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The technology hadn't clicked for me either. Today I had to write a script for which it would have taken me maybe 30 minutes or so on my own. I asked ChatGPT (GPT-4) to write it for me, and it got it right in the first try. I just spent a few minutes checking over the code.

It truly is magical when the code just runs. Later I asked it to make several non-trivial changes to the code based on more requirements I thought of, and it aced those on the first go as well. Again, I checked the code for a negligible amount of time - compared to how much it would have taken me to write the code on my own.

I do think humans will slowly get worse at lower-layers of the computer stack. But I don't think there's anything inherently bad with it. Compilers are also doing the work for you, and they are making you bad at writing assembly code - but would you rather live in a world where everyone has to hand-write tedious assembly-code?

Maybe, in the future, writing Python would be like what writing assembly is today. We might go down the layer-cake once in a while to work with Python code. That does not mean we give up on the gains we get from whatever layers are going to be put on top of Python.
Yup. And jQuery, awesome as it was, wasn't designed to address the state issue. But it was the best DOM abstraction, so that was the backbone (no pun intended) for many pre-framework applications. It was a spaghetti nightmare.
Taste is still taste of course. It's extremely... Lynchian.

This is mostly because Lynch changed a lot as a director since the original Twin Peaks. He brought that growth with him into The Return, and so it's basically a completely different beast. It was never going to be anything like the old show.

I loved it through and through. I enjoyed it even more on repeat viewing when I wasn't constantly waiting for Coop to "wake up".

Lynch is an acquired taste though, I get that for sure.
Quick takeaway:

> Mice that were genetically altered to be unable to produce their own FGF21 took around an hour and a half longer to wake up than normal mice. But regular mice given an extra dose of FGF21 woke up twice as fast than those that hadn’t received a shot. Drunk mice that were injected with FGF21 were also able to keep their balance for longer than their peers while placed on a slowly rotating platform.

Honestly my first thought was for personal use - “oh I’m way drunker than I want to be right now, where did I stash that FGF21…” - wonder if that adds danger of drunk driving, if people think they took the shot so they should be able to drive safely as a result, or if they get pulled over they can pass a sobriety test easier.
Why exactly does a cookbook make more sense to rent than a novel? I'm very confused by this consensus in this thread.

Cookbooks if anything seem more useful to buy since they can sit in or near your kitchen and you can grab them and use them. Whereas you read a novel only every so often past the first read?
mine is "gcm <commit msg>", just modify the oh-my-zsh git alias plugin. it's fast and good to memorize.
As someone dealing with this right now, the challenges are multilayered. You need someone who's an expert at the underlying math and physics, then they also need to understand optimal GPU programming patterns and need to be convinced of the value of GPU acceleration in the first place.

On top of that, the expert maintaining the HPC code has most likely personally contributed a lot of the things the code is using to run efficiently on CPUs, so proposing large design changes for GPU acceleration also leads to ego clashes because they (somewhat reasonably) don't just want to completely throw out most of their own R&D.

For the application I'm working with, it has taken ~2 years just to get through basic issues like convincing the scientists of the value of GPU acceleration, striking a balance between their existing methods and restructuring large parts for GPU, and convincing them that instead they'll end up having a lot of room to explore new things like methods which utilize both CPU and GPU.
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Is going insane not a form of being destroyed?
Of course he’d be in Montenegro, a place with so much corruption it’s practically out in the open. Rot in Prison, Do Kwon.
I wish it were a little more random in a sense... just enough so that the brain doesn't get "bored" of the evolution of the pattern, but not too much randomness that the randomness itself becomes like white noise (yet another pattern the brain can get "bored" of)

Would be extremely curious if patterns like the one described exist in math.
Not exactly. AI can be a feature when used as dressing on an existing workflow in an existing application.

AI can be a product when it enables new workflows and applications that wouldn't be possible in a meaningful way without it. These are the transformative things people don't see yet because we haven't really had time to process the tech.
I like the idea of expiration dates on laws. Another good idea is requiring Congress to remove old laws in order to pass new laws. But, the second idea is much easier to game.
Amazing that it took this long to find and arrest him.
How do you recount electronic-only elections?
I'm still confused. They present an example where they load data from local storage but do not make it clear how that data is passed out to the app.

What if I'd like to always initialize my app's state with the data in local storage? Let's say I want to initialize from localStorage and pass this to context. Doing so triggers a hydration error in React v18 because the server-side value will never match the hydrated value once set. It seems like a job for useSyncExternalStore since that's what localStorage is (an external key-value store), but the ergonomics of the subscribe function seem odd to me.
yeah, that is a strange comment indeed. A fair justice system is foundamental to being called a free country
When that happens, I guess the only job available will be a resistance fighter in the war against the machines.
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TATP also has another advantage as its not a nitrate based explosive it cannot be easily detected using field kits.
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One aspect I expect to see play out:

Any entity interested in either the truth, or in maintaining some kind of reputation, will need to keep humans in the loop when using these systems. Language models might multiply e.g. ad copy output 10x per worker, and allow micro-targeted campaigns that were impractical before, but it won't allow, say, a 1000x increase, until or unless we can trust these systems not to produce undesirable output when not checked by a human. Ads are tied to brands which will hesitate to put their reputations in the hands of language models without a human verifying that the output is OK. Likewise, any entities wishing to use these to help with writing illuminating, factual works, may see a large benefit, but it'll be limited. 2x, 5x, something like that.

Propaganda, though? Misinfo campaigns, astroturfing, where you hide behind sockpuppets and shell companies anyway? Who gives a shit if one out of every few hundred messages isn't quite right? Worst case, you burn a sockpuppet account. Those can leverage these to the fullest. 1000x output per person involved, compared with, say, 2016 and 2020, may actually be something we can expect to see.
Would love to have an explanation of statistical vs total uncertainty, how they are quantified and how they are different.
IIRC McDonalds still does this for some subset of its corporate workforce.
Skimmed through the report, and all of the allegations will at most amount to a token fine. There's nothing fundamentally wrong with the company. Every bank and money transfer app out there facilitates criminals in some way. Every tech (especially fintech) company is overvalued.

The market is overreacting because of Hindenburg’s past successes, but the stock price has already recovered by 10+ points since this morning and is rising. I predict all of it will amount to nothing in the end.
For Docker purposes I’d rather keep a headless Linux box around that I remote into with a Mac than have to try to live with the Linux desktop as my daily driver.
To be fair, humans exist only because of a long chain of organisms that started with "DNA generates proteins." Granted, it took billions of years for that process to create humans, but it shows that what seems to be a constrained process can have wild outcomes when it feeds itself. And text commands are how these models are defined, trained, deployed, and used.
The reactivity system in react is certainly "outdated" when compared to Vue, Svelte, Solid, or pretty much any newer framework. But it's just as you said, the larger ecosystem does have its benefits. There are a few libraries like Framer motion, that don't have equivalent support in other frameworks.
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I don't quite know how to put it, what follows is a rough draft of an idea, maybe someone can help me to reword it, or perhaps it's trash.

Since its inception, computer science has had two "camps": those who believe CS is engineering, and those who believe CS is mathematics. The reason why we are seeing all of this fuss around LLMs is that they are a new front of this feud. This "extends" the usual debate on emerging technologies between Thymoetes and Laocoon.

Something that works 99 times out of 100 is 99% correct from the first perspective and 100% wrong from the second.

LLMs are therefore a step forward if you take the first view, a step back if you take the second.

If you accept this interpretation, an interesting consequence of it is that your outlook on LLMs is entirely dependent on what amounts to your aesthetic judgement.

And it's very hard not to have rather strong aesthetic judgements on what we do 40 hours a week.
I answer my wife’s phone from time to time and I always feel weird doing it, and feel that I have surprised the other end.

On the other hand, my phone causes ringing on my phone, my IPad and my work laptop: for the love of G-d don’t just watch it or tell me it is ringing, answer the damn phone. U less it says likely scam of course.
I thought they already did censor like that. You can only see lewd stuff in a browser because they censor the fuck out their app stores. I guess this would target browsers too which is why you should be free to run your own software on a phone.
Is it also possible that there isn't much competing cargo from Belgium back to China? If not for tree trunks, the ships/trains go back empty?
Is this actually from the book and if so, what was the context in which it was said?
A good test I have yet to try with ChatGPT / CopilotX:

My 11 year old would like to create a game. Can he talk to these tools (maybe with a tad of assistance from me) and get something working? Then have a place to keep asking questions and keep tweaking?

I find at the grown-up level, the barrier to entry to even reading docs and stackoverflow is actually high. There's a lot of subtle signals we need to use as experts to actually interpret the reliability of information. I can't imagine my 11 yo having the patience to wade through that.
Is Australia the new epicenter for healthtech startups?
Is there an easy way to get exposure to Hindenburg's reports/bets, like some kind of fund that shorts the stocks they report on? Would love to get in on the action, but I'm afraid to open a brokerage account to short stocks and then make a tiny mistake and be out like a hundred grand!
We have some evidence that intelligence is possible, so it isn't quite the same as coordinate jumping.
This same thing happens with windows 10 video editor if you export a file with the same name.
You know who made even more money than people who knew how to use Google? The people who owned Google. That is what GP was asking about, how to become someone who owns the LLM that everyone will ask their questions to.
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Both the use-case and the physical screen have changed so much since 1930s television broadcasts it makes me wonder if you drive a dinosaur to work.
> The default file manager gets wonky scrolling up with an MX Master 3.

If it’s any consolation it’s wonky with a laptop touchpad too.

Like super-annoyingly wonky.

But, something always seems to break after an update. Usually little things but can’t complain because I don’t help out in any way.
My understanding is that it is not entirely open source, in particularly the code through which they deliver ads. How innocuous is that? Can I disable it? Does it do tracking? I can do the research, but if you or anyone knows the answers, please share!
>Have you not noticed changes in your own attention span, memory, and thought processes since the advent of smartphones and tablets?

I have never owned a smart phone or tablet. I use a dumb phone (Nokia 6030) and desktop (or laptop) computers. Smartphones and tablets are terrible computers, not because they have magic screen powers to influence your brain but because they have limited volume for heat dissipation/energy storage, limited network capability due to radio power constraints and random round trip time, terrible IO, locked down software, and generally are ankle bracelet like tracking devices with no way to remove the battery.
About 12,000 before I left in Nov 2021. There was a hiring freeze in place pretty quickly with the pandemic.
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Starbucks doesn't franchise, at least in the US. Though you will find "licensed" stores in airports and such.
> I don't think you have anyone to blame if you give your phone with a logged in money app to a stranger who is begging for money.

> caution others to behave wisely to help avoid being victimized in the same way

In this case though this is not a caution to others, it's literally a statement of victim shaming/blaming.
If the author had bought Bitcoin back in 2010 instead, and held them through all the chaos to this very moment, they would have approximately 20000x their initial investment. I'm not sure what, if anything, that says about crypto being a fad, rather than just cherry-picking historical examples.
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It's the opposite. Only the rich will be able to afford AI-free spaces. Everyone else will become an AI-assisted drone.
> Block targets Black Americans

Even worse. So one of the companies that tries to address/serve the black demographic is being put down but what I assume are not black financial analysts.

Like I've said, this Hindenburg company seems to not be aware of the whole societal background.
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> “This idea of surpassing human ability is silly because it’s made of human abilities.” He says comparing ourselves with AI is the equivalent of comparing ourselves with a car. “It’s like saying a car can go faster than a human runner. Of course it can, and yet we don’t say that the car has become a better runner.”

The analogy to running is flawed because rolling and running are different types of locomotion.

It's not at all clear that computing and thinking are meaningfully different forms of information processing. In fact, we know that we can compute by thinking since I can reduce lambda calculus terms in my head. We also know computers can compute all computable functions, and we know that all physical systems like the brain necessarily contain finite information (per the Bekenstein Bound), therefore they can in principle by simulated by a computable function. There are therefore strong reasons to suspect an underlying equivalency that would suggest that "artificial intelligence" is a sensible term.
> As a user, do you mind navigating these same approaches in the wild? Many time, I prefer leaving to solving a captcha.

Recaptcha doesn't show a challenge to the user. It just silently tells your backend what it thinks of the user.
Are you taking the context window size into consideration? And are you basing this opinion on GPT-3.5 OR 4? ChatGPT does tend to write very flat and full of clichés, but in my experience GPT-4 is far more original and expressive.
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Boots into 8086-mode for free! And supports breadboard speeds and ttl voltages! Who needs a z80/6502 when there are millions of these still lying around? Play with cache, protected-mode, MMU... Imagine an open source 486 motherboard I can order from a PCB company... this reminds me of a Wi-Fi router I bought in the early 2000's that had a 386 in it. I never did check if it ran Linux. And Parallel to Ethernet converter that had a 286 in it... to think that the 286 predated Linux.
It's not about growing a neckbeard. Sometimes you have to unlearn the habits you picked on one side of the fence.

If you took the same attitude towards other platforms, the result would be same.
But there is an unanswered question of how far this technology can go based on its fundamentals. Coding is much like driving, you can't do 80% and let the human do the final 20%, because that final 20% requires reasoning about a well understood design that was implemented throughout the first 80%.

If your fancy AI coder thingy can't really reason about the end task that the code is solving - and there is little to indicate that it does, or that, any moment now, technology will advance to the point that it will - then the 80% will be crap and there exists no human that can finish the last 20%, not even if they put up 200% of the effort required. We still don't have a working AI solution for driving, a well understood and very limited problem domain, never-mind the infinite domain of all problems that can be explained in natural language and solved with software.

What you end up with is a fancier autocomplete, not an AI coder. Boilerplate and coder output might simply increase to take advantage of the new more productive way of generating source code, just like they did for the last decades whenever there was a "revolutionary" new tech, like high level languages, source control, IDEs and debuggers, component distribution etc. etc.
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Nope. The role of executives at large companies is to most effectively move resources away from labor and towards the owners of capital. They decide where to open the next branch to crush competitors who treat their workers and customers better; they negotiate deals with suppliers so those suppliers and their workers have fewer resources; they coordinate with other large competitors to hamper workers' attempts at improving labor conditions.

This, to me, doesn't qualify as work. Large company executives create no value. They only take and store value from those who actually perform real work.
Nor do I. General inflation is just too much money chasing too few good and services.

“Inflation” in specific sectors of the economy is just the overall market adjusting to new conditions. Discussing commodity inflation is useless.

For example, if real worker’s wages decline, that indicates that the diminished utility of individual workers has outstripped their productivity increases. In other words, automation is replacing the workers themselves, instead of just assisting them.
So there are serious people out there devoting their time to stopping some imaginary skynet? Is their entire life built around sci fi tropes? Have they ever stepped outside?
Is it true that USA does not have a open data law to make everybody publish in CSV?
Given a large enough context window the need for fine tuning diminishes a little bit....

The cost of fine tuning these massive models is crazy right now. Fine tuning a smaller model can get you better performance for specific tasks in many cases. A lot of models are out there and totally free to adapt as needed via hugging face etc.
Yes, of course. But ChatGPT/Copilot is more flexible, for the same reasons it's "better" than just googling (e.g. maybe you find the solution in Java but HackerRank wants it in Python, and it's trivial to ask ChatGPT for the translation. And this is just an example).

For coding problems this is essentially a more flexible search engine, one with which you can interact better to tweak the result.

If you can simply take the challenge prompt, paste it on ChatGPT, and have an answer in seconds, doesn't this more or less make the kinds of challenges often employed in HackerRank obsolete?
> Does anyone know why the big companies didn't scale back their TVC (Temporary, Vendor or Contractor) usage before laying off full-time staff that take an order of magnitude more resources to hire and fire?

They do all the time with simply not renewing contracts. TVC are also generally assigned to support a product or group of devs so they typically come and go with the product.
Ruja Ignatova is also suspected of hiding in Montenegro, she is behind the OneCoin ponzi scheme and has successfully been on the run for 5 years now.

It appears that Do Kwon did a very rookie mistake by believing he could take a plane at the airport like every one else.
I got up and running in Svelte in literally 5 minutes, and it blew me away. I just started building and referencing the docs along the way. But then...I ran into their reactive model, and spent an entire day trying to debug (what I thought was) a very simple problem. I can't recall the details but I remember it had something to do with the order of updates? It was super confusing. Moral of the story is that there are always trade-offs.
I completely agree that groundbreaking technologies come from an iterative process. However in the case of LLMs I believe we are already at a point where we can judge where the technology is going as its not the first iteration. Sure it will keep getting better and I think that its already a very useful tool.

My problem with it is that they are over hyping its capabilities and trying to market it as "it makes developers 55% faster" because it writes the code for them. I think it would be a better approach to market it as a great tool for automating repetitive tasks and a better way to consume documentation.
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It's time to remind everyone that "Have fun staying poor" was one of Do Kwon's favorite putdowns.
I'm sure every LLM provider has in their TOS that it should not be used to write safety critical software.

Like how itunes should not be used to design nuclear warheads.
If your money app allows you to be scammed with no recourse to pull back the funds, then as a customer in a free market where better fraud protections exist, you are going to consider that app to be scammy.

This is marketing not moral reasoning, and as customers, please encourage other customers to have a low tolerance for being blamed for fraud.
You can use BetterTouchTool and configure it to tile an arbitrary amount of windows. As a bonus those windows don't have to be in full-screen mode, so you can cmd-tab quickly.

I agree that the windowing system of MacOS is an unusable mess.
With the amount of absolute financial power they wield and the privileged access to levers of government that they do have, I remain skeptical that they'd be unable to cause taxes to be raised if that's what they really wanted. But they don't want that, the powers they serve never want that, so it won't happen.

As a way of example, look at all the pre-conditions imposed on weaker economies in the name of "austerity" by central banks of larger nations. Taxes for you good, taxes for me bad.
No, rent seeking is the end game of regulations. The only reason publishers can pull this kind of stuff is copyright law and the Berne Convention; "we're just protecting copyrights!" is what gets them the political support they need to get away with it.
I'm impressed by the courage of the protesters here, and the tenacity of the youth voters.

I hope they get a clear answer and a fair count, and whether they win this time or not, a real shot at cracking up their corrupt, two-party system.