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>> I've always felt like with new technology, I could grok at a high level how things worked. But LLMs like GPT seem like magic

This is exactly how I feel. I felt so out of my depth looking at the ML architectures and I could not make any sense of it. I thought perhaps, they get inspired by neuroscience for the layers etc.

But a friend who works on LLMs mentioned, the architecture of large ML models, are mostly experimentally discovered, not designed. If that's the case, that's even worse... it means an entire field which perhaps could replace me in future, doesn't even have a knowledge foundation for its breakthroughs, but just goes by experiment... I thought it was only the weights inside the model that evolves, not the architecture itself.

Which body of knowledge do I study then, and is it even engineering anymore? That's something else, which I am not sure if my programming experience applies.

The amount of GPU/Capital it takes to evolve such architectures, run such experiments has to be prohibitively expensive.
I never used them, but Neocities seem well worth of consideration for simple sites.

https://neocities.org/
I've worked in a number of projects where they decided to move to microservices for reasons they wish they had, while not fully understanding microservices or applying basic litmus tests to where to split off services.

So we ended up with great puzzles like how to link an order service with an inventory service to check if there's enough inventory to fulfill an order, all through a central event bus. Then of course the order service has to update the inventory if the order is confirmed. But of course, the order service also has to talk to the pricing service, and since the price of products varies by day, they'd have to remember the price at the time the order was made. Whose responsibility is that? No idea, that's someone else's service.
https://archive.ph/A7Axr
Python’s dependency management, or lack there of, its import system, and the lack of strong typing really make me hate it. It’s the first language I really felt adept with, but once I learned Go, I never looked back. Every time I have to use python it’s like coding with crayons.
I was(and might still be) a libertarian that believes in legalization of everything... But you get older and you see the effects of drugs, gambling, etc...

Humans have almost no control over the reptilian part of the brain, this is the part that keeps people coming back to drugs and gambling. (There is a book Power of Habit, my number 1 book ever, that talks about how that reptile brain works, I'd pay $100k for that book)

If humans have no control over something, maybe there is a case for big brother stepping in. But not if having a black market actually improves the condition.
These are regionally restricted on top of users being able to opt out of such service at both the visa/mastercard level and at their local banks. This means you cannot rely on the service entirely and have to create alternative flows even if the update system works perfectly. Both Visa and Mastercard detail for developers the manual methods they can use, which still require human monitoring/input. They also both warn people about monitoring this at the merchant level so you minimize disruptions, late fees, cancellations, etc.

It's not as seamless as you're making it sound.
I jump in and find a section about borrow checker. At the end, this book explicitly recommends using smart pointer (RC and RefCell) to write your internal DS to pass them around instead of convoluted one and fight with the borrow checker.

I never have seriously coded in Rust but this is what observed as well. I mean how much of an overhead if RC comparing to the real borrow checker coming from Java or JS world? What are your pro Rust dev opinions about the use of RC in the real world?
So basically the Zed editor will be open source?
I came across a copy of a 200-year-old newspaper for my town (not a big city) and the little thing that jumped out at me as I flipped through was that there were multiple advertisements for local shoemakers. Of course now there are no shoemakers around here, because who goes to a shoemaker right? You just buy the same Nikes or Dr Martens that are available everywhere. But before Zappos and before Payless and before the Sears Roebuck catalog, people still needed shoes, so we needed folks in each town to make them. It's one of those things that is completely obvious in retrospect but must have been a huge change to both shoemakers and shoe buyers as the transition happened.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenCL-On-Mesa-Matrix
> Board games have exactly the same tropes and design patterns as computer games.

To an extent, but board games can also highlight ambiguous interpretations of the rules. Just last night, I was playing Cosmic Encounter with some friends and a good proportion of the fun was banter and arguments about some of the specific rules. I think board games can get away with a lot more randomness and chaos than computer games as they have a big social aspect to them. If you go from a successful, winning strategy to losing in a computer game because of someone having a specific card, then you'd probably stop enjoying the game, but with a board game it tends to spur a round of laughter instead.
Digital Ocean has an invoices API: https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/api/api-reference/#o...

No need to use email at all.
Erg, more bullshit nonsense that takes 3 minutes to produce and 3h to refute.
I don't think we disagree here. I agree that not using Rc<> is the optimal position but I find myself wondering how many Rust beginners got tangled up in lifetimes, gave up and went back to a garbage collected language. I think it's fine to make an on-ramp that's a little shallower.
We just recently bought our first one at home. It's a godsend! It's amazing and makes cooking so easy.
I fully maintain that a lot of information known by the general population back in the day has been (or will be) lost to the sands of time. Sometimes it feels like information I find online for certain trades, like cooking or carpentry, is just a series of blogs all parroting each other. Old books contain an abundance of helpful tips, knowledge and ideas that I usually can't find as easily online, and I find them fascinating to read.
How to evaluate Speech Recognition models
Seems like that the Guardian doesn't want to admit that they enjoyed fossil fuels too and instead are looking for some scapegoat to blame. It's not like fossil fuel was pumped out of the ground for no reason. It actually made people's lives better.
Any silicon valley middle-man venture is a fraud/scam engine.
What value is there in that exercise? We never use a given programming language outside of a given task/context. Comparing them absent that is navel gazing.
I've been meaning to create a single page website that shows the front page of the New York Times and/or Fox News from one day, one week, one year, and 10 years ago.
Macho "traits" and the 50's "American Man" (pater familias) are almost the same. The Catholic and Protestant backgrounds are more alike than they would acknowledge.

If you read Spanish magazines from the 20's and early 30's from Spain you would find a society pretty close to the American one, at least in urban places.

The English Gentleman term can be mapped to the "Caballero" term almost by a ratio 1:1, except that "Caballero" can also mean "Sir" as in "excuse me, sir".

The Anglosaxon society might have been more individualistic and the Hispanic one more group oriented, but once you chatted with individuals the traits faded out a lot.

Since the French burgueois revolution from 1789 and the Industrial Revolution, the Western society has been nearly uniformized at urban places from Andalusia to Sweden. OFC in rural places the gap was bigger, but Feudalism lost and from that the influence from both Churchs.
GP said "herd immunity" not "immunity" and herd immunity has nothing to do with 100% of the population being 100% immune.
And owning Trump with his white boots
confirmed.
This is a reheat of the source article mentioned by ABC which has a far more detailed coverage:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300905942/megaupload-...
That and the 2024 Mustang, but it's online reservation-based; the dealerships are still ultimately the ones buying the cars and reselling them to the end-user. I've heard stories of $20k or more markups even for reservation holders, since they know they'll be able to sell it if the original buyer walks away.
Here's a recent article supporting that: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/05/rich-republicans...
Open-source cryptography, versioning, key generation, key derivation
The first time I saw a 8266 I thought "why am I struggling with Arduino or Raspi if this thing is all I need to make a sensor + wifi mesh". Also being powered through the USB is a plus, lots of unused USB ports around in 24/7 machines.
The auto dealership lobby is one of the most powerful in America. It leans heavily Republican, and Republicans dutifully propose legislations which protect these wealthy -- but almost wholly unnecessary -- middlemen. Slate had an expose [1] recently about them that is very enlightening.

[1] https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/05/rich-republicans...
I do a Pop3 sync of all my email from gmail about once a month. It's not a perfect 1-to-1 mapping, but if I ever get locked out, only lose about a months worth of mail.
For switching entirely to current gen French nuclear (rather than the MUCH cheaper 1970s plants) it was something like a 30% increase in consumer electricity costs.

Basically, you can just have make your "baseload" the amount you want at peak time and sell the excess electricity for basically nothing to industry. This is obviously a bad idea and you'll want some storage instead, but it's much less than what you need to last through a calm but cloudy week.

I very much encourage you to look up numbers for various storage types and energy sources and make a few models. It takes a few hours but its pretty interesting (I should really take it from my hard drive at home and put it on a blog somewhere...).
Florida has prohibited direct to consumer sales for over half a century with an especially stringent automobile dealer franchise law. The interesting point is the carve-out for Tesla.
I never even got offered substitutes, I was habitually taking several substances and the addiction help offered where I live basically said they wouldn't give me anything unless I could quit everything except heroin. Ended up doing it Trainspotting style at my mother's house.

Glad they work for you though. Is your plan to stay on them indefinitely or to try and get off them entirely?
You're mistaken. It still has to go through a dealership even though it's ordered online.
> So this is the reason given in the article, but what are good reasons, if any, to prevent direct-to-customer sales?

because cars require service, someone needs to do that service, be trained and have master techs on that service. How do you handle lemon laws without dealerships?

Just look at the nightmare tesla has been for owners with years of bad repairs, delays, etc.

OEMs provide a bunch of stuff that is adhoc to making new crs like long life spans for part productions, having dealerships service recalls, and so on. there's a lot of non-new-sale-stuff that is done
This is really weird code because `print!` in Rust always takes a format string (similar to C's printf but as a macro), but I don't see one here. So it's not just a single-character typo.
Not all algorithms can be chunked up. Single thread performance is and will always be important.
Use just a little bit more cynicism and the actual reasoning becomes clear.

Car dealership owners are one of the most reliable Republican constituencies. They make outrageous amounts of money through government-mandated rent-seeking and donate to Republican candidates 6-to-1. What we see here is nothing more than a quid-pro-quo, a handout to the dealership owners in exchange for their loyal monetary support over the years.

So yes, it's not about protecting the consumer. Dealerships are of course actually terrible, as everyone knows. This is about protecting the dealership owners.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/05/rich-republicans...
Tell me you don't understand the difference between morality and legality without... you know the drill.

The post you're replying to was making a moral statement about what Amazon should and should not be allowed to do - not what they legally can do. The current world of "shoot first and ask questions never" on the Internet is not socially acceptable at the level of control and ownership that large tech companies have over you.

But then again, tech companies operate on one proposition, to wit: that there are certain parties that the ToS protects but does not bind, and that there are certain parties that the ToS binds but does not protect.
This. The only thing left to do is create your own scam.
One of my favorite quotes is: "if you want to learn something new, read an old book."

Can't remember who said it though.
Maybe that's just my bubble, but I see much more python in data science projects than in web servers. And in (python) data science even your file reading/writing code quickly gets CPU bound.
That's true but it would be extremely expensive if not impossible to implement therapy for all the addictive people in the world (most people, including me). So we just have to accept addiction and then try not to deliberately encourage the more damaging addictions. So addiction to coffee is not great but it doesn't do that much damage. Addiction to cigarettes does much more damage so while we don't probit it we don't allow people to deliberately encourage it via advertising.
It's complete bullshit. I despise both car dealerships and realtors. They exist to service themselves.
This is so many words. You can just say "I like colonialism and think it is good" you won't get in trouble I promise.
Not fully down for me, just very slow?
The other thing I don't get is that the whole sub interpreters thing seems to totally break extension modules as well: https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3/issues/2274. In theory parts of sub-interpreters have been around for a while and it just happens that every extension module out there is incompatible with it because no one used it. But if it's going to become the recommended way to do parallelism going forward then they'll have to become compatible with it.

The serialization thing is also a huge issue. Half of the time I want to use multiprocessing I end up finding that the serialization of data is the bottleneck and have to somehow re-architect my code to minimize it.

I would much prefer a world in which asyncio is 2x faster and can benefit from real parallelism across threads. Libraries like anyio already make it super easy to work with async + threads. It would make Python a viable option for workloads where it currently just isn't.
A status page that is down at the same time as the real website is not a good status page...
Pretty much all of them? That's because they burn fossil fuels, and fossil fuels are also storage. There's no sense making a synthetic fuel for storage when you're still burning a natural fuel.

Care to show me a country with a breeder-based nuclear cycle? Oh gosh, by your logic nuclear cannot use breeders, since it hasn't been done yet. I guess nuclear is ruled out so we're totally doomed. Fortunately, your logic is entirely specious.
They're called "stealerships" for a reason.

Actually several reasons and overpriced, excessive, or unnecessary maintenance is one of them

The reason dealerships are surprisingly powerful politically is they are usually family owned and operated so they have much wider discretion over political donations and/or bribes.
Thanks. Although I have to be honest, at almost four years out I have essentially zero cravings so I'm not finding it too difficult.

And after numerous cycles of getting clean and relapsing, I recognise what do cravings I get immediately and they don't bother me anymore.
The government are 'fucking' it with tight regulation and that is good.

Crypto still failed to gain any meaningful legitimate adoption.
> People are still holding on with the hope that it’s going to rebound

How many people? How much are they holding?

Bitcoin's market cap is $485b. That's a whole lot of people and a whole lot of hope.
Car dealerships are a major leech in our “society” the provide no valuable service. They take money from car buyers, nothing more.

Their service centers charge way over average for repairs as well.

There is no reason a car dealership needs to exist in 2023!
> The Apollo dev said that he would have to charge every user $2.50 a month to cover costs of the API

He did not say that, he said

> Apollo's price would be approximately $2.50 per month per user

which is an estimate of how much they'd have to pay Reddit for each user in API costs alone. But it doesn't take into account cost of Apollo's own servers and infrastructure, Apple's fees, or the fact that there are people with paid for yearly subscriptions that'd have to be served:

> Even if I added 12,000 new subscribers at $5/month (an enormous feat given the short notice), after Apple's fees that would just be enough to break even.
>
> Going from a free API for 8 years to suddenly incurring massive costs is not something I can feasibly make work with only 30 days. That's a lot of users to migrate, plans to create, things to test, and to get through app review, and it's just not economically feasible.

(quoted from https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_w...)

All in all it's a much different thing if Reddit said they want to charge the users $2.5/mo for API access, given them their own key and let use whatever 3rd party app they want. They want to charge the 3rd party apps directly, which is a whole different story that can't really be summed up as to "$2.5 is not that high if people really want to use third party apps"
Maybe it's clear to others, but it's certainly not to me, how exactly transformers - or rather transformer-based LLMs - are operating.

I understand how transformers work, but my mental model is that a transformer is the processor and the LLM is an application that runs on it. After all, transformers can be trained to do lots of things, and what it learns when trained with a "predict next word" LLM objective is going to differ from what it learns (and hence operates?) in a different setting.

There have been various LLM interpretation papers analyzing aspects of them, such as the discovery of pairs of consecutive layer attention heads acting as "search and copy" "induction heads", and analysis of the linear layers as key-value stores, which perhaps leads to another weak abstraction of the linear layers as storing knowledge and perhaps the reasoning "program", with the "attention" layers being the mechanism being programmed to do the data tagging/shuffling ?

No doubt there's a lot more to be discovered about how these LLMs are operating - perhaps a wider variety of primitives built out of attention heads other than just induction heads ? It seems a bit early to be building a high level model of the primitives these LLMs have learnt, and not sure if attempting a crude transformer-level model really works given how the residual context is additive - it's not just tokens being moved around.
So is the status page from the looks of it.
Thats a lot of time. What consistency are the yolks? Seems they would be very dry and powdery and very close to turning green/gray
Remote first with quarterly or less get togethers seems infrequently discussed, but I think that works pretty well. A hybrid where even one day a week is expected basically is in-office limiting.
Likewise it is very true for almost everyone. Younger people and kids first don't experience anything like the usual shopping rush associated with Christmas so "back in the good old days" it was indeed less commercialized.
>But often in the case of advertising, the receiving party does not really have a choice

I can't think of a situation where that's true.
GP was certainly referring to the Shanghai line, which feels much closer to put into service and to never put into service than one should reasonably consider possible at the same time.
You're measuring success by spreadsheets, not quality of life. As a Florida resident for half a decade, the state is a dumpster fire. It is designed as a place for the very wealthy to live well at the expense of everyone else (with the tax framework built to be regressive vs progressive).

~26% of Florida drivers carry no auto insurance (raising prices for everyone else). Property insurance market is collapsing due to roofing fraud and climate change risk repricing. If you have kids, public school is not an option due to quality. Pedestrian deaths are higher than the national average. Despite transparency laws, there is still substantial corruption and nepotism in government. Electric rate increases exceed other areas due to primarily investor owned utilities regulatory capture and their heavy reliance on natural gas fired generation. There is an extreme shortage of healthcare workers and teachers currently (construction and agriculture aren't far behind due to recent legislation). The people of Florida elected Rick Scott for governor twice. Before he ran for governor, he was CEO of Columbia/HCA. The company presided over the biggest Medicare fraud in history, and the company had to pay a $1.7 billion fine. Rick Scott claimed he didn’t know anything about this fraud, but he had to plead the fifth ~75 times during the investigation. Rick Scott is now a Florida senator. You can also carry a concealed weapon with no concealed carry permit as of July 1st. There is an affordable housing crisis, with Florida ranking third for homelessness.

But yes, warm weather and no state income tax.

(I can provide citations for all of my assertions above but won't pollute the thread unnecessarily)
Intel Announces Major Brand Update Ahead of Upcoming Meteor Lake Launch
> switch ISP

To what?

Switching ISPs is what got me into this mess in the first place. Also, I really like Linode but for this one issue.
I feel the author's pain. The biggest bisect I have done was 17 steps and that was tedious enough. Booting the machine over Dell's iDRAC was the icing on that experience.
Empathy and faux politeness are different things.
There are networks of groups trying to saturate the mainstream news with pro-Their Issues content. That's what activist networks are - they get donations, members, PR firms, etc. and seek to influence politicians and the population with their viewpoints.

Is this shocking? It's how democratic politics works - coalitions, influence, impact.
Yeah, that's it.

We have a working model that has provided stunning results for decades. Even back in 2001, there was a strong scientific basis for decriminalization, and treating drug use as a public health issue rather than a moral one.

With the sharp rise in opiate and fentanyl recently, it's alarming how backward the conversation still is. It's almost as if shadowy powerful forces are real content with prohibition...

Radical measures are necessary, now, just as they were in 2001 in Portugal. People are dying, families are being torn apart, and it's all so heart-breakingly unnecessary.
I'm old enough to remember when any journalist who didn't check their facts wasn't worth reading for anything beyond entertainment value. P.J. O'Rouke would need someone to do the work for him. Sy Hersh, not so much.

I look at Taibbi's work and haven't found uncorrected error. NYT? WaPo? Well it's not fair, there are orders of magnitude more opportunities for them to mess it up but yep, they sure have, often, on stories Taibbi didn't.
https://www.kbb.com/car-news/ford-warns-dealers-buyers-to-av...

Dealers are in the loop
Clojure Corner with Peter Stromberg (PEZ) How Calva Was Built
an interview with Peter Stromberg, that can give you a good view on Clojure, VS Code, and Calva.