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I can see that as transactions with credit cards go through lots of process (withholding, approval, charging, settling, etc..)
Your personal experience must invalidate large parts of the diarrhea filled lives many others before you have lived and died. Thanks for chiming in, wise one.
It is not necessary to be like this. A lot of code is used for decades after it's written, a lot of software is influential in its own right. I'm not even thinking of "Fortran for government" situations, but things like IrfanView, FancyBox javascript module, or Magic Fields Wordpress plugin. Not to speak of niche aoftware tools for specific communities.
For anyone interested in this, Apple TV's "For All Mankind" is a wonderful exploration of what could have happened if the space race never ended. It's not a historical treatise or anything, but it's still a fascinating take and makes me hope we see real progress in the coming years.
> If there's any one thing that's causing a ""decline"" in the west, it's a tolerance for fraud and failure of big projects.

You should google "Tofu-Dreg". Videos are especially entertaining.

That money get's stolen. You just build it cheaper, get smeared by contractors, employ slaves, etc.

Also, that "tolerance" of the West is surely worth a discussion, but comparing it to the ways a dictatorship enforces their laws and regulations makes it kinda, disturbing.
That’s what the Long Term Benefit Trust solves: https://www.anthropic.com/news/the-long-term-benefit-trust No one on that board is financially interested in Anthropic.
Fines are not jailing.
What bias precisely do you imply?
Couldn't find a single instance of someone being jailed under this law
There have been many documented cases of supply chain attacks of various degrees of sophistication.
Some of them successful, some of them almost successful.
May I remind you of the recent xz vulnerability was discovered by a single dev by mere chance.

As an end user it is nearly impossible to guard against such an attack.

It can be problematic to run something like `curl foo.com | bash` without inspection of the script first.
But even here it makes a difference if you are curling from a project like brew.sh that delivers such script from a TLS protected endpoint or some random script you find somewhere in a gist.

Same goes for output from an LLM. You can simply investigate the generated command before executing it.
Another strategy might be to only generate the parameters and just pass those to the ffmpeg executable.
> ARM64 gets a lot closer to CISC than ARM32

No way. Quite the opposite. ARM64 is quite similar to e.g. RISC-V in most respects other than the use of condition codes.

> POWER has instructions like RLIMI, DOZ, and STHBRX on the "complex" side.

There is nothing complex or "un-RISC" about any of those.

RLIMI is similar to Arm32 BFI or Arm64 UBFM.

DOZ is just subtract with the output zeroed if the MSB is 1. It is easily implemented with just a handful of straight-line instructions in any ISA with min/max or slt or for that matter asr i.e. in hardware with a simple combinatorial add-on to standard subtraction.

STHBRX is just a little-endian store (on big-endian POWER). Plenty of other RISC ISAs (whether big-endian or little-endian) have that.

> things like the "AAD" instruction did a lot of computing work in one bite

Less than other ISAs with a one-shot decimal add instruction (or mode e.g. 6502). Once again, it's a very simple combinatorial circuit -- no CISCy microcode or control flow needed.

> There were also RISC register-memory machines at the time the distinction was meaningful.

Name one.
From one of the original sources linked in this thread

> LSG promised shorter indexing lag (i.e., time between when a record is written and its secondary index is created). Additionally, it would give us faster network latency because it was running on-premises within Uber’s data centers.

https://www.uber.com/en-AU/blog/migrating-from-dynamodb-to-l...
It’s not insulting to speculate in a conversational way around the errors we very very commonly see
That should be classified as corruption/insider trading and punished as such.

In my country that's how politicians and their friends get filthy rich. They know ahead of time where a new highway will be planned so they buy up all the rural land in that area for cheap so that the government will have to buy it from them at inflated prices to build the highway. Then, if a new government comes to power before the highway starts construction and realize they don't have any land where the highway will be built, they cancel the project and re-plan it on another route so that this time they can be the ones getting a cut. So this keeps getting repeated and the country ends up with no highways, but at least some people get obscenely rich.
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My concern is that this type of policy represents a profound rejection of the Western ideal that ideas and information are not in and of themselves harmful.

Let's look at some of the examples of harm that are often used. Take for example nuclear weapons. However, the information for building a nuclear weapon is mostly available. A physics grad student probably has the information needed to build a nuclear weapon. Someone looking up public information has that information as well. The way this is regulated is by carefully tracking and controlling actual physical substances (like uranium, etc).

Similar with biological weapons. Any microbiology grad student would know how to cook up something dangerous. The equipment and supplies would be the much harder thing.

Again, very similar with chemical weapons.

Yet, these "safety" policies act like controlling information is the end and be all.

There is a similar concern with information being misused with flight simulators. For example, it appears that the MH370 disappearance was planned by the pilot using a flight simulator. Yet, we haven't called for "safety" committees for flight simulators.

In addition, the LLMs are only being trained on open data. I am sure there is no classified data that is being used for training. This means, that any information would be available to be found in openly available books and websites.

Remember, this is all text/images in text/images out. This is not like a robot that can actually execute actions.

In addition, there is a sense of Anthropic both overplaying and underplaying how dangerous it is. For example, I did not see references to complete kill switch that when activated would irrevocably destroy Anthropic's code, data, and physical machines to limit the chance of escape.

If you were really serious about believing in the possibility of this level of danger, that would be the first thing implemented, if safety was the first concern.

In addition, this focus on safety and on hiding information and capabilities from the common people, that are only available to a select few is dangerous in and of itself. The desire to anoint oneself as high-priest with privileged access to information/capability is an old human temptation. The earliest city states thousands of years ago had a high priestly class who knew the correct incantations that normal people were kept in the dark about. The Enlightenment turned this type of thinking on its head and we have tremendously benefited.

This type of "safety-first" thinking is taking us back to the intellectual dark ages.
While this website claims several countries have statutes that allow incarceration under blasphemy convictions, I couldn't find a single instance of a person being jailed in the past few decades under any of them.
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> My problem with his criticism (and to some extent echoed by Maciej in this article) is that the main takeaway seems to be "we did it once, we can do it again, let's revisit the past instead of re-inventing the wheel".

> But I don't think anyone actively involved wants to revisit the past.

I think that's fair... but then we should make systems that are at least as good as the ones from the past.

And SLS, even in the fully upgraded "Block 2" state is not as good a rocket as the Saturn V. One of the core problems is: we can't build Saturn V. It's Greek fire - we've lost the ability. There are schematics and plans, but apparently there was enough custom work and deviations by the actual welders and machinists that the plans are ... insufficiently specified.

And needless to say, those same workers are either dead or have forgotten the necessary details.
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You're the only commenter using critical analysis, everyone else is just flapping their jaws.

I hate discussing deepfakes. I'm one of the original patent holders of automated actor replacement technology. I developed it for personalized advertising, after having been an actor replacement specialist in a bunch of VFX film you probably saw.

I spent from 2002 to '08 creating a VFX pipeline, with global patent protections, and an ethical guidance that included public education on this fundamental new technology. Long story short, I needed financing, went to VCs and angels and they were perfectly winning to fund a porn company, but not what I'd planned: an ethical rollout of a sensitive and very powerful technology with many legs, few realize even today.

By '13 I was bankrupt, burned out, and one of my tech partners, a global leader in facial recognition hired me. That's a different story. Actor replacement technology is a fundamental capability with applications far more important than fraud and pornography. But our civilization is far far too immature to realize any of them.
What if a continuous replication system has a bug one day, and you realize you are just a bit corrupted and have to rerun? Or is it the same with cloud tools?
Some British accents, in particular outside of London, can be almost unintelligible to general English speakers.

There is nothing intrinsically neutral about the British accent, it's more a matter of diction from the speaker. I would also not consider the OpenAI accents as neutral American, feels more like "Young Californian adult woman" accent to me.
It might just be an internal policy to cover all the crazy combinations of regs the world over. They might just say 10/20/100 years is their policy, now figure out how to store it.
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So this strikes to the heart of a frustration I have.

When I was younger, I took debates over "who invented X" at face value, based on how engaged and serious others were about them: That person alone had the idea first, all by themselves, and realized it.

As an adult of course I realize the world is much more complicated. By and large, inventions don't happen in a vacuum, they occur when their time has come. Knowledge/ideas/theory/precursors are floating about, often there is a community of people already engaged in the area, and then at best someone makes a notable contribution or excels at integration, often boosted by fortuitous circumstances.

Yet these topics are rarely if ever reported on that way. At most you get a "someone else had written about it already in a paper" + debate about the chances the inventor had known and read about the paper (I think for Zuse this is the debate about whether he had read Turing or not).

For examples like this I'd love to read a more nuanced piece that takes me into the inventor's world first: What were the hot topics of their day? What devices were known to them already? Who were they in contact with? What inspired them? What allowed them to get organized and pursue a particular path? etc.

More often than not invention is a long process that involves multiple heads and years to decades.

I think I want a book like "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" by Rhodes, which really excels at sketching the milieu of first-half 20th century physics, but with Turing, von Neumann, Zuse, etc. instead ...
Just go back and look at the chechen war. Russia tried to fight like a modern military only to go back to artillery and leveling cities to the ground.

Thats all they ever did, brute force
> I don't get why the originals don't get upvoted

Because they were never submitted? I looked for the first one, it doesn't seem to be on HN.
That was not a nice reply for a non-insult. Do you have anything to add maybe?
bad take / misinformation is a spectrum.
Glad to have a FOSS podcast app. I switched to Antennapod after Google Podcasts shut down. I have about a dozen podcasts I listen to, half of them from Patreon RSS feeds. Works great!
I didn't realize HDHPs were still available in the US post-ACA, due to requirements that all plans cover certain minimum services 100% from the first dollar, making them kind of silly (it basically means there's a doughnut of approximately $2k-$6k in cost where someone might be personally liable in a given year).

HDHP plus great price transparency (especially pre service, where one can potentially cross-shop providers, vs. being in a facility and given only one option) would be good for cost reduction; if you can't surface and measure the costs, you won't have any incentive to lower them.

I personally have a fairly mediocre $230/mo blue cross plan in Puerto Rico which largely only covers care within Puerto Rico (and which I've never actually used for anything), and rely on medical tourism where I pay 100% out of pocket, and until Amazon bought them, OneMedical for cheap clinic care which I also paid 100% out of pocket. I previously had a WA state HDHP for $100-200/mo pre-ACA which was great but ACA killed those/insurers left the state.
I'm betting they want ai drone crowd control before they want to clean up the place, so either way we're screwed
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This answer pretty much sums a lot of my experience. Of course when the guy somehow pulls this off in 2 weeks it is seen as an easy side project with proof that it is, haha
Besides all the other good feedback here, I will offer my extremely petty reason why I wouldn't spend much time evaluating this product. In the FAQ, under the "Are transactions fully ACID?" heading, there is a typo: "simultaineously". It gives me the impression that not enough care has gone into an important part of this product. I know it's not a fair jugdgement, but first impressions matter.
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Personally I do, the Windows builds for my game use a Windows VM with MSVC, the Linux builds use GCC for certain optimizations, and for the dev builds I use Clang for sanitizers. Sure, you mention "a toy project" but he's talking about trying to avoid non-standard extensions in general, which is a fair point.
So that's why. Then they can be only harvested from the sun then.
Quadratic vs linear is not an optimization. It's a completely new game. With selective SSMs (mamba) the win is that associative training can be run in sublinear time via a log-cost associative scan. So you go from something quadratic wrt input sequence length to something logarithmic. If that's just an optimization it's a huge one.
Aside from defining consciousness as an immaterial awareness, what exactly is the physical world composed of? The Michelson–Morley experiment proved that there is no luminiferous aether permeating the quantum vacuum. What we call physical is just fields in a vacuum; there is no substance to anything. Maybe consciousness is the vacuum and fields are its contents?
For what it's worth:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z3_(computer)

The claims made on that web page are true. There have been several attempts to rebuild one of his machines. One of them used to be shown in the Technikmuseum in Berlin, but apparently it has been moved to the Konrad Zuse Museum in Hünich.

The machine used binary arithmetic and could do floating point addition (0.8 seconds) and multiplication (3 seconds) and had 64 22-bit words of memory. It's actually quite a technological marvel considering it was built in the war and he had trouble getting the materials to build it as military projects were prioritized and the Nazis didn't consider his machine important for the war effort.
Most governments of the world would disagree with you here; wealth redistribution programmes are a normal and proven way to organise a state. You can help people in a multitudes of ways, and just handing them out money is not always the best option—people also need maintained infrastructure, schools, entertainment, parks, municipal services, and so on; and they usually also need purpose, which many people derive from their jobs. So having a large employer, or a project that builds on many contractors that employee people, is a good way to distribute wealth and achieve something beneficial in the process, like GPS satellites, space science, or just plain power display to other nations. All the people that are employed in the process pay taxes, care about their neighbourhoods, send their kids to universities, go shopping, and keep the economy alive.

I'm not to say this is the only true answer, other approaches exist, like the (so far unproven) unconditional basic income, or just social security services. But I would definitely argue that it has positive effects for an economy to keep people busy, to give them purpose and secure jobs.

Edit: Having said all that, of course I'm neither an authority on NASA internals here, but the strategy would make sense and definitely is applied in other areas and countries, too.
I'm not sure what you have in mind, but in my mind the mechanical enforcement really means something like clang-format [1] and that surely works.

[1] https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangFormatStyleOptions.html#use...
see the list of issues i had posted in previous comment.
Magical thinking. Nature uses gradient descent to evolve all of us and our companions on this planet. If something better were out there, we would see it at work in the natural world.
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Yes, and this is a common problem with language. There are many instances where colloquial knowledge is just wrong and its not clear how people even came up with their alternative interpretation. Maybe you have seen me previously ranting about such things.
Because SPF has many design flaws that will break SPF for legitimate use-cases (such as relaying/forwarding). You wouldn't want to rely on SPF, you should always on DKIM instead.

SPF should be considered legacy at this point. But of course DMARC had to be designed with backwards compatibility in mind, thus it'll still consider the email to be DMARC alignment with just SPF alignment (without DKIM alignment). Also, understand that 'alignment' is different from a 'pass', so it's not as bad as many commenters here make it look.

There are proposals of adding a flag to the DMARC policy to have the receiver ignore SPF alignment, thus enforcing DKIM alignment. However, that is not final yet.
Myst was a big enough hit it was the reason (or perhaps excuse is a better word) for some of my friends getting a CD-ROM drive.

( While I was "stuck" on an old 386 with only a floppy drive for what felt like an eternity. )
Just use what you know. React Native is not bad.

If you have a large budget and want to go for the long term, I'd say go for native Android and iOS. You'll eventually get all kinds of weird bugs. Like this morning, I was looking at a bug with thousands of crashes on a very specific model of Vivo phone (involving 5 users); turns out it was from a way that Android does encryption and handles backups.

The more layers of abstraction you have, the longer it takes to find and fix those kinds of bugs. Take note that Android is extremely fragmented and customized, especially in developing countries if that's your target market.

Most of the bugs we deal with today are are 1) camera 2) file storage 3) locale (language, RTL, how numbers and currency are displayed). I haven't worked with Bluetooth, but I expect that to be major too.

PWAs are a solution if you're basically just making a mobile site and don't need the above.

Flutter is mature enough that most of the layers are running well. A lot of the cutting edge tech goes to Flutter, and I'd recommend it as the default. Half our native team are Flutter fanboys and I'm guessing there's a very good reason for that.

Someone proposed KMP before. We gave it a shot and canceled it because it felt horribly unoptimized. This is just anecdote, though.

I haven't used React Native and don't plan to, but my main worry is the number of layers and the people maintaining them. Mobile has a lot of breaking changes since Android 10 (2019). iOS's support window is probably 3 years. I don't know if we can extrapolate this to the following years, but Android 14 has had a major breaking bug that wasn't backwards compatible.

If the layers are not being maintained, you end up with a mess like Cordova. We migrated to native after running the numbers and realizing that it's cheaper to hire 1 senior iOS and Android person rather than hire a single mobile person and a bunch of contractors to update plugins each time. Both platforms are also different in some ways. Code complexity increases exponentially, and `if (iOS)` logic will contribute to this by a lot. One code two platforms is not always a good thing in the long run.

But if you want that, then Flutter is built for it.
I often see rate limits framed as a way to protect system capacity, but not enough follow-through with understanding why, even with appropriate rate limits, systems can fall over and require manual intervention to restore.

The easiest way to explain this is with a simple sequence of events: the database has a temporary issue, system capacity drops, clients start timing out or getting errors, load amplification kicks in with retries and request queueing, load is now higher than normal while capacity is lower than normal, devs work hard to get the database back in order, database looks restored but now the system has 3x the load it did before the incident, other heroic efforts are needed to shed load and/or upscale capacity, whew it's all working again! In the post-mortem there are lots of questions about why rate-limiting didn't protect the system. Unfortunately, the rate limit values required to restore the saturated system are far too low for normal usage, and the values needed for normal operation are too high to prevent the system from getting saturated.

Fundamentally, there's really no way for a rate limiting (which only understands incoming load) to balance the equation load <= capacity. For that, we need a back-pressure mechanism like circuit breaking, concurrency limiting, or adaptive request queueing. Fortunately, rate limiting and back-pressure work well together and don't have to know about each other.
Came here to suggest this should be generic, but I'd also do something like pack in `man <command>` into the prompt if you are one shotting. Then it works for "all" commands that have a man page rather than just the commands GPT knows about before its cut off. Even just trying to scrape out `<command> --help` or something would be good too.
I use Firefox and Safari and 90% of bugs get responded to with “use chrome”
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Something useful, submitted with good intentions, will be received well, regardless of when you submit it.
> or with backups
take a while to restore a PB and a way to take a hot backup without impacting the service that by itself is a task or snapshots which is more disk

> 1:1 replication
Depending on the amount of writes could be a ton of extra disk and a bucket for network cost
Secret doesn't mean they can't use internal authenticated communication channels, at the very least to send a redacted confirmation.
One 3-layer (1 hidden layer) neural network can already approximate anything. You don't even need to stack them.
yeah always misspelt that. We are running opensource self hosted fine with it.