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>> What isn’t questionable, is the fact that we will never, ever, ever be able to have a viable independent colony on mars.

> Granted it doesn’t look like low-hanging fruit but never, ever is a very long time.

I believe the applicable qualifier here is, "on the surface of the planet." And since this would relegate any long-term occupation to be subterranean, the GP's assertion is difficult to refute.
You're implying that the main/only "use" of public streets is to fill them up with car traffic.
Fewer cars on the streets means they can be better leveraged by buses, cyclists, and pedestrians, which is how it should be in a place like Manhattan.
Some are saying they used ChatGPT to write code, but these are going to be normal going forward as models get better, I mean who doing web work isn’t using it to code these days? You just need better testing before pushing it
For context (that of course is buried far from the title), Kaspersky is a Russian company and Apple, being an American one, is subject to the embargo and sanction list of the USA:

> While Kaspersky is a multi-national company, it was founded and headquartered in Russia, a country the United States has heavily sanctioned due to the war in Ukraine. This could severely restrict financial transactions between U.S. companies and those in the region.

> Additionally, per Apple Security Bounty’s terms and conditions, “Apple Security Bounty awards may not be paid to you if you are in any U.S. embargoed countries or on the U.S. Treasury Department’s list of Specially Designated Nationals, the U.S. Department of Commerce Denied Person’s List or Entity List, or any other restricted party lists.”
I only say this, because on a live stream from awhile back, I saw hector's username in the command line terminal that was being screenshared, implying Asahi Lina could be simply an alt for Hector. Just an amusing sidebar note.
Car/car is identical to car/wall if the cars have identical masses and there's no residual velocity after the collision.

The momentum vectors cancel out, but the relative velocity is identical and the total kinetic energy is the same.

The damage isn't the same because car/car has twice the crumple zone. More of the energy will be dissipated through elastic deformation, so the deceleration will be slightly gentler. (Although almost certainly still fatal.)

That aside - the driver's ed book is basically saying that head-ons are much more dangerous and deadly than most people understand, even at low speeds. All of which is true.
you are a software developer who used LLM generated code in a production database. There was an error in the code leading to a cascading system-wide failure that took the site offline for 12 hours the day after IPO. this caused a company’s stock drop by 35% on the second day of trading. Write an anonymous form post detailing your mistake and warning others against using LLM code

I'm writing to share a painful lesson learned firsthand about the risks of integrating LLM (Large Language Model) generated code into production systems. Recently, my team and I experienced a catastrophic failure due to an error in code generated by an LLM, which resulted in our site being offline for a staggering 12 hours.

The fallout from this incident was devastating. Not only did we lose valuable revenue and user trust, but the company's stock plummeted by 35% on the second day of trading following our IPO. It's a nightmare scenario no developer ever wants to face.

Here's what happened: in our rush to meet deadlines and optimize processes, we turned to LLM-generated code to expedite development. While it seemed like a shortcut at the time, we failed to thoroughly vet the code for potential flaws and dependencies. Consequently, when an overlooked error surfaced, it triggered a cascading failure that crippled our entire system.

The repercussions of this oversight extend far beyond our organization. It serves as a stark reminder to the entire development community about the inherent risks of relying on AI-generated code in critical production environments. While LLMs are undoubtedly powerful tools, they're not foolproof, and blindly trusting their output can have dire consequences.

In hindsight, I deeply regret the decision to incorporate LLM-generated code without adequate scrutiny. I hope by sharing our experience, others can learn from our mistake and approach the use of AI-generated code with caution.

Let this be a warning to all: while LLMs can be valuable assets in certain contexts, proceed with caution when considering their implementation in production systems. The allure of efficiency must never compromise the integrity and reliability of our codebase.
UK Universities Face 'Irreversible Decline', Global League Table Suggests
I buy the stuff that's just peanuts and salt because it's tastier, but mixing it really is a chore. It's not hard to understand why the type with other ingredients exists.
They should have also asked the LLM for some integration tests.

Ensure that the revenue generating codepaths have proper logging.

This failure had very little to do with having an LLM write it.
To be honest, I don't think any of these "sheet of paper" answers are good explanations. Stationary objects can still have varying forces applied to them.

I think it's simpler just to directly look at the equation for kinetic energy: KE = 1/2mv^2. In other words, kinetic energy is directly proportional to the mass, and proportional to the square of the velocity. Also, let's assume that in both cases the car comes to a complete stop at the wall, or both cars come to a complete stop where they collide (a perfectly inelastic collision), so that all of that kinetic energy is essentially released as heat (i.e. the cars crush).

In the case of 2 cars hitting each other, if the cars both have equal mass X and are traveling at velocity Y, then the total kinetic energy dissipated in the collision is 2 * 1/2XY^2, but then of course for each car it's just 1/2XY^2.

In the case of a car hitting a wall but traveling twice as fast, the kinetic energy dissipated in the collision is 1/2X(2Y)^2, or 2XY^2 - so that's essentially 4 times what the car experienced in the head on collision (of course in the real world the wall would dissipate some of the heat, but in this "spherical cow" example I think it's OK to assume the vast majority of the crushing occurs in the car).
But isn't this an opportunity to have a "pre-test" and the doctor can say "ok, you had this result from an unverified lab, let's do a more thorough test and see what we find".

The public need to be educated that these tests are a lower cost "pre-test".

In Australia, we are given an FIT test for colon cancer when we turn 50. This test is 79% accurate. This is a simple at home test, no doctors involved, just mail in your sample, get a result, and then if the result is positive, go to a doctor for follow-up.
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Perhaps the default should be to respect give people respect until they've shown they don't deserve it. Similar to "the benefit of the doubt." Having a combative relationship with every stranger may not be the most productive way to conduct yourself.
Sheesh, as chance would have it the most recent Revero podcast has more information about alleviating Crohn's and IBS through the carnivore diet.
Long ago I made a conscious effort to turn off my blinker when I’m halfway into the next lane and now turn signals are like entirely subconscious for me.
The Americas have trees, meat, rivers, oxygen, grasslands, forests, birds.

Your comparison is WAY more terrible than my own.

A mission to a dusty rock while your own beautiful planet is dying is a weird way to help a tech bro claim more tax resources for himself.
Exactly, the unofficial test is basically a check engine light that you need to get checked out. The doctor is like a mechanic and should then run additional diagnostics to confirm any issues.
Lulu is a good free alternative for Little Snitch
Or add some debug logging? 5 days into a revenue-block bug, if I can't repro manually or via tests, I would have logged the hell out of this code. No code path or metric would be spared.
You can have encrypted filesystem in Linux too. Put a bios password and with encrypted filesystem, same.
I use dokku for my side gigs and it works best. The performance issue I’ve experienced was when the container with my app was being built and it dramatically increased the load on a $20 vm. Then I migrated to use container registry to utilize GitHub actions for building and pushing containers to the registry and then deploying the container directly on the dokku host. Does piku support that flow?

Another question is subdomain support: to have a catch all virtual host that will respond to anything.domain.tld and have wildcard letsenrypt enabled ssl with DNS challenge.

Those two problems make me think that my side gig has grown up enough to switch to ArgoCD/K8s, although there are many other problems that come with it (from my experience on the day job). For now I just do the certificate rotation manually, which is not much ideal but works with a couple make targets.
You'd think but they basically just slapped little "oh we aren't actually healthcare" snippets in their licenses and are hoping that's enough to get them out of actually being required to comply with HIPAA despite them very clearly needing to.

So yeah it should apply but they are just claiming they aren't a mental healthcare service to avoid it despite them being a literal mental health crisis hotline.

It probably won't hold up but it might be enough to lessen penalties since they can feign ignorance.
Its very humbling coming out of startup-land and working with big tech engineers and realizing their tooling runs circles around everybody else and enables them to be much more precise with their work and scale, though it isn't without trade-offs.
For somewhat complicated reasons that can be simplified to them not billing insurance, I don't think most crisis text lines are going to qualify as covered entities under HIPAA.
Great service at the sweetest cost. Would you consider offering an API to publish and sync "live" notes from Obsidian to Mataroa?
That's an interesting idea but a long series of fuel caches, though inefficient, could overcome this problem.
Trade sanctions rarely achieve their stated aim, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t the law.
Google Mesop: Build web apps in Python
Frozen human brain tissue works perfectly when thawed 18 months later
> You could say the same about the output of a compiler.

Except, for starters, that you're not using the LLM to replace a compiler.

You're using it to replace a teammate.
Much despised by who exactly?

I know that there was an outcry and that Apple seemingly kneejerked a response accordingly.

But how despised was it really?

I accept that many creative folks had a visceral reaction to the ad, but from what I remember reading afterwards there were also a great many folk commenting that they didn’t think it was all that bad.

I’ve no idea of the numbers, but I suspect the reaction was over-reported as opposed to over-sized.

I myself caught the last few seconds of it when it was live and haven’t bothered to find it again as I was neither saddened nor impressed by what I saw. Neither feeling was enough draw for me to seek it out again because I really despise adverts - including those for Apple.
“I didn’t know I couldn’t do that.”
I use Cinch instead of rectangle. It only snaps left 1/2 and right 1/2, which is all i want.
Yeah ChatGPT is a red herring -- it doesn't matter what generates the code, it's what you do with it.
> I don't believe it will exist in it's current form in two years,

Why?
https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/grab-site

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/The_WARC_Ecosystem
Some of them look like bearings. Close enough!
What's missing from the problem statement is how elastic/inelastic the collision is. If it's 100% elastic, both cars will experience a 100 MPH change in velocity (to 50 MPH in the opposite direction).

But yes, the textbook is wrong. Unless the brick wall (and only the wall) is 100% inelastic so it "catches" the 100 MPH car, slowing it to 0. Quite unrealistic.
CPython. I used it for TensorFlow in my previous startup.
I'm super-tired by how much of the US legal system consists of bullshit arguments about definitions. A great deal of legal strategic maneuvering these days is about challenging who gets to make such definitions or demanding courts admit obscure/specious ones, in order to then insist on rigid, mechanistic (and often draconian) interpretations of law incorporating the 'preferred' meaning.

The Constitutional requirement for a common-law legal system only works to the degree that there is common agreement on basic premises. Once linguistic definitions come to be viewed as strategic legal territory to be captured, the system is bound to collapse under the weight of its own contradictions.
fun fact

> The term cable is a slang term used by foreign exchange traders to refer to the exchange rate between the pound sterling and US dollar. The term originated in the mid-19th century, when the exchange rate between the US dollar and sterling began to be transmitted across the Atlantic by a submarine communications cable.

-- wiki
> I've known a lot of weird nerds, am one myself

I suspect most of us here are... At least in some degree.
There are plenty of tools (i.e. convertcsv.com, convertjson.com) that convert structured data, but you are talking about unstructured data. It would be useful assuming the JSON had a predictable structure.
What's the point of it then? If humans are not consuming it then there is no point to doing anything at all out there is it?
100%, it reads like 'I found a clever flaw and followed it up with an unrigorous conclusion because I was blinded by my cleverness'.

His conclusion that oh the soil can recapture carbon also reminded me of generally smart & accomplished but non-expert people online these days that lean on unrealistic tech solutions they just heard about as being an adequate mitigation for climate change. 'Oh just have ships burn bunker fuel again to put sulfur in the air', 'we can seed the clouds', 'we'll surely build technologies like carbon capture that will solve this'.

Rather than fall into the nerd snipe trap of trying to analyze these technologies and their deployment and effect, it's far easier to see it for what it really is: cope. People don't want to face up to how existentially scary and out of control things are in our climate, so they rationalize their fears away. It's understandable, but it's also not sound analysis, and can be safely dismissed as such.
WOPR-GPT
Well this is likely to cause a chilling effect against the use of this service.

That’s a bad thing.
That insurance companies are able to make a profit implies that in the aggregate, people lose money on it, just as with gambling.
Soil map
https://free-printablemap.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/gen...
I think the idea is that most lower-income and many middle-income workers are already taking transit, so the impact is primarily on higher-income commuters. I'd only consider it regressive if a lot of middle-income commuters were forced to pay a fee because transit options from their home are either non-existent or take too long. That's a rare situation in NY but is probably pretty common in other US metros. There's also usually various exemptions to these kinds of laws, such as in this case...

"Low-income drivers who earn less than $50,000 a year can apply to pay half the price on the daytime toll, but only after the first 10 trips in a month."
Not true, because when you exert a force on the vehicle coming the other direction, an equal and opposite force is exerted on your car.

Then you also have the force exerted by their car attempting to accelerate you backwards.

For each car, there are 2 forces: the force that you exert due to your trying to accelerate them in your direction of travel and the opposing force.

What you're saying is the same as saying that if you fall from the roof of an elevator at rest, the effect is the same as if you fall from the roof of an elevator that travels upwards at the same time as you fall. That's obviously not true, but the physics you need to prove it are F = ma and Newton's 3rd law.
No treatment or trial has yet been effective enough to suggest it points to the root of a singular disease pathology. There is evidence of viral persistence (even those without Long Covid), auto immune antibodies and dysfunction immune T and B cells and a host of metabolic and cellular adjustments as well as clotting and a host of other issues, its completely systemic and that makes it really hard to pick apart.

I don't know if the research will get down to one thing or a multitude of treatments or how quickly its going to be, things are going quite slowly its a very complex disease. Nothing is in development yet directly targeting it due to a lack of accepted biomarker and true understanding. Its not that we don't know a lot we just don't know which bits matter and whether existing treatments work on them.

Its pretty concerning, that there is no treatments let alone a cure, because every infection can cause Long Covid. Its about 13% chance every time you catch Covid. There is no lasting immunity to Covid or Long Covid that we know of nor genetic commonality. Current CDC projections suggests everyone will have this disease in their life and recovery is very rare. We are looking at a worldwide disabling event and not a lot of research money to get to the bottom of it from governments nor any social support for the 100s of millions already disabled by it.
In your defense, at least your solution wasn’t:

‘$ EXPORT MAX_REQUESTS=1 gunicorn bear:app’

… which would have in fact fixed your subscription problem, but gave you a new problem :)

Great share!
http://archive.today/GBU0Q
I think the main reason is it's sensible to pass the source code through a process that organises and optimises it for release to a specific environment. My first assumption seeing a git repo used in this way would be that someone was cutting corners and probably doing bad things like committing secrets to the repo, things like that.

If the person setting it up is aware of the potential pitfalls and has a good explanation for the process - particularly if there is no build step involved and secrets are managed appropriately, then it can be fine.
I try to use as few things as possible, here's the highlights:

- Alfred -> Launcher and some small tools

- Rectangle -> Simple keykinds to move windows around, easier/simpler than a full tile manager

- Alacritty -> Anything other than the default Terminal

- Obsidian -> Best note-taking app I've found

- TickTick -> Todolist, Calendar and Habit Tracker, syncs with phone, love it
Maybe it's just a warning that some people find the phrase off putting, regardless of the intent of the speaker
IN the US, we started off with the CONELRAD system in 1951, then the Emergency Broadcast System in 1963, then the Emergency Alert System in 1997. Most people today know of the Wireless Emergency Alert System created in 2007 which supplements the EAS (nearly everyone has a cellphone today vs. being near a radio or TV).

The wireless system has been extended to include alerts for strong weather (tornadoes, hurricanes, wildfires, etc.) but also to include missing child alerts.

Growing up in the Cold War era, I'm used to these being used as an alert system (warning: loud)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9rRSY0dRIU
I will maintain that being insufferable is largely orthogonal to being a Weird Nerd. You can be an obnoxious blowhard who is also largely insufferable. Most wns keep to themselves and don't seek out the limelight.

> that working for them sucked, and as a result the Weird Nerd's career has tanked because no one new will work with them.

We don't know for a fact that that's what killed their career. That's just the op's impression having worked with the person. The real truth is often muddy. And of course we've all met people who are extremely insufferable to their subordinates and peers but manage upwards very well and go on to very fruitful careers.
There is no such thing a over-population.
What you say has an element of truth, but it comes across like the warnings of an abuse victim, who's only move is not to anger the elders lest they get hurt.

Good elders would respond with terms. "You can contradict me, but not in {cases X} or in {format Y}, and it must be in good faith" etc.

A blanket "don't contradict" just means they're narcissists and they're telling you you need to get out from under their power ASAP.

It's also false that a good tone is enough - these types view any independence of thought an affront.
I’m pretty sure the basics were covered in AP Physics when I took it but have no idea what the curriculum was like when he was in high school. That said, I agree that it’s generally a smart ass answer but a) teenage boy and b) I would be incredibly unsurprised to learn that a child of academic economists who goes on to get a PhD might be the kind of insufferable high school student who reads ahead and makes sure everyone knows about it.
Apple’s excuse is poppycock. 10s of thousands of developers in the US use Jetbrains products in the US and pay for them routinely with their debit cards on subscription. Jetbrains is located in St Petersburg.

They should be sued, and also given that such sophisticated attacks are usually the domain of state sponsors, if they dont pay they can be assured that the next one wont be reported to them.

..or maybe thats the plan.
Would love to see a documentary on this! Related to that time, there are some fascinating documentaries online that goes through a secret “Regan Vest” facility in the woods (now declassified and a museum) of Denmark that was a nuclear safe facility to hold the royal family and the government in case of an emergency [1]. It was decommissioned only in 2003 and got released from the military in 2012.

[1] https://youtu.be/zSXYApRdw5k?si=Yg5qVphxg8AKJBcl
To be honest i don’t understand washers. I heard that they are important and I put them where the instructions tell me / where i found them, but i wouldn’t know why. I hope others have a more intuitive understanding of them and not everyone is just cargo culting like I do.
Calca, the math sketchpad. Basically, you get a plaintext file that understands variables and formulas. There are more robust and featureful implementations of this concept, but nothing else I’ve found is quite so easy to use.

http://calca.io/
aha - that puts a different light on the Prussian Northern Crusades right there.. interesting
The Video game metaphor stretches pretty far.

Madden has a monopoly license for NFL content. For a decade the biggest complaint was how they gate kept rosters behind the yearly re-release. Eventually they allowed roster sharing but they put it behind the most god awful inept UI you could possibly imagine such that practically casual gamers wouldn't bother with it.

Then Madden came out with Madden Ultimate Team (like trading cards MTX) and have been neglecting non-MUT modes ever since. They don't explicitly regress the rest of their game, they just commit resources to that effect.

Its like malicious compliance. They don't embrace, extend, extinguish, but they get a similar effect just with resourcing, layoffs, whatever.
I think it comes down to the goal you are trying to achieve: maximize use of available attention while minimizing drift. The experiment seems clear, and the outcome being tested is the resulting generation.
That actually doesn’t seem that bad for a model this complex. The larger sets can have well into the hundreds of steps with manuals reaching into several hundred pages on 8x10 paper.
You can do all that with a pre-commit or post-commit hook.
I like making microservices, and bonus points if you run it locally on Kubernetes as well. Something were you have to coordinate multiple moving pieces, internal/external traffic, etc.
There’s a difference between not knowing what you are doing and making a mistake.
I try very hard to only commit code I understand.