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It’s a milestone on a roadmap. Science like this doesn’t happen in eureka moments - it’s a methodical slog through our ignorance where we latch in wins bit by bit over decades. Quantum computing, AI, fusion, curing cancer, ending aging, they’re pinnacle achievements at the extended play of Civilization.
Is there a transcript of this available somewhere?
The Evolution of Working from Home
> Kindly cite a problem with admitting mistakes and growing and learning from them.

Nothing against this.

> Then explain how consistency is a bad thing.

This is a really boring conversation, because if I give a good example you'll just define consistency for that example not to apply. For example, picking the token case of naming functions in such and such way, it occurs to me that I don't really care if you break rules are long it's done in a way that doesn't affect the interface. If something can be considered an implementation detail, I don't care that it doesn't follow the same rules, as long as the interface doesn't allow you to see it. But then you'll just say something like "oh but 'consistency' doesn't mean a rule applies under any and all circumstances, there's always caveats" bla bla bla.

It's a boring conversation, my point is that you had a dogma, and now you have a different dogma. You think you're evolving, I think you're changing but not evolving in a bigger way.
While I understand Bezos is not Amazon (and vice versa), am I the only one grinning at the irony of this coming from The Washington Post?
100%. I don't have the time to read the paper but online schema changes, with the ability to fail and abort the entire operation if one row is invalid, are basically the same problem as background index building.

If instead of using some generic K/V backend, it made use of specific FDB features, it might be even better. Conflict ranges and snapshot reads have been useful for me for some background index building designs, and atomic ops have their uses.

> Oh yes, it also has a Raft implementation, so if you want multi-cluster FDB with Raft-driven failover you could do that too (iirc, FDB doesn't have this out of the box).

I don't know what you mean by this. Multiple FDB clusters?
If they deliver their EMR as a container, it no longer matters what host OS it runs on because the container doesn't have to interact with it.

Just like RHEL doesn't have to care if it runs on AMD or Intel or if it is virtual or physically hosted, or if the RAM is from Samsung or Micron. And if it needs to talk to a database, say, Oracle, it really doesn't care if it's oracle on Oracle Linux or oracle on SunOS, or if it's in the same rack, or even hall. It just wants to talk to oracle, and it probably has a latency and TNS requirement and that's about it from the hosts's perspective.

With 'install my package in a userland' you bind to the userland. But with 'run my container' you only bind to a container runtime, which has a very small and very portable interface in comparison.

So no, I don't think the host OS would be relevant at all in a containerised case, as long as it can run containers.

As for the userland inside the container: that's up to the EMR provider to choose and deliver. Instead of delivering RPMs you'd get OCI images (or tgz images). In a way, it would work the same way an OVA delivery would work, but smaller and more portable. In some other markets this is already done for WMS software for example, albeit using outdated methods like having a Swarm dependency so you're still runtime-locked.
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Your first sentence literally mirrors this slogan:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns_don%27t_kill_people,_pe...
As far as I know sunspot count is just a feature you can see on photographs, yet it is also very strongly correlated with this cosmic radiation detection data.
My mom, who is so non-techy that she needs me to walk her through plugging in an Ethernet cable, uses Chatgpt to help her respond to emails and to write advertising descriptions for stuff she’s selling.

She uses AI more than me, who’s hunting for deals on gpu’s to train my own DRL model.

I was honestly shocked when I found out. I had figured that it was a tech echo chamber too.
Simple multithreaded read/write. On a 20-core 40-thread machine with a couple of fast NVMe drives it was way faster.
This is Hacker News after all, not Hack-The-World News.
1. Win a lawsuit establishing that training AI is not fair use, or

2. Put it behind a click-wrap agreement that provides that it is provided to the user in exchange for an agreement not to use it to train AI.

3. For images, using on of the AI-poisoning techniques and publicizing that fact may encourage people to exclude your content from training sets; OTOH, it may backfire, especially against people looking specifically to defeat the AI poisoning technique in use.

Otherwise, those operating under the theory that training AI is Fair Use will have no reason not you use the content for training AI.
> Something interesting about this comparison is that in the US, firearms ownership is a Constitutional right, owning and operating a vehicle is not.

I consider it a fourth amendment issue. The government has no business remoting into your car, rummaging though its data, and seizing control of your property.
I've been looking into this pretty closely, and I've yet to find a good solution. The best approach I can find is to set up webserver rules to block connections coming from specific ip addresses, but that's just a whack-a-mole game I can't win.

So, for now, all of my public websites are no longer publicly available until/unless I can find a solution.
> Aristotle's philosophy died in the 16th century with Francis Bacon.

Some would disagree:

> Actuality and potentiality, substantial form and prime matter, efficient causality and teleology are among the fundamental concepts of Aristotelian philosophy of nature. Aristotle's Revenge argues that these concepts are not only compatible with modern science, but are implicitly presupposed by modern science.

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43277412-aristotle-s-rev...
The screenshot tool is pretty tightly coupled to shortcuts that’s certainly true. I actually didn’t know there was a keyboard shortcut for hidden files and folders, it can be toggled through the preference menu for finder, but again yeah that’s not as discoverable as it should be. Switching apps in full screen mode would be using the dock. I never do, but it works just fine and it’s the way you switch apps with a mouse, also using cams+tab works with the system set to follow space of selected application which is set by default.

To your point about trackpads though, I agree. I can’t stand a mouse on macOS, it loses too much convenience, especially with BTT available.

That said, is there any system today that you find more discoverable? I mean serenityOS actually fits that bill, and classics like older macOS or windows 98, but anything modern?
Reliable in-process crash reporting is exceptionally difficult.

The code must be fully async-safe, which means you cannot use <stacktrace>. You also cannot acquire mutexes, use any of the standard allocators, etc etc etc.
His jokes are hilarious!
I know basically nothing about Zig, but you don't need language-level exceptions to handle platform exceptions. You can write the handler code in C. Why can't you write it in Zig? The usual problem is that the language runtime gets in the way, but I thought Zig had a very minimal runtime like C.
The tldr is that both of them urged Roosevelt to develop the weapon, and only later when the destructive potential of the bomb was obvious expressed regret. Einstein's 1938 letter to Roosevelt was the first step toward the Manhattan project. See https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history/Resou... if you want to read more.

So it's weird to say Einstein "warned us" about the x-risk of nuclear weapons prior to their development when his letter to Roosevelt was begging for more money to speed up the development of nukes.

I think the entire saga is mostly an unrelated red herring -- AI is nothing like nuclear bombs and reasoning by analogy in that way is sloppy at best.

Mostly? It's just kind of funny that x-risk people point to Einstein and Oppenheimer as positive examples, since they both did literally the exact opposite of "warn the public and don't develop". The irony makes you chuckle if you know the history.

Particularly given the weird fetish for IQ in the portion of the x-risk community that overlaps with the rationalist community, it's also really funny to point out that what they should be saying is actually something like "don't be like those high-IQ fools Einstein and Oppenheimer! They are terrible examples!" ;)
OTOH I understood the instructions immediately. This is a fundamental issue in UX. Some users will know right away and others will not. Maybe a better sentence structure? Maybe something like "Guess the 1 location where all these photos were taken" (?)

From my experience, most people don't read the instructions or text notes anyway. So its possible that an even better UX is one where the user figures out what they can do through intuition rather than reading.
Like any technology, like the internet or guns, it can be used for good or ill. The real line of defense to bad tech uses should be at the societal level, with a fallback to the legal level. If people want surveillance tech spying on them (to reduce crime, etc) then no amount of legal prohibition or technological safeguards will stop it.
I don’t know about actually writing papers, but I’ve had surprisingly good results having chatgpt rewrite things for me.
Maybe this one is reserved for me!
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Is it ok that online data is been mediated for us by members of secret societies, such as David Rumsey an "initiate into the Skull and Bones Society"?

Should we trust someone who was "a founding member of Yale Research Associates in the Arts also known as PULSA, a group of artists working with electronic technologies"?

Is it possible that secret society members could create/alter online data to ensure they are better able to achieve their objectives, whatever they are?

quotes from:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rumsey
> frauds, quacks, and pseudo-intellectual con artists (like Harari)

Uh, mind elaborating? Why is Harari that? Do you have any examples of non-frauds and actual intellectuals?

> a TED Talks-watching segment of the public who are, frankly, intellectually out of their depth, but enjoy the delusion and feeling of participating in something they think is "intellectual"

I'm afraid that would be me.
What Is Product Marketing? (2018)
There is some overhead from the quantization, and right now the operations themself are sometimes done at higher precision than the weights in RAM.

And widespread hardware 4 bit will take some time. If the HW makers started designing 4 bit silicon in 2022, then we are still years away.
All the languages I care about to stay away from C are mainstream.

I have not had any reason to touch C since 2001, other than to keep up with WG14 work, exploit analysis, and security mitigations from SecDevOps point of view.

History lesson, there were other OSes other than Multics.

Also UNIX only became written in C on version V, and contrary to urban myths spread by UNIX Church, it wasn't the only OS written in a portable systems programming language.

It was the only one that came with free beer source tapes.

Now with governments looking into cybersecurity bills, let's see how great C is all about.

It will be great for lawyers, that's for certain.
The Entire Lego Movie on Twitter
Licenses alongside public content won't work because the reason people feel free to train is a legal theory that it does not require permission.
Just like ChatGPT.
We'll come up with new captchas and shibboleths to filter out generated fiction. It may come in the form of more in-person face-to-face contact. It'll be an exciting transition regardless.
The outcome we got is probably in the middle, badness-wise.

Better would be an independent Goodreads with incentives to find features that fight spam and such.

But it's hard to imagine them being able to make much money doing that, and them going under would be worse.

And honestly I'd MUCH rather have a Goodreads that Amazon does nothing with than a Goodreads that chased growth from VC money or PE or whatever to try to turn into another retail site and abandoned the "your reading history" angle.
I think you exaggerate. I’ve turned in worse in English 104 and gotten an A. Quality goes out the window when you have 75 minutes and a 12 page paper to write.
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You're not just wrong, but completely wrong. I would rather have code with good names but a compile error checked in than code with bad names. Anyone can fix the compile error, but to fix the names they have to take the time to understand the entire problem domain.
That is a strange example, because usually we don’t put people in prison for accidents unless there is specific type of gross negligence (e.g., drunk driving) or malicious disregard for life and safety.

> Anderson decided to plead guilty to vehicular homicide because she did not want the family of Karla Campos to endure a trial.

Maybe the woman knew that it would be revealed that she was drunk or had been told that she didn’t have the capability any more to drive safely, but she did it anyway. Without knowing all the facts, pleading guilty for an accident seems like a bizarre choice.
> Put it behind a click-wrap agreement that provides that it is provided to the user in exchange for an agreement not to use it to train AI.

Such a thing is only as good as your ability to enforce it, though. Are you in a financial situation that allows you to afford to sue Google? I'm not.
I feel like you should be able to request a call from their call center rather then be forced to wait on the phone for one. The long wait times to speak to representatives is a cost savings measure.

First saving on having to hire an appropriate level of customer service staff. Second that percentage of people who give up.

It's a feature, not a bug.

I think one of the pixel phone had an option to detect when there was a human on the other end of the line. Definitely made me consider getting it back when I was looking for a new phone.
Sure. Same situation if your CPU, Chipset, PMIC, or any random capacitor or resistor dies on any other laptop. SSDs have achieved the point where a replacement from a failure is almost unheard of compared to other components failing first. Nobody complains their laptop CPU isn't socketed.

It's definitely a frustration for upgrades - but not really reliability anymore. When's the last time someone complained their phone's SSD died?
What happened to Book Depository was disgusting.
> As far as I know, no one is using it in production after 7 years of development.

- Uber uses Zig to produce hermetic builds of their backends and was able to move their C/C++ codebases to arm64 thanks to Zig's C/C++ cross-compilation support.

https://www.uber.com/en-US/blog/bootstrapping-ubers-infrastr...

- Bun is written in Zig and its sudden success was big enough to cause Deno to have an identity crisis.

- TigerBeetle is written in Zig and it's probably the most promising upcoming database company out there.

- There are a few more notable examples, but I haven't been given permission to talk about them publicly yet.

> Honest question: why do we all keep talking about Zig?
> Are the people behind it just really good at marketing?

The project is simply inherently interesting. For one reason or another, nobody figured out a proper build & cross-compilation experience for C/C++ before Zig did it, just like nobody has figured out a good package manager yet for C/C++ and we're about to do it.

When Apple Silicon came out Zig was the first compiler able to cross-compile for it (way before LLVM btw) thanks to our custom linker, and thanks to it and the fact that we're working on our own custom backends, we're also going to achieve incremental compilation with in-place binary patching, ultimately reducing linking time to basically zero for incremental rebuilds.

Zig is also the only language that has async/await but that doesn't have an ugly & wasteful split between blocking and evented versions of the same networking library.

I'm stopping here with technical arguments, but there would be more to talk about.

Lastly and most importantly, the project has an interesting approach to finances and governance: we've had a non-profit foundation for longer than Rust and we have made a point to never, ever, let big tech companies influence the governance of Zig.

The Zig Software Foundation pays its developers (instead of hiring copywriters & marketing people) and 90+% of what we make through donations or support contracts goes to developers. The rest is infrastructure and administrative costs (eg CI, accountant).

I'm the guy who's most in charge of marketing and I'm currently working on the automated documentation system because Zig pretty much markets itself.
Two things:

- I've added transparent PCM resampling, so it's ca. 400 SLoC now. The API hasn't changed, and the feature can be turned off with a define.

- Bad project name, I've just found out that there's already another project by this name: https://github.com/psqli/nanoalsa

The two are not related in any way: that's GPL3 licensed, mine is MIT. That's a .c source, mine is a single header library. And the API is totally different too (pcm_open, pcm_set, pcm_hw_params_setup, pcm_write, versus alsa_open and alsa_write). That supports recording, mine does not. That does not support async playback, mine does.
No. It is a frontend application that works as a CRUD REST API, validates the data, generates what it can, and stores it into a database/IPAM. It can then be changed, viewed, modified, deleted, etc.

When you are ready to deploy I "compile" the object model data into an IR (representing the "network topology") and then make a final pass and translate into HCL for all the various backends.

I'm not saying its "better" as it has trade offs. I'm saying for networks specifically, it is the only way I've seen in the real world to give these tools lots of value. Otherwise the network engineers end up spending all their time looking up the input data (vlans, subnets, ips, etc.) which is the part that is most time consuming for manual configuration as well. The validation and auto-generation of the input data is where the value comes in.
As much as the IMDB rankings are obviously gamed (especially when a movie or series just came out) I find the ratings fairly accurate over time, a 7+ is usually pretty decent to great for 8+, ratings of 6 are usually pretty average and 5 and below are truly awful.
Perhaps that is Nassim's argument because he is an expert in risk.
The actual issue with experts monitoring experts is the bias induced by self interest (see previous sentence).
Nassim sort of gets this when it comes to his discussion of "skin in the game". I dont want to malign Nassim too much but he seems like the kind of person that "sorta gets it" when it comes to everything that matters.
Despite the other answers, I will tell you the grim truth: Your mileage might vary.

It's an empirical question and depends upon the nature of your problem and data. You should try all three fp32, fp16, and bf16 as part our model selection / hyperparameter tuning.

For example, in audio generative models (where typical output is 16-bit), I've sometimes found that fp16 and bf16 just don't produce good output as fp32 weights.
Imho this is the foible of many technical people in that they want to advertise unique use cases.

But the problem is:

1. The people who aren’t already engrossed in the field, don’t have a good view on how to bridge between their current world view and the new one.

2. The people who are already in the space don’t need to be sold on unique cases.

Very few post-jobs-return Apple products show dramatic new use cases even if the product then goes on to enable it, and even if Apple themselves have clearly thought of it.

Their marketing is: this is how you take what you’re already doing into this space. Unique VR experiences only matter to a fringe set of users. The every day mundane stuff is what matters to the rest.

Take the ability to run iPad apps on it natively. VR enthusiasts will scoff at it. The real trick though is that it means you aren’t having to switch devices to do a mundane task, which means more time on each device. That’s what appeals to the bigger market, and has been proven time and time again , because it’s not making them do contortions to use it.

Another issue is thinking that the demographic for sales has to be the demographic for ads.
People will reply and say: well the price isn’t for the lay person. To which I’d say, who cares? They’re not the early adopter but they’re still the demographic for who the people buying this will be developing apps and content for.
Compute in F32, but then round and pack a pair of BF16 into 4 bytes.
Is there a way that you'd recommend somebody outside the field assess your "90%" claim? Elsewhere in the thread you're dismissive of that one survey - which I agree is weak evidence in itself - and you also deny that the statements of leaders at OpenAI, DeepMind and Anthropic are representative of researchers there, which again may be the case. But how is someone who doesn't know you or your network supposed to assess this?
> ... quantum computers are really early in their development and can't do the more complicated things yet. It's like if we had calculators that took an hour to do each arithmetic operation ...

Reminds me of the story George Stibitz tells after developing one of the first devices that could be called a computer. Management at Bell Labs was not impressed that he had built a "20000 dollar calculator".

https://youtu.be/qundvme1Tik?t=259