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I went full remote with the start of Corona pandemic and I have to say it's been an amazing experience. Granted I've joined a co-working place so I wasn't working out from a basement but the interactions there are more informal and relaxing. I can understand some people are upset because they were forced to go out of office during pandemic and now want to get back to be abused as usual but I'm quite content to stay remote.

The article otherwise looks like cheap corp. propaganda to convince the IT crowd to get back into open spaces. I guess megacaps will want to push for getting folks back so they can be controlled by middle managers as in the good ol' times. I'm not sure if that's going to work as per plan though.

Interestingly enough my mental health being out of the office has much improved over before office work. As a developer I thrive on long focus time and good written-down documents. I don't miss being interrupted all the time, being shot at with NERF guns, being a middle man between people having conversation over you, over lunch work debates, open office background noise, over the shoulder staring etc. etc. Not at all.
> Let me copy text so I can paste it.

I'm guilty of doing this because in my game people kept accidentally double clicking and selecting all the text in the UI. What are the best practices around this?
"Northern outputs"? My grandparents an hour from Ottawa in a small town only had satellite internet until about six months ago when the government paid for fiber through the town.
> Much of the complexity is probably due to the wildly different behavior of the pins between minimum and maximum mode.

That truly does seem to be a silly design (as does the pin count constraint that "excuses" it). "Gakulicious engineering by intel" could probably fill a decent textbook.

What else might've used this? 8087 doesn't seem like enough of a thing to justify an entire separated bus like this, were they thinking multiprocessor uses? were there any? "asymmetric multiprocessing" i guess it'd have to have been.
Oh, to add, I think this is pretty interesting given my aversion to tumor immunology. I've seen trends in the field about changing the definition of what an exhausted cell is. I haven't read the primary research but they allude to using sequencing based approaches which are cool/more sophisticated compared to previous surface marker ones.
https://wasix.org/docs may be what you are looking for.

The WASI section documents WASI as it is implemented today.

But since then, WASI pivoted and has become an umbrella for multiple projects. This is not just an API any more, and at the moment, the documentation on the WASI site and repositories is for WASI developers, not for developers using WASI. So if you didn't follow the whole thing, it is indeed be very hard to understand. The stack is complicated. But the ultimate goal of the project is to actually make it easier for developers to use wasm, without having to worry about all these details.

It's essentially about adding dynamic linking to wasm. The dynamic libraries embed the function prototypes, so that calling functions with the wrong type will cause a link error. That requires the definitions of every type of function, and WIT, WAI and WITX are domain-specific languages to do that.

Right now, WebAssembly is limited to static linking. It works very well, even across languages, but types aren't automatically checked. Actually, they are, but only using the primitive types available in WebAssembly. Here, the goal is to support something very close to the Rust type system.

The proposal also allows restricting every library to their own memory region. So, a buggy or malicious library can only mess with its own data, not with the rest of the application.
Yes on a lease option the sale happens at the end so seller pays maintenance but on a land contract the sale is up front and seller just finances it so doesn't have to maintain.
Unless the filtered compounds are causing/preventing another deleterious effect.
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> Let me zoom in on my browser without the website getting all out of whack. I just want to be able to read.

This is my new OCD obsession when doing layout. I will keep my browser at 250% zoom for the first 3-4 hours of development. Periodically, I will spot test things like tables up to 500%.

I had no respect for the humble non-breaking space or automatic table layouts until I started doing this.
>But I admit, that also makes firefox hostile to corporate environments. If only firefox obeyed windows system/gpo/registry settings like chrome. I have never seen a non-tech company even permit firefox in their IT policy for these and other reasons anyways.

Perhaps I'm missing your point, but Firefox does (and I use it in my own AD forest) provide Group Policy[0] management support.

[0] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customizing-firefox-usi...
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> LLMs Can produce output that is equal in intelligence and creativity to humans.

"Intelligence" is begging the question when the whole debate is about whether they are intelligent, and what intelligence even is.

"Creativity" however... consider my eyebrows raised. Where do you see LLMs surpassing humans in creativity?

> It can even produce output that is objectively better than humans.

Examples?
Not hard to write notes without mistakes if you write regularly. What surprises me is people typing mistakes so often.
I find it exhausting when articles are written about ChatGPT which can be trivially demonstrated false by simply testing their assumptions. Noam Chomsky pulled a similar one a while ago.
It mirrors back the distribution, not the individual samples. It can interpolate but not extrapolate
Precisely. The Turing test is quite underspecified. For example it would be rather easy to emulate some psychotic person (more or less ignore input), even in the 80s. Then we can reach for the significantly mentally retarded, then perhaps for very young children, etc. LLMs can cover the greatest number of variants/levels of the test.

Another point that is not sufficiently appreciated: the hallucinations of the models (making shit up) is actually a very human trait. Compare with videos of random people stopped on the street and asked simple questions, such as "how old is the US?". With each follow-up question the story becomes ever more grotesque.
FlashAttention-2: Making Transformers 800% faster AND exact
:wq. Thanks for keeping Vim copyleft.
My understanding is that GotG3 is the best received of the post-endgame files (at least the non-spiderman ones)
> Nobody can make a statement that LLMs obviously have zero understanding of the world, nobody can make a statement that LLMs are just stochastic parrots because we don't really get whats going on internally

For such strong statements that they do have an understanding of the world, and are not simply stochastic parrots (arguably the null hypothesis), the burden of proof is on the LLM proponents. Precious little proof has been provided, and stating that nobody knows what goes on inside obviously does not add to that.
Putting aside the question of what LLMs, specifically, are capable of, I feel the author's central argument has already been shown to be false, through events outside of AI.

In a nutshell, the argument is that, as AI will have just the knowledge that is available to us, expressed in the languages we use, we will be able to anticipate and put a stop to it doing anything catastrophic.

Exactly the same argument, however, could be made over computer and communications security. If anything, those trying to keep things secure have the advantage in knowledge, at least initially, yet zero-day exploits keep surfacing, some of them at fundamental levels such as processor architecture. Nothing truly catastrophic has happened yet, but it cannot be said to be impossible.

The flaw in the argument is that one can easily know all the bare facts without seeing all the implications but someone - or something - else could do so.
There is some counter examples. Like Honorverse, which is clearly Space Opera on large scale, but at the same time at least started as rather hard sci-fi. At least if the consistency and realism inside acceptable technology is considered.
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I wonder how much overlap there is between a) people who assign fault to bears, and b) people who actually, seriously believe that animals have rights and responsibilities like we do.

If there isn't much of an overlap, we'd have found a nice paradox. If there's a huge overlap, on the other hand, I guess that would make for an even more interesting discussion. :)
> LLMs Can produce output that is equal in intelligence and creativity to humans

You could have said the same about photocopiers, when they were just as novel - where you'd never seen the "creation"s original.

Generative "AI" became impressive only at the point its input funnel gained access to more original material than any individual impressee could truly comprehend.

Cargo cult, yes.
Git doesn't really. It does have a (more or less) immutable, append-only model, but the things stored in git are state snapshots, not events. The UI does tend to present it as if it were events but that's just for convenience.
I have an endless loop of captchas, it never lets me in!
I got a call from an ISDN salesman desperate to makes sales. The place I worked didn't want an ISDN line but I sure did. My place in Brooklyn barely had phone service but I got I think 2 64kbit channels and a 9.6kbit a channel for an around $100. The a channel couldn't be used but the b channels each represented a single phone number. Digital TeleMedia was the one ISP in NYC trying to offer static IPs over ISDN lines. We used Ascend Pipeline 50s and I was using MailShare from Glenn Anderson and Chuck Shotton's Webster.

See that Glenns project died just a couple of years ago which is sad if I had Known it existed I would bought a license. I just checked and I'm happy to report Chuck Shotton is sill at MacHTTP.
The experiment is well-designed to have statistically sound sample sizes all performing directly comparable and quantifiable work. BUT maybe at the cost of relevance to knowledge work in the US:

The researchers observed data entry workers in Chennai, India, who were working either in an office or at home, and found that those randomly assigned to working from home were 18% less productive than office workers.

Yes, that's a little unfair to a study in a field where sound experiment design often is hard to have. But only a little.
Very interesting that this is even possible. But seems somewhat dangerous, making an audio recording is very easy.
Someone those businesses hired sold them on shortcuts that are just bad. Trading UX for production speed isn't a thing. Claiming bad UX is a business decision isn't a thing. Bad UX is bad for business. Sure, some of these concerns aren't as important as others. But generally speaking, the idea that saving time on development at the expense of observing very basic UI conventions is just silly.
fine article but once again.. problematic public communications IMHO. The history of "Arbor Day", public parks, zoning hearings, personal choices of where to live and what to plant .. all say that many but not all adult humans have long term personal relationships with trees around them. Yet journalism "rings the alarm" at a time of heaping crisis. This pushes sensitive people (lots of readers here) to "doom" view..

The writer may believe it when they write "most people ignore trees" but it is at least bi-model right? Lots of people care deeply about trees and in fact are doing something about it.

There has to be a better way to address the subject meaningfully, and not just a litany of dire situations.
My Silicon Valley city pays people to rip out their lawns. Owners usually replace with artificial turf, rocks, or dyed mulch, none of which cool or provide habitat for critters. They should really encourage the installation of native plants only. My personal favorite is the Manzanita, which some varieties can grow tree-like up to 15 feet and needs no supplemental water
Can an LLM discover novel tokens on its own?
Whether VIM proper withers and fades away or not, Bram's legacy will live on through Neovim too.
Completely agree, it's an almost total shift from everything that's in use these days. Very interesting to play with though, I'd love to see some real world use.
My experience was that hyperterminal, when transfering files, would give up after retrying a few blocks and there was no way to tell it to not do that and keep trying.
I feel like the first sentence of the wiki article explains it...

>The grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis), also known as the North American brown bear or simply grizzly, is a population or subspecies[2] of the brown bear inhabiting North America.
Ban pedestrians. Also an realistic and effective option.
Espresso? What about filter? Ristretto? French press? Turkish style?
I thought this was going to be about the energy efficiency of programming languages
He readily admits it as a rebranding of an old concept. Sometimes, we need things reframed so we can tell the story to people that aren't engineers.
I can imagine many, many situations where you might do this. But maybe another thing to be worried about are scammees being able to know the Password of people they are calling.
It makes me wonder if there is an additional cell state or ailment that will only present itself after more cancers are suppressed more reliably.

Like the cancer state is more than just an error, its a protection mechanism.

Since cancer treatments never address the root cause of whats turning cells cancerous, only mitigating the presence and affects of how many cancerous ones there are.

Right now, the additional state happens in too few survivors for anyone to notice. Like maybe the additional state its just as rare to further progress, and cancer often results in death.

There doesn't have to be a meaning, I just wonder if there is and if it could change the approach to improve protecting the host and ensuring survival.
It's a crying shame you don't still need to deposit a copy of some media to a library to exercise copyright on it.
Streaming services could have some kind of global agreement and offer physical media on demand printing discs or any format when sold. Quite simple to implement with the streaming source available and a respectable market at global scale
No, I've been programming for more than 20 years and Python was definitely not popular back then. I remember early Google even bragged that they'd rather hire a Python developer than Java/C++ one, because there were no python courses so the candidate learned it by their own.
Council taxes are mostly spent on social services. Councils can barely fund garbage collection, schools, and road maintenence on top of that. Probably not much left for all the nice things.
not all brewing methods require filters that provide obstacles for oil and particulate.
As someone from a country where our population density is probably a tiny fraction of yours, yes that decision is often sensible. The cost of underground installation, especially for things with voltage clearance requirements, is absolutely staggering.
People who’ve had their shots hate Musk too.
> ...why couldn't you just make single family dwellings illegal in high demand areas?

Because this isn't how things work in civil society.

They can't just decree that all single family homes in San Jose are now illegal and you have to vacate by the end of the month.
Bruh, the LLM has parsed the entirety of Zork, plus maybe thousands of articles written (by humans) on it. At least pick a better example.
>Latency of fiber vs copper isn’t a thing you will notice within any cities. The latency you are probably thinking of is related to shared mediums and having to wait to transmit (e.g. DOCSIS).

You're saying fiber's low latency (within a metro area) is more tied to it's carrying capacity as opposed to it's transmission nature. You're correct. Maybe also pedantic but certainly correct.
You and me both, nice one Sony.
> 'cause executives are the ones whose neck is on the line for success of their business division so they are extremely motivated to keep a close eye on profitability and progress on business goals, particularly when the economy looks wobbly.

...so? What is the conclusion? You force people to do what they hate and hope for better results? It really makes no sense.
I say we build a wall. To keep animals outside. And let the animals inside be free of humans.
Keep your head up man try to find something to do just for you today
This article does not mention a main method of finding the real ip of a website behind cloudflare. People in the USA who want to send a DMCA complaint can go to a courthouse and issue a DMCA supoena for a fee of around $47.
They'll also need a CUDA compatible API to stand a chance, but they have time.

I guess CUDA compatible would be fine, but for myself, I'd buy their cards for compute workloads as long as they have some reasonable API regardless of whether it's CUDA or not. If they have something usable based on OpenCL, SYCL, whatever, they would have a shot at getting my money. Ideally that would also include then providing some support to make sure there are usable backends for PyTorch, Tensorflow, etc.

Ah well. Let's see if they can figure this out. Between Intel and AMD, you'd think somebody could step forward and give NVIDIA some serious competition.
I'm getting flashbacks of segmented memory.
Loads of people don't want to live in flats and row houses though.
I think in person discussions are much healthier than online ones, because there is a human being sitting across from you rather than a screen name

If your conversations involve people wanting you exterminated… I think in person vs online is even more important. It’s not possible to argue that kind of stance in person unless they’re a crazy person, in which case just avoid those I guess
In these large trials I assume they are not trying to separate someone who just drinks black coffee from someone who drinks coffee with a lot of sugar (mochas ect…). So the negative affects of daily consumption of sugar and dairy could offset whatever positive affects might have been possible.
It has become harder, no doubt about it.

But let me invert your question somewhat: do you think you'd be unable to tell over a terminal (in a long interaction) that you're chatting with a LLM?

Remove the obvious constraints about no cursing, no hate speech, etc. Imagine an LLM completely uncensored. I still think I'd be able to tell with a high degree of confidence, considering multiple things: whether the "person" asks me questions, whether it refuses to answer directly (a real person will be less eager to talk about some touchy subjects, or may be shy, or upset), which topics it's eager to talk about, whether it shows lecherous behavior, whether it gets obnoxious or single minded, whether it has poor taste in things, whether it displays too much of an equanimous attitude in all topics, whether it is a bigot, or knows too much about stuff.

I think I'd be able to tell.
Any bump severe enough to significantly damage a micro PC would also be enough to crack the screen or otherwise damage a laptop too.

Shock resistant, dustproof, etc. industrial computer modules do exist but you'd be paying something like 10x the price of an ordinary computer so it's not worthwhile.
Thanks! These claims are really interesting.

- WASM has no ASLR.

If I understand correctly, the attack vector here is that if a buffer overrun lets you modify a function pointer, you could replace that function pointer with another pointer to have the program execute different code. As you say, this is hard in native linux programs because of ASLR. You need a pointer to some code thats loaded in memory and you need to know where it is.

In wasm, the "pointer" isn't a pointer at all. indirect_call takes an index into the jump table. Yes, this makes it easier to find other valid function pointers. But wasm also has some advantages here. Unlike in native code, you can't "call" arbitrary locations in memory. And indirect_call is also runtime typechecked. So you can't call functions with an unexpected type signature. Also (I think) the jump table itself can't be edited by the running wasm module. So there's no way to inject code into the module and run it. You only have access to call the already-loaded functions that are in the jump table. And amongst those, you can only substitute one with a matching type signature.

I agree - ASLR could help here. But it still doesn't sound super easy to exploit. That said, it might be much easier to exploit this with wasi when the function table is filled with unix syscalls.

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAssembly/Underst...

- WASM allows writing to 0x0.

You're probably right about this. To be clear, it means if pointers are set to 0 then dereferenced, the program might continue before crashing. And the memory around 0 may be overwritten by an attacker. How bad this is in practice depends on the prevelance of use-after-free bugs (common in C / C++) and what ends up near 0 in memory. In rust, these sort of software bugs seem incredibly rare. And I wouldn't be surprised if wasm compilers for C/C++ start making a memory deadzone here - if they aren't doing that already.

- wasm can easily overflow buffers

Sure, but so can native C code. And unlike native code, wasm can't overflow buffers outside of the data section. So you can't overwrite methods or modify the memory of any other loaded modules. So on net, wasm is still marginally safer than native code here. If you're worried about buffer overflows, use a safer language.

- wasm doesn't have the concept of read-only memory

Interesting! I can see this definitely being useful for system libraries like mmap. This would definitely be nice to have, and it looks like the wasm authors agree with you.

https://github.com/WebAssembly/multi-memory/issues/15
A million times better. Looks like this comes from the Wasmer team.
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They should for accessibility reasons. If they're not assistive tools might not know they're even click-able.

Maybe if you're doing like a painting app or something you don't need to.