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This “curation” is what is killing SO. Software is soft. It changes. There is no “one true answer for all time”. It’s honestly sad how many times I search for an answer, only to see the exact question I’m looking for closed as duplicate, then when I look at the “duplicate” I see that it’s an out of date answer.

Stack Overflow could have solved the problem of duplication so many ways. Why not categorize and bucket duplicate answers? They could have even had yearly recurring questions with the most up to date answer! Why not add beginner/hobby/expert rankings to questions so that the people answering don’t get sick of seeing beginner questions all the time?

There is so much SO could have done, instead they rested on their laurels and now they’re left with an out of date repository. What use is a curated repository if it will only help me solve problems with solutions from a decade ago?
I got an iPhone 13 Pro because it had lidar, which never caught on with Android devices. It's got a great camera and the lidar was pretty fun. It's also way more durable than my OnePlus or Samsung phones have been. The software drives me up the wall though, so I use the old Android as much as its declining battery life allows.
This is an insightful observation, and a problem we struggled with for years on Stack Overflow: if you keep moderation quiet and anonymous, there's a lot less criticism, seemingly less hurt feelings... But also very little correction. The Star Chamber works great until corruption sets in; finding a good balance between secrecy and transparency is a challenge.

For years, moderators signed their names to messages like the one cited in the article. After one too many cases of a volunteer being called at work or having their family harassed or sent a suspicious package in the mail... That particular bit of transparency was eliminated - the cost was too high for the limited benefit. OTOH, it used to be very difficult to find your own deleted posts but that has slowly gotten better (including visibility into who deleted them) - turns out the benefit there was substantial (identifying wrongly-deleted posts & curbing over-enthusiastic curators), while harassment has been mostly limited to occasional grousing.
JNI worked it just wasnt as ergonomic as it could have been - which was on purpose. I disagree that Java should have discouraged use of JNI in that way but it was hardly "crap and a dead end"
> I can work with metal. I can't work with plastic.

You're right that metal (and wood) are much more amenable to work with in a home workshop.

However:

> 3D printing options aside

I wouldn't put 3d printing aside. The main limitation is the size of what you can print, but if the part is small enough (depending what printers you have access to), it is a game changer. We don't have a 3d printer but my child has access to them at school and watching him fix all kinds of gadgets by 3d printing replacement parts has been very cool.
As long as you want to only hire people who don't have an existing job or competing offers.
Do you remember any names?
>being a healthy company is just a moment

Bang on. This is why I find these other comments which amount to "work in an unhealthy company? Just don't!" to be so naive. You're only ever one departure away from a shakeup which can totally change your work environment. If you aren't equipped or prepared to play the big game, then your options are

A) suffer

B) leave and roll the dice on the next joint
"The person you are upset with is technically permitted to do the thing that you are upset about" is not a good counter-argument to someone's distaste. Whether or not the licensing agreement _permits_ this usage, it is not the usage that the contributor (to whom you are replying) foresaw and was enthusiastic about.
Nothing makes them special. Please drop drugs to 47,06554 -24,7557. I will write you a thank you note.
> But their new VC-installed CTO was like… No!

Largely the point I'm trying to put here

> Their first month’s bill was $50,000. And it only went up from there.

Well, I've read it's not uncommon to have salaries of 200-500k USD/year per programmer, on that scale may be it doesn't matter is it 50k spending on infra or 100k . For others such extra spending is _something_ though.
Astral Codex Ten: Asterisk/Zvi on California's AI Bill
For this exact reason I have written OpenTrashmail [1] which gives you a nice web UI and Asli every email address is also a JSON API and a RSS feed.

I have written it to programmatically bypass emai-2fa when I had to get statistics from covid tests for a customer. Worked great and many others started using OpenTrashmail for various reasons.

Since it's a docker container it's installed and running in under a minute

[1] https://github.com/HaschekSolutions/opentrashmail
They definitely do care - DJI devices block you flying in any kind of prohibited airspace out of the box and it's very difficult to override. In many countries, there's prohibited airspace over prisons for this reason.
Haha I've had the same problem with triangles, stopped using them because they always crash. Only when editing, not when viewing.
Have a look at my repo if you want to search for any of your submissions to see if they ever got published.
https://github.com/scpso/incrediblexkcd
Nope - Well run companies want to know the truth, expect mistakes, and want people to learn from them. In most of the teams I have been on, being a yes person is no t rewarded because yes people cannot deliver.
In 2017, Apple deleted thousands of 32-bit apps from the App Store. https://mashable.com/article/ios-11-could-kill-200000-32-bit...
> This is a problem that everyone who has lived in the developed world knows very well. As the police is able to solve less and less crimes, and less criminals are convicted, people stop thinking it is worth their time to report every crime.

'Everyone knows' is a group of people repeating something to each other enough that they believe it must be true. Those are the things that most need skepticism, an objective factual basis. Look at your comment - there is no factual basis for any of the claims. Some is conspiracy - if they disagree, they are gaslighting, incompetent, etc.

Objective facts are our only salvation from our own delusions - which we're all subject to. There is factual basis to say that NYC is very safe, but it's not conclusive. That doesn't support baseless claims. If you have an alternative claim, there's not reason to believe it without factual support.

Almost everyone you're talking to here lives in the developed world, and it doesn't seem like they 'know' the same thing.

> You can't feel safe in the subway

You can, and many do. I do.
Shout out to Iconify, it consolidates many icon sets into compatible SVGs.
Same thing happened to me so I'm glad I'm not the only one.
The fusion of two sisters into a single woman suggests identity isn't in our DNA
Does road work in the US ever approach the level of care and precision depicted in this video?
You really shouldn't trade-in your laptop on the basis of trying to maximise its trade-in value, that doesn't make economic sense.

You should be incentivised by trying to minimise depreciation. You incur the greatest amount of depreciation closest to the date of purchase, so the longer you go between purchases, the less depreciation you'll realise.

If I expected to say get, $450 after 1 year, and $250 after 2 years. By trading in every 2 years, I'm getting a laptop that's a bit older, but you're also saving $14.58/month on depreciation. If the year after that becomes $150, you'd be saving $22.22/month. If the price is worth it is subjective, I'm just saying going for maximal trade in value doesn't really make sense, since you save more money the lower the trade-in value you get.
It's a common non-answer on stack overflow.

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66377/what-is-the-x...
Some diesel busses have a bank of capacitors that is charged when braking that can then run the onboard electricity for a while.
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> Does this sound insane to you? Obviously it should,

I dealt with the exact same thing in my 2nd ever job. Entire customer and product database (with plaintext passwords) stored in a multi-meg public-facing .js flat file that had to finish loading before the app could do anything (with early-2000s internet). And to top it off, the app was a single monolithic file, in a directory with names like index.1.js, index.final.js, index.newest.js, index.45.js, etc etc.

I had enough experience with best practices to go to our CEO and get the CTO fired, and went about rewriting it with git, mysql, and server-side logic with an actual architecture. And then, the windows server it was all running on got pwned into a porn server, and somehow it was my responsibility despite me never having seen this server and not even having admin permissions.

Man, my first few jobs were educational!
Thank you!

I would love if we had some kind of 'open-build' methodology so those projects not willing to open the source but are willing to perform any kind of necessary audit against the build, just a thought.
Well of course they did. The COGS is so much lower -- and hence the profit margin so much higher -- if you do it that way.
Constitutional law says they are in some circumstances when practiced by the government.
because the technology exists for DJI's drones to not work near prisons, which means there's a lawsuit waiting to happen, which means monetary fines for the company, which means the executives get paid less (sometimes) so they should theoretically care.
Fine tuned LLMs can play chess at grandmaster levels.

So its clear that there is in fact 'deeper patterns to chess' that allow one to play very well, without any search required (Since LLMs cannot search). Its just that those patterns are probably rather different to human understood ones.
Isn't the existence of wealth in the first place sufficient evidence that wealth is something that gets created? We started out banging rocks together and now we have all of this weird stuff which presumably people like or something.
The durable umbrella weighs in at 1.7 kg / 3.7 lb, four times what a normal umbrella would weigh. That is absurdly impractical.
Are there any ways to show the source of the information retrieved by the model? For instance, the LLM forms a sentence and it points to a stackoverflow answer with the same or similar content.
40 years later, Kontrabant 2 for ZX Spectrum is rebroadcast on FM in Slovenia
I can’t see why I’d ever reach for it, but I do like knowing that Java is actively being improved over time
Microkernels Meet Recursive Virtual Machines (2007) [pdf]
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> ... speculative decoding methods ... incurs extra memory cost during inference time.

Any detail on this? For speculative decoding you need a smaller model to generate "branches" which are fast but maybe inaccurate and verify these branches later with a larger model. However, only memory equivalent to a single token is needed for speculative decoding, and tokens in other branches are simply masked out during inference. With a context size of 1000 and ~30 branches for 5 tokens, the memory overhead would be 3% which is negligible. If your context size is much smaller compared to the number of branches - would someone who use a generative LLM with a context window of just 50 tokens care about generation speed?

Also, speculative decoding techniques are not restricted to greedy sampling - it's expected to behave exactly the same as the original model and sample with the expected probabilities. Most literature on speculative decoding already reports 2.6x-3.5x speedup. The blog post here reports 2.4x-3.4x generation speed - which isn't that much of an upgrade?

While I mentioned speculative decoding above and Medusa2 and Eagle seems to be the techniques that the author compares against, the core problem remains: whatever method you use to predict tokens ahead of time, there is a specific point where the previous tokens are absolutely needed before predicting the next token. It doesn't depend on what your model is or what your techniques are, it's just about what is mathematically achievable. How can you predict 5 tokens at once if the probability distribution of the 5th next token depends heavily on the previous 4 tokens? Speculative decoding, Jacobi decoding, multi-token parallel decoding, whatever.

If only greedy sampling is supported for this, then I wonder what are the advantages of this method, not to mention that other techniques already achieve the expected speedup. Comparing greedy sampling speedups to random sampling speedups is comparing apples to oranges, and I doubt if the speedup described by the method would remain after this method is adapted to random sampling (due to the core problem mentioned above).
That was my suspicion, but I at least wanted to hear it from the horse’s mouth, and I wanted to give the benefit of the doubt first.
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The title I'm seeing is

> Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’

which is a lot more alarming.

I've heard of sudden and unwarranted bans before, but never an accidental deletion of a customer who they only just convinced to migrate to Google Cloud last year!
... In case this is serious, the joke is that that is absolutely not what that term means.
Yes, drew them in Figma. You can see some of the drawing processes here: https://twitter.com/huge_icons
Netflix is a flagship example of AWS usage. https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/innovators/net...
We don't know what are Netflix discounts. Maybe Netflix uses AWS just for free to make others pay. Maybe AWS even pay to Netflix to continue attracting the other guys.

On the other hand, just read this disclosure in the Netflix 2023 annual financial report:
"We have architected our software and computer systems so as to utilize data processing, storage capabilities and other services provided by AWS... Given this, along with the fact that we cannot easily switch our AWS operations to another cloud provider, any disruption of or interference with our use of AWS would impact our operations and our business would be adversely impacted. While the retail side of Amazon competes with us, we do not believe that Amazon will use the AWS operation in such a manner as to gain competitive advantage against our service, although if it were to do so it could harm our business."
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I use a Linux box for my personal development projects, but use a Mac for work and my own MBA around the house. I also own an iPhone and Apple Watch as well.

As others stated, these things just do what they claim to do on the tin. If you want to tinker, then futz around with Linux. If you don’t want to worry about your OS too much, a Mac will do fine for most use cases.
lol that makes sense, thanks.
A super literal reading of some bad wording in 3.0 created an effect the authors say they did not intend and fixed in 4.0. Given the authors did not intend this interpritation a judge is likly to assume people using the licence before it came to light also did not, hence switching to 4.0 is fine. Conversly now this is widiy known continuing to use 3.0 could be seen as explicitly choosing the novel interpritation (arguably this would be a substantive change).
Oh your cheerleading here is going to age like milk when unemployment numbers start ramping up in white collar sectors.

You don't seem to understand that this is the goal. A very worthy one.

We won't get to a post-scarcity economy by doing the same things -- and the same jobs -- that got us this far.
If you actually read the pages that you linked, you will see nothing of the sort you describe. One page is literally talking about wages only. The other says that unions want companies to train employees so that they are prepared for automation. Anyway, no use discussing here, because apparently facts don't matter.
Looking through my browser history, I'd say that I average about 5 distinct SO posts per day. If you know there will be an answer it's less typing to search for it than it is to have ChatGPT regenerate it.
> If you measure crime by the person, in a dense place you're more likely to be near a crime when it happens than a place with more crime per person, but much less people per space.

Yes, agreed (of course). I'm not sure what that says about the original statement.

> The reality might be you're less likely to be murdered, but you might be way more likely to witness a crime. That matters.

First, it seems like we are really shifting the goalposts. Being victimized by crime is a lot different than witnessing it, though the latter isn't pleasant, of course.

How much does it matter? In a place that dense, you see a lot more of everything. For people there, it's a feature and not a bug. That's why people pay so much to live there.

Is witnessing a crime so bad? I suppose something traumatizing would be, but I think NYers are used to seeing 'everything, all the time', and they would not be traumatized by most crime. Murder? I think that would leave a mark, depending on what you saw, but that's very rare. Shoplifting? Public intoxication? A carjacking would be alarming, I suppose, speaking for myself.
Yes, Iconify is indeed a great resource. We really appreciate their work in consolidating various icon sets into compatible SVGs. It's incredibly helpful!
thank you! yes - that's exactly why just built this.
One of the neat things we'll be losing with X11 is the fact that you can do graphics -- fast -- entirely with the wire protocol. It was really a protocol for a sort of smart graphical terminal, so it's like having an Amiga blitter at the other end of the network connection. From a "zero to something on the screen" standpoint, it's fast and convenient, as you don't have to manage your own framebuffer, shaders, dirty rectangle list, or any of that.

Of course, as any Gen-Z graphics hacker will tell you, That's Just Not How Things Work Anymore, and rendering is and should be client-side, leaving the compositor to only present the final display. But it was fun while it lasted.
Then perhaps we don't fit each other, which is fine, and isn't finding that out a good result of an inteview (that you don't want to work with me? - instead of starting and then beeing unhappy - IMHO not enough candidates evaluate the company and their future manager in interviews)
> a bigger scale freaks people out even if the coefficients are the same.

It freaks out people who live elsewhere and all they know of cities is what they see on cable news, especially a certain channel.

> There’s a psychological reason (rational or not) people equate cities with violence

Maybe it's simply that it's repeated at them endlessly - a simple, effective tactic used by conservatives for decades.
Just a name, but also, we have a huge number of icons and we're adding more regularly. Currently, we have a total of over 27,000 icons, and more than 8,000 icons are under creation. We've made all stroke icons completely free.
As I said elsewhere, people in cities know that having more people around is safer. Deserted alleys are more dangerous than busy streets.
It plugs into a contraption that goes around your waste: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6RVpqLpLjl/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWF...
I was fairly impressed with one during a recent rental. As a car, it seemed quite decent. If the brand wasn't Chevrolet, I'd consider buying one. (Branding is psychology, just a personal tic. I grew up with a Chevy that was fine.) Sedans have the practical aspect of a lockable trunk, and I'm surprised by how many people prefer a smash-and-grabbable real window hatch.
Search 6+ comments up for somebody with exactly the opposite view of what he did to that track: de gustibus and all that.
My experience matches yours. I have had very few bad bosses and almost all teams I have worked on have been healthy. I have been on a few bad teams and groups. They usually failed. They were not bad because they failed but because lying was rewarded, political skill was rewarded, and solving the customer's problem was not valued.

When I see questions like "where are the healthy companies?", I think either the poster has been very unlucky, or the poster might be the problem. When I say the poster is the problem, I mean they typically fall into one of the following buckets:

1. The person is very critical and cannot accept humans for what they are. They demand perfection, demand their coworkers are the best in the field, etc. They may also minimize the positives.

2. They have a very cynical or negative outlook.

3. They do not like their field (computers, sales, accounting, medicine, etc.). As a result, they are always unhappy.

The main point is something inside the person causes them to view every organization as screwed up and awful. This includes organizations which are OK, good, or even outstanding.
Transformers and SSMs can't do long computations that are inherently sequential.

Unless you give them chain of thought. In which case they do great.
Yes, people don't understand the real danger in cities like NYC - gentrification! :)
AFAIK in wet science you need (or needed) to do tons of experimentations with liquids with specific molar compositions and temperatures splurging in and out of test tubes - basically just physically navigating a search space. I would view an AI model with super powerful guestimation capability as a much faster way of
A) cutting through search space
B) providing accidental discoveries while at it

Now, if we look at history of science and technology, there is a shit ton of practical stuff that was found only by pure accident - discoveries of which could not be predicted from any previous theory.

I would view both A) and B) as net positives. But our teaching of the next generation of scientists needs to adapt.

The worst case scenario is of course that the middle management driven enshittification of science will proceed to a point where there are only few people who actually are scientists and not glorified accountants. But I’m optimistic this will actually super charge science.

With good luck we will get rid of the both of the biggest pathologies in modern science - 1. number of papers published and referred as a KPI 2. Hype driven super politicized funding where you can focus only one topic “because that’s what’s hot” (i.e. string theory).

The best possible outcome is we get excitement and creativity back into science. Plus level up our tech level in this century to something totally unforeseen (singularity? That’s just a word for “we don’t know what’s gonna happen” - not a specific concrete forecasted scenario).
You're talking about error handling in practical programs. When I started out writing "theoretical guarantee," I meant in a proof, written in a proof language.

Reporting an error to a function's caller isn't really a thing in a proof. A function proves that if any input exists, its result exists. Returning an error means "an error might exist." We don't want to return that, we want to eliminate the error from our proof, so that it proves that the result exists for any input. Returning an 'Ether' type might be useful in a proof, but a 'Maybe' type seems dubious. We already assume that 'None' exists, so proving that 'None' might exist is useless.

We don't have the same concerns in proofs and practical programs.