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Blood, sweat and testes: rich men have always wanted to live forever
You grow up an Ellison, I figure you either end up just like daddy, a social justice warrior with means, or like Mary Trump, a psychologist. Just so you can unpack your fucked up family and help others.
It’s a common pattern that AI benchmarks get too easy, so they make new ones that are harder.
He should hire a good lawyer and sue the state. Suing for moral damage rarely works in Germany though.
> It's so easy to stick to international units, folks.

It's not as easy as you might think, given how many places I've seen that measure weight in Kelvin-grams (Kg).
So when Boeing was shopping this summer for a new boss I was thinking the new boss would negotiate with the board worker pay increases related to the upcoming union contract.

It looks like the new boss was not smart enough to ask for a big worker pay increase (or maybe did not ask at all). Looks like not a good place for Boeing.

BTW - there is another contract due in 2026. Hmm, another strike in a couple of years? Will Boeing be in a better place or worse place in 2 years? Interesting times ahead.

https://investors.boeing.com/investors/news/press-release-de...
During national neighbor night out few weeks ago I met a couple who just moved to the neighborhood, wife is a doctor and husband is a Boeing engineer in the material science something rather. Me being a huge Boeing fan we've immediately connected on the topic of Boeing's issues. His view from inside echoed mine - too many MBAs, too much focus on financial engineering and stock buybacks and shareholder returns (he was LIVID about Boeing having no cash now because they sent it back to shareholders), too little focus on engineering. I touched on the nextgen (79?7) program and he just shook his head. And the CEO based out of wherever but not Seattle is just a huge spit into everyone's face.

I don't think Boeing is going down due to it being well, Boeing, but it will likely need to get bailed out if it goes on like that.

So go machinists!
The linked blog posts explains that it is fine-tuned on some reinforcement learning process. It doesn’t go into details but they do claim it’s not just the base model with chain of thought, there’s some fine-tuning going on.
Gnome Foundation Accepting Applications for New Executive Director
My hypothesis about these people who are afraid of AI, is that they have tricked themselves into believing they are in their current position of influence due to their own intelligence (as opposed to luck, connections, etc.)

Then they drink the marketing koolaid, and it follows naturally that they worry an AI system can obtain similar positions of influence.
Yah this all sounds good until you realize you have to actually maintain those servers, apply security patches and inevitably run into configuration drift.

Like all things, there's a good middle ground here-- use managed services where you can but don't over-architect features like availability & scaling. For example, Kubernetes is an heavy abstraction; make sure it's worth it. A lot of these solutions also increase dev cycles, which is not great early on.
Another danger is cars getting swept away at low water crossings. You hear "turn around, don't drown" repeated a lot in Austin.

It is not at all unusual for people to get killed this way. They think their car can make it across, and they're wrong.

It's a problem in many parts of Texas because severe thunderstorms happen frequently and some of them bring heavy rain. But in Austin, it's especially bad because Austin is hilly, which makes flash floods worse.
> If a company falls a little bit below competition -- market forces it do dive even deeper, die quicker.

Feature of nature too, the jungle forces the weak to die quicker.

One more argument for companies != people: we will be a lot more ok for this to happen to companies vs it happening to people.
I'm 46. I think this question is going to be different depending on who you are, where you are, your background, network, etc. I've always been a freelance programmer and a lot of times actually just scraping by.

At the moment I have a good contract.

Ageism definitely becomes a factor. One thing that is important is not to contribute to it. For example, part of your post implies that as you get older you will struggle to keep up with relevant technologies.

The real concern for every software engineer and actually every job is the powerful AI that we have to anticipate within the next 0-10 years.

OpenAIs newest model, although amazing, still has some weird brittleness to it, so it's not going to literally replace an actual software engineer easily. But it is a significant step closer than the day before yesterday. Probably at least 15-20% better, or a lot more depending on how you measure it.

I keep seeing people reacting to the current state of the art AI and saying that they are not concerned. This is incredibly short-sighted. The history of technology is hundreds of major innovations breaking through performance wall after performance wall.

There are not only upgrades but also new paradigms on the way for increasing AI performance, in the areas of hardware, ML model architecture, and software. And the reality is that with this latest OpenAI model and the right feedback loop and constrained platform/domain, we can actually automate quite a lot of software engineering work.

As AI is integrated better with systems, we will definitely need fewer people doing what currently is considered software engineering. And again, don't think about what the current model can do. Look at the trajectory of history over the last 60+ years of computing. Engineers always break through barriers and consistently increase performance by orders of magnitude.

This is not just a concern for software engineering but for every job. But it can be a huge improvement if society is able to adapt and take advantage of it in an equitable way.

I think the best option is to start leveraging AI and robotics to build out goods and services. Individuals without capital or very little capital can take advantage of AI and robotics to become entrepreneurs.
> the handling of memory aliases which is a nightmare in C

Zig has some aliasing issues which are to-date unsolved. The core and community are keenly aware of them, and they'll be solved or greatly ameliorated before a 1.0 release. It's why TigerBeetle has a coding standard which requires all container types to be passed by constant pointer, not reference.

It isn't ideal, but I think it's reasonable to withhold judgement on a pre-1.0 language for some sorts of known issues which are as yet unaddressed. It's worth taking the time to find an excellent solution to the problem, rather than brute-force it or regress one of the several features which combine into the danger zone here.

If you're curious or interested in the details, look up "Attack of the Killer Features" on YouTube. Given your background, I'm sure the community would value your feedback on the various issues tracking this.
I was surprised to learn Aussie WA (Western Australia) has 40% higher electricity prices compared to Murican WA (Washington).

Aussie WA could be having the dirt cheap electricity with utility-scale solar + batteries but they don't.

Same could be said of US solar belt states though. I bet China will be laughing in a few decades with energy magnitude of order cheaper than gas guzzling nations.
it’ll absolutely be the inclusive version
It was curious to see the Harvard group expressing concern about the percentage of black freshmen dropping by a "huge" amount (from 18% to 14%). Given that blacks represent about 13% of the US population, what proportion would they consider is a "fair" representation?
> I seriously wonder how long it would take for a team of engineers to produce a competitive commercial airplane.

About 20 years for a fully-certified new commercial airliner design. They could have experimental prototypes flying much sooner of course. Even in China, their state-owned effort to develop a new narrow-body airliner took about 15 years and that's very likely with the CCP greasing the skids for them as much as they could. They are still not certified in Europe or North America.

And some of the problems we've seen with Boeing have nothing to do with engineering, but problems with subcontractors, materials, and assembly.
Artemis-Enabled Stellar Imager: A Lunar UV/Optical Imaging Interferometer
For a minority viewpoint, it seems fairly pervasive in the library ecosystem at least to me. Then again, I hate most usage of point-free and I think the correct amount of custom operator is exactly zero so I might be particularly sensitive to it.
Ah, you're right. I confused the quoted section with the second paragraph and first two charts of the article, which are throwing around billions and comparing to the NBA based on gross revenue.
This is the way.

I've had this experience many times:

- hey, can you write me a thing that can do "xyz"

- sure, here's how we can do "xyz" (gets some small part of the error handling for xyz slightly wrong)

- can you add onto this with "abc"

- sure. in order to do "abc" we'll need to add "lmn" to our error handling. this also means that you need "ijk" and "qrs" too, and since "lmn" doesn't support "qrs" out of the box, we'll also need a design solution to bridge the two. Let me spend 600 more tokens sketching that out.

- what if you just use the language's built in feature here in "xyz"? does't that mean we can do it with just one line of code?

- yes, you're absolutely right. I'm sorry for making this over complicated.

If you don't hit that kill switch, it just keeps doubling down on absurdly complex/incorrect/hallucinatory stuff. Even one small error early in the chain propagates. That's why I end up very frequently restarting conversations in a new chat or re-write my chat questions to remove bad stuff from the context. Without the ability to do that, it's nearly worthless. It's also why I think we'll be seeing absurdly, wildly wrong chains of thought coming out of o1. Because "thinking" for 20s may well cause it to just go totally off the rails half the time.
If you're known to be good for the money, you can often get lower retainer bills from lawyers. That's why Donald Trump has to put up tens of millions for any legal project. Many of my lawyers do not ask for retainers for work at all, even for bigger things.
>But excel eliminated need in multiple accountants. One accountant with excel replaced ten with paper.

From NPR: <https://www.npr.org/2015/02/27/389585340/how-the-electronic-...>

>GOLDSTEIN: When the software hit the market under the name VisiCalc, Sneider became the first registered owner, spreadsheet user number one. The program could do in seconds what it used to take a person an entire day to do. This of course, poses a certain risk if your job is doing those calculations. And in fact, lots of bookkeepers and accounting clerks were replaced by spreadsheet software. But the number of jobs for accountants? Surprisingly, that actually increased. Here's why - people started asking accountants like Sneider to do more.
Zero-Click Calendar invite vulnerability chain in macOS
I have subscribed. I have paid for PPV.

Why? I have disposable income and I feel good when I spend it supporting creators I like. I subscribe to several Patreons of artists and YouTube creators, I’ve got that yearly Nebula subscription locked in, I buy merch and CDs from local bands (even though I don’t really listen to them after shows), and I also will pay folks posting tantalizing stuff on the internet. Sure I can get similar things for free, but sometimes I want content from that person and I see no issue giving them a couple bucks for it. I can afford it, so why not? Why do they not deserve it when I’m willing to also sub to a Patreon for someone who makes cool digital art on Instagram?

The “para-social” aspect is icky to me. At no point do I expect that this person knows who I am or has any care for me; any time I receive messages insinuating or fishing for that I ignore them. My “relationship” to them is a consumer who enjoys their work and is willing to compensate them for it, and that “relationship” only exists for a limited amount of time every so often.
The bigger problem IMO is not that things break, it's that if you depend on one LTS release too heavily, and you wait too long to migrate from one LTS to another, everything breaks all at once.

What should be a gradual migration as new things develop turns into a singular nightmare.
Do you need your own iphone, or can you use a friend's iphone to fix the settings once?
> How about a "TV OS" that isn't from an advertising company? People might pay for that.

Then after the suckers buy it, boom! We update it to have ads.
The sail doesn't have to be oriented directly perpendicular to the sun. By angling it, you can gain momentum in other directions, just like a sail on a boat doesn't have to push you directly downwind.

When in orbit around earth, thrust in the direction of your orbit (prograde) causes you to gain energy and altitude, and retrograde thrust does the opposite.
I don't think I was communicating my first point effectively; I didn't mean to reference you personally or to the approach taken (VPS or cloud). If there is a business who needs HIPAA, then most likely, the business should be doing all of those original points because doing them is better (more effective, better security, etc.) than not doing them. I'm trying to say than extending to HIPAA could potentially be 'simple' if there is a business already doing most of this.

I understand that you're using Azure's existing infrastructure to handle your logistical technical management, but I was here asking if you had to make any changes to keep abreast of changing regulations. There seems to be practical business decisions that need to be made that HIPAA impacts, such as what data constitutes PHI (has that changed? Maybe you had to go back and change what data you were keeping because of the above regulation changes- I don't know if that could be the case, that's why I'm asking, I'm not aware of what I don't know). If Azure is somehow keeping track of all "changing regulations" for you (including business needs) and you've never had to worry about it, that's good to know. I would still be interested in any specific details if you're aware of it.
Your comment above was mentionning "prospective partner", so it implies happening during the early stages of a relationship.

Or I don't know, maybe in your culture you have to wait months / years before considering a partner someone you are dating regularly / spending a significant part of your life with.
I think the degrowth discussion is not anti-growth at all costs, but reducing damaging and wasteful production and instead focusing on production that provides social good for humans.

See this podcast: https://techwontsave.us/episode/226_how_degrowth_will_reshap...
I remember being fascinated by the concept of sailing the sea of stars. Mostly because I read Sunjammer by Arthur C Clarke at an impressionable age lol.

https://fiction.scoutlife.org/the-sunjammer/
Yeah, throw all/most of that insight away, it's a sea anchor dragging you into the depths.

You're barely half way through your "commoditized workforce" lifecycle. Start doing things for yourself at any time.

Say a sentence to yourself that you want to be true. "I have made a vision detection solution for classifying cats." "I have created infographic heat maps of political manuer." "I have created a web game." And do that on the side until it is true. If you liked it as much as you thought you would, angle for that. It will at least give you something peppy for the interviews.

Otherwise, keep turning the lathe and hope abstract economic stabilities continue to grease your wheels of life.
I Added SVG Maps to My Travel Posts
wow amazing, nobody is gonna edit that code ever again...
I thought Uber just let drivers ("independent contractors") deal with the vehicle maintenance and cleaning up when someone pukes in the back. Do they even have their own depots?
I don't think I have a solution. I'm sure that Twitch is fully aware of this and gets their cut from OF subscriptions that came from Twitch links.
> Stillwell makes no such conclusion about the lack of transmission

Stillwell: "It is sad that the Indian series became known in the West too late to have any influence or even to become well known until recently." (p. 184, 3rd ed.)

It's quite revealing and ironic that your approach to disagreement and request for concrete evidence is to make false accusations of intellectual dishonesty, dance around the issue making irrelevant analogies to tea, and use emotional rhetoric about "erasing non-European contributions".

I'm fascinated by non-European contributions to maths, science and philosophy because they're substantial and under-recognized historically, but I want actual evidence. Obviously the Jesuits were transmitting some knowledge to Europe, but if you make the stronger claim that Indian mathematicians laid crucial groundwork for calculus, then demonstrate it. That would be intellectually honest and a far better service to the history of Indian mathematics.

What you mention about Wallis and the Yuktibhasa (actually 16th century) is potentially interesting, but you decline to make a concrete case for it and just make vague statements about "striking parallels". Well, let's hear it.

p.s. you're wrong about tea as well: it was cultivated in Assam for centuries before the British were there - history can be complicated;
It's time to stop using Python 3.8
Interesting. I asked similar questions (Who will win the Presidential Election and Will XXX college football team win the national championship, etc) and none of the responses included percentages or yes/no indicators like the examples you link to.
Good puns. Just out of curiosity, is your name a synonym for sh*tpost?
Well, disregarding the bankers - generally we require evidence to be presented in a court of law and then those findings to be found true for people to go to jail - repeating stuff you read on the internet doesn't really rise to that level.
Would you tell us what is that important difference? Just for those of us who can't read your thoughts yet.
The GP is almost certainly describing a robot that can move dirty stuff into the machines, run them, and put away the clean stuff afterwards.
The fact that it took him this long to jump on the crypto train just underlines the fact that he is not nearly as smart as he claims to be.
Phrased as it is, it deliberately gives away the answer by using the pronoun "he" for the doctor. The original deliberately obfuscates it by avoiding pronouns.

So it doesn't take an understanding of gender roles, just grammar.
Entirely unironically I believe that that first line is the prime cause of crashing birthrate. Surely labor exploitation contributes substantially followed by urban over-population, but THAT has to be it.

Japan's actually got the least-worst birthrates among Far East, and everyone knows what it's best known for on the Internet.
I don't have a problem with the concept of locally branded TED talks under the TEDx umbrella, but I do have a problem of TEDx talks pretending that they are genuine TED talks. Generally actual TED talks have some quality checks built in, they sometimes allow garbage through, but it's far more rigid than the stuff you see at the TEDx talks.
I'm not sure what gyms you frequent, but I've always seen more women in the gym than men, and we're talking since the 80s. Women in gyms is not the slightest bit a new thing.
AMD Plans for Open-Source Firmware OpenSIL replacing AGESA blobs for Zen 6
Does anyone dispute that the private equity ghouls are the scum of the earth? I would love to see an administration with the balls to lock them all up, but I fear the politicians of both parties are too beholden to them for their donations.
Why? it’s so easy to make content
Raise and lower your orbit, I guess. Any unbalanced force on something in orbit will do one of the two.
Thanks, I made that mistake.
Human mind, good character, good heart... are all very fragile things, good one can be broken rather easily, a broken one can hardly ever be properly mended back without major cracks that keep coming back ie under stress or hardships.

Nothing is impossible and I talk about lets say rather about unprobable matters. If you want to take additional risks on top of usual risks with new relationships, be anyone's guests, but they are there.

Or maybe you don't care if you have a stable relationship (hardly ever the case but it happens), also fine. At the end, you can approach relationships as probability game, and folks normally want to tilt it in their favor.
It's not that it isn't gaining traction. Rather it's just a massive, herculean undertaking that Sean and co have been working on in the background. Hell Sean only just a few months ago started posting demos on twitter of their C++ borrow checker proof of concept finally working in moderately non-trivial examples.

This isn't to say that their progress isn't going well. Rather they've been making incredible progress at a rate nobody really thought possible but this is just a truly Herculean effort.

Also this proposal is literally only 2 days old. The work has been in progress for years but this is to my knowledge the first time it has actually been proposed formally.
> That's why I end up very frequently restarting conversations in a new chat or re-write my chat questions to remove bad stuff from the context.

Me too - open new chat and start by copy/pasting the "last-known-good-state". OpenAI can introduce a "new-chat-from-here" feature :)
>So like, movies are more para social because they have less interaction?

More live TV/streaming series than movies, IMHO.

How many times have you heard someone say they just finished watching $SERIES and will miss their TV friends?

And with OnlyFans (I'm guessing here, as I don't use the platform), at least the sexual stuff there (is there other stuff?) it's like going to a strip club, except it's all recorded (and sometimes? mostly? more explicit) and instead of dollar bills in the garters, it's tips/subscriptions.
Designing an airplane and producing a prototype isn't terribly difficult and many thousands of companies have done this.

The tricky part is designing the massive manufacturing apparatus around it that can produce them in volume (ask Elon how easy building cars is), satisfying the varying demands of hundreds of different airlines, many from developing nations, helping them set up financing, supporting the design in the field for 30-50 years, AND turning a profit. Each widget produced has an MSRP of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Ask yourself why Lockheed permanently exited the commercial aircraft business 40 years ago, despite having what was regarded as the most technologically advanced design of the era, ahead of its time. Douglas went bankrupt and got bought out, Convair and everyone else failed and closed up shop.

You can't throw some engineers - they could be the smartest on the planet - into rented office space and become the next airplane company. There's more to it than designing the next WiFi-enabled food processor and slapping it together in Shenzhen.
Yes, it would detect a certain class of mistakes where you put an infinite loop or infinite recursion in your code. But I find these are pretty rare, and there would still be other mistakes where on some inputs, it would take a year to run.
Writers on Why Writing Is So Hard
> it’s especially important to some young people for whom there is a bit of a stigma around wearing them.

Anyone who has a stigma about wearing hearing aids around people they are talking to but not a stigma about wearing earbuds while conversing needs to do some deep reflection.