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We're lucky that the LLM stuff came about after C++ was already in decline. Or could there be a resurgence of C++ if we can teach LLMs to tackle what humans can't?
'Too many competing standards' is not one of the quoted reasons.
No, they are not. Pretty much everyone in the x-risk community also recognizes the existence of short-term mundane harms as well. The community has been making these predictions for over a decade, long before it was anything other than crazy talk to most people.

Google has a big investment in reducing AI bias (remember Gemini got slammed for being “too woke”). Altman is a big proponent of UBI. Etc.
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I get amazing focus on train and bus rides.
Yeah, I did that. One of the devices didn't have an ethernet port though.
As someone who fancies himself highly creative, I will also point out that creativity doesn't happen in a vacuum.

To give an example, my wife and I are part-time performing magicians. Recently we took a trip to Walt Disney World in Orlando Florida. The themeing of those theme parks... by which I mean the environmental story-telling, the concept of dark rides and walk-through attractions, the live special effects and illusions that go into a lot of their attractions was extremely inspiring to me ... and got me thinking about how to apply some of those ideas to magic shows. Had I not been a "consumer" at those parks, I would have been closed off to that inspiration.

A common piece of advice given to young magicians is "find something other than magic." The point is that we don't need more copy-cats doing the same tricks. We need people with new and fresh ideas. While, philosophically, I'm not a subscriber to the idea that there is no such thing as "true originality", I will admit that it's rare. It shouldn't be controversial to say that most of the time creativity means taking existing ideas and combining them in novel ways. If you try to artificially restrict the amount of time that you are exposed to things that exist in life, you are artificially limiting the amount that you are opening yourself to new ideas and concepts that others have come up with.

I know from experience that you can consume "too much" and not produce enough. For me, specifically, I recognize when this starts to happen by my emotional state. I typically get restless and recognize that I've been spending too much time watching tv, or that it's been a while since I've made something or worked on a new routine or show idea. How much is the "right balance" is going to be highly individualistic.

And of course some people might "only" consume and not really create at all. As long as we're not talking about the rare cases of people living parasitically off of the productive output of others then I'm hard pressed to say that it's necessarily a bad thing. Not everyone has that creative drive and that's OK.
"But what software owners typically deliver is a black box that we can’t study or change"

I think a lot about how RMS's view on software freedom was warped by the highly intelligent and intellectual peer group that he must have been involved in at MIT.

It strikes me as endearing, but naive, to believe that most people would be able to treat software as anything but a black box simply if the source code were available to them.

Certainly, for most people using computers at MIT, when RMS was writing, this was true. But it is definitely not true that source code would have any use to most computer users (smart phone users, really) today. They simply would not have the ability to do anything with it.
I've found that the most important sections "What Did They Study in College?" conclusions are misleading. Engineering majors dominated the list (28), followed by business (16), economics (12), accounting (11) and finance (5). Personally I think it's a bit disingenuous and misleading to separate the engineering degrees while keeping the the other majors intact. Then when it comes to compare the engineering Vs business, all the business includes business, economics, accounting and finance. My conclusion from the article is that if you want to become a successful CEO where the main title is "executive" (as opposed to CFO, CIO, CTO, etc), because with engineering education and background you probably can "execute" better.
> The average essay is written not to be read, but to be found—by a search engine

Even before generative AI, this was painfully true. Google doesn't care about its SERPs if they can push an advert at you.

Author is bang-on. We aren't ready for the next evolution of search shittification. Without search, we're blind.

Every other form of organic discovery (reviews, directories, forums) seems just as prone to the damage of spam.
Amphetimine salts. Changed my life.

(legit ADHD diagnosis, not self medicated, speak with your PCP if able)
To me the most complicated thing would be to migrate an encrypted disk with the key stored in TPM. The article doesn't try to do that, but I wonder if there is a way.
Interesting that this Hittite civil war happened 200 years before the more widespread collapse - related, or not?

P.S. Minor typo: author of '1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed' is Eric Cline (not Clein):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1177_B.C.%3A_The_Year_Civiliza...
We found similar results when working on our paper for creating LLM agents with metacognition and explicitly called this out in the paper: https://replicantlife.com
Or specify that the data can't contain this data. If it does, you have to use a different format. This keeps everything super simple. And how often are ASCII US and RS characters used in data? I don't think I have ever seem one in the wild, apart from in a .asv file.
One does not normally consider trigonometric functions fast to compute. Would you mind elaborating?
Apple isn’t considering that they are the baddies?

I suggest strong regulation of the complete BigIT and two chairs for public observers at minimum. In addition they are not allowed to enter any new market.

Why?
Because it worked well with AT&T. Results:

* UNIX
* C
* Open-Source
* Public Documentation

Sounds good? Until the Reagan administration appeared, allowed them to split up (Baby Bells), the UNIX-Wars followed, law-suits against BSD and broad incompatibility. And despite this horrible changes we still got:

* POSIX
* GNU (immediate reaction by FSF - they recognized the situation)
* Linux (which caused itself Git)
* BSD (TCP/IP)

Our information technology builds upon the regulation of AT&T. That was lucky, yes. But you need to prepare luck.

The politicians instead opted for Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon with near to no regulation at all. Despite we learned that software immediately tends to monopolize due to Vendor Lock-in and mass-effect.

What are my benefits of a low billion fine ten years after on of this companies hurt us again? None.

Splitting up?
See again Vendor Lock-in and mass-effect.
That sounds like a situation I'd describe as "a good problem to have". Almost completely eliminating a comment attack vector and having to figure out how to pivot to stamp out another type is far better than just not making any significant progress at all. If the concern were that they were already making progress on some of those other security concerns and they were worried that switching focus would risk gains they expect to make soon in those areas, I think that would be reasonable, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Is there any evidence that this concern is anything other than hypothetical? It comes across more as an attempt to justify not spending effort improving memory safety rather than something that anyone is actually concerned about.
They would receive APIPA (169.254.0.0/16) address for IPv4 and link-local for IPv6, if the interface would be brought up. Now, that second part is a question; windows would do it, but linux probably not.
If you don't need routing, you could always use the vastly simpler ATA-over-Ethernet protocol.
Oh no doubt it is a rubish language to program in. The thing is their existing base had a set of scripts that already worked. These are not 5 line scripts either. One place I worked at the thing was probably 20k lines of batch script.
To hand them a new shell is akin to saying 'throw everything you did out and redo it'. Those scripts were probably home grown by people who had other things to do (you work with what you have). Or by expensive consultants. They 'must work' or 'why am I upgrading to this?' It is not necessarily hard to do. It just an extra expense most businesses are going to skip if they can.
The “problem” I’m referring to is that we chose a widely used character as a field separator. Of course you still have to write a parser, etc, it’s just a lot easier if you choose a dedicated character.
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The ASCII unit separator and record separator characters are not well supported by editors. That is why people stick to the (horrible and inconsistent) CSV format.
You aren't wrong - back around 2010 BPM/workflow automation was in a hype cycle, but many projects ended up being high-code anyway as they didn't live up to expectations.

But your example isn't low-code in the same way as any of that - it is just a different syntax for a fairly simple function. So I'd ask what your builder actually does?

At a "table stakes" level, low code back-end needs to focus on business needs, not running basic functions: Approval cycles, form submissions, those kinds of things. I'm biased from all my old Enterprise IT experience, but I'd say that if your builder cannot show how you'd build a basic process of: "Create Form" -> "Send to Approver" -> "Approve" -> "Send the approved data somewhere", then you probably aren't at MVP yet.
> if I want to play Fortnite I will have to get the epic game store when that comes out. Is that really a choice for me?

Yes? So far Apple hasn't had any trouble making that choice for you, letting Epic offer another option is not equivalent to taking away choices. You might as well be complaining that Epic or Apple's EULA is limiting your decision. It's a you problem.
At peak times. There's a reason lots of restaurants have happy hours and lunch specials. And a weekday night tends to be less in demand than a Friday or Saturday.
Show me yours first!
> I might be a hardware engineer, make something cool, but you have some psychopath take your work

You forgot the apple periods where they had little general appeal and it was just weird to use apple hardware. The process you describe started with the iPod, but its dynamic wasn't only due to marketing, at the time, the thing was really unique to interact with. You could really genuinely still think to do a great engineering work at the time, and the kid being killed over an iPod being a freak event.

I don't like this anti-corporate over simplifications, the psychopaths may be are, but they are not all controlling semi-gods, things emerges out of proportion also by themselves, like any kind of self-reinforcing processes.
The CTF is a platform access fee, and not a fee for interoperating with system ABIs/services/APIs. That's the distinction, and why it isn't automatically illegal. It would only be illegal if it gives Apple's App Store an unfair competitive advantage.

And as you can see from the text of the DMA, in order to declare the CTF illegal, the EC has to conduct a fair, impartial, fact-based investigation that considers Apple's viewpoint. Then they produce a preliminary report which Apple is allowed to rebut. After that they can issue a final ruling, and Apple is allowed to appeal that to the court of justice. Even if the CTF is found to be illegal after all of that, Apple gets 6+ months to make changes unless the EC can prove that they were working in bad faith.
It is all Anarchy at the top.
We've actually leaned in pretty hard on using "standard" protocols as much as we can:

- We have a flight planning module that takes multiple polygons as input and returns a (large) list of waypoints for covering the regions that the polygons cover. When I was trying to work out the request/response format I decided to use GeoJSON with some extra properties added. You submit the GeoJSON boundaries with a POST request, the planner does a bunch of computational geometry and graph algorithms, and returns back a GeoJSON. If you want to, you can just load the flight plan up in QGIS or ArcGIS or whatever and inspect it directly.

- We also accumulate quite a bit of geospatial data that we need to post-process. We used SQLite with the Spatialite extension to store that. Same story as the flight plans... you can really easily load it into QGIS or Geopandas or whatever you want and do your analysis

- We need to stream video down to the ground station and ended up using RTSP, h.264, and GStreamer to do that. You can connect to the video feed using our ground station software if you want, but you can also just connect to it using VLC. And internally this meant that if we wanted to do hardware-accelerated encoding it was just a matter of changing the GStreamer pipeline. Or... if I get my way over the next month or so, we'll be adding a HUD with extra telemetry right into the video feed, again using GStreamer plugins.
I'm definitely not saying that's what happened here (I find it highly unlikely), but if a nation state did do that, there could be a desire to sow additional mistrust of a major US company.

Edit: this is just because someone asked what a hypothetical motive could be
There's actually quite a few new tools that do "animation for the web". I'm sure there's a longer list but the ones I've used are rive, jitter, fable, and lottielab. Rive is interesting but the one I find myself coming back to is lottielab, it feels the most like the "spend 4 minutes playing around, but now I have something that looks really cool" that I used to get when using flash
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Working on my own project that I care about instead of mismanaged corporate bullshit.
> I believe it's fruitless to try to reach that state. Because the harder you try, more difficult it is to reach.

Just like meditation. With meditation my experience was that the "trick" is realizing that meditation isn't a special state that you only go into sometimes, the goal (for want of a better word) is to be in a meditative (aware and undistracted) state all of the time. I think the same may be true of focus/deep work/flow, i.e. the ideal situation would be that you bring your regular state of being closer to the focused state rather than trying to figure out how to get into that special state some of the time.
People don’t like invisible hard to type character. They prefer suffering quoting, escaping, escaping quotes and all that fun stuff
It's a fun speculative fiction premise but assumes that everyone else's feelings and grievances are the result of AI manipulation while your own feelings and grievances are authentic[1].

[1]https://xkcd.com/610/
This is just ESV files with extra complexity!

ESV: eggplant-separated values. Because who is ever going to put AUBERGINE (U+1F346) into a dataset? It's the perfect record separator!
I like Go and use it a lot but for AI, Rust seems to have better cards in conjunction with Python. Go’s runtime makes it very impractical to build bindings for Python (it’s e.g. not possible to load two Golang-based libraries simultaneously as the runtimes will overwrite each others memory, or at least that was the case a while ago), Rust is much better suited to that task. And I think by now Rust already has a head start for data science & AI tooling.
Just no. You can twist it all you want. The app market in the EU is no longer a free market in any sense.
Is this what people want? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26639261
> inconsistent with the requirements of the European Charter of Fundamental Rights

Corporations are people too, or something :)
Yeah they should add it. The tool is like 20 lines of Rust code. It's a thin wrapper around the csv Rust crate, which does support specifying alternative delimiters.
are we reading through the same set of comments?

I see nothing wrong with people speculating over something like this.
It doesn't really need to be them doing the studying, making the code viewable allows end-users to choose who to trust or to get second opinions, instead of only having the word of the company producing the software.

One or multiple people who can study the software, even in small numbers, are still adding more information, and so more potential trust, than the alternative.
The massive DC/MD/VA ones are the 17 year Brood X and came out in 2021.
No, I didn't use compression. Would it be useful over a high-bandwidth connection? I presume that it wasn't wifi bandwidth that was bottlenecking, though I've not really checked.

One thing I could have done is found a way to track total progress, so that I could have noticed that this is going way too slow.
How is that a curse?

With rust you can simply compile your dependencies in release mode while keeping your own code in debug, and it's often performant enough because most of the time the perf sensitive stuff isn't in the app logic itself.
I think the GP is talking more about the authoring tools for Flash. You could do everything - graphics, animation, audio, video, scripting - in a single package that was relatively easy to use.
200 GB in 6 hours is too slow for wifi, too.

dd doesn't skip empty blocks, like clonezilla would do.
How did Norway become the electric car superpower?
> Have you used a low-code backend builder already for some ambitious/cool problems/use-cases?

Yes, proprietary integration tools that are the only sane way to integrate proprietary systems. You'd be better off learning some proprietary tool and selling your consulting services than rolling your own half-baked solution.
Mac devs are good about updating their apps, but it’s much more hit or miss in the Windows world. If there’s no impetus to regularly update for security reasons (e.g. browsers) or to keep people subscribed (e.g. Spotify), it’s probably not getting updated too often. There’s a considerable difference in culture between platforms, and I think it largely stems from the expectations set by Apple and Microsoft.

Linux is kind of a mixed bag. Some devs are ultra responsive while others only update when absolutely necessary, but the FOSS nature of most apps there helps since you can always take matters into your own hands and fork a project if it’s accumulated too much rust to be usable.
What a stupid law. Needs to be removed asap. If buying isn’t owning, than piracy isn’t stealing.

If I pick a lock for a safe I bought, it’s not illegal. But if I do that with software it’s illegal? Fuck that!
Is the UC Berkeley case a good example of the importance of normalizing data before analyzing? Where things need to be put on a level playing field and handicaps applied to remove auxiliary noise.
The kind AIs will just sit and meditate, or organize your calendar. The unkind AIs will seek power, and in the limit will tend to dominate. There is no stable attractor around the “be kind” strategy.

(Also remember that a smarter-than-you AI could easily pretend to be kind while also subtly trying to gain compute. How would you tell the difference?)

How do you propose to build a “be nice” safeguard? Nobody has a clue how to achieve such a thing right now.
I also noticed at the last Gophercon in san diego that a lot of talks were regarding data engineering and go. There was even a university professor with a data eng courses that presented about how he teaches most of it in Go and believes its better. (obv since hes at gophercon :) )
While I don't know that I've ever experienced a double brood, I've experienced plenty of cicada hatches in my life and this is probably the best way to describe the auditory experience that I've seen! I never know how to describe it to people who haven't been in it but that's a great way. It feels like you're almost swimming in the sound it's so intense. I once was driving along a highway during a brood and thought something was wrong with my car because of this awful sound that had just started, stopped at a rest stop, and was instantly immersed in cicada sound. It was wild!
Off the top of my head, one way the validation could possibly work is for the tool to auto-respond via email with how it's categorised the data and give the option to confirm or correct it. ("Thanks for responding! Just to confirm, here's what I've recorded:...").

If the user marks it as correct it could have a verified tick or something on the admin side, and then form creators would only have to manually check over the ones without a tick (with the option to see the original text of the user's response and a form to correct the data)

Obviously it would also be useful for the form creator to author the question so that the possible options are given when they're non-obvious, but users don't always read :)
Such a weird take, complaining that a trillion dollar company might no longer be your personal guardian who gets to decide what you are allowed access to.

All you want is Apple to continue fucking over the people who build the software just so you aren't slightly inconvenienced. Bravo.
Yeah, it was SSH. Thanks for the heads up.
You make it sound trivial to unmask shell companies, when even governments struggle with it currently.
> And female cicadas also damage trees directly by slicing into twigs to lay their eggs. Although these two types of damage rarely kill trees, the effect is enough to reset the clocks of trees such as oaks, which typically undergo “mast years” in which they produce large batches of acorns every few years in synchrony. After accumulating damage during a cicada emergence, these trees produce lean harvests for two autumns in a row and then a feastlike burst of nuts two-and-a-half years after a cicada emergence, Lill says.

That's wild.
Since version 7.0, VirtualBox supports the NEM (Native Execution Manager) mode for other hypervisors. With the NEM, basically all hypervisors can be supported as backend.
The article has picked a point in time, and called that the "Reddit culture" (subversive iconoclasts). Cultures, of course, change, and businesses adapt to those changes. The iconoclasts have, presumably, served their purpose by growing engagement on the site, and Reddit is moving on, as companies often do.
I guess it is? No one can force Apple to sell iPhones in Europe.
So we have to put everyone who dares to imagine down about it?
I see value in sharing a wild idea purely for the inspiration it may give others to think about things from a unique perspective. A lot of great science started as a strange idea.
Similarly, see the often massive personal libraries of authors, or the record collections of musicians. The best musicians I know also consume a staggering amount of music.
So why should I be so concerned about my hummus having a little bit of guar gum in it?
Replaced "AI" with "WMDs" and it reads like the 2002 National Intelligence Estimate that was the precursor to invading Iraq
While I'm sure some percentage of Kickstarters were outright scams, in general it is always a bad idea to push "investments" on people who cannot grasp the fact that 90%+ of them will fail despite the best efforts of the founders. That's just how any new venture works.
Bump and dump, but with llamas.
Too Many Debug Messages Were Reportedly Slowing Down Some AMD Linux Systems
That seems far fetched to me. The vast majority of zero-days are still memory safety issues, and it would be an absolute miracle if the C++ community can get that ship turned around in under 20 years. Even 50 seems unreasonable honestly.
The static on your TV set is <1% CMB, mostly it is interference from other man-made sources and IIRC there is some coming from the sun.