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No, I don't see any of this as a response to my positions at all. I must not have expressed myself clearly enough.

I'm not talking about getting scammed by SBF or whatever. I'm saying that there doesn't exist a definition of "thinking" that we can use to include or exclude LLMs from the group "beings that think". It's counterproductive to say they do or don't and is a distraction from useful conversation.

To say I'm not being critical when I clearly said I don't think it's likely that LLMs think feels disingenuous and, frankly, uncritical.

> By your own argument we can never define intelligence

In no way does that extend from my argument. Intelligence and thinking are separate phenomena, and I didn't say "never".
But `while` doesn't restrict the scope of the variable(s) to just the loop. I believe there was a proposal to add

while(int i = 0; i < 100) { ... }

as a valid syntax to C++ (which would restrict the scope of i to the loop), as you can already do

if(int i = f(); i > 0) { ... }

but it didn't go anywhere.
"Child pornography" is very specifically-defined in terms of strictly-photorealistic content.

Notice that the topic discussed here is chat control. What does this have to do with photorealistic content?

The "CSAM" moniker is a broad net that drags other forms of media into scope. Sharing a fictional story about raping a child isn't child pornography (there's no victim)...but it is CSAM.

Same with manga/comics, sharing elaborate fantasies, AI images and any other fictional products. As CSAM, all of it becomes fair game for indictment.
You can (or could, my information is old) pay botnet owners a few hundred bucks to disrupt the servers of people you don't like. An example would be ruining a match for a competing game clan. There's a suprising amount of this kind of petty bullshit going on in the world.

With the Mirai botnet, some of the creators had a DDOS mitigation company as well: they'd sell one party the weapon, and sell another party the defense against that weapon.

Sometimes it's for the street cred, or the lulz, or just the challenge of building a botnet.
> Every developer, more or less, uses grep, awk, and sed to quickly build a temporary analysis platform. Although they can achieve the effect of a powerful data analysis pipeline in the hands of masters, they are still too difficult for most developers.

Something is not right with this thesis. Rather than learning the basic tools of their trade, this article encourages developers to reach for the nearest black-box LLM. This approach will certainly not scale, nor be replicable across any system.

The reason grep, awk, and sed are important to learn is because they are universal. Each of those tools, being decades old, is baked into the core fabric of most operating systems today. If you have access to a shell, you can get extremely far with just those 3 tools.

It's worthwhile to spend a couple hours a night for a week or two and become proficient in each. The dividends it will pay over one's programming career will be astonishing.
Using AI in Semiconductor Process to Cut Costs, Boost Yields
Yikes, I'm sorry you have to deal with assholes like that at work (or anywhere). Nobody should be treated like that! Even when professional disagreements arise, there's no need for personal disrespect.

We all have jobs because some client or another needs us. And most software out there is, well, average. That doesn't mean the people who work on them should be insulted.

Can you minimize the amount of negative social contact in your day, like only interacting as much as you need to at work, and then spending time with people who treat you better (colleagues, friends, family)?

I don't know what the work and social cultures are like in Nepal, but here in the US, if I had a job I didn't love interacting with people I don't really care about, I'd try my best to compartmentalize them -- telling myself "this is only temporary, I just have to hang in there until something better comes along / I work myself up to a better position" -- while trying to be extra-nice to the people I actually enjoy being around. I've made a lot of non-work friends just meeting people and getting to know, treating them well and paying attention to their lives, etc. That is to say, if I can't do anything about the negatives, I can at least make more positive connections to offset them.

But at the end of the day, you just have to try to get out of that sort of situation ASAP :( I'm sorry you have to be in that situation to begin with. Surely that can't be normal for all jobs in Nepal?
In the US maybe but here in Europe bankruptcy is not really the "get out of jail card" as it is in the US.
In case you haven't heard, the next version of Nomad is moving to a non Open Source license.
Speaking for myself, I don't use Photoshop often enough for $30 / month to be worth it. I wouldn't have been able to justify thousands of dollars either, but if I could pay a couple of hundred for a perpetual license with an upgrade discount when new versions come out that would get my business.
they should make it paid for $80 when on mac os :O
Will this work for social login, like if I use my iPhone to sign into Gmail with a passkey, can I then sign into Reddit with Gmail and not have to enter a password? I'm assuming so.
The HTTP spec defines it as Round Trip Time, but in this little discussion thread, "round-trip transaction" would be a better fit.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Round_Trip...
>Narratives with well-crafted prose can have hundreds of years of linguistic and stylistic histories, as well as contemporary vernacular, which can tell more about a language than just understanding the plot of the story.

This seems like a werid hangup for what is essentially a substitute for graded readers for language learners. You're not getting any of the things you mentioned going the "human" route.

No one is saying go read these stories over full blown novels. There's no complexity difference between full blown novels and most native short stories either, just length so that's not really an option.

If you could read at that level, you wouldn't be using this or the non-LLM alternative anyway.
DirectX was also crappy vendor lock-in, but let's not pretend that the similarities go beyond that.

DirectX was vendor lock-in _from the vendor that owned 80-to-90-percent of the market_. Yeah, it sucked to be tied to their platform, but at least you were tied to the platform that nearly your entire target audience was already using.

Metal is vendor lock-in from a vendor that owns like, what, _maybe_ 10% of the market if we're being generous? And that 10% of the market is a group that largely is already disinclined to care about video games, so you're already unlikely to capture a noticeable portion of that already-small minority market segment.

It's a dumb move, really. Compare that with how Linux has started getting support for games: WINE and Proton are compatibility layers so that you as a developer can still target that 80-to-90-percent of the market and your game will (probably) work on the 1% that run Linux too without you needing to do extra work -- and Vulkan (and OpenGL before it) are ways of targeting _everything_...except of course Apple, but that's only because they tend to take an IE6 approach to implementing standards (that is: either everyone accepts our crap as a de-facto standard, or else we don't implement any standards).
You realize the type of expertise and money needed to design a processor? That’s not even to mention the loads of money you need to back up to TSMC to even get capacity. For cutting edge fabrication, you’re still going to be behind, Apple and Nvidia to get capacity
This is super helpful. Thank you
I don’t see why a startup would be indicative of potential profits in this space, especially a miniscule business where it is expected to grow 100% YoY.

Coca Cola and Pepsi each seem to have profits in the $5B to $10B range, which can be a proxy for how much profit there exists in the space because everyone else is much smaller.

Maybe if these energy drinks displace all of coffee and tea, but I would be surprised. How much more caffeine will (or should) consume?
This problem won’t work for code assistants. No way those queries have high repetition. Not when you’re uploading user files.

I assume the best strategy is to shrink the models and tune them more.
Definitely reminds me of Wall.e
For a "small" dataset of 50M and 0.5TB in size with 20 results get around 50-100ms.
Full disclosure I currently work for Bitmovin, but we work well on AWS, Google and Azure. We have some migration tools and are one of Microsoft's recommended alternatives since they are sunsetting Azure Media Services. Our Streams product is a simple, one API call solution that just works, similar to some of the things mentioned already, but we also have a pretty advanced API that can do whatever you need. We're also about to wrap up a beta for GPU acceleration with NVIDIA and make that publicly available.
Yes, “these attacks” referring to the sophisticated novel attacks under discussion in the article. No need to be defensive, just read it next time.
Dota 2 on linux has already stopped using OpenGL. Now Vulkan is the only option.
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Thousands of New Zealand health service workers exempted from mandates
"New Zealanders are now left to contemplate that not only were they coerced into vaccination and then gaslit over it, but that the Health Ministry overseeing the whole shebang was secretly letting its own key workers off the hook."
Man who shared hoax tweet on Nobel laureate's 'death'
Imagine obeying a corporation that doesn’t even pay you
Novice here. Should I seek the patch from the web application framework I use (e.g. Jetty, Spring Boot)?
Chances are, at long ranges, one will be much better than the other. 2.4ghz if you have some obstructions. 5ghz if you have lots of height on one or both sides (it’s less tolerant of line of sight and ground obstructions but more gain for the same size)

At least wireless ISPs don’t bother with spectral diversity on consumer fixed links.

Predicting constructive/destructive interference… you’ll need to do some radio-mobile plots (I think that was the software with topographic maps built in).
Largest ever study on light exposure proves its impact on mental health
> I'd really wish for them to come through some community coordinated list of botnet infected IPs or something.

The problem is that IP addresses are not a reliable identifier, especially for the kinds of folks whose routers have been infected by malware. Few ISPs hand out static IP addresses anymore. It's why online games no longer bother with IP bans anymore, because as soon as the target reboots their router they evade your ban and some other poor sap on the same ISP gets stuck with the flagged IP.
Yup, we asked at the info desk and they pointed to a machine before the door at Haneda.
Isn't exfiltrating your wealth from China the kind of thing that will get you in trouble with the CCP?
I'm specifically referring to the inability of current neuroscience to explain what "thinking" is.
I think it is definitely the other way around.

An AI will generate the kind of simplistic stories I need for my current level of proficiency in my target language.

An actual human will more often than not slip some complex grammar and vocabulary before I am ready for it.

When you are at B2-C1 level, then you can appreciate the nuances of human generated stories, but for A1-A2, what difference would it make?

The AI is better because it will make all the content I can consume, immediately and ready.
They do suck unconditionally. They're like having a mediocre person working with you that you have to verify and validate all the time that sucks up a ton of money and electricity and generally does bad things to the environment.

Edit: I haven't even started on the social and political impact this has either.
Who do you think made these decisions? The board still wants profits, and they're perfectly happy to let Riccitiello take the fall while they find another tool to take his place.
New York's mass transit is decaying while the MTA fails to build anything but prestige projects at exorbitant cost. 'Metro ghetto', 'urine-smelling' and 'poorly maintained' is exactly how I'd describe it also.
USB-C has been fucking fantastic for me. I plug one USB-C cable into my personal laptop or my work laptop, and I get a USB hub for my external keyboard and mouse, my external monitor, and power, all with a single plug. Makes it so easy to swap everything in and out.
I did! I asked "define "understanding" and explain if LLMs (including yourself) exhibit "understanding""

Understanding: The ability to comprehend or grasp the meaning of something, the capacity to apprehend general relations of particulars, or to interpret or judge information in a meaningful way based on prior knowledge, experiences, and cognitive processes.

LLMs (Large Language Models like ChatGPT) do not exhibit "understanding" in the same way humans do. They generate responses based on patterns in the data they've been trained on. They do not have consciousness, self-awareness, emotions, or experiences, so their "understanding" is limited to mimicking patterns without genuinely comprehending content.

I would agree.
I subscribe to the FB and Insta accounts of local libraries in my county and those next to mine, and it appears that many of the librarians view much of their position to be engaging in agitprop for certain political points of view. I can understand why funding may dry up when half of the stakeholders in the library are alienated due to culture warring.
CrossOver 23.5 includes D3DMetal from the Game porting toolkit
The thing is, is that CS2 replaced CSGO (which at one point was pay-to-play, which means people were required to sink money into a title which is now completely upended), removed a lot of content (whole game modes are missing and there's no plan on adding them back into the new version; maps have been removed, and to an extent some of the customization has been removed), and removed Mac support, which was previously very much supported with CSGO.

They've also changed the game mechanics when it comes to determining when gunshots "register", which has very much changed the dynamic of the game and has vastly raised the bar for casual players to win even a single round.

Further, ranked matches are handled differently now. It used to be that even losses contributed to your initial rank after a couple of placement matches. Now, you must win 10 games before you get a rank. Since placement games (games you play before you get a rank) are more or less randomly matchmade, it means that less skilled players are going to be up against impossibly difficult opponents to the point that even a single win is impossible, thus you're trapped in this unranked loop and will never achieve meaningful matchmaking with people of your own skill level.

Further, "Prime" status was originally a barrier for cheaters since you had to buy it, and it made it such that prime status players were only matchmade with other prime status players. Since cheaters run the risk of getting permanently banned, they'd have to buy Prime over and over again - something Valve betted would be a way to filter out a large percentage of cheaters. However, they started to grant Prime status to people who had leveled up enough, which removed the cost barrier. Since cheaters level up quickly, it's become sort of a moot mechanic now.

And no, Steam won't refund Prime status purchases, which are around $15.

Couple the matchmaking differences with the shot registration differences, the removed content, and the dropping of support, and you have what is essentially a completely unique game that Valve replaced CSGO with.

People are rightfully very upset. Many people bought CSGO for e.g. MacOS support. Now that game has been removed from their libraries with little to no recourse. Steam said they're issuing refunds for a few select Mac users but I've yet to see anyone say they've been granted such a refund.

It's a messy situation that Valve has handled in one of the worst ways possible, learning no lessons from the Overwatch 2 debacle that did much the same thing (and was received equally as poorly) or from Ubisoft's repeated similar behavior.
I think that is fair. But, getting spending under control means cutting welfare programs and military spending. Both are currently political suicide. Another option to get it under control is growth. The easiest way to do that is removing regulations that make growth difficult and get government out of the way.

Ultimately growth will just lead to higher spending. A complete solution is a bit of both. Cutting spending or capping it, and growth. Without cuts or a cap Congress will just see growth as a sign they can spend more money we don't have.
The core problem with trust fund debt is that if the government maintained assets for the social security trust fund the way vanguard or fidelity did, the underlying assets would be so high that the government would start to own and control a large part of the American economy.

Do we really want all our company's to be majority owned by the government?

The practical answer from the government's perspective was to just the loan the money to itself. Except the problem now is that the government owes itself a lot of money.

Reality is that there is not trust fund and current payers simply have to pay the benefits for existing retirees. That's the way it has always been and that's the way it's always will be.

There will be economic problems no matter how the government handles such a large amount of money.

I believe that whenever there is a crisis or issue they will simply raise the income limits to correct it, and that's largely been happening as the income limit is going up and up and up every year. Way more than it did 20 years ago.
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CRDTs give you a tool to resolve conflicts at the data layer, but not necessarily at the semantic layer.

In the example, we have a canvas. Turn up the latency. User A draws an outline of a heart on their canvas, and User B draws a smiley face on theirs.

After the "network" catches up, the CRDT does it's thing, and our states have been synchronised. But we're left with an overlapping heart/smiley combo that neither collaborator really intended.

A really smart system might say "user A started drawing their heart a moment before User B started drawing a smiley. Even though most of the drawing happened concurrently, we will give user A's drawing the priority" (perhaps also making a backup of B's work so that it isn't lost).

Resolving conflicts in this way requires an understanding of semantics and intent - that a NN could perhaps provide a heuristic for.
> The JetBrains IDEs don't have an ultimate version, I think you're thinking of VSCode.

This is not true. I installed intellij community, searched through it's plugins for http clients, and Jetbrains' plugin shows up all greyed out with the message "ultimate only".
Pitfalls of Database Migrations
Yes, but they are clearly going to fail to bring down Google.
> Steam generally supports macOS, Valve spends a lot of time on the platform so I think you're dead wrong there. The titles that thrive on it target its rich audience.

Steam does run on Mac but the client and the game library are 2 different things. Not sure if you noticed the shrinking library and Apple's attitude towards the Mac games. They don't care about it. 0 support for 32bit games migration, unconventional api support (compare the usual d3d/vulkan land). Unlike ios, Mac does not have a hold on the game market
Thank you for reminding me of the game “Unmanned”. You play a drone operator who must make impossible decisions. The burden takes a toll, it is well worth a play for anyone interested in this subject of combat stress reaction.

http://unmanned.molleindustria.org/
I disagree. Piracy didn't have the negative affect you think it did. Study after study shows piracy only helps to boost sales.

Those artists are blaming piracy when really it's more likely to do with a shift to streaming and those artists not having the skills to have a strong online presence once physical media started dying out.

There's a strong correlation between the death of record stores and these independent artists starting to lose money.

And besides, in modern day we have more independent artists than ever making money.
It's all inhouse code unfortunately, and from a previous life :)

What I still do in my open source libraries is to allow overriding the assert macro so that people can integrate their own assert implementation (along with allowing to override memory allocation).

> Except for writing your own stdlib. How long did that take? Was that to enhance bounds checking?

TBH the main reason was that I think the C++ stdlib APIs have terrible ergonomics. We modelled our container classes after C# containers and some common sense. Full control over memory allocation and asserts was just a side effect.
Well, not just Carter: many other men (and possibly women) had to do the same thing to fix the reactor, since there was a 1 1/2 minute time limit on working inside.
You can find me in the CUE slack if you need more help

cheers!
> All the crying about piracy is greed: nothing more, nothing less

You mean the crying and the greed of the people that don’t want to pay to see movies right
Which I believe took cues from Johnny 5
It's pretty much BD-1 from Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order.
I don't know if there's a readymade tool for this, but maybe you could plot it as a collaborative map so that it's clear which drivers/passengers are close to each other? Something like https://felt.com/ might help. Like if you just plot everyone's neighborhoods, you can then draw shapes around each carpool.

Or there's this that I've used before, but I think it's really just a signup list and not something that automatically tries to geo-optimize your routes or anything: https://www.groupcarpool.com/#video_demo You can DIY something similar in Airtable, which is a bit nicer to use than Excel for something like this.
Several months ago I moved my family's email hosting to Zoho. Its been pretty solid. The web client is really nice, its got pretty good mobile apps, it provides IMAP/Exchange Sync on their cheapest paid tier so you don't need their apps. Zoho has a 5 user free tier of just email, but you're then limited to their apps. I'm using the Mail Lite tier with the larger 10GB storage which is $1.25/mo/user billed annually.

They have some tools to migrate email. I was migrating from an IMAP source, the migration was pretty quick and painless.
Interested in how they integrated the GPT - is it under a permissive license?
VM images aren't cool enough!

We do this but create custom images that have all their requirements installed via ansible.

Unfortunately there's now a push to move to GKE instead of GCE, for no real reason.
The timeline is unique to the US and the NRC. China can and has recently constructed plants in very short build timelines (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ningde_Nuclear_Power_Plant, for example has had many installations over not that much time).

Vogtle-3 and 4 are the first nuclear reactors to come into commercial market in like 20-30 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogtle_Electric_Generating_Pla..., permits started in 2008 and finally operation will happen this year.

Westinghouse, the designer, went bankrupt in 2017 and the utility was given at least $12bn in _federal_ loan guarantees to help the reactors be completed.

These two units cost $15bn each.

A lot of operators blame construction timelines on community comment periods, though I suspect that like every other large capital investment in the US, the timelines are extended by mistakes, regulatory oversight / indecisiveness and some misaligned incentives of the government, construction companies and utilities.
There’s a red suica machine at the airport also.

Never heard about a shortage. Possibly the person did not know where to buy them.
The title has a typo: "l earn" vs "learn"