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Burning wood? Luxury! Growing up we had to inscribe our cuneiform on clay tablets. And it really was the best way, because our tablets would last thousands of years.

- Ea-Nasir
Thank-you. Disabling JS may help with reading many other pay- or other-walled submissions.
I think this is already happening, we just don't hear about it in this context from the mainstream media.
It’s fair to say that LLMs are surprisingly good at predicting the next term in a series, in a way that we did not expect.

Calling this reasoning, implies a greater set of abilities than what LLMs have, and this skews conversations.

We end up spending time discussing implications and untangling wires due to this anthropomorphization.
"the massive risk and uncertainty of replacing a CEO"

This is not what we're talking about. This is about risk to the company, not risk to the CEO.

"Essentially CEOs are able to hold the board hostage."

Exactly. There is no risk to the CEO. They hold all the cards.
It's actually illegal to import parrots into the United States now. Nearly all the ones that are here are not going to live out in the wild and survive. I see this discussion about freeing them all the time, but that ship sailed when they were taken from their habitat and bred in capitivity. Best we can do is minimize the damage by dissuading ownership and reduce the number bred for pets

That said, I dissuade everyone that tells me they want a parrot from getting one, not for the reason you gave, but because most people treat them like cats or dogs and that doesn't work. They're more like toddlers and approaching them like that usually works better.

I have several smaller parrots I rescued from someone that let them go outside and didn't want them back (conure and some budgies) and they're quite content. They're usually more interested in interacting with my family than each other. I love mine, but they require more attention than most people want to give

They get plenty of open space indoors to fly around, but not every parrot likes to fly. Quite a few would rather climb, because it's a lot of effort to get lift with a bulky parrot body.
There is some in-country variation that's ignored in this article. In Poland, names of pieces will vary based on family you come from (as this game is usually learnt at kindergarten age from your parents/grandparents). For example, in my family we refer to the knight as "koń" (horse) rather than "skoczek" (jumper), and instead of using the more Polish-sounding "goniec" for the bishop we use "laufer" borrowed from German. Also, even though the official (as in: approved by some chess institutions in the country) name for the queen is "hetman", I'd say 90%+ Poles say "królowa" (literally queen).
I recently did a graphics experiment with volume rendering where I wanted to partition a grid into groups of active voxels. Imagining a Morton or Hilbert curve would be best, I compared it to row-major/scanline order and Boutrophedonic, as maybe a couple different baselines. I was very surprised to find that Boustrophedonic was the best of these in terms of minimizing volume and overlap of the groups. I was packing naively and not being careful to use powers of two, which definitely compromised the usage of Morton and Hilbert, so my result isn’t necessarily the best or generally applicable, but it was still surprising and interesting to me and some others people I discussed with, that doing it the dumb way lead to back-and-forth ordering being better than space filling curves with what seem to be more apparent locality properties. (Well, it wasn’t as surprising to the guy who suggested I should try a Boustrophedonic ordering. Maybe he experienced the same surprise earlier.)
Your auditory memory is a different space than other forms of memory, so when you read aloud to yourself it permits you to buffer additional information and get to it later, in addition to mapping it through different perceptual space as you’ve noted. So at least the perceptual circuit and the time constraints are changed by doing so.

I find that it no longer works very well for me though: I often read aloud without experiencing or remembering anything I’ve read at all. It’s the same autopilot that takes over driving.
I would probably go with more traditional wax inside wooden frame. I don't think slate is childproof enough. And the chalk is consumable waste...
And also, we have very strong evidence that college degrees do have great economic value

Yes. Which is why it's absurd for for people who obtained this valuable asset to demand handouts from people who didn't.
So it seems the answer would be yes, but we can't say how or to what extent.
Given the glacial performance of the site, 2 minutes often isn't enough.

Anyway, my initial prompt "My brain hurts!" followed by "My! Brain! Hurts!" (regardless of response) turned out to be sufficient to filter out all bots. And non-Monty Python lovers, potato, potato...
> In the future, Google will stop supporting Manifest V2 in Chrome.
> Because of this change, in 2023, the 1Password classic extension for
> Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Brave will no longer be supported.

> If you have a standalone vault, you’ll need to migrate to a 1Password > membership to use 1Password in your browser.

Anyone else frustrated by this?
Our kids' experience with public school Chromebooks has been pretty much the opposite of the comments here. All the neighborhood kids I've seen are taking good care of the school Chromebooks they have been entrusted with - they understand how to be responsible for them. Our schools taught basic typing at an early age, so the kids can fire up Google Docs and start writing as fast as they can think. For science class, they can open a spreadsheet, record data and immediately make charts and graphs. Not to mention, in almost any future profession, spreadsheet skills are a must. During Covid they could Zoom with their teachers and classmates. From what I've seen, their Chromebooks have been a tool that enables them to do their best academic and creative work. And they do all this without any trouble from viruses or malware. $200 for 3 years is extremely reasonable given all the benefits the kids are receiving.
You're in agreement, they are additionally implying that the bar is much lower than you set it though.
I took a laptop to school for the entire year in 1996 (year 10 at school) -- a Powerbook 190. It was a great machine, a grayscale sceen (16 grays) and a CPU with 33Mhz -> 66Mhz depending on whether it was on power, and a 500MB HD.

It went into the shop twice that year. Both times because I had tripped over the power cable. I would say I cherished it and yet as a teenager you're just not as careful with items as you should be. That PowerBook 190 was a rugged beast, and that's probably the only thing that kept it running as well as it did.
> LLM will have the drive to spread language

Spread language where?
Some sort of identity protocol like this

Humanness in the Age of AI: A path to an open and permissionless identity protocol

https://worldcoin.org/blog/engineering/humanness-in-the-age-...
Thank you! Great insight!
I think we can both see that the question has been about defaults, which differ between Ubuntu server and standard.
Was it the article posted on April 1st?
I think everyone has "always" known that methane is not a key driver of climate change. Its relatively short atmospheric life and relatively low concentration make it have a modest effect relative to CO2, even if it is more potent.

A 30% reduction serves to further show that the priority needs to be CO2 in general, and everything but the low hanging fruit for methane emissions is a distraction.

Of course, the possibility of runaway effects and short term positive feedback loops from methane release from permafrost, etc, is still a concern. I guess a 30% reduction there is somewhat good news.
Ah that’s nice to know, thank you.
I prefer to call it "prompt alchemy" for exactly the reasons you described. It can't be engineering if you can't understand what you are trying to engineer with. Alchemists were sort of proto-scientists and engineers because they were trying to get use out of a physical world that they did not fully understand.
Hahahaha good spot.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalry

Vs

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvary
ordered a lot from amazon 100s, never had a problem.
Well, if you define safety as “few deaths” vs “few explosions” then, sure. If SpaceX had to 100% avoid explosions they would make much less progress than they do.
Since everyone is complaining about snap. I have to ask : what is wrong with apt and dpkg ?

I just want that, I guess it means back to Debian?

I’m not excited or interested about spending time dealing with a package manager.
If you want some sample code to implement MVCC, I implemented MVCC in multithreaded Java as a toy example

https://github.com/samsquire/multiversion-concurrency-contro...

First read TransactionC.java then read MVCC.java ( or follow the methods that TransactionC calls)
Indeed.

Developing fine motor control is fundamental for developing cognitive skills.
Problem is that CAD is just an approximation of the real world and will never simulate it 100% faithfully.

Software on the other hand can technically be simulated 100% accurately, barring hardware or interpreter bugs.
I think it has to do with the brain being built up in layers. Even though our brains are 3-D in shape, the layers are effectively thick 2-D surfaces. This is just a guess though.
The SpaceX Starship explosion was deliberate
Housing should have never been allowed to be an 'investment' in the first place. We've known that, but I think these chickens are finally coming home to roost.
Here in the EU we're asleep at the wheel. Can't have such start-up success stories because they'll disturb the oligopolies of the 100 year old car companies.

Thank god Tesla made them wake up a bit. Fingers crossed BYD does the same.

I remember Fiat was once a very innovative company, experimenting with EVs way before they were cool, even being the first to mass produce one[1], but now, I'm struggling to find a car in their portfolio I would want buy. Much like Philips, they seem to be dying a slow death.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4OE4GPJITw
Not sure what counts as a "business problem" for you, but personally I couldn't have gotten as far as I've come with game development without it, as I really struggle with the math and I don't know many people locally who develop games that I could get help from. GPT4 have been instrumental in helping me understand concepts I've tried to learn before but couldn't, and helps me implement algorithms I don't really understand the inner workings of, but I understand the value of the specific algorithm and how to use it.

In the end, it sometimes requires extensive testing as things are wrong in subtle ways, but the same goes for the code I write myself too. I'm happy to just get further than have been possible for the last ~20 years I've tried to do it on my own.

Ultimately, I want to finish games and sell them, so for me this is a "business problem", but I could totally understand that for others it isn't.
The content already exists. I'm just decoding it.
I've heard these arguments: (a) that we don't have the evidence to confirm that climate change is anthropogenic, and (b) that we shouldn't change our behavior. My understanding is (b) is not tied to (a), but rather that most claims of (b) come out of different views on conservation, what "nature" is, what's achievable with technology, and how different approaches to climate change might impact human quality of life.

And (b) is not really that we _shouldn't_ change our behavior, but that the most popular ideas for how we should are varying degrees of infeasible, harmful, or fascistic.

The "right" on this issue is largely misunderstood. Those pushing for a shift to renewables and a lifestyle change in wealthier nations deserve better literature on what their opposition is advocating for and against: https://compactmag.com/article/energy-lysenkoism
What behavior change should people advocate for to not be considered climate deniers? It’s starting to sound more like a temperance movement than a serious attempt to solve a problem.
If you hear O Fortuna starting up, you'll suddenly understand.
The ban is for new vehicles so that's not relevant.
This is very neat. I've heard of similar benefits to combining solar panels and agriculture.

I'm glad this is getting some attention. I live in the desert and often I hear from people who don't live here the sentiment that it's useless, dead land, but the opposite is true. The deserts in the southwest US are alive with all sorts of interesting and beautiful plants and animals.
I see you’ve never met a Gen Alpha tween who spends their free time in Roblox
Sure, in the same way that when I'm trying to lose weight and want a snack I will make a choice between a celery stick and a cookie, or I can forestall the choice by not having a cookie in the house in the first place. The story of Odysseus and the sirens.
I see you are more interested in hurling insults than arguing your case in good faith. That’s fine but it means I am done responding to you after this comment.

> It is of course easier to see a pupil surrounded by a blue iris than it is to see one surrounded by a brown iris.

Again this is an undefended assertion. It’s important to remember we’re talking about subconscious responses to pupil size. Just because you (and Eckhard Hess) believe it is “easier” to consciously perceivr pupils surrounded by blue irises does not mean your subconscious is any less aware of pupils in brown eyes. If it’s true that it’s easier to subconsciously decode pupils in blue eyes then it should be easy to verify experimentally. Similarly, if it is easier to be aware of the emotional state of blue-eyed people then that should be easy to prove experimentally. What’s harder is showing your assertions that blue-eyed people thus make better partners or that this makes blue eyes an evolutionary advantage.
Dude 90% of parents do not have the time, skill, or energy to maintain their kids devices.
I'm not in the Apple ecosystem (and use an unholy collection of paper, task warrior and orgmode.) But I think this is an EXCELLENT description from an end user about how they constructed a solution from the technology they had available. Their solution already does more than our corporate JIRA instance.
I feel this game would have been better if we got points for convincing the other player that we are a bot. It is actually way more fun than guessing if the other player is a bot or not
I had never really paid attention to the fact that all the craters are round. If anyone else is just noticing that, this explains it: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-are-impact-cr...
Even worse for companies in high tax states like California, overall tax rate is closer to 40%.
That wouldn't sound unusual to me at all. Inventors and researchers who break new ground are often from a non-mainstream subculture or from another culture altogether. People from such backgrounds see and approach problems differently.

Turing, von Neumann, Erdos, Einstein, and many others came with non-mainstream backgrounds.
For larger companies, they may offer to settle before the court case to avoid the cost of sending a lawyer.
My guess is the impact of the poor tech is quite low if your scale is small and you are not all that technical yourself. A good option for smaller less Eng focused customers.
Why did Chevrolet drop the Spark and Sonic?

Why did Toyota drop the Yaris?

Why is the Honda Civic so big?

Cars have gotten bigger due to a lot of factors and this article addresses none of them.
Be wary, in my personal case it was neck tightness restricting blood flow to the face and jaw. Normally you should be able to make a square by touching fingers to your opposing shoulders and touch wrists to your nose with no pain or tightness, I could not.
Is sort of snake oil. People would have an entire arXiv article explaining "Explain Step by step" as prompt engineerning, but in reality, it's just natural language to say "step by step" if you want it to be step by step.
> Do you really want to live in a country where the government is not willing to tell you whether you are breaking the law?

Show me a country where the government tells whether or not you're breaking the law without actually prosecuting you.
Are you saying that once the US has moved TSMC over to the US then the US will stop caring about Taiwan?
Do you know just how many dictators were democratically elected? When they start cheating the game you label them a cheater, not only once they win.
Some school have on-site repair centers. Students can quickly swap a broken device for a refurbished working one. It's a constant cycle.

The repair centers have a stash of parts, and do basic part swap-outs on site. Students get charged if they break too many screens.

Not sure the cost of running these centers, or if parents volunteer.
You're talking about changing literally trillions of dollars worth of economic activity, per year, now and supposedly for the next 50 or 100 years, across the whole of Western civilization.

The requirement for the math being absolutely "spot-on" in this case is extremely high.

Is it?
3 years for a $200 device seems like a pretty good deal. Especially in the hands of kids who are rarely careful with things.

It's obviously terrible for the environment and it's also probably terrible for cognitive development. Pen and paper is a way better solution for kids and teenagers.
The fact that first thing in surgical procedures is "penis enlargement" says a lot
For future borrower. Current and past not so much.
Both may be true!
I think for a good functioning economy we do want housing prices to generally go up, but in a much more modest and controlled way - so in that way it should be viewed as an appreciating asset.

What it shouldn't be is a speculative investment for companies, non residents or wealthy individuals.
Then they can pay for it with their own money.
Sub-200 device doesn't sound so bad if you look at lifetime cost. If on average they last 2 years. It is still better than 800 device that is replaced in 4 years. Or 6 years...

And my guess is that these are heavily abused and the more expensive wouldn't on average survive substantially longer.
I personally don't believe CO2 is a driver of climate change. I think the 'science' is junk. I do think pollution is a the number one issue facing humanity, and we're doing nothing about it, because all of our collective energy is being directed at a red herring.

Entire ecosystems are being destroyed by chemical and mining industries, not just ones used for batteries. We've polluted every water source on the planet. Just look at the chemicals they're spraying on crops. We're completely over fishing the oceans. We're paving the best farm land in the world to put up shopping malls.

Climate change, even if it's being caused by people, is so far down the list of concerns I couldn't are less about it.
The magic of DC-DC voltage conversion
> the trick where you search for relevant content and paste that into a prompt

Supabase Clippy was the first docs site to ship this experience to production as far as I can tell: https://supabase.com/blog/chatgpt-supabase-docs

I believe they called it "context injection" and I have been following suit in my own writing on the topic.

I am prototyping experiences like Supabase Clippy and am also very interested in fine-tuning for docs Q&A. But my main question is: what exactly would the fine-tuning inputs and outputs look like for docs Q&A?

Edit: For Q&A the question is the input and the answer is the desired output? Is that right?

A more general comment about fine-tuning for docs from my blog:

> AI is all about prediction. Given this temperature, this wind, this day of the year, what is the chance of rain? Temperature, wind, and date are your inputs. Chance of rain is your desired output. Now, try to apply this same type of thinking towards documentation. What are your inputs? What’s your output? The page title and code block could be your inputs. Whether or not the code builds could be your output. Or maybe the code block should be the output? This is why I keep saying that applying fine-tuning to docs is tricky. What are the inputs and outputs?

https://technicalwriting.tools/posts/ten-principles-response...

(I am an AI n00b and have not looked deeply into how fine-tuning works but it's high on my list to experiment with OpenAI's fine-tuning API. Please LMK if I am getting any fundamentals wrong.)
its not that we believe government DOES solve everything or trust government. it’s that we believe government is the answer and only government responsible.

constant load shedding? parliaments job to fix.

people dont want to obey traffic rule? could it be something with our culture? of course not. government problem to fix.

Ok..trash everywhere in street? government problem to fix. i will say government should fix it, ignoring that it is myself throwing that trash out on the street instead of in bin even when rubbish bin is right there at hand distance.

not enough jobs? government should fix by hiring everyone.

do we trust government, no. but my party is good and yours corrupt. if my prime minister favorite actually shoots child it is okay and i will justify it.

thats the type of mindset. every problem i have.. it is someone else’s fault. i have zero responsibility.
I don't think it is unreasonable to claim that there exist feedback loops +ve or -ve in a neighborhood between the price of new housing being built, the kinds of employers opening new firms, the kinds of services & hospitality moving into storefronts, the price of childcare... the list goes on...

The comparison to umbrellas and rain - two variables with obviously no causal dependency - feels like a big stretch no matter what side of this argument you fall on.
When you treat basic needs as an investment… same with masks during early pandemic periods, we frown upon those scalpers. But somehow we aspire to become housing scalper one day ‘when the day comes, I’ll sell mine at highest possible return’
Maybe we need blind lottery and if a buyer turns out to be new buyer, the price is automatically adjusted to a reasonable value (no extra 50k to pick my offer…)
1988 Geo Metro could get like 54 MPG. Impossible to build and sell due to 2023 regulations.
I'm not a fan of my wife so that feature is amazing!
I've never understood how real returns on house prices could be believed to be sustainable. If the value of a house appreciates in terms of purchasing power for some other good at a constant rate, at some point in the far future just a single house would become valuable enough to purchase the entire global supply of the other good.

The illusion of house price appreciation is due to historical population growth creating scarcity, and cheaper money allowing for higher and higher leverage. At some point the music has to stop.
There are plans to up-zone large portions of the city I live in. Appended to every related article on the local newspaper’s website are dozens of comments about how such a move is a scheme/payout for developers. But of course, who else is going to build sufficient housing? The real concern is not actually how much money someone else would make, but how much the current homeowners would have shaved off their selling prices.
It's a mistake (or intentionally othering) to malign something like "traditional masculinity", which many people identify as a set of qualities about themselves that they enjoy, rather than just pointing out the _specific things_ about "traditional masculinity" that are considered harmful. I like being traditionally masculine, personality, I consider some of the personality traits I associate with it as virtuous and even help guide me in daily life.

It's also helpful to enemies of feminism and modern thought on gender roles: now all I have to say is "see, look, they are calling what you are a personality disorder!" and I can convince them to dismiss the entire movement whole cloth.