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You'd think that OpenAI, by now, had technical writers on payroll. Well, according to LinkedIn, they don't. It's not that surprising, then, that their documentation is in such a sorry state. Why they haven't hired specialized roles for documentation is beyond me; they either think they're irrelevant, or they ruthlessly prioritize growth over docs. Whatever the reason, they're hurting themselves.
I'd pay 100 dollars yearly for Firefox. At least. If it would deliver on the core product, and drop all advertisement crap in the build they ship me. It baffles me that this is still not an option.
Addressing, at some point, always ends up with physical wires representing bits, so chips are manufactured with power-of-two sizes. It's like asking why we measure crude oil in barrels.
it is sad that the browsers ask you want to run extensions in incognito mode but don't allow to run only there
Lol I'm laughing about the time I designed a circuit board with standard 0.1"/2.54mm headers but accidentally ordered 2.5mm headers. The small 2-4 pin headers went in just fine and then when I went to put the big 20 pin header in... no dice.
Then she suggests Google Chrome.

Just switch to Librewolf.
There was a time when the DoD supported and led the development of core internet protocols that resulted in open systems we all use: Email, TCP/IP, the web, &c. That era has passed, though. Do I have the facts wrong there?

I don't think Ghidra or GREET are even relevant -- what makes you include them here? They are cases where the government has produced some open source that is useful to developers -- even good open source "...sucks as a UI but the features are clearly good" -- but that's not really a problem we need to solve. There is plenty of good open source for developers.

For "societal software", as you put it, it's actually unworkable if it "...sucks as a UI but the features are clearly good"; it takes considerable design and usability resources to get the UI to be nice, and that's why the Discord vs IRC conversation comes. On the one hand, we have a company producing a product that developers actually want to use for chat, and on the other hand we have an open system that is increasingly falling behind.
we had Xbox outage too
I don't know if it is or isn't part of the exam to get a license, but even if it is licenses are more or less good for life once you have them, so you're looking at decades before everyone on the road would have to have passed that portion of the exam.
Game Programming Patterns is also excellent. There's something that feels quite 'honest' and straightforward about the style of both books. It sometimes seems like authors feel like they have to play along with the idea that it's all black magic, or maybe I'm just too stupid to understand GoF design patterns.
What's your pricing model? Is there a free tier for small businesses or startups?
Exactly the same was true in 1970. Yet 50 years on, and nobody really cares.

It's always someone else's daughter who will be killed in a car accident.
Hiring technical writers would be admitting to human supremacy in the technical writing space. Better optics to use GPT-generated docs regardless of impact to engineers and users.
I do hope they’re getting fat stacks of cash out of it at least. I’d hate to think they’re burning their reputation for nothing.
> The error is often not in the layoff. It's in over-hiring in the first place. And that changes the "how evil are these people?" equation rather drastically IMO.

This is an underappreciated aspect of psychopathic corporate life and "Human resource" thinking, I think. It's hard to avoid the feeling that companies -- particularly big tech -- feel empowered to hire lots of people quickly precisely because firing people has become so easy.

Such that when one big company has a round of layoffs, competitors genuinely feel some pressure to follow suit almost arbitrarily, because it's an expected part of a cycle; a numbers game, a way to appear "lean", etc.
Yes. I know. I've taken an architecture course in university, and I've completed the nand2tetris course and have conceptually build a computer from nand gates up. I ask again:

> why are powers of 2 more important than "kilo" meaning 1000 like it does in every other context?
Does your company pay for the suit you have to wear to the office?
Retention doesn't require it to be online.

A tape sitting in Iron mountain would have a smaller attack surface and be compliant.

Potentially this breach will allow litigation that was financially infeesable for some people.

As a former WDIG employee I am not even suggesting anything concrete or that I have any knowledge of unlawful activity.

But as someone who also worked in the electronic evidence discovery field, the cost of blind discovery has a chilling effect on lawsuits.

Now that targeted discovery is possible, it will be within the budgets of more potential cases.

The forever retention was a marketing differentiator for Slack, so this type of events were a risk you have to accept.

But all about convenience and not compliance.
You could have a separate accumulator for each shuffle, which should allow 28 iterations. (and merge those together at the end of the 28-iteration-loop by widening to u16; at which point you could have an outer loop accumulating in u16 until that runs out)
Here are some comparisons I like to use that really put things in perspective, particlarly for Europeans:

1. The Greater Houston Metro Area is larger than Wales;

2. Greater Houston has fewer people than London but is almost twenty times the area;

3. IIRC if liad out the Greater Houston area over England it would stretch from London to Birmingham;

4. Greater Houston is, in fact, larger than several states including New Jersey;

5. Greater Houston is more than half the size of Switzerland.
I think we will see more frameworks that uses only ES modules and don't new a bundler/compile step, improving a lot the dev experience.
> The fact that 3 years in we are still collaborating with Russia on the ISS and in other scientific programs is deeply disturbing.

Do you think Putin cares about scientific programs enough to stop killing people?

All the "we won't talk to Putin, but will buy Russian gas reexported by another murderer Aliyev" is very nice and emotional, but it did not have any positive effect.

If instead of all of this theater with sanctions, EU and US gave more weapons from the start, and removed regulations to drop oil prices, Ukraine would have won at the end of 2022, and at a much smaller cost than damage to the EU economy already caused by sanctions.
Gift link: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/07/white-coll...
They are paying for it. It's either on the front end with regulations on more expensive construction, or on the back end with power outages, damage and repairs.
The amount of self righteousness and hubris that these people have is amazing. Just like that "ex Google engineer" that talked to Lambda and claimed it sentient or whatever.

Everyone wants to quit, write a book, and then grift "muh AI safety" because that's probably more lucrative than working a 9-7 job that requires impact.
You certainly would.

Just think how insanely unlikely it would be for this not to be the case.

One could also increase the density by allowing non square shapes or squares not fixed on the grid and so on. A more general approach would always lead to slightly higher scores.
Right, but not using Slack at all would not violate any laws. At least today, conversations at the water cooler or in the lunchroom are not required to be recorded.
Well… “use it as money for the entire world” is about as large scale of a use case as you’ll ever find. The issue wasn’t that there was no use-case, it’s that none of the crypto technologies were good enough to actually fulfill that use case. Blockchain wasn’t the right answer - it was just a precursor technology flirting with the right concepts.

I’d argue that transformer-driven AI could follow the exact same trajectory: hype cycle driven by people imagining legitimately transformative use cases, which is ultimately popped when we realize the actual here-and-now implementations don’t work that way.

The idea of transferring value over the internet using one common, frictionless, ownerless system isn’t dead; it can’t be, because it’s simply too good of an idea. But nothing actually offers that. Actual artificial intelligence is, likewise, too good of an idea to ever be “dispelled” or dismantled. The only room for doubt is whether the technical designs we have today are actually AI… or just some wannabe scam coins that LOOK like AI.
Why are oil barrels more important than the SI units of volume we use in every other context?
I fully believe that roundabouts work because they look dangerous and they force people to pay attention. There are other traffic management techniques that are overt about this inequality; you can design highways so it looks like you'll run into things you couldn't possibly hit and thus you slow down.

If left to voting instead of public policy, we will pick "feels safe but isn't" over "doesn't feel safe but is" which is why someone has to put their big boy pants on and build them anyway.
The spin from Disney is going to be entertaining.
who keeps the boots if they lose the job?
Disney pissed off a lot of fans of marvel, starwars and most IPs they recently bought. The hackers dump the files publicly to be mined to shaming Disney. Maybe...
Why don't they start by allowing my paid subscription to use a model that'd be mostly beating Claude 3.5 Sonnet on benchmarks, instead of a model trounced on nearly every single benchmark by Claude?

I'm probably cancelling my ChatGPT subscription soon: show me progress or I switch and give my munnies to Anthropic.
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I read the article. You didn't read my comment.

My comment was actually curious about the overhead of rewriting the plugins to roll them in wondering how much effort that was.
Listening to her radio show was quite a popular thing to do when I was in college.
Just wanted to say this is an extremely cool product. Would definitely make processing files for my local media server easier
I just checked it out.

apart from the book which you can buy, there is an open access edition, linked from the MIT press page, thanks to funding by Google, they say:

https://github.com/IUCompilerCourse/Essentials-of-Compilatio...
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Yesterday someone presented preliminary benchmarks here at EuroPython 2024, comparing no-GIL to sub-interpreters and to multiprocessing. Upshot: This gon' be good!
The total economy argument is good but I still don’t see the reason why being rich should lead you to pay less percentage in taxes than someone just selling their labor. Which is what always tends to happen or is even explicitly so.
Disney is a cultural slash-and-burn enterprise, themselves.
Sure, it is arguably cleaner to explicitly isolate error condition from general process meta-data. So in my OP diagram you can add an errout coming down from the proc-box. I've used this actual pattern in-process to hook up pipelines of active/passive components. However, there is no sense (imo) to propagate the errout of P(n) to P(n+1), so 2-in, 3-out.

p.s. That is pL(n).stderr -> pE.stdin, where pL is the 'business logic' and pE is the system's error processing aspects. I.e. the error processing component's stdin is the stderr of the logical processes (Lp), so there is a uniform process model applicable to both logical and error processing elements of the pipeline.

The issue is how to do this within the limits of line terminal interface (CLI). In code (as in in-process chaining) that aspect is a non-issue.
It's probably part of the initiative to create hypersonic bombers and cruise missiles as a counter to China.

It's a waste of money though as the Ukraine war showed that the Russian Kinzhal missile have limited utility and can be intercepted.

Naval drones and long-range drones are not only cheaper but also more effective.
By whackamole, you mean choosing one of the same two browser extensions that have been around for 2 decades and forgetting about it?

Or one of the DNS blockers that have been pretty consistent too.

It may be a game of whackamole, but it's virtually invisible to end users of these tools.
No knowing how many Foundations are out there, already.
Apache Parquet: open-source, column-oriented data file format
Why though? We're talking about much less than a million geothings here. Any laptop can process this much data at interactive speeds.
The referenced tweet: "Your periodic reminder that the government could seize all of American billionaires’ wealth and it wouldn’t be enough to fund its spending for a single year"[1]

I've had this conversation with the "there shouldn't be billionaires" crowd. Their response was almost always "do it anyways." The existence of people with surplus angers people in a deficit, regardless of if destroying that surplus helps. They want to do it out of anger against the system, not to fix the system.

That said, I don't think fixing the system is impossible. There needs to be a balance between preserving the hierarchy of (theoretical) meritocracy, and not letting too much wealth create a flywheel effect that warps economies. I've done some research of different ideas that could turn the wealth distribution curve from exponential to linear, thereby preserving ordering. Mostly these ideas revolve around each person having their own personal currency, with its own exchange rate which is dependent on different graph connectivity factors. In other words, a rich person's "$10" would be worth much less than a poor person's "$10", in terms of real value. I'd like to do more research into this, but I need help.

1. https://x.com/cafreiman/status/1810815193670373482
Couldn't you organize the accumulators in 8 byte chunks, and leave the upper byte unused. Then you map consecutive digits to those chunks and use 64 bit addition for the accumulation. Then overflow between the bytes would keep the correct result if you do the shuffles correctly, and you have a full byte of overflow buffer.
what do you mean by some concepts not being nestable?
In European cities where underground power lines are normal these issues aren't a problem.

There might be costs (checking before construction for example) and it being normal it helps.
I mean tbf the linemen are making like $120/hr (double pay) so its probably still worth coming here. But it’s not a good look for Centerpoint and shows what they’re focused on.
On the other hand, if you boost these too much, you're now incentivizing your full time security researchers to have white box access to leave and make more money doing white hat black box vuln checking.

And from there it follows that maybe the market rate isn't really that high, zerodium pays, maybe 2x what Google does for similar vulnerabilities, which is more but not a ton more.
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OpenAI's documentation is improving a bit now, but they're currently being left in the dust by Anthropic. The Anthropic prompting guide is genuinely the best I've seen anywhere: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/prompt-...
right-wing doesn't mean "smaller state," but rather a state more conservative of extant victors. That may mean "smaller" if, for example, the EPA threatens capital accumulation, or larger if, for example, policing maintains an exploitable labor pool.

> most of the other players in the big tech sector

Yeah, such as union-busting Amazon or Google. /s
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That's actually a better point than you realize because crude oil is another special case! Typically, the steel drum barrel that we're all familiar with is a 55-gallon (208L) drum, except that crude oil barrels are 47 gallons (159 L).

So clearly the right thing to do here to clear up any confusion is to introduce the concept of computer-sized bytes, and metric bytes. Metric bytes would be 0.9765625 of a regular computer byte, so 1000 MB would be 1000 Metric Bytes, or 1024 * 0.9765625 = 1024 Bytes.

Thus hard drives could be rated at 1,000 GMB, for 1,000 giga metric bytes, which would really be a 1 TMB drive or 1 tera metric bytes, which is the same as 1024 giga regular-computer-sized-bytes, or 1024 GRCSB.

Totally straightforwards and not confusing to anybody.
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do it anyways.
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I'm Not a Fan of Strlcpy(3)
Peak time congestion requires a local form of driver etiquette. My city would grind to a halt without it.
Whether you’re talking about enterprise file storage, email, or chat messaging software, they all have APIs and/or admin user interface to allow retrieving any and all data to support eDiscovery.
> avoiding rendering of off-screen content is fairly standard practice in React, as a performance optimization.

Not using React would be a much bigger performance optimization.
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So to make him "better" you are cutting his balls?
How about Amsterdam, or London (outer London if you want a lower density).
The idea that we do the "eat the rich" and it solves all the problems is simplistic? No, tell me it ain't so.

But, as the fine original article basically says, that doesn't make it wrong to want to redistribute the wealth. It won't replace other things, like a more equitable distribution of income, but it sure helps.

The problem is equity. Not only in it's economic meaning, in its social context. We don't really need equality, we need an equitable outcome. And there is no way that Musk being paid $54b for his actions in control of his companies, is equitable, no matter how legal, proper or permitted in law it is.
> Skill is highly correlated to physiology at the higher levels. Plenty of people practice as much as Messi, yet haven’t a fraction of his footballing ability.

This is counter to your thesis. Messi's dominance doesn't come because he has elite physical characteristics. He's dominant because his level of skill with the ball at his foot is an outlier even among elites. It's not because he's pushing the physical limits of the human body.

There might be some variance in skill for elite riders, but I would guess the density curve of skill in that cohort is a very narrow bell curve, ie. low variance with relatively few outliers. This is what I mean when I say pure skill is not the major factor in success in cycling. Most riders are going to be pretty closely matched skill-wise, and the winners are going to be those that can generate the most power for a sustained amount of time.
Among conceptually Unix-like OSes, at least one tried to do something along these lines: see http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/apollo/SR10/011021-A00_Using_Yo... PDF pp 151 and following.
Now I wonder what would be the most densely populated square kilometer in the world instead. I would imagine something like in Hong Kong.
the basic argument reads to me as "taxing wealth at 100% would be bad policy (for various reasons), therefore taxing wealth (at all) is fundamentally bad policy".

taxing income at 100% would also be bad policy - that fact alone doesn't mean that taxing income (at all) is fundamentally bad policy.

I don't find that the post really engages with any more realistic scenario.
>From people spending millions trying to have the entire factory operated by robots so they could save 100k on humans to engineers specifying friction stir welders for the most basic of welding jobs

Look, I come from that industry (metalworking), if you do friction stir where it's not needed you should be kicked out of your job, but wonder, I've never heard of such a thing in reality, don't tell me you're buying another friction stir cnc to save 100k "on people", friction stir is slow, expensive and any robot can weld (normal welding) faster.

Yes people are expensive, but un-optimised work is even more expensive (on factory level), NO ONE in the metal industry would do something like this if it was not necessary (well except the defence sector, because those guys are crazy and have unlimited money).

I call your made up story complete BS.
If it really was a way to get cheap labor, more companies would be doing it.

As it is now, only the largest tech companies with the strongest security records are actually running good bug bounty programs. They have excellent, well-paid security teams and they put systems in place to incentivize all of their employees to write secure code. But, they know that (1) mistakes can still happen, (2) clever vulnerabilities can be discovered that get around code that was previously thought to be following all best practices, and finally they understand very well that (3) if they don't pay, others will.

Unfortunately it's the companies that need it most - like AT&T and Experian - that have the worst track record with rewarding third-party security researchers.
Very nice research.
One of the great ironies of life, is that almost everyone is in favor of spending money on the poor or for the sake of equality, when it's not their own money.

Spending other people's money is fantastic, equitable, fair. 20% additional tax on yourself? Cruel, unfair, inequitable.
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> I found myself on the phone to Rackspace, leaning on a desk for support, listening to their engineer patiently explain that backups for this MySQL instance had been cancelled over 2 months ago. Ah.

There is no part of this story that’s the protagonist’s fault. What a mess.
Aside from the wealth, they can leverage the Rembrandt. That working capital freedom they gain, from using the non-cash asset, thats huge.