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Are We in an Airship Renaissance?
I'm using Optaplanner as the engine under the covers, which is open source and off the shelf.

https://www.optaplanner.org/
I believe they have a bit of a point, because it isn’t locally obvious that randlen will match the zero-terminated length of randstr, at https://github.com/curl/curl/blob/1d8e8c9ad1ff3351386422535f.... It depends on the exact behavior and interface
contract of the external function Curl_base64_encode(). A static analyzer might rightfully flag this. The LLM does a bad job of explaining this though.
This is precisely what optaplanner was designed to do. Note the optaplanner has been forked by its original author and main contributor when they left RedHat/IBM. The fork is called "TimeFold", most development happens there now.
All that person had to do is just read the frigging code and check if the strcpy() can indeed lead to a memory corruption problem (and ideally create a reproducer) instead of wasting the curl maintainer's time with AI-generated bullshit.

In this case it's quite obvious that it's an AI generating the bullshit, but we really need a mandatory disclaimer that something was generated by an AI so that a human can immediately break off any interaction instead of wasting time.
I wonder how many upvotes are for the slightly ambiguous title.
"Remind" calendar has been a daily driver for me for the better part of a decade, you might find some inspiration there? I could see these two things working well together?

https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/
A sociopath can bully people though. In terms of words I don't think the distinction you're talking about is widely accepted.
FTC Hits Pharmacy Retail Chain Rite Aid with 5-Year Facial Recognition Tech Ban
Lol recently went for job as a systems engineer. 7 month interview process, handful of psych tests. Still didn't get the role despite being the teams top pick courtesy of some other teams input. IT is honestly horrible to find work in despite the claims of shortages.

Meanwhile, start doing construction. Instantly booked out for the next 4 months with work at a higher rate than I get paid in IT and i got zero tickets. Probably have the next year of jobs booked before the first quarters over.

Tbh all I see in IT is zero job security and companies who go against actual good security posture in chase of a profit. Can't wait til AI automates most of these msp muppets out of business.
> A $30k car? You'll pay a mechanic to fix that

As long as the vehicle is reasonably dependable. Sometimes an older undependable vehicle might not be worth it. (think of stranding a loved one, or dying in winter, etc)

That said, brand new cars without spares are a disturbing trend.
feels like it'll start an arms race with readers employing LLMs to create condensed/sparse summaries of things.

I guess the capability of the specific LLMs will dictate whether or not this is a net loss w.r.t. human communication in general.
I was in investment management for a us bank - here the requirement is all officers must take 5 consecutive days off to ensure at least one weekend is covered.
Considering I never touched money, it was one of those fun perks of working for a bank, like taking 2 hours of elder abuse classes for regulations in a state I didn't live nor work in, and being tested yearly all about money laundering laws and regulations.
In this case it has tighter moderation than twitch. the latter's devolved into what is basically a soft core porn site for teenage boys to form parasocial relationships on

Allowing e-whores to grow on the platform was a mistake.
Better text generation with science and engineering
I tried to find the source so I could change this, but it doesn't seem to be in the samples dir, at least not by that name.
The Secret Word Game: Secretword
So it's a semantic thing, employees know it's not literally free and comes from their employer but it's free in the sense that it's in excess of their negotiated salary.
> What I find frustrating when reading LLM output is that the eye glides over it easily, as it all has the right "texture" of text. But after reading a paragraph, you realize there is no content! And you have to squint hard looking for it, and you can't find it. It's exhausting.

I'd just like to say that this is a really elegant way of explaining this concept. I'm going to steal it ;)

I think this is also why there's a lot of miscommunication about generative models capabilities. I'm focused on image synthesis and then thing I notice is that these look amazing at first glance. Incredible when scrolling through Twitter, Reddit, or whatever. But the longer you look the weirder they tend to get. Not that this always happens, but enough.

I just wish we could talk about ML as if there weren't two camps: utter and useless bullshit vs AGI is coming sooner than an Elon promise of self-driving. It's neither of those things and I think we can't talk about what it really is because we want to believe one of the two extremes.
Wife and I were broke college students when we got married. Reception consisted of cake and refreshments (no meal) in the basement of the church after the ceremony -- no assigned seating. Then a few nights in a local (though pretty nice) B&B for the 'honeymoon.'

Still spent too much on everything, should have just blown off the fancy ceremony and drove to Vegas :)
This web dev? If so, it must be some special stuff for it to still be in prod after all these years.
I use the word 'Certainly' a lot...not the rest of the stuff though. Feeling a bit self conscious about that now...
Likely, either, copyright covers use in LLM, or, it doesn't.

So either the license is unnecessary, or irrelevant.
> ...the problem arises immediately when you try to resize a data volume and you can't because the API doesn't support it

What API doesn't support it? k8s has support for resizing PVs and has for a while now. AFAIK all 3 cloud providers (and more) support increasing the PV using their storage class.

> K8s is not really for stateful systems, yet

Is this written somewhere or is it just your opinion?
> enough of them

How much is enough? A von neumann machine shouldn't need to be that big. You can send a single one to a solar system and let it replicate itself indefinitely. A single seed can sprout an entire civilization.

> If an intelligent species directed such an object to our galaxy, how close would is need to be for us to detect it?

We could probably detect it for many hundreds of lightyears if not orders of magnitude further. Why? Because an intelligent species capable of sending a von neumann machine to another solar system would probably be intelligent enough to make large scale infrastructure projects like dyson swarms. Such structures would basically be visible from any distance we could see the individual star from, which we can do from at least 50 million light years.

And not only that, but we could see evidence of a von neumann machine coming through in the distant past as well, even if for some reason its no longer active, because it would have left an enormous amount of artifacts behind.

> When it is part of the question, how is it irrelevant?

Fair enough. But what I mean is that if life isn't "rare" (for any definition of rare really), one would expect to see a massive amount of evidence of life and civilizations etc. Since we don't see that evidence, we should assume either that life is rare, or we're not the "average" planet that the copernican principle assumes.

> If it was on the other side of the galaxy, how would they know to send someone to our solar system

They wouldn't have to know. They would simply send spaceships everywhere and would happen across us by random chance within a million years.
Isn’t this Elon putting his money where his mouth is? He’s stated many times that he bought Twitter due to free speech concerns and not to make money. It’s kind of weird to me that people on the internet aren’t praising him for being principled, and are instead laughing at him for (expectedly) losing money.
> I'm trying to put my finger on why this pisses me off so much.

There is also the disappointment and embarrassment I feel for the the other members of the programming community. That sounds silly and irrational, I know, but it plays into it somehow. Some languages probably have a convenient term precisely describing that feeling in one word.
Sorry about that -- fixed!
I'm using Optaplanner underneath, which is already open source.

https://www.optaplanner.org/
Sure they can. You assume the valuation is directly proportional to the traffic of twitter. It's likely more about the ad customers on twitter, and they very much are leaving in droves from what I'm hearing. That doesn't mean the users aren't still there.

I'll ask the corollary question to rein this in: where are people going if they aren't on twitter anymore? Tiktok? Instagram? It sure isn't Bluesky at the moment.
Building Trust and Authenticity in the DevRel World
Love this, mechanics and music are great!

One suggestion would be to not care what key is pressed, maybe just have any key change direction?
The reason why Javascript became popular is because it has been the only 'application' language available in all the browsers.
Pretty much any low level tech is at most a theoretical curiosity to me. I'll use it when it works in every browser and OS and average people recognize the file extension. Unusual tech seems to attract unusual bugs!

Still really really impressive to beat an established standard as an individual, that doesn't happen much.
https://morepablo.com/img/2018/5/js_good_parts.jpg
I just love the UK's penchant for turning a phrase: "alternative ways of sourcing items" as a euphemism for theft.
That is just refusing to engage with the question on its own merits, and preferring to talk about Musk.

It is simple to think of interesting questions and topics besides Musk.

It is fine if someone doesn't want to answer it, but a respondant doesn't get to call it pointless, because objective and goal lies with the asker.
See also Line Wobbler by Robin Baumgarten: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dufXuWDjLU

1D dungeon crawler hardware game.
Considering the failure rate of startups (assuming we’re applying the advice in that context), you shouldn’t be worried about rewriting your codebase or using a hyped framework that will be outdated in 5 years because chances are (statistically) your startup won’t exist in 5 years.

The opposite advice has merit, but you can’t take it to the extreme. Better to build a MVP in 1 month than to spend 6 months doing user research and then another 6 months building a MVP with perfectly performant and optimized code
Would different departments within a bank use different calendar conventions?
Iran [1]:

> Iran carried out at least 977 executions in 2015, at least 567 executions in 2016,[7] and at least 507 executions in 2017.[8] In 2018 there were at least 249 executions, at least 273 in 2019, at least 246 in 2020, at least 290 in 2021, at least 553 in 2022, and at least 309 so far in 2023.

There is no public information on China. This doesn't significantly change the prison population. Estimates are roughly 2400 annually [2].

Saudi Arabia executed 172 people in 2023 [3]. Again, this is statistically insignificant compared to prison population.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Iran

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_China

[3]: https://reprieve.org/uk/2024/01/02/saudi-arabia-executed-at-...
I too still have my emails starting from the 90s. I've always copied them on the provider side when migrating my email to a new account (4 or 5 times now in total).

First mailbox was 5MB, others after that were always generous enough that I could easily just keep all my emails.
only about 10 minutes in, but it looks like exactly the kind of thing I will enjoy. Thank you!
Run it in a VM and then setup a CPU server so you can drawterm in.

If you have issues you can go onto the 9fans discord or ##9fans on oftc.net which are more casual channels and newby friendly or #cat-v on oftc which is pretty much the official 9front channel where the devs mainly gather.
I'm not in the market but this seems like an amazing place to work.
I'm curious about this as well, a lot of studies have shown that psychedelic therapy is most effective when bracketed by talk therapy -- the brain plasticity (or anti-inflammatory effects, the jury is still out) induced by psychedelics open the mind to the suggestions of talk therapy and that without talk therapy (or some kind of self dialogue perhaps?) psychedelics are not as effective.
Wow, the dash-8 begins to move into the runway at 2:48, and then sits there for the rest of the time. It's really hard to spot this from this video going forwards, but it you got backwards from the crash you can see the lights from the dash-8 and work out when it got onto the runway.

Maybe the coast guard pilot thought he had permission to line up, but not to take off? Anyways, it's also pretty easy to see that it would have been difficult for the tower staff and the A350 pilots to notice the incursion and avoid the accident.
> Trust the programmer is kind of still with us.

Yes, the post isn't saying that it's gone, it is saying that it should be gone, in the future.

> _Generic? The _Atomic mess?

I do not know the story behind these features, and so your point is a bit confusing to me. That said, I think what you're saying is that these are both inventions, and therefore, this principle isn't true. From the post:

> For starters, we’ve shown we’re perfectly comfortable with invention during the C11 and C23 cycles.

If you have any pointers to the story about standardizing these features, I'd love to hear about them though.

> Currently I think the right play is to write a C99 compiler that doesn't use UB => ruin as an optimising trick that incidentally stomps all over what the programmer thought would happen.

I do think that this is a thing that a lot of people want, but I am unsure that it is a thing that is possible, without seriously inhibiting optimizations. And if you're okay with that, you can compile at -O0. But maybe there is some universe in which you could write different optimizations. Only one way to find out! If you did pull that off, I'm sure your compiler would be popular.
Costco relies on membership, not word of mouth, and this is also how amazon got past google (amazon prime).
I did something similar for my extended essay (IB class of 2023) last year. (Evaluated the effectiveness of fine tuning at removing censorship from training phase)

Didn’t do too well. Make sure to focus on the theory & cite lots of papers. Don’t focus on practicals (at least that was the advice I got from my school)
Pac-Man meet Flatland (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland)
If the LLM's are emulating you (and others) in every other sentence, perhaps you should be getting royalties or something.

That would be a bit silly in this particular case, but in general we ought to celebrate cases where somebody has authentically done something that millions of others find it useful to copy.
If a building is on fire, there are still other facts about it that can be known or learned.
Very cool. Anyone know how this compares to AWS Textract in general? Does the Apple Vision framework support table recognition?
> The fork is called "TimeFold", most development happens there now.

Thanks. Last time I used optaplanner was several years ago on an aerospace project - if I need a constraint solver again I'll definitely look at TimeFold.
Some games don't have deliberately implemented "you win" screens and gameplay can in theory go forever unless the game has a bug that prevents advancing.

In a game with no human-authored intentional "win state", one reasonable definition of "beating the game" is "reaching a state that no other player is able to surpass". If the game crashes at a certain point, then reaching that crash is a viable state that fits that definition.
Excellent. I applaud anyone who helps people repair their own equipment vs trashing it. Some of the repairs I’ve made on appliances have taken days to complete, but it is extremely satisfying once done and they’ve lasted for years.
Hey, Andrew here, thanks for the feedback!

Our take home assessment isn’t always required, but it is assigned to candidates whose applications would benefit from additional demonstration of skills. Most candidates say they can complete it within an hour, and due to the volume, we’re unable to provide individual feedback to each applicant at the assessment stage.
Regarding social media, I think the current form threatens the fabric of society. It causes people to believe things about each other that they would never believe if not for the algorithmic rage machines promoting the worst outliers. The upvote/downvote systems in most communities lead to promotion of binary thinking and a seeming inability for many participants to consider nuance. One you factor in the advertising incentives and dark patterns used to keep people coming back, it's hard to see much benefit in the current state of social media.

It wasn't always this way. The early Internet was a very different place. I credit some of those early communities with helping me escape a complicated childhood. But that Internet no longer exists, and it hasn't for quite some time. So while I'm willing to agree that social media has provided quite a bit of benefit, I don't believe it continues to do so, nor will it until people categorically reject the current generation of social sites and their business models. This is to say nothing of the privacy and data harvesting issues inherent to these sites in 2024, which by themselves are a threat to democracy when you factor in the overreach we already know is occurring by our governments.

Regarding AI, I think there's a very real concern about social upheaval as entire categories of work are eliminated if not introduced with care. I think it's deeply concerning that fewer and fewer people will prioritize the cultivation of first hand expertise and instead opt to just let various AIs handle things. I think it will lead to the further erosion of independent thought, and to a future where fewer and fewer people know how to reason about things.

The misinformation landscape will be changed forever. People will/are already starting to worship AIs. AIs will be constructed that know how to radicalize people more effectively than any YouTube algorithm ever could. AIs will be implemented as experts (this is already happening now), and we will increasingly defer to these "experts" for critical decisions despite their flaws/biases.

> in the long term I suspect it will be a flash in the pan caused by the newness of seemless online communication

I hope you're right, but this also seems like a very optimistic take. Seamless online communication is here to stay, but we still know very little about the long term impact of this kind of communication ability on humans. The group dynamics in play when our brains evolved look nothing like the group dynamics enabled by this kind of tech.

I should say I don't necessarily think we'll see the worst of every one of these concerns come to fruition, i.e. I'm not just an AI doomer, but I also expect we'll encounter issues we haven't thought about yet, and that the societal impact of even just a subset of these issues could be immense.
There's an entire philosophical, legal, and structural framework the prison abolition movement is working in that you've got absolutely no basis in. This is like asking whether drug legalization advocates are advocating that drug dealers get off scot-free - the premise of the question is silly within the frame of the discussion. You're trying to position this like a "gotcha" question, which is why nobody's bothering to engage with you - because you haven't bothered to engage with the issue in any serious way yourself.
What sharp edges are you referring to with statefulsets?
> Today, the world is slowly changing direction on globalization.

I'm not so sure about this. The world is slowly realizing heavy dependence on exports of autocratic countries was not exactly the brightest idea - and this superficially polite wording is very intentional here, because that's how it goes. Even the war hadn't stopped trading - worse, on the contrary, Russian trading boomed after the invasion. And it's not something unique that money beats anything - oil deals are advertised at climate conferences, and somehow this doesn't surprise me at all. And I think WTO also wouldn't do a thing that won't benefit its stakeholders - not the consumers. There's barely any global consensus about anything important, and international institutions like UN look dysfunctional at best.

And in terms of money, cheap junk beats consistently anything else out of the market. The homeostasis of price-regulation-quality is very hard to maintain, and consumer products either fall down towards cheap junk extremum, or towards regulatory capture extremum (but still junk under the hood - just see how banking and medical apps are doing).

Sorry to be this pessimistic - I really wish I'd be wrong here. But unless somehow there's bigger money in making changes than in maintaining the status quo, I doubt anything would happen.
lol, I did that with an internal tool once. It actually worked in that case - the name was changed. Although the "so terrible it couldn't exist" name persisted in some dark corners for several years.
> but the university you attended is not commonly brought up in America.

yes, it is, and it's seen as a proxy for intellectual aptitude

And clearly since I have no intellectual aptitude...
Apple II Emulation Evaluation (2022)
Definitely a massive red flag, however assuming it's an actual human forwarding that garbage they could just have removed that line. The content remains suspicious, but the flags are harder to notice.
This fuels my growing distrust of academia. The person who is the president of one of the most prestigious academic institutions in the world it turns out has been consistently violating some of the most basic principles of academic integrity. Beyond that there is questions if this individual was qualified for the position in the first place or if they were selected on account of other factors.

So maybe sometimes it pays to be skeptical of "the experts".
Yup, that was frustrating!