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My experience was similar. I am most comfortable coding in python, and my html/css/js skills are not strong. I don't have the patience to stay current with frontend tools or to bash my way through all the stack overflow searching that it would require for me to code frontend stuff.

So with that context, I was able to have chatgpt do all of the heavy lifting of building a webapp. I was able to build my wish list of features like immersive reading with synchronized sound and word highlighting. Stuff that I probably wouldn't have had enough motivation to complete on my own.

But the architecture of the code is poor. It repeats itself and would be hard to maintain. I think much of this could be improved by spending more time asking gpt to refactor and restructure. The same way a senior developer might provide feedback to a junior dev's first coding project. I did some of this along the way, but that code base needs more if it were to be an ongoing project.
> Are people aware that there’s an entire industry with 100s of billions in capital already working on these problems?

I'm confused, what problem do you think they are fixing ? Because they cannot fix an inherently practical problem.

In most countries on this planet, you have three "problems" when it comes to EV demand, and none of them can be fixed by "100s of billions in capital" by private industry.

Thee are :

1) There is (usually) only one national grid
2) There are only a finite number of power stations
3) Most people live in cities and in apartments / dense-housing

This leads to two (because there's nothing you can do about point 3) super-hard, super-expensive "problems" that need fixing for all these EVs:

1) Expanding the grid is effectively a non-starter, the cost would be measured in trillions, not billions.
2) Building new power stations takes decades, not years. And right now there are not enough of them.
3) As I said, there's nothing you can do about point (3), i.e. it's simply not remotely viable that everybody can magically have solar panels and battery storage at home. Most people don't have the space. And expecting everyone to retro-fit is, realistically, a non-starter.

Now, on the subject of power stations, you will probably come back and say "but, but .... renewables".

Well, yes, renewables are cool and quick(er) to build than power stations, but they are not the panacea.

Grid-level bulk solar is cool, but all those panels take vast amounts of space that most countries don't have to spare. Solar is also cool, until it gets dark at night.

Grid-level wind is cool, but then on hot summer days there's not much wind. So you end up relying back on the old-school power generation (nuclear, coal, gas etc.).

Hydro is cool, but for obvious reasons not available everywhere. And nobody's going to be rushing out building large numbers of new dams any time soon.

Bulk-storage in batteries at grid level is not feasible to deal with all millions of EVs coming on stream. You would need millions of batteries, which as we know, batteries don't last forever....

So ultimately whether you love em or hate em, you still need old-school power generation.

Which brings us neatly back to my point (2) ... Building new power stations takes decades, not years. And right now there are not enough of them.

Hence 2030 is a pipe dream.
>Lots of folks prefer "Old Reddit".

Moderators can see the traffic breakdown and old reddit traffic hovers around 5-10% of total traffic depending on community.

I think the "loud minority" is a concept that is very very applicable here.
Similar to this: I raised a seed round with a deck that was (deliberately) just black Times New Roman text on a white background, plus a few screenshots. The product was also deliberately simple and rough around the edges.

I stole an idea from Joel Spolskey and made beta features in the app have graphics that were literally drawn in crayon, to make it clear they were unfinished and to make it easy to test changes.

Investors liked the deck. It made it clear that what mattered was the content, not the presentation.
Hardly surprising that it's an enduring idea. The private jet crowd already tell everyone else to be mindful of our carbon footprints.
Do you think it's plausible that computers might someday have the potential to come down in cost-for-performance?

Cars eventually became cheaper than horses...
There is no legal right "not to be irritated". It is incorrect to state that this particular case has "no redeeming features". The fact that the phrase is in common usage is all the justification it needs. What's next, "Won't is not a logical contraction of 'will not'"?
Oh, we most certainly do. Look at how much energy in the form of gas/diesel is used in Europe - it's definitely not insignificant. The average household has almost 2 cars, many have 3 - and they use them, just not to get to work.

IMHO the usage patterns and the population density make this a much harder problem here than in the US.
Yes. The Turing Award by comparison seems to have become a lifetime achievement award.
And also GCC.
With this attitude you'll see conspiracies everywhere, and that's a self reinforcing spiral.

If this is how much evidence you need to dismiss something without checking, then you'll dismiss everything and you'll never find out if/when the hunch was wrong.
Not to mention the split brain of US/TW/CN support sides for computer hardware and actually finding the correct firmware/bios images to begin with, which would make it all that much more easy for third parties to get fake sites up/out.

Asus seems to have had several design issues, qc flaws and other support issues lately. MSI have had data breaches, and even then bully reviewers to the point you really can't trust a lot of their product reviews or them. Gigabyte treats their Linux using customers like hot garbage, and then there's the exploding PSU coverup/downplay. I'm not sure how many options that's leaving on the table at this point. I know there's ASRock for MBs and haven't seen anything bad about them lately.
Why bother with corporations and government if you have AGI? Wouldn't it be a better coordinator than they would? (and if it's not, we can always go back to having governments and corporations)
Is it really that good? Every time I want to document my own APIs I give a look at Stripe’s docs because everyone praise them, but I always end up unimpressed. Their docs don’t feel that good to me, not very readable or particularly clear.

Am I missing something?
Always good to hear from an unethical multi-millionaire that can afford to live close to the office.
How do we decide whether someone is using a word incorrectly, or if we should update our present reality?

Another question: are there places where accuracy and precision are more important than others? Would an encyclopedia be one of those places? I'll reveal my cards here: I believe so.
Did you foresee a 5 year span before stable revenue (and indirectly, did you have to alter your ways/work to have better views and workflow) ? Also did you try other platforms ?

Kudos on the dedication :)
Its very tiring that there is always someone here telling us how inexpensive PV and wind are compared to other generation. Which is true per watt, until you try to assure that watt is actually available when its needed.

So its comparing the costs of two entirely different things, power which can be predicted and produced at a given level, and power which may or may not produce anything over a given time-frame. And so, i might say its a lie...

Particularly because the costs associated with making a watt of wind/PV reliable easily adds an order of magnitude in costs, making wind/PV a much worst cost proposition than just about anything else. And its particularly bad in places that don't have existing hydro and nukes because the only realistic way to back it up with today's technology/economy is fossil fuel sources. (aka grid scale batteries capable of multi day power storage simply don't exist, and you can't "overbuild" your way out of the problem.). So its not even carbon free.
No, but the probability of humans acting the way they often do is high. It would take some probability distribution to match that.
It probably mirrored how some of the alternative fuels are setup today like hydrogen for fuel cell vehicles

California has around 45 hydrogen pumps I am always aware where my car can go and not , and the dynamics change every time a pump comes up or shuts down

The pattern of gas pumps probably looked similar to how hydrogen pumps are distributed today - Most clustered in urban areas of SF bat and LA with some in smaller centers like scaremento and rest scattered on high traffic key road ways between them like the one on I5 .

And if you got fuel stranded you are going to pay a lot for someone to bring fuel by traditional means to you - horse drawn then, towing now
I find this a very interesting overview, and I think the author addresses well the issues of "pure cognition" vs. the dynamic cognition of actual lived experience. However, while the reference to Heidegger was apt, I would also suggest people interested in this seemingly unbridgeable difference between the world and its representation read Schopenhauer's World as Will and Representation, and if that doesn't fully satisfy you, also Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, and Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy. The trouble that philosophy has always come across is the issue of how we are able, in a world which is at the bottom totally unrepresentable, to apply structural order and communicate with one another and affect things in the world and ourselves with such structural order--this is the basis for the philosophy of Plato. I think that so-called "analytic" philosophy, and the crude description of type-2 cognition (artistic, literary?) falls very short of this problem, as both fail to see how the so-called type 1 and 2 are intimately connected in our experience of the world. There is no "pure" rationality disconnected from reality, and yet there is also no pure reality which has not already fallen into a particular structural order.

(Anyway, I think the person who most rigorously attempts to grapple with this problem is Lacan; though given the difficulty of even discussing it--since its a question of symbolic structures itself--his writing can be very confusing at times and probably isn't an ideal place to start.)
Typically the application server is stateless and any persistent state is kept in a database, so you can just spawn another instance on another machine.
All kidding aside, IE's content rating infrastructure wasn't all that bad:

1. It implemented an open standard;

2. It actually had a decent UI.

Now, you can argue that PICS and such were bad for the Open Web (and you're probably right), but I can't help but wonder if working client-side web filters from the get-go wouldn't have been better than the current state of affairs, which mostly involves technically incompetent legislation that forces infrastructure providers into all kinds of workarounds...
Yeah, so we'd need something sort of like bittorrent-with-web-seeds for any file more than a certain size, and maybe some pre-concatenated optimization where the whole page and its assets become a single file under such a system. Maybe IPFS might be a useful layer?

Anyway, "hosting" would mean two things: 1: "I attach my name to this content and it's always locatable as a tag under my name", and 2: "I dedicate some static resources to always host this content, whether or not it's popular enough to also propagate to other nodes in the swarm, I will always seed it".

Then simply having that seed-box allocate a certain amount of its space to each subscriber would be all you'd need.

Succession protocol would have internal uses too; they could say "Hey this subscriber has some really popular content, let's move it to a faster node", and the same primitives would track that move.

I feel like most of these pieces already exist, the trouble is there's no longer an expectation for an ISP to provide hosting to customers, so providing better hosting isn't a differentiating factor. (Not that there's meaningful competition in many places anyway, which may be the root of the problem.)

Which all adds up to people not realizing there is or even could be an alternative to hosting their images on perpetually-unprofitable-and-thus-inevitably-transient services like photobucket, imgur, and their ilk.
That’s an interesting idea, there should be a technology incubating grant program that supports FOSS, which the government is fundamentally dependent on and fosters domestic and global growth at least as much as NSF grant funding does.
IDs are stolen yes but they are generally discarded. They're just a side catch for pickpockets and the moment they steal the wallet they will take the money and dump the IDs in a nearby bin.

I was pickpocketed a few years ago and I searched all the bins in the area and I came up with ID cards, medical cards, bank cards etc of 9 different people that had been robbed that night!

I think the thieves do this because if you point them out to the police they won't have any evidence on their possession. Because if they have someone's ID on them they will have some explaining to do. For some cash not so much, you can't prove it was yours.

Not that the police do anything anyway because the Spanish law lets them go free with a minor fine if they stole less than 400 euro, even if it was the 50th time this month. This is really why pickpocketing is so extremely rampant here, it's risk-free and the gangs are basically professional businesses.
My attitude is scientifically based. When you see data that is "too good to be true" for a certain political side, you should assume that it likely is. If this "completely vindicates" the drive and cause of the left-wing globalist elites, and is then used to substantiate their argument that personal freedoms need to be removes so that they have "enough power" to stop the oncoming Climate Armageddon, then no, the data should not be trusted. Too many studies have recently been proven to have been entirely fabricated or heavily doctored to back up a political cause. We should not be sheep.
If you don’t live in a mega city it doesn’t matter though. I live in a metro area of ~250k people. No traffic is so bad a 2 lane road doesn’t still move. So drive away my neighbors! Preferable in an EV powered by green energy.
> Another nice feature of unity builds is that I don't need to declare functions twice and keep the declarations synced.

What exactly leads you to have multiple declarations in sync, and thus creating the to "keep [multiple] declarations synced"?
Oh yeah of course. And it has been super useful to view them.

My idea is not to replace this but rather amend this.

Specifically by tracking the transactions of these scammy address to also then report all subsequent ones, i.e. the ones they try to launder the money through.
Certainly LLMs are not AGI, and AGI has not yet been built. But what's your knock-down argument for AGI being "science fiction"?
It feeds the information from atuin database as a prompt for OpenAI, like: "Latest calls for the same executable:\ncmd1\ncmd2" (I should work on my prompts, doesn't actually look that optimal, oh well). Then at the end gives the current command line and asks for few options how to finish / replace the line, with some extra requests for GPT (like don't write anything else except the command line etc).
You could literally stop at a hardware store or pharmacy to buy a can of gasoline. It didn't need dedicated fueling infrastructure.
I used Unity builds for my projects basically forever, at some point I discovered the practice had a name and some debates around it.

It is a simple thing to do, and the gains are substantial, faster and simpler, less maintenance, especially across different platforms.

For big projects I simply cut them into several libraries.

I've seen some incredulous reactions, mostly from young coders, and I know that makefiles should be faster, but in practice I never found that to be true.
You are correct that typically OSS is unable or unwilling to do “product,” largely because OSS in its raw form is in fact enough of a product for its main developer-user demographic.

That being said I still see a much shallower moat here than there was in say Internet search. I can download a model in a few minutes. One could not download an entire web crawl index in any reasonable amount of time, nor could one update the index in real time continuously without enormous amounts of bandwidth and compute. DIY self hosted Google was to my knowledge barely even attempted due to the intrinsic difficulties.

This stuff is also not about communication or sharing, areas where there are very strong network effect moats. It’s not chat or social media or collaborative office software.

Generative AI is more like a stand alone application software. It can be hosted in the cloud but it’s easy to stand up competitors and it can be self hosted if you are willing to spring for the hardware.

I’m not saying you won’t have big dominant players, just that I see more opportunity for competition and diversity here than for lots of other things.
Okay, so "ignore my out of touch opinion of language models". Got it.
Except that making changes can actually invalidate the proof that were made. At least it matters in the sense that Apple should have made an arrangement so the things added didn't invalidate the correctness.
The stock exchange was about spreading risk too. You could raise equity from many small investors that individually are assuming a relatively low risk.

So arguably this was the foundation of modern capitalism too, just in time for the development of capital intensive industry to take advantage of the same financial structures.
What happens when the computers disappear?
I think that is a relevant question because in related news, Intel didn't acknowledge MINIX.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/minix-intels-hidden-in-chip-op...
Funnily enough older people in England still call the radio ‘the wireless’!
> Ok but who is better than the parents at deciding what's good for the kids? Other people? We seem to be happy for parents to decide a lot of things for their kids, why not this thing?

Because there's nothing to guarantee that the parents are contemplating the future when their kids are adults, and not just the near future. If kids don't get a vote because they aren't expected to know what's best for themselves at this point, then this vote shouldn't be given to someone else. Especially not in such a large proportion.

This is what rights are for, not voting power. To protect and enable parents to decide what is good for their kids, regardless of who votes for what.

And yes, for some people like the Turpins, basically almost anyone was better at deciding what was good for the kids.

It would be unconscionable to strip the votes from a child and give them to an abusive parent. Let the parents first prove they have been good (or at least convincing), and let the votes fall in line. If you parent well, then your children, once they turn 18, will vote similarly to you. Even in your system of greater voting power at a young age, the willingness of 18 year olds to vote in alignment with their parents is the single best test of whether the parents actually did parent well. It is the single best test of whether the parents actually made good decisions for the kids.

> Shouldn't they? They have more stake in society. There's more of them!

No, they don't. The children do. And once they reach their majority those children can then make their own choices. We each, individually, have an individual's stake in society. A particular relationship doesn't change that. There are plenty of people who have large networks of those they care for (many of whom are adults, so there would be no transferring of votes). And plenty of people who have almost no one they care for. But when it comes right down to it, our stake is our own, not someone else's.

Large families also use more of society's resources, at the expense of others

> If you decide to make solar panels and windmills illegal and then take a job in the coal industry, they will tell someone.

And this does what to them? Given that they're already term-limited out?
Then it should have been "This post comprised good points."

The "is" shouldn't be there. I might be wrong tho, I'm not a native speaker.
The whole friend request thing baffles me. The old system was quite good in this respect: if someone has display name bob, full username bob#1234, when you mistakenly enter bob in the friend request field you'll get an error. Now bob is a totally valid username, and you can't disambiguate. The new system seems much more prone to more serious mistakes and impersonation. I would rather 100X go "whoops, need to add the discriminator" than once accidentally send something to a stranger meant for a friend.
That sounds more like a job for plain old "install" which is part of GNU coreutils.
In terms of fingering if you know it. It's also one of the least common; there's a lot of music in F major, there's less accidentals in the scale and hence music in the key is more easily readable, chords are more easily deduced (less black keys involved), etc.
Nuclear war leads to extremely long term and widespread environmental damage. Forcing technological regression on society by other means is much cleaner. Of course an agi won't care since it won't be limited to a human lifespan nor much inconvenienced by radiological pollution.
Probably incredibly subreddit dependent.

I think it speaks volumes that Old Reddit hasn't been removed. Even the maintenance burden of continually supporting it is outweighed by its value.
On very large projects you can always cut them into several libraries, and compile them on different cores. Quite easy to do in practice.
It clearly does not reason. Take a famous riddle and make a paradox change. It will not create a meaningful response.

But yes, there is a lot of knowledge embedded into our global use of language and it is fascinating to see how it can be reproduced by such a model.
Unfortunately due to Poe's Law [1] and the fact that "contrails are the government spreading chemicals" is a prevailing conspiracy, I cannot take this seriously. Can someone knowledgeable on the subject weigh in?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
Does the May 3rd release use the 32k token model?
How to Create Resilient Sites
Can we simulate that democracy using LLM-based agents to see if it could work?
Or... if you're working in an organization that already has a Microservice based infrastructure in place.

Otherwise, I generally agree... I'll usually take a monolith approach and break things off in ways that make sense. Usually starting with long running processes that can simply be workers off of queues. Sometimes potential bottlenecks that have higher compute overhead, such as passphrase hashing and comparison which is relatively easy to DDoS, but if broken off only effects new logins and password changes.
Because based on the words it's composed of, it's different from "left" - it would include "forward" and "backward".

Similarly for "notlight" implying including twilight, which "dark" does not.
At this point the core structural module is the truss, which I believe is doing fine, being essentially an unpressurized aluminum skeleton. You could eject the pressurized components and bolt a whole new set onto it, but at that point you might as well build a new station, and let's be honest the part of the station everyone is sentimental about isn't the scaffolding
But when the code doesn't meet the requirements, the AI needs to know what's incorrect and what changes it needs to make, and that still requires a human. Unless you just put it into a loop and hope that it produces a working result eventually.
Why would everyone high speed charge? You can get 250 miles in Model 3 at 12 hours of 6.6kW (~22 mi/hour). Even only eight hours would get 170 miles. Eight hours of charging per night is doable for most people, I imagine.
Lemme give the paper a closer read + get back to you on this.