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This is why you can’t rely on GPT entirely for coding, or at all. Imagine you were a company that abandoned all hiring of software engineers and instead used prompt engineers to develop code, then one day the AI just becomes incompetent and quality of output deteriorates. Your prompt engineers no longer can get the AI to fix things or develop new code. Your entire company is snuffed out, overnight. You might try to hire true software engineers rapidly, but they’ve become very expensive and hard to hire. Too much demand too little supply.

You’re screwed, the AI was your most important tool and it’s broken and there’s nothing you can do about it, it’s a black box, you don’t control it.
The network topology of TPUv4 is far far inferior though. It's a torus. No switches.
> I have done mostly contract work since then, but I am wondering if it is common to put your actual job content into your hiring documents to make sure people don't do performance reviews about unrelated tasks?

Honestly for contract work (and usually also full-time employees), the best thing you can do is focus on all the people who are responsible for your performance review and make them happy, make their initiatives look good, and get along with them so that they like you. Sometimes this means doing completely different work than you thought you were hired to do. Or doing all that in addition to what you were hired for.

The absolute worst case for a contractor is that you're "hired to fail" where there's a project with a 90% chance of failing so they bring in a contractor/team who either miraculously save it, or you're blamed for the expected failure. However, even here, if you show competence and make friends with the people who will stab you in the back in the short term, you may also find that some of them call for your services again in the future -- because you did "the job you were hired to do" and made it easy for them, made them look good, and were enjoyable to be around.

The written "rules" of the performance review don't matter, at least in the USA (maybe different in other countries). Performance reviews basically boil down to "how much do I like working with this person?" which definitely includes competence (people mildly dislike working with incompetent people), but also includes things like "makes my day happier" or "great conversation over beers / at the sports game".

I'm mid 30's and have worked a few contracting gigs but never really made it work out (usually it coincided with life being a little too chaotic at the time for me to fully focus on my client). So hopefully some others with more experience will chime in. But there's a lot written on this topic on HN, you can find a lot of experienced views from all sides of the table with a bit of searching!
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So if nobody is "getting ahead of competitors", does it mean that "capitalism is not functioning"? (which was the point of the comment to which the reply was)
If you're struggling to get prometheus, nginx, postgres and other battle-tested tooling working in k8s, you're probably also not doing it well in docker-compose, on bare metal or anywhere else because it's the same darn software with the same damn options. No matter what you choose you're going to be creating system services to manage the life cycle of an application and exposing a port or ip address - there is no escape
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That's a bit ahistorical. JS was Netscape's scripting language and was supported in both their browser and server. The name change only happened because Java had arrived on the scene and Netscape cut a deal with Sun so JS would not be seen as a direct competitor to Java, the "real" programming language for browser applications. That it was pretty much rushed out the door was more of a product of the times it was born into, namely the browser wars between Netscape and Microsoft.

Microsoft tried to push VBScript as a competitor to JavaScript and ended up copying JavaScript's implementation as JScript. Netscape desperately tried to standardize JavaScript to give it legitimacy (which is how we ended up with ECMAScript, due to the trademark limitations and ECMA being the only standards body that didn't require a lengthy application process).

If you think JavaScript's history is bad, don't look too closely at HTML, a language designed so academics could share information with each other. The Semantic Web pretty much died when search engines became a thing. There's entire offshoots to XHTML that make ES4 look like a success story.

EDIT: It's worth remembering not only what the world looked like that JS was born into but also how the entire Internet evolved since then. Due to JavaScript's unique position, it is heavily invested in backwards compatibility. Except for a number of security-related breaking changes and removals of experimental APIs that never caught on, code written in the early days will still run in modern browsers because it has to. This puts a lot of constraints on its design process and evolution and yet we still see the language undergo massive changes over the past years.
What do you mean by "reliable" wrt mechanical timers? I'm pretty sure the clothing dryer is a harsh environment for such a component (moisture and heat can easily cause corrosion and mechanical stress). Also, I guess timing gets less accurate over time. If there are rubbers preventing moisture from entering and oil from leaving, those rubbers will wear out.
No, OpenAI 100% pushed an update recently that is very noticeable where they basically "nerfed" the responses. I'm sure it was a business decision (either costing them too much to give away the kitchen sink for free or they want to turn around and charge more for the "really good, old" version of GPT-4 ) but you can visually see where the bot used to try to answer complex tasks, now it has an extra layer where it says "that is too complex to discuss here" (aka it is being trained to not engage by default, whereas that used to not be the case)
> Rarbg was a margin note in torrent community

It was the 4th largest according to TorrentFreak: https://torrentfreak.com/top-torrent-sites/
Seems more of a generic authorization proxy rather than anything frontend related. Useful but "front-end only" doesn't seem to to accurate
Discussed in recent article as well.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/30/block-partys-anti-harassme...
while this is technically correct, difference is that your product won't survive without openai at this point. If you need the model quality openai provides you are stuck and your product can just disappear. Because llm is core building block, irreplaceable one.
> But how often are non-compete clauses really meant to protect IP?

I would venture never. Or nearly never. A noncompete is a terrible way to protect IP.
When you submit a query with Phind, it will tell you which model it's using right underneath the query. At least it used to occasionally say that it's using GPT-4 by annotating it with (IIRC) "best model", but now I can only get it to reply with what it calls "Phind model". I don't know what that means or how it relates to GPT-3/4. Presumably they haven't created their own competitive language model from scratch without telling anyone, but who knows.

Though even when it was easier to get it to use GPT-4 it wasn't consistent, and would only use it when it inferred that the query was complex/technical enough.
I thought it was a joke the first time someone said not to stand around too long at a furry con or you would be drafted into staff.
I have seen in more than one remote first org handbook instructions to wipe your corp devices prior to border transit, and restore upon arriving at your destination.
Many cars have a switch on the lights to redirect the beam for exactly this reason.
Thanks, I'll look into it.

To be clear, I'm making the association of an image is to a phrase as a pixel is to a character. In your example the letter 'z' would jitter between random unicode characters. Not sure how to deal with the problem of "the letter is close to right but not quite". That's just fine for images which don't always have to be perfect, but if you misspell "hello" as "heoko" then it is incredibly noticeable.

With the image generators, they are able to take a relatively small text prompt and create an image that is many bytes larger than the input. My idea would follow the same structure, in that for a small text prompt, the LLM would generate a large amount of random noise that would be resolved into something resembling the input prompt. I think some form of RLHF would be needed to make it easier to use and be more useful, but beyond a single `prompt:response` format I don't know how I could turn it into something resembling modern chat bots.
Wow. DeFi? Be your own bank? Ordinals? No dear, we are here to hate and give our opinion on something we don't understand!
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If your question is about the air: It does! The blood carries a ton of cells that can pick up air components. Red blood cells (more specifically, their hemoglobin) bind to the O2 and CO2. Your vessels also feed into your body's plasma, which can act as a circulating reservoir for yet-to-be-collected CO2.

The major component in atmospheric air, nitrogen (N2), is already abundant in the blood too, so it isn't an issue. If I remember correctly, our bodies are generally in equilibrium with the outside air in terms of N2 partial pressure.

Admittedly, a small air bubble in the blood bypasses a lot of the specialized membranes our alveoli use to make their gas exchange, but blood itself can manage a bit of air just fine.

If you're asking about the nanorobot, however: The article says it's not yet biodegradable to the degree they want to make it.
It can be rather good for your career if you manage to write/run/maintain a reasonably major open source project. So for some it's basically an investment.
>watched every previous supposed threat to my career fade away after the hype cycle.

Same.

Some threats I've seen:

Offshore development – in the early 2000's it was all anyone could talk about. The American software developer was dead, there was no reason not to hire someone for pennies on the other side of the world. This mostly resulted in middle management expecting me to manage the offshore developers until they realized they were just dumping money into consulting management firms. No one talks about this anymore, yet the economics and tools are even more advantageous to offshoring.

No Code – Worse than offshoring. Some byzantine framework that will handle everything. You just end up debugging the framework. When management goes this direction, I just move on.

>I will still type code in some 20+ year old language for a living.

So true. Even Swift and Rust which are relatively brand new languages are both 8 years old. A developer going to college today will see these as mature languages by the time they enter the workforce.
Nit: Make sure you check all screen widths - on my iPad 11in, there’s zero margins on the left and right, which looks a bit strange. (Still usable, but if you’re aiming for UX positions I’d expect better)
It's a very common comment made here. If someone is already familiar with the topic of an article, it means that apparently the article is useless, because its content should already be obvious to everyone.
So like, would that not suggest that Google has a moat with AI, as it is already intertwined with our email, calendars, etc... (if they ever make their AI public)
With the Internet, the media has diversified incredibly, including to non-professional information (for good or ill). I don't think media consolidation is an issue anymore.

I was asking a different question; my fault for not being clear: My question was about the reactionary movement - what is it, how is it defined, what is its name (I use the term 'reactionary', but there is no name for it).
Wow. Between Mullvad removing port forwarding 2 days ago ago [1] and now this, easy safe fast torrenting just got a bit harder. Talk about a one-two punch.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36113215
You are possibly the kind of wifi channel hogging neighbor I just love, with your unnecessary extra wifi radiation.
It's pretty weird to claim that providing articles with the information that supports the points I'm making is an agenda. The problem with the claims in the articles you linked make is that they're at odds with the reality we're currently observing. There has been no evidence that Russia's war in Ukraine has been negatively impacted by the sanctions, and the predictions we hear every month that Russia is going to run out of weapons are not coming true either. Meanwhile, economy in Russia appears to be doing just fine because the void that western companies left is being filled by companies from China and India.

The whole premise of your argument seems to be based on the notion that countries can't have an economy that's independent from the west. This is an absurd idea given that the west accounts for only 20% of world's population. Majority of the world sharply disagrees with the west as studies commissioned by EU and US clearly show:

https://ecfr.eu/publication/united-west-divided-from-the-res...

https://usrussiaaccord.org/acura-viewpoint-krishen-mehta-the...

And here's how NYT puts it:

> A year on, it’s becoming clearer: While the West’s core coalition remains remarkably solid, it never convinced the rest of the world to isolate Russia.

https://archive.is/2023.02.23-211202/https://www.nytimes.com...

What ultimately matters is the relative damage the sanctions are causing to Russia and Europe. There is clear evidence that there has been sever economic impact on Europe as a result of the sanctions, and there is no evidence that there's a greater crisis in Russia than in Europe right now. It's also important to note that Russia has already made it through two major crises in the 90s and in 2014 while Europe has not experienced anything similar in recent history. What remains to be seen is whether Europe or Russia will be able to handle the decoupling better.
I'm a little surprised this was published. It is hard to sound charitable when writing something like this but it was such a trivial, obvious fault (moving an email system and then SPF starts failing) that normally things like this are embarrassingly swept under the rug. Generally that is probably the best path.

While I appreciate the transparency and it's a great write-up, at the same time somehow I leave the post with a worse opinion of 37signals.
Isn't that the point of those laws? It isn't royalty, politicians, or the wealthy drive around in 23 year old clunkers that can barely pass a road safety test. No one passes law like this and announces "The Queen of England herself will now have to replace her 1993 Toyota Corolla!"
JMAP really solves many problems and allows you to do many things that are just not possible with IMAP. Also, IMAP has many ways to (badly) perform the same task, not all supported by all servers or all clients. MIME parsing is not easy to do and there is not always quality libraries available for your language... JMAP solves all of this.
You get what you incentivize. We incentivize papers so we get papers.

Also anything used as a metric tends to cease to be a good metric.
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It's still taxing an income. The income is the difference between the markets debt price and the mortgage holders debt price. This difference is artificial and is only possible because of the feds money printer.
It's likely that this is the result of training it to avoid bullshitting. It gave confident garbage, and they're trying to stem the flow. This likely leads to less certain responses in complex tasks.
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If they are supplying waste disposal why are they selling the waste? And why are they paying to receive it?

But that is fine.

If the government of Ghana wants to ban or regulate this process they should. That is not the EU's issue. As it is, they seem happy with the current setup.
Sound is horrendous, impossible to follow.
Could somebody point to a decent Transformers introduction?
Less than a handful of years ago some kid died doing that around here.
The upside from this downside is that it increases the performance of papers that can be replicated easily. In fact, once AI can replicate papers, that'll be helpful for verifying a lot of research.
When I was a teen I would tip the driver whatever the change would be to the cash I had on hand. These would be trips between LAX and West Hollywood. Cost like 25-30 bucks? I don't remember.

The only cab I saw that took cards had a thing that would slide across the front and get an impression of the text embossed on the card. I guess that wouldn't work today since cards aren't embossed anymore
Hats off to the Blender team, from a piece of software so obtuse the right mouse button was the select button they really just sat down a few years ago, started addressing new user complaints instead of attacking them like a lot of open source projects do. Started seriously innovating, fixing the interface and pushing things forward and now it's truly paid off they're a major competitor and the next generation is all learning on Blender.

Imagine a world if GIMP and other open source creative tools had acted this way instead of the status quo of "Patches welcome" and "NOFIX", the attitude in the 21 year old "Adjustment Layer" feature request comes to mind...
GPT is not a reality simulator. It is just picking the most likely response to an ambiguous question. All you're saying is that the distribution produced by the randomness in GPT doesn't match the true distribution. It's never going to for every single question you could possibly pose.
Erm... No it isn't.

Have you ever written bitonic sort? It's not an easy algorithm to do quickly.

This seems to have implemented bitonic sort in just a few short primitives you can look up at https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/intrinsics-guid...

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How would you write a fixed 16 element bitonic sort? In Python or whatever?

I dunno, the recursive template seems brilliant to me. Bitonic sort is innately a recursive process, but here we get compile time recursion and optimal assembly code at the end...
You are correct (As this is a generic component), but kinda missing the point ;)
In the backend - you don't need this - there are already solutions you can consume for authorization (OPA, AWS Cedar, Permit.io, ...)

But in the frontend there is nothing you can use, that's what FoAz aims to solve - shift security left to the frontend, reducing dependency on backend engineering.
>Buyer beware, however, because the license is custom and has restrictions for "attributable revenues" over $1M/year.

It's more than that, it requires permission in advance and royalty payments (art. 8). See also attribution requirements in art. 5. Arguably, any license could be waived - it should be possible to write to Meta for permission as well, so it's not in a much better state than Llama itself for commercial use.
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You can fine tune a open source model for your task and achieve better results, at least, instead of just using them directly. But they are still not close to the openai models in generality. Huggingface is the place for exploring models, recently went through a lot of them for my use case, and they are simply not good enough, yet.
This makes me think someone could "pull a Google" with LLMs though. I mean we all know the original pitch for Google, right?

There were search engines. Plenty. And indexes. And ... That wasn't it.

Every site had search. That also wasn't it.

The problem was that these things were incredibly low quality versions. Exactly what you're complaining about now with chatbot interfaces. In fact that these were such low quality is what made Google such an incredible opportunity: centralization came almost built in. They never needed to fight books.com: their search sucked. Even now finding a book using Google's interface works better than all search on the internet, except perhaps Amazon. And Amazon's "shittifying" it's search engine too now ...

Google was also never "the best". It was simply consistent quality that worked everywhere. And because all other search engines were pretty far along in their enshittification cycle, with MBA's unwilling to go back, nobody even made a serious attempt at fighting them. Except, perhaps, and very late to the party, Microsoft.

Google was better, but not incredibly better (and it's been going downhill for like 5 years now). It makes me think that if you could make something that would advise 10% of the world population on how to boil eggs, that would be incredible.
I thougt AI was unethical and stealing artists' work
Exactly this. The magic has worn off, and simultaneously, we're coming to terms with the reality that no model can exist in isolation. So changes made, like getting it to not create false rumors about people, affect the rest of the system.
Here's an account of a person in Africa that helped train (wading thru gnarly explicit content in the process): https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/he-helped-train-chatgpt-it-t...
Not nearly as sharply as people claim, what's happening in practice is that Europe is just buying repackaged Russian fossil fuels through resellers. I find it amazing that people can't understand that you can't just make huge volumes of oil and gas appear out of thin air. Europe would have to drastically change its whole energy infrastructure to become actually independent of Russian energy. This will be a decades long project of creating alternative energy production.
The problem is the people doing this. The AI doesn't have agency, it's just an autocomplete tool.
This is naïve though. Regulation — especially such as this — has to be enforced and there is obviously room to over and under interpret the text of the law on a whim, or varying fines. OAI knows this and looking at the EU lately, what they’re doing is wise.
Luckily the exact science is an adding operation, ifi the sensors behave in a linear way, that is.
Some Hobbyists still want to push the envelope.

Think the artist equivalent of the guy building a AI controlled sentry gun for shooting squirrels with water.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPgqfnKG_T4
Which topics are those? It doesn't take many downvotes/flags to kill a post here but for most issues there isn't a single hive mind and the result really depends on the thread and also time.
I thought the power benefits of shrinking still hold up rather well, in contrast to cost. E.g. new Nvidia gaming cards have smaller GPUs for the same price as the respective old generation, meaning the cost per chip area doesn't stay constant for improved manufacturing nodes. So the price per transistor shrinks slower than the number of transistors per chip area grows. At some point in the future the price per transistor would go up rather than decrease. Then the value of shrinking structures could stem, at best, from lower power draw per transistor. For mobile devices. But even power draw per transistor may stop decreasing at some point. Then further shrinking the process nodes would be useless.