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To use the tool effectively, you can't use Socratic questioning on it, or not always.

You have to already know how to code the problem, so that you can spot what is wrong, and, if necessary, tell the thing how to fix it.

The fix is not always going to come from the training data; it needs to scrape it from what you give away in your follow-up question, together with its training data.

I went through an exercise in which I encoded a paragraph from Edgar Allen Poe with a Vigenere cipher. I presented this to GPT4 and asked it to crack it. First I had to persuade it that it's ethical; it's a cipher I made myself and it's not my secret. We worked out a protocol by which it can ask me questions which show that I know the plaintext.

It was a quite a long chat, during which I had to give away many hints.

In the end I basically gave the answer away, and the thing acted like it cracked the key. Then I reproached it and admitted that yes, it didn't crack the key but used my hint to locate the E. A. Poe passage.

Basically, if you know the right answer to something, and GPT4 isn't getting it, it will not get it until you drop enough hints. As you drop the hints, it will produce rhetoric suggesting that it's taking credit for the solution.
> I think the support in the EU may be better than the US, unless things have changed very recently. Perhaps because our consumer protection laws are stronger and have sharper teeth!

Interesting, I’ve typically found the opposite. I seemed more likely to get financial compensation of some kind for various order issues in the US, whereas Amazon.de seemed more likely to stick to their exact policies which often weren’t as generous.
> The main inconvenience of fish is not even having to go into another shell for some tasks like virtual env activation, but wondering whether some command you just ran silently did something wrong because of shell incompatibility.

I have the impression that you just overlook all the rest of the things that can go wrong when using Bash, because you are simply used to it, you know it and you know how it will behave. In the sense that with Dash you would perhaps have a similar problem. Fish is really pleasant and forgives a lot.

> Also, I wonder how fast is OMF compared to Starship?

Those are two total different projects. During my hypomania on Fish (yup), I didn't even use OMF, but added things manually and only those really needed, so that there was as little code to maintain as possible. Fish does not have a huge number of scripts, plug-ins. If Starship is too slow for you, you might like Tide. I found nothing more interesting, after which I returned to Starship anyway, but it's really fast.

https://github.com/IlanCosman/tide

Perhaps you don't need something faster than Starship, just to configure Fish in such a way that it cleans itself of garbage and runs asynchronously?
The App Store is a poor line of defense, because it isn't about user security, it's about securing Apple's billion dollar app distribution monopoly moneyhose. User security is just a rhetorical afterthought.

When we forgo real system safety in favor of gatekeeping corporate revenue, that isn't security. In fact, such a scheme is responsible for mass distribution of malware. Apple's App Store is responsible for distributing over half a billion copies of Xcodeghost to iPhone and iPad users[1], and that's just one piece of malware.

[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7bbmz/the-fortnite-trial-is...
Meh. That is so obvious to anyone who would use that function. Just put it on one line.

If your function has too many parameters then the code probably needs refactoring.

Yes agreed about DSL in Scala. Scala is complicated. I was a Scala dev for many years. We tried to avoid the more academic and overly abstract designs with that language.
This is why working in the office is so good. Peace and quiet at last. OK there is noise but its grownups.
TLDR: ALTP is backend-as-a-service. Write your front-end application and consume from a BaaS that provides durability and strong consistency as well as business logic.
> before we really had a good grasp on security

Not just that, but before we realised just how many people there would be trying to claw their way into any gap for all manner of dark purposes.

Early networked OS and protocol designers thought that people would, largely, cooperate with each other and share resources for the greater good.

I wish to live in their naively optimistic future, instead of the one with real humans :/
The crypto detectives are cleaning up
I vaguely remember reading about some similar experiments with goggles that mirrored vision. As I remember, after a few days, people can mostly overcome the difficulties of having their vision reversed.
Still strikes me as super sad JS never got SIMD support. It seemed like there were some strong candidate specs. On Node there are some add-on npm libraries that implement.

My understanding was the main protest was that we would get wasm & some certain implementers said they wanted to focus their energy on wasm.

That was well over half a decade ago & wasm is still in incredible infancy, with basically only statically linked capabilities in the spec.

Wasm SIMD proposal itself only merged into wasm in November 2021. https://github.com/WebAssembly/spec/pull/1391

It seems really unfortunate to have decided to keep JS the slow inferior language.
A dry suit in Santa Cruz? LOL!
mail...what? what is in the mail?
They could try.

At which point they get fined billions of dollars.

The EU does not mess around.

And the more "clever" apple tries to be, the higher the fine will be.
Most importantly in people’s minds. A lot of early educational content is rooted in flawed software philosophy that is carried out into the world
Hey would she want a laptop for free? I have a 2007 macbook with lubuntu that works great. I used to use it for trips and it's a total workhorse.

The computer architecture is funky so it makes installing some distros a pain in the butt.

It was something like a 64-bit EFI bootloader for a 32-bit OS. The combo just doesn't work without compiling your own kernel. It's pretty uncommon. No biggie for someone that does C++ or embedded systems though.

Anyway, I'll shoot you an email with some pics and you can let me know what you think.
Define huge.

I think a small community of interested parties will pop up, but it’s unlikely to be more than a blip compared to device sales in general.
There was, in the 2000's, a SEGA Saturn emulator called 'Cassini'.

I now know why, lol.
I’ve seen this way too many times. Idk what to call it, double serialization? It’s incredibly annoying though
I'm reminded of that Canadian Mike Row who started a Mike Rowe Software, which was subject to legal action from Microsoft. :)
Ugh

Overly opinionated people like that could thrive under Jobs, who was the biggest opinion setter, which made them fight for the most important things while getting a pushback on the most controversial areas and not waste time with minor stuff

Take that and they start going crazy (yes I'm talking about Johnny Ive)
One use of this is to send yourself a notification any time you get a response to a google form, since google forms populate a spreadsheet. So you can set up emails to trigger any time a row is added to this spreadsheet. Not sure if there's a better way to achieve this workflow, but that's how I was doing it for years.
I think the eye example is in fact different because light passing through the lense is inverted onto the retina as the root comment explains, there's no such inversion for perceiving other senses. I find the explanation intuitively appealing at first, but given connections are criss crossed for far simpler animals such as worms like you mention, I don't think the idea that vision is the primary driver of this phenomenon is correct.
Installing whatever you want on your computer is not necessarily the natural state; it’s not even how the industry started and it’s not how any other industry or devices work.

I also prefer to be able to do whatever I want with my own devices, but pretending like it’s an inalienable right, or a natural state, or has no disadvantages is disingenuous and not helpful to the debate.
Fair. I don't mean to suggest LLMs have no use, but I do mean to suggest that we are in a period of gross overfitting.

At the end of this all, I think they'll be best suited as massive noise generators. Human beings already generate waaaaaay more data than we know what to do with. With LLMs at our disposal, we'll be able to do so to the Nth degree. It will be the age of spam.

As for real applications, sure it can get you started, but you still have to review and massage the output. In some cases this may help you get past the "fear of the blank page" but in others just doing it yourself to begin with instead of finding clever ways to prompt the LLM to get what you really want would have been more efficient in the long run anyway when you factor in output reworking.
Do you mind sharing those videos? Thx
There are still remnants of ideological OOP use around and they are terrible indeed, but remnants on the language level are perfectly fine as long as they are not used as originally intended. Paraphrasing Crockford, we have found OOP, the good parts. It's used for structuring code now, not for modelling the world. That's a huge difference.
> What changed is that the willingness to destroy people in war evaporated, and so the ability in theory to conquer a country, and the willingness to do so given the costs it would entail diverged significantly. This might be particular to the west, and countries like china or russia don't care as much.

The USSR tried to invade and occupy Afghanistan too. Lasted less than 10 years despite being next door.
I’m not sure this is true, it’s JVM if you are running JVM bytecode. I don’t think scalajs executes on the jvm
There has been a lot of discussion about Bourdain’s suicide. Speculation.

The stress of fame and constant travel. Drinking constantly and avoiding problems in your own life. These are possible contributing factors. I don’t think you can really know why someone did it, most of the time. I don’t think we can even assume that he knows why he did it. We do things without understanding why.
I used to think like you, but not anymore. I am not interested in installing random software from other people, I want to install my own software to be able to have full control over my own device.

I don't care about 'regular users'. I care about myself.
So take five minutes to set up the parental controls on your children's devices. The idea that we should eliminate the ability to run arbitrary software "for the children" is completely ridiculous.
Very cool. My mistake for overlooking that. Victoria metrics seems more like a metrics store? Something comparable to influx? Is that right?
The appropriate name for this is Prompt Designer, Model Tuners or Model Tuning imo.
I enjoy Digits a lot and enjoy playing Vertex if it’s in front of me, although it’s not one I will specifically go to the website for. And there just aren’t that many extremely popular puzzle games in the history of puzzle games.

Jigsaws, Crosswords, and most recently Sudoku would probably cover the entire universe of extremely popular puzzle games.

Calling the results of the process “awful” is an incredible stretch to put it politely.
I don't get the point on rent, you suggest going homeless right away?
How come I can run so much software compiled from source then?
You sleep less during Ramadan?
Oh very interesting. I don't think we're going to build something for that use case specifically. But long term, we do plan to build a metrics product, which you could use to analyze these patterns. It's interesting to hear what people use these sorts of product for. Thanks for sharing.
Also PCB layout for a linear regular is simple
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35657796
This is incorrect. Apple doesn’t force you to buy iphone, and there is plenty of alternatives.

Personally, I’d like to take full control over my iphone. And create apps for myself the way I see fit. But I’m afraid that with sideloading allowed, most software vendors will go sideloading-only. That means, nobody will have any control over their app’s privilege requests, behavior and other security related things.

Basically my concern is that when I need a “ruler app”, I just install it and am sure it couldn’t even be published with sms access request. Now with wild-west sideloading this restriction is over, so everyone and their dog will nag you to allow access to AB, calls, mic, etc. All dark patterns will break loose.
> On the Mac, staying on the Mac App Store makes sense because it is the easiest way to enforce you only install sandboxed apps.

As an aside, I do believe you can use sandboxd with apps outside of the App Store, someone just has to write security policies for them.

This page suggests that Apple might want to deprecate use of sandboxd in favor of just the App Store[1], though.

[1] https://codeberg.org/valpackett/rusty-sandbox
>> The real problem is that many countries don't want to do innovation because it's expensive and/or they don't want to invest in the education necessary. <<

oah, what batst nonsense is this? CATL and BYD's battery production output/capacity, or whatever innovation you claim China has achieved, is a function of the CCP's protectionist policy to prevent foreign competition and nurture domestic battery industry since 2016 -- ie, China's refusal to grant license to operate battery business in China to South Korean and Japanese battery makers such as LG Chem, Samsung SDI, and Panasonic unless they gave up their core battery technology in exchange (forced tech transfer); or blatant discrimination in EV battery maker subsides or later outright no subsidy for EVs equipped with foreign companies' batteries (illegal subsidies). Ever heard of Make-In-China 2025? Wonder where Biden got inspiration for the IRA which excludes all things sourced or made in China? BYD and CATL are #1, #2 in China, but, outside China, they have to deal with the South Korean trio, LG Chem #1, SK Innovation #2, Samsung SDI + Panasonic (Japanese) -- and they are likewise leaders in their respective battery tech: for instance, LG Chem and SK Innovation in NCM, Panasonic and Samsung SDI in NCA.

>> China is able to do China things because they produce an absolutely staggering number of STEM grads ... <<

Stop, stop, stop. That's not how it works. If we assume your fallacious theory to be true, China would have won the World's most popular sport contest, the World Cup several times over. We all know how China poured billions into training millions of their youths and spent boatload of money recruiting the World's best soccer players only to see their national team getting beaten by small South East nations like Vietnam, and certainly no match for soccer powerhouses like Honduras with 1/150 of China's population or budget.
Are they real downsides or just excuses cooked up by Apple to increase profits, and accepted by apple users to minimize cognitive dissonance?
> This is exactly what the "deniers" have been saying

Deniers gonna deny. They'll use whatever argument it as hand, including completely nonsensical and contradictory ones, to tarnish, downplay, distort, misrepresent, and fundamentally reject the underlying thing they want to deny.
I’m seeing more and more of this sentiment, particularly this simplistic tone which spreads FUD around the energy transition. I wonder where it is coming from.

But no, as somebody thoroughly on the left wing of the political spectrum, and a believer in most of the things you accuse climate activists of, I can attest that I’m a minority. I know a bunch of climate activists exists that have full faith that capitalism will solve the crises, some actually believe it has basically been solved (I call them climate optimists; and is a form of climate denialism).

However I do want to defend my camp here a little. Have you considered that perhaps we are right? GMO was supposed to end world hunger, or at least provide a global food security, it was pointed out at the time that no such thing would happen (as we already could have food security through more equal distribution). Now GMO is a pretty established technology that is rolled out in most of the world, and lo-and-behold, food security is still an issue.

Today I see nuclear power pitch similarly as a solution to global warming, however looking at the data, seeing different energy policies, where some countries keep building more reactors, others keep what they have, and some—but few—decommission and phase out nuclear power. What the data indicates is that nuclear power policy is pretty much irrelevant next to a policy of renewable proliferation and other energy savings measures. In other words it doesn’t matter. It can even be argued, because of the cost of nuclear power, that keeping them on is drawing away funds which could otherwise be used in more effective climate measures.
Of course it's the natural state and an inalienable right to modify or do with the things you own in the way you see fit.

When was the last time you asked the builders association if you could remodel your kitchen?

When was the last time you asked Honda if you could put new mags on your car?

This whole idea that devices aren't owned when you purchase them is asinine and and insult to humanity.

Your counter arguments that it's new in the industry is simply due to the fact they thought they could get away with it. Not because they thought it was their right.

You don't see Klein putting limits on what nails you can use with a hammer but you can bet your ass they would if they could.
> it’s not even how the industry started

Which industry? The very earliest computers ran software written by end-users.
I am wondering if I could take a trip to Europe, side-load an app, and return to the states. Would Apple suddenly geo-block my already installed application?
I'm seeing the same thing on firefox on win 11.
> the fact that a third of Americans are now obese and can't fit in smaller cars

I am quite large in every dimension and my Mini Cooper is the most comfortable car I've ever driven, so I think you're way off on this one.
Or usability of this feature would be so frustrating, that no one will use. Constant security popups on every start, very limited available API for apps, etc...
How do you ever find time to record a video of yourself on a white background talking about how much better you are than PC users? ;)
Yes, anything that prevents multiple rapid changes would work
It's more the cochlea performing some kind of convolution of roughly sinusoidal wavelets with the audio signal, bringing the signal from temoporal to frequency domain, right? Does more neurological post-processing the cochlear output bring it closer to a Fourier transform?
What is the maximum building height (in number of floors) this can be used for?
I like that someone said this, but I really Grit my teeth when someone says "learnings."

I have no problem with using preferred pronouns or saying "chestfeeding" instead of "breastfeeding." I don't understand it, but if it's making you uncomfortable, I'm totally fine with changing that part of my vocabulary.

But "ask" and "learn" are verbs. You "ask questions" or "make requests" and you "learn lessons." You do not "have asks," you "have questions." And you sure as daisies don't "learn learnings."

It's sad that this is what I'm taking away from this discussion, but it's Saturday night and I'm posting a comment on HN instead of dating a hot European super-model, so I'm sort of used to sad.
> allowing you to chat with other users of similar levels (extremely useful!)

Agreed. I lurk in libera's japanese language channel in order to read the messages. It's been a big help.

> You'll probably notice in your Japanese adventure that a big thing is that you're probably way better at parsing words and sounds

Absolutely. I'm getting a lot better at parsing out the components of sentences, especially the particles, even in fast speech. My understanding is still pretty basic but this skill allows me to at least try to infer information from context. It's a great way to puzzle out meaning and it's amazing when I get it right.

> exposure of longer form content, something Duolingo-like apps (not all apps) don't provide

That's partially true. Duolingo has stories but I think they're somewhat basic. It's just not the same as really immersing oneself in another culture. I'm not supplementing Duolingo with japanese books or anything but I enjoy watching japanese stuff so I have at least some exposure.

The most important thing about Duolingo is it got me started. I've been progressing over 2 years now. Almost 1000 days.
You can do that already.
Ah. Well you can build a dockerfile (with the 4 bit triton repo) locally here, then deploy it: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui#alternati...

I havent explored beyond that.

Actually there are tons of quantizatons on hugging face, just search for "4bit". 128g usually (but not always) means a Triton variant, ggml means a cpu variant. I know that vicuna 7/13B and the "uncensored" vicuna 7B are quantized on sf, but there are already some newer, supposedly better instruction following mixes.
Maybe if we store text data as sequences of 10k x 10k PNGs (one for each letter) and add an image recognition layer it would improve LLM perf
Ok I'll explain. When all the jobs that pay enough for housing require at least a bachelors degree then you must pay for that education.

Similarly we are "richer" because we have nice cars, but also you can't do almost anything in the US without a car (outside of a few cities). So the cost of the car is not a luxury, it's a basic requirement to participate in society.

In other words, in 1940 you might have been able to opt out of a car and post high-school education and have a normal life. In 2023, you arguably can't.
>for whom excess driving is more likely to be non-discretionary

That's the point. It is a luxury to live on a 10k sq ft lot in a 3k+ sq ft house. Moving mass far distances requires lots of energy.
You mean “e.g.”, not “i.e.”. Prostitution is not the only thing people do outside of the purview of the government for income.

A more mundane example is working for a restaurant under the table.
From the article

> In addition, developers may have to pay extra if they want their apps to be available outside of the iOS App Store, Gurman says.

The statement is a bit ambiguous. Is it pay Apple extra or pay extra to the 3rd party to have their app listed in the 3rd party app store?

The former doesn't sound right; It is probably FUD.

Logically, a 3rd party app store could compete on significantly reduced fees relative to Apple (as one of the strategies). Those conscious of the quantum of current fees then have options of listing their app on both the Apple app store and the 3rd party store as part of their distribution strategy. Customers who trust the Apple appstore would get their app from there and those who like a 3rd party app store would get it from there. The app developer would have reduced their total fees (for distribution). Even if there are signup fees, the share of revenues that Apple is today taking away from the developer would go down in absolute terms with a 3rd party store.

As far as the consumer is concerned, this becomes an OS setting like 'default browser/default text editor etc.,'.

Apple sticking to only the Apple App Store stance is only raising the cost for consumers. Consumers in other geographies will also wake up. Eventually.
The Middle Kingdom vs. Silicon Valley
You probably got automatically banned, it wouldn't be that hard for a program to detect what you described. Browser fingerprinting has existed for years. I doubt anyone at Google is picking on you, specifically.
The WSJ and Washington Post are not the same publication. These are two different articles by different authors.