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> Same was true for combustion engines, they will probably send us extinct.

What? Because we weren't burning fossil fuels before cars?

Besides forgetting about trains, steamships and the coal-powered Industrial Revolution, you're ignoring the billions of lives lifted out of poverty.
Every class of artist will now be able do more than they could alone in the world before AI. They no longer need institutional capital to make big, ambitious works.

Graphics designers will have tools and will make movies and interactive fictions. They'll build their own following.

It'll look like YouTube and the rise of the YouTuber, except bigger and broader.
Lightening arrestors exist. We use them all the time on our cameras. they're more reliable than people.
BigQuery might be a reasonable hosted DB here - they have proper postgres, etc. but it's a lower level than you may want.
Restating my point: prosperity for whom? The answer for the past 50 years has certainly not been “everyone” or even “most people” in wealthy countries like America.
> What about bad things that are literally happening right now?

Our lives are good. No child loses sleep for the bogeyman under the neighbor's bed.
My wife is a novelist who widely participates in fiction writing communities, and a lot of competitions have had to stop taking submissions entirely due to AI work flooding all the submissions. There's been drama on and off recently with AI generated covers, too. Some waves have been made with people winning contests with AI generated short stories. Agents are absolutely inundated with AI queries, and it's only going to get worse as the technology gets better.

It's actually really scary for writers right now. You just have to look at the huge amount of AI generated attempts and think "what do we do when the writing gets really good? What do we do when most novels are mostly AI generated?"

People have spent decades working their ass off to get good and try to get their work sold, and they come out the end of this tunnel right into an era telling them that they're just about to be obsolete.
Not true as it depends on the state. Perhaps your state cops will do that, but mine will not. In PA you can import such vehicles for off-road use as long as they are modified to have a maximum speed of 25mph. In MD, it's up to local jurisdictions.
This was my experience as well sadly
He absolutely should have gotten rid of the troublemaker. Many folks used this publicity to leave for higher positions or higher pay (which is very common at google) but made it look like Jeff Dean was the problem.
> State environmental cops

This is not an issue for most of the states where people actually own ATVs, snowmobiles and land to use those in.
I like how Max Tegmark frames it by considering Birds and Flight and how we built Planes that can also fly. It turns out Flight, as an action on its own, is not so difficult if you throw enough energy behind a particularly shaped collection of parts. Intelligence, as a behavior observable in the world, appears to be similar in that it emerges in stages at scales as we are discussing.

And just like inventing airplanes caused us to say 'all things that fly are not birds', now we may start saying 'all things that display intelligence are not us'

(where intelligence is => human level intelligence and "us" could be swapped out with alive/sentient/conscious/etc at least for now and perhaps in all cases)
Capitalism demands that companies do things that aren't good for consumers in order to maximize profits. Through the lens of game theory, a lot more corporate behavior makes a lot more sense. Until regulation makes it more expensive for a company to do user-hostile things than not, they'll keep making those decisions as rational actors. Developers are a fungible commodity. I'm not saying that change never comes from developers, just that when it does, I've found that it was because it was wrapped in a pitch of how to do something another way to make even MORE profit. So long as a thing is legal, or legal enough (risk of getting caught * negotiated penalty amount vs potential profit), what motivation would they have to not do it?
Yeah I’m pretty sure it had to do with some unsanctioned fucking around.
I'm very familiar with fractional reserve banking, thanks.

>the justification for this is something about investment and risk taking. Which are supposed to involve your own funds, not money you printed out of thin air.

Money is socially constructed. If we agree, societally and legally, that banks can lend out most of the money that their depositors place with them (fractional reserve), then the money the bank lends out is no less real, no more "printed out of thin air," than any other money. And we do agree to that statement, legally and (for the vast majority) societally.

> risks are supposed to be (and are) handled by insurances.

Which is exactly how banks handle interest rates on loans. This is why we have credit scores: so that the underwriter at the bank can assess how risky your proposed loan is, and how much interest (i.e. premium) to charge you. Exactly like an insurance underwriter assesses how risky your proposed insurance policy is and how much premium to charge you. Both insurance and banking largely automate these decisions these days, but there are still human underwriters who can override the automated decisions.

A few years ago I briefly worked in the credit risk department of a bank, and as part of my orientation I spent an afternoon sitting with one of these underwriters watching and listening as they dealt with clients who wanted to appeal the automated credit decisions.

> And then there's the paperwork and checking and all that that most likely should involve a flat rate

This also already exists, it's called an origination fee.

> This should be much more ethical than charging interest over money that didn't even exist to begin with.

In summary, this is completely wrong. The money does exist, just as much as any other money exists, and if it's not repaid the lender is on the hook for it[1], just like any other money. And the way you think lending should work is indistinguishable from the way it already works.

[1] Or, in many cases, the person who bought the loans from the originating bank.
I was curious, too, so I Googled it. It wasn't that hard to do. Here's one, but I encourage you to do your own searching, too, instead of just asking for others to.

https://www.cio.com/article/244398/qanda-zipcar-founder-robi...
Doesn't sound like freedom.
... and streaming services being silos for content, so I'm not sure the 'last round' was even all that beneficial[0] in the long run. Anyway... RRRRR!

As to AI-generated content: Who knows?

[0] Towards humanity and creative endeavor in general.
I firmly believe that once ai is in a position to replace programmers and other white collar workers, it's more of "we're all fucked" moment. Society would have to so radically change once we reach even that infantile level of post-scarcity, when a large portion of society that loses their jobs, that we have to have serious discussions about what life is supposed to be about and what our places in society are.

when there is no more desire to be quenched, when there are no jobs to do, when we have solved all disease, what do we do? Man has been defined so much by his suffering and toil, that when we take it away we are in an environment that we are not prepared for in any kind of sense.
Left my job in March, after a series of terrible managers I was waking at night dreading coming back from vacation. Being FANG adjacent, it paid well and I have no rush to find new work and I'm half looking and half taking a sabbatical.

I also changed jobs during the .com crash, and this feels by far better. Recruiters are still reaching out and returning messages, companies are interviewing. There's a ton of laughably low ball spam. During .com is was pure crickets. That said, I'm also 20 years on in my career and have skills/experience that are in demand.

Taking a break has been the best thing ever. I get to spend time with my son, I'm learning rust and doing Advent of Code, and took a 1day/week contract with a former employer. They want me to review and better document systems I built for them years ago. This gives me the opportunity to see how they've aged, what we did well and what we should have done better, and I'm being paid to learn this. :)

Then: up at 3am worried about work
Now: sleeping well again

Thoughts on the industry: why does tech have terrible founder worship and terrible sr+ managers. Do we really need a director to be able to code, or should they be focused on the 150+ people?
Against Innovation
YouTube Ripper Sends Cease and Desist to Google, Hoping to Stop DMCA Abuse
I used to hit this all the time when I lived in the UK. One of the first things you have to do when you get a SIM card there is ask the provider to turn off their "block randomly selected websites" function. At one point mine was blocking Wikipedia.
Can a blind man drive ? are blind people unintelligent ?
Hack Club: A Home for High School Hackers
I wondered why they did't lead with a picture, until I scrolled down to the picture. These towers are not pretty.
Is it not crazy, asks Mr Senior, that the piano maker is a productive worker, but not the piano player, although obviously the piano would be absurd without the piano player? But this is exactly the case. The piano maker reproduces capital, the pianist only exchanges his labour for revenue. But doesn’t the pianist produce music and satisfy our musical ear, does he not even to a certain extent produce the latter? He does indeed: his labour produces some- thing; but that does not make it productive labour in the economic sense; no more than the labour of the mad man who produces delusions is productive.

— Karl Marx in Grundrisse (1857-61)
I did not, but I was only looking for 25 year old trucks as that is the age requirement for import.
US citizens, Russian nationals charged in influence campaign probe
The Nadella example was meant to illustrate visionary & bold.

You’re right; my statement is not scientifically accurate
unrelated but spurred by this comment, have you seen studies exploring correlations between covid infection/severity and tonsils? a cursory google search yielded nothing.
Just take the product of the two independent states. If you had 5 + 5 states, now you have 25 superstates each representing a potentially unique situation. As long as the sub-states are enumerable, the superstates will be enumerable too.
One could argue this is exactly where state machines shine, because they allow you to methodically consider every condition.
AOLserver was originally NaviServer, before AOL bought it. That’s why all of its API identifiers have the prefix `Ns_` (or `NS_` or `ns`, depending on the kind of identifier). Kind of like how (coincidentally) Apple’s Foundation and AppKit frameworks use the prefix `NS`, because those came from Nextstep.

In 1999, I was hired by ArsDigita, a web startup that used AOLserver, mainly to provide internal development and support for AOLserver. ArsDigita used big multi-CPU Sun servers (this was long before Oracle bought Sun) and I ended up diagnosing several race conditions in AOLserver that the AOL developers had trouble reproducing because they did their dev work on single-CPU boxes.

Fun fact, ArsDigita founder Philip Greenspun (of Greenspun’s Tenth Rule) knew Robert Thau from their shared alma mater MIT. Robert Thau (rst) designed and implemented Apache’s original module API. So ArsDigita hired rst to write mod_aolserver, an Apache module that provided enough of AOLserver’s API to allow running ArsDigita’s codebase (ACS) under Apache.
I used to use an old Ford Ranger on a farm as a teen and it was a great truck. It was tough in its own way, easy to fix, and took alot of abuse. I rolled it once (not in it fortunately), and got it stuck in a stream. We dragged it out was a tractor, rolled it upright, waited for the carburetor to drain or something and got it back on the road.
Even if it were seamless, I think many people would rather just scroll past some crappy ads vs paying even a few cents to read an article. A monthly sub works better, but the content that I'm actually excited to pay for comes from folks like YouTube creators with Patreons. I don't HAVE to pay, but I like what they do enough to support them, and there are enough folks who feel similarly that they're able to sustain a decent living from it. Of course, this model only works for fairly successful creators, and greedy content companies would still run as many ads as possible even with paid subscriptions, e.g. Hulu / Comcast.
But doesn't that result in Starship pointing in the wrong direction after separation? I get that it's the right direction for the booster. Also a flip seems much more risky than the well-understood current separation mechanisms.
> prosperity for whom? The answer for the past 50 years has certainly not been “everyone” or even “most people” in wealthy countries like America.

The poorest state in America, Mississippi, is richer than most of the world [1][2]. (No. 19, between the U.K. and New Zealand.) The post-war era experienced the largest and most broad-based increase in material prosperity in human history. Our poorest Americans saw real economic gains rivaling multi-generational ones for Rome's richest. If there is something that will kill us, it's ahistorical nihilism.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...
When technology destroys work people don't like to do, it's progress.

When technology destroys work people like to do, it's _______.
Tech Independence
The link to containerd Sandbox API was super interesting & helpful. https://github.com/containerd/containerd/issues/4131

Interestingly had a bunch of different Sandboxerd within. Wasm, microvm with common best-in-class tech (Firecracker, Cloud Hypervisor, qemu), & full KVM for unikernel systems (specifically atm a project Quark). runC is shown but not listed as an implementation. I had kind of thought this was specifically for Rust payloads but they just means written in Rust.

I am a bit surprised to hear the wasm model is forking. This system definitely values security & manageability so it shouldn't be surprising I guess. But it still feels like it might entail more loading & re-loading code to spawn than what I think of as wasm's strong point, where a new isolate can be created from a snapshot easily. Maybe the wasm runtime is more primed before forking than i realize, but the way they talk about forking then creating a runtime makes me think this isn't targeting lots of shortived instances.

Performance is exceedingly good versus the industry standard & very well tuned Kata Containers. 360ms Vs 850ms boot. Even better in parallel boots. Huge wins on memory overhead since there's a single manager process instead of per instance shims.

Neat project. I hope we see more of this & others. I'm curious who the team is & what else they are up to. Whoa... Huawei, Agricultural Bank of China, OpenEuler, are among the top listed users.
Were they wearing it at all times? Probably not.

BP told many of its cleanup workers that they did not need to wear breathing protection because the toxic components of the oil had evaporated or were broken down in the waves, according to the company’s safety briefings. Despite receiving advice from the federal government to conduct biological monitoring by measuring toxins in the cleanup workers’ blood, skin or urine, BP didn’t collect evidence that could have shown whether toxins contained in the oil had entered workers’ bloodstreams, according to plaintiffs’ attorneys.
I'd now like to go down to the core, please!
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Except that’s not what’s happening right now. That’s just a list of flowery “might happen” ideas people can use to justify the disruption of society so some people can pad their bank accounts. If they cared they wouldn’t be focusing their attention on art/music.
Same. I'm sitting here nostalgic for the days when I'd stay up late on my parents' computer talking to God knows who on AOL, reading about black boxes and phreaking in very vanilla sources, and learning how to write progs in VB back in the day. Oh the excitement when I got in the Winsock beta and now my whole OS had Internet connectivity. It was great times.
It seems like... everyone soon.
Do you think bullying doesn't exist in New York City?
This was cool back in the early days of the web.
It was used by Philip Greenspun, who wrote the classic "Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing": https://philip.greenspun.com/panda/
> If you didn't block them as imports, we'd have
> lots of people just go to Mexico and buy
> highly-polluting vehicles to save money, and our
> problem with smog in the border states would be
> much worse.

In Australia there are a set of guidelines required for vehicle imports, they even outline pollution and safety requirements that must be met before it can be registered or driven on public roads.

On-road non import vehicles can also fail these tests and the car is not considered "road worthy".

If vehicles in the US need to be registered, why isnt this a valid solution ?
For sure, we were considering that. One drawback is that you can’t present the Stripe portal / Checkout UI to users

We’d want users to be able to use the UI that Stripe provides so that users can upgrade and downgrade by themselves. With 2 subscriptions, that stops being possible.
> because no one on the product side understood what they had actually built

and more because Google's mission was to "organize world information" instead of understanding, intepreting & utilizing world information.

https://www.google.com/search/howsearchworks/our-approach/
Because we haven't hooked it up to visual input yet?
They mentioned in the Technical paper of GPT-4 that the capabilities of the model were not from RLHF. https://youtu.be/2zW33LfffPc?t=842
Not all roads are paved, but everyone who accesses learning content on the internet is a beneficiary. Anyone who accesses youtube to learn a new skill is a beneficiary. The development of the train, a British technology I know, allowed the movement of massive freights for pennies compared to automobile traffic. That cost of transport allows food costs to be as low as they are in places that use trains. Which is everywhere. Technology facilitates the costs we have for subsistence.
> maybe even doctors and lawyers

I don't think any profession that requires a license is at risk. Software engineers resisted a licensing regiment for decades and now the profession will pay a price.
The juiciest model is to make content that people go nuts for, like sports, then charge $100/mo for access to it, then run ads on top of that, i.e. what Comcast / Hulu do. You want the sports, so you have no choice but to pay what they demand and watch all the awful ads. They won't sell the rights to anyone because it's such a cash cow, and they know they don't even need to offer an ad-free experience, because the whole thing is just a gimmick to shove ads and marketing down throats in the first place.
> When technology destroys work people like to do, it's _______.

Liberating. I remember enjoying laying out sheet music. Doesn't mean I scorn my iPad.
Absolutely more. This takes very hard and challenging work and turns it into nearly nothing. This reduces decades of skilled labor and education into an algorithm. I'm not undervaluing industrialization, but the improvement in productivity wasn't on the same scale. We're talking reducing weeks of work to seconds in some cases, and that's not even being optimistic with what improvements we might still see in the coming years.
Yup Kangoos are quite expensive in Japan. They start at JPY 3.8M [1]

The Toyota Sienta, which starts at JPY 2M, seems like a much better value for a passenger car - and I think they borrowed from the Kangoo's styling a bit for the latest iteration [2]. Or for business use a Town Ace, NV200, HiJet, etc.

[1] https://www.renault.jp/car_lineup/kangoo/gps/index.html

[2] https://toyota.jp/sienta/
This is a great analogy, and it touches upon why I try to avoid google services. The company that once championed "don't be evil" now cannot think outside of the system of perverse incentives it has created (by that I mean add based revenue).
Know any good looking ones?
PPO for RL. Plus a lot of the people behind the innovations you mention are now at OAI - Lukas who was one of the Transformer authors, Bert paper author, chain of thought prompting author, etc.

But ya their strong point is execution and doing the hundreds of little things that make the model do well and it turns out that that's more important than "novel" ideas
Seems strange this doesn't support Nightscout as a source.
Also why scammers in poor countries are so dedicated; they can make many times what they would from working a legit job just by scamming your grandparents over the internet. They might only need a few successes per month to make it worth the time.
> Church never had any qualms with Newton laws or laws of conservation of mass (in chemistry) etc.

That was a much later church separated by more than one schism. The Orthodox Church of the Byzantine empire was much less tolerant of any thoughts that might contradict doctrine. More that one philosopher was convicted of heresy.
I used to think TCL was the coolest thing. Never quite got the hang of it though. Still like it, might be worth revisiting just because
Not gp but you could look at Phaser or Pixijs!

https://github.com/photonstorm/phaser

https://pixijs.com/
> takes very hard and challenging work and turns it into nearly nothing. This reduces decades of skilled labor and education into an algorithm

Read up on Luddism. These were multi-generational trades undone by the loom alone. The Industrial Revolution required millions of people to not only retrain, but also relocate. It changed political structures, often violently.

Even in the 1980s, skilled spreadsheets were done in by Excel. Does that mean we should ban Microsoft Office so folks can sketch out models by hand?
I just skimmed his text, and it is apparent that he thought deeply about cancer, death, and living.

I don't think technology will eliminate all cancer, but from data I've seen, I'm convinced that cancer immunotherapy will help us control many cancers, and the technology is just getting started
Hell of a write up! Nice work.
That's a little overblown, IMO. A FWD car is perfectly capable of understeering into the same tree.
They say the contract source will be open source, ok, but what chain does this run on?
More importantly, how do we keep everybody alive and cared for when all our systems are built around needing a job to survive when we then don't even have jobs to do for more than a quarter of our population?
“Predicting proteins”? I’m a biologist and I can assure you knowing the rough structure of a protein from sequence is nowhere near as important to biology as everyone makes it out to be. It is Nobel prize worthy to be sure but Nobel prizes are awarded once a year not once a century.
From a purely practical perspective, the death penalty is bad because of inaccuracy in the legal system.

From a morality perspective, how is the death penalty materially different than using lethal force in a war?
I use an app called Glucose Direct, it’s in beta, that reads the Libre 3 data and writes it to healthkit which then can be read by glucomate.
Can you explain this a little more (I dont live in the US and a preliminary search is failing me).

It sounds as though the 'regulations' are preventing US consumers from having a choice in trucks, which.. kinda makes no sense from what I've seen in the wide range of oversized trucks in the US.
So American drivers are aggressive towards those they think to be poorer than them?

Why do you think that is? (genuinely curious)
If it's not protecting them, and it's causing other harms?
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