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>GPT can certainly accomplish an impressive variety of small tasks. Whether it can build large-scale systems that will power tomorrow's world is uncharted territory.

There is an INCREDIBLE amount of opaque BI that can be unlocked with GPT/AI etc.

I have already used it to get some extremely quick market infor about certain things.

AI is going to make a lot of people smarter, much faster and cheaper than current institutions.

classes are going to get more refined, and honestly, certain industries need to be utterly destroyed by AI (legal being my primary target, as they have too much fraud)
>We have functioning institutions that generally perform well over long periods of time

So, how long are we waiting...?
It's not, atleast directly. The cartels do participate in politics but that's mainly through bribery and other white-collar illegal activities that mainly concerns politicians.

Same goes for the touristy areas like Cabo and Cancun - the cartels own them all and that's a legitimate source of real, clean income (and dollars) for the cartels, and the last thing they want to do is mess with that. The cartels have a vested interest in keeping the resort towns running as smoothly and crime-free as possible.
C# made that change in C# 5 (2012) (https://ericlippert.com/2009/11/12/closing-over-the-loop-var...)

Swift had the problem in C-style for loops but not in “for…in” loops (https://www.timekl.com/blog/2015/11/26/variable-capture-in-g...), but got rid of it when it removed C-style for loops altogether in Swift 3 (September 2016) (https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/main/proposals...)
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I think you're being unfairly downvoted here, and you bring up a lot of good points.

> It sounds like you find cheating shameful for vague moralistic reasons that you have not disclosed.

That's absolutely right. I didn't elaborate at all.

> That's why almost nobody can writing software anymore

Honestly though I think that writing software is just hard.

> must be willing to impose minimal standards of acceptable practice

Yeah this is an interesting idea. Like how attorneys have to pass a bar. I don't really know how it would go, but I do believe that the industry already has a hard enough of a time hiring and this would just make things that much harder. Some organizations though seem to have a knack for improving their new hires by a lot, so it's not like all these organizations are evil, just most are probably incompetent. Again, software is hard.

> The goals of hiring/employment often do not align to the skills required to perform product delivery.

Yeah, I would say in general that bad incentives are abound.

I think a lot of the points you brought up are products of strange market dynamics. For so long companies haven't really felt the weight of gravity and have had so much investor money that it feels like a lot of what one could consider fundamentals have been tossed out the window in favor of other things. This is where perverse incentives start to manifest in my view.
I did that recently during a kidney stone experience and I paid more cash than the carrier discount.
> with the investors knowing someone will pay them for it if it works.

Given that there is substantial demand for electricity, why would this be a concern?
>Either the chair supports your weight, or it breaks.

Well, it's very easy to make a chair that works a couple times. Whether it holds up for a week or a century is another matter.
The technology allows the community to iterate on the experience from twitter. There are already several alternate clients, people have made custom feed algorithms, custom tools and spam-fighting systems, and we're just getting started

The twitter experience has been in decline for years, and took a sharp downward turn when ownership changed. But people on twitter just have to live with it, especially now that the (already limited) API has been closed down almost completely, because it's not an open platform like bluesky. If bluesky ever starts to make the official client a bad experience, or starts to make moderation (or non-moderation!) decisions people don't like, users don't have to just live with it. They can go find or create the experience they want without losing anything
Feels like a pretty rosey take. It seems to me that corporations and other monied groups will still have the upper hand. But who knows what's coming really.
That is a great and very transparent write-up, I'd say the best I've read in years. Usually companies don't disclose the final price.

My dream .com domain name is squatted by somebody in Korea owning 10.000s of domains. One year they forgot to pay their registration, 'whois' printed 'overdue' (can't remember the exact words). I tried to register, backorder, everything. Nothing worked sadly.
And a well designed OS would think about the security implications and it would orchestrate, “when a certain word is heard, launch $x”
What makes you think this is going to be cheap?
There is a lot of high tech going into this, costs for a fusion device would likely eclipse that of an EUV stepper (if we are talking small scale devices), for plants the size of ITER that's a whole nother level.

Fission was supposed to be super cheap too, but construction costs rendered that a fantasy.
> According to a large 2022 study led by researchers at Harvard University and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the group at highest risk of myocarditis and pericarditis after vaccination—males ages 12 to 17—saw 35.9 cases per 100,000 (0.0359 percent) after a second vaccine dose, while the rate was nearly double after a COVID-19 infection in the same age group, with 64.9 cases per 100,000 (0.0649 percent).

Every article on this subject seems to feel the need to clear its throat by citing numbers like this, but I'm not sure why. Since the vaccines do not prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection, the risks are cumulative, not mutually exclusive. The protection they are said to provide is against severe cases and death, which are already vanishingly rare in the adolescent cohort to begin with.

There's also good reason to doubt that there has been an honest accounting of the causes of myocarditis. A friend of mine is now experiencing cardiac issues after 3 injections of Moderna -- his doctors attribute it to the mild COVID case he had (despite taking all the shots) and have not even considered (let alone reported) the possibility that it is an adverse event.

A huge population-level study in Israel found no increased risk of myocarditis from SARS-CoV-2 infection in 2020 before the vaccine rollout: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35456309/
Thanks for replying! Also, great username, great band.

I totally agree there are different strokes for different folks, and some sectors are really well suited to solo work. I personally enjoy the security of working for a company and having a large set of diverse colleagues. I know many here on HN are more of the startup mindset, like yourself.
This article is incomplete without any mention of strong privacy techniques such as differential privacy.

There is a write-up by Cohen and Nissim [1] where they analyze the privacy statutes in the GDPR and derive a formal definition of privacy, which they call Privacy Singling Out, intended to match the text of the document.

They then show how PSO compares to other privacy definitions, and in particular that Differential Privacy implies PSO (and thus satisfies GDPR). Differential Privacy, in turn, is basically an entire field on its own, with entire textbooks [2] and workshops [3]. It also dominates many privacy-focused conferences, and has been used by US Census Bureau.

There are plenty of truly GDPR-compliant analytics one can do. It just takes some effort to understand how.

[1] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1914598117

[2] https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~aaroth/Papers/privacybook.pdf

[3] https://tpdp.journalprivacyconfidentiality.org/2022/
High/low trust at root refers to how you behave to other members of your nation, not foreign peoples. Every nation ever has always tried win zero-sum interactions with other nations (e.g. who gets the land, resources), and all existing nations today continue to do so. Native American societies may have been high trust internally (within the tribe, clan, nation boundary) but certainly screwed over other Native American societies (e.g. the Haida and Tlingit practiced hereditary chattel slavery of foreign tribesmen for hundreds of years before European contact). What I'm getting at is that there effectively is no such thing as "high trust" in international relations so your example isn't cogent.
I thought the point of GPT is to be human like and not that humans adapt to GPT.
Not a lawyer, but sat in waaaay too many meeting with lawyers on this very subject as we built a GDPR framework for a past-employer.

It certainly means well but makes a number of jumps that are wrong or untested.

For example; some things flagged as personal data (like IP address) are not always considered personal data depending on how it is used. Like, logging IP addresses for the purpose of security is an extremely widespread practice and considered necessary.

Likewise, storing data on a personal device (like a cookie) is ok if it is necessary for the service to function (as opposed to unnecessary tracking data or non-critical information). Storing data that manages a session, log-in state, shopping cart, dark-mode preference, is ok)

Thats just a sample.

This person should really consult a lawyer.

Reminder: I am not a lawyer.
Is it more creative to use your own company's IP? Most of these copyrighted and trademarked stories and characters are being made by people who didn't come up with them anyway, so what's the difference in creativity whether you happen to work at the company that owns the IP or not?

With long copyright terms, it encourages copyright holders to milk a single work for the length of the copyright (90+ years) and therefore discourages the creation of something new. It also encourages people to obtain copyrights to leverage them for profit, rather than making anything at all. A child of an artist can spend their entire life supported by their parent's copyright, and never has to make anything unique for as long as they live.

How is any of this good for creativity?
Why doesn’t HN allow emoji?
Even outside technology, Google went from that cool "don't be evil" company, to suppressing search results so that people would vote the way Google wanted.

Add a few cases of Glassholes[1], killing products people loved, and it eventually piles up.

I will add though, that just because the company has lost its lustre, doesn't mean the people working there are any less talented. I just think that on a long enough timeline, Google becomes IBM[2].

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[1] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Glasshole

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/04/hitlers...
And yet, all large publicly listed health insurers, for the last decade+, play in the 2% to 4% profit margin range, except for UNH which does about 6%.
Demo performance is shit for sure which doesn't help but having daily experience with both devices I can say that it is not black and white
There are Reference Based Pricing plans available in the commercial medical insurance world now.

So yes you can "pay what medicare pays" be prepared to have some pissed off doctors and balance billing.
Thank you! Took me a long time to actually get myself to publish it
8 years ago, HN was a place full of optimism and excitement. I've noticed a marked increase in cynicism in this place.

Like most of the world, it suffers from extreme tribalism and group think.

I miss the former positive HN. And the positive world. sigh
This is different, more like putting a trap door in the ceiling and then patching all the leaks in the roof so that the homeowner won’t need to climb up on to the roof to fix those themselves and in doing so stumble on your trap door.
I think we can both agree she's utilizing the oldest scam known to man. I recently heard someone coin her as the 'tyler durden girlboss', gave me a chuckle.
"No one can do to the Disney Corporation what Walt Disney did to the Brothers Grimm." L. Lessig
> no Hindu/Muslim tension

To explain it better, we have had fights/relationships between both communities going all the way back to 6th century. And the people who are Muslims today were of various Religious ethnicities (majority of whom were Hindus, Persian/Zoroastrians etc). So our relationships run way back before Anglo-Saxons entered our shores as traders/merchants. If you pick up our History you will see references to not just trade, politics or wars but also familial relations that spanned from present day Bangladesh all the way to the other corners of Iran. Even our Ancient Scriptures like Ramayana and Mahabharata has references to these regions and the Kingdoms within them. So yes when I say Indian Subcontinent I mean the entire extant region that includes present day Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. So even if we fought wars with each other and one Kingdom sometimes reigning over other Kingdoms, we never felt it was some "outsider" who ruled over us.

The reason we blame the Brits is purely because of the Partition of India and the mess they created with drawing the various borders. That does not just include borders between India and Pakistan. It also includes borders between India and China. Pakistan and Afghanistan. Pakistan and Iran. Afghanistan and Iran. They left a huge mess when they left as the lines drawn did not account for natural resource sharing or even towns/cities. In some states, the border lines ran through actual homes. The Partition of India is heavily criticized also because the British Empire decided to divide British-India based on Religious lines. The ones who claimed to talk about "Freedom, Democracy, Rule of Law, Equality, Liberty" etc decided to divide the Country on Religious lines. This resulted in millions dying as they crisscrossed these artificially drawn borders which required them to leave their homes, family, everything on the basis of religious lines. There was absolutely no requirement for the Brits to divide India at all.

The consequences of the division directly resulted in all the crazy stuff that happened after 1947. It was a ticking time bomb. 9/11 attacks, bombing of WTC, Taliban taking over Afghanistan, Iran going towards autocracy, emergence of ISIS and Al-Qaeda... all of this could have easily been prevented if India was not Partitioned. It was not just Indians but the World that paid the price for the British folly. And we Indians were in the right because in the entire Region we are the only prosperous ones as we chose Democracy, Freedom, Liberty, Rule of Law over Religious nonsense. The rest of the region fell apart into chaos after the Partition. Bangladesh is an outlier only because it took the support of India to help it achieve Independence from Pakistan and liberate itself. If not for India, Bangladesh would be in ruins today.
This article has a lot of words but it doesn't say much and the title is misleading.

tldr;

Americans are building large, ugly homes out of cheap materials that have environmental impacts due to heating/cooling costs and distances required to drive.
If it was for the people to decide, we’d have something like Medicare for All a long time ago. But America is a wildly corrupt oligarchy, so the answer to your question is “forever.” If the George Floyd protests didn’t change anything anything meaningful about policing, I can’t imagine the level of unrest that would be needed to change something with so much money and back room dealing involved as the healthcare industry.
No, bonus is still going on, but it's not "overfunded" anymore.
>without theatrical releases helping support big tentpole movies that we all love... those sorts of films won't get made.

I can only hope. The amount of absolute rubbish that has come out of Hollywood as of late is precisely the reason as to why I won't go to the cinema.
OMG, that persistent history post (and associated approach and script) is brilliant!
All I have to say is I'm annoyed the domain is io.google instead of google.io. I mean I get they gotta flex the notion that they have TLD us peasants don't get to use, but the conf's name is Google IO not IO Google.
And Iran. Still banned though.

[https://gulfnews.com/world/asia/pakistan/government-bans-imp...]

Of course, so are most drugs in the US.
More than 12 million people die every year from unhealthy environents according to WHO: https://www.who.int/news/item/15-03-2016-an-estimated-12-6-m...

Capitalism has a cost, and it's extremely high. Higher than any war in history.
Probably a bit of each, and more...

Not a take over, but likely an investment (or planned series of investments) in Helion by Microsoft that'll give them an ownership stake and help fund Helion's continued development up to and including the pilot plant whose output Microsoft will be buying. Quite similar to Microsoft's investment in OpenAI... investor + customer + good P-R.
Author here - I've gotten this question a few times now so I'll update the article to better explain it, but "online identifiers" are considered personal data according to Article 4. Recital 30 states:

"Natural persons may be associated with online identifiers provided by their devices, applications, tools and protocols, such as internet protocol addresses, cookie identifiers or other identifiers (...)"

From this, I think we can assume any id connected to a device (and thus user) that can be used re-identify it can be considered personal data, regardless of the time-frame, especially since it mentions "cookie identifiers."
Ah. Thanks, that makes sense.
Not every facet of society is related to racism. Saying I prefer the days of a single income being enough to survive on doesn't mean I wish black's and women had less rights. It's an orthogonal point. Wages are gone because manufacturing moved overseas in the same time period, etc...
This.

My other favorite is very open-ended questions. I mostly do ops-y interviews, and my favorite question is "what happens when you type 'curl https://google.com' in a terminal and hit enter?"

The question is so broad there isn't a "correct" answer to Google, and it crosses enough domains that any article they find is going to be too long to skim. Then I ask them to really zero in on some aspect of it they feel comfortable with and give detail. What syscalls happen to start up curl? How does the OS know how to communicate with the local router? What's the entire flow to translate "google.com" to an IP?

It's also just fascinating to see which parts candidates latch on to. I had one person spend like 30 minutes just talking about TLS and PKI. Another person delved into kernel packet handling for a while.
> How is that possible?

I'd say that we live in a world of checksums, cryptographic checksums, retries, deterministic builds, distributed VCS (like Git), digital signatures, etc. which helps a lot with the very rare bitflips that do actually happen.

> For example, in the average statically compiled codebase, flipping a single bit in source code being edited (with the code then being saved to disk) will make it fail to compile with high probability, which would be noticed immediately.

I fully agree. If I set say "unstable" settings in my UEFI/BIOS for the RAM, I cannot compile, say, Emacs, without getting a segfault.

> For example, in the average statically compiled codebase, flipping a single bit in source code being edited (with the code then being saved to disk) will make it fail to compile with high probability, which would be noticed immediately. That seems incongruent with the figure quoted above.

I don't understand it either.
I'll regularly go to estate sales in McMansions. It's really amazing to see.

Master Bedrooms the size of my apartment that are mostly empty.

Huge tall ceilings with poorly assembled trim to break up the monotony. Two extra large AC units needed to cool all that air.

Basement bars that have gone unused for years, expansive basements with old kids toys laying about, so roomy that it feels almost commercial.

So many extra sitting rooms just there as a place to put things. Its amazing how wasteful they are, how they basically just exist to say "look, big house". Nothing in them is practical, they're difficult to navigate because you need to make room for the massive foyer staircase and inexplicable loft/bridge to overlook your leather couches with USB ports in them, sitting across from a tv mounted 3 feet too high to ever have a comfortable viewing angle.

I've seen the ugliest ceiling mural, attempting to emulate an Italian fresco with all the skill of a high school drug PSA mural.

These homes just reek of desperation, like they've accrued all this wealth and have found themselves sitting at the back of the bus in "The Graduate", without any purpose and unsure why they fought so hard.

Its really interesting seeing a bathroom with enough open space to store an old beetle, with 30 drawers under the acreage of counter top. Mostly empty but dispersed with normal human items, like they're trying so hard to make it seem like any of this was necessary.

All of these places are devoid of any kind of design, it all feels like a simulacra of old wealth, like its what they "should" be buying and decorating with, but then you see personal items and realize they're no better than the average person, they have the same interests and hobbies, only now they're buried deep inside this dryrock dungeon, hidden away so they can appear high class and fancy.

The worst thing about them? How cheap it all feels, and how much it feels like a normal house scaled up beyond any purpose. Sure the first floor may have some kind of granite tile, but every other floor seems to bow and give under your feet like you're on a rubber running track. Noises reverberate if there's no carpet, but if there is, it most likely came with the home and has not been taken care of.

McMansions are an amazing symbol of the hollowness of seeking wealth. You could have a much nicer, bespoke and practical home if you wanted. For the money you could hire a real designer, real craftsmen to build your hardwood features or master plaster craftsman to make real ceiling moldings.

Instead of ordering a steak from a fine restaurant, the McMansion is spending the equivalent money at a McDonalds.
the question of whether mathematical objects like 53 are more or less real than the historically contingent universe is indeed very interesting

however, it is irrelevant to the fact that a commenter was disagreeing because they had confused ieee-754 division with the division operation on so-called 'real' numbers
> And the positive world. sigh

It turned out to be a lie and a scam, so now people are more skeptical.
Did they use "Lifetime" in their marketing? I'm on a MAC and only use windows in a VM environment.
I think computing in the 1980s was a very different enterprise than it is today. Back then it was about exploring a new world whose horizons were expanding fast, as processor speed and O/S capability grew seemingly without bound. IMHO it was the transition of the cutting edge away from technical to social after the web arose that changed the tenor of computing. Devices became secondary to connected apps, and the focus among the players shifted from love of innovative hacks to fascination for megabuck payouts, meanwhile 'coolness' described _using_ computers rather than making them dance.
"We chose to introduce Couchbase as a centralized storage tier cache for read scaling. This solution achieved a cache hit rate of over 99%, reduced tail latencies by more than 60%, and trimmed the cost to serve by 10% annually."