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This is completely tangential, but I want to share my latest GPT4 story somewhere.

I've tried before to gaslight GPT4 into saying things which are mathematically untrue, I lie to it, I tell it it's malfunctioning, I tell it to just do it, it wouldn't do it.

I was recently studying linear algebra which can be a very tricky subject. In linear algebra the column space of a matrix is the same as the column space of the product with itself transposed: C(A) = C(AA^T). If you ask GPT4 if "C(A) = C(AA^T)" is true, it will understand what you're asking, it knows it's about linear algebra, but it will get it wrong (at the time of this writing, I've tried several times).

I couldn't get GPT4 to agree it was a true statement until I told it the steps of the proof. Once it saw the proof it agreed it was a true statement. However, if you try to apply the same proof to C(A) = C((A^T)A), GPT4 cannot be tricked, and indeed, the proof is not applicable to this latter case.

So GPT4 was incorrect yet able to be persuaded with a correct proof, but a very similar proof with a subtle mistake cannot trick it.
I'm quite certain they're still trying to solve the hard see-through AR problems, and are hoping to release a future
Vision headset with a true see-through display.

But otherwise I agree, it makes sense for them to focus on what they can do best with current tech as a stopgap. With current see-through HMD tech, AR ends up incredibly disappointing. (See also: Hololens & Magic Leap's limited FOV)
Dude, they're not the same thing. IDK what else to tell you. If you weren't a fully remote employee and you took liberties during covid then that time has come to an end. Google doesn't agree that you are a fully remote employee by default anymore. So convince them that you are or take a remote job where you can have what you want.
Tesla has never been concerned with post-sales support or maintenance.
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That's an individual judgement call. If you don't go on road trips, then even 50% degradation (representing over 500,000 miles of usage, an absolutely absurd number for someone that doesn't do road trips!) still leaves you with a usable car.

I don't know how weather affects battery life. I know that very cold weather reduces charging speeds, but I don't know if it reduces the life. The battery is liquid-cooled, so temperatures are still controlled in hot climates.

Generally, replacing the battery is not something any Tesla owner needs to worry about. Outside of failures that are typically discovered within the first year or 10,000 miles (and therefore covered by warranty), the battery will last FAR longer than any typical car. How many cars are driven past 300,000 miles?
Probably the ease and reliability of application.

Not everyone is easy to start an IV on, especially if it's hard for them to hold still (like if they're in so much pain that they're considering between IV drugs or a suppository).
I remember being really scared about it and then I vaguely remember some doctor saying most stuff will go through stomach just fine, and that included glass.

Memory is fuzzy and I'm definitely not a doctor, so please double check.

I'm assuming if you are eating glass, it's a small enough piece that you won't notice, it can be big, you'll notice in your mouth.
> i think any person with a cs education would at least recognise lisp syntax

The discussion wasn't on Lisp, but Guile. They may recognize Lisp syntax, but the majority will not have heard of Guile (let alone Scheme).

And you are referring to recognizing Lisp syntax, which is not what I was referring to when I said "know little of Lisp languages". Sure - most know it exists and has a lot of parentheses.

BTW, many if not most programmers don't have a CS education. And many who do don't encounter Lisp in their curriculum. I just checked my undergrad's required courses - the PL course has Java, SML, Prolog and Python - no Lisp. Anecdotally, in all the teams I've worked in for my career, there was only one team where people had an idea of Lisp. In the other teams, they didn't even know that it's the language with a lot of parentheses (as in they'd look at Lisp code and have no idea which language it was).
Ok, so this is like Camunda?
Genuine question, not trying to create or sustain a debate: are there more brackets in scheme than in json? I don't use json much, but the example I find in the "Syntax" section of the Wikipedia article on json [0], looks almost identical to how I'd structure the same data in Scheme, though with more quotation marks [1]. Is this just a bad example?

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON#Syntax

[1] - Edit: more quotation marks, commas, and colons
I can't imagine an exoskeleton vehicle would have fared any better. That was one of my biggest concerns - would a dented side panel count as frame damage?
For software, at least, whole 8-figure-equivalent software projects have been carried from ideation to delivery & maintenance, largely overseen by software developers, not managers, mostly over email and IRC (hey, look, human interaction!).

If professional managers with the power of economic incentives behind them can't match that with a remote team, holy fuck, they're terrible at their jobs, literally providing negative value.
> ETIQUETTE:

> 1. If you're counting, upvote your fellow counting comrades.

Looks like a voting ring for farming karma. Not sure why reddit allows it.
His mental model is "magic".

This reminds me of a story, I believe referring to Pascal's demonstration of his (newly invented, entirely mechanical) calculator to the Royal Society. He showed that pressing certain levers in the correct order means you want to operate on certain numbers, and certain other levers mean choosing the operation you want, and then by cranking his calculator you could read off the answer of doing your operation on your numbers. World's first calculator! Someone asked: if you press the levers wrong, do you still get the right answer?

Their mental model is "magic" and they don't understand the details of how magic works, because it's magic.
No, it’s a great example of demographics is destiny. It’s filled with old rich people who struck gold (prop 13, tech, show biz etc..).

But also the most beautiful state, if you get off on that sort of thing.
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A quick ride on the train means you’re spending a hell of a lot more to live near the train in American tech hub cities.
Good for PR, practically useless against tracking.
> Can you be more specific? "Public channels for team comms" -> they explicitly addressed that ("frustrated grumbling").

"Frustrated grumbling" goes to the tight feedback loops, make sure juniors aren't on their own island for too long without a checkin of some sort (if you want to manage things that way, I could also argue for letting juniors flail a bit in some cases but the person I replied to obviously prefers a more micro approach). Public channels were related to the desire to know what others were working on.

Further specifics depend on the dynamics of the team, but the point in there are various relatively easy ways to systematize remote work efficiently.

> Remote forces us to change the way we have been operating for decades. Why should we?

Why should people be forced to continue operating in ways they find suboptimal for a myriad of reasons (commute, distractions, tethering living location/family/friends to job, etc) just because some are unwilling to adapt even though solutions are readily available? The historical status quo is not often a great place to look for arguments for how things should be.
They never "needed" to do layoffs in the first place.
Something I've been kicking around in the back of my head since GPT-4 was released: how long before enough of the population demands AI-assisted law enforcement? Watching cameras or flying drones looking for physical crime, skulking around in bank mainframes looking for laundering, issuing unexplained wealth orders, etc.

If that does take off, and proves at all successful, how long after that will enough people demand AI-assisted government in order to reduce corruption? It isn't hard to envision a diminishing role for humans to participate in that sort of regime, until the national leader figurehead is the only manned position remaining.
Love that you know enough to call him out haha
I've been thinking about the strange loop that emerges when enough humans hire human-emulating machines to ghostwrite enough of their correspondence. Book reports, inane business emails, wedding vows. All of it. The full spectrum of the interhuman social experience, as expressed in and through language.

I tend to think that, as LLMs become ubiquitous and our interfaces to them get more and more "natural," the lines between human-authored text and LLM outputs will converge and get really, really blurry – more so, even, than they already are. The word "singularity" doesn't quite capture what I'm getting at, but "Hamiltonian" might. Speech acts, multinomial logits. Tomato, tomaahto. Aren't they ultimately just two symplectic representations of the very same thing – the richness and expressivity of human language? One can't evolve independently of the other. Or can it?
I personally find using CDK over terraform to actually have a performance multiplier rather than a cost. So much so that I end up using CDK8s to manage my Kubernetes resources as well
It's not about whether ChatGPT is bulshitting or not. Basically they did not care about the crafted cases at all. At least could have requested citations and more details from ChatGPT, possibly leading to more bulshitting, but making the fact checking easier.
Thanks Sam! :D
Maybe an auto-complete or auto correct feature, or even syntax highlighting? I just found myself exploring for the right way to type and jumped to the solution of fuzziness which i agree, might not be ideal.
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> You have a physical wiper button on the stalk that brings up the UI without fail. One physical press.

It's pretty amazing how many Tesla drivers don't know this is a thing. There's even an icon on the stalk for it.

That said, Tesla is getting rid of stalks, so that's going away.
That's the good stuff!
Is it an interesting and relevant story that many people would be keen on reading? Nah, must be a "msm" conspiracy. Can't wait for the Weinstein take on this.
>I don't think America could have created a harsher punishment if we had tried.

Lol. After Assange/Manning, that demonstrates a singular failure of imagination.
No they wouldn't. I can't think of a single thing in any browser that was implemented after a standard was created. It's always been driven by one browser just doing a thing, then other browsers do it slightly differently, then the standards body comes together and they settle on the-one-true-way and everyone updates their support to match the standard.
I am also selfish with regards to remote work. I don't have any kids, but to me remote work just simply works and makes sense. Having said that, there is an argument for in-person collaboration to an extent. But as a software engineer, I loathe going back to the office and refuse to under almost any circumstance.

If an employer wants me to return to the office, I'm very direct in communicating the additional cost to them and salary bump for me. My go-to response to any request to return to office is "I require a 40% salary increase or no bueno" and thus far they have backed down.

Back when I was working in the office, I had co-workers who liked to lounge around my desk making small talk, asking questions, and generally trying to be friendly and social, which I understand why they would, but it interrupts my "flow state" and leaves me more disgruntled than anything.

Work is work to me, and I don't care to socialize nor is it critical in my current job. Not hating on others who feel anything to the contrary, it's simply not my cup o' tea.

The benefits of WFH greatly surpass any conceivable benefit of having to return to the office, for me. And with my current employers, I cannot see any benefit of it for them.

Corporatism needs a wakeup call and it's finally receiving just a taste of it. Considering salaries are repressed and have been for more than 20 years, it's the very least of what we, as workers/minions/peasants, deserve (at least in the U.S.)
What is the purpose of sanction? As far as I know it's to stop him doing something similar again, and deter others from trying it.

He's not going to do the same thing again unless he is literally mad. That would be total career suicide. No amount of sanction will make a difference.

Other lawyers are likely read about the case and know that if they do it, they will either be more embarrassed in the press or will face sanctions. The sanctions are unlikely to make the case more well known than it already is.
Charging up a battery requires a lot of _energy_. Lightning doesn't have much energy.

Exploding something requires a lot of _power_. Lightning is very, very high power.

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So a dam collapsing demonstrates energy vs power, for example. The floodwaters race across the land slowly, having a small amount of power. But the floodwaters move for hours-and-hours, days and days, maybe a week or longer. That's energy, the ability to move for a long-long time.

Lightning is the opposite. Its an explosive amount of power, but it only lasts for a fraction of a second. Its so short that there's barely any energy involved.

A power-plant (and a battery) needs both. Which is where things get tricky.
What I would love to be standard in all product launches like this would be to have a mailing list per integration or, as with this, programming language.

I want to be able to drop my email address and only hear back when support for $MY_FAVE_LANG is available.
There was a Googler who spent some time at the South Pole station and gave a talk about it. I won't name him here, but maybe he's reading this?

What I recall was him walking around and over the actual Pole and trying to get his GPS to register 90.0 degrees. It wouldn't go beyond 89.999.
Is it?

[0] Bisphenol A (BPA) is a chemical produced in large quantities for use primarily in the production of polycarbonate plastics.

Guess it is. Why is it a problem?

[1] Researchers have found that BPA exposure is linked to a number of health issues, partly because BPA mimics the structure and function of the hormone estrogen

Not to be wagging the finger, but instead of a snarky remark (ending in a question mark, so the reader can't conclude anything from it) a little Googling and posting a correction with the reasoning would be better.

[0] https://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/sya-bpa/index...

[1] https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/what-is-bpa#basics
> There is no pill for beauty

There are in fact many. Grooming, diet, exercise, apparel, cosmetics, supplements, dentistry, surgery, non-surgical treatments.

A wise person once said, "there are no ugly people, only poor people."
Each of my links has examples of people exchanging goods and services in bitcoin for various reasons. Do you consider that productive economic activity (the "P")?

If you don't: why is it productive when I buy a car using dollars, but not productive when I buy a car using bitcoin?

If you do: why must a currency's worth be tied to one particular country's GDP? Why can't it instead be tied to the global production of everyone on earth, in any country, who has chosen to use that currency? I think it's actually a sign of strength when someone goes out of their way to adopt a global non-politcal currency, instead of succumbing to inertia and using the currency that was foisted on them by the geographical circumstances of their birth.
This demonstrates the most important difference between In-Office fans and remoters: They ALWAYS have the best possible situations thinkable, far and away better than any average or median.

A 30 minute walking commute is INSANELY rare, as is a quiet section, as even is a office cafe. I'd be far less pissed about forced in-office work if I had any of those things.
They’re pure as far as I know. Would calcium be listed as an ingredient?
The article never mentions what ECS stands for, that’s not yet a TLA I’m familiar with
> Instead “aw shucks boys will be boys”

What do you mean? He seems to be facing potential legal trouble, and on top of that he and his firm will forever be known as the dumbasses who submitted fake court decisions in a real case.
If their operating income is accurately reflected above, there is no indication they are going in the right direction. There is a period of several years where a company is in innovation mode and they will burn through investment, but there must be an inflection point where Operating Income starts increasing YoY, even if they are still operating at a loss. Hashicorp has gone too far in the wrong direction.
"Your whole occupation literally depends on not inventing bullshit on the spot,"

Doesn't surprise me in the least. Incompetence and short cuts are common in the legal profession from my experience. It also seems their jobs fo involve quite a bit of bullshit, or at least using real info in a bullshit way (it's what the judge/jury perceived, not necessarily reality or the truth).
Is that right?

K8S is basically another answer to Conway’s Law. Every startup I’ve worked at switched to it because then the infrastructure could map more closely to the code. Not unlike microservices at a higher level.

The old-skool approach is depending on a team of SREs or sysadmins to provision hardware for you and basically handle the deployment, which K8S plus container images basically abstract away.

Not to say that dedicating resources to platform development (k8s style) isn’t a time sink when you’re trying to build product and find a fit in the market.
> Being known primarily for breathtaking incompetence will probably have a pretty significant effect on his future income.

Perhaps so, but most people won't ever know the he's breathtakingly incompetent. It's certainly not a career-ending thing. For an error of this scale, I think that a strong argument can be made that he should choose a different career.
> it may be possible for them to identify you based on ancestry

Small correction, but an important one:

The ancestry portion of the consumer autosomal DNA testing does not imply genetic relation to another human being. By contrast, the genetic relative matching these tests perform is very accurate because it lines up matching SNPs between your test and others’ tests to determine relation.
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Hi HN!

I created useForm because I wanted a simple React form library that leveraged hooks, didn't use a lot of "magic", took care of form tasks such as validation and serialization, and could handle complex use cases such as array / nested inputs, resets, undos, and more.

There are a lot of great libraries out there, but none quite struck the balance between simplicity and depth of features I was looking for, so I created useForm. useForm is open source, so feel free to use it in your React projects as you see fit.
Surely in order to be an attempt at forgery and fraud the lawyer would have to have known the cases were fake?
I think the sanction in the court of public opinion is probably much worse.
Downtown (10th Ave.) though I'm not locked in. I'm reasonably familiar with Portland though I've mostly (always?) stayed near the Convention Center for the dearly departed OSCON. I'm sure it will be fine. Probably go the West Hills, the Pearl, maybe a Willamette Valley wine tour one day.
Sorry this is simply impossible to take seriously as a comparison. Hawaii is literally surrounded by the world's most enormous, unswimmable moat. Homeless are thus predominantly going to come from within the islands existing population, with barely a trickle coming from outside. Compare this to California which you can hitchhike to, ride a boxcar to, drive a $300 beater to, take a greyhound to, or even walk to given enough time.

Even comparing the closest analog to Hawaii for california, Catalina Island, the mere 90 minute ferry ride across the channel is enough to cause a disparity in homeless rates between the city of Avalon on the island, and the city of Los Angeles - visible directly across the water from it - of nearly 50% (higher in LA)
Unlike say, trying to end the career of the other party in the court case, using false information?
I do not think any air purifiers can fit inside your face mask. I assume in room air purifiers will capture some as they are particles like others that get caught in filters.
I didn’t read it this way at all. Where are you getting these assumptions from the OPs “a few good employees?”
Coffee enemas are apparently an influencer thing right now.
IV drugs, not for the feint of heart. Even with a good technique you will eventually blow up your spot and need to go fishing, then it gets horrific.
I wonder if you can pair a normal bluetooth keyboard / mouse with the headset?
Adrenochrome
It uses slow refresh like new iphones
Right, I think it's going to come eventually but it's really really really hard
> Are you claiming that the bipartisan committee of elected officials are all lying?

I’m claiming they are being vague.

Something can be technically true, and while it is given a framing that is far out of proportion with the supporting evidence.

> > a government that routinely and flagrantly lies to its citizens
You are biased.

Snowden’s leaks demonstrated that what I said is a fact, and no one in the government even disputes the content of those leaks!

> How do you explain what he damaged at a technical level without revealing classified information?

I don’t know, but that does mean you just get to exclaim “it’s classified!!!” And I magically just have to believe everything you say.

> Please show evidence that anything in the report is not accurate.

The report provided no evidence to dispute. Again, the national security apparatus has shown itself time and again to not be trustworthy: gulf of Tonkin, wmd in Iraq, warrantless surveillance, spying on its own citizens and lying about it to congress under oath (and getting away with it with no consequences). Flagrantly violating the law (Iran contra), etc etc.

I’d rather be “biased” than a rube.
This is 100% the line of questioning to pursue.
This is an uncharitable reply. Don’t assume the worst about your conversational partner.

That being said, didn’t the first gpt-like models do character level prediction? Essentially no tokenization?

Also, the idea of “what if we removed / rethought tokenization” is in no way equivalent to “what if we didn’t even use neural nets”.
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"Just as you would if a human produced it."

Would he? That's mighty generous of you. I'd imagine most lawyers don't fact check the citations their paralegals give them.
By definition, if they're secure then they should meet the requirements, right?

> But even if you could analyze this, you would just end up with a universal hash function that's way slower than you need, because you didn't pick the right tool for the job.

I understand that, I'm just trying to figure out how a universal hash is easier to construct. But as you've gone through the descriptions here I think I understand how the collision resistance necessary is much much simpler, and there seems to be an assumption that the output of the hash will not be available to the attacker.
My understanding is that occlusion in "see through" AR is an unsolved problem, everything looks ghostly and somewhat semitransparent. Until someone solves that I suspect the re-projection method is the only viable option.
I'm sorry, as a large language model I cannot discuss The Patriots.