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> As someone old I still prefer callbacks

That's perfectly fair but you may be in a bubble if you really believe your preference reflects the general tendency of the community.

Yes, a lot of Node's API is still reliant upon callbacks, but newer APIs where promise support has been added are generally preferred, and outside of those, most people rely on library abstractions anyway - most of which wrap Node's internal APIs in promises. Bluebird was around since 2013 & was very popular with the NodeJS community.

> it’s just functions

So are promises really. There's very little effective syntactic difference between `const x = new Promise((func, func) => {});` and a function accepting callback(s) - the main differentiator is a separate error callback instead of the error-first argument convention. Yes the internals are different to allow assignment & chaining without nesting but nesting is still just as possible if preferred.

But yeah if you prefer callbacks go ahead. Just make sure the team you're collaborating with is reasonably aligned on preference.
The author conflates contemporary architecture which is actively meant to be repulsive (the minority) with that which is merely efficient and utilitarian. IMO efficiency and utilitarianism is good and democratic because it provides shelter for everyone, rather than fancy, ornate shelter for the elites.
If it is true, if there are many targets for ICBM strike then why we haven't seen any usage of ICBM ever?

It is not a weapon for a war, there is no usage of ICBM on the battlefield.
You can't possibly hold AMD responsible for the behavior of third party black boxes? If Valve makes assumptions about the graphics drivers beyond the API then that's on them.
Good point - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand%27s_postulate is actually for any n > 3 there is always a prime between n and 2n - 2, or like you said for n > 1, between n and 2n.
pex is a build tool built on the top of the zip trick. A pex file doesn't contain a bundled interpreter, but it zips up the entire virtualenv. Also no Windows support.

https://pex.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
That’s a separate factor, though. It’s definitely one of the reasons why cryptocurrencies never became popular but in the case we’re talking about it’d just be making a bad situation worse rather than the cause for it being bad.
Sure. Though if it turns out that there are no customers worth having due to free/cheaper competition, your business has a problem.
Currently the DoE or some other USG agency has been doing a lot of modeling of just pumping CO2 into underground caverns. (It was in Physics Today.)
There were multiple responses questioning how this was different, so I'll respond here:

- 2 users, A and B, each pay $10/month

- User A listens to 20 Taylor Swift songs

- User B listens to 5 Radiohead songs

- Spotify gets a 30% cut

Currently:

- Spotify gets $6

- Taylor Swift gets $11.20

- Radiohead gets $2.80

If each subscriber's bill was split separately:

- Spotify gets $6

- Taylor Swift gets $7

- Radiohead gets $7

So this change would benefit artists that less active Spotify users listen to.

Right now the less active users are paying to support the listening of the most active users.

Personally this would make me feel like my money is more directly supporting the artists I care about.
Yeahh!

And they earn so much money. Anyway, they never have time to enjoy it.
They couldn't even buy a champagne in peace :-P
Even that seems excessive. How about 5%? Or not allowing the funds from citations to be used for municipal benefit at all? Have them go to a victim compensation program, or a halfway house, or medical welfare, or children's food, or something. Just saying the incentives are wrong here.
Alice pays 10$ per month and play (only) a thousand times a song of Madonna each month
Bob pays 10$ per month and play (only) a hundred times a song of Queen each month

Currently Madonna will get 1000/1100 of artist's share => 10/11 x 70% x 20 = 12,73$
While Queen will get 100/1100 => 1/11 x 70% x 20 = 1.27$

With a per subscriber split => Queen and Madonna will get 7$

Right now there is an incentive for artists to create shorter songs so they get more stream = more revenue
For me: Android with Symfonium, streaming (or locally cached) from my Jellyfin server.
I think it does pull a real video, I'm not sure its pulled in the same way the actual Netflix video player would do it.
This is something twitch-style subscriptions get largely right.
How about Howl's castle?
>no technology which can solve grade school maths problems would be viewed as a breakthrough ...

Not perhaps in the sense of making mathematicians redundant but it seems like a breakthrough for ChatGPT type programs.

You've got to remember these things have gone from kind of rubbish a year or so ago to being able to beat most students at law exams now and by the sounds of it beat students at math tests shortly. At that rate or progress they'd be competing with the experts before very long.
Or, more cheaply, non-emitting alternatives
Younger people buying one or two albums per month used to be extremely common. And distribution of media generally (also in the case of books) is a much smaller percentage of the costs than most people assume.
Really nice animations, I especially liked the demonstration of the effect that after some servers will "explode", any server that will be restarted will automatically be DoS'ed until we'll throw a bunch of extra temporary servers into the system. Thanks.
Asking you to consider an analogous situation is hardly the same as claiming you said anything you didn’t.
Given that Sutskever once described his idea of AGI-human relationship to be like that of CEO-board (how ironic) I suspect there aren't really any good guys here. There might only be good intentions.
This is how I managed to get weight lifting into my daily life. Worked for nearly a year. After which ?something? happened and now I've not done it in years.

ADHD is a fickle mistress.
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I think the shift began before the Clinton administration. By the late '70s it had become apparent that:

- raising the US median standard of living without raising the rest of the world was politically unstable considering the ongoing conflict with communism and anti-colonialism, and

- raising the US median standard of living and also raising the rest of the world would exhaust resources and become rapidly unsustainable.

The solution was:

- cap the US median standard of living, but allow the assets of the 1% to increase,

- replace foreign aid with foreign direct investment to raise the standard of living in other countries, to increase the wealth of the American 1%, and to create a wealthy class in other countries with similar interests to preserve political stability and the "rules based order".

This has resulted in fairly similar economic oligarchies around much of the world. However, political, historical and cultural differences result in varying affinities, group identities and renewed competition among them.
> If one hype dies they artificially generate a new one

They have a pipeline of hypes ready to be deployed at a moment's notice. The next one is quantum, it's already gathering in the background. Give it a couple of years.
I do not think schizophrenia is currently understood well enough for it to be a useful analog to anything.

You're better off thinking of a NN in terms of math rather than psychiatry.
I remember me running a tutorial on Promise for my team back in 2011. Those were the days :)
Tidal (spotify competitor) takes 2 euro and gives 'em to the artist you've listened to the most.
But the rest of the money is probably all going to the big ones as you explained.

Just saying this because it is so weird. Like, hell yeah I sure hope my money goes to the people that I listen to why is this a thing??
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> you'd expect

I don't. I expect that when I pay for a streaming service, as soon as the money is in their account all bets are off and no insight is given.

So such a generalisation of what people expect doesn't hold up for consumer products I'd say. I wouldn't be surprised if most customers don't even think about it at all.
Labels take 50-90% of the royalties money, depending how big the artist is. Huge artists can have their own sweetheart deals, or their own labels, but 50-90% of a cut to the label is pretty usual.
> use [store] as a storefront to find [products] and then buy them [elsewhere]

Like every brick and mortar store had to contend with due to the rise of internet shopping? Did any of them have market position to prevent manufacturers from doing it?
Pair programming is terrible over Teams/Slack/Zoom.

Hours and hours of "no, click a little bit up/down/left/right, no that's too much, no that's not what I meant, I meant that, no not that" and "write a curly brace, no that's not a curly brace, hold shift and it's the key next to P, oh you don't have US keyboard, it's line 47, no that's line 57, at the end of the line, no I mean really the end of line, put it next to the variable declaration, I mean the part before = ...".

When I worked in an office, I simply sat down next to the programmer I was helping and pointed at the screen or shown them how to do it. The same thing takes 10x more time and 100x more mental effort online, and many times I just do it myself at the end of it.

And when I'm showing something on my screen, I get practically no feedback - do they understand? Are they even paying attention? I have no idea. Seems like they don't and often I notice phone screen reflection in their eyes. I don't really blame them though, I also can't hold attention over the internet. I don't think it's a problem with my teaching style - the guys I taught in person were genuinely excited about it and applied the new knowledge immediately.

The mid/junior guys in every remote team I worked in are nearly stuck in the same place for years, whereas the guys I and other senior engineers helped personally got to senior level within a year or two.

And I don't know these people. I can't talk to them at lunch about cool technologies/games/movies/music, I can't see whether they actually get excited or just politely listen because I'm senior to them. I just can't build a true friendship this way. Very unusually it works out, but it's nothing like the old days of office work where all of our 50-member office were best buddies.
You can always tell who either doesn't have kids or doesn't take care of them full time.

My kid:
- draws
- paints
- reads (finished the Harry Potter series for the 3rd time and is discussing hidden gems with me)
- records stories and issues then as a podcast
- plays keyboard
- tablet is limited to 1 hr a day and they are mostly chatting with friends

All this is a result of me saying "that sounds like your problem" when they came up to me with the classic "I'm bored".

A little entertainment now and then isn't a bad thing. Unless it's on YouTube Kids without supervision.
Where do you find the objective reference value of all things including marketing courses? Do you have a big book with the true value of everything in it?

People have different amounts of money and value things differently. $30k to me would represent a significant investment and probably not worth a single plane flight, but a billionaire might spend that to charter a jet for one flight and consider it money well spent. It’s relative.
Thanks! Will definitely take a look.
It doesn't even matter whether the critique is true and fair. Naming names like this in public is potentially very damaging and should not be done.
It depends on context. Sometimes the bits or bytes represent a signed number, sometimes an unsigned number, sometimes a float, sometimes a string, etc. It's all up to how you choose to interpret it.
Having a person in the plane does make shooting it down (or not shooting it down) much more meaningful, which can be important. For example in the South China sea, flying a manned aircraft around is a much stronger statement than flying a drone around.

And to me it still seems possible that someone could come up with some jamming technology that prevents drones from communicating with satellites or base stations - and if someone does, you don't want your entire air force to be disabled.
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Just don’t go. You have a choice. You are a sentient human being.
Michelson-Morley Experiment
I think what may be happening is that we hear loudly and often from the mega-stars who used to comfortably earn millions from each new album release or even single release and now get lower streaming revenue. But we never hear from the hundreds of thousands of "long tail" smaller performers who previously would've earned zero within a couple years after releasing their last CD, but who now get a small but steady trickle of income from streaming. I've got dozens of songs on my Spotify playlist that the world has entirely forgotten about in terms of radio or public exposure, and the performers themselves might be middle-aged realtors or office workers by now who have entirely given up their music careers, but their songs were little earworms to me back in 2003 so I still play them occasionally. Not that the people negatively impacted don't have cause for complaint. But we're only hearing one side of the story.
As someone who studied math in grad school as part of a PhD program, worked at a hedge fund and went on to work on software and applied math, I call bullshit on this.

Math and Logic is just low-dimensional symbol manipulation that computers can easily do. You can throw data at them and they’ll show you theories that involve vectors of 42,000 variables while Isaac Newton had 4 and Einstein had 7 with Levi-Civita calculus. In short, what you consider “reasoning”, while beautiful in its simplicity, is nevertheless crude approximations to complex systems, such as linear regression or least squares.

3 days ago AI predicted fluid dynamics better than humans: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/11/231120170956.h...

Google’s AI predicts weather now faster and better than Current systems built by humans: https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/ai-is-outperforming...

AlphaZero based on MCTS years ago beat Rybka and all human-built systems in chess: https://www.quora.com/Did-AlphaZero-really-beat-Stockfish

And it can automate science and send it into overdrive: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/science/analysis-how-ai-is-...
Thanks! Looks like a 2d platformer. I'm always pretty bad with those, starting from Mario XD
In my work (robotic space missions) the need to create synthetic terrain often comes up, e.g of moons you might want to land on or drive on. Best info on that seems to come from the game development community. I was hoping it might be covered here... there's some relevant info, but generating a landscape from scratch using terrain primitives etc. isn't. Someone should write that book...
"there is a curious lack of verifiable quantitative data in your comment"

Sorry, the climate-change megalomaniacs have skewed every discussion about this in the mainstream media. You will have to search for the data in the alternative sources.

"because to the rest of us it looks like you are mistaken"

I don't see any big changes when compared to the last 30 years, do you?
What I do see is one big hysteria by the first-world countries who are imposing expensive, inefficient green energy on the rest of the world. Curiously, they are not doing anything to reduce the emissions they produce.
I'm not sure about spotify, but I have seen this problem with Netflix: I'm an adult paying full for my Netflix subscription and for that price I would love to have a few great and expensive movies every month for my age group.

But what I usually see is lots of movies made for teens who are binge watching Netflix even though they are paying the same. Netflix has some public presentations on their algorithm and from the presentations it looks like they are optimizing for watches without weighting by subscription revenue per watch.
This is an interesting story and was worth reporting, but I don’t believe it changes the fact that Altman is uniquely qualified to lead OpenAI. I am, however, disappointed to see that an organization that at first espoused the ideal of careful, responsible development of AI seems to has decided to go full throttle no matter what. I’m very sad the board tried to exercise their authority in such an amateurish, hamfisted way. They overplayed their hand, and now we’ll all just have to hope that everyone at OpenAI chooses to keep ethical considerations in mind.
> So the the author continues to "explore the converse" by trying p=3 and p=5.

That's to set it up for the case of 561, assuming the converse holds and it is a good test for primes. It's a bit long-winded, but acceptable (IMO).
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Exactly what I was thinking reading this. A CDN has no interest throttling things, it will hurt their performance metrics. And if they think your IP is "bad" you'll get a straight up error or captcha, not just some packet loss.

But a link between an ISP and a CDP provider being overloaded is quite common. The ISP is trying to get away with the minimal infrastructure investments possible, and good interconnect is expensive.
Because they were boys clubs? Or survivor bias and in spite of their demographics?

IME the only consistency I noticed among boys clubs is bullies rule and out groups are mocked.
Adblocking isn't a solved problem. Current state of the art borks a minority of websites. The user must diagnose that the problem is caused by adblock and either abandon their intended browsing or manually disable adblock.

Plenty of ordinary users don't mind ads. They'd be frustrated to be told there's now a "don't break the website" switch.

Adblocking requires very frequent updates. It's a cat-and-mouse game. Even if Firefox just installed UBO by default plenty of users would now start filing bugs on Firefox's tracker.

Part of the difference is that every browser blocks popups, so sites are incentiviced to fix the resulting breakage. But on sites run by people who don't care about usability (like some governments and banks) you'll still see messages informing you to allow popups.
Completely agree transmission of knowledge is a sticky wicket. Good reminder to stay logistically grounded. I have found many of the ambitious thinkers close to me tend to aspire to a "humanity learns" moment but if they're anywhere near politics they tend to be tempered fairly well by the logistical realities of bringing ideas to pass
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I clicked the button. It's literally within a few percent of where it was 30 years ago, adjusted for inflation. I call that broadly in line. Yes, it was much bigger in 2000, and much smaller in 2010, also bigger in 1978 and smaller in 1982.

It was never that big, in absolute economic terms. I remember Slashdot was joking 20 years ago that one of the tech companies should just buy all of it to make the RIAA shut up. I guess it's unsurprising that organized culture has an outsized reach.
Why do I get a feeling we are going to see an explosion of secular cults that have weird beliefs in AI and worship AGI?
> Do you really [welcome LLM/robot overlords]

Lets just say I view them as <= the prevailing upper class/business class/"élites"
You're looking at the egg but ignoring the chicken
This is not relevant to the discussion, Apple allows third party keyboards. I'm currently typing this on Google Gboard.
These threads always read like extremists for me. The theme is distilled into carbon capture is a scam and the only solution is reducing our usage of energy.

Well that’s not a realistic solution either so I am very happy that maybe one day some of these techs play out. I want us to use more electricity because of growth. Have cleaner generation and hopefully carbon capture that can work at scale.
because we will
I live in Norway. The most common highway speed is 80, but when you see someone driving sharp 80 it's most often a novice or the car is on automatic cruise. Most people lay on 5-8 km/h but on a multi lane road people doing 90+ are not uncommon. Traffic cameras for 80 zones are typically tuned in +12.

I'm not sure where you are, but from my driving elsewhere, it appears similar in Sweden (only the posted speeds are higher), and worse in Spain & Italy.

And energy is quadratic with respect to velocity. Going 90->105 is worse than 30->45.

Since the speed delta is the same it's far worse with 30 to 45, and regulations reflect that.
Or maybe being an artist is an unsustainable career for most.
Very high resolution cameras.
Thinking about this, can you think of a great hacker who isn't C-level? Look at the most famous programmers of all time, or people who've made the most popular tools like Ruby on Rails, and they're all C-level.
Sadly A&A don't offer an unlimited bandwidth plan, which in 2023 seems absolutely ridiculous if you ask me.
What am I missing?

You'd think it should still be fair because money is supposed to be fungible.

So if Artist 1 gets 99% plays, and artist 2 gets 1% plays, then if you split the 70% of revenue at end of month by 99/1 , that should be fair, right?

I'm probably missing something important. Is there a source for the actual formula or so?
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If you stop someone randomly on the street, or someone working in a store and strike up a conversation about killing someone, you’re probably going to be asked to leave. The closer ChatGPT, etc, get to AGI… the more they’ll probably behave like that.
This is quite a common issue with PPPoE connections like the one OP seems to use with his own router. You need to increase the MTU of the physical underlying ethernet connection to 1508 to allow a 1500 MTU for the encapsulated packets inside the PPPoE tunnel. Otherwise you'll run into weird issues and unreachable websites.
Totally insane take.

And point 3.) is entirely wrong:

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/which-emits...

Humans emit more than 90 times as much Co2 than all active volcanos.
I expect self-consistency might be one useful reward function.

Of course in the real world, for a real intelligent system, reality is the feedback/reward system, but for an LLM limited to it's training set, with nothing to ground it, maybe this is the best you can do ...

The idea is essentially that you need to assume (but of course GI-GO) that most of the training data is factual/reasonable whether in terms of facts or logic, and therefore that anything you can deduce from the training data that is consistent with the majority of the training data should be held as similarly valid (and vice versa).

Of course this critically hinges on the quality of the training data in the first place. Maybe it would work best with differently tagged "tiers" of training data with different levels of presumed authority and reasonableness. Let the better data be used as a proxy for ground truth to "police" the lesser quality data.
You always have an option. Negotiate. Use your agency as a human being.
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