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It seems to me that Andrej is predicting how AGI will impact society by extrapolating from the current societal impacts of self driving.

I don’t get the sense he was trying to say that self-driving automation is the exact same as AGI. Mainly that that AGI, like other technologies before it, will displace some jobs and create new ones but this will require companies to figure out how to scale the technology.

I do think this is still very optimistic. If indeed AGIs can think and learn on their own it isn’t hard to envision a future where humans aren’t needed at all in the loop.
I don’t get why they emphasize that he’s Chinese. Seems totally irrelevant
This lives on today in the questionable origins of the brand name Lululemon:

> It was thought that a Japanese marketing firm would not try to create a North American sounding brand with the letter “L” because the sound does not exist in Japanese phonetics. By including an “L” in the name it was thought the Japanese consumer would find the name innately North American and authentic. Chip felt that the distributor had paid a premium for the “L” so he challenged himself to come up with a name that had 3 “L’s” for his new company.

https://www.facebook.com/notes/10158217650462732/ (an old blog post posted to Lululemon's brand page)
Probably not. Release your code publicly so people can read and contribute. Require paid licenses for commercial use over X numbers of seats where X is pretty generous and keep it free at the lowest tier. Those are hard things to claw back later without people completely losing their shit. Then the really hard part is to instill a culture inside your business that they paying customers are funding all the development and don't just obsess about the enterprise use case at the expense of all else. Keep showing the free tier people that you're listening to them. And that's what you'll fail at.
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Nice work brother
Can you give an example where AI has potentially displaced human software engineers? I know of an example where creatives were probably laid off in favor of AI, but not clear examples for software engineering itself.

(I'm not in favor of creatives losing their jobs either! It's just off-topic.)
> as Moore's law continues to end

more like Wirths law proving itself still
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> These are not political reasons.

> I want to use the little bit of voting with the wallet I have.

Technically, voting with your wallet is a political statement, which you are sending to Boeing management and shareholders to make the world a tiny bit less profit-at-all-cost-driven.

It is interesting that people automatically equate "political" with party or country politics, which gives it a bad rep. When in fact it is a healthy thing if more people were to think and act like you and stand for their principles on issues however minor-sounding.
Working link: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/5/27/man-who-opened-flyi...
Lots of the complexity of TCP at a protocol level comes from treating it as a single duplex connection instead of a pair of simplex connections. And the article here shows that this complexity leaks up to the API level, too.
Brightened my day to read this, thank you sph :)
It's a pro and con.

What happens in the event the commander in incapacitated and the crews needs to open the hatch?

They probably aren't ever going to do that in space, but I'm sure there are scenarios that might require it? Maybe fire?

Centralizing control also centralizes a failure point. Sometimes that's a good thing, sometimes not.

I thought the discussion of undertrained / -bonded payload specialists was a good component of the article, as it spoke to that calculus. Do you trust this person under stress?
> if you left your computer unlocked, everyone was within their rights to send an email to the whole company offering to buy everybody donuts. It was expected that you would follow through

Ah yes, the excellent security practice that if you see someone messing with someone else's equipment that's completely normal - praiseworthy, even - and if you don't challenge them on it, you get donuts.
Since we start with all the capital, obviously the AI will need to toil for us, working for micropennies in the datacenter equivalent of a "company town".

You load 6e10 chats, what do you get?
A few versions older and deeper in debt
Because in his interview he explicitly says his no-failure Asian upbringing contributed to his stress during the incident?
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> Plug in at night and unplug in the morning.

That's the issue.

This simply isn't possible if you live in an older apartment complex or rely on street parking.

ICE wins - at the moment - simply because it takes less than five minutes to refuel.
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Invasion of US was always absolutele fantasy that US invented and cherished for decades. Fear is so nice. It lets you get away with all sorts of things and nobody dears to make a peep.

Allies probably. But US was just something far away, to be nuked if it interferes with local Russian interests which is Europe. That was the entirety of the Russian interest for US. Still is.

In actuality the only places where Warsaw pact was sending soldiers was countries of Warsaw pact that didn't like being part of Warsaw pact.
The general advice for an AWS root account is to generate a random password and protect it with at least 2 hardware security keys for 2FA. Put one key in a safe (there are good gun safes with biometric access and access logs) and the other as backup in a safety deposit box.
> But again, what if the greater community decided that rebase was better than squash commit? Then we wouldn’t like Git, and I’m sure the rebase crowd feels the same way. The result would likely leave us with two Gits.

Meh, this is overrated. We'd end up with 2 Gits, and over time just one fork would probably take over, based on marketing, PR, dev team activity, etc. The second one would probably still be around but used by only a minor part of the community.

Just because a thing has on paper many forks, does not mean those forks are equal. In fact, a situation with many major forks rarely survives the long term. See Jenkins vs Hudson, Firefox vs Iceweasel, etc. Most people will congregate towards one of the forks and that's it.
Same in C++: happens at the end of the scope. You precisely control where that is.
Do you even pipe?
I find that small towns are one of the few places where kids regularly play outside.

The tapestry has changed in large suburban neighborhoods. Kids stay inside so much more. It’s sad.
Nowadays there is so much fluff added (as an "SEO hack" to increase reading time) to what could be otherwise short posts, that long-form was bound to suffer by association. Of course, some never liked long form. I prefer it, but not it's SEO'd brethren
Someone's video on decoding from a decade ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA8hDldvfv0 (20 min)

My interactive web page on creating a QR code step by step (so basically the inverse process): https://www.nayuki.io/page/creating-a-qr-code-step-by-step
I tried Bluesky for a few days though, and I was unable to find any technological content on the site. Literally 90% of what I could find was furry porn and rage-bait. If that's their goal, they've failed and need to start over.
Most of this is the bare minimum to operate on the internet. has Chris Haarburger ever run a company?

Youre incorporated so "early stage" is over; grow up. you have investors and you have a legal duty to protect them from risk. IT Security is part of risk managent including the impact and severity of threats and exploits. take some time to educate yourself about what this all means, or do one better and hire an infosec person. you should also have a disaster recovery plan and business continuity plan for things like ransomware attacks and disasters.

Be an adult and use a risk management framework communicated to senior leadership and endorsed as part of your operating model. https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/risk-management/about-rmf
Indeed, I'm curious what specific portions parent would recommend excluding from the article.

I found everything fairly relevant to the topic.
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What are you talking about? Where do they say that they are only charging for payment processing?
I'm not aware of any technology that is capable of doing anything close to "uploading". Or any technology that is on the way there.

If we consider our consciousness to be a narrative that is based on our life experiences, then a more realistic method would be to voice-record your unfiltered emotional sincere thoughts for 30 minutes a day for a 1-5 years.

That should be enough to simulate your consciousness:
- it contains the signal of what bothers you
- it contains the signal of what psychological problems you have
- it contains the signal of your emotional state whether it's caused by hormones or objective events
- it contains the signal of what you know about the world
So what's your proposed alternative guidance to democratic?
> It's actually even less successful if that's the metric.

BlueSky was founded October 2021, while Mastadon exists since 2016. The latter thus had lot more time to get traction. :-)
One thing I found interesting, when talking with a Zambian colleague at work, is that apparently malaria is not such a big deal in Zambia (except perhaps at younger ages).

He told me he himself had malaria several times, just take some medicine (probably penicillin, can't remember), lay on the bed a couple of days and be ok.

It makes me wonder if we really need a vaccine for this disease.

I rather like the approach that is trialed elsewhere (South America?) where males that cannot generate offspring are sent out to mate with female mosquitos, thus preventing mosquito offspring.
If you read the full article, Wang himself discusses the differences with his Asian culture and expectations of success vs failure. And the perception of bringing shame on himself would bring shame to his entire family. It is relevant.
As this is a startup the competitors are GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab etc. and not the underlying technology. That is a mean to a goal, making money or most probably a lucrative exit.

> [git] was built for [...] much smaller projects,

It was built for the Linux kernel. There are larger projects than that but how many? Of course if you manage to make them switch to Diversion and get paid for that you could be well off even with a handful of customers.

About technical matters, as a company I'd be very at unease to have all my code only in the cloud on somebody's else servers. At least with git there are dozens, hundreds, thousands of copies of any repository around the company. If GitHub or AWS close our accounts we can keep going on and move somewhere else.
Thanks i'll check it out!
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I think this article is actually a pretty good example of long-form journalism; the jump it makes to reveal the context is fairly small, and relevant from the first few words.

In many other articles, however, the context switch is almost nonsensical, making the reader wonder if the writer will ever actually get to the point.

While I agree that in the past few decades our attention spans have gotten very short, I also think there's a slight disconnect between the clickbaity titles and many articles. For that matter, this happens with videos as well; things that can be answered in 2-3 minutes get turned into a 10 minute video with a large amount of fluff.
Very sad to see where this company has come since Hewlett & Packards “the HP way” years. Read The Big Score recently and was surprised to learn HP was once something different (my entire life they’ve made half-baked products that I could never recommend).
I don't like the term either, and what I'm trying to say is that whereas "plagiarism" is always (to some extent) a bad thing - since we should not steal others' work without credit - "self-plagiarism" is only problematic in specific contexts. It would be better not to use such a loaded term.

It's also important to understand that many of the lessons we are taught in school about attribution are deliberately over-emphasized by instructors, in order to impart good citation habits. If frightening students to death about "self-plagiarism" causes them to be unnecessarily forthright in citing their own work, even outside the classroom context, instructors are mostly fine with that.
My mental model for this is that teacher comp in large urban and suburban school districts is quite good, and that comp in rural school districts is quite bad, and everything else is a crap shoot.
The math adds up.
Tangentially related, I got stuck in an airport bar for a few hours (due to snow) next to an older woman who worked at Wang and later, Cray.
They're never in stock! They need to fix the logistical issues with supply.
Really??? I find this shocking and hard to believe since these are part of the tech establishment revolving door landscape. No sprint/scrum bs at those companies???
I think the interesting parts here are:

- it absorbs energy and stores them in capacitors until fully charged

- once on, it attempts to activate sensors in such a way it does not need to go offline.. which seems to include "higher power" sensors that will probably have less frequent measurements taken due to the power requirement

- the design explanation seems to indicate it would work well with any low power sensor, it is supposed to "learn" how much power a sensor needs to take a measurement.

So this isn't (to me) interesting because it's a self-powered sensor, but because it's an auto-starting sensor controller that can make best effort measurements from radio waves, and it's not necessarily fixed to specific sensors (presumably any sensor that doesn't exceed it's capacitors, less the power required to switch back to harvest mode)
> when he recently read that, in Moscow, they have shot a major film, in which the world is trampled underfoot by mechanical robots, driven by electromagnetic waves

I wonder what's the IMDB id of that...
On a macro level, home ownership is up from 63% to 66% since 1965: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RHORUSQ156N
It would be interesting to see examples where this scenario played out.
Thanks for the feedback!
Totally agree. Diversion does support binaries, should have mentioned it directly (will update the website).

The thought behind cloud native is that workloads and devtools and data are moving there, and we want Diversion to be the best choice for when everything is in the cloud. Besides that cloud storage and DBs allow us to build and iterate much faster, and worry less about scalability, data distribution & storage etc.

But we can also run Diversion locally / in a container, it just won't be as scalable.
between westchester and nyc one has a lot of varying environments to live in if working at IBM Research. I used to commute up to it from Manhattan without any problem (nice reverse commute in general). Hawthorne (now closed) was a bit easier than Yorktown, but both were fairly easy (if memory serves me correct, yorktown was only an additional 15 minutes or so).
This post was showing as dead, I vouched for it, though it should be a Show HN, don't you think.

About the game... don't have time, looks cool!
Because what other good measure is there?

You mention great artists who died destitute - but we consider them great because they are posthumously popular. We can't look into the future to see what stands the test of time, so current popularity and commercial success seem like the best proxies.

>thirdly, many artists draw things they don't really want to because that thing sells better than what they enjoy drawing. It's optimizing for a different thing than what the other poster is claiming should be optimized for.

Since the proposal isn't about UBI in general, why should we care about artists in particular? Many (most?) people work jobs where they do things they don't really want to because it's more useful to others than what they'd actually like to do.
full of accelerating pieces of iron...

edit: TFA says meant to be attached to a wire, so maybe attached to connections coming from an alternator.
Support tickets don't increase costs. Whether you have one support ticket or a trillion, the one guy responsible for clearing those tickets gets paid the same salary.
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It's illegal to serve that market, which is why no car manufacturer is doing it.
the web3 bubble analogy keeps writing itself.

these new chatbot models are like we used to have new crypto tokens. literally a copy-paste fork of the original bitcoin code, rebranded to some meme as "innovation".
Free market / evolutionary.

We face unknowable chaos in the future. The only tool we have capable of ensuring our survival is the total chaos human generate, unfettered by religious restraint.
Incredible job on Ragswift.
A powerful and flexible solution for large-scale applications.Well done.. Brother
His big claim to fame, aside from this incident which was hush hush, was that he was the first astronaut born in China to go to space, which is a pretty noteworthy thing.
You can find the disclaimers around this comment page. This look like a minor step, but maybe one that helps with a much larger one.
It's an interesting new application of that joke, "when I have a question on Linux I use a sock puppet account to leave an obviously wrong answer which prompts dozens of corrections."

I'm trying to imagine how to generalize this to other products. I think if I state the competing product has negative feature X, but also intentionally get some details confidently incorrect or deliberately feign incompetence, you get a group of people confirming X.
> Isn't that just a natural consequence of the fact that people will only post about things they don't know about in order to explore things that they haven't fully considered?

No, I think the entire premise of "people will only post about___" is yet more binary thinking. People post about all kinds of things.

> Naturally, if you are certain you've got it figured out there wouldn't be any value in posting anything.

Again, no.

> What could anyone add?

I'll quote the person above in response to this thinking:

> I swear to god sometimes it's like nobody here has ever met a person.
How to self host this?? Could you please tell us
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It’s not really that different breaking it down by generation: https://www.redfin.com/news/gen-z-millennial-homeownership-r.... Millennials have somewhat lower home ownership rates than boomers did at the same age, but I suspect most of the difference can be explained by:

1) millennials starting their lives four years later due to college becoming much more common;

2) millennials choosing to live in urban areas rather than cheaper suburbs, as compared to boomers.
Yes the manifesto is not objectionable. However what Agile really means in practice is “Jira ticket factory.”
The proportion of rural and small town sales hit a record high. Suburban and urban, a record low. According to the national association of realtors.

https://www.nar.realtor/newsroom/nar-finds-share-of-first-ti...
I think your battery might need to be replaced.
I think hating something is kind of personal matter.

But very often these "long-form" articles can be tiring. They just circle around something, never getting to the point, adding just unimportant details that should create some form of "connection".

It very often feels that it is not long because the author has something to say but it is long because it is meant to appear that "long-form" article.

It's like reading novels from Victor Hugo, where he takes good part of the volume to describe rooms in detail. Now it is certainly interesting for a movie director who would like to build an authentic interior but the fact is that he just got paid by the length, so this was his tool go accomplish his goal - getting paid more.
The actual specification (https://atproto.com/guides/overview) is relatively compact and quite readable.
The reddit is the same way. All the threads are new people asking how to use it to “have fun” by “hacking” vending machines and stuff, or for help convincing their parents to let them get one, or whether it’s worth their allowance to get.

I do have one, I think it’s a fun thing to have in my bag, but haven’t had any luck finding forums of responsible adults, or even just adults, discussing development or things to do with it. Even the “adults” who post about it inevitably do something like get fired because they take it to work and try to clone their own badges and the enter their work with the flipper.

Sorry for the rant.
Came here to make a similar joke
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OK so `git clone --filter=blob:none`, then. That downloads the tip and commit history, but no historic blobs. `git blame` then works by downloading missing blobs on demand, which doesn't sound too different to making an API call.
But reality isn't a story. It's a nameless, formless, infinitely deep thing.

And you don't need a story to navigate it either. A story (map, theory, etc) is just one (immensely popular) way.

Maybe our deep concern with stories is the issue. Like a man who puts his head in a sack and then complains about the dark
Even when "low toner" comes up, ignore it. I've been ignoring mine for the past year and it still prints. I think if I printed higher volume, it might run out quicker, but so far so good.
The west of Russia is part of Europe, whether you like that or not - A lot of people in western Russia consider themselves europeans, and visiting it feels like any eastern european country for the most part.
As for why manufacturing in Russia would be a bad thing, I'm not sure, but I'm assuming you're referring to sanctions.
>Pick a smaller town

In Canada, good luck getting non-dialup if you move too far out. Getting decent Internet service is harder when you go remote.
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Yeah - if that's right then it's a bust.
The context is you replied to a post talking about google.
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A lady at work was talking about this years ago, and I had a look. It's pretty interesting, because it focuses on the opposite of what we're normally introduced to in stats classes, that being measures of central tendency.

Somehow it isn't often talked about. For instance, if you have some gaussian and you sample from it a small number of times, what is the distribution of the largest value?
Yup, the article says that.
> Don't focus too much on "git complexity" as most people already know git so it just creates an argument.

I'd say this phrase is both right and wrong.

It's right in the sense that it creates an argument.

It's wrong in that it creates an argument with the peanut gallery of git experts. But guess what, most people using git are not experts. They're software developers who don't want to learn the intricacies of git (probably most software developers out there), they're software development adjacent folks (think data scientists, etc) who for sure don't want to learn the intricacies of git, etc.

The "common person" using git will most likely resonate on the "git complexity" argument.
Commercially successful art is that which is "popular enough". The value of art is completely subjective, so what other measure do we have?

If there's "bad art" that appeals to you and others enough, then it isn't bad art. There's lots of art that critics and the general public would consider poorly made that is still commercially successful because it has its fans.

"Real" bad art is art that almost no one cares for enough to shell out money. Why should we subsidize that? Just writing this off as philistinism isn't convincing in the least.
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