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Not really, no.

The way that university policy often works, is that for certain groups, especially "Greek Life" related groups, if you run an event that is included any members of that group, then the group could be held liable.

That leads to absurd situations where if a bunch of friends, host a party, in a privately owned residence, because the friends happen to be in the same fraternity, if anything bad happens, the fraternity could get in trouble.

And this is regardless of if the event is hosted off campus, in a privately owned place.
Maybe it's not so popular for startups, but Angular is kinda like .NET - maybe not the new hot thing, but very well bedded down in large orgs and govt.
Like everything in software development, it comes with "it depends".

- getting peer review on iffy code = 100%

- waiting for a PR to be approved for 6 hours, by 2 parties when it's typo fixes and adding some comments = ...

As a senior dev with over 20 years, I value code reviews from even junior devs. Heck it might spark a conversation that might mean everyone learn something, or get a refresher. It's also simply put: 2 brains are better than 1, particularly with codebase fatigue.

And by the way, in dynamic languages: even more so. Dynamic languages save you time in the writing side of things, which you pay back in the testing. Make no mistake, you are the compiler.

So my philosophy is if you feel this might benefit from another set of eyes, seek reviews. If you feel you're going to waste someone's time, don't.

But mission critical code, e.g. handling payment information, user privacy impact of any kind, business logic, should go through code reviews, on top of QA and UAT.

Trust people, don't trust code. And if you can't trust your people, you need new people(!)
Perfectly called out. I think we have gone from “how to build a,b,c, will React help” to “I am building a,b,c in React. What all do I need” a long time ago and that’s been a perpetual source of pain. Cart before the horse all the way.
> We are in a state that every emission is a problem.

Some things will forever burn dinosaurs, like a diesel generator keeping a hospital going in a grid down situation for example.

While cryptocurrencies might not rank as important as a hospital to you, the people fleeing Russia who couldn't take rubles with them or the people of Venezuela who can't trust the banking system have a very different opinion.

Should crypto move to non-PoW systems or use renewables? Absolutely. But some CO2 generation is worth the value crypto brings.
I've seen people cheat first hand dozens of times and know that a jury would find them not guilty. Legal standards are very high
Could be so with charity or depending on the field I suppose. I think innovating or figuring out new tech is different as if something is easily understood and explainable, it's probably already done, and if you have a great idea that hasn't been done it's probably because it's really hard to explain or to sell to others on it.
Thomas Sowell is unequivocally a brilliant man. I’ve read several of his books, including “The Quest for Cosmic Justice”. His writings will definitely change/influence one’s world view. I can’t recommend him enough.
Make it illegal to use electricity to solve math problems? How exactly would that work?
This is the anarchist theory of the unity of means and ends: you can't tell people anything, including what a better society looks like (nor can you impose it on anyone). You have to try to build and live that society in the present in order to even "get it" yourself.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anarchopac-means-and...
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I always wanted to make some sort of web app. As a .Net dev, I’ve used Winforms quite a bit. Even though it’s long outdated, I always found it intuitive for simple little apps. Is there any web UI software that shares the same drag and drop experience? React and all this other stuff feels like you need to take a boot camp course, too much hooking things together.
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I love your analogy. That's definitely how it's felt for me.
When I first started pair programming, I found the most important part was even if I had a solution that would work, if I couldn't explain it to my partner, it was not a very good solution.

Being able to convey an idea often forces it to be closer to the simplest and most comprehensible version of that idea.
Yes, crypto is the only threat to big banks
I drew parallels here because Ezra Klein reached the same conclusions as SSC did at the end of those ~50 pages a decade earlier: when building a god machine, we must slow down forcefully if necessary. It's practically impossible, but the stakes are too high.

Both Klein and SSC discuss four inescapable problems stemming from such complex systems:

1. Uncontrolled arms race: The competitive development of AI technologies is already an arms race where BigTech and VCs rush to create increasingly powerful AI systems without taking adequate safety precautions.

2. Misaligned Goals: systems are designed to optimize specific objectives, but if those objectives are not perfectly aligned with human values, the system will continue to take actions that are harmful to humans (the "alignment problem" in AI safety).

3. Economic Disruption: The widespread deployment will lead to significant economic and social disruption, including job displacement and inequality. Those people will not be getting better jobs.

4. Loss of Control: Highly autonomous systems could become problematic for humans to understand or control, especially if they are capable of self-improvement.

The central thesis of Moloch is that in a competitive environment, or any environment that requires tradeoffs or optimization, the inevitable terminal state of the system is that everything that is not _the objective_ will be sacrificed to pursue _the objective_. When the desired objective is tightly coupled to human values, this is good because society will sacrifice unimportant things to pursue those important things. But those objectives can get decoupled from our values ("when a measure becomes a target..."), and that unavoidably creates a "race to the bottom," where individuals or groups are incentivized to engage in behavior that is ultimately harmful to themselves and others to gain a competitive advantage towards a Pyrrhic victory. SSC uses the metaphor of "Moloch" to describe this phenomenon, suggesting that Moloch represents the destructive force that arises from the uncontrolled competition and the pursuit of self-interest.

edit: It took me two years to consume Meditations On Moloch. I blame the opening poem as it was incomprehensible and barely relevant to the rest of the piece. Ultimately, I found the audio version more approachable - just like listening to a lecture on YouTube. After that, I returned to the text version to reflect on specific chapters and follow up on references.
Photon bound state dynamics from a single artificial atom – Nature Physics
There are domain specific languages that use these primitives/abstractions e.g., Halide

https://halide-lang.org/tutorials/tutorial_lesson_05_schedul...
It’s a lot harder to refute a falsehood than to publish it.

As (GNU) Sir Terry Pratchett wrote “A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boot on”.
It seems like you can very easily set up third party Plugins, maybe they'll be brave enough to let users install those (probably with copious warnings). AFAICT it only really requires you to enter the URL of the manifest, which would make sharing such plugins very easy
Should have known better: the write-down of Credit Suisse AT1s
Cat is already out of the bag, regulation will do nothing to even slow down the inevitable pan-genocidal AI, _if_ such a thing can be created
These are on-campus parties. Underage college drinking is still a big thing. Title is clickbait.

But gen Z (which I'm part of) has lost out on a lot of other fun things and turned antisocial on average for other reasons, some of them having to do with safety obsession.
Thank you for answering!

The internal/external rift is so interesting and perfectly reasonable. Hard to spend time self editing after an exhausting day, and guess that's where places like Twitter really shined. Yet I wish that gap could be bridged somehow, it feels like many great posts with overlooked details are left unwritten because of the lack of external validation combined with internal hurdles.

Meandering now, but your blogs are enjoyable reads and that's the most envious quality I have of writers!
whatever you do, do NOT use View Source on a web page or you'll place yourself in legal jeopardy (in certain jurisdictions)
Article is bullshit it seems
People used to be afraid of installing them. That was essentially a marketing slogan saying you won't get more lightning because of the rod.

I think this photo is great proof that the rods don't really make the lightning deviate from its path by much, it's more that instead of hitting the building it'll flow through the safe route to ground.
Maybe, but Apple doesn’t have a search to rival Google (or even an assistant, given the state of Siri).

Focusing on privacy and on-device learning is great, but when the strength of these models is in consuming all the data they can hoover up your motive is at odds with your philosophy.
Rap artist Afroman sued by officers who raided his home
I read the first line of the second paragraph ("The original 20.4-kilometre (12.7 mi) system opened in October 2002") and the "System length: 38.2km (23.7mi)" bit from the infobox.

The paragraph you quoted mixes up the situation from before M3/M4 opened with the situation after. I also see where you have taken 13.9km for M1, but on M1's own article page it says 14.3km. Danish Wikipedia gives different figures again.

M1's total length is around 14km, M3 is 15.5km. Christianshavn to the airport is 7km by road, Østerport to Orientkaj about 3km, so the total is roughly 40km.

57 million annual riders on the Washington Metro doesn't seem so much for such a large city. There must be a good chance of getting a seat :-)

Copenhagen's metro claims 107 million annual riders, but the older and more extensive S-train also has 116 million annual riders. Supposedly the total comes to 183 million riders of either/both annually.
> So don't host official fraternity parties

If only it were allows to host a party, with your friends who happen to be in the same fraternity, and it were allowed to do this unofficially, without having to follow university rules.

Unfortunately, this is often not allowed. As in literally, if you have a party, at a private residence, because the people going to it happen to be in the same fraternity, this is disallowed.

Unofficial parties are quite literally often not allowed, and are seen by universities as a way of getting around their draconian rules, and you could actually get in trouble for hosting them.
>openai is doing great work and is serious competition, but I think many underestimate big tech

OpenAI is 49% owned by Microsoft. OpenAI is big tech.
Stats from https://replicate.com/blog/replicate-alpaca suggest 90 minutes on 4 x A100/80GB. This is 3.5 hours on A100/40GB - I'm guessing LoRA is probably parallizable.
I was responding to deserialized, who cited examples like public libraries where books are available to children.

(At least I'm not aware of any public libraries with adult-only sections.)

And in the context of the overall discussion of a bill attempting to restrict specifically children's (not adults') access to porn.
Stable? dont they release breaking majors each 6 months?
https://www.ifre.com/story/3816115/should-have-known-better-...

“There has also been some confusion about solvency being equal to viability. Viability is about the ability to operate viably and independently without any form of extraordinary state support, whereas solvency is merely the ability to pay debts as they fall due. So, one can be non-viable at one point, and still be solvent at that point, which may have been the case for Credit Suisse. Viability asks will the bank last on its own, and solvency asks can they pay their debts.”
Typical is an interesting new serialization format that supports sum types. It introduces a mechanism called “asymmetric” fields that’s pretty clever.

https://github.com/stepchowfun/typical
It’s an exciting time.

I think people are very prematurely counting AMD and even Intel out of this race considering the pace of change.
Not a ton of methodology behind it!

I started at $10 per year, then gradually raised prices as the product got better, always keeping existing subscribers happy by grandfathering them. At one point it was $4.99 every 3 months, which is the plan my mum is still on :-) For a brief time I offered a lifetime subscription for $100 and sold a few but felt uncomfortable offering to keep the service running forever with no further payments so killed it.

I ended up at $5 / month or $48 / year. It's possible I might increase it a bit more in future but for now I think it's better to keep these prices and try to grow user numbers instead.

One thing I noticed with some companies was that the yearly plan was very heavily discounted compared to the monthly one. To me that gave the impression of lacking confidence that monthly users will stick around long term, so I didn't want to do that.

Yeah I think it's true that popular mainstream consumer products tend to be cheap and highly polished, and that more niche products tend to be higher priced and less polished.
In the end it's all state -> view -> interactions -> state -> view -> interactions.

Svelte does it most simply though. I've been doing React for years now, but it still feels ridiculous to me compared to Svelte and others.

I honestly think people who like React have Stockholm syndrome. And everyone is taken hostage since it's the most popular one. UseEffect is ridiculous, hooks in general are ridiculous, mapping over array to create elements is ridiculous, having no tools out of the box for JSX to do simpler if else, for loops, etc. All these bizarre concepts just to hack around JS to make all of it work. And in the end it's all very difficult to read and reason. And all this bizarre boilerplate is just tech debt. It does nothing to describe what is actually going on in that component.
Seems arrogant to say there’s no such thing as a soul when we have a hard time even defining consciousness.
That is a world full of marketable-skill-hype. Pity you didn't started with Svelte.
I still don't see how it would control it. At best, it'd be able to use it more effectively.

The other aspect of the AI arms race is that the models are fundamentally not 100% controllable; and the smarter they are, the more that is true. Yet, ironically, making the most use out of them requires integrating them into your existing processes and data stores. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the nation-states with the best AIs will end up with their own elites being only nominally in charge.
On the other hand, the level of effort to integrate a plugin into OpenAI's ecosystem looks to be extremely small, beyond the intrinsic effort to build a service that does something useful. (https://platform.openai.com/docs/plugins/getting-started/plu...).
A lot of smelling requires your nose to actually be next to the floor. We don't exactly do that anymore.
I wonder if they used ChatGPT to find and/or fix the bug.
I'm expecting the Mac Pro to have AI/ML massive GPU modules and/or specialized ML dedicated compute available as add-ons for in-house training. For a not-so-small fee of course. They have all the pieces, it just needs to be brought to bear on the ML training market.
Very cool - thanks! Best wishes on building - product build is one of the most fun pursuits in the world!
> Apple is really getting a niche here for machines to run models locally.

I... don't agree. They have an acceleration API and a large install-base, but all of these models have run just fine on traditional hardware. GPT-Neo, Stable Diffusion and LLaMa can all be used and accelerated without Apple Silicon.

Powerful, maybe. But not really unique, just putting up table stakes.
Religion has no place in school as it is, except to teach in high school that this is what some people believe (and Christianity should not receive any preference).

The sooner we stop indoctrinating kids into nonsense, the sooner we can have a better society with more rational actors.
Vercel just does not get it, it tries to sell SSR-first(and that's what Vercel cares commercially, understood that) to CSR-works-too every time it gets a chance. It's not about document at all, if anything the document should never fake SSR-first to something like: set this flag then you get a CSR too, it does not work that way.

It's about the burden of mixing SSR and CSR, Vercel's next.js and sveltekit are both SSR-first by design no matter how you sugarcoat it. I may use them when I need SSR one day, but please stop overselling it as CSR-ready.

Talking about documentation, please do not forget Vuejs, it has the best document all in one place in the JS ecosystem, by the way, it is a true CSR SPA and its SSR(nuxt) is truly an opt-in.
I think this is trolling, but they have a point: if you pass legislation that forbids something, you need to treat everything equal under the law - ban everything or nothing. Banning everything is dumb, so ban nothing - hiding information is not the way, never was and never will, same as security by obscurity.
JSON is good for dumps of your data, for humans reading it, and for interoperability without the schema - On your backends, you should always serialized to proto because it's darn more efficient.
We're getting really close to Neuromancer-style hacking where you have your AI try to fight the other person's AI.
I also felt Tim was tempting fate when he said "You can import directly from a self published URL. Of course it's the responsibility of the publisher to never change the semantics of that code in an incompatible way."

I just can't imagine that working at scale. I bet they add semantic versioning support pretty quickly.
"US Police" is vague enough to be inaccurate. As written it implies a Federal force since they are direct arms of the US government, while the actual sheriff in question is a county agent. What organization is it referring to? The FBI is a Federal policing force but it's not commonly called the US Police. Is it the Secret Service? The US Postal Inspection Service? The National Park Police? The Fish and Wildlife Service Office of Law Enforcement?

I'd expect a better written headline to use "Adams County, Ohio Sheriff" since that is the most accurate form that conveys what agency did the thing in question.
They did it the wrong way. They should have made the complaint seem very honest instead of an attack, and it would have made it much harder for the school district to say anything. Now they can just brush it off as a troll attempt.
What makes GPT4 AGI that makes GPT3.5 not AGI? And what makes GPT3.5 AGI that makes GPT3 not AGI? And what makes GPT3 AGI that makes GPT2/smaller models not AGI?

What is the "hard line" that makes something AGI or not AGI? Because IMO it looks like GPT4 is somewhat AGI, but also the older models possibly all the way down to even Markov chains: it's just that this AGI is nowhere near human-level.
They didn't do this in college 20 years ago, and liability laws have not changed since then.
The recent round of layoffs all put together made up a tiny percent of just the net new headcount added to the industry in just the last ~2 years. And all these companies have already started ramping hiring back up. There is no broad change in tech hiring.
Not remembering dreams is quite common. Norepinephrine is associated with long term memory formation, but acetylcholine is associated with your short term memory (e.g. remembering some random digits). When you dream acetylcholine is high. That is why dreams "slip" away from your mind so quickly when you wake, it's the same reason that a random series of digits is hard to keep in your working memory.

I believe this support the interpretation I put forward. Typically our anxious behaviours are reinforced in our dreams (which should highlight their presence if we are paying attention to them). If these were added to our long term memory, they would reinforce the behaviours they are trying to highlight, in order to eventually have the waking you eliminate. It would be counter to this goal if reinforcing experiences were added to long term memory, adding them to short term memory means they don't leave a reinforcing imprint.

It's not so easy to remember dreams for this reason
It's not particularly constrained - human labor is cheap outside of the developed world. And propaganda is not something that you can scale up and keep reaping the benefits proportional to the investment - there is a saturation point, and one can reasonably argue that we have already reached it. So I don't think we're heading towards some kind of "fake news apocalypse" or something. Just a bunch of people who currently write this kind of content for a living will be out of their jobs.
Carbon emissions aside, crypto is not mostly over. Saying crypto is over right now is like saying the internet was over in 2001.
"It’s crucial to reiterate: EIP was partnered with state entities like CISA and GEC while seeking elimination of millions of tweets. In the #Twitter Files, Twitter execs did not distinguish between organizations, using phrases like ‘According to CIS[A], escalated via EIP,’" Taibbi wrote. "After the 2020 election, when EIP was renamed the Virality Project, the Stanford lab was on-boarded to Twitter’s JIRA ticketing system, absorbing this government proxy into Twitter infrastructure – with a capability of taking in an incredible 50 million tweets a day.
Yes, I think OpenAI has a business model here (token/subscriptions) but how do the external services make money? Will many of these apps be cannibalized by ChatGPT and other LLMs? For example, the Speak plugin for language teaching, at what point is ChatGPT good enough to do everything that Speak does?
Welcome to the club. Relax, the pain eventually passes. After you leave webdev, never before that.
The idea of a soul is probably the reason we believe in human rights, animal rights and so on. We should be careful not to abandon it, even if we are not sure what it really means but just know intuitively. With the recent AI advances I see a lot of chat dance around the subject of the soul without mentioning the word.
While I fully agree with that, I think that having books of all sorts available for interested students in the school library is fine; I put the Bible, Quran, Main Kempf and Karl Marx's Das Kapital on the list of "available for anyone interested", but not mandatory reading. (and I would put 1984 on mandatory reading, but I agree this may not be a great idea)
Satoshi's coins have sat untouched since pretty much the beginning, so no, they certainly have not been able to make any use of them.
Can you give an example of a solution that you came up with that you decided couldn't be very good based on it being hard to explain?
Your hypocrisy angered me, in particular because it puts you on the side of the problem: dysfunctional discourse in politics, anti-intellectualism, suppression and silencing based on a whim, etc.

I was firm but not out of hate. I was hoping that you'd take it as a lesson learned whether you would publicly admit to that or not. It's admirable that you did. We all make mistakes and we're not static creatures.

This conversation is progress.

Further, I'm dutch and from the 80s. This would actually be my most well-behaved mild tone on a good day. A special adaptation for HN.