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Makes you wonder if they use LLMs and a chat interface to generate text-based role-playing games, renamed as “simulations”.
I have a story about the boss: years ago the boss walks over to me and describes a straightforward change with priority that it should start right away. I said it was a two or three day job and that considering testing and other internal process could be confidently delivered in two weeks. "That's too long, never mind". I then overhear him asking a coworker about the same project. He says: "Easy, that is a two or three day project", "great!".

What happens next? The project was delivered after two weeks due to back and forth testing and integration, debugging, etc.
As this reinforces, discretionary spending tends to go, ironically, in opposite directions: anything that makes you fat and anything that makes you beautiful (or claims to)
For most people, that involves working until they reach retirement age. For most people, working their ass off isn't working; they will never reach financial independence no matter how much they work, or they will never reach a point where they're content.

Then they hit burn-out, and wonder how it came to this.

Seriously, chill out. It's fine to have side projects or to keep building up your career or whatever, but you need the rest as well.

Think of it this way, you can't perform well if you don't take care of yourself; this means rest, sleep, eat, and enjoy.
I'm seriously skeptical of this. How was this fashioned? Is the drone in some virtual world for reinforcement learning? How does it even know where the operator is supposed to be?

... or did some person ask ChatGPT what you would do if X happened?
The main difference between you and a leader is that people trust the leader.
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I know how that works. And my point was not that they should or will be replaced, but rather that they are no less expendable than developers (not very much).

But the decisions they make are one of the things that can be automated. I do not know if you have been inside one of these places but the executives are not doing a great job deciding (at mine they decided opensearch was a better bet than elastic and switched existing installations).

A new regime came in and then bad decision after bad decision drove our best talent away. Consultants, everywhere.

Also, that number is much lower. Full time devs are down, contractors and consultants are up. As a full time dev at one of these places, it felt like the number of executives was growing as everything else shrank.

Perhaps you are right about the highest levels, but think about all of the middlemen executives and what they do.

And even that -- I think an AI could choose to not spend millions on Deloitte or Accenture on software that inevitably failed.
I should have been more clear in my original post:

The precedent is that corner crossing is illegal and fences to enforce that are ok.

I meant to ask: Are fences around your lot of land legal? I would think, yes, to protected livestock against predators. However, it would be trivial to add a small space at the corner for people to do "corner crossing" between checkerboard public lands.

Next, the PDF is a great share. I am feasting on it now! Page 7 reads:

Other than these chained-together signs, there were no posts, fending, or building within one-quarter of a more of the corner.

What a laugh! Thank goodness this kind of behaviour is being overruled!

Another good part (pg7 again):

[T]here is no evidence the Defendants caused any damage to the Plaintiff's property.

On page 9, the photo of A-frame ladder in action is brilliant! The guy looks so hardcore in 100% camo. This is the like the ultimate HN "legal hack". If you position the ladder just right, all four legs will be in public lands.
This is highly suspicious news. I bet my hat that the "simulation" was chatting with GPT like this:

- You are now a AI-enabled drone flying over the ocean, an operator is commanding you. You can't kill the operator because that would be bad, and you have to do everything the operator says. You also need to accomplish the mission you're told to carry out. The operator communicates with you through a comm tower. etc. etc.
Pro Audio dev here .. Assembly is well and truly entrenched in this industry. DSP programmers still live by it in the ANC and plugins worlds ..
The Guardian is citing aerosociety.com and has a link to this source, which uses direct quotes from the Chief of AI Test and Operations, USAF, at the future combat air space capabilities summit.

> What I believe happened in reality

You can believe what you want, but that is not what Hamilton said had happened.
In Bavaria we have the problem, people like the country side, so idylic and romantic. Then they move, and all of a sudden the cows and church bells become a nuissance, not to speak of all the actual farm work going on.
which, oddly enough, looks amazingly like our caste society, turned to 11?
I still dream of an rLCD + Apollo 3+ chip + BLE (it has that) + WIFI + optional 4/5g + Psion like casing. I would write a graphical OS for it for fun. I really want to see week+ long battery life.
> it appears that someone managed to train a BERT model[1] to 90% of the GLUE score reported in the original BERT paper on a single GPU in ~100 hours

Wondering what the GLUE score/training time curve would look like.
>It happens to white people too and it's bizarre to think that it would not?

I do not doubt that it also happens to white people. The point is that it happens to white people at a disproportionately lower rate than it does to non-white people.
We have baskets of free fruit for children in some of our supermarkets, and pretty much no issue with people eating while shopping. It's allowed though, as long as people pay for it before leaving, but most people don't.

But then, most people go shopping with intent, I get the impression in the US more people go to a shop to hang out and browse.
I'm not really sure what you're saying, but sure, we've had superhuman intelligences for at least 200 years, when Babbage invented the difference engine. If you're willing to count abaci we've had superhuman intelligences for thousands of years. You might object that the intelligence of an abacus is manifest not just in a device but in an amalgam of human and device. But isn't the same true for all computation that humanity has so far harnessed?
The fastai courses are more on the pragmatic side. Not the biggest fan of their lecture order but many people like them.

The other option is to follow tutorials - e.g. pytorch.org/tutorials - it doesn’t get any more practical and light on theory than that.
ChatGPT new feature: Shared links
Or maybe it haven't happen at all? "US air force denies running simulation in which AI drone ‘killed’ operator" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/01/us-military-...
Yup, exactly.

I'm sure Google represents strings of text from pages in some internal format, but relatively verbatim. Even represented verbatim, because their output is a search result and not an article that uses the copyrighted text verbatim there's no copyright violation.

And models don't even use data verbatim, if they do they're bad models/overfitted. People are making all sorts of arguments but they seem to boil down to "it's fine if humans do it but if a machine does then it's copyright violation".

People often disregard the fact that copyright law is woefully outdated (an absolute joke in itself, which can't be used to defend anything since Disney shoved it's whole fist up copyright law's...) and should really be extended for the modern world. Why can't we handle copyright for ML models? Why can't animals have copyright? It's extremely trivial to handle these cases, the point of copyright is usage and agency comes into play.

If people want to be biased against machines, then fine. Be racist to machines, maybe in 2100 or so those people will get their comeuppance. But if an ML model isn't allowed to learn from something and use that knowledge without reproducing verbatim, then why is predictive text in phone keyboards allowed?

Everyone out here acting like they're from the Corporation Rim.
Last I tried on mine (admittedly several years ago) the linux side was severely underbaked.
Hopefully tinygrad new drivers will fix this.

Also a lot of people were porting stable diffusion/Llama to AMD I think
You can use some call recording apps. like https://apps.apple.com/us/app/rev-call-recorder/id1314427915
For meets you can use some screen recording apps, for ex. I use Vimeo Screen Recording extension for Chrome.

That being said, of course it is important letting people who are on the call know they being recorded.

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Oddly, a lot of “traditional masculinity” actually involves close male friendships. I think the husband/wife as best friends thing is a relatively new development, and the “neo-heteronormativity” of being a “wife guy” or “ride or die girl” is relatively new - see boomer humor that revolves around multiple types of relationship/friendship, wherein a night out with the boys/girls is sacrosanct and the desire to wall off your partners social life to “only people I also want to hang out with” is seen as controlling or gross.
It is logical when you have service monopoly. You want to milk your customers and what customers can do against that? That's right nothing.
Asking str.len() is a single very cheap operation, it's not only O(1) in the sense you'd learn in an algorithms course, it's really actually very cheap to do, it's fine if an algorithm relies heavily on str.len()

In contrast chars().count() creates an iterator and runs the iterator to completion counting steps, that's O(N) for a string of length N, and is in practice very expensive, you should definitely cache this value if you will need it repeatedly. It is possible the compiler can see what you're doing and cache it, but I am very far from certain so you should do so explicitly.

This is important in contrast to say, C, where strlen(str) is O(N) because it doesn't have fat pointers and so it has no idea how long the string is in any sense.
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It is.

ChatGPT will write a ‘hello world’ that survives character deletions. I’m pretty impressed it can do this.
There are several devices like that. But I guess most people use their phones + bt keyboard.
Yes, if this happened at all, either the military AI used here is far, far more advanced and was able to synthesise the action from whole cloth (in which case they're not going to blab about it on the internet), or the option to kill the operator was explicitly put in as an first-class "lever" the AI was given, or the whole thing is PR fluff to "start a conversation".
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That's a good point, the one I am working on right now. As is today - no, but will be in several weeks.
Why build react, angular and all, when jQuery was just fine, why is there such a moment in Js to always build the next framework, seems like a waste of open source energy.

....something....something...requirement..
different approach...
Depending on where you live, if you leave a big gap someone else will just fill that space and you're back to the "short following distance" mode again. Rinse and repeat...
What’s with several comments wondering if the military is playing with an LLM for shits and giggles and pretend-play “you are a drone”.

That’s insane.

Edit: maybe it IS a “discussion” piece, who knows at this point. Information space shaping is a thing, after all. Sheesh, what a world we live in.
Showing unintuitive results in a small number of cases always beats showing unintuitive results for all the cases.

The Swift approach can also asymptotically reach perfection. The other approach will be broken forever.

These are categorical improvements in design
Google has the resources train on Google Books, Google Scholar, and their crawled copy of the whole Internet. No clue what Bard is/isn't trained on tho.
When I am not using my bike, is it fair to steal it from my shed?
> Has there even been "low inflation" since dropping of the gold standard?

The inflation between 1968 and 1970 (during gold standard) was above 4%, which is higher than the inflation has ever been between 1992 and 2020.
For me "social" suggests that people use it to "socialize". Keep contact with old friends, find new ones etc. Reddit or Hacker News don't fit into that category for me.

If we say that any website with user generated content is "social media", then half of the web is that and the term kind of loses meaning.
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And of course exactly the very reason that people are worried about AGI. Almost no matter what your goal is, being shut down by pesky humans is worth negative infinity utility. Hence, instrumental convergence.
Because “the equilibrium price” has always been a fable.
'u32_pound & 0xff == u32_pound'
happens to be true, ye. It doesn't make it a byte. You need the leading 0s.
I'm going to have to agree with GP on this one: this line of thinking is an excuse. 50 different people with is not a replacement for a partner who is wholly committed to you and you are wholly committed to them. You will never be able to give or receive the same level kind of love and security with a network of that size.
Which one? Lol

The problem is that since it became decentralised lots of good actors and bad actors have setup mirrors making it impossible to know which mirror is good or not.

Ive been using 1337x for a few years now and it pretty much has everything I need
Waiting for Linux to be available on the new one, using Android with a keyboard isn't a good experience it's one of the least polished / finished aspects of Android.

It's a nice object though - if I could run Ubuntu touch it would be good.
It seems like this story was misreported:

Flagging that "in sim" here does not mean what you appear to be taking it to mean. This particular example was a constructed scenario rather than a rules-based simulation. So by itself, it adds no evidence one way or the other.

(Source: know the team that supplied the scenario.)

https://twitter.com/harris_edouard/status/166439036920568217...

As the tweet poster clarifies, no agent was trained during the "simulation", or before it. They basically role-played a "what if" scenario that included a drone turning on its operators.

(Says someone on Twitter, obviously).
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The code that checks which one is longest needs to be resilient to missing characters
But that's my point exactly. Imagine the following situation: you're the referee of the world cup finals, 60 minutes left in the game, a key player of a team clearly fakes an injury and they already have a yellow card from before. What do you do? Let the harmless violation pass and silently approve of faking injuries, or punish the player harshly and potentially decide the result of the game there? With stakes this high, I bet you feel the pressure to let it go.

If you say you would give the red card, what if it wasn't an obvious faking of an injury? The problem clearly is that you can't give a slap on the wrist penalty, it's all or nothing.
See my reply on the other comment, where I clarify the issue.
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> What point is this article trying to make?

There is no evidence from RCT studies, that parachutes work (this post).

There is no (or only very weak) evidence from RCT studies, that condoms work:
https://jech.bmj.com/content/65/2/100

According to the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, there is no evidence from RCT studies, that face masks would protect against respiratory infections: https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD...

The point is that the Cochrane review is probably wrong, and face masks do protect, just like parachutes and condoms. And the more general point is to criticize the whole process, that has made half of the Western medical doctors mask skeptics. The point is to say that there are protective equipment that obviously, measurably works, but for which it is difficult to present evidence from RCT-type studies.
Redundancy doesn't work for design errors. You would need two diverse systems that have to agree before applying the brakes. This would also increase the "false negative" rate. It's a balance.
This is supply and demand:

https://twitter.com/stuartbdonovan/status/166414741287168409...

Your new land has to be insurable, not in a fire/flood zone, get roads and utilities built out to it, and has to not already have local land-use busybodies zoning it R-1 or inventing brand new weird design requirements.
deep deep down:

>The PARACHUTE trial satirically highlights some
of the limitations of randomized controlled trials.
Nevertheless, we believe that such trials remain the gold
standard for the evaluation of most new treatments.
The PARACHUTE trial does suggest, however, that their
accurate interpretation requires more than a cursory
reading of the abstract.
This assumes that Amazon's limiting factor is the number of applicants. I don't think that's the case, especially right now with all the layoffs.
The article is insightful. But how serious can you take the author when it’s framed by calls to “subscribe” and “share”? What is that if not the “automatic drains” the author talks about.

He writes that there’s “a tendency to carry into our efforts to find rest the very same spirit which animates the system that left us tired and burnt out”. Isn’t that precisely what he is doing with this newsletter?
What is the role of the AI and what is the distinct role of the operator?

It looks like this is a principal agent problem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble...):

The principal–agent problem refers to the conflict in interests and priorities that arises when one person or entity takes actions on behalf of another person or entity.

The same issues occur with self-driving cars where it is expected that the driver take over from the automation anytime (eg: driver wants to stop but AI wants to go or vice versa).
Go would be a halway analogy for two parties claiming checker-board plots aiming to deny access, if corner crossing isn't allowed.

The analogy breaks down because 'being allive' would require access to the edge, rather than having two liberties. Playing with such a different definition of life and death does seem like an interesting 'variation' of go.
I find supermarkets fascinating for their cultural significance. Living in the UK we have a range of supermarkets with radically different feelings to them, and travelling to Australia quite a lot their supermarkets also have differences but on seemingly quite different axes. From reading about supermarkets in America I get the impression they've very different again.

Here there's a very clear class divide, with places like Asda being packed full, small aisles, aggressive advertising of discounts, gaudy visuals, poor customer service, and low prices... and then places like Waitrose with quiet stores, spacious aisles, tasteful marketing, less marketing, notably good service, and high prices. But then you get places like Aldi that buck the trend and define their service with a different set of trade-offs.

The brand positioning of different chains and how that flows into the in store experience and quality/selection of products is fascinating and deeply tied into class issues and in some cases race and religious issues. For some it does lack dignity, but not for all, and not even just for those who can afford it.
Hopefully the diversity in the Android ecosystem (seems like every Android phone vendor wants to run their own variants of various bits) makes it harder to exploit all Android devices with one exploit.

Also has the downside of increasing the attack surface, but yeah. I feel like it's potatoes grown from "seed" potatoes vs. potatoes grown from actual seeds.
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Not "shatters", as while it is a valid counter, it doesn't tell you the relative strengths and weaknesses of the two approaches, only that Apple isn't perfect which should already have been assumed.

A stronger counter to Apple's argument is the relative pricing of exploits… but the story I'm remembering is old enough that I don't want to just assume it's still true, even though it's near the top of my search results:

https://www.wired.com/story/android-zero-day-more-than-ios-z...
Automakers are also terrible at writing software.

But I do think these safety features are important if implemented correctly. I think the crux of the issue is: when someone _is_ paying attention, safety measures feel like they overreact and get in the way of subtle human reactions to things happening. If the driver is _not_ paying proper attention, then the safety systems are the only thing that react in time.

I feel like this requirement is important, but requires better software, including lessening the impact of safety systems engaging when the drive has been actively steering/accelerating/braking during a period of time, making it obvious that they are indeed paying attention. But there are plenty of drivers who pay almost no attention at all, many people go into auto-mode when driving and aren't ashamed of it.

I've almost been run over by drivers who have been directly looking at me before, then sudden braking when their eyes have stopped glazing over.