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> one day the manufacturer pushes a mandatory, automatic over-the-air update that contains a critical bug

This is a hidden two-fault scenario, which isn't always "bad engineering" but is usually a smell in that direction. You're (1) accepting that the operator/owner/whatever of the vehicle is technically responsible, (2) acknowledging that this supervision is likely to work in practice, then (3) imagining a hardware/systems failure in the car and simultaneously (4) supposing that the supervision you took for granted in (2) fails at the same time.

Basically, you don't need point 3 to make your point about safety logically. You added it to change the villain from the driver to the manufacturer.
I'm with you. I thought Debian was much better at this, but it seems really tricky to do decent version pinning. I have new respect for NixOS.
seq is “less known”? I’d assume anyone familiar with shell scripting would know about it.

It’s a great starting point for entertaining children on a terminal:

seq 99 -1 0 | xargs printf ‘%s bottles of beer on the wall…\n’
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"Smart" TVs have this aggravating tendency to change their UIs dramatically from time to time without warning or recourse.

How I wish dumb TVs were still the norm.
That's an utter BS 'theory' and even if there was anything to it, its inventor did all he could to discredit his work in the eyes of many a scientist and science watcher
What are AI tools in ChatGPT
This reminds me of the MPTT (Modified Pre-order Tree Traversal) method used in a lot of older SQL-based software, like phpBB (and no doubt still used today.) I won't attempt to explain exactly how it works, but it stores a tree structure in a way that makes many kinds of queries possible even when treating the table more or less like a flat list. It was very useful for being able to snag subtrees in relatively simple SQL queries.

Also, tangentially, I am reminded of the array representation of the binary heap structure. An array-based binary heap maintains (as far as I am aware) the same properties as a pointer-based binary heap, but the structure is entirely implicit based on index.

There's a lot of ways to skin a cat for sure. Reaching for pointer-based trees of objects is of course totally fine, but there's a lot of ways to normalize data, and if you have a decent idea of what you're looking for you can definitely save a lot of trouble.
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"The High Crusade" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Crusade . Sir Roger, Baron de Tourneville and his forces in 1345 take over an alien scouting ship and, based on their knowledge of medieval tactics and strategies, (as we learn in the last chapter) conquer the galaxy and create a holy galactic empire under a new branch of the Roman Catholic Church.
Really? Hell my Google Mini has only recently decided to scream "by the way, the mic is off!" on startup every single time. I've had the mic off for years. Google decided to punish me for using it only as a speaker.
What do you use, if anything, for linking between your notes? I'd ideally like to move to just plain markdown/text files, but being able to link notes together seems like an essential feature. Vimwiki seems to have support for linking and navigating between notes within markdown, but then I don't think Markor would be able to handle them, and it doesn't seem like there's any automated way to update references if a link is moved. I've considered writing some small scripts to automate the gaps, but then it starts to feel like I'm just designing another note app.
I’m not taking an issue with “prioritize time to market”. I’m taking an issue with “processor cycles and memory are actually meaningless now compared to engineering hours”. That is simply not always true.
"Nearly obvious" seems to be doing a lot of work in that sentence. Maybe elaborate? There are now millions of cars on the road with some level of autonomy, you don't need to hand-wave about what you believe "will" happen. Just show the data.
> “It seems like while they make fewer of the kind of mistakes that we see from human drivers, they make interesting new kinds of mistakes,” Raicu said. “It has the feel of a human subject mass experiment, right? Without the kind of consent that we usually want to see as part of that.”

"human subject mass experiment", "consent"?

No, she's wrong there -that's the past. For the past 4 years mass experimentation is fine. Just do it!
H100 is kind of a poor comparison. There are much cheaper ways to get to decent memory without that. Such as 2 A6000s.
I can tell you one impact -- there are huge amounts of ChatGPT helped, or entirely written, junk papers appearing at conferences, which is causing serious problems getting reviewers. Some large events have introduced a pre-review phase to filter out junk, but it's getting harder, as LLMs are good at producing plausable looking nonsense.

Honestly, I'm not sure of the long term solution here. Conferences and journals may have to introduce a system where you need an existing member of the community to "vouch" for your work to be allowed to submit (they don't have to say it should be published, just worth reviewing).
In this case the consumer should of course still be held responsible, and if they think it's wrong they can join in on the class action lawsuit against the manufacturer.

Or, owners should enter into a pre-existing legal relationship with the manufacturer to get reimbursed for any manufacturer error that gets pushed out.

Those who choose to operate driverless vehicles must have some skin in the game in order for this to be fair at all. Bringing your driverless vehicle into an area is the customer's choice, after all.
The promise of.. You don't need to be a domain expert but to configure and use it you do. Needs a expert and a autoconfig noob api.
Most 'boomers' are fine with trans in everyday life, as long as they make some effort to pass, and don't take the piss, e.g. the recent problem of males in women's sports.
> “it’s okay because it’s already happening to a lesser degree somewhere else” isn’t the flex you think it is.

It actually is.

It shows that we as a society are completely OK with this, and nobody is complaining about a very standard and common thing that all artists do.

It shows that the outrage is fake, and people don't actually care about the issue.
From the Q&A [0]:

>> Can I work with the digital nomad visa?

>> No. Travelers visiting under the visa cannot be hired or involved in any profit-making activity during their stay.

Isn’t the point of a digital nomad that you are able to work from anywhere?

[0] https://www.digitalnomadskorea.com/post/everything-you-need-...
Any biology or physics that suggests humans are just a pattern recognizer will be discarded as us being a conscious being is the only thing every human knows to be 100% true.
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In a high context society, it’s a lot of work to interact with people outside your culture: https://study.com/learn/lesson/high-context-culture-definiti....
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> raw SQL... winds up having WILDLY inefficient schema and queries that the DB team (me) has to fix later.

I won't dispute this, I'll just point out that (a) premature optimization is the root of all evil, (b) because it's raw SQL, it's easier to reason about and fix. Inefficient queries aren't really a problem in the early days when your whole dataset doesn't even add up to a gigabyte.
Scientists call for review of UK's 14-day rule on embryo research
That sucks but Fuchsia is run on all Google's home devices with a screen and displays info from the web. Doesn't this use a dumb down version of the chrome browser?
I've watched the growth of kicad since 2013. Far more usable now, though it was very poor at the beginning.

In its current state I could recommend it for most hobbyist stuff and some simpler commercial PCBs. Far better than Eagle ever got.

Meanwhile I will continue to use Altium for everything just because I'm fast with it. When time is money and $8k is just another expense it's well worth it.
Hence "displace more" not "replace all".

Substituting aluminum for copper (in wires, for example) may end up making steel more recyclable. Aluminum doesn't contaminate molten steel (it's used as a deoxygenating agent when making steel, in fact), while copper does.
> They chose to buy it.

No, absolutely not, never ever. This just highly incentivizes Manufacturers to dump trash garbage into the market (since you've just forced consumers to bear all liability for Manufacturer failures).

You do this once, and you might as well kiss all of society away. Imagine a toy that kills children, and you tell parents, "well, you pressed the 'On' button, so it's your fault". Imagine a furnace that burns down your house, and you tell homeowners, "well, you pressed the 'heat' button, what did you expect?". No one would be willing to buy anything at all, because every manufacturer would be in a race to see the shittiest thing they could trick people into buying. Every product on every shelf would be snake oil.

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Manufacturers should always be fully liable for any and all problems, that can not be directly attributed to extreme gross negligence on the consumers part.

"wel, consumers are the ones pressing the "run the self-driving car" button" -- absolutely not. Manufacturers sold car with a "self-driving" button, consumers hold zero fault for pressing the button Manufacturers promised would work, unless there's some kind of extreme gross negligence involved. (i.e., pressing the button, while the car is already dangling off a cliff-side, or pressing the button after gouging out every camera and sensor on the car, or whatever).

"But then Manufacturers couldn't sell a self-driving car" -- cool, then the car isn't ready to be sold anyway. If a car company isn't ready to take on the liability for their self-driving product, then it isn't freaking ready for the road -- no exceptions.
Yeah, it’s a real pain. Lots of application to send, lots of visiting all across the city, lots of printed form to fill over and over again with the same info you already sent. We had the same experience in Hamburg the first and second times, you first need to find something temporary just to be able to visit places, then spend weeks going through the whole process.

Did you have a better experience in Munich or Frankfurt? From what I heard Munich is also its own mess when looking for flats. No idea about Frankfurt (I just visited once and loved the place but don’t know people living there).
You could easily have instant and smooth rotation like that in a Wayland compositor.
Good point, I had planned to add a Mullvad-esque process where you just generate an account number, but didn't want to delay the launch!

If it's any consolation, you don't need to verify your email, so you can just make one up to try it out.
Producing too much content to be absorbed and processed is detrimental to society. In the past, it was reasonably easy to filter out duplicate and redundant information. With AI, this is less and less so. Information overload is a real thing. People will have less and less in common, as their opinions and world views are shaped differently by external stimuli.
Yeah, it's a fun useless project.
Well, WW3 is coming.
The answers to all of those questions would be parroted from other research, and to the extent they were novel they would be incorrect.
And it parroting answers back at you from textbooks and papers that are most definitely in its training data, probably with the identical wording you're using, is proof to the contrary of it being a "magic parrot box" as the other person put it? Or do you genuinely believe ChatGPT, a LLM, actually "came up" with these answers on its own?
Any experience with performance? This seems to be heavy with regexes
Timmy did not need to ingest the whole sum of human knowledge as a training set before he could draw a crayon copy of a cartoon character.
I'm explicitly not accepting points 1 or 2.

I set up the scenario to show that no matter how careful the consumer is, their supervision will not work in practice (since the vehicle's behavior can change at any time and without warning) and therefore they cannot be held responsible for the behavior of the vehicle.

Either the manufacturer should not be allowed to market it (because it cannot be operated safely) or the manufacturer should be considered the operator.
Gravity is a curvature of space-time in the theory of General Relativity. It is not known what it will be in the final theory. It could end up being a "force" after all, or it could be that all forces are "curvatures" of a sufficiently complicated understanding of "space time", in which case force would be likely be redefined to be "curvatures" of space time anyhow, or other possibilities.

It may be easier to understand this point by looking at the current theory of Quantum Mechanics, in which gravity doesn't exist at all. We are not entitled to make conclusions about gravity from that fact, since the conclusion would be "gravity doesn't exist", which is clearly false.
Just like democracy
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Here’s what happens with no copyright:

No one will have any right to their own creations. Anything an individual makes will belong to everyone. And since no attribution is required, no one will know who made it. An average artist’s value to society goes from low to non-existent.

In this world. big corporations will take everything created, claim as their own, and profit from it.

Right now, big corporations using other peoples work unattributed or unlicensed is unethical, because copyright exists. Remove that, and it becomes expected that every thought and idea you express belongs to whoever can make the most profit from it.
but would they have liability if they submitted their "output" to a senior artist, who immediately shot it down as obviously infringing? Surely not. It's not illegal to draw Mario - just illegal to make money off your drawing.

I think the real question is whether OpenAI should be allowed to charge for generating infringing content. Even though the unit cost of the Mario drawing is negligible, the sum total of their infringing outputs may be making them a lot of money.
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> I think we’ve slowly been conditioned that there is someone else that’s supposed to do something, either a politician, or an organization, or or some administrator somewhere, so we just sit back and watch and watch and watch.

I am under the very strong impression that "democracy" is what fixes such things, I've seen many charts and discussions asserting that claim.

Personally, I consider democracy to be mostly an obvious illusion/trick, so those who have fallen for it are kind of getting what they deserve for not listening to (if not outright mocking) warnings.
> This is a great write-up and I love all the different ways they collected and analyzed data.

> [..] due to inherent biases in the sample set [..]

But that is an analysis methods issue. This serves as a reminder that one cannot depend on AI-assistants when they are not themselves enough knowledgeable on a topic. At least for the time being.

For once, as you point, they conducted a t-test on data that are not independently sampled, as multiple data points were sampled by different people, and there are very valid reasons to believe that different people would have different tasks that may be more or less compute-demanding, which confound the data. This violates one of the very fundamental assumptions of the t-test, which was not pointed out by the code interpreter. In contrast, they could have modeled their data with what is called "linear mixed effects model" where stuff like person (who the laptop belongs to) as well as possibly other stuff like seniority etc could be put into the model as "random effects".

Nevertheless it is all quite interesting data. What I found most interesting is the RAM-related part: caching data can be very powerful, and higher RAM brings more benefits than people usually realise. Any laptop (or at least macbook) with more RAM than it usually needs has most of the time its extra RAM filled by cache.
Yeah, and I swear that term appeared out of nowhere. I feel like a year ago we were called it vector embeddings, but I’m no expert.
Join the EEVBlog forums and spend some time reading feedback threads on PCB design. You can ask questions about your own as well.
What do you mean by "travelling rule applicators"?
Also by "travel speed of rule applicators being fixed"?
Is there a fundamental space and time in which the rule applicators exist?
The problem is the AI companies monetizing the work of copyrighted materials.

It's not a problem for me to draw Micky Mouse. It _is_ a problem when someone pays me to draw an animated mouse and I sell them a picture of Micky Mouse.

For me, its not really about the AI at all, it's a problem of undervaluing Artists contribution to these tools. And it's not even fully about copyright it's about not asking for permission to use their content and then creating an entire business on top of that stolen content.
They've really decreased in popularity. As far as I know there are only a handful of manufacturers even making minivans for the US market: Toyota, Kia, Chrysler, and Honda, and they each only offer a single model last I knew. I'm not sure why no one buys them anymore since from a practical standpoint they offer a lot more space and ergonomics when compared to most SUV's. My only guess in that people have a lot fewer kids these days.
Naming is hard, I hope the industry can come up with something better eventually.

It is definitely jarring in my head every time I hear it or read it.
From Primary School Teacher to Software Developer
What’s the issue with blind vias? You had to enable them manually earlier, but as of 7 I think they’re always enabled.
I'd guess leaders are thinking more in terms of national capacity to create more advanced technologies than geopolitical adversaries. If US policy shakes out in a way that protects copyright holders at the expense of AI innovation, I think it's apparent that the end result will be that our rivals will both violate copyright and beat us to building widespread expertise.
The quantum part does matter in the sense that certain kinds of "maths" are not directly accessible in a classical computer. You can sort of simulate Shor's algorithm on a classical computer but you cannot get the same low complexity. Of course, whether the quantum computer uses substrate A or B doesn't matter (other than practically).

The only way I ever found an access to understanding quantum computing is by doing the math, as other pop-sci explanations don't really reflect what is happening (at least for me).
I like that random fluctuation is a key part of the experiment. I would love to see more results on the nature of randomness in the universe where things like Boltzmann brains and antimatter asymmetry are a thing.
That’s a very American viewpoint. I think individualism should be punished. It’s why everything in America that requires social cooperation (public transit, government, etc.) is so shitty. Even just walking down the street—I nearly had a panic attack taking the New York subway the other day because of all the individualism.
> The 2 darling startups that are now facing increasingly less rosy futures?

As of this moment uber is worth 120 billion and AirBnB is worth 80 billion.

Yes, they got away with it.
Beautiful project. Reminds me of Long Pong by Look Mum No Computer: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cm83RIhDbwo
Thanks. For others, who are too lazy:

u: demo@hndemo.com

p: demo123
I think the files are too large to render in the github browser and they give an error. You can pick the 'download raw' option to download locally and read the file. Worked for me.
> Either manufacturers need to be required to provide important software freedoms to vehicle owners

FOSS robot cars seem like a great way to bypass emissions controls, safety regulations, and plain common sense. It'd take what, half a day, for some teenager to modify the firmware to double the 0-60 and blow up the battery pack at the same time?

I'd want the opposite: for self-driving firmware to be locked down and hardware signed to heck, with an independent auditing body code-reviewing every update.

> or the manufacturers themselves need to be liable for infractions.

Can't it be both? Split legal responsibility between each consumer and manufacturer. Doesn't have to be 50/50, but personal liability (even capped at a few grand) could make people pay attention and take over when the self-driving doesn't seem to be doing its job. We don't need more drivers on the roads who think their wondercars are infallible and blame everyone else for their accidents.
I wasn't around for too much of the 1980s, but I think there was a qualitatively similar hype cycle starting in the late 1970s.

MINOS, CPLEX, XpressMP, OSL, KORBX, GAMS, AMPL, and many other optimisation packages came out of that period. Those packages were not free software or open-source software, but they were available to researchers at universities in the First World. (It seems unfair to expect software from 1978 to be free software or open-source software as we understand it today given that the FSF dates to 1985 and the term "open-source" to the late 1990s. Also bear in mind that personal computing was in its own initial boom in the 1980s.)

Papadimitrou and Steiglitz's book (published 1982; I have the 1998 Dover edition) has an exercise (Chapter 15, exercise 19) in which you are to read a short 1979 New York Times article about the ellipsoid algorithm and "[d]etermine, where possible, whether each statement is (a) true, (b) false, (c) misleading, [or] (d) equivalent to a well-known conjecture, the solution of which was probably not known to [the article's author]."

There's a longer article written by the same author 20 days earlier, too, and that one has more unfounded speculation about applications of LP: https://www.nytimes.com/1979/11/07/archives/a-soviet-discove...

Karmarkar's 1984 interior-point method begat similar excitement, leading to a few thousand papers through the late 1990s, and a trickle still today, on interior-point algorithms of varying correctness, generality and efficiency.

The technology that came out of that hype cycle is phenomenally capable and usable, and it's subsequently been improved even further.
So you both want to claim Chernobyl as an argument AND you want to claim that you don't?

You know why Chernobyl was a disaster.

You know fully well why it has got nothing to do with the safety of current Western reactors, older Western reactors (except for some of the very first test reactors from the 40's and maybe early 50's), or even older Soviet reactors. It was a completely f*cked up design that nobody in the West would have allowed.

You know fully well that it is an argument designed to mislead.

You know fully well that you are the one misleading people here.
We are trying to saturate storage->pcie->gpu cards for tasks like gpu-accelerated log analytics, and this is increasingly the bottleneck
When there's a big chance of multiple tasks grabbing the same rows, processing them, then updating them, marking them for update since the beginning is better. E.g. a message queue like structure where messages should be processed only once.
Low-level thinking in high-level shading languages 2023
I don't really care when creative people steal. I care when faceless soulless companies monetize stolen content from Artists.
Devjab's comment was both relevant and informative. Yours was neither.
True. It's kind of funny that Microsoft did a better job implementing linux than they did implementing windows.
by rule following British people with a long tradition of self governance.

Their love of rules and self-governance was so great they had to leave their rule-following, self-government-enjoyer country where they called them 'non-conformists'. This doesn't really add up.