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> lived through the SCO suit

I understand what you mean, I was there in 2003 as well.

However, the youngest among us have also "lived through the SCO suit". The "final" SCO suits were only settled in November 2021 and in fact, the group which inherited SCO Linux has filed brand new suits in 2021 as well[0].

Note that SCO went bankrupt a decade before their lawsuits were wrapped up. The legal action was ongoing for 19 years. Something to remember when there's a potential you may have to fight someone with deep pockets, regardless if you're in the right. Even bankrupting your attacker may not spell the beginning of the end for your legal troubles.

0: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/04/xinuos-finishes-pick...
It's only a hypothesis and all cognitive impairment is not uniform.
I think this may be a bit too many instructions (I did not see hardware accelerated memcpy/memset though). I guess I would use only a small subset of them. Since RISC-V is a royalty free standard, writting directly assembly is worth it, until the abuse of a macro processor and code generation is avoided.

I want to share you optimism, but I advise you to keep your cool. There is a long road to reach the performance of x86/arm microarchitectures (it is harder for risc-v since the "market is over saturated"). And those performant implementations must get access to the best silicium node process... and that...
"Radiologists, because they have a grounded brain model, only need to see a single example of a rare and obscure condition to both remember it and identify it in the future."

This would actually be a long term reason to go for AI / database diagnosis.

I had a personal case where a close family member, a young child, almost died. The doctors didn't understand condition and last minute it suddenly calmed down.

Im sure a few doctor's in the world seen it before, but they weren't working in my hospital that week. If we can start sharing in-depth diagnosis worldwide of obscure cases using AI to make it easy to query that would probably be of great benefit.
probably not, but by that point it just comes down to protein source, of which pulses and fungi are arguably better alternatives to meat

it matters because of the long term effects on health and ecology
> If we drop the "unique identifier" aspect of a key, and we can distinguish between different objects that share the same value according to one key by using a different key, then anything can be a key.

And the point the article is making, and that I was trying to emphasize further in my top-level comment, is that there are no perfectly unique identifiers. There are no UIDs in nature. UIDs do exist in human-designed systems, but they are only as good as the actual implementation of the system is, including its evolution over time.

Your own surrogate keys are the most reliable UIDs, because while you can still screw those up, it's in your power to avoid the mistake, and it's also in your power to fix any problem. Once you start using as keys "UIDs" that aren't owned by you, you lose both the ability to prevent bugs and to fix them.

For example, if you're making a library system and use a surrogate ID as a key, duplicates may happen - but they're always indicative of someone screwing up data entry, and can be trivially corrected by assigning a new ID for the entry. If you're using ISBN, or EAN-13, or some unholy hash of author/title/publication year, you're going to get a lot of corner cases, and you won't be able to fix them (you can't exactly change the barcode on everyone's copy of a printed book, just to undo the problems caused by the publisher playing funny games with SKUs).

> People say "natural key" when they're talking about a unique identifier (that's the "key" part) that is part of the domain model of an object (the "natural" part.)

Yes; under this phrasing, the point of TFA/my top comment is, your "natural key" is going to be only as good as your domain model of an object is - which, in practice, means it's going to be bad, because if your model defines some property correlated with real world to be unique, it's already broken.

Ultimately, the point is: there are no truly unique keys in the real world. Best you can do is to chose a key that's least likely to be duplicated in data. Perhaps so unlikely that, in non-critical systems, you can get away pretending it's unique.
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So essentially, constructing an LLM that really really really really really knows the difference between the SYSTEM and the USER part of the instructions.

How is that different from, and why would it work any better, than prompt-begging, where people just write extensive system prompts, telling the model what it can and should do and then spending entire paragraphs pleading with the model to not do the wrong thing?

https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/26/simon_willison_prompt...

A third mitigation strategy, he said, involves just begging the model not to deviate from its system instructions. "I find those very amusing," he said, "when you see these examples of these prompts, where it's like one sentence of what it's actually supposed to do, and then paragraphs pleading with the model not to allow the user to do anything else."

I see no difference between that, and baking it into the model. In the end, I'd still have to trust the LLM to do what I intend for it to do, based on the sequences it sees, and the user still controls part of that sequence. There is no guarantee that there isn't a sequence that would allow the user-prompt to break out of the invisible metatags. In fact, one could employ an AI to find just such a sequence.

Maybe the system works better than prompt-begging, but show of hands, who would willingly implement a backend system that prevents 99.99% of SQL injection attacks?
BAR (and BA, Zero-K...) have about as much micro than SC1/2 though, it's SupCom1 that is really the outlier here...
Indeed, that was actually my inkling rather than the infrastructure cost angle. Though it doesn't make sense that it would be blanket applied, rather than being part of channel configuration for those creators who care about it.
I noticed you import mplcursors but don't use it, I guess it was accidentally left in, it looks like quite a handy module.
90+% (IIRC) of slaughtered animals in US are from CAFOs.

Any kind of slaughter is inhumane when there's no NEED to eat meat. The clean process you may have seen in TV is different from reality (see recent CO2 chambers relevations [0]).

Taking away mother's young and taking milk mother produces for her (him is killed usually immediatelly) is inhumane. [1]

Etc.

I've seen Dr Temple Grandin's "Glass Walls" ... she is not the right person for the job of representing "humane animal treatment." Yes, she says what you want to hear. But not the right person for the animals.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVebmHMZ4bQ

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcN7SGGoCNI
I've played craps in las vegas, at a minimum:

1. you're required to throw the dice all the way to the end of the table so that they bounce back before coming to a stop ( this is to prevent sliding ) -- the ends of the table have what's called a "randomizer" to bounce the dice in a random way ( see: https://depositphotos.com/74686689/stock-photo-pair-of-dice-... )

2. the stickman or table boss can and will invalidate a throw if you don't do the above ( although in practice, I've only ever been "warned" to do it as above when my throw didn't quite make it all the way to the end of the table )
Yawn. The computers were supposed to put us out of work. Then it was the internet. Now its AI. And despite all that the number of people employed keeps increasing and find new ways to thrive with technology.
In this context, not the best term, due to it also being a shorthand for Ultralisks ! :p
I think interaction nets [0] is actually a simpler model and can simulate Turing Machine efficiently. I wish courses in Computability/Complexity theory would be taught in interaction nets instead of Turing Machines as the program written would be so much nicer and compose easily. It also has real-life uses in compiling functional languages. [1]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interaction_nets
[1]: https://github.com/HigherOrderCO/HVM
>If you treat the cells as if they are centered on coordinates, the problem is resolved. (-2,0) is 2 to the left, and (2,0) is 2 to the right of the origin.

The article's screenshot already shows the cells "centered on the coordinates": https://www.quadratichq.com/assets/blog/2023-05-15-coordinat...

The issue is the row-0-column-0-cells are themselves also "containers" and making those cells "inclusive" of either the positive or negative range of cells will make it asymmetric.
Why don't you, isn't that a recommendation where you come from? I also don't know anyone who doesn't brush twice daily (I'm from Nordics).
This is a big problem with feedback systems. Sure - the fact that the book was published 'late' materially affected their enjoyment, but for ... maybe 99% of people reading the review in the future that's not useful feedback. e.g. If a book I want to read was published four years late in 1984 rather than 1980 - why would I care?

Its so frustrating when one reads a review on Amazon or similar and the review is nothing to do with the product, but rather the circumstances - 'fast delivery', 'great seller', 'well packaged', etc. rather than reviewing the actual product.

There is a part of me which feels we could do better by having a slightly longer feedback system - first question 'what would you like the review: the product, the delivery, the seller', and the second actually asking for the review, but I suspect this wouldn't actually help.
I'll be blunt: you're a fool if you believe they've changed. EEE is still in their blood and always will be.

Small example, I have to use Outlook at work and it's quite noticeable that they've broken RFC 3986 ("Using <> angle brackets around each URI is especially recommended as a delimiting style for a reference that contains embedded whitespace")

More to the point especially in my job, they very noticeably broken the SQL standard, and keep doing things to make my professional life harder.

You are really, really naïve if you think they've changed.
Absolutely rock solid. For a month.

How many are you running?
Or just people who read manuals. (-:

* https://manpages.debian.org/sid/nmap/nmap.1.en.html#NMAP_SCR...
If anyone from gitpod is reading please

- stop sending me emails that your 'workspace' is going to be deleted spam emails constantly.

- I have disabled all notifications but still get constant emails telling of new plans etc.

- Dark or grey patterns: The unsubscribe is 'written' in smallest font size, and grey - impossible to click.

Please Stop
You seem to be describing a committed relationship?

For me the significant markers of committed relationships were first moving in together, then perhaps buying a home together (in those places where that was still affordable), and then for those that wanted them and by far the most important having children together.

Many of my friends and family have gotten married along the way too but it never felt like a big deal because by the point they got married they'd already been together for several years. It was a nice opportunity for a celebration! But having children together seems the far greater commitment. Marriages may end but even if you split up you'll still be parents together.

I grew up in a far less religious society than the US so maybe this just reflects a different cultural background. The US has always been more religious than Europe while also having far higher rates of teen births and children living in single parent households. But US rates of religious identification and teen births have both been falling rapidly over the past couple of decades.
>> This January, Birnbaum issued a scathing legal declaration as part of the lawsuit, writing, "The decision to set aside the results of an external peer review process based on concerns expressed by agencies with strong policy interests on fluoride suggests the presence of political interference in what should be a strictly scientific endeavor."

with

>> Despite this unusually rigorous review process, a network of health officials and influential dental groups argued that the NTP had failed to address several issues raised by the NASEM review committee.

Health officials and dental groups have interest on fluoridation for political reasons? I don't buy it!

I would imagine a self interst focused dental and profeccional helthcare group would argue for the decrease of fluoridation so more income comes from the work on decayed teeth. If it is meant of interest of their patients then that is just desirable! Also health officials and dentists are not the typical polititian group I picture in my mind. I'd sooner call them scientists than politicians. (if meant about scientific politics then should say so - including themselves and that why they push despite widespread scientific critics).

I am telling this with having only topical use of fluoride - with good results -, and with no desire for water fluoridation but also knowing that topical may not be sufficient enough for children and the broad population.

Somehow the feeling is that the NTP and Birnbaum is the manipulative and polititian here. Just a felling though, based on this limited and filtered report, but based on quotes.
And if they’re scraping using “serverless” compute? It’s distributed, but could be used without “meaning” to attack. That seems to be what happened to Archive (they said AWS, could be ECS or Lambda, idk).

FWIW this thread inspired me to implement Cloudflare Turnstile on one of my pages - highly recommend. As compared to reCAPTCHA your users are never wasting their life away clicking on traffic signs, and as compared to mCaptcha you don’t have to host the server yourself.
And sometimes you get a book full of games in a programming language a kid can understand and make a lifetime career out of it.
I'm married (with kids and not renting) and don't have a joint bank account and it's not anything like that complicated. We worked out a set amount per month that gets transferred from my account to hers based on the main bills (mortgage, etc) coming out of my account as the higher earner. We review that occasionally based on total spending and income. The rest more or less works itself out.
In this specific instance, there was a vote to have this keynote. Then somebody seems to have circumvented this process to get the keynote downgraded (leading to the OP resigning, as they had been behind the initial vote!)

There was somebody who circumvented the intended governance structures to make this happen, and this is probably where the frustration and this blog post come from.
Clever code considered harmful
I'd never heard of that before, interesting, thanks; Rich people speak a foreign language ...
Last time I got a quotation it was more than 10k USD per seat per unit time (1 year or 2 years, not sure).

I don't think they do perpetual licenses (anymore?).

TLDR: it's worse than 10k perpetual :p
That study is for children. Oral health problems take years to surface and looking at adults would be a better way to measure these things.

Having lived in both the US and France, I can say that it’s been my experience that Americans have “nicer” looking teeth. Whether that translates into anything medically relevant is apparently really difficult to prove.
Hard disagree:

I understand it's maybe a bit of an uphill battle to support a software stack that the OS/hardware vendor itself doesn't support, but:

1. telegram/whatsapp do, so it's definitely possible.

2. The point is not to add new features, but just to leave the current version be without deprecating it.
There is probably a bit of a development burden in keeping old versions up, but I don't think it's that big: they could even let the community take care of that…

3. But most importantly, "the iphone 6 had a good run", so the natural continuation to that sentence is "so let's discard all those working devices" ? wtf?
I think that from a company that defends "public interests", some more thought should be given to not wasting energy, time and money forcing people to upgrade working smartphones…
> I’d spent decades living only for myself, doing what I wanted to do when I wanted to do it

Interestingly, this is why I broke up with a fairly long term partner. I just wanted to do what I want when I wanted to do it. We didn't have any kids, so that was easy. But I lost a bunch of money from our shared house/possessions, I just let them have almost everything because I didn't care too much.

Maybe I did it in the wrong order, and if I spent decades doing what I wanted first, things would have been different. But right now, the ability to do what I want when I want is awesome and I couldn't be happier.
It all depends on the stability of where your workstation is in terms of internet. Latency is the killer depending where you are from.

I'm use to 260-280ms latency, which is a lot better than it use to be.

Perth, Australia. Glad they finally have decent international cables. And fibrr drastically improved latency.
i am in awe how emacs is able to reinvent itself again and again, (along with vim/neovim)..
cousins at best!
Despite his claim in the article, Bryan Caplan is absolutely not known for giving tough exams that test for deep understanding. He's known for the opposite.

The fact that GPT-4 can pass his tests says much more about the tests than about the capabilities of GPT-4. Indeed, GPT-4 failed Steven E. Landsburg's exam with a miserable score of 4/90, and the remarkable performance oon Caplan's exam fails to replicate on random economics exams of random universities.

(NB this post does not mean that ChatGPT cannot improve, or that it's not impressive as is. It serves to put Caplan's self-aggrandizement in context.)
I wouldn't be surprised if this article got posted because of the video "Why doesn't a 75 Ohm cable measure 75 Ohms?" [0] which the recommendation algorithm has picked up some days ago.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-8CaGOmWDU
Oh wow, this opens up a whole new set of pandemic control options like smear or droplet vaccination. Simply apply the vaccine onto surfaces or into air conditioner in public transportation for example.
I hope they will not stop us for doing this
Likely the gain will be close to zero for Node
Also that little monochrome handheld device with the crank, playdate, is all Lua.

Lucas Pope is developing for the platform now
https://dukope.itch.io/mars-after-midnight
I searched for the name and found it, seems like they ship you a test kit, then ID the microbes in your mouth and make recommendations based on that.

I noticed L. ruteri in some screenshots which I already know from other probiotic uses.
Was the model allowed to use chain of thought and so on when it was evaluated?
There’s a lot of surface area to cover. In my opinion, the main thing that holds Lua back from wider adoption is the thing that makes it useful for its niche case. That is, the runtime and standard library are extremely small, making it easy and lightweight to embed in programs across a variety of platforms. However, that minimalist runtime and standard library also mean that it’s hard to deliver Lua libraries and frameworks without requiring native code extensions (e.g. any kind of networking and serious file system interactions) would require platform-specific extensions. Additionally, because Lua is so simple (for example there is no built-in concept of classes), the way to write code in Lua is quite open-ended. Many Lua users use their own or one of many prebuilt class systems. Using code from someone’s library might mean pulling in its custom class system and interacting with it as well. Custom class systems can be somewhat magical and involve metatable and suddenly things aren’t very simple anymore. Lua is also just a bit odd to use with one based indices, tables being kinda-sorta arrays if you use them in just the right way, needing to use pairs vs. ipairs in loops, variables being global by default if you forget to type “local” (unless you use Lua strict, and also all the libraries you want to use are compatible).
> don't believe in rating systems, so I just give 5 stars to every book I finish.

So you are sabotaging the system not just not believing in it
This explanation is so obvious that I consider any study or chart that doesn't scream this at the reader in big red letters to be nothing short of propaganda.

The conclusion those "researchers" would like to draw is that the world is better than "the people" think, when the far more plausible interpretation is that the world is so horribly bad that people are scared to even talk about how they feel.
Probably in next next x13s
Then that means those platforms are insecure and should not be used, or authentication moved to another layer that does not suffer from those limitations. My rule of thumb is that if authentication does not consistently require at least 1 second, passwords are probably stored insecurely. Fortunately password managers with unique generated passwords limit the blast radius.
Don't forget Volkov Commander (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkov_Commander). It was convenient for bootable floppies because of its small size and self-contained design.

Far 2 has a Linux (as well as macOS and BSD) port that is quite active: https://github.com/elfmz/far2l. Far Manager was what I switched to from Norton Commander. These days I prefer Double Commander, a cross-platform Total Commander workalike: https://doublecmd.sourceforge.io/.
I think an important insight about any sort of mass communication is that there isn't a reaction to what you put out there, but a spectrum of reactions.

You tell the best joke in the world and out of 100 people, fifty will laugh, thirty will smile, fifteen will not get it at all, and five will be raging mad and posting on twitter about how you should be tried for crimes against humanity for some perceived insult. It's very easy to only focus on the last group.
Yes. People like Iain M Banks and other scifi makes a good sales pitch. But what about the opportunity to live a natural life, attempting to find the full expression as God (whatever that is) created us? And do you really feel comfortable giving a tech company access to your mind?
Here's my semi-educated guess based on observing the rate of progress in this field over the last years:

I think there is still improvement to be made in base models. The amount of progress between GPT-2 and GPT-4 in just 4 years is astonishing so I would be surprised if GPT-4 is the limit of what we can do with this technology. I expect at least one more major version that will significantly outperform GPT-4. After that I think the major focus will be making these models more performant, expanding the context window, making them less resource-hungry, adding multimodality and composing them into larger architectures using techniques similar to Chain of Thought - building fully fledged general-purpose agents. These agents will be able to outperform humans at most of the tasks we throw at them.

If I were to guess I'd say this will happen by the end of this decade.
Both Confucius and Aristotle discussed the stages of a man's life. Moral philosophy hasn't strayed too far from these two guys.