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This problem illustrates perfectly the difference between engineering, tech, and everything else, and where they overlap.

Tech tends to holonomic control. It's easier to think about and more versatile and people like it.

Real life is full of stuff where you can't move without turning or turn without moving or unscrew one thing without something else falling off or that pesky Pauli exclusion principle gets in your way.

I would almost say that being aware of the fact that systems have degrees of freedom and inputs you control and they aren't always 1-1 matched is the start of truly doing tech.

It's like such a sharp dividing line. Things you control, and things you don't, it seems more philosophically interesting than almost anything else in math.

Right now people talk about climate change, but CO2 is just a case of energy output being tied to fuel burning.

Functional programming is all about separation and making sure doing stuff doesn't make other stuff you don't control happen.

And then on the other side, there's lots of things that seem to be culturally significantly partly because they're nonholonomic. A sports player's performance depends on a ton of variables from genetics to mental state to how good their trainers are and none of it is a direct thing in the way gcode directly controls the CNC.

If wine was made in a replicator from some exact chemical description file, I'm guessing it would be a lot less interesting.

Things that you can't control every part of seem to give a sense of being a unified whole.

And then, there's occasionally times when less control makes things better functionally, because you want some states that would otherwise be physically possible to be impossible or locked out, like a microwave that can't run with the door open.

And on top of all that there's overconstraint, where everything can just go straight to crap if you have more inputs than degrees of freedom.

Furniture that cracks when humidity changes because different attachment points fight each other is a big deal... but maybe the "Too many chefs and not enough line cooks" social problem is also an example of that.
> there are few enough [bird] species

For the record, there’s surprisingly many bird species. 10,000 bird species vs only 5,400 mammal species, 4,650 lizard species, 250 marsupial species.

Granted there’s 33,000 species of fish and over 900,000 species of insect. But those are way harder to observe.
> but the idea that a democratically elected communist government (in full control of a country) stays democratic for long is not borne out by any evidence anywhere on earth

Nor do we have almost any evidence of the opposite, since the US obliterated most experiments in anything other than plunder capitalism.

I also contest that non-communist governments stay democratic for long. The US, for example, is barely a democracy in a meaningful sense, and is increasingly moving in plutocratic, fascist directions.
No wonder: https://twitter.com/iVRy_VR/status/1655543048787378176
I get that promised features being cut hurts. But that doesn’t stop it from being a really fun game.
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Never heard about it before your comment. Hopefully I will never hear about it ever again
But then the length of the article wouldn’t seem substantial and you wouldn’t bother reading it at all because you’d assume it wasn’t worth your time and the author wouldn’t get to tell you about whatever random app they’re building and shilling for. Key insight: the article isn’t about the tech, the article is about them trying to drive traffic to their app or whatever.
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I think the whole "tipping at checkout" thing makes no sense at all. The tip amount depends on quality of service -- a terrible coffee and burnt pastries will means no tip, while delicious food, good service and clean tables means big tip. But how can you tell what the experience is going to be if you just entered the store and only ordering? You can't.

That's why you should never tip at the self-order kiosk, but you should drop a cash tip into the tip cup when leaving, if the food and service was good.
There are no other platforms though. Even Apple is cramming their apps with ads for their services. They’ve ad-walled me over 20 times in the last 18 months on the way to listen to my music with an Apple Music adwall.

Just on my way to listen to MY mp3s.
An open source competitor to what? You mean like Ardupilot or QGroundControl?
With disappearing moats, regulation battles might become more intense as a last attempt to grasp at anything that can save the sinking ship.

If AI lives up to its expectations, then I would expect moats to continually be harder to build. AI is the machine to destroy moats, as at its core it is essentially a skill/technology replication machine. As long as it can actually accomplish that end, there will unlikely be any moats that can survive.

I described this as the "AI Clone Wars", "Anything you create can be replicated without investment cost while also being unique in design as well as delivering the same function or experience. Intellectual property laws essentially have no function in this new environment and there isn't an obvious remedy" - https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-and-the-end-to-all-things
Simracers use triples quite often! Alignment is a pain.
Just a heads up - GPU's are a looooot faster then CPU's depending on what models you're running, especially if you were looking at running the image models.

Admittedly I'm not sure how well they work if you stream/batch to the GPU (say 96GB of system ram + 24GB GPU).

I've heard used nvidia workstation cards are reasonably cheap for >24GB VRAM.

A 3090/4090 have 24GB of vram and can run up the 30B models with some optimizations, and this is the easiest way to run the 30B models which are essentially the highest end any consumer card can run. If you also play games and have money then this is the way to go IMO.

If you were to get a GPU, it must have CUDA support (so nvidia only) unless you want a headache.
> you’ll frequently find feature gaps where you end up adding a +1 to an issue which has been open for years, and building your own service (yay, more toil)

Yup, exactly my experience and what I meant by amateurish. We aren't even talking about "crazy" features.

For example, their identity management service supports MFA only though a cell text. Adding support for Google auth was a years old issue that we were told "yeah, lots of other people want this and if you plus 1 it maybe PM will prioritize it".
This will only be good for our economy, any argument against is arguing against the entire trajectory of human technological advancements and its benefits to economic growth.

But that's not as big a deal as one might think. In many ways this is just restating the Problem of Induction[1]. We don't know that the future will always resemble the past, or that trajectories will remain the same over time. An exponential function, for example, looks linear if you zoom in sufficiently. Without the broader perspective, how can you know you're on an exponential curve (or whatever). It's not so different from how you can't easily tell that the Earth is spherical by just glancing out of your window.

This is creative destruction and it is the engine that drives economic growth. It can only be a good thing.

Don't get me wrong... I'm a Libertarian and very pro-Capitalism and generally agree that Creative Destruction has been and likely will continue to be a force for productive change. But even I won't go as far as saying that it can only be a good thing. Who knows what kind of Black Swans[2] are waiting around the corner?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_induction

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory
Or just use adblock and never see any?
To be fair, artists share lyrics, since everything else can be easily scanned by ear. Negatives are frequently the only source. You do not need any negatives to recreate a photograph. Just like you do not need masters or sketches to recreate a song or a popular paining. Most modern photographs are not even produced by photographers - the camera would do all the work, your job is to pick one frame from 9528 you took while your finger got stuck on a button. Moving code somewhere else or omitting the source would not bring back dead ethics of greed-driven modern society and definitely can not slow down reversing in any way.
Isn't the chat server they talk about for somethin in-app ? Like if your game offers player-to-player chat, or something similar ? I don't think they are talking about tools for software engineers themselves.
Just as a minor caveat, Gmail has an email size limit of 25 MB while iCloud Mail has a limit of only 20 MB. When moving an email archive from Gmail to iCloud, that difference can cause an issue for large (> 20 MB) emails, where you have to remove attachments or similar if you don’t want to lose those messages completely.
This type of thinking really needs to look beyond what the hype train is on with OpenAI right now and look at some of the more groundbreaking work going on.

Deepmind has quite a bit of work outside the language area that has a lot of potential. Peter Velockovic, Matt Botvinick, Chelsea Finn, Taco Cohen, Micheal Bronstein, et al are all working completely outside the arena of NLP, but they have much more groundbreaking work than what everyone seems laser focused on right now.

There are tons of examples really, but for instance: their agents that have emergent properties of teamwork, as well as their work on developing entirely new mathematics in some of the hardest fields (knot theory and representation theory).

Creating new mathematics and proving theorems is probably the most creative form of human expression there is, so the fact that AI can achieve this is quite a big leap. Combining this with the deficits in LLMs can construct something that has much fewer flaws.

While some of the hype around language models is fading now, we will probably see another resurgence of interest by the media when Deepmind releases a system with these capabilities underneath a LM.
These LMs have been around for many years, and are just now getting mass attention. So it will likely take some more time of these much more sophisticated systems being solely in the academic arena before people become aware of what is really going on in AI (company products typically lag very far behind what academia is capable of).

However, soon there will be products that have attached a linguistic interface to these types of systems, and will likely yield some really impressive capabilities.
I disagree that tokenization is important to consider. But just to test it out, I tried adding spaces between each bit and verified that each bit is tokenized separately:

Let's add the two binary numbers provided, limiting the work on each bit to a single line:

1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0
+ 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 1
--------------------------------------------------------------
1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1

So, the result of the addition is the binary number 10110110101001010111111001111101.

The answer is still wrong. Think about it like this: even when tokenized into 1-5 digit binary chunks, there are still just a few tokens to consider. If ChatGPT could actually apply the rules of addition to a general, high-entropy example, it would be trivial to use these tokens to derive the correct answer. A human could easily do it.
Youtube works pretty good for me, but that's probably only because I pay for ad-free. Will G provide a premium ad-free subscription?
No. The point is replacing passwords with something which is equally user-friendly, but which cannot be phished.

Ie replacing passwords with cryptographic keys tied to a specific website.

That is, your passkey for amazon.com won’t work on a phishers site amozon.com or lookalike.somehost.org.

And in the hypothetical case of your passkey for site X being leaked it will never be the same as for site Y, so it’s not reusable.

No part of the specification requires Google, cloud or third party trust. Those are just “user-friendly” client-side implementations.
Ask HN: Is it ok for teachers to write exam/assignment model solutions using AI?
Or would this send the wrong message to students?
I was trying to play the middle to make folks happy but in general I have zero respect for the industry of IP and really enjoy seeing what comes out of Chinese Shanzai culture. Rather than a handful of worse products protected by a copyright, the rapid pivoting by copying and improving has made a lot of cool tech.

The nature of disrespecting copyrights also allows for niche products to be made for smaller consumer bases, compared to the focus group driven "jack of all trades master of none" products that you see when copyright is stronger.

A few months back I was trying to reverse engineer a small Chinese bluetooth tx/rx device and found myself on the chinese side of the internet. I found many sites/blogs that only did teardowns of consumer devices, analyzing design choices, identifying and sharing datasheets normally kept behind NDAs, etc. These were datasheets of chinese origin mind you.

The openness of information was refreshing because on the english internet, all I could find was press releases with pictures of young couples enjoying their individual bluetooth headphones.

If you're a western engineer and want to make a bluetooth device, you're stuck with a handful of vendors who protect their IP to the extent it makes market research impossible. If you're a Chinese engineer, you've got a bunch of custom ready-to-go chips for various purposes. Yeah the range or quality wont be as good but design start to finish is far quicker.
Mass media has so heavily conveyed the fact that humans are transcendent of the laws of physics, the weeping tear that brings back the dying or the true love bond that defeats the machines. This trope is so tired, but man do our narcissistic meat brains love it.

AGI or not, I think people conditioned their whole lives that humans are transcendent are starting to get smashed through the wringer of reality, making it hard to discern honest takes from desperate coping takes.
That's the whole trick with "doing Kanban". You don't need special magic methods to do your work- just pick up a ticket and do the work, repeat forever.
There is a hobby dedicated to using metal detectors to find treasure and a somewhat recent BBC television series about this https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06l51nr
Slides from the Snowden leaks described ways of disrupting online communities. So The US and its allies has possible done it for decades.

https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/
If you think 8gb of ram is enough, which it isn't, especially on macOS.
I fully agree. Predicting future events is even more difficult than it seems and we constantly fail.

The only thing we can reasonably say about the state of AI is that we are closer to so-called AGI. We're seeing exciting progress and that it turn is attracting more efforts in the field, potentially leading to an acceleration.

But we could hit a wall, for many reasons, the field is almost entirely filled by unknown unknowns.

Nuclear fusion, Quantum Computing, Nanotech, Genetic Engineering, all of those fields are still evolving, slowly, because of technological and scientifical roadblocks.
You still have to manage the PC and games. My console has never let me down when I want to relax. I do this for a day job, I prefer not to fuck with troubleshooting at night.
One would hope that we have refined our computational models of nuclear devices since then.
I think that was a long time ago. Now they have MFA and haven't had any public security incidents.
> tying executive compensation to short-term share price

We won't get anything other than this unless Google decides to do a huge round of buybacks and go private. The spice must flow because only growth makes money for the people who actually own Google.
Fundamentally I think I've put a line in the sand that I will just pay for things instead of being bombarded with advertisements. As a kid I didn't have any money and so I put up with ads, but now as a yuppie with plenty of cash, I feel it's better to not constantly be sold to.

I've been happy with Protonmail, they don't charge a prohibitive amount. Kagi is also ok. I wish there was a good alternative to YouTube, but sadly basically every YouTube competitor (e.g. Odysee, Bitchute) seems to just become a dumping ground for a bunch of neo-Nazi idiots, but at least YouTube does have YouTube premium, and I can skip through the sponsored ExpressVPN and Raycon ads.
Hmm... I look at my Google mail through Thunderbird and have yet to see an increase in ads. I don't put it past Google to insert ads as downloadable messages, though.
Yep. No service, no tip.

If you never interact with a person throughout the process of buying there is no reason to.
Within the point you think you're making is a counter-point. "Remember Polio?" --> Yes, polio was largely eliminated from it's devastating effects on humans by what you're calling "coercive vaccination."
You get board seats for your political buddies. If company is privately owned you cannot simply appoint someone to a board to get nice salary.
> If that site is legally held liable for fraud happening due to credential compromise, as (hopefully!) would be the case for e.g. consumer bank accounts, I'd say there is at least some legitimate interest.

I kind of disagree honestly. I think consumer bank accounts are some of the least secure accounts I have online. My consumer bank account has removed 2FA options over time. They've literally gone backwards on security.

I don't think there's much evidence that holding banks liable for fraud means that they're going to responsibly make their services more secure. Consumer banks in the US at least are wildly behind the times on account security, and I really don't trust them to make choices about what device I use.

What I do think banks do is invest a lot of effort into looking secure, and I think that stuff like attestation would (if supported) provide an easy mechanism for them to look secure at the same time that they allowed anyone to get into my account with just a social security number and my mother's maiden name. So I feel like, don't even give them the option. There's so much they can do to improve security before we ever start talking about requiring users to use specific hardware devices. Let's have them catch up on basic industry practices before we have that conversation.
That's what I was referring to. Neat stuff.
Simple answer: don't build anything yourself if you can find something that fits 80% of your use case.
Having worked with non-orthogonal coordinate systems, the use seems fine with me. “Straight line” movement along an orthogonal dimension usually induces a change in multiple non-orthogonal coordinates. So colloquial use of saying something isn’t orthogonal seems like a reasonable way of saying things are coupled in a way that doesn’t allow free change in one direction without dragging along other changes.
Or baptize them with de sacred waters of de Nile, or ...
To edit it, you must edit your system Nix configuration in /etc/nixos/configuration.nix and then rebuild your system, which —get this — requires a network connection to complete! So somehow, to connect to the Internet, you must be able to connect to the Internet.

I'll be pedantic and say that this isn't true, it's not required for you to be connected to the internet to rebuild your system when you're only changing /etc/hosts. However, the fact that it's not immediately obvious _how_ to do this is a rather bad problem with NixOS's tooling.

For what it's worth, the following worked for me, though there appear to be other ways as well:

cd /etc/nixos # Or wherever you store your configuration.
nixos-rebuild build
sudo nix-env -p /nix/var/nix/profiles/system/ --set ./result
sudo ./result/bin/switch-to-configuration switch

And finally, for a neat report from a few years ago on using NixOS without an internet connection: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/using-nixos-in-an-isolated-env...
It does have rate limiting
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Yea, technically it gets lighter because when you're writing a bit of data, you're storing a positive charge, which means an electron is removed. But what about magnetic storage medias?
I think that's a totally valid perspective – and I agree to some extent. There are absolutely things about the internet that are better today than the way they used to be.

As for the micropayments thing – I couldn't agree more. Jaron Lanier has had a lot to say about that, and I remain hopeful that someday we can find a functional model other than advertising.
Norway is one of the very few democratic nations having a sizable sovereign wealth fund and a strong tradition of the responsibility of the state to take care of all of its citizens (partially because the natural conditions make survival without cooperation all but impossible). Out of all the top 20 SWFs [1], only four to six belong to healthy democracies, six if you count Turkey and the US as one - the rest are essentially grifting arms for the local rulers.

Everyone else barely has a SWF worth the name and almost all Western and Western-allied countries have fallen into the neoliberal/"lean government" trap.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_sovereign...
To a coup organized by the West and endless media coverage how Chile needs some democracy?
One of the big issues is that we anthropomorphize those things onto AI, not that AI exhibits it.
Why don't we "just ask" kitchen remodeling contractors what percentage of their jobs go over schedule and over budget, and by how much?

Because, duh, they don't want to tell you.
By far the best article about where we are today that I've seen!

The idea of the internet as a body that has gone comatose, that isn't really reacting or changing, is a good metaphor for me, matches my feelings. There's still so much potential, but we aren't in an interactive phase; we are continuing along only with the inertia we had.

But we could collectively wake up at any point, could restart creating interwoven connected experiences of our own.
Well (1) I'm a socialist so I just disagree. (2) Why do people forget the Snowden leaks? We have the most sophisticated and globally pervasive system of hacking and surveillance ever devised.

(3) The world is asking for a "UN Based Order." A "rules based order" as described in US foreign policy journals just means "our rules, and we don't have to follow them."
Google Blocked our open source project as Deceptive
Had the same page up for 4 months, without issue.
We were testing a google open id connection on friday for a sub-domain (demo.spiffworkflow.org). Woke up to the red-screen on Saturday morning. We pulled the demo site down in the hopes it would clear up, but nothing. I've requested a review but no response or even an email saying they were reviewing it.
Content creators mostly don't get paid in the ad-supported model. Only a few do, and even they only get scraps left over after the middlemen take their cut.
>We won't get anything other than this unless Google decides to do a huge round of buybacks and go private. The spice must flow because only growth makes money for the people who actually own Google.

And after they go private why do you think they won't care about growth/money?
Yes -- before we understood the science of building a safe bridge, the way to build a safe bridge was just to massively overbuild it.
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