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Tesla quotes customer $12K after installing refurbished battery
https://twitter.com/kvartovertolv/status/1673434033357742082

Twitter rant is in Swedish, but here is the gist:

1. Customer bought a brand new Tesla Model S (presumably the P85) about 10 years ago

2. Just as battery warranty is about to expire (8 years after purchase), customer experiences reduced charging speeds

3. Tesla approves repair under warranty, replacement is a refurbished battery

4. 15 months later, refurbished battery stops taking charge at all, car is effectively bricked

5. All warranties now expired, Tesla quotes customer SEK 127k for replacement (unclear if new or refurbished)

If the replacement battery would also be refurbished then Tesla is quoting the customer 127k for a repair that might only give the car a few years of additional life. This is an impossible to justify investment in a car that is already a decade old. ICE cars do throw clutches, gearboxes or engines at that age and replacements can be costly, but they generally last another decade. If, on the other hand, the 127k replacement is for a new battery then it's not too far from the ICE scenario, as the battery is pretty much the only thing the car will need to run another 8-10 years. However the customer experience is still terrible.
Sure, as I said:

>I'm not sure either will work entirely, but that's another point
You have tried being teporarily sober, but you have not truly seen alcohol culture from outside.

I didn't say doing that would be wonderful, that was your own words. It's not fun to be the only atheist at a Pentecostal meeting either, but as I said: sometimes you choose what to do for other reasons than fitting in and having fun.
The design is old fashioned but it really doesn't matter. Imagine if they decided to revamp their UI as a mobile friendly monstrosity with large and padded components everywhere. It would likely be terrible. The compact look they have right now makes it possible to display a lot of information in a small area.
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Could you or someone else kindly explain how it works for diffusion based LLMs, based on the style of GP? What happens for instance, if I give as input the prompt 'Describe Berlin' or maybe the more fitting 'Berlin city on a sunny day'?
Reading through the comments, nobody has mentioned it, but I'm curious... why don't people just drink at home? It's way cheaper, less of a risk to get into a fight, no travel time to bed etc?

I get clubbing. You can't really replicate the dance floor and music at home. But a bar?
People have been denouncing prostitution as debasing, demoralizing, and distracting for as long as writing has been available, maybe longer.

Manipulating people with sex is nothing new, and we will keep finding new ways to do it with every new technological innovation.
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There are indeed less and more religious local places. I'm in a more religious one. Btw you can always get a drink in Muslim countries if you're not Muslim, as per the Sharia.
The kind of mental gymnastics that people do here to justify needing 8 GB of RAM with a turnover of 3 GB per ~minute~ second to handle 1000 users.
Olive oil consumption in India is rising and numerous reports say that already in the US and Europe up to 60-80% of olive oil is not what it says on the bottle; in other words it's a fraud. Given that olive oil has a proportion of fatty acids in common with vegetable oils, sharp practice detection appears to demand a fully fledged laboratory. Many of us who love olive oil would give a lot for a home test. None of the ones I've seen to date seem to be reliable. I guess it's best to pay over the odds and assume it's not worth the supplier's time and money to adulterate a product already commanding a high price.
I have iCloud disabled, so that’s not it.
It's not like actual genius people are constantly trying to make the deadliest virus for various purposes and we've been hardening our systems for decades in order to not have them immediately taken over. You'd have to go beyond AGI to break those safeguards.

> all the computers

The average shit tier PC doesn't even have enough RAM to load an LLM capable of consistent output, much less to load it into VRAM for any kind of reasonable speed. This is like being concerned that Panda bears will become an invasive species and take over the world if we stop them from going extinct.

Besides, all you have to do to pull the plug is disable any of the billion python dependencies it needs to download every time and it's stopped dead in its tracks. Something that's basically done every other day and needs to be continuously fixed by project maintainers, so it's more like a Panda on life support that dies if somebody stops pumping air into its breathing hose. It's all fragile af.
"Hey so what do you do?"

"I unfk other people's fonts"

that's funny af.
The best language for the task at hand, when presented with time constraints, is the one that you already know well. OP said in the article that they authored Papercups [1]. Adopting Elixir for a websocket-push service makes a lot of sense, then. However, why don't you learn Elixir, some OTP, and then reconsider that question? You could be missing out.

[1] https://github.com/papercups-io/papercups
Imagine doing something similar in C#, i.e. copying all properties from one arbitrary object to another. This would require the use of reflection and would not be typesafe at all, since reflection in C# is not typesafe.
What do you mean, no personality? ChatGPT sounds exactly like people I know working in PR.
I know right!
> No one has to accept it, that’s what’s what.

Sure; language is an agreement. No one can force you to communicate clearly and if it is your desire, you can go all day long babbling nonsensical syllables. No one can stop you; do as your heart commands you.

> Pre-pubescent boys do not produce gametes either but that doesn’t stop them being male.

So, you're arguing that we should not only consider the current state of an organism to determine its sex but rather the normal lifecycle and what kind of gametes the organism would have produced?

Sure, we can go with that, if you prefer that.

Does it change anything?
An async deadlock in a buggy library will under load exhaust the process threads and take down everything. One bug can cause large objects to be allocated, freaking out the garbage collector, causing increasingly large lag spikes under load, and timeouts in seemingly unrelated code paths. A configuration change affecting only one part of the system can prevent the entire process from starting up. Modularization is one valid way to increase resilience by limiting blast radius.
So now might be a good time to bring up the patent application from 2017[1] in which the Navy was involved. Titled "Piezoelectricity-induced High Temperature Superconductor", it was fairly widely viewed as disinfo or fringe science back then. Perhaps it's time to reconsider?

[1] https://patents.google.com/patent/US20190348597A1/en
Of course I realize that. Just like I realize Christians don't spend every walking moment talking in tongues. Doesn't mean they understand the atheist life better than atheists understand theirs.

Aside, this sort of "hilarious reply!" post isn't exactly nice when I'm right here is it.
>It seems a bit silly to argue that increasing land prices is principally a result of marketing. The amount of earth on the planet in the last 10k years essentially hasn't changed but the number of humans has increased almost 2000%. Population growth is surely a "blind force", right?

But in some places population is the same or even declining and prices are still going up.
I think the devil is in the details there - getting the terrain generation right, handling of things like redstone, and replicating the various glitches+bugs that people tend to use. Otherwise you've made a Minecraft-alike, not Minecraft.
so a glorified Markov chain?
The hardcore technical folks seem to prefer things that don't alter the vanilla mechanics quite as much as Paper, it's true. But FWIW there are lots of farm and redstone designs that work reliably on Paper.
I have been using Outlook for years as the "no bullshit" client for all the accounts I have and the biggest feature that has been missing for me is the ability to link to individual messages or threads, so I can just store links to these messages in my notes and plans instead of having to search for these messages each time.
Weird that this is not mentioned as an important feature.
I wonder how twisted the author mind is now.

He has been working in 4D for more than a decade (first mentions of Miegakure was in 2009), if it is ever possible to get an intuitive feeling of a 4D world, that should do it.

The alternative is to just throw away intuition and just do the maths with one extra vector coordinate, but that would be unfortunate for a game that is all about thinking in 4D.
This idiocracy meme is part of the distraction. Proletariat literally means "breeders". The elites very much know they need to keep the number of heirs limited while expanding the base of exploitable populace.
In short: when you don't have the rights you don't have standing to sue. But the real rights holders may well be able to sue both Genius and Google for copyright infringement.
If you're adding salt to a fermentation vessel then you wouldn't want it to be iodized since the iodine will harm the bacteria responsible for fermentation.
iOS has Background App Refresh setting, per app on/off.
> But FWIW there are lots of farm and redstone designs that work reliably on Paper.

Ah, good to know - been a long while since I last tried Paper.
Yeap. The linked cpp ref doc has a nice example:

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/thread/hardware_destructiv...
Huginn is a bunch of mechanical rules explicitly created by the user and easily understandable by them. It's "autonomous" in the sense of a grandfather clock.

The rules governing LLMs, while in principle mechanical, cannot be accurately controlled or even understood by humans. They are "autonomous" in the sense of animals, which may be trained to some degree, but may still surprise or even become a danger to their "owners", no matter how much effort is spent trying to control them.

An LLM may do what you ask it to, using the methods you expect it to use. Or it may do what you ask it to, using methods you weren't expecting at all. Or it may not do what you have asked at all. This isn't comparable to a rule-based system like Huginn.
Some people in those age ranges are more open, sure, but they're outvoted by everyone else, which is why those pro-car anti-public-transit "electeds" are there. At best, it'll be a generation or two until this changes and any significant progress is made in turning these places into walkable, bikeable areas (because you need to change all the zoning laws, and then knock stuff down and build more densely for walking and biking to actually be practical; no one's going to bike many miles every time they just want to go grocery shopping or whatever).
Well, Java isn't really used for perf critical workloads to be fair.
Half of going to a bar is to have a change of pace. Either to meet people or to have a separate place to contemplate and relax that isn’t at home.
Hah we are all LLMs, free will is an illusion. Ask BrainGPT a question and an answer prints itself out word by word in your head.
While this should be better, it now needs a check for overflow in the indices, unless they are 64-bit numbers, when you may hope for a computer reboot long before overflow.

Overflow in 32-bit indices can be surprisingly frequent in fast computers.
Nicee.
I can't remember if it actually ended up in TLS 1.3 but yes, the "ordered list" is clearly just a bunch of maybe-useful hints about why you might trust these keys. The end-entity certificate is useful for any general purpose client, and then intermediates make sense if you didn't know them (e.g. Firefox actually knows them all) and from there it's basically judgements about what common clients might not know.

You could still stream this, at a cost of a some wasted network bandwidth, which may be more affordable than e.g. "Add RAM to a device which has maximum RAM already". Perform setup, learn the key you need, disconnect, perform the setup again, this time you know key K, assume key K, and when you learn the key if it's not actually K, begin fresh, otherwise success.
What's the range of drinks that you carry at home? How many cocktails do you know how to make? Do you have the ingredients to make them? What happens when a drunk guest spills his beer on your carpet? What happens when some acquaintances bring acquaintances that bring acquaintances? How do you continue the party? Does everyone have to drive to the club? Isn't everyone drunk already?

I see plenty of reasons without even going to the fact that it's just about going out.

I get your point if your idea of going to the bar is to have a pint with your wife on Sunday afternoon, which is a valid idea of going to the bar. But it's just not the case for a lot of people, and not the topic of the article.
The extent people will go to reinvent a worse, slower and more insecure ver of static bins + BSD jails is absurd...
I believe this is the Elixir server they blogged about: https://github.com/Linen-dev/linen.dev/tree/main/apps/push_s...
A chain of LLMs can work in that regard, using intermediary prompts that feed answers to the next prompt. Make the LLM build a list of sections, then make it fill them with examples, then make it enrich the text. Maybe a last layer for error correction, clarity, removing mentions of "as an AI model", etc.
I don't open Twitter much anymore, but would happily follow you on the fediverse ("mastodon", infosec.exchange is a popular server).
You are comparing the majority, whose culture I'm exposed to every day in lots of ways I would prefer not to, to a distant continent? Great own, buddy.
While I wouldn't call it consumable, you do have to put money into it if you want to keep it working and in good state

But the house part is not an investment. It's the land that appreciates in value, the value isn't in a bunch of bricks and boards that sits, it's the location of the piece of land.
I can see why Sweden would ... in 1920s, forests covered 35% of their land, today they cover 70%, of this 80% is in active use [-1], employing 4% of the workforce [-2].

Makes sense in low-rise construction - of two otherwise identical buildings (4 story, ~15 flats/apartments), one with timber-frame construction has no carbon dioxide emissions, whereas the concrete-frame yields 96 tonnes [-2].

[-1] https://www.forestindustries.se/forest-industry/facts-and-fi...
[-2] https://www.ksla.se/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Forests-and-F...
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Cool stuff. The possibilities of Minecraft if some optimisation work was done would be amazing. It's demotivating just how rotten the internals of Minecraft are. Bedrock edition has really nice performance but nobody wants to play it.
It's a bit more social - the local bars I go to I know loads of people who go, I know the bar staff. There's little-to-no risk of fighting and this is true for most bars here unless you really wanted to find trouble (i.e. you sought out a football bar and went in loudly declaring your love for Sparta Prague and calling the local team shite). Re travel time, where I go is usually about 10 minutes walk home ... but if I have my dog then this is no different from drinking at home since before bed I need to take him ~10 minutes around the block anyway after I was done for the night.

I appreciate that this isn't true for everywhere.
I had to disable the Apple Watch high decibel alerts feature because it was triggering way too often: at train stations, when taking the subway, walking in the city center, any type of construction work, etc. Before that point I didn’t realize how crazy loud cities are, somehow my brain just dealt with it, and now I feel I cannot unsee it.
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The technologies I employed in this new version include SvelteKit for the frontend, Fastify for the backend, Mongo and Redis for data storage, Haraka smtp server, K3s the Kubernetes cluster, and Caddy as reverse proxy. It was a great learning experience and I'm happy to share any learnings with the community.

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Of course, but the article specifically says that Gmail does it for advertising purposes, which is no longer true [1].

It's pretty reasonable to expect that your email provider is going to "scan" your message content. Performing spam detection, for example, is a pretty common reason and most people want that. Tutanota scans message content: "executing content checks and mark emails as spam or not" [2]. So I don't think they are demonizing message scanning on it's own. If there are objectionable purposes for Gmail's message scanning, let's call those out.

[1] https://www.pcmag.com/news/google-to-stop-scanning-gmail-mes...

[2] https://tutanota.com/support/howto#spam
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They should be in the same cacheline as you suggest. The writer will always touch both writeIdx and readIdxCached so it makes sense to be together. Splitting them won't affect synthetic benchmarks, but it just wasting space in a larger application.
On the topic of the general appeal of a public watering hole, I’ll direct you to a passage from the intro music of the seminal sitcom Cheers (which itself touches on your very question):

Sometimes you wanna go

Where everybody knows your name

And they're always glad you came

You wanna be where you can see

Our troubles are all the same

You wanna be where everybody knows your name
Another outlier here. Glad to see there are other like minded people on this thread.

While viewing emails on the web interface I use the email provider setting to block images from loading. That along with an ad blocker and JS blocker does a good job.

You are right that the text versions of many emails are terribly broken. I don't think the text versions are paid attention to anymore. I have been on the other side sending out mailers to our customers and while working with mailer systems I realized that the de facto way of working these days is to compose an HTML email and let the mailer system strip out all the HTML tags to create the text version. Of course that leads to terrible text versions of the emails.
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This is only true if use a Docker based workflow using `FROM nixos/nix`.
This image exists mainly as a way for people to try out Nix with, not to build production images on top of.
We ship many things which bloat the image size but makes it nicer for interactive usage.

Using dockerTools from nixpkgs is much better and gives you much smaller images closer to Alpine size.
Huginn was just an example. With the similar definition to yours, are these "LLM autonomous agents" really actually "autonomous?"

>They are "autonomous" in the sense of animals

That's a really weird equivalency, which frankly, I'm not even sure is true.
>We have record low unemployment, yet companies that complain about labor levels

These seem intuitively linked? If there's not enough labor to go around, more jobs will be pushed under the 'water level' where the value provided by them is less than the cost of the labor.
The Elixir repo on github hasn't been touched in 7 months. It's been that stable and feature complete?
I would be thrilled to see this ported to GitLab CI. This is an incredibly (for lack of a better word) sexy tool on top of Nix, and would perfectly fit a use case we have for using Nix for caching build artifacts.
Some more good news: I had severe tinnitus at some point (some years ago) and bit by bit it faded. So long term you may have some recovery (or not... but at least for me it got a bit better).
I suspect it being 16 bit instead of 32 bit means more of them can get packed more tightly. Some instructions can operate on them in parallel.

But I personally think it's a coincidence, and it just so happens that 50k tokens are enough for the level of complexity the models have right now.
My Beelink Ryzen 7 sometimes chugs with 3 people on it. Java Minecraft is terrible at actually doing stuff in an efficient manner.
without considering whether these features he lists are good, this has nothing to do with browser combination? it is just about these specific features in the email client?
I've met a lot of interesting people just sitting at the bar by myself, it's a really low stakes way to meet new people.
Why we keep creating and gravitating towards the wrong jobs?
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My wife had a Swytch on her Brompton and found after a year of use it wouldn't hold enough charge for her commute (10 miles). Bit disappointing really.

Brompton is still excellent though. We know someone who cycles to the airport, takes it on the plane as hand luggage to Munich and then cycles to his mums house.
We probably stay with the next token prediction task for training the foundation. It generalizes really well.

However, transformers are not able to loop. In a fixed amount of computing steps, they need to predict. For long-term planning, we probably want something more recursive/iterative (but that will be harder to train).

Also today we can compensate that with wrappers (eg. Langchain), but ultimately the machine will learn end to end.
What's up with software becoming less powerful (useful) over time? This is a wider trend that has presumably been accelerated by the shift to mobile apps (it's crazy to me that you would need different features based on the platform you use, but this belief seems to be wide spread).

"you don't need that" is being taken to the extreme. Designers with simple needs, not imagining that somebody would need more?
false sharing is the reason for splitting readIdx and writeIdx. But there is no reason to split readIdx and writeIdxCached.