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Sure. Software engineers are actually the best situated to take advantage of this new technology.

Your concern would be like once C got invented, why should you bother being a software engineer? Because C is so much easier to use than assembly code!

The answer, of course, is that software engineering will simply happen in even more powerful and abstract layers.

But, you still might need to know how those lower layers work, even if you are writing less code in that layer directly.
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Interestingly enough, the leaded-solder topic is a hot-button issue in some online communities. People get angry about it, and I don't have an explanation for why.
sigh so no more cracked Spotify on Android, I guess. Too bad. A lot of the Android warez scene will take a huge hit from this.
There’s a lot of text out there that depicts people doing bad things, from their own point of view. It’s possible that the model can get really good at generating that kind of text (or inhabiting that world model, if you are generous to the capabilities of LLM). If the right prompt pushed it to that corner of probability-space, all of the ethics the model has also learned may just not factor into the output. AI safety people are interested in making sure that the model’s understanding of ethics can be reliably incorporated. Ideally we want AI agents to have some morals (especially when empowered to act in the real world), not just know what morals are if you ask them.
They could've, but tbh its just very hard to read the memoirs of a guy who is extremely privileged, uses his family's money to travel around Europe just as it is ready to fall apart completely, and he is just stuck in this cosmopolitan idealism.

I've found Mann to be absolutely insufferable for the exact same reason(although both are very good writers when one only considers literary skills and ignores the actual themes).
i know i had a copy of it back in highschool
If at some point a competent senior software engineer can be automated away, I think we are so close to a possible 'AI singularity' in as much as that concept makes sense, that nothing really matters anyway.

I don't know what will be automated first of the competent senior software engineer and say, a carpenter, but once the programmer has been automated away, the carpenter (and everything else) will follow shortly.

The reasoning is that there is such a functional overlap between being a standard software engineer and an AI engineer or researcher, that once you can automate one, you can automate the other. Once you have automated the AI engineers and researchers, you have recursive self-improving AI and all bets are off.

Essentially, software engineering is perhaps the only field where you shouldn't worry about automation, because once that has been automated, everything changes anyways.
This happens to me sometimes. I think it would happen randomly when I was a kid, but as I've gotten older it seems to only happen when I'm really stressed out and not getting much sleep.
Well now you're going to be paid a high salary for knowing when to use a 1 index vs a 0 index. :)
And the knowledge acquisition impedance is reduced
From what I've seen, there's usually some hard requirement that a single instance of the application can handle N in-flight requests. This is fine when you have a single load balancer that uses some flavor of "least request" or "least connection" balancing algorithm. The problem arises when you have a fleet of load balancers- they don't share state, so each LB can't know the state of any individual backend without sending a request. This results in a failed request if the backend is already at full capacity.

Your tone is coming off as condescending and I'm not sure if it's intentional. I guess I should mention that I'm _very_ familiar with how load balancing works. This is a real problem and you can't "tune" your way into a consistent global view of the backend states.
No, and they can find porn on their own too. But social media services still have per-poster content ratings, and user-account age restrictions vis-a-vis viewing content with those content ratings.

The goal isn’t to protect the children, it’s CYA: to ensure they didn’t get it from you, while honestly presenting as themselves (as that’s the threshold that sets the moralists against you.)

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Such restrictions also can work as an effective censorship mechanism… presuming the child in question lives under complete authoritarian control of all their devices and all their free time — i.e. has no ability to install apps on their phone; is homeschooled; is supervised when at the library; is only allowed to visit friends whose parents enforce the same policies; etc.

For such a child, if your app is one of the few whitelisted services they can access — and the parent set up the child’s account on your service to make it clear that they’re a child and should not be able to see restricted content — then your app limiting them from viewing that content, is actually materially affecting their access to that content.

(Which sucks, of course. But for every kid actually under such restrictions, there are 100 whose parents think they’re putting them under such restrictions, but have done such a shoddy job of it that the kid can actually still access whatever they want.)
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41521630, 125 pts, 66 comments
Having read the full transcript I don't get how it counted 22 letters for mynznvaatzacdfoulxxz. It's nice that it corrected itself but a bit worrying
I did not say those were even good laws. Many people go to jail for breaking bad laws though.

And the government can establish monopolies on many things, my private nuclear weapons startup did not get much traction either.
I almost got burned out from this, this year. Never again will I use clean and production-ready assets for prototypes submitted to decision makers.
So who will pay for your long healthy life? The default answer is: you will, by working longer. Any other answer has this problem: why is this magic source of funds not currently available to cover even our current shorter lifespans?

OK, so we've established that you have to continue working. Are you sure that you as a geriatric man on artificial life extension will be competitive with a younger guy who can go crazy and use the same tech to, say, never sleep - never mind that he'll die at 40? And even if we aren't talking extremes: you as a pill-supported walking corpse have to be ever vigilant of your own mortality. Someone younger can afford to take more risks.
They look ugly as hell but if it works and makes carriers job easier and more efficient then it’s a success in my book.
One angle: There are a million SMBs and various other institutions, using none or really shitty software, that could be xx% to xxx% times more productive with custom software that they would never have been able to afford before. Now they can, en masse, because you will be able to built it a lot faster.

I have been coding a lot with AI recently. Understanding and putting into thought what is needed for the program to fix your problem remains as complex and difficult as ever.

You need to pose a question for the AI to do something for you. Asking a good question is out of reach for a lot of people.
Looks like a regular size sim, I don't think anything comes with anything but nano-sim slots these days.
I'm not sure that's the right way to interpret it.

If some tasks are too easy, both models might give satisfactory answers, in which case the human preference might as well be a coin toss.

I don't know the specifics of their methodology though.
Well...

1) SpaceX invested a lot of money into its American launch sites. Abandoning them altogether would be a huge waste of money.

2) Good launch sites are surprisingly rare, especially because you need at least some infrastructure there. French Guyana is probably the only real competitor right now.

3) Given that SpaceX is bound by ITAR, I don't believe the US government would let them launch from outside US territory at all.
Careers are 30 years long

Can you confidently say that an LLM won’t be better than an average 22 year old coder within these 30 years?
José seems to be far far far more enamored with ML than Elixir these days. Burnout and boredom happens, I get it, but it's still a bummer to see.
For me it's hard to reconcile what is a good initiative to ostensibly reduce waste, with the reality of ordering at least one of their products. For example I couldn't get a screen replacement at one point unless I ordered a kit, but I needed 2 screens, so I ordered 2 kits and now have redundant, specific, toxic, tools, only some of which actually helped perform the repair.

I'm thinking of the heating liquid pad, which gave me a bit of a laugh and didn't work, the plastic spudgers that were too soft to be durable, the precut adhesive strips that almost seemed insultingly ineffective. The actual handles and screwdriver bits were great though, so mixed feelings, I just hate waste.
> It's what's supposed to happen.

I wear glasses, clothes, and my kids were born three months early. I, and they, were supposed to die.
If painless (or I don't remember it), I'm 100% fine with a fairly speedy destructive upload process.
One of the most valuable things you can do with early prototypes is have prospective users try them, to see whether they're understandable and meet users' needs. When a prototype looks unfinished, users understand that it can be changed, and you can collaborate with them and explore ideas for making the prototype better.
They're way more niche now than ever before.

I have a forum for classic nes games and collecting, woodworking, and woodworking tools.

It's people who I can name, and in the case of old iron, have met in person at an actual get together.

They're still out there, but hidden. And quiet.
The USPS has a podcast with an episode on the process behind it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShhBZVE68-0&list=PL1NEtJgO49...
This seems waaaaay too good to be true. What am I missing?
Interesting. I like my Pinecil but I agree the interface is less than ideal. It's unfortunate the tips aren't compatible across the two.
I'm guessing that Anita Anand is not the one that was the Canadian Minister of Defense...
> How would anyone even know?

If no one can ever know, I'm not sure I care. Transport me to cool places all you like.
My point is that "cost fairness" is not a thing. Either o1 is worth it to you or it isn't.
Those models are just not deterministic.
There's an equal amount of hopium from the AI stans here as well.

Hundreds of billions of dollars have been invested in a technology and they need to find a way to start making a profit or they're going to run out of VC money.

You still have to know what to build and how to specify what you want. Plain language isn't great at being precise enough for these things.

Some people say they'll keep using stuff like this as a tool. I wouldn't bet the farm that it's going to replace humans at any point.

Besides, programming is fun.
I see chain of thought responses in chatgpt android app.
I have an idea for a great "Young Ones" reboot...
Their copywriters are really bending over backwards to spin these changes as a positive.

It's almost twice as expensive, but it's also "simplified", so who's to say if it's bad or not.
One of the cards used has an effect that explicitly depends on primality.
Single-monitor is a common way to run Ceph. On top of that, many cluster configurations cause the whole thing to slow to a crawl when a very small minority of nodes go down. Never mind packet loss, bad switches, and other sorts of weird failure mechanisms. Ceph in general is pretty bad at operating in degraded modes. ZFS and systems like Tectonic (FB) and Colossus (Google) do much better when things aren't going perfectly.

Do you know how many administrators CERN has for its Ceph clusters? Google operates Colossus at ~1000x that size with a team of 20-30 SREs (almost all of whom aren't spending their time doing operations).
What about the tax payer? I don’t want a space program that soaks billions of dollars and doesn’t actually deliver on anything. If we are going to have the fed boost job figures by funding large projects then there’s dozens of other things they could invest the money in that will provide actually valuable assets.

I’d love to have a viable national space program. The current program has helped advance us so much and an effective program would be a huge boon for society. However this $4b was clearly wasted, and we need to spend our money with companies that deliver results. I just wish there were more companies delivering on their promises in the space industry.
I find life awesome. I truly fucking enjoy it. I am not rich, I can't retire and probably will never be able to do so, but I also enjoy my work even if not all the time. I think the world is moving towards a terrible inflexion point, I think we are in a fucking crisis right now, and still, fuck that. I don't want to leave this boat.

Now that said, I completely accept that not everyone shares my point of view, and I also accept that probably I wouldn't understand their reasons for doing so.

Maybe you should stop worrying about it. Some people would eagerly take any opportunity to live a few more years, it makes no sense to you, but it makes to them. It is not like they are forcing you to also live more than what you want.
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Location: PK/Remote
Remote: Yes

I won't waste much of your time writing about it. I’ll just say that I am a backend developer who uses Python and PHP to automate various tasks and business processes. I create AI-based chatbots, AI/LLM-based automation systems, web scrapers, ETLs, and other types of bots (such as Discord, Telegram, Slack, etc.). For example, at the company I work with, I developed a GPT Assistant-based chatbot using the Voiceflow framework. This chatbot responds to queries in a human-like manner and captures lead-related information. The captured information is then used to create a contact in GoHighLevel (GHL), and the entire chat transcript, along with the newly created contact information, is sent to a Slack channel.

You can learn more about me at:

- https://adnansiddiqi.me

- https://youtube.com/@adnansiddiqiprojects

- https://blog.adnansiddiqi.me

- https://www.linkedin.com/in/kadnan/

If you have something interesting or challenging to work on then do drop me a message at kadnan AT gmail DOT com
Not sure how you think they are mutually exclusive in any way. It's all three: A) a fake issue that our current ID is not sufficient, because B) a new source of ID isn't actually required as studies show, and C) requiring a new source of ID is too unpopular.
Execs fail, workers pay the price...
Is this the media doing disinformation service for the US imperialism, based on flimsy evidence (or fabricated evidence)?
Well, that's why errors have categories:

HTTP status ranges in a nutshell:

1xx: hold on

2xx: here you go

3xx: go away

4xx: you fucked up

5xx: I fucked up

(https://x.com/stevelosh/status/372740571749572610)
Stone - and more usefully, clay - last almost forever, but they're impractical for digital storage, since there's no useful way of imprinting on them that isn't very low density, unlike paper.

Unless we could improvise something with old-school dot matrix impact heads to print on clay - I wonder if anyone has tried.
I guess that's where the guy running the simulator was zoomed in on for that year.
People have been getting into taxis for over a hundred years. Uber is just a slightly sketchy taxi service. What shift of thinking is involved?
Who are you thinking of?
Is there an explanation for why the USPS needs custom-designed vehicles built by a defense contractor when every other last mile delivery company just buys ordinary vans and trucks?
I think "shipped" usually implies that one could buy them in some sort of official way. So for example the original chromebook CR-48 wasn't really "shipped" in that sense since you only got them as a devkit in conferences and similar, but the Oculus DK-1 "shipped" since even though it was a devkit you could buy it from Oculus.

At least that is the way I've seen the term used when it comes to development hardware.
Location: PK/Remote
Remote: Yes

I won't waste much of your time writing about it. I’ll just say that I am a backend developer who uses Python and PHP to automate various tasks and business processes. I create AI-based chatbots, AI/LLM-based automation systems, web scrapers, ETLs, and other types of bots (such as Discord, Telegram, Slack, etc.). For example, at the company I work with, I developed a GPT Assistant-based chatbot using the Voiceflow framework. This chatbot responds to queries in a human-like manner and captures lead-related information. The captured information is then used to create a contact in GoHighLevel (GHL), and the entire chat transcript, along with the newly created contact information, is sent to a Slack channel.

You can learn more about me at:

- https://adnansiddiqi.me

- https://youtube.com/@adnansiddiqiprojects

- https://blog.adnansiddiqi.me

- https://www.linkedin.com/in/kadnan/

If you have something interesting or challenging to work on then do drop me a message at kadnan AT gmail DOT com
In addition to following your doctor’s directions, It can’t hurt to also check your diet is including enough vitamins and minerals - magnesium for example is a common deficiency and effects insulin. Although also make sure you doctor is aware of the supplements !
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I would love to see Meta releasing CoT specialized model as a LoRa we can apply to existing 3.1 models
I didn't mean to imply that this is a problem with arbitrary machines that have GPUs. There are specific kinds of applications that use GPUs and because of how they work have hard limits on the number of tasks they can concurrently process on those GPUs.

Either way, I feel like these details are orthogonal to my original question. Do you think it matters?
It's just unnecessary complexity and another thing that can go wrong. I know when I'm using it and not using it. I don't need the device to guess. The device guessing doesn't actually improve my life in any way.

And it's going to guess wrong a lot of the time. Automatically turning on and off both have unsafe failure modes that lead to it being on unexpectedly (it turns back on when I don't expect it to, and it doesn't turn off when I do expect it to) based on imperfect sensing hardware and software that can both stop working, and I'm not ok with unsafe failure modes in a device that will burn down my house.

This is also the reason that I disfavor battery-powered soldering irons in general, but at least being portable adds something you may need and can't otherwise achieve.
So instead of natural selection making it so that people who live longer aren't affected by these issues - you'll have a populace that is dependent on a drug. Perfect recipe for powerful centralized control I suppose.
Transit app is now a bike app, too
I can see why somebody might think that of general pine64 offerings, but the Pinecil is anything but that. It's a significant improvement over my bucket of old soldering irons I inherited and purchased over the years. Unless you are doing some serious heavy duty work, I'm hard pressed to think of a better alternative.
I've had a flair for about 3 years now and love it.

Simple, not that expensive, extremely easy to clean and yet has less annoying maintenance than a fancy machine. Extremely unlikely to break. Very good control of the process and very good coffee.

Obviously the weakness of the flair is the turnaround time. (I don't have the Flair 58). But I am the only one in my house who actually drinks Espresso. For the amount I drink I don't think the Flair actually takes much more time than a very expensive automatic machine, because I would leave the fancy machine turned on and hot and ready to make coffee.
Plato's Cave and the Stubborn Persistence of Ignorance
You answered a question I didn't ask, which is "what biases are present in the system that exists today". Whether any of what you describe is either just or justified is still not discussed.

Why *should* a military passport (or my relative is a cop, or my government ID, or my Boy Scout badge, or my jacket patch for that band you love, or my sports jersey, or my bumper sticker) alter how someone evaluates whether I have broken a law or pose a security threat?

I'm not asking why fallible, busy, and sometimes immoral people behave as if it does. I'm asking why it should.
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I’ve had a Breville Barista Express model for years and it’s been perfect. Daily use (4-8 doubles), easy to clean, very consistent shots. I’m definitely a fan.
Common Lisp Running on the Nintendo Switch
Ditto is a very viable solution, we offer device sync even without a central server. Ditto is a cloud optional edge sync platform that can sync data between devices, even without the internet. We are partnered with MongoDB to provide an alternative to Device Sync. I encourage everyone to read our docs:

https://ditto.live/
If AI becomes good enough to replace software engineers, it has already become good enough to replace other brain jobs (lawyers, physicians, accountant, etc). I feel that software engineering is one of the very last jobs to be replaced by AI.
There is little to no research that shows modern AI can perform even the most simple long-running task without training data on that exact problem.

To my knowledge, there is no current AI system that can replace a white collar worker in any multistep task. The only thing they can do is support the worker.

Most jobs are safe for the forseable future. If your job is highly repetitive and a company can produce a perfect dataset of it, I'd worry.

Jobs like a factory worker and call center support are in danger. But the work is perfectly monitorable.

Watch the GAIA benchmark. It's not nearly the complexity of a real-world job, but it would signal the start of an actual agentic system being possible.
LLMs are still fundamentally, at their core, next-token predictors.

Presuming you have an interface to a model where you can edit the model’s responses and then continue generation, and/or where you can insert fake responses from the model into the submitted chat history (and these two categories together make up 99% of existing inference APIs), all you have to do is to start the model off as if it was answering positively and/or slip in some example conversation where it answered positively to the same type of problematic content.

From then on, the model will be in a prediction state where it’s predicting by relying on the part of its training that involved people answering the question positively.

The only way to avoid that is to avoid having any training data where people answer the question positively — even in the very base-est, petabytes-of-raw-text “language” training dataset. (And even then, people can carefully tune the input to guide the models into a prediction phase-space position that was never explicitly trained on, but is rather an interpolation between trained-on points — that’s how diffusion models are able to generate images of things that were never included in the training dataset.)
You also have to bring them back to a nespresso shop, or mail them, which is a hassle . So I'd be willing to bet most people don't do it. Some companies might, mine doesn't
So just like all the life saving drugs being prescribed now?
To chime in on the litany of reasons why this is not a good idea--sifting boiling water through plastic is not safe for consumption as plastic nano and micro-particles will leech from the plastic into the liquid. This happens by design when using these pods, meaning you are getting a small serving of plastic every morning, alongside your coffee. What a moronic design.
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Most beam developers will tell you they don't use hot code reloading, but if you're an elixir/phoenix (especially live view) you are using hot code reloading affordances in dev, though it's not the full suite of capabilities