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Everything is mass produced. The prices are inflated because lack of competition. In a monopoly the seller sets the prices. That said, food is cheap, and consumers don't care what something costs. And if you are poor you usually have to buy from the most expensive shop, people with free time can afford to buy where its cheapest.
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Molly White a crypto shill? Her writing career is dominated by crypto skepticism and skewering crypto shills.
Yeah, if he's practicing sweeps and draws in his house that's not good gun culture. From everything I've read and heard, cops are being taught the violent parts of what we're taught in the military but they're not being trained on warrior culture and ethos, which involves a lot of restraint and regulation alongside situational awareness. Pair that with not learning basic weapon safety rules and it's a recipe for disaster.
> Every time you see a Lua scripting engine (neovim, nginx, a million other places), you could potentially have any langauge you please

but people like code reuse, so its almost always better to communicate, collaborate and share at the source code level than at the level of a compiler target

as far as I can tell, the only real target audience here are pathological language snobs ("I insist on writing neovim extensions in Rust!") who will validate their inflexibility by pointing at the lowest common denominator of wasm
Greenhouses are a tiny sliver of overall food production. The rest of agriculture is heavily biased toward the energy density of fossil fuel, particularly nat gas and diesel. The innovation required to move away from the actual energy problem in agriculture is much greater than a bit of creativity
You could try using Nix OS stable with "boot.kernelPackages = pkgs.linuxPackages_latest;". That way, you will get the latest kernel version and if there is an issue with you being unable to boot into a desktop environment, you can very easily roll back the update by rebooting and selecting an older generation in the boot manager's menu.
OpenAI is leading a $23.5M investment in 1X, a human-like robot startup
That's true, except when food starts to run out, the French government will serve the French people, the Spanish government will serve the Spanish people, and so on. You're nuts if you think the Spanish are going to ship food they desperately need to Hungary because they're both in the EU.
If the company has a publicly specified API and they don't want anyone to call it and don't put any measures around that, surely that's the security issue.

The plugins aren't code, they're a pointer to a public document with a link to your companies API.
In practice, memory is the largest pool of resources a programmer has to manage. In the 1960s, a computer may only have 1000-words or 2000-words of memory, and you could manage it all manually. Memory location#45 means blah, Memory location#80 means bar, etc. etc.

This form of variable-allocation is now done automatically (ex: int foobar; will automatically manage a memory location to be representing a 4-byte value named foobar). This is the simplest way of managing memory (even on extremely constrained modern platforms like ATTiny4, which only has 256 Bytes of RAM. BTW: I do suggest people play with microcontrollers, if only to improve your skills at programming in constrained environments).

But as you start having to efficiently manage more than that: a million bytes (aka: 1MB), or a billion bytes (aka: 1GB), more complex patterns arise. In particular, a program may not know how much memory it needs at compile time, and may need to shift the amount of memory usage arbitrarily upon the user's work pattern.

For example: lets say you are writing a web-client, and your user is going to visit the webpage www.google.com. How much memory should you allocate for it? Well, you don't know. You have to start downloading the page before you even know how much memory it will use. (Upon talking to www.google.com, the Google Server says in the HTTP protocol how many bytes the webpage will take up, giving the program an opportunity to allocate memory at that point). To properly store the webpage, you need a memory-management scheme.

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Modern languages have two patterns for more complex memory management like the "browse to www.google.com" example I described above.

1. C's malloc-and-free pattern. The programmer reserves memory with malloc or calloc. And the programmer says that they're done using the memory with free(), allowing a future malloc() call to recycle the memory.

2. Garbage collection, aka malloc-only. The system automatically determines when memory "should be freed". Though more complex to program, its been popular even as early as the 1970s. It turns out that programmers are pretty bad at writing free() correctly in practice.

There's also the "automatic" memory management implemented by the compiler. This is called "stack allocation" in most cases, and IMO is important to understand how it works... if only because of how efficiently it recycles the L1 Cache and speeds up your program. But we can talk about that some other time!
> The proposal, approved close to midnight by the House Budget Committee, would cut the entire $4.5 million in state aid that libraries were slated to get next year. The proposed library cut, along with other changes to the state’s roughly $50 billion budget, will now head to the full Missouri House.

What does this mean for libraries? $4.5 million can't have been enough to fund a statewide library network so presumably libraries are getting funding from elsewhere.

A quick search suggests there are 171 public libraries in Missouri. This works out to $26,315 per library. I'm sure that money is appreciated but that can't be significant.
> property prices and rental yields are extremely precarious

I noticed you didn't say "declining" because that wouldn't be true.
That is probably what I get for checking my assumptions against wikipedia. One of the tables on the CentOS page makes it looks as if only CentOS 7 is still supported. On a closer check the table may just be incomplete. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CentOS
Thanks Conrad! That's really a huge game changer.

I'm now using atuin for shell history and fzf for fuzzy completion[0], works awesome! As Shell I use zsh with some plugins managed via antigen on my Linux Mint default terminal.

[0]: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf#fuzzy-completion-for-bash-an...
> Code coverage is pretty well supported in the internal ecosystem (...)

What you're actually saying is that internally Google managed to get a single and very specific use case to work and forced all projects to either adopt it or have no code coverage.
The term is especially galling when it's applied to undermining a business model. This isn't at all like dropping a 0day on OpenSSH - individuals have zero responsibility for helping businesses maintain artificial restrictions.
From what perspective? It’s unethical to knowingly inflict suffering, but even if (economy/climate/etc) has a poor outlook, that doesn’t equate to suffering for your children (it’s possible to be happy while the economy sucks and the world is heating).
There is a risk of the community getting "entrenched" in an old model/architecture.

In stable diffusion land, for instance, the community is pretty much stuck on the "old" architecture. Newer innovations, like Huggingface diffusers and various optimizations derived from that like PEFT, torch.compile support, AITemplate/TensorRT compilation and various other bits are largely unused.

They are also pretty much stuck on SD 1.5, even though 2.1 is a good base for finetuning.

This has happened in the past too, with ESRGAN.
> which basically means that one thinks deeply about everything all the time, whether they want to or not, and quick context changes (like having that train of thought interrupted frequently in pair programming) is highly disruptive.

Wow, this is me. A friend once analogized it to being like a light source. I am a laser, deeply penetrating a narrow spot, but leaving the larger field in the dark while I do so. Other people are like a floodlight, illuminating a large area, but not deeply penetrating any particular portion of it.

I always though of being like a laser as a kind of superpower, though, not a pathology.

There are, naturally, advantages and disadvantages to each way of thinking. A good team needs both lasers and floodlights.
Or rather, the quality of OpenAI's frontend marketed to the public reflects the quality of the models available to the public.
Are every single games ever released for Wii, Wii U and 3DS available in those famous rompacks or are there some missing?
You want to curate what your users see, and check that new users coming in don't have their first experience be terrible plugins as they may not come back.
https://archive.is/7OVBb
Good luck after a decade of convincing the public about the opposite (walled gardens)
A food producer may benefit from inflation, whereas a government loses out, despite both representing "the rich". An unattached young trades-person can ride the wave of inflation because they can easily switch to jobs with higher wages, whereas a another with a family cannot.

Neither "the rich" nor the "lower class" is a monolithic entity. The idea that they are monolithic allows for elites to disguise their selfish consolidation of power as evidence of being on the side of the people. For some obvious examples, Hitler successfully blamed the Jews for German hyperinflation, and Stalin successfully purged political enemies he deemed as "capitalist".
What has that have to do with inflation in the UK?
Is not skepticism, it's curbed optimism.

I don't feel that my job is at risk of disappearing. Instead I think we'll be using LLMs as tools to do our job better.
Nixon's economic measures were a disaster that led to inflation and crisis. You can see that directly in your link btw.
By far the most abundant chemical in any modern human is dihydrogen monoxide, I'm not sure that any hydrocarbon you will find in a tortilla is really even a comparison.
All of reddit leans progressive, I refuse to touch it myself.
Asset holders do not suffer the most from erosion by inflation; asset holders benefit from inflation (which is a devaluation of the currency) because the price of their assets increases. It is those whose wealth is mostly in cash that suffer the most.

Keeping interest rates low keeps inflation high. Raising interest rates reduces inflation but also hurts asset prices and can potentially bankrupt some heavily indebted businesses. This is the balancing act the central banks have been trying to perform. The reality is that getting it wrong in either direction hurts the lower class: excessively high interest rates lead to high unemployment; excessively low interest rates lead to high inflation.
I'm good with live and let live. But my SO's Honda Fit was just demolished by a modern truck who "didn't see her" despite having a clear line of sight down the road--but due to the relative slope, I suspect the Fit was obscured by the truck hood. She was in pain for 6 weeks. So where is live and let live?
They definitely won't be effected by the system in which they live
For people interested in this topic, the "People Make Games" channel on YouTube have a couple of related videos with original research/interviews:

* "How Valve is Profiting from Steam's Back-Door Casinos":
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMmNy11Mn7g>

* "Working at Valve: 'A Fearless Adventure' or 'Lord of the Flies'?":
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9aCwCKgkLo>
See also

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/americans-love-affair-with...

https://www.f150forum.com/f69/how-do-you-guys-afford-80k-rap...
Who would have thought empire came with a price? Even when you're just a junior partner to the madness, albeit much more enthusiastic than the rest of NATO.
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Just went out to do some shopping and returning. Man I can't tell wife I have a day off without her dropping to-do list on me. I better not tell her next time.

I need to come back and plug myself back into the metaverse.
From what I can tell they're fine-tuning EleutherAI's GPT-J.

Alpaca was made to fine-tune LLaMa, however they also released their dataset they used to do this, and it looks like Dolly is this dataset applied to GPT-J, and does not use LLaMa itself.
Oh dear, that may be me.

I was at Home Depot in the checkout line and they had some construction going on. Hanging down from the ceiling by wires was a red button. I was compelled, I could not avoid it. I pushed the red button. A loud buzzing noise occurred. The cashier sighed and said that I was the sixth guy to do that, not a single woman had pressed the button so far.
Exactly. Host keys are about authentication, not connection security. Presumably the upthread comment is trying to say that "ssh communication with github could have been subject to an undetectable MitM attack by an attacker with access to this key"[1], which isn't remotely the same thing as "all communication with GH since the founding of the company has to be considered compromised".

[1] Which is sort of tautological and silly, because that's true of all sites and all host keys. What the comment was trying to imply was that the choice of storage of this key invalidates any trust we might have in GitHub/Microsoft regarding key management, and that therefore we shouldn't trust them. Which is also tautological and silly. Either you trust them or you don't, that's not a technological argument.
neither of those mean much with regards to tiktok specifically though.
Yea, couldn't have finished college without it!
For the same reason powdered milk and most other desiccated foods didn’t.

They don’t taste as good, the texture isn’t quite right and it’s too god damn depressive to eat them unless you are on an expedition to Antarctica or these days Mars…
Some of those skills that you see in those job postings today are devaluing due to tools like ChatGPT. Not all those skills and certainly not fundamental ones like communication and leadership. But if you see something like "writing CRUD endpoints for a Rails stack" everywhere, having that skill is no longer a differentiatior.

Don't pivot your career. Don't burn the boat and jump into AI. Just be aware of these tools and get good at what they're poor at.
It's how rich Western Europeans say that the poor will revolt unless socialism. It references something some French princess allegedly said who, when told the peasants don't have bread to eat, replied that they should eat cake instead. Some claim it as a sign of the royal disconnect that lead to the French Revolution.
It doesn't really make sense though does it? Musk is rich because people buy his cars. If we're all impoverished ants, no one is going to be buying cars. Musk's money has to come from somewhere.
There really isn't an allocation approach in WASM. It just gives you a buffer and can grow, and the rest is up to you. Which means you have to bring your own allocator. Your fragmentation entirely depends on how good your allocator.

Since we optimize for size on the web, it's hard to justify bringing the entire jemalloc into every wasm module.
No. Think about websites that already have chat interfaces with real people behind them. Do you ever use the chat to accomplish something when you have the option of doing it yourself instead? Do you ever use a company's "voice chat interface" (phone call) when you don't have to?
Some friends at Facebook have expressed conflicted feelings around the ongoing threat of layoffs – they sort of want to leave the company for something smaller, but they have an incentive to stay because they may get severance if their function is cut next month
This would be nice. One of the chrome's plugins has a product descriptions prompt and it obviously is using some product descriptions from our websites. Be nice if we could /nogpt like we can /noindex.

Not that it would stop anyone from digesting the content... The more I look into OpenAi the more shady it appears.
If you're subscribed to their status page, you'll know it's actually unusual for a day to go by without an outage alert from OpenAI. They don't usually write them up like this but I guess this counts as PII leak disclosure for them?
For having raised billions of dollars the are comically immature from a reliability and support perspective.
Exactly I'm pretty sure this is what it is. It won't drift much but you do have to turn the auto calibration off, otherwise it will grab any low CO2 moment and try to calibrate to it, drifting further off track with every calibration.
I always say it is non-trivial to achieve a meeting of the minds. We often act adversarially to new ideas to challenge them as they in turn challenge our conceptions. Often this looks like arguing and many people ain’t got time for that, it can be emotional, you’re not listening, just give it 5 mins, no you’re wrong, etc. This is not a failing of individuals so much as the impedance to aligning two different cognitive patterns. One does not simply walk into a new cognitive state you have to do battle with your own and another’s conceptions and in the face of imperfect communication.
Indeed. And LLMs are not radios or fonts.
If you have plenty of money to spend, sure.

If you are poor and/or live paycheck to paycheck (for example due to your monthly home heating bills having gone from 400 euros to 3000 euros year over year), I can guarantee you, you pay very close attention to how much food costs.
Under a capitalist system hell bent on endless and unfettered growth there's no slowing down. All it's going to take is a handful of players across a handful of industries to set things in motion. Perhaps AI will inadvertently eat the rich.
Monetary policy cycles are for insiders to use information to make more $

it's emergent out of the incentives e.g. the Cantillion effect

it wont be around forever with AGI making this so obvious
Ask HN: Can somebody explain HackerRank naming conventions to me?
While not practical in ~98% of typical day to day web-development, I find most of the Leetcode challenges to be reasonably fair and straightforward coding challenges. The problems are written reasonably well to explain the challenge and they're formatted clearly so the task is usually easily understandable at a quick glance. When needed to explain a problem, there's sometimes a simple and clear graphic to help you visualize the problem. The variables and naming conventions used are reasonable and sane: problem input is usually something clear like: heights, target, s (for string), nums, etc. You can have some issues with individual problems, but for the most part, they're pretty decent problems. Some of the algorithms are frustrating and a real challenge to solve if you've never encountered anything like them before, but many of the problems are borderline fun because they're at least clear problems.

Hackerrank in contrast is written poorly. The questions are not formatted as nicely, which is the least important issue, but still an issue for quick comprehension of the problem. But what really drives me up the wall is their naming conventions for all of their problems. They use the most random and stupid input variables like n, c, k, m, x, a, b for all of their problems with seemingly no rhyme or reason. It makes trying to figure out what a problem is even asking for clearly and simply much harder and less fun than it should be.

1) Am I missing something obvious here? This is making me want to slam my head into a wall. Why would Hackerrank use a completely unclear mess of a naming system like this?

2) I'd be concerned about students learning bad coding practices from their examples. If you're naming variables with random names like c, q, l, m, z, t with no rhyme or reason, it makes code much more difficult to work with. This seems like an incredibly bad practice for the kind of site they are and the influence among younger programmers they might have.
I hope someone pulls a Llama. Fingers crossed.
could ai, just basically brute force better weights? say instead of doing training to get their own weights, maybe have 10 training inputs, test a new set of weights, have gpt4 rate the quality of the output from each set of weights and then try another and maybe infer a pattern to how weights could maybe potentially be created without all the work?

I feel like soon, ai will be it's own researcher and go far beyond what we ever could do on our own.
They are bad. That fact also has to be weighted against the completely one-sided nature of social networks between the PRC and United States where American social networks are firewalled from PRC subjects in the mainland but still made use of by the Party and Government there if it assists them in propaganda abroad.

This is not an equal exchange founded on principles of free trade and respect for any kind of free speech. So it is not simple either.

This (probable) technology transfer shouldn’t be happening but not because this shouldn’t now happen; we should never have been in this position to begin with but we are.
Have you tried gpt-4? It's not perfect but it is a clear improvement for code.
There's a lot of national and consumer debt to inflate away so I think inflation is what's on the menu. Workers are going to bear the brunt of the fallout if they cannot or will not demand increased pay. Workers can't get sucked into the trap of employers claim they can only afford to pay more for rent, loan, and supplies costs - and not wages.
Health comes first. Without health, you cannot work to produce that wealth. Very few people inherit meaningful amounts of wealth. The next generations will have capabilities for boosting their health that nobody else has had before.

Home ownership is an easy problem to solve. We need to build more property and develop and redevelop existing properties. We need more investors, more builders, more construction, more new shopping malls, more infrastructure spending, larger infrastructure products. We can print fiat to fuel this because it's tied to real economic gains and the increased movement of all commodities.

It is not a choice between treating real estate as investment vs a basic human need of shelter. When you properly allow supply to meet demand by getting out of the way of construction and investment and business to build the products (the houses), the supply will rise to meet the demand. Some places have artificial blockers on the ability of supply to rise to meet demand.

Most of the United States does not have this problem because of how giant a landmass it is and how much open space there is to continually develop, redevelop, and reforst over the coming thousand years.
I’m not saying it’s right but secretly every time I return something to Amazon I feel better about myself. The heavier and bulkier the better I feel. Mind you, I don’t just buy crap to return. I draw an ethical line in the sand there but the faster the beast dies the better if you ask me. Amazons days are limited. All junk. Can’t find anything real, just cheap copies made by the same factory with different nonsense names, 4/10 of the purchases I make are obviously reused or previously opened. None of this is original, it’s a known issue but like I said, I feel great. Got some returns to make tomorrow!
A dating sim from the mid 2000s managed to launch an enormous multimedia franchise in Japan (the Fate series).
Because managements aren't good at defining / understanding specifications, constraints and use cases. And I believe we don't want AI that can put constraints without our consent, so a middleman will still be required.

The job market will still almost be the same, that capital and networks will net you businesses.

The problem is how to regulate duplication, because IMO with power of AI patents are basically almost useless.