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Economic yes, used to be. But the hatred for russians in czech republic is real. Also we don't know what other conflict the ammo was supposed go to. And there is also a possibility of testing preparedness of EU and Nato.
S and thus R came out of there too.
They're asymptotic to human performance.
Nature is very fractal, the same pattern occurs on multiple levels. You even see the same thing in human constructs.
I sustained significant injuries last year in New York which requires $50,000 PIP coverage for every driver. The driver's insurance, Geico, illegally refused to cover me because I "wasn't related to the driver". Fortunately the insurance company of the car owner was willing to comply with the law.
Seize your domain name. Force anyone to refuse to do business with you and or give up enough info to find you and put you in prison anywhere in the US or any country with an extradition treaty which is most of the better places to live.
I think it’s different to actively endorse something vs having it be used for something. If you’re working in a community producing axes and you’re later seeing the organization advertising them for murder instead of cutting down trees, you might understandably not wanna be part of it anymore or try to change the organization.
I personally open sourced a project that started life as a paid product. The repository contained proprietary/customer information.

Are you suggesting I should have made this private information public? Or that I shouldn't have released the project at all?
+1 to vim-adventures, excellent game and well worth the money if you're a committed power user
> I mention this because RAG is perfect for these kinds of use cases, where you really can't afford the hallucination - where you need its information to be based on specific cases - specific information.

I think it's worth cautioning here that even with attempted grounding via RAG, this does not completely prevent the model from hallucinating. RAG can and does help improve performance somewhat there, but fundamentally the model is still autoregressively predicting tokens and sampling from a distribution. And thus, it's going to predict incorrectly some of the time even if its less likely to do so.

I think its certainly a worthwhile engineering effort to address the myriad of issues involved, and I'd never say this is an impossible task, but currently I continue to push caution when I see the happy path socialized to the degree it is.
The tech industry spends just as much lobbying as other large businesses in the us [1]. Fiduciary duty more or less forces larger corporations to engage in lobbying, considering the great value per dollar spent.

[1]: https://www.opensecrets.org/
Nope. Operant part of an attainder is no due process. In one year’s time, DoC will have to prove ByteDance is in violation of this law in a court. Simply naming a person isn’t enough to make a law an attainder, not even closely.
>I bet a ton of these bureaucratic approve/deny/request-more-information workflows in current EMR systems will be replaced by AI in a few years, putting the people out of work.

The EU AI act prevents exactly this scenario.
Given the number of AI deaths (a handful, if we're counting very generously) and gun deaths, or car deaths, or even deaths caused by refusal to vaccinate, I'm fascinated we're choosing autocomplete on steroids as a "very dangerous item".

By all means, let's have responsibility for actual outcomes. That bill is talking about imagined outcomes.
There were not so many large stockpiles of Soviet-era munitions in Western-friendly countries. And despite 2014 being smaller scale than the current conflict I wouldn't say that it's not "actual war". Active Russian soldiers have been confirmed involved, rocket artillery was fired at Ukraine from across the Russian border, territory was annexed.
I also use Porkbun, they are great.

Anyone tried Cloudflare before? I was thinking of trying them next it seems they sell domains at wholesale prices as it's not how they make money. Along with that vercel billing debacle that recently happened people were recommending cloudflare as an alternative for hosting as well so things could be streamlined a bit.
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Have you tried Cursor? (https://cursor.sh)

It's a fork of VS Code with some AI features sprinkled in. It writes around 80% of my code, these days.

It also has a few useful features:

- a chat interface where you can @-mention files, folders, and even documentation

- if you edit a line of code, it suggests edits around that line that are useful (e.g. you change a variable name and it will suggest updating the other uses, which you accept just by pressing Tab)

- as you're writing/editing code, it will suggest where your cursor might go next — press Tab and your cursor jumps there
Everytime I hear a local complain about third world emissions, and local small minded politicians mirror that, I start to feel that democracy is a failed experiment.

What really irks me is that, if China succeeds in decarbonization while Canada fails, I would suddenly need to ask oneself if I was on the wrong side of the international divide.
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Atomically precise manufacturing, that is tech for building structures atom by atom. This is starting to be done regularly in labs. Machines for making single atom transistors are a commercial product now[0]. Forming covalent bonds at desired locations through positional control of reactants has been demonstrated[1]. This is potentially more scalable than the aforementioned approach. ML seems to be enabling too[2].

[0]https://www.zyvexlabs.com/apm/products/zyvex-litho-1/

[1]https://www.nature.com/articles/s41557-021-00773-4

[2]https://www.nature.com/articles/s44160-024-00488-7
god look at all those itty bitty galaxies behind it... so exciting
How exactly? If it's floss software, everyone has their own copy. If there's a million people who downloaded my model weights, do I get to phone them up and ask politely? ;-)
Business models do not have by their own virtue validity. They are only as valid as they are societally useful (and) as a side-effect produce economic value. Which can either be captured privately, or publically or on the consumer side (consumer surplus).

Not allowing iPadOS to be a full fledged OS, when it literally can (an iPad is just a Macbook Air with no keyboard at this point) is intentional attempt to reduce consumer surplus. The state can intervene to limit such technically unjustified attempts. And it should. And it does (thankfully).
Germany has limited companies - it's what GmbH's and AG's are for.

I'm not aware of any jurisdiction where "wasting resources and harming society" by having a company with limited liability go bankrupt isn't fairly simple.

Germany, like some other companies in Europe has fairly "high" requirements of share capital, but it's still only 25k Euro.
This is a moot point that should be tabled.
Do you see that stated somewhere or are you just trying to stir people up?
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Because they don't work? I've been harsh on these LLM models because every time I have interacted with them, they've been a giant waste of time. I've spent hours with them, and it just goes nowhere, and there's a huge amount of noise and misinformation.

I recently had another round where I tried to put aside my existing thoughts and perhaps biases and tried a trial of Copilot for a couple of days, using it all day doing tasks. Nearly every single piece of code it gave me was broken, and I was using Python. I was trying to use it for a popular Python library whose documentation was a bit terse. It was producing code from the various versions of the library's API, and nothing it gave me compiled. We ended up just going in circles, where it had no idea what to do. I was asking something as simple as "here's a YAML file, write me Python code to read it in" (of course in more detail and simple steps). It couldn't do it. I eventually gave up and just read the documentation and used StackOverflow.

About the only thing I have been able to use it for so far with relatively consistent success is to write boilerplate code. But even then, it feels like I'm using more time than just doing it myself.

And that happens a lot with this stuff. I initially got very excited about Copilot because I thought, shit I was wrong about all this, this is useful. But after that wore off, I saw it for what it is. It's just throwing a bunch of statistically correlated things at me. It doesn't understand anything, and because of that, it gets in the way.
Probably my best ergonomic change is remapping CAPS LOCK to CTRL. It makes every <c-XYZ> better, and you can use <c-[> as ESC. Do your pinky a favor!
I know of Nix, but I know little about the project itself. Can someone shed some light on the reasons for forking?
Are you really expecting people critical of the US military to not use computers, else be keeping a "double standard"?
> Student here: I legitimately cannot understand how senior developers can dismiss these LLM tools

Because we've seen similar hype before and we know what impactful change looks like, even if we don't like the impact (See: Kubernetes, React, MongoDB).

> executing large-scale changes in entire repositories in 3 years

Is this actually happening? I haven't seen any evidence of that.
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Nope, home wifi, Firefox, M1 mac mini
can we review all current lawsuits and their discovery status? pointers welcome
> You can do both! If you absolutely have to prioritise one, then I guess you could pick one, but why bother?

You should ask someone who is really heavy how excited they are at the prospect of exercising, or permanently altering their lifestyle to frequently include something they don't actually enjoy doing. When faced with the choices "be fat" or "exercise regularly and make good dietary choices to lose and keep weight off" most people choose "be fat". I know for me, I managed to lose and keep off weight through diet and exercise, but most forms of exercise are still a chore. Actually, it was easy to exercise at first because I was enthusiastic about my goals and it felt important for weightloss. But as time has gone on and I've kept the weight off (still exercising), I'm much less enthusiastic. If I woke up suddenly 80 pounds heavier again, I don't know that I'd be able to bring myself to bring it back down. Especially if you told me that exercise was an essential component.

> I think the exact opposite is true: people get burnt out on weight loss because they aren't able to make it stick

I think they get burnt out because it requires a lot of discipline to control your diet, and cutting back makes you really tired and hungry. It doesn't stick because their body still lies to them about how much they need to eat, and it's exhausting to fight your body and its lies.

Ultimately, I think people correctly self-asses their interest level and motivation in maintaining a lifestyle that includes deliberate exercise. Many of the people in my life are thin and completely sedentary, and they've never battled with their diet or weightloss. I'm sure you know some people like that too, and I imagine people who want to lose weight want their lives to be like that. So, like I said, assuming exercise is not actually essential, I think the cultural emphasis on exercise does people trying to lose weight a disservice. It almost feels like wellness gatekeeping instead of actual advice.

I don't know one way or another what the numbers show about diet + exercise vs just diet say, but I'm also not sure whether I'd be convinced by statistics that show exercise is a key component to weight loss. People that lose and keep weight off only manage to do so if they are serious about it, and because there is a heavy cultural emphasis on exercise as a part of weightloss, people who are serious will also exercise to lose weight, confounding the correlation between exercise and weight loss.
All of those things are extant now without AI. For bioterror the big issue is the massive corpus of data and decreasing cost of equipment not AI.
Unprecedented is quickly becoming the most overused adjective
When a fire breaks out and you begin to panic the stickers help reduce cognitive load by instinctually guiding people to cabinets containing fire fighting equipment. What is the problem?
We don't know if there's even any danger. All statements so far of any danger are somewhere between science-fiction stories and anthropomorphizing AI as some kind of god. The equivalent of "if the bridge breaks down, someone can be hurt", namely a real, quantifiable danger is sorely lacking here.
Full quote for context: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/mr-obama-goes-wash...

> “I don’t think in ideological terms. I never have,” Obama said, continuing on the healthcare theme. “Everybody who supports single-payer healthcare says, ‘Look at all this money we would be saving from insurance and paperwork.’ That represents 1 million, 2 million, 3 million jobs of people who are working at Blue Cross Blue Shield or Kaiser or other places. What are we doing with them? Where are we employing them?”
The pitfall is pretty simply stated: "It masks the problem with logic, adding some risks of anomalies." When one puts a bandaid over bad data, the problem isn't solved, it's masked. Depending on the issue, it could bite you later, in unexpected ways, at the worst possible times.

In this particular case, the "bad data" is a table/column/view that exists (or doesn't) when it should(n't). Why does the table exist when it shouldn't yet exist? Did it fail to get dropped? Is the existing one the right schema? Is the same migration erroneously running twice?

After each migration, your schema should be in a precise state. If the phrase "IF [NOT] EXISTS" is in your migration, then after a previous migration, it wasn't left in a precise state. Being uncertain about the state of your schema isn't great.
Yes, the pricing table is quite complex and not perfect on mobile, yet.
Essentially the difference is the number of pages (40/200), of users (4/8), locales (2/5) and features like Real-time collaboration and Scheduled publishing.
Perhaps this button shuld have said "Run for president!"

Exclamation mark in this case is justified IMHO.
Yes. There's nothing particularly magical about any UI framework. They all have to deal with the fundamental fact that UIs are enormously stateful, the state is a function of approximately everything the user has ever done, various inputs arrive asynchronously and unpredictably, responsiveness SLOs are in the 10ms range, and the hardware is generally diverse and off-site.
Very fair point/question, I should have explicitly drawn this link because my comment was quite ambiguous and making (bad) assumptions on shared context.

The relevance is IMHO this bill is largely an ossification at the government level of the safety and alignment philosophy of the big corps. I'm guessing they mainly wrote this bill. It's not the specific words "safey and alignment" that matter, it's the philosophy.

If the bill were only covering AI killing machines I'd (probably) be in agreement with it, but it seems significantly more overreaching than that.
In terms of aligning incentives, there is a lot of potential in shifting from a fee-for-service model to a capitated value-based care model. But this will force further consolidation by provider organizations. Only the largest, most sophisticated multi-specialty health systems have the scale to take on and manage those risks. Small, independent practices will essentially be forced to either sell their businesses or switch to something like concierge medicine.
I never hear it in conversation or presentations or anything like that, but have encountered it reasonably often in novels.
But a lot of the technologies were explicitly designed with military use in mind. It’s not like some unintended and unplanned side effect.

So a better analogy would be swords that can also be used to cut fruit instead of killing maybe.
> I also have a hard time believing that there is enough software need to make such an extreme productivity multiplier not be catastrophic to labor demand.

Every single time a change like this happens, it turns out that there is in fact that much demand for software.

The distance between where we are now and the punch card days is greater than where we are now and the post-LLM days and yet we have more software developers than ever. This pattern will hold and you would need much stronger evidence than “LLMs seem like an effective productivity multiplier” for me to start to doubt it.

Also don’t forget that 80% of software development isn’t writing code. Someone is still gonna have to convert what the business wants into instructions for the LLM so it can generate Java code so the JVM can generate byte code so the runtime can generate assembly code so the the processor can actually do something.

And lastly, there are a lot of industries that won’t touch LLM’s for security reasons for a long time and even more that are just still writing Java 8 or COBOL and have no intention of trying out fancy new tools any time soon.

So yeah, don’t be too down in the dumps about the future of software development.
There were mitigating factors, to be sure. But it sounds like, to a first-order approximation, we agree: the land was taken by force.

I'm not trying to flatten history - just to get to the basic point. The other aspects that you're bringing up (Arab aims during 1947-1949; which side has been more intransigent since, etc) touch on narratives that are hotly contested as you know, but in any case are even further from the original topic of this thread (which had something do with Microsoft and Minecraft, apparently).

So if you like we can keep our powder dry in regard to those, and concentrate on hopes for some form of de-escalation and a cessation of massive bloodletting in the current moment.

And of course of further attempts at encroachment upon anyone else's land.
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Porkbun uses Cloudflare, but you knew that right? This entire thread is a Cloudlfare shill post.

PS: Cloudflare vs Vercel. Cloudflare is a military/government contractor that offers outdated and slow cloud products that others have already offered for years. Vercel is a serverless platform who somewhat innovated in that space, designed ideally for Next.js and/or React apps for convenient CI/CD from a github repo. Not the same.
And my point mostly is proven here: We could build a giant space station with spaceX + more iron into space. We could build an interstellar probe in "Some point - we're getting close" or "future" or "a few decades".
this is completely wrong.. the entire LLM system was bootstrapped by "self-supervised learning" .. where data sets are divided and then training proceeds on parts.. it is literally self-training
That's because we've been here before. Be it the ERPs of the 90s-00s, the low/no-codes of the 2010s, the SaaS and the chatbots of 2015. There was always hype about automating the job. At the end of the day, most of a programmer's job is understanding the business domain, it's differences and edge cases, and translating those into code. An LLM can do the latter part, the same way a compiler can do high-level java into assembly
Accountants thought spreadsheets would kill their profession, instead demand for them exploded.

Compilers made it much easier to code compared to writing everything in Assembly. Python made it much easier to code than writing C. Both increased the demand for coders.

Code is a liability, not an asset. The fact that less technical people and people who are not trained engineers can now make useful apps by generating millions of lines of code is also only going to increase the need for professional software engineers.

If you're doing an HTML or even React boot camp, I think you'd be right to be a bit concerned about your future.

If you're studying algorithms and data structures and engineering best practices, I doubt you have anything to worry about.
And arguably U.S. has more protectionist trade policy than EU.
It is in a trade war with China, it has always historically preferenced American auto makers (chicken tax) and it even goes so far as to discriminate its dear allies with Inflation Reduction Act.

Not to speak of "Buy American" laws which there's multiple (granted EU is "granted" "American" status under these laws -- but that can change at any time).

Europe's protectionism is mainly in foodstocks. And that protectionism is in part motivated by real reasons -- that of food safety (American cows injected by Bovine somatotropin, a harmful to humans, growth hormone, etc) or heritage (protected geographical status).

Conversely, Europe has a very liberal taxation regime for American corpos. That's why Ireland is the tax haven it is (same for Luxembourg and some others).
I'm glad Rob Pike didn't contribute to Go, that'd have been catastrophic to my productivity! Imagine having tools do work instead of users, it'd be like a world without lawyers. Anyhow, I've got to refactor my WIP code for the 10th time today since unused variables are compiler errors. Seeya!
Don't be too worried about LLM arms races. Law is not as complicated as it seems on TV. Having access to a better LLM isn't going to somehow give you access to the correct incantation necessary to dismiss a case. The vast majority, like 99.99% of cases, turn on completely understood legal issues. Everyone knows everything.
I'm thinking this, as my 8 year old MBP is getting slightly long in the tooth. The one thing that gives me pause is the 60hz screen. I have a 120hz one on my work MBP, and once you've tried it it's hard to give up. Unfortunately, Apple seems to be treating it as very much a pro feature...
> Check into any one claim, and you’ll find it’s not the entire story.

Indeed. If you look at pull request 10513, you see Eelco propose a bug fix, another person point out the flaws in his approach, and Eelco subsequently closing his own pull request and filing a new PR with a different approach.

https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/10513

The save-nix-together signatories describe this as “ignoring other people and only considering his way”.

I suppose they were counting on no one bothering to read their citations?
First of all: the question needs to be qualified by what we mean by "out there". The galaxy? The observable universe? The entire universe?

The universe might be infinite, in which case: yes, there is life out there. We know the probably of life forming on any given planet must be greater than zero, or else we wouldn't be here. From this we can deduce the average volume which contains exactly one planet with life, which must be finite. Whether it makes sense to talk about what could be happening beyond the cosmological event horizon is another discussion.

If we are talking about the observable universe or an even smaller volume: How can you say it's statistically implausible without knowing the probability of life forming on any given planet? It might be incredibly small, yet greater than zero. Your line of reasoning is incredibly common but I can't help but feel like it's mainly driven by wishful thinking.
My next steps after AWS
Say's Law for Bureaucrats
Yes, the right wing tone makes it cringy, but it does have a point. A vocal portion of the community is using far right scare to get off with abusive behavior. It's just another variation of the "think of the children" rhetoric. It's very effective at deflecting criticism because it associates critics with the most unsympathetic of people. The enemy of your enemy is not your friend.
How much of the pictures in the article are processed? What does the unprocessed photo look like?
This is only true if we believe Earth is special, which we have no bases. So I'll stick to statistics for now, thank you very much.