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> everyone wants the polished product that's the result of A/B testing.

I'd prefer a polished product that's the result of communicating with users.
> Although LLMs are incredible feats of engineering, they're useless scientifically

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2022/09/20/bionemo-large-langu...
Will they still run copper? Out here on Long Island Verizon will not install new copper and existing cu lines are on 3rd party life support. Work had to replace a copper phone line for the fire alarm with an internet bridge and wireless backup after it went dead and the tech told us "We don't run new copper."
The jailbreak prompt is always used, the setting in the panel allows you to rewrite the jailbreak yourself if you want.
Those sound like extremely sensitive mangoes!
Probably, I mean I first studied ANNs over two decades ago and had conversations with people about them prior to starting college in the 90s who had developed solutions with them in the 80s (obviously severely computationally constrained in those days compared to today). So still not magic.

To be very blunt: If you believe that GPT and the like are magic, then you're not thinking clearly. You're blinded by the results (which are impressive).
When your school is trying to sell itself, "we run a quantum computer lab" is a good thing. These would appear the cheapest means of qualifying that statement in your international student brochure.
Reminds me of the cursed form fields that don’t allow pasting for bank account numbers, which I’ve seen recently at multiple financial sites. What on earth makes them think that typing something manually twice is less error-prone than literally pasting it from a known-good source??
The other day I was playing Super Mario World, I didn't play since the nineties, and wow, they where capable to do so much with so little, from the graphics to the sound, the game feels so good, I was in love
I don't understand the relevance of the prior thread, except that you made the same claim with similarly scant evidence.

What exactly is it that makes you so confident?
> I would be happy to do it again but the cost is easily 5x what it would be to just drive and is far less flexible.

To me this is a huge part of the problem.

I've wanted to take the train many times in the US, but it also is wildly expensive here. Much faster and cheaper to take a plane in most cases.

I'd think the way to solve this is to tax driving a car appropriately, whether through parking or other methods, to encourage and subsidize train travel. If the cost comes down, I'm guessing many more people would do it.
No it really depends on the state. Washington would get me much closer to 25 percent. Plus as a tech worker you're making at least double what your counterpart in Europe is making (especially considering the insanity of taxes here) so you need to factor in a lot more variables than what I see most commenters doing for total take home.
Good people don't become billionaires.
iOS 16.5 and macOS 13.4 bring sports news, Bluetooth fixes, and security updates
>This image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 and its surroundings was the first image released from the James Webb Space Telescope in July 2023.

Typo in the picture text
I spent an hour writing a small Signal bot, and I've had ChatGPT on my phone for ages. The experience is the best out of any client I've used, as it's just a chat. I prefer it over a full fledged app.
Brutal honesty can't really work without being on the same page, which is why I reckon most attempts at brutal honesty lead to miscommunication and shortcomings from people who share the same goals.

This is also why I believe brutal honesty for some works better coming from rivals, there is that shared assumption that both of you (or more) are going to disregard niceties.

Unrelated, f'ing was more difficult to read than the alternative using your name (fscking) or even f*cking. Yet f-bomb was easy to read, but I didn't mentally substitute it with the word. I wonder where I picked up these assumptions.
I'm told that this is how cable used to work. Ads aren't just a necessary annoyance that goes with no-fee products, it's a way to turn users into money and so will be with us no matter how much or little we're asked to pay.
Pardon my ignorance but I sort of assumed that was reddit's fault because I can't name a single other site/service I use that does that. I guess that's not the case?
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Very excited for things like Lemmy. Having a Lemmy instance per subreddit makes a lot more sense than Mastodon, because it makes the "which instance do I choose?" onboarding issue self-explanatory.
I do take your point but on the trains I commute on, it’s really common to see people with a laptop open and worked. I do this myself on occasions too. So it’s certainly possible for some commutes even if it’s not a universal truth.
Who is allowed to add an additional password and how are they authenticated? The answer has to be simple enough for me to understand if I'm to consider using passkeys.
Do keep in mind that they can be legally back-doored (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25337507). This is one of my reasons for moving to another provider that doesn't have the encryption gimmick but I still trust: mailbox.org. IIRC they also have less hostile rules regarding domains.
For petrol, the big difference can almost entirely be explained by taxes. The electricity situation is more complicated with a lot of regional differences.
There is much better, faster, cheaper hardware out there to generate random numbers. Using a quantum computer as an RNG is akin to buying an airplane and using it to blow-dry a carpet.
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How is the name of this project meant to be pronounced? "jest h" or "jezzith" are the first two things that come to mind (I'm not sure how to write out the second one phonetically)
The inability to add mp3 files to music in the phone is ridiculous. Round-tripping through "Files" or whatever when I can't quickly access my computer is just so obnoxious.
At this point it's beginning to look as though meeting with Jeffrey Epstein was some sort of prerequisite to joining the club.
Tango with DjangoTango 4
What a cesspool the AppStore is. It's awash in ChatGPT backend clients that are either subscription based and/or use dark patterns.
Chatham House Rule, as others have pointed out, is based on this specific principle:

Under the Chatham House Rule, anyone who comes to a meeting is free to use information from the discussion, but is not allowed to reveal who made any particular comment. It is designed to increase openness of discussion. The rule is a system for holding debates and discussion panels on controversial topics, named after the London headquarters of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, where the rule originated in June 1927.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_House_Rule>

The rule itself:

When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed.

Bilderberg apparently follow the CHR:

Attendees are entitled to use information gained at meetings, but not attribute it to a named speaker (known as the Chatham House Rule).

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilderberg_meeting>

(Also mentioned in TFA.)

Consider that it's possible, as has been rumoured, that people and organisations discuss topics on fora such as Hacker News under pseudonyms.
> to the detriment of power users

Yes this is my whole point. They made it easier for casual users at the expense of power users. It was a purposeful decision.
4 is much better than 3.5 at harder tasks though
Somewhat simplistically, the actual price at a given time is guided by the cost of the marginal source, i.e., the one source that is brought in to meet higher demand. If gas is your marginal source, then the electricity price is in large part determined by the wholesale cost of gas (at the price it was bought at, so there's a lag to the current cost). Europe as a whole has been over reliant on gas from Russia, and the cost of gas has gone up very sharply and Europe doesn't have that much of it domestically.
It's at best a joke, quite likely a scam.
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The other day when I saw the (allegedly) leaked copilot prompt, and now again, I can't help but feel some sense of empathy, as if towards a living thing.

I have a pretty decent understanding of how the current generation of LLMs work, and I too don't think we've achieved consciousness. But the prompts just sound so much like something you'd tell a human, or something you'd tell a host in Westworld.
They’re not making it worse, they’re monetizing it in a way that’s palatable by those that can’t afford to pay.

Video is expensive to serve. There’s no way around it.
I think what people believe about Henry Kissinger and all other Secretaries of State is that they could and would hire people who would, correctly, do due diligence for them, and wouldn't be fooled as a result.

You would expect them to have both a lot of experience doing this, and being able to sniff out problems. I mean, that is what they've done their entire life, isn't it? You'd expect them to be half-decent at it.

Instead it very much looks like they backed this startup because of family and government ties, and one wonders if you'd look, would you find they backed it against advice by reasonable and knowledgeable people? You know "Trump stuff".

Worst part of this is, when it comes to testing many biomarkers simultaneously in a single small sample, there's a metric boatload of startups with credible stories (and testing 1 biomarker in a small sample is a difficult but solved problem. Any hospital can do that now). These startup aren't seeing investment ... and weren't seeing investment before Theranos either, but a lot of them aren't outright scams! They're trying to make it work, and slowly, very slowly advancing the state of the art.

These startups have to scrape together funds that come from testing crime scenes (if you can test very small samples, you can test blood found at a crime scene because only the top layer coagulates, there's a "liquid core" of a few cl inside ...)
Distributed databases rely on spread across possible keys to balance workload. Mostly-ordered keys create hotspots.
The interests of the wealthy in part diverge (where they compete with one another most directly) and in part converge (preservation of wealth, issues in managing wealth and power, most directly).

I agree in part with your observation, but that metric does in fact swing both ways.
Have they fixed "an unattended iPhone alarm rings... forever" yet? I'm sure that's probably lead to disaster on more than one occasion. Imagine someone forgets an iPhone living next door to a shift worker? Alarm goes off and... never stops.
gitk and “git gui” are written in Tcl/Tk.

Some components of the GNU toolchain use dejagnu in their testsuite, which is based on expect and written in Tcl.

The SQLite testsuite uses Tcl, too.
Or Flutter?

Ironically, ChatGPT is very good at that.
LLM's are an incredibly useful tool which I plan to use extensively, but to think it is even in the same category as biological life is incredibly stupid.

Man (and other animals) have Life -> Awareness -> Will -> Speech -> Power. ChatGPT only has Speech that is subject to our prompts.
Hopefully, the SciPy community can stay open-minded about modern Fortran libraries.

Modern Fortran is quite different from Fortran 77, while being as powerful, if not more.

In addition, there has been a significant community effort on improving and modernising the legacy packages, the ecosystem, and the language itself.

With projects like LFortran (https://lfortran.org/), fpm (https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm), and stdlib (https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib), I believe that Fortran will enjoy prosperity again.
Makes you appreciate the complexity of haskell.
>our VAT is 25%

VAT is the biggest scam, it's just an income tax under another name. What is a company's income? revenue - costs

What is a company's value-add? revenue - costs

massive eye-roll.

I once asked a real(tm) economist what the difference was and he looked up and thought for a minute and said "payroll tax". Payroll tax is what the US calls social security tax (for retirement, unemployment and the like)
(kmod was the founding engineer on the project and the guy who came up with the name!)
Hm. I've got 4 switches in my household, only multiplayer games are purchased on multiple though.
Because taking an extreme position saying Fossil Fuels are bad and stop using them is the best solution doesn't work.

Sure, they are bad. But as of today the products derived from fossil fuels are irreplaceable.
Like the list of products I listed earlier.
Unless of course, entire society is willing to give up on these products to save the world.
Sadly, that's not ever going to happen. People and society work towards short term benefits.

The challenge with saving the environment is people get stuck in these 'my way or the highway' solutions.

No space for any middle ground.
No compromise.

Every possible solution gets an opposition.
Because there is probably no perfect solution. Yet.

Nuclear was not the only solution. It 'could have' helped.
So can solar, wind and whatever.

We can still start working on implementing solutions that improve things.
But we get stuck on asking for the impossible, and if that doesn't get done, we don't consider any other solution.

Whenever work starts on something, you will get a news article having an issue with that and suggesting something altogether different.
All noise. No results.
Imagine AAA studios investing all their energy on creative ideas, gameplay innovation and fun experiences for a second. What would that do to indie developers and small studios?
More like bye bye ChatGPT knock-offs.
>When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh. He was in the hospital for a week.

Didn't his dad come out and say that he pretty much deserved the whole stair thing?
What matters is the exposition. Does the presentation (order, style, etc.) communicate what you intend for it to communicate, and does it communicate effectively. That's what matters.

Does it matter what Knuth does? Nope. I don't care for that aspect of his style. I already said I put the includes (when a text gets past the draft stage at least) toward the end. We're in violent agreement with respect to how we (if I understood you correctly) often or generally put them into LP texts.

You're just weirdly caught up on criticizing Knuth's style for some reason. Have fun shouting into the wind. The rest of us know, it doesn't matter. The goal is to communicate effectively and not whine about things that don't matter.
Similar situation (but not in the sun belt). Lived in this area all my life, always been a lot farther "left" on basically everything than the state's government, never been that big a deal aside from our taxes being way higher than they ought to be for how bad/absent government services are (which, to be fair, at least some poorly-governed red states have the good taste to also be low-tax—just not ours).

Now? We're moving to a blue state, and don't consider it optional. Republicans got weirder after Palin, but have gone batshit crazy post-Trump. They're coming for schools & teachers. They're coming for libraries. My daughters might not be able to get medical care they need, as they get older (and no, not just abortions—my wife's gone through miscarriages and other issues that she'd have had to go out-of-state to treat under current laws, and has never had an abortion). God-for-fucking-bid any of my kids end up being LGBT and have to see their state governor working hard to make their lives worse.

It's gone from a tolerable, if not ideal, situation I'd intended to stick out indefinitely and had been living with relatively contentedly for decades, to plainly intolerable, in a hurry. Way too much risk in sticking around.

[EDIT] I don't mean that as criticism of your probably sticking around, to be clear. If our situation were different, we might too (or might not really have a choice).
Isn't that an extreme case? A little over a century ago it was the capital ~50 million people in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, with a city population of 2,239,000 in 1916 (according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna ).

The same chart has the population as 1,911,728 in 2020, about 10% smaller than a century ago. It's now the capital of a country with only about 9 million people.
I am in the EU and finding the announcement post and clicking on it gives me a blank page.
Have you noticed that there are many people making cool stuff for free?
I'm very impressed about both the rapid pace of progress in the area and also the current capabilities of the models. I love them, it brings me joy.

I like how suddenly the image generation state of the art made unexpected and significant progress. One can witness something like that only time to time.

What I don't get at all is that there are people like you, who are frowning upon and somehow disgusted by people like me.
>Because we don't think one word at a time

In what sense does an LLM think one word at a time that doesn't also apply to a person typing at a keyboard? I'm typing one word at a time right now, I assume you aren't about to declare me a markov chain. When I read my brain presumably ingests one word at a time (not sure if it's one exactly, but it can't be much more than one). It is of course true that I have some notion of what I'm going to say before I right the first word, but seemingly so does an LLM.

If it was truly thinking one word at a time, it wouldn't be able to consistently use 'an' vs 'a' correctly, for example.

>we don't restart from scratch for every subsequent word.

LLMs don't restart from scratch for every word, via the attention heads they can look back through the entire context. Otherwise the memory required for inference wouldn't scale with the context length.
You should worry about everything you interact with, not just text on some small Internet forum. After all, you could be the star of your own reality-tv Truman Show, and everything you see is made up for the benefit of a TV show that you're the star of, but aren't privity to? How do you know your mom and dad aren't just hired actors along with all the people you interact with? Maybe I'm secretly being paid by producers of a TV show to write this comment to provoke you into discovering the truth of your existence for the season finale?
Dbt Labs lays off 15% across the board
>which send back info on the hashes of the 10 most recent URLs you've visited on the site, IIRC. None of them are unique tracker hashes for a given user, though.

That seems highly unlikely to never be unique for some users.
1. Nobody uses UUIDv1. Why use UUIDv1 as a straw man argument?

2. UUID strings are awful for storage -- don't use them. Yes there are databases that support UUIDs natively, why is whether or not a UUID fits into a machine word relevant? You use UUIDs for its other properties that 64-bit integers cannot offer. KSUIDs are touted as fixing all the aforementioned issues but they're even bigger than UUIDs.

3. Both KSUIDs and UUIDs are hard for humans to read compared to 64-bit integers.

4. You don't have to encode UUIDs as hexadecimal numbers plus dashes. You can choose any binary encoding you want, I am partial to Crockford Base32 because of how general-purpose it is (no vulgarities, case insensitive so it works on Windows filesystems).

5. I still consider time-sortable UUID alternatives (like ULID) to be UUIDs. This article should have explicitly mentioned UUIDv1 and UUIDv4 in the title and it wouldn't have been so flamebait.
Here is a mocked implementation of Guidance in Go text/template

As long as the template system of choice supports custom functions, I don't see the need for a custom language for this. Please correct me if there is something deeper that I am missing? (other than the specifics to messaging and roles, where I for one prefer to put these in separate files and then pass them as arguments, easier to manage, recombine, and reuse this way)

https://gist.github.com/verdverm/747b0b810dcc5518d699b14f0d0...
I started with the goal to write a C implementation just after I could verify the idea. Yet this is a list of reasons why, back then at least, Tcl was a great choice to write a prototype:

- Tcl reference counting automatic mem management is extermely solid: it does not introduce any pause and is very consistent in long running processes. Another language I love is Ruby: when I used it for similar reasons, a few years later, I was shocked by how impossible it was to run long running processes in Ruby because of the garbage collector limitations.

- Now many languages support event-driven programming very well, but Tcl used to have this for many many years in 2009, it was rock solid.

So Tcl allowed to write something that was not fragile, but only limited in speed and with a large memory footprint. And that served very well as a proof of concept to validate the idea, and then switch to the C implementation.

This code never ran in production, if I remember correctly: I stopped the experiment as soon as I saw it working well and as soon as I understood the fork-based persistence I wanted to implement was impractical in Tcl.
Something I learned first-hand from empirical testing is that Intel cards are quantifiably better at receiving frames than cards with Realtek/Mediatek/Ralink chipsets, specifically in congested environments.

In the presence of a collision, the Intel cards are able to successfully receive the stronger signal of the two as long as there's enough of a difference in signal strength.

The cards with Realtek chipsets on the other hand, are only able to receive the stronger of the two frames if the stronger frame started being transmitted first.

It's as if Intel's receiver is always looking for frame preambles even when a valid preamble has been heard and the radio is in the middle of receiving a frame. The other receivers stop looking for preambles while in the middle of receiving a frame.

If you live in an urban environment and have wifi problems, you'll likely have an observable improvement if you upgrade.

I don't know how well Qualcomm and Broadcom chipsets perform, but I wouldn't be surprised if at least Qualcomm works as well as Intel.
Varargs methods in Java was one that bit me with an overload in the past (my tale of is told in more detail at http://the-whiteboard.github.io/java/debugging/warstory/2016... )

The issue was that there was a framework class with the method signature of execute(Object ... inParams). The class had overloaded the method signature to be execute(String foo, String bar). If you called it with two args, it got the overloaded call and there were a half dozen calls to this method.

At some point, someone added another argument to this so that it was execute(String foo, String bar, String qux) and updated the half dozen less one methods to use the third parameter.

However, the two args call in some other code still compiled correctly because it now went back to calling execute(Object ... inParams). Though, the parameters were completely wrong for that call structure and the application suddenly sprouted runtime errors.
I personally learned by paying attention. And seeing others get scammed.