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By the way, now that I answered your yes/no question I'd like to ask one in return. As far as I can see the "far-left" ideologies of socialism/communism [1] have been proven to be incompatible with human nature as shown by the multitude of communist and socialist revolutions which ended up as autocratic dictatorial regimes with a clear distinction between the haves and have-nots. From the Soviet Union to Mao's China, from North Korea to Cambodia, from Cuba to Venezuela the story looks the same.

Quick question for you - I just need a simple "yes" or "no" answer.

Have communism and socialism been tried in real life at a large enough scale to show whether these ideologies can be made to work?

A "yes" would need some examples of where this has been made to work at a large (i.e. nation state) scale. A "no" needs an explanation what all communist and socialist revolutions were if not examples of such.

I'm asking this because to me it is incomprehensible that these ideologies somehow have remained acceptable in the public discourse where e.g. national socialism and fascism have been relegated to the dustbin of history while the death toll of communism and socialism outstrips that of national socialism and fascism combined. You do not hear anyone claiming that 'true fascism has never been tried' or 'the 3d Reich did not practice true national socialism', why then is it perfectly acceptable for supposedly intellectual people to claim that 'true communism' or 'real socialism' have never been tried?

[1] do mind that "social democracy" is not the same as "socialism" and is not what I'm referring to here, I mean "socialism" as being the ideology which strives after communal ownership of the means of production and the abolishment of private property and the "dictatorship of the proletariat" which is supposed to lead to a classless society where government structures are no longer needed and will dissolve by themselves, i.e. a communist society
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Once people are hooked on chatgpt style stuff expect it to insert plenty of adverts to deliver not whats best for you, or best in aggregate, but what is best for the people paying the money, and thus worse for you, and worse in aggregate.
Social and cultural advancement beyond where society was roughly when I entered adulthood.
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Fintech startup Stripe integrating OpenAI's new GPT-4 AI
The definition is of the word, not "of a metaphor." If you want to talk about the "original" meaning or "etymologically faithful" meaning or whatever, then go for it, but note that most modern baby cradles aren't at all baskets in the sense that the English word originated. That's because all words originate as imperfectly-specified references to things and concepts. The things and concepts and our references to them change over time.
I specifically moved away from Windows to get away from automatic behavior like that.

When will these system designers realize that the system shouldn't do anything observable without me telling it to?

Imagine if a kitchen oven decided to perform a self-clean without any human interaction "because it hadn't performed one in awhile".
C# tends to have this problem with multiple ways to do the same thing. Look at construction:

var a = new A();
A a = new();
A a = new A();
What are you talking about? The person you're replying to didn't mention any of those things
A pull request is a process which can merge new code into existing code.

"Software Engineer John was tasked to add a new logo to the website, when he was done he submitted a pull request of his feature branch into his organization's github repository for the website so that his team members could approve the changes before automation (like Github Actions) deployed live as a new version of the website."
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I'd expect ethicists to have thought more about ethics and morals. I wouldn't necessarily expect them to be more moral or ethical. As C. S. Lewis says in The Abolition of Man, it's not theorems that make the difference when the chips are down.

Pastors... it depends on the pastor. Is it a job, or something they actually believe? Is it just a theory to them, or do they have any actual power helping them live it out?
This is a very strange conspiratorial kind of ad hominem fallacy that makes no attack on the 'sense' of the argument nor addresses it in any way...
How has this not yet been deployed by a startup to unseat three-quarter billion market cap Matterport?
Yes? I prefer to do that myself
Fair point on a unique insight being sufficient for a blog post. I should also give the author credit for writing clearly and for his photo montages--problems with the approach aside, it's at least superficially effective.

This is a bit of a tangent, but I strongly suspect the design trend will swing toward hoarder chic. Almost 10 years ago now, I drove from Austin to San Antonio to buy an old stereo for $50. The owner's house was fascinating. He had two large rooms full of stereo equipment that he collected but had little interest in selling. Every item had a story: where got it, what a deal it was, what he traded for it. The stories evoked different times and places in his life. There was a whole biography there, in stereo(s).

Unless a café were really driven by the personality of its owner, it would be hard to reproduce that kind of thing in any meaningful way. But I think designers will at least try. We're obsessed with old things as indices of authenticity, and as the aesthetic pendulum swings, interior designers will differentiate themselves by making spaces marked by superfluity. This kind of thing already exists, of course--largely in bars filled with vintage stuff. In homes, something like it gets called "grandmillenial" or "grandma chic." But it'll ultimately be just as vapid as contemporary design language, because it'll be a simulacrum of something more authentic.

My sister-in-law is a successful interior designer, and her house is the epitome of AirSpace. It is as ephemeral as the Airbnb guest, changing every few months in the name of perennial "updates." It is the most heartless home I've ever been in.
That’s a very odd take, California and New York heavily subsidize poor states via federal taxes.

So you’re essentially arguing “Poor/Red” states need an even larger handout from “Rich/Blue” states.

As to lowering state taxes, high taxes are a major reason rich states are rich. People want the services those taxes provided.
https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all

This is one of many, many open LLM models that are approaching GPT level now. They're not on the same level yet, but given the rate of progress in this field, it's safe to say that OpenAI's moat will not be there forever.

Also, their level is already sufficient for A LOT of tasks that people use OpenAI's APIs now.
Naturally Voldemort cosplaying as a "defense against the dark arts" instructor was clearly an implication that regulatory capture is way to hide power.
+1 to all the comments about deciding what problems to tackle.

My nuanced 2c on it is that every line of code you write is a liability. Part of what revolutionized pricing mechanisms was FOSS and SaaS, which are 2 strategies of amortizing the cost of development across many many people. Every line you write for your company is a line with amortization across exactly 1. So first consider the value/cost tradeoff of FOSS and SaaS to see if you can compete. 1000x might be simply glueing together a few free/cheap systems which would have cost your company quarters. Putting in nice interfaces/adapters means you can easily cut them out if they become a regrettable decision.
It wont even mention $great_site_1 because there's more profit for mcdonalds to send you to $mediocre_site_with_attached_burger
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Why don’t poorer states stop being subsidized by CA and NY? Why are you only suggesting changes to blue states? Do you have underlying motive?
You're on to something here.

I really believe that in the long run, it will be the tech oriented domain experts who are the valuable ones. That's really who we've found we need at nearly every implementation step of our AI strategy. You need to know what data to get in your target domain. How to interpret that data. Some method of scoring that data. And all that's just table stakes. It goes on and on. Someone with a tech background is just not going to know about stenosis calculations the way a cardiologist will. Or legal precedents like a lawyer does. Or compressive strength values like a civil engineer does. And so on and so forth.

AI generalists are also enormously valuable, but only to the Google, Microsofts, and OpenAIs of the world. Among those competing to make generalist AIs, it will be winner take all I'm afraid. Majority of the jobs created for generalist AI guys will be at big tech cos. The vast majority of the jobs generated in AI outside of big tech, will rely heavily on specialized knowledge of the domain experts.

I even think colleges might want to consider adjusting the educational curriculum so that some cs knowledge is taught more like writing class. It's just something professionals will need to be familiar with and know how to do in the future. But not all that valuable in and of itself unless you can be one of the top guys.

Someone who only knows CS? no other specialized knowledge?

And they don't have the math chops of the OpenAI guys?

Sorry, but you're just not going to be all that valuable in the future. Salaries for those kinds of people will start a slow decline for sure.
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I would dare say that 99.99999% of keyboard users expect a similar layout. Sure, it converged out of conformity and familiarity, but so what? This is part of the added value to me, I can learn to type in a particular layout and I'm good to go in any other. This is a crucial part of functionality in fact.
Also falls perfectly within what Yuri Bezmenov (the KGB defector who explained the Soviet's plan to take down the West through ideological subversion) laid out.

At around that time, you would have the first batch of fully indoctrinated (trained by Socialists from childhood to adulthood, with no oversight or counterbalance) graduating.

That is also the group that sets the stage for the demoralisation phase of the plan and allows for the next phase: destabilisation.

Good summary here: https://www.oaoa.com/opinion/columnists/hart-kgb-defector-re...

And the original interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX3EZCVj2XA

I don't think this is purely a Soviet ploy working out, but you can't help but look at the Western education system and realise that's a big part of the problem.
Aristocracy, of course!
The lede is buried near the end:

> To return to information overload: this means treating your "to read" pile like a river (a stream that flows past you, and from which you pluck a few choice items, here and there) instead of a bucket (which demands that you empty it). After all, you presumably don't feel overwhelmed by all the unread books in the British Library – and not because there aren't an overwhelming number of them, but because it never occurred to you that it might be your job to get through them all.

I find the analogy with the British library spot on, and very liberating.
The answer can be both. There are times when deadlines are fixed, the path is known, and everyone just needs to march in the same direction. There are other times when a company faces an existential threat from a new technology. This is when having your best minds “messing around” can be hugely beneficial. For example, pivoting your photograph company to a makeup company is not intuitive to me, and is an idea that could have come from someone screwing around in a lab. It is also a tome of huge pressure, and managing that dichotomy is what good managers do
I often suffer from impersonator syndrome, my freelance rates should be North if 70 per hour but I keep getting stuck at 40...

I grew up poor though and teaching myself coding moved be to earn more then I thought I'd ever earn without a college degree.

I knew about for loops almost a decade before I decided web dev would be my career, not just my hobby.

it's insane that you could get hired and not know how they work.

linked lists, sure. I still don't fully understand those lol, I was going for an associate's and that was in my c++ class but I've mostly only touched PHP, python, ruby, JavaScript... playing around with go and rust some as well, but I've never had to really think about linked lists, loops on the other hand is a daily thing.

hell, not knowing loops is like not knowing how to increment, like seriously, his to add 1 to an int.

Smh....
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I'm interested in this stuff, care to share some good starting point?
Are you unpopular? I have around 1k followers and my inbox is constantly filled with spam now.
10x being real or not aside, if there's a 1x-type they certainly don't do many of the things in this list in my experience and certainly not:

>Writes code that others can read.

>Reads the Docs.

>Updates the Docs.

In my experience, half of the differentiation between above average and solidly "1x" or middling devs is reading documentation and obtaining a deeper understanding of the tools, language, platform they're developing on top of.
I came here to say this too.

Ironically I was about to set up a new Linux Dev machine with Ubuntu and now I'm more inclined to go back to Mint since I never had a bad experience with it. I was fortunate to skip the Gnome 3 days and the Cinnamon and Xfce implementations have been very stable for a while now.
> How did you become so misinformed?

Personal attacks are against the site rules. Don't post like this here.
I don't need to write a complex software system to utilise my knowledge about it.

Also, I don't have a CS degree and that's not what I advocate for. I advocate for developers who spend years honing their skills and learning fundamentals of the craft.
It really felt like the game should have focused on different characters and storylines. After, what, a decade of the movies establishing the faces and voices of the characters we get a warmed over bunch of lookalikes and voice impersonators? Since its not realistic to get all the stars to come in and do voice lines for the game, lets look at what the B-team is doing while the mainline folks fight the big bad!
Because they don't know about fwupd? Why are you not asking them instead of a Hacker News comment?
They're already working on keyword generics which is a limited version of this.
Guys in his town were either working, pursuing a hobby, or socialising?
Gitlab has "merge requests" the comment you're replying was trying to point out an error in an annoying way
Better readability -

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1640892791923572737.html
Arguably, everything that isn’t for a serious breach of contract or other cause which allows stripping the golden parachute is “laid off” for them.

But even with that, they occasionally do get “fired”.
Because high earners are rich people but not rich enough to be capitalists. So they get screwed and somehow capital gains isn’t blamed or tax loopholes but poor people.

Edit: my context was about taxes in general not specific enough to SALT
If I was offered enough money that I could quit my job and garden for the next 50 years, I would not hesitate to take that deal
At semiconductor companies we have plenty of IC's doing IC design. The initialism has multiple definitions.
I'm no really blaming anyone, I'm thankful for Arch, I love it, and I recommend it to other people who ask (well, at least those that can handle it :)).

> Those are all upstream bugs, not Arch's.

IIRC the grub issue was in the update script, so it may have been an Arch bug rather than an upstream bug?

Still, it would also be nice if a package is known to be broken due to an upstream bug it would get rolled back, so once the breakage is known, no one else will update into a broken state. That would save some time over each person individually updating to a broken state, debugging for a bit and then downgrading the broken package and then also paying attention not to reupdate it each time they update the system until the problem is resolved.

But again, not trying to complain or assign blame, I was just responding to a question in a parent comment.
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Completely agree it is asinine, and have no reason to want to defend it. Just sharing the insights I have had with this topic.
It means he's just a regular person not educated in workplace theory
That button was added to GitHub to protect against new bot accounts creating PRs against random projects, adding a CI step that runs a cryptominer.
Now that the CI doesn't run automatically for new users without a button click, these attackers have a much harder time.

So tell your maintainers to use that button more liberally -- it mostly just exists to save GitHub money / discourage these attacks. It doesn't hurt to click it for these "CV improvement" spam PRs, and it makes rejecting the PR a lot simpler if there's a red X.

I usually just scan file list changed by the PR, and if it isn't changing CI stuff, I just let the actions run prior to the actual code review.
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I didn’t say you shouldn’t be allowed to raise cattle. You should absolutely be allowed.

I said it would be insane to prohibit what is potentially a better alternative, just because some people raise cattle.
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Some over-the-top rust advocates (not naming names) almost made me ditch wanting to learn rust. I'm glad I stuck with it, as it has some lovely features, and after some weeks of frustration, it's fun to program.
> Sure, maybe its just nostalgia, but there were plenty of trends and aesthetics from my younger years that are just nowhere to be found. Why? Because when people renovate, they go with the aesthetic de jure, what's available and what the social pressures are. Hardly anyone is going to renovate a 1980s basement and put in...1980s carpet.

And were people in the 1980s using furniture from the 1940s when they renovated? If not, embrace the fact that things change and will always change. I bet the 1980s aesthetics are going to get a revival at some point.
Hey man, sometimes you want a distro where you can really muck about with the internals. I started with redhat 6.2 and then went to slackware until I cared more about being productive than learning internals. It's good to explore as a teen.
Enough to make even a seasoned Haskell programmer blush.
it doesn't sound to me like your ego has been smashed in any sense, my friend
I think you misunderstood my point -- that isn't my rhetoric but the rhetoric of the banks and current authorities to demonize crypto.
This rhymes with a few other articles and blog posts:

Wither Tartaria?
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/whither-tartaria

> Imagine a postapocalyptic world. Beside the ruined buildings of our own civilization - St. Peter’s Basilica, the Taj Mahal, those really great Art Deco skyscrapers - dwell savages in mud huts. The savages see the buildings every day, but they never compose legends about how they were built by the gods in a lost golden age. No, they say they themselves could totally build things just as good or better. They just choose to build mud huts instead, because they’re more stylish.

Colors: Where did they go? An investigation.

https://www.vox.com/culture/22840526/colors-movies-tv-gray-d...
> Why do so many TV shows and movies look like they were filmed in a gray wasteland?
Stealing money then gifting to yourself via a trusted straw man? Now that's effective altruism!
See also Wikibooks' "C Programming": https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/C_Programming
I made a drastic improvement in my mindset with regards to media backlogs when I realized that they they exist to entertain me and that my whims are the only thing that matters. I don’t owe that pile of books anything. Now they’re not allowed to generate stress, only entertainment!
Brave throwaway, you underestimate the knowledge you possess! You should be proud of your knowledge and gladly share it, rather than mock those unwilling to expend the effort you've expended to earn such knowledge.

Search results are plagued with spam to the point of uselessness, and this is precisely the sort of information I would not trust from an LLM because their sources are, as I said, plagued with spam and I don't want to chase hallucinated results.

In fact, for all that it's a trivial question, this is at least the fourth time I've asked it, and the first time I've gotten real answers--although not from you.

Perhaps the issue is that you don't seen to realize I've never gotten less than 2% from my Apple Card, and I get 3% back from Apple purchases? (Since I just bought an iPad Air + accessories for my daughter's birthday, that alone saved me more than $50!)

The Fidelity card you mention seems to require a Fidelity account, but that's okay, since I have one. However, the terms then seem identical to my experience with the Apple card.

I got my Apple card before Chase updated my cards from them to be tappable, and basically I use the Apple card for Apple Pay (2%) and purchases/subscriptions from Apple (3%), a Chase Amazon card for purchases from Amazon (5%), and a Chase Sapphire physical card (2% or 5%, depending on category) when a physical card is required (rarely these days, but at Walmart for one). It's not clear to me how Fidelity is any better than Apple card in this scenario.
Even though I am mostly on Microsoft stacks, Steve Jobs was right.

Whatever good will the development teams are able to deliver, it get messed up by sales and marketing business units.
That's actually how I spent a lot of my time. GPT drafts code of mixed quality, and I spend a lot of time reviewing it.

What's interesting is that GPT isn't trained to produce high-quality code. It's trained as an autocompletion tool. I'd be curious how smart such a system could be if we knew how to engineer it for quality.
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"My disability doesn't define me, but I'm still going to put it as the first thing in my twitter bio."

We had a real chance to get something going with occupy and now we aren't allowed to clap at events because clapping is too violent.
How do you donate $15K if you’re not high income? If you donate $2500 nothing changes. You pay taxes on it.

Really no charity is deductible except rich people charity.
> mentored the people on my team to be similarly efficient

What were the main changes you introduced/points you mentored them on to get their productivity to also be similarly efficient?
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Yeah I compartmentalize exceptions like these as well. Like I don't count "ongoing coop games with friends" or "long term games" (like your Factorio save, or something like League of Legends) towards my broader "What I'm currently playing" count.
I guess I'm from a -shithole- developing country myself, so can you explain to me how air-drying clothes is offensive to your sensibility?

(Again, in a desert; I can see how someone from Chicago might find it extremely convenient.)
I'm not doing it right now, I'm more imagining a near-term product designed for this (maybe even with the option to self-host). Current LLMs probably couldn't hold enough context to analyze a whole codebase anyway, just one file at a time (which could still be useful, but)
iirc this also happened in arch itself, the endeavor team just happened to have the better writeup on it.
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