Under Trump’s watch, Putin didn't dare touch Ukraine.

If I was Putin, and I wanted to invade a country, I would sure as hell prefer Biden as the opponent than Trump. Trump might actually finish the war before it starts. Biden is still trying to remember he's president.
Or 3D videogames, most aren't even stereoscopic.
The RIAA vs. Steve Jobs
You can promote those values, but all it takes is one person that doesn't operate by the same ethical system as you to invalidate everything. In the case of MAD that means the annihilation of the world. The more people the technology spreads to, the more chances it has to fall into one of those hands. And unfortunately, those people are always going to exist among the ~8 billion humans alive, somewhere.

All this brings me back to the Vulnerable World Hypothesis proposed by Nick Bostrom. In fact global totalitarian surveillance that stamps out all potentially dangerous research is one of his few proposed solutions in his paper. I don't know if I can stomach such a solution, but I think we are living the early stages of such a world that forces such questions to be asked, not one in which we picked out a "black ball" that will make us go extinct, but a sort of "green ball" that irreversibly poisons specific parts of collective humanity.

I would personally be in favor of OpenAI keeping GPT-4 and future models proprietary, much as it won't affect the open source spirit. Random hackers with powerful GPUs generating terabytes of SEO spam are less visible to the world and more difficult to hold publicly accountable than a huge corporation with billions in funding.
It requires quite a bit of role framing, as well as having it walk it's own steps in a verifying pass. But for an assistant helping a new/junior attorney it is quite unnervingly helpful.
Are people actually allowing it to perform actual software development?

State your assumptions.

Read and summarize the pervious documents

generate a data flow diagram.

generate a data model.

Get it to inquire about use cases and requirements

generate tests for these uses cases and requirements.
That's good that they've picked a winner in a sense, because there seems to be duplication of effort across two similar sites:

https://swiftpackageindex.com

https://swiftpackageregistry.com
It's Missouri, so I highly doubt the money is equally distributed among libraries.

You can see where aid goes here: https://www.sos.mo.gov/library/development/stateaid/default

And then you can look up or estimate the total spend for each of those community's libraries.

Likely this means approximately nothing for most suburban, urban, and exurban/college town/resort town/etc. library systems. Those communities can easily cover the difference, and their libraries have large enough budgets that a 20K hit is barely felt. Might lose some overtime or a very part-time librarian, or reduce some fringe services, or most likely just re-appropriate a rounding error's worth of local funds to make up the difference.

Very well might mean a death sentence or significant service degradation for many of the state's rural libraries.
A Paradise for All the Relentless Radicalism of Benjamin Lay
Here are some things that are still better via website:

* Browsing

* Visual layout of complex information

* Interactive experiences

* Recent information

* Interactions with deterministic rules like non-trivial games or preserving state

* Data persistence

But LLMs are proving better than websites for:

* Extracting information and meaning from content

* Combining information from disparate sources

* Complex queries

* Generating content

But LLMs are catching up fast
Does anyone have any 3DS Eshop game recommendations I need to buy before the closure? Unique stuff that can't be obtained on other platforms?
> In an inflationary economy, the winners are rich who have valuable assets whose value skyrocket - think real estate, businesses, etc.

Uh, that's not true in the slightest?

Are you completely unaware of what's happened in the stock market and real estate market over the past year (these are the examples you provided lol)?
The fix is to produce more stuff. It's that simple. It might not be easy though. It would require us to focus on production, remove barriers, streamline regulations, encourage and actively celebrate production.

It seems these days we're ambivalent toward the production of stuff, or even antagonistic to it in many cases. So we have less stuff. Combine this with giving people more money and you get inflation.
I'll occasionally get paper spam from the NRA. When it contains a business reply envelope, I send back a note asking when they're going to stand up for Breonna Taylor - one of the most important second amendment cases of our time. I know it's futile as they're just corrupt scammers, but their vacuous performative hypocrisy really fucking bothers me. "tHeYRE CoMInG tO tAkE yOUr gUnS!!1!"
because yeah, if this happens it will definitely be the only thing the leg does, this definitely isn't just the first thing they got out of committee.
Entertainment has winner-take-all / power-law dynamics due to cultural cohesion and limits on human attention (I want to watch what other people, and my time is limited), which is why a relatively small number of them make a good living.

Software development, as an employment opportunity, does not have these same dynamics.
"ChatGPT, a proprietary instruction-following model" pun intended.
Clock skew unfortunately makes that scale a little impractical, but yeah it would be great to have mechanisms to delegate endpoint certificate issuance to much shorter timescales
Another problem I've seen is that the default data binding being taught to new comers is slow. At least slow enough for a team I was on to later have switched to an approach (called OnPush) where you must manually tell the UI when to update with calls to detectChanges() all over the place. The way to avoid that is to fully embrace Reactice Extensions, but that seems to be very hard to grasp for a lot of developers that instead work around the library in all sorts of quirky ways (subscription()'s everywhere, that you must remember to dispose, that calls detectChanges()....).

Edit: Found this old GitHub issue I stumpled upon when looking up why this performance improvement wasn't the default.. I think these comments are interesting:

> Both OnPush and zone coalescing would, however, change the default semantics of building Angular apps. This is outside the scope of the feature.

> We did discuss this a couple of months ago and felt that we shouldn’t since it would complicate things for new user which are not familiar with change detection.

https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/issues/21278
What a great time to be in this field. It’s advancing so quickly!
"LoRAd" was right there.
You know very little about my life and I'd like to keep it this way.
One would think that I live in a pure sellers market, but this is not true because of dynamics similar to that in the show. The comparison is clearly hyperbole evident by the use of an absurt fictional situation and not meant to express an equality relationship but one of equivalence (learn category theory bitch). It is very insightful, if you ask me, to recognise one's own predicament by empathising with the struggles of a fictional character, and this is what at the end of the day literary critique is all about. That there might be something hard about my life because of organised socially accepted structural abuse is all the more made evident by the briga-dooning and gasslighting I receive for dealing with my own issues in jest. I guess I must be one of the lucky girls.
Does this mean that someone could decrypt a old dump of traffic between a client and GitHub?
If so, this means that every repo on GitHub must be assumed to have been leaked?
<< and then get hired the next county over.

And that.. can probably be changed. Qualified immunity would be much harder.
Can rank decomposition be used to reduce the original weight matrices as well? Or are they assumed to be compressed already?
$4 million is a lot of money for a library and completely unnecessary in current economic conditions
This exact thing is happening currently in Utah.
Then your rulers have successfully put you in the exact spot they wanted. Now stop wasting time on HackerNews and go be productive for your lords! There are profits, taxes and interest to be paid!
You don't have to live in "extreme poverty" to have to pay attention to every penny you use.

Expenses across the board have skyrocketed in the past year. Try and read some stories about what people living in colder, rural areas in Northern Europe (Scotland, Scandinavia, etc.) have had to deal with and you would start to get an idea.

If your rent suddenly increased by 30%, and winter heating bill tripled since last year and food costs 25% more than a year ago, then a lot of people with normally sufficient income would be having financial issues.
But the code isn't the most important part. The training is.
The Child as Hacker (2020) [pdf]
> are all pronounced the same way

No they're not.
I feel the same about future artists, sadly. If a computer can paint, then maybe no one is going to bother to learn how to paint.
So that leaves... film reviews?
A football match is a one on one competition between two teams. If they cease to compete, it ceases to be a competition.

The equivalent isn't a couple of cycling teams collaborating in a multi-team race because they believe the peloton/echelon at a particular stage of the race will ultimately improve one their members' chances of success later in the race, it's a team involved in a pursuit race deciding to ride as slowly as possible to let the weaker team win for strategic reasons. I presume this is frowned upon too...
> Modern languages have two patterns for more complex memory management

I count four, even if you discount pure static pre-allocation:

1. Manual dynamic memory allocation and deallocation, as with malloc() and free() and, in C++, new and delete, possibly augmented with things like RAII which don't fundamentally change it.

1.5. Reference counting lives somewhere in here, between pure manual allocation/deallocation and true garbage collection, in that it automates some aspects of resource management but needs some extra manual help to deal with circular data structures that real garbage collection has no problem with.

2. Garbage collection, in multiple different algorithms and optimizations.

3. Linear types, which enable static lifetime analysis, as is done in Rust.

4. Purely declarative languages and other extremely high-level languages that effectively take it out of the programmer's hands entirely and handle everything implicitly.
> I also agree that low rates were good as you could invest in property with leverage and in businesses which could borrow and raise money to cheaply to grow.

You can't get something from nothing.

This was simply subsidizing business borrowing / capitalists at the expense of the labor's purchasing power.

It shouldn't be a mystery why inequality sky-rocketed to surpass Belle Epoch levels under ZIRP.
That is a valuable observation. Juice engages our senses and creates a more full-body experience. In a game, that level of immersion is desirable, because it puts us in a world we want to be in.

I think it’s important to respect that not every person using a software wants to be doing so, and we should minimize the literal amount of time and energy it takes to use.

Such apps can still be beautiful, of course (a job well done ought to look it) but with a quiet beauty that acknowledges their place in the hierarchy of importance to the user.

This is why sometimes, for me, the juiciest feeling an app can give is just doing the thing I wanted instantly. The “pop” of new UI into place within milliseconds is very satisfying, especially if the layout doesn’t shift as a result.
> In addition to the problems stated in the article that you're ignoring here

What problems, exactly? The author acknowledged cargo works but hand-waves over vague claims of "it does not track dependencies well or support arbitrary build graphs", followed by acknowledging those issues are either non-issues or solved problems whose solution was dismissed without any good reason (caching tools).

The author's claims boil down to "I wanted to shoehorn Bazel but had no good reason to, so I double-down on Bazel's only selling point while ignoring everything".

It's ok if anyone just wants to try stuff without having any rational or coherent argument to justify it, but let's not call that "problems".
Demand for food is highly elastic. Food is not a homogenous substance that costs the same to produce each kind. When people are feeling more flush, they will consume more expensive food products (lobster, beef, fish, berries, mussels) and when they are feeling more price conscious they will economize on cheaper products (wheat, lentils, rice, tofu, chicken, beans, vegetables), and by wasting less food. We're talking about literally thousands of different ingredients and products, produced in different ways in different regions, that can to one extent or an other be substituted for each other.
Back when I was using AWS CloudFormation, I found a need to use Troposphere [0] to do some logic that couldn't be done in CloudFormation itself. When I switched to Terraform most of those problems went away since there is even better ways to perform simple programming logic in it.

Maybe there are some use cases where you still need to perform logic outside of Terraform where AsCode could be useful to some people.

I've seen the Starlark configuration language used in other places, such as Telegraf [0], but I think this is an interesting use of it.

[0] https://troposphere.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

[1] https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/plugins/p...
China's ability to influence US mass psychology via TikTok is a greater threat than the privacy considerations.
Passion is, I think, where you want something. Perhaps you're looking for the feeling of achievement or validation or whatever - and you're prepared to make an extra effort to get it.

We have to work to get money live but since we spend a lot of time doing work we might be trying to look for more than money from it.

But work isn't a reliable source of nice things and if you build your entire ego upon it you'll end up having times of terrible withdrawal when things don't go well. You cannot "get work satisfaction" always and in some companies you never get it.

So, IMO, having something else (anything) which you can draw positive feelings of achievement or validation from is sensible.

I think I get the most long term satisfaction from family milestones: I stuck it long enough in the bad job to get the permanent residence permits - nothing about the job matters anymore as it achieved the result I needed. Now I need to pay off the house .... and so on.
I think both outcomes are potentially disastrous, to be honest. I can't decide which would be worse.