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> Hmmm... It's super convenient that SQL uses single quotes for string literals while JSON uses double quotes. Changing that is going to cause pain.

Surely you're not constructing queries by concatenating JSON to text?

> I really can't recommend this. Yeah it's annoying to have to write \n, but still.

I can only disagree, the ability to just put newlines in a string literal in languages like rust is refreshing.
Regarding using in-memory storage. Early prototype of Capillaries used Redis for storage and the performance was stellar. I decided to drop it for two reasons. First, indexing mechanism required a root-level sorted set, and Redis cannot partition it. Second, most of intermediate data is supposed to be available until the end of the run, which means hours, and I was not sure that typical Capillaries users would agree to carry the cost of providing so much RAM vs disk space. Am I willing to return to the discussion about replacing Cassandra with some in-memory storage? Maybe.
> This is bullshit and you know it.

Assume good faith.

> As a developer my job was less the typing and more the thinking about what I was going to write.

Where was it exactly that I stated that the bulk of my work was done in my sleep?

I never said that - but rather stated that the majority of work was contemplation rather than typing.

However, at least once a week I woke with a solution to something - just because your brain doesn't function that way on a regular basis does not mean that no-one else's does (or perhaps you need to think harder?).

My point was, it didn't really matter what time I actually arrived at my desk, the actual contemplation of the issue was happening regardless of where I was.

So, for at least two hours a day outside of the office I was continuing to do the most important part of my job.

> Also good luck answering the phone at night and while “thinking what to do”.

What the hell are you on about?
Books aren't really instant in that way. Plus they're finite, so you don't get hooked on them having a constant new and unexpected dopamine drip. Also i didn't say "distract" I said "escape." There's a difference in that escapism can start to seem like a long-term solution, when it's not and often leads to neglect of your real life, that leads to more escapism, etc.
Ha. "Let's break all these cups and throw em in a hole! Future people will use something something something tech and put them back together good as new."

People are constantly assuming magical future entropy-undoers to justify their breaking and ruining things today.
Not just that. If you don't have farming going on - and it often requires subsidies to keep it going - even Netherlands have subsidised agriculture, your food security will just disappear.

I am not sure why people don't seem to understand this. If a nation ever finds itself dependent on a neighbour for water, food, electricity, oil etc, they are going to be in big trouble when it comes to any sort of negotiations.

The truth is that agricultural land is under tremendous pressure. It is far more lucrative to just build apartments or commercial real estate on farming land than it is to sustain agriculture. Subsidies are used to incentivize farmers to continue farming instead of disposing of their land.
I don't think we need sentient AI for it to be autonomous. LLMs are powerful cognitive engines and weak knowledge engines. Cognition on its own does not allow them to be autonomous, but because they can use tools (APIs, etc.) they are able to have some degree of autonomy when given a task and can use basic logic to follow them through/correct their mistakes.

AutoGPTs and the likes are much overhyped (it's early tech experiments after all) and have not produced anything of value yet but having dabbled with autonomous agents, I definitely see a not so distant future when you can outsource valuable tasks to such systems.
This is a duplicate, so I'm pasting my previous answer here as well.

"They operate a model known as a "marketplace" or "community" cloud. Unlike us, they utilize servers hosted by individuals in their homes. This is something completely different.

While they may offer lower prices, the infrastructure may have limitations in terms of reliability, scalability, and security compared to data center-based providers. Additionally, the performance and availability of the services vary depending on the hosts' hardware and internet connection."
What Is Digital Public Infrastructure?
> I think the problem is cultural, not technological.

I'm sure that's true. You don't have to write classes with names like DoubleFactoryFactory; nobody does that in other languages. It's a tribal thing.

What's amusing (to me) is that Java isn't actually object-oriented, because many of the core datatypes aren't objects.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35961844
Is there an unavoidable reason why SQLite won't allow foreign keys to be added with ALTER TABLE, only at table creation? The whole "select * into temporary table and create new table with FK constraint" seems so verbose / convoluted, my layman's mind can't comprehend why one can't simply

ALTER TABLE "foo" ADD FOREIGN KEY...
I guess I should have clarified, not put up with being monitored but, more to my second paragraph, be so willing and eager (maybe even write a fun technical blog about it) to construct cages for themselves and others.
Yes, you are absolutely correct economically, but they deem it to be a national honor thing. Dictators turn to nationalism when they become unpopular.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-59900139
This is pretty much an episode of South Park from a few weeks ago where the teacher starts grading all the papers with ChatGPT then realizes the students were also using it to write their papers. Except in this case it’s not a cartoon and the teacher is incompetent
micromobility is on the rise. Electric skateboard is the latest greatest thing ever if you are willing to invest in learning the skills to safely use it.

It's got an even smaller form factor than the scooters and so far I've never found a place that would not allow me to tow it in behind me (did not try flying).
I'm sorry but this really betrays history, even contemporary history.

We could point to a number of contemporary artists that are worth millions of dollars for whatever they are known for - you might even consider them 'rockstars', regardless of how myopic I find the term - but headlines that make it onto the "4 big websites" is not the same thing as being irrelevant.

For every "Picasso" you can cherry-pick from history there's a Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, Banksy, Ai Weiwei, etc - All worth millions or, at the very least, "Rockstars" in their own right.

The idea that Marble Sculptures in Ancient Rome or whatever had passersby standing in amazement compared to today is not accurate. People walking into whatever temple for whatever God they were visiting would be just as bored by the marble back then as you are of marble now.

What's really changed is that accessibility to these things have exploded. More people than ever have access to Art, Art Tools, Art Education, and new Art Mediums. "Art" is in no-way dying out. Focusing so much on the "Medium" is missing the forest for the trees, honestly. (Which is to say, modern technology and socio/economic trends have a bigger effect on the use of Marble than "Marble as a medium", whatever that means. Sculpture is alive and well, I promise you)

This is a little bit rambly because your post just kinda says, "Art changes over time" and doesn't, in my view, have a wide-enough vision of the "why" but this is all to say that like, as far as this thread is concerned, Visual Art, if anything, is omnipresent in our lives - not less relevant than in times past. If anything, the presence of "Rock Stars" is an indication of too few talented people, instead of what we have historically which is an ever increasing number of extremely talented people. I just don't know how we can say Painting is less relevant now when more people than ever are doing it lol.
Reflect.net
To the teachers I know, I’ve been recommending that if they are paranoid about GPT, they can ask the students to cite material from a physical textbook in their assignments.

Even if the students type the textbook into ChatGPT at least they read the material.

This is beside the point of whether current education needs to be improved, and whether GPT is going to force some change here - but this is a useful stopgap.

teachers who take an approach like OP need to be stopped.
I do wonder if that end of the market is going to disappear. It’s going to be hard justifying spending $10k for a new battery when the car is only worth half that.
> If it's so easy to just copy and paste an essay from an AI generator that is of such high quality that it cannot be detected, then why are we still making students learn such an obviously obsolete skill? Why penalize students for using technology?

That's like asking, why do we have students do PE (physical education) when professional athletes exist? Clearly, having students play basketball is obsolete, because the NBA exists. Essay-writing is PE for thinking.
Did anyone else notice the beautiful photography contained in this post? Unfortunately, after a quick scan, I could not find any attributions to the photos.
Wow, even if the professor assigned using ChatGPT they would not get 100% adoption. Classes have really heterogeneous behavior.
> Tourists are welcome, they're not entitled to live like 'locals' at the local's expense. Stay in a hotel.

I feel this is an artificial distinction. It's not really the type of building that's involved. People tend to pick whichever of AirBnB or hotel is the most economical for their stay. It's the massive conversion of property from residential to "hotel" by the (often local!) owners that's the problem.
I know, I said it was silly.

A 40 year old coupling with a 20 year old is still icky to me due to the life experience as an adult divide. A 30 year old with a 50 year old much less so; I just think the 30 year old is setting themself up to spend a lot of time as a caretaker at some point.
4nm -> 3nm no longer means size goes down as a result directly ratiometricly. You have to look at what TSMC is claiming for their improvements. They're claiming 5nm -> 3nm is a 70% density improvement (I can't find any 4nm -> 3nm claims)... so 4->3 must be much less.

Also, most folks seem to have gone directly from 5nm to 3nm, and skipped 4nm altogether.
No. China has wanted Taiwan since before TSMC was major factor.

This is about geopolitics, and fulfilling the destiny of the Party/Nation that has for decades been embarrassed that their (in their eyes) territory was held by others and supported by the West.
So clearly pen and paper doesn't work, since it isn't possible to sign a transaction and broadcast the message to the network using only a pen and a paper.

Writing a software wallet would involve using third-party compilers, operating systems and hardware, which means it isn't "trustless".
I've heard too many horror stories of how many repairs are needed for < 5K cars. When I was shopping for a car in 2021 I was comparing a ~100K mile Kia Rio Hatchback (no power windows, scraped up, pretty rough shape) for ~12K + tax (~13.5-14K total), or a brand new one of the same model (ended up paying 20K out the door). This was at the same dealership.

I got the new one, could probably sell it for almost the same price as I bought it for 1.5 years and 25K miles later (though to be fair, I got a pretty good deal on it).

Due to depreciation curve being out of whack right now (and labor being expensive), a new car can actually cost you less than a 5k clunker - not to mention loss of income if it breaks down.
My defence was just by asking them how many "c's" were in literally.
Were expectations set ahead of time? (don't cheat?) If so, he's actually the best kind of teacher: allowing them to experience the real world but with soft consequences.
(Acknowledging you didn’t support regulation in your statement, just riffing)

Then write laws and regulations about the actions of humans using the tools. The tools have no agency. The human using them towards bad ends do.

By the way, writing things the state considers immoral is an enshrined right.

How do you draw the line between AI writing assistance and predictive text auto completion and spell check in popular document editors today? I would note that predictive text is completely amoral and will do all sorts of stuff the state considers immoral.

Who decides what’s immoral? The licensing folks in the government? What right do they have to tell me my morality is immoral? I can hold and espouse any morality I desire so long as I break no law.

I’d note that as a nation we have a really loose phrasing in the bill of rights for gun rights, but a very clear phrasing about freedom of speech. We generally say today that guns are free game unless used for illegal actions. These proposals say tools that take our thoughts and opinions and creation of language to another level are more dangerous than devices designed for no other purpose than killing things.

Ben Franklin must be spinning so fast in his grave he’s formed an accretion disc.
Doesn’t matter. It won’t be well received. It sounds negative to most readers and being technically correct warns you no points.
> found the documentation/lack of modern tutorials appalling

There isn't good modern Fortran textbooks/courses on the web.

But there are some textbooks that cover the language well. Especially: Metcalf, Reid, Cohen: Modern Fortran Explained, 2018.
Because jayd16 was responding to samwillis's comment about Apple being in a unique position.

Part of that unique position is already being a popular product. Google adding a bunch of local ML features isn't going to move the needle for Google if people aren't buying Pixels in the first place for reasons that have nothing to do with ML.

If Google's trying to roll out local ML features but 90% of Android phones can't support them, it's not benefiting Google that much. Hence, Apple's unique position to benefit in a way that Google won't.
And maybe buy Greenland while they are add it /s
I'm struggling recently to build consensus with my team that Elixir is the right technology choice for a core element of our infrastructure. I've figured I just need to do it myself to demonstrate the value and then snowball from there.
It's always a balance. I have been working with teams on both side of the fence and I think I am well aware of the dangers of both: keeping the custom wheel running for years vs fighting the particularities of a third-party tool (up to the point they start dictating architectural decisions). Most of the operations Capillaries is intended to perform are row-based, and stellar Spark map-reduce capabilities were not a big selling point, while tech lock-in price seemed pretty high.

On a more general note (Spark discussion aside), I like working with third-party solutions that can do only one thing, but they do it perfectly. And I am ok supporting in-house-built frameworks that behave the same way and do not pretend to be a world peace solution.
Had Fidelity 401k from work I was trying to rollover to a Schwab IRA. Schwab mentioned setting up the voice password thingy, and I declined and had no further problem. Fidelity tried to push it on me before I could talk to anyone. I refused and had to dial 0 several times for it to transfer me to a person. Glad I no longer have a Fidelity account, if Schwab ever tries that BS I'll raise hell with them.
Isn't this just the YAML debacle all over again? Where virtually any sequence of text is "valid" (albeit meaningless) YAML?
I've talked with current college students at a number of U.S. colleges and asked them about what professors are saying about ChatGPT. They don't seem to understand the implications beyond students can potentially use it to cheat.
> With the dead person's agency no longer involved, even without malicious intent, any feelings or behaviour such a construct might generate in its users will be artificial and manipulative.

Memories are like that. Do we ever truly know anybody?
The Mont Blanc inks are all hype, IMO, as is pretty much everything they sell by modern standards since the acquisition and treatment of it like a luxury brand in the '90s rather than focusing on innovating in tools. Plenty of other decent inks for less. It's like saying Tiffany makes great jewellery and has great quality stones because the pricing is high.

The Jinhao 159 is creaky junk and buying it supports the CCP. As with the ink, it's people kidding themselves that just because Mont Blanc charges x for y then that must make x somehow special and worth having in 2023. For the same price point, you can do much better, and probably even go Japanese-made, and not support the CCP.

It's a century later, with modern manufacturing techniques, don't you think someone can do better than a Meisterstuck or Meisterstuck clone?
The weather ones are so annoying: "Is it going to rain today?". "It looks like it's going to rain today". "What time is it going to rain today?". "It looks like it's going to rain today".
What comments? JSON doesn't have any.

And editor will rightfully mark them as errors.
That's also how I feel about my 2023 Mazda CX-5. Made commuting lot less of a chore. And no touch screen so I can keep my eyes on the road.
It's not bending the knee, that's how they want it to be perceived, but what's really happening is that they're trying to pull up the ladder.
This is what you get by hyping ChatGPT without making clear what it does, can do, and can not do.
How much miles do you get out of it?

Or a better question, how much range was lost as a percentage compared to when it was originally released?
> And you didn't need to waste time on schemas and codegen, which at the time was a breath of fresh air.

Everyone just wrote their own custom clients in code instead :) But it was a gradual process, so it's harder to notice the pain compared to some generator slamming a load of code in your project. coughgRPCcough.
Might as well trust a bank.
ChatGPT Creator and CEO of OpenAI Sam Altman Testifies in US Senate
I can't read the OP, but, it seems quite impressive if the matriculation rules already have "must not use AI assistance" in them. Would be interested in the particular wording too - if you used ChatGPT search tool does that disqualify you? What about if your spreadsheet app used AI to choose the best graph type? You used ChatPDF?

Are they saying it is plagiarism, would students know that it was considered that way (you've not copied, and ChatGPT isn't a source as such).
Lots of hallucinations. ChatGPT will hallucinate that it wrote pieces of text. Even GPTZero will detect the constitution as AI generated
At this point you can replace professor and university with ChatGPT. For well documented topics (like math, languages..) it gives pretty good explanations. I use it to study new programming language and AI!
This might be the best demo I've ever seen on a landing page! Nice work
And yet, InfernoJS is faster than Svelte while using a VDOM.
The ability to 'cheat' on written assignments has always been a possibility. With the rise of the Internet, it became easier to source it from more places - with a counter balancing rise of plagiarism detectors. Now with Google, Grammarly and ChatGPT, it is trivial to copy/paste a pipeline with enough entropy to defeat many if not most detectors. I suspect the next generation of tools will be finish this cycle - we won't be able to build an arbitrary text distinguisher that works with acceptable accuracy.

Educators have to adapt. If you want to "know what someone knows" - then ask them face to face, or have them write it down on paper. We used to call these tests, and they work pretty well.

If you want someone to produce a piece of writing about something, how they produced it is less important than the result. If it is correct, clear, and gets the job done, then good. It's be the same for programming assignments - Copilot and ChatGPT make all un-proctored creation assignments a black box. You can evaluate the output, but it is nearly impossible to know what's in the box.
They should have done it with dry cleaners instead. Selected from 100s or 1000s of shops.
If only the US military had incredible amounts of armor and defense systems to trade with them to ensure their safety. Right?
Not an issue. It's only partially filled, less than half-way. As it forms, the ice floats and glides up the sides until it's like, 1mm higher than where it started.
Wait! Can I store unicode escaped binary strings in JSON now?
That's sort of a repeat article. Is there any text that indicates the strength of the request or the regulations being invoked?
> Reminds me of SBF calling for crypto regulations while running FTX

Scott Galloway called it the stop-me-before-I-kill-grandma defence. (Paraphrasing.)

You made money making a thing. You continue to make the thing. You’re telling us how the thing will bring doom and gloom if not dealt with (conveniently implying it will change the world). And you want to staff the regulatory body you call for with the very butchers you’re castigating.
I only journal if I'm undergoing a lot of changes professionally (public blog) or personally (private journal), mostly by externalized factors as a form of reflection/processing.

Sometimes I reflect a lot other times I don't. Not really any consistency to it - it's a done by needs basis

Helps me look at myself from a third person perspective - as if a friend were commenting on things I'm going through

It has improved my life - and help me look at things more logically especially if I'm in the weeds of things
The Twitter Files were a gigantic nothing-burger, hence why it fell out of the news cycle so quickly and no one gave a crap about it.

Please explain to me how anything in the Twitter Files shows government censorship. Did the government threaten Twitter in any way? Did they force Twitter to remove these tweets? I'd also like to point out that this supposed "censorship" took place during the Trump administration.
> After talking to her, I've never used one since.

What do we do about our formal wear then?
Why can't you read the OP?
This insightful article by Adam Ruka covers:
- What's IaC.
- First gen. tools: Declarative, Host Provisioning (Chef, Puppet, Ansible).
- Second gen. tools: Declarative, Cloud (CloudFormation, Terraform, Azure Resource Manager).
- Third gen. tools: Imperative, Cloud (AWS CDK, Pulumi, SST).
- The future: Infrastructure from Code (Wing, Eventual, Ampt, Klotho).

Why it interests me?
I'm one of the creators of Winglang (https://github.com/winglang/wing) that is featured there as one of the future 4th gen. tool, along with Eventual (https://github.com/functionless/eventual), Ampt (https://github.com/getampt) and Klotho (https://github.com/klothoplatform/klotho).
The amount of non-technical people who have very little intuition around the limitations of LLMs is actually fairly startling - and I like to think of myself of someone who is usually good at that kind of thing. The realistic/coherence of the output is just so convincing, people cannot seem to stop themselves from attributing a theory of mind to it. Just earlier this week I saw someone saying that they were creating a ton of OpenAI accounts to try to advocate to ChatGPT for their activist cause.
No mention of BeamAsm.

I really hope the focus on performance improvements hasn't waned.
We call that Capitalism. If you don't have a plan to stop it, assume it's going to happen. I'd like to refer you back to the documentary idiocracy. There is line in that film that seems to resonate with many humans especially Americans, "I like money, you like money too? We should hang out"
> Do you think the Taiwan government would allow that?

Neither would China!
Is this a hoax or did a professor actually write "ChatGTP" that many times in one email?
No, it's not just individuals, and not just at home.