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This is the usual Musk play book. He is a salesman, not a tech guru, and plays the "good guy card" when it suits him in order to fool his followers en masse. A few months ago this forum was very much for the profit model of Altman after his ouster, and now it's the other way around.

Why believe any sort of discussion on the internet at all anymore? Can hackernews prove the discussions here are not by Tesla staff? By OpenAI staff? By bots? By AI responses? There is a saturation point being hit by the credibility and reliability of this medium we call the internet. This was obviously always the case to some degree, but the profit model of most businesses now are built on the backbones of social media hype, all of which is completely, and easily, falsifiable, more than ever before.
What an answer to the problem of trisecting the angle!

If you figure your angular accuracy is 0.3 degree or something you can construct a binary fraction like 341/1024.
We can also replace the monospaced with Monaco, and the colours to MacOS 7's. ;-)
In truth, I'm partly (maybe even mostly?) joking. I'm generally an optimistic in regards to technology.

And yet...

I have my doubts, and some concerns about what the future holds with the way some things are going. A tinge of concern that a cyberpunk dystopia might just be in our future has started to creep in around the edges.
"This tool has been generated entirely with ChatGPT and hence it is also a demonstration of how useful products can be developed with collaborative reiteration with GPTs."

Any chance you could share a link to the ChatGPT conversation, or a copy of the prompt you used?

I build little tools like this with ChatGPT all the time, it's one of my favourite use-cases for it. I often have an idea for a tool that wouldn't justify an hour of development work but is absolutely worth spending 5 minutes iterating on with ChatGPT.
I haven’t used Swift so I might be totally wrong but doesn’t it work sort of like you describe? Though perhaps with ARC instead of true GC, if it followed in the footsteps of Objective-C.
GPS antenna mods make Starlink terminal immune to jammers
Thanks for those details!
... individuals might produce different responses to an experimental situation.

Do they limit to voltage you can apply across a volunteer? =)
If you are simplifying collectivism to “communism” and individualism as “not communism”, then sure. But having lived in Japan for several years, which is a much more collectivist culture compared to the hyper-individualism of the US/West, I can confidently say that, while not perfect, they are in a much healthier state as a society.

As in most things in life, the golden path is usually somewhere in the middle, and US individualism has lurched far to the extreme, and is going to lead to its collapse if not reversed.
Airplane mode doesn't disable receiving radios, like GNSS chips.

I have to assume that's why they mentioned that they wouldn't "collect" your location data, but the phone likely will.
You've made the rookie mistake of reducing the concept of self-interest to anything somebody does because they want to, and thus making egoism tautologically true.

You can convince people that radically different things are in their self-interest, from joining hands and singing Kumbaya to Genocide.

The notion of self-interest (or I guess in your case individualism, which is even shakier) is an empty vessel you can fill with nearly anything.
Reference counting and locks often is the easy path in Rust. It may not feel like it because of the syntax overhead, but I firmly believe it should be one of the first solutions on the list, not a last resort. People get way too fixed on trying to prove to the borrow checker that something or another is OK, because they feel like they need to make things fast, but it's rare that the overhead is actually relevant.
it's always quiet before a storm :) It'll be fun to fast forward five years and see whether there wasn't some big disruptive change and everyone is now using rust++ for client dev or something? :D
There is no chunking built into the postgres extension yet, but we are working on it.

It does check the context length of the request against the limits of the chat model before sending the request, and optionally allows you to auto-trim the least relevant documents out of the request so that it fits the model's context window. IMO its worth spending time getting chunks prepared, sized, tuned for your use case though. There are some good conversations above discussing methods around this, such as using a summarization model to create the chunks.
Unfortunately, your analysis of humanity "flourishing" ignores the mass extinctions of many other species and habitats. Ultimately, we depend on our ecosystems to survive, so it remains to be seen how sustainable humanity's population level will be.
Right, so in order to avoid this security risk it is imperative you only use the Apple app store.

What is the name for this behavior? A protection racket?
"They're probably right that without making a profit, it's impossible to afford the salaries 100s of experts in the field and an army of hardware to train new models."

Except there's a proof point that it's not impossible: philanthropists like Elon Musk - who would have likely kept pumping money into it, and where arguably the U.S. and other governments would have funded efforts - energy and/or CPU time - as a military defense strategy to help compete with China's CCP funding AI.
When the USSR held the USSRs territory they still seemed to feel insecure enough to attack the neighbours.
The next Starship mission has a tentative launch date: March 14
MenuetOS video – How much fits on a floppy
MenuetOS site http://menuetos.net
Microsoft made software for small computers (PCs) not diminutive software
There's an issue in the pgvector repo about someone having several ~10-20million row tables and getting acceptable performance with the right hardware and some performance tuning: https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector/issues/455

I'm in the early stages of evaluating pgvector myself. but having used pinecone I currently am liking pgvector better because of it being open source. The indexing algorithm is clear, one can understand and modify the parameters. Furthermore the database is postgresql, not a proprietary document store. When the other data in the problem is stored relationally, it is very convenient to have the vectors stored like this as well. And postgresql has good observability and metrics. I think when it comes to flexibility for specialized applications, pgvector seems like the clear winner. But I can definitely see pinecone's appeal if vector search is not a core component of the problem/business, as it is very easy to use and scales very easily
AI pervades everyday life with almost no oversight
I mean, Tristan Tzara is Romanian and so it seems likely that this thought isn't originally English anyway, so it's reasonable for a modern writer to choose to translate it in a more inclusive way. I expect that an early English Bible and a modern one likewise make different choices about whether a text that's clearly about people generally and isn't concerned with sex or gender - should say "He" or "They" / "His" or "Their" and so on.
> But it's always not the best choice....

I think it comes down to the personality of the veteran. If they're the "i've seen some shit, so I'll 'architect' the fuck out of this to handle any type of change" type veterans, then it's likely to fail. But if they take their knowledge of how the system has grown over time and architect to handle the types of changes they've seen, then there is likely a greater chance of success.

Personally, I think a having some junior and mid-level engineers on the rewrite is good because it's a good way to see how the system is all put together (as opposed to just one area) and they'll be able to have conversations with the veterans about how the system has evolved as it grew and that is valuable information.
Where's all the protest over using "Doc" due to title politeness, even for people who are not PhDs or MDs?

Dr. Dre has a high school education and no tertiary education.

The columnist David "Doc" Searls has a bachelor and nothing higher.

Dr. Seuss didn't complete his PhD.

So what?

Sure, a few people will complain, because there's always a few people who insist we must follow The Rules.

Even if The Rules are made up.

I'm not going to refer to Dame Edna Everage as "he".

The "cost" of pronoun correctness is far less than the concrete benefits.
I think we’re all saying the same things here. No one wants to hear complaints about pronouns
It would be cool to be able to just click on anything and adjust its code to however you like it. I guess that Smalltalk and its descendants allow this. But so does Emacs. It's not an operating system, but it covers a lot of the use-cases.
"20 years ago they said these events were 30 years away, and now they're saying they're just 10 years away, can't these climate scientists ever get it right!"
See also https://slides.com/sdrasner/svg-can-do-that which despite its age (over 6y!) is still impressive.
The US makes heavy use of secondary sanctions to coerce foreign companies and governments into restricting business with America's "enemies."

The US has leverage to do this, because much of the world's financial transactions run through the US financial system, and much of the world's financial industry has significant exposure to the US. If ASML shrugs off the US government's demands, it will quickly find itself shut off from every major bank, and every supplier who wants to avoid the same fate will cut off its business with ASML.

In the specific case of ASML, however, the US also has a Cold-War-era agreement with the Netherlands on transfer of technology to other countries.[0-1]

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassenaar_Arrangement

1. https://www.reuters.com/technology/amid-us-pressure-dutch-an...
Found the implementation: https://github.com/soorajshankar/logScreen/blob/f8b29aaef428...
That explains it perfectly, thank you!
I actually preferred SML/NJ when I played with writing it, but OCaml "won" in the popularity contest. Some of the things that made OCaml "better" (objects, etc.) haven't aged well, either.

Still with OCaml finally supporting multicore and still getting active interest, I often ponder going back and starting a project in it someday. I really like what I see with MirageOS.

These days I just work in Rust and it's Ok.
Do you think that alternate clouds will offer better or worse pricing and incentives to migrate as a result of this?
Digital Sovereignty and Standards
Those sneaky bastards have weaponized QEMU!!
Yeap, good point, tenure != expertise.

If I could edit the post I'd insert a qualifying "expert" before veteran, where the expert veteran meets my definition of the 10x developer :D

Any veterans who aren't gonna get the project done quickly _and_ properly aren't the kind of veterans I have in mind.
"what is actually good" for me. for you.

This is the difference between subjective and objective parameters. If you want to say that a particular keyboard masses 1.2Kg and has keys with an activation point of 2.1mm at a force of 45 centinewtons, those are objective statements which can be measured, confirmed, and corrected.

You can even measure the hand geometry of a million people to come up with a figure about key center distances that will be usable for 70 or 80 or maybe 90% of them.

But "chiclets are good" is a subjective statement, a statement of your personal opinion and comfort. It's not measurable, and it cannot be applied to other people. Arguing about subjective statements never convinces anyone.

This originated with a person making a subjective statement: "Modern chiclet keyboards are an abomination". There's nothing to argue about there, unless you want to send them a keyboard to try out that you think will somehow convince them over their experience. The sensible courses are to offer options for non-chiclet keyboards, to commiserate, or to remain quiet in the knowledge that you are well-served by chiclet keyboards.
"Gradual typing is interesting, but I wonder if necessary."

Open question: Are there any languages that can be used in a (decent [1]) REPL, that are strongly typed, but do not have Hindley–Milner-based type inference?

We have multiple concrete proofs that you can have a REPL with Hindley-Milner inference, but I'm curious if this is perhaps a concession to the difficulty of a strongly-typed REPL without a deeply inferable type system. But it's just an idle musing I'm throwing out to see the response to.

[1]: That is, for example, multiple people have put a Go REPL together, but anyone who has used a "real" REPL from the likes of Lisp, Haskell, Erlang, O'Caml, Python, etc., will not find it a "decent" REPL, as Go just can't have one for various reasons.
I still can't reconcile the fact that "Life" is one of those inalienable rights while the US still has capital punishment (and that part of the population even celebrates having it).
Yup, that's why I included it in the examples. Look at that problem and what it has done to South Africa as well. They're too poor to even afford water.
Yeah. I chime in all the time to recommend it. It's a great product that I use many times every day, and I don't want to see it go away.
That’s basically all advocates of Adam Smith. I doubt that most of them have even read it — they’d be shocked by what he actually wrote.
The Origin and Legacy of the Human Age
Whenever someone with outlier software comes to us for help, I take great care to download and install it, make screenshots etc, just to pretend it's a normal occurrence.
Behind Formula 1's Velvet Curtain
Lisa Su Says the "Team Is on It" After Tweet About Open-Source AMD GPU Firmware
Real time chat environments are not conducive to long form communication. I've never been a part of an organization that does long form communication well on slack. You can call it a boundary issue - it doesn't really matter how you categorize the problem, it's definitely a change from email.

Regarding #4, I can't turn off my online/offline indicator, I can only go online or offline. I can't even set the time it takes to go idle. These are intentionally not configurable in slack. I have no desire to have a real time status indicator in the tool I use to communicate with coworkers.
100% this. Great summary.

Smaller, cheaper, faster, much better UI, vastly better driver and app support.

No, the multitasking wasn't as good, but it was pretty good TBH. Compared to Windows 3.x it was amazing.

As a loyal OS/2 user who spent £300 odd on boxed copies of OS/2 2.0 and then 2.1, I switched to the unfinished beta version of Windows 95 because it was that much better.

A trivial but telling example:

On HPFS, OS/2's native filesystem, you got long file names. But DOS didn't. A DOS VM under OS/2 could see HPFS drives (just as if they were network drives) but any file or folder that was not an 8.3 character name was just... invisible.

I made a folder called `D:\DOCUMENTS` (note, 9 letters) instead of my old DOS `D:`DOCS` and put a file into it, and I couldn't open it in Word 6 because it could only see names up to 8 letters.

No way round. IBM never thought of this.

On VFAT in NT 3.5 and Win95 and all later versions, long filenames are automatically truncated and a short name shown to DOS and Win16 API calls.

The name was truncated to 6 characters, then a tilde `~`, then a 1 for the first long name with that 6 letters, then ~2 for the second, ~3 for the third.

(I never found out what happened if there were >9.)

If you installed MS Office 95 it went into Program Files (PROGRA~1) as OFFICE.

But if you installed Office 97, they leant in to their new long filenames:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office

From dos:

C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~1.

That's why I sometimes use MICROS~1 as a cynical nickname for Microsoft. It's from their own product on their own OS.

Microsoft thought about what would happen if a DOS app accessed a LFN. IBM didn't.
You should be able add incentives in the system so that people store the correct index. You can check the incentive design of Filecoin for an example of how you can do that. Obviously it depends on the application how the incentive mechanism should be built.
Yes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvy9usF7ohE
*Add two numbers
Subtract two numbers

…and from there all mathematics is possible…*

And the same is true using only:
NOT (a AND b)

Which of course, is enough for all mathematics, or to build any computer you’ve ever used.

It may work more slowly, especially if it had achieved quantum supremacy, but still that one line of code essentially can do it all.

I don’t mean to repeat the obvious here, but it’s always been fascinating to me and I’m not sure if it’s widely taught outside of first EE classes.*
Encounter circumstances of asteroid 99942 Apophis
I don't live in the US although I've been there many times and I've even worked there at times yet I still cannot understand why the country is deliberately tearing itself apart on matters like this. If you want to alienate one section of one's community then this is a surefire way of doing it.

Why is it that Republicans so despise and revile the poorer sections of their community? Don't they realize the actual damage they're doing to their country by fracturing its cohesiveness?
Has anyone used sqlite for storing embeddings? Are there any extensions or tips for making it easier?

I have a small command line python app that uses sqlite for a db. Postgres would be a huge overkill for the app

PS: is sqlite-vas good? https://github.com/asg017/sqlite-vss
That's exactly why blockchain is a good choice. You verify that whatever X sends matches what Y and Z would send before any reward is received. Based on the shared index every query should return the same results, kids stuff really.

The monetization is a nut to crack yes, but Kagi works as a paywalled search engine. Otherwise just serve ads like all the rest already do? Tried and proven model, and in this solution they could be very transparent as there's no corporation behind trying to dupe the users for clicks to maximize profits. I even see the possibility for a hybrid model, don't like ads? Pay for the compute with your own coins.

The value comes from the network, trust and use-case. It doesn't have to be a new coin.
Two things can be trouble.
> garbage strikes

So, the garbage workers -- men -- used strikes to extort illegal, privileged pay raises for themselves?
I'm not really sure how this relates. The story I was told had the guy working as the lead with several less experienced but still competent programmers for around 2 months. There was no crunch, burnout, or anything of the like.
MailBait – Fill Your Inbox (2012)
Remember that this is an artificial limitation imposed by Apple, not by the EU.
ML Researcher or ML Scientist.
> Sometimes those veteran teams are heavily invested in existing concepts, tools, and approaches. It makes sense, they have seen these things work and they're proven to some extent.

This is very closely related to why these veteran teams end up successful. Existing concepts, tools and approaches should be the default; if your company uses Python with MySQL you better have a really, really good reason for your new project to use Rust and CockroachDB.

> while the veteran teams often start these projects they often aren't the people to "finish" them as they get pulled away.

I disagree with this. The veterans are veterans because they've already spent time maintaining the existing systems. They've handled oncall, major bugs, and seen all kinds of stupid shit that happens with software. They'll get pulled onto other projects eventually, sure, but they have a higher chance of getting a system into production in front of users, IMO.
No matter how logical and straightforward an approach is, human implementations of an approach are never completely logical and straightforward.

Whether implicit or explicit, humans will short-change or sabotage job applications they don't want.
Stuck? Benefits of Pair Programming vs. Using an AI Assistant
I vaguely (and very possibly incorrectly) remember something about the GDPR still applying to EU citizens who are traveling outside of the EU. Does the same kind of thing not apply to these new digital marketplace laws?
Timers to see who is talking the most in stand-up meetings
Too many people have money there, for what its worth, having them do the ground work is literally the only reason to use them, otherwise just use Vanguard.
> Especially on climate, it's known for alarmist articles. Search their site for other headlines on an ice-free arctic and I bet you'll find similar doom predictions going back a long time with dates that are now in the past.

> A random example I found: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/mar/12/global-w...

Now if anyone gets a wrong impression here: I checked the linked article. It does not talk about an ice-free arctic. It doesn't even mention the word "arctic". It also does not make any predictions for a date that is now in the past.

It essentially explains that extreme temperature increases would make parts of the world uninhabitable due to the wet bulb temperature. Which is, well, not particularly controversial, as it is a fact that can be derived from very basic physics, and was as true in 2009 as it is today.
I’m in the middle of working through The Rust Book, and I haven’t written any serious code with it yet, so interpret this through that lens.

When I looked at rust code before, it all seemed a bit weird. I couldn’t immediately understand it, but I’ve since come to realize this was because the dozen or so languages I can read well don’t really resemble rust, so my pattern matching was a bit off.

The more I learn about the syntax and core concepts, the more I’m learning that my brain absolutely loves it. Once I started to understand matches, lifetime syntax and the core borrowing mechanics, things clicked and I’m more excited about writing code than I’ve been since I taught myself GW-BASIC 25 years ago.

Just sharing this anecdote because I find it interesting how differently people experience languages. I also have an ongoing friendly debate with a friend who absolutely hates Python, while I rather enjoy it. I’ve tried to understand why he hates it, and he’s tried to understand why I like it. And it all seems to come down to hard-to-define things that just rub us in different ways.

I hope the benefits of rust find their way into more types of languages in the future.