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I agree and as a non-software engineer, all that matters to me right now is how much can these models replace software engineering.

If a language model can't solve problems in a programming language then we are just fooling ourselves in less defined domains of "thought".

Software engineering is where the rubber meets the road in terms of intelligence and economics when viewing our society as a complex system. Software engineering salaries are above average exactly because most average people are not going to be software engineers.

From that point of view the progress is not impressive at all. The current models are really not that much better than chatGPT4 in April 2023.

AI art is a better example though. There is zero progress being made now. It is only impressive at the most surface level for someone not involved in art and who can't see how incredibly limited the AI art models are. We have already moved on to video though to make the same half baked, useless models that are only good to make marketing videos for press releases about progress and one off social media posts about how much progress is being made.
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And for any poor soul forced into an environment using AI driven commit reviews, be sure you reply to the commit reviews with gpt output and continue the conversation, eventually bring in some of the AI ‘engineers’ to help resolve the issue, waste their time back.
my inbox at fastmail is near empty from spam. the main spam i see in my inbox is forwarded from my gmail.
AVRs can be serious power hogs, though. Not all have the Power Reduction Register.
I doubt, it's likely some inherent issue with their setup. E.g they use http on top of the TCP, at that point I'd stop and discard the rest of the article.

OTOH, UDP is totally fine depending on what you are doing, it's a very simple (NON-stream) protocol to boot.
> pay attention to how intelligent people express themselves with words.

Do you consciously do this? I listen to podcasts in a very passive way.
We move fast and break things ;)
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That's the terms of the ODBL (produced work in section 4).

Pedantically, in this case, it isn't personal use either (the site is using the produced image to offer a mug for sale).

Note that this isn't necessarily an endorsement of those terms.
As far as I can tell, Facebook is still terrible.

I have a throwaway Facebook account. In the absence of any other information as to my interests, Facebook thinks I want to see flat earth conspiracy theories and CSAM.

When I report the CSAM, I usually get a response that says "we've taken a look and found that this content doesn't go against our Community Standards."
The inundation of everything that is “on the rise” is enough to make anyone paranoid.
Unstable global environment reduces NPT to mere shell
What exactly is gained from these nuanced linting rules? Why do they need to exist? What are they actually doing in your codebase other than sucking up air?
Going all elevated is good as it gets you out of traffic and thus allows for more speed. The problem is sometimes you want to go undergroud. The other problem is while material costs should be cheaper there is no standard and so you but more custom parts and them when something wears out you pay one off prices to replace it. use standard rails and you can buy more mass produced parts which brings your cost down.
well, by writing, I would say. For example, try writing short stories (anyone can write haiku). Also, writing technical documentation is a good discipline, though many people don't like doing it.
If you meet someone new at a social event and give them your email address, where do you want your email provider to put the message that this person sent?
That's like Spotify telling me "keep disliking" when I complained to them why songs from a certain language (which I never liked or listened to and I certainly don't speak) keeps filling the home after I told them in the first complaint that I have been doing that since months.
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That's actually a great example of what I'm saying, because I don't think the NPCs are agents at all in the traditional sense of "One that acts or has the power or authority to act on behalf of another." Where would the NPC derive its power and authority from? There is a human somewhere in the chain giving it 100% of its parameters, and that human is ultimately 100% responsible for the configuration of the NPC, which is why we don't blame the NPC in the game for behaving in a buggy way, we blame the devs. To say the NPC has agency puts some level of metaphysical responsibility about decision making and culpability on the thing that it doesn't have.

An AI "agent" is the same way, it is not culpable for its actions, the humans who set it up are, but we're leading people to believe that if the AI goes off script then the AI is somehow responsible for its own actions, which is simply not true. These are not autonomous beings, they're technology products.
Rust looks like such a solid language—super safe and high-performance—but why doesn't it seem to be that popular, though?
Yeah, that makes me feel uneasy as a long time fastmail user.
An article in The Guardian described an alternative treatment called Avatar Therapy [1] that has the therapist create a digital simulation of the voices, interact with the patient using the simulated voice and work through a script that gradually gives the patient more power over the voice.

It can get surprisingly radical for a therapy session, at one point even inciting the patient to commit suicide! [2]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/oct/29/acute-psychosis...

[2] > “You should end it,” the avatar [therapist] said, casually. “What have you done that’s of any use to anyone?”
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Its hardly a new idea. One problem is that there is a lot more to religion than ethics. It also assumes that religious rules of behaviour are global optimums. It fails to explain why religions spread too - why would people believe in the religion that promotes cooperation, rather than one another one? In fact, I would argue, that, in the west, far more people are moralistic therapeutic deists than Christians.

There is also a lack of evidence it works. I do not think Christians are consistently greatly more socially cooperative than atheists. Maybe more inclined to help people on the fringes of society - e.g. running food banks here in the UK, very active in poverty charities globally but while good, I cannot believe it has a sufficient consistent effect to provide an advantage to a society that follows it.

Fear of hell as a motivator is limited to some Christian denominations but is not often mentioned by other denominations (I am mostly familiar with Catholic and Anglican churches) or in the Bible, or Christian writings, or in sermons or in religious discussions. Christian universalists and others do not believe in any form of hell at all!

It might work with a religion once established (religious societies do better because of that cooperation) but it does not explain how religions spread in the first place.
Its a lot more likely to apply to a religion that has been long established in a relatively stable setting so it is credible as an explanation of much of ancient Jewish law that seems strange to us now (e.g. what to eat, not plucking fruit from young trees etc) that often seems off from a modern perspective.
Never had that after the first few years, but I hear other people do have that. Maybe it's because I used it for 2 decades now? I tried alternatives including fastmail but I always leave them because I get swamped by spam while gmail works fine.
I predict a slow but unstoppable comeback of the sysadmin job over the next 5-10 years.
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Schizophrenic here.

I do not hear voices (frequently), but have delusions. This is what I do, I do not trust anything I see. I found that I think people are looking at me when they are not so now I just accept it and do not read anything into it. The medication to treat us are ancient and horrible and this is the only healthy way out for us. I had to learn this on my own though since medicare does not care enough about anyone's health.
I searched for the definition of "agent" and none of the results map to the way AI folks are using the word. It's really that simple, because we're marketing this stuff to non-tech people who already use words to mean things.

If we're redefining common words to market this stuff to non-tech people, and then we're conveniently not telling them that we redefined words, and thus allowing them to believe implicit falsehoods about the product that have serious consequences, we're being disingenuous.
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A whole article without mentioning the name of the LLM. It's not like Sonnet and O1 have the same modalities.

Anything you do today might become irrelevant tomorrow.
Mark Twain: "I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead."
Are you thinking of this by any chance? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273741

That wasn’t really somebody using Wikipedia as a file storage, but rather as a web connectivity test.
(Founder) An S2 stream is a durable log and can be replayed! We do want to add compaction support. Event sourcing is a great use case for S2.
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ZFS, BcacheFS, HammerFS... I think OpenBSD will have a better FS soon.

On modern FS', the plan9/9front ones are pretty much ahead of almost anything; but plan9 it's a Unix 2.0. It went further. On 3D, forget POSIX. GL was the de facto API and now Vulkan, and the most common middleware multimedia API it's SDL2.
SGI use within Lucas Film (and thus Pixar) goes way back to IRIS 1000/2000 era, so definitely 83/84 afaik.
Their android app has always been much snappier than Gmail, it's the little things that drew me to it years ago
I think this is not what they describe it as.

I believe this is like Tesla’s water valve or any kind of constructive and destructive back propagation.

It isn’t “negative time” it is the slit experiment only the wall or slits are the target refraction back propagated.
This is more or less how police do CSAM classification now. They start with thumbnails, and that's usually enough to determine whether the image is a photograph or an illustration, involves penetration, sadism etc without having to be confronted with the full image.
Are you arguing against linters? These disingenuous arguments are just tiring, you either accept that linters can be beneficial, and thus more nuanced rules are a good thing, or you believe linters are generally useless. This "LLM bad!" rhetoric is exhausting.
(Founder) Thanks for sharing your thoughts. We are early and figuring things out. I agree egress cost is going to be a big concern. We want to do the best we can for users as we unlock some scale. During preview, we are focused on getting feedback so the service is free (we will need to talk if the usage is significant though).
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It’s funny that Apple originally wanted Mozilla (proto-Firefox) but couldn’t figure out how to build it on Mac OS X in a reasonable amount of time.
> The argument here seems to be AI can’t become a mind as it does not experience.

Er, no, I don't think that is the argument.
That probably says more about the email address that’s out there than anything else.
I have schizophrenia and both times I caught COVID my first symptoms was a horrible psychosis. First time almost went to the psych hospital but that is worse than just dealing with the psychosis. Luckily I had a friend who talked me through it and got me some meds. I told my doctors this and they just shrugged. No one cares if you are mentally ill.

To add another trope, do not be shocked if EMFs are also found to be contributing. I know, this is coming from a schizophrenic, so whatever.
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Because the default for companies today is cloud, even though it almost never makes sense. Sure, if you have really spikey load, need to dynamically scale at any point and don't care about your spend, it might make sense.

Ive even worked in companies where the engineering team spent effort and time on building "scalable infrastructure" before the product itself even found product-market fit...
> I understand the point being made - that LLMs lack any "inner life"

I really do not think that you do understand the points here, no.
I would like to know the tech stack behind it.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42470035
They're absolutely right. All it takes is for the code to be changed and node-runners to update their nodes with the new limit. It could literally be done overnight. They could even add an air-drop feature to fairly and evenly distribute the extra bitcoin to everyone around the world who doesn't already have some bitcoin so that everyone has the same amount.
Read more books written by the best and good authors besides writing.

If the author conveys the message, analyze the words/tones/patterns/paragraph structure.

Just like you have a voice for the words that come out of your mouth, and you change/improve it according to the situation. Similarly, your writing also has a voice.
what do you use it for ?
Their UI is definitely faster but I do prefer the gmail UI, for example how new messages are displayed in threads is quite useless in fastmail.
I have personal experience with this in my professional career. Before Christmas break I had a big change, and there was fear. My org responded by increasing testing (regression testing, which increased overhead). This increased the risk that changes on dev would break changes on my branch (not a code merging way, but in a complex adaptive system way).

I responded to this risk by making a meeting. I presented our project schedule, and told my colleagues about their expectations, I.e. if they drop code style comments on the PRs they will be deferred to a future PR (and then ignored and never done).

What we needed is fine grained testing with better isolation between components. The problem is is that our management is at a high level, they don’t see meetings as a means to an end, they see meetings as a worthy goal in and of itself self to achieve. More meetings means more collaboration, means good. I’d love to see advice on how to lead technical changes with non-technical management.
Fastmail has wildcard email support, so it’s pretty easy to have an email per purchase you make (for example). This makes it easy to see who leaked your email to spammers. Anyway, I have nowhere near the volume of spam with Fastmail that I had with Gmail.
Nope, though that's interesting and somewhat expected.

I remember when web-connectivity test was spelled "Slashdot".
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It's simply the upper stage of the rocket that launched it.
I am still very sad that the point we started getting high-DPI displays everywhere was about the same time we decided to throw away rich icons and detail in UIs in favour of abstract line art and white-on-white windows.

Maybe it was on purpose? Those fancy textures and icons are probably a lot more expensive to produce when they have to look good with 4x the pixels.

iOS 4 on an iPhone 4 and OS X whatever-it-was that was on the initial retina MacBook Pros are still very clear in my memory. Everything looked so good it made you want to use the device just for the hell of it.
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Hi! I wanted to share a website I made that tracks how quickly AI systems catch up to human-level performance on benchmarks. I noticed this 'catch-up time' has been shrinking dramatically - from taking 6+ years with ImageNet to just months with recent benchmarks. The site includes an interactive timeline of 14 major benchmarks with their release and solve dates, plus links to papers and source data.
I find it a very interesting approach to what she is doing.

The problem with most philanthropic organizations is that they come to rely on a constant stream of money. I've heard the Gates Foundation have to be very intentional with how they deploy capital. Because whole ecosystems come to rely on that money in an unsustainable way. So when they have met their goals or decided its not working and pull funding, those that relied on the funding basically collapse overnight. Which could lead to even worse outcomes.

With her approach, I do wonder if this will occur with many of the organizations she is giving large amount of money to.

EDIT: Reminds me of the saying "Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime".
The HTTP protocol is a lost art. These days people don't even look at the status code and expect some mumbo jumbo JSON payload explaining the error.
FP? Let us know what this means when you have a chance. Federal Prosecution? Fake Porn? Fictional Pictures?
I keep reading this on HN so I believe it has to be true in some ways, but I don't really feel like there is any difference in my limited use (programming questions or explaining some concepts).

If anything I feel like it's all been worse compared to the first release of ChatGPT, but I might be wearing rose colored glasses.
That is pretty ridiculous complaint. Your problem is that they allow configuring instances smaller than your arbitrary baseline? Especially as AWS allows you to pick 2/4/8 GB per vCPU for general purpose instances. And the smallest of these (c7g.medium) is 2GB/1vCPU. The .5 GB t4g.nano has actually more generous ratio because it also has only .1 vCPU, putting it at 5GB/vCPU.

I'd assume they are very aware of demand levels for different types and would be adjusting the configurations if needed.
Because the two guys involved in this are "social media" expert and a "self improvement coach." Did you read the post? It says things like "you can use UDP but you'll have to adjust your server to use UDP."

This submission was a blatant attempt to boost his blog and in turn his product's website; the whole thing looks to me like a scam.

The other items on the blog are clear keyword-of-the-day click-chasing and this is obviously ChatGPT output: https://khalsalabs.com/the-essence-of-paul-graham-essay-on-h...

One of the authors seems to enjoy using ChatGPT to respond to questions on Quora to spam links to his shitty blog site about dogs. Or this:

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-learnin...

The other guy has a lot of "look at my expensive stuff" and "the secret to success!" videos (and some videos about using AI to make videos...)

The company's website is a joke. Hilariously bad attempts at SEO in the title, the ad copy is littered with grammar mistakes, and so on. "Best canadian dog tracker"...what?
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It never disappeared in some places. In my region there's been zero interest in "the cloud" because of physical remoteness from all major GCP/AWS/Azure datacenters (resulting in high latency), for compliance reasons, and because it's easier and faster to solve problems by dealing with a local company than pleading with a global giant that gives zero shits about you because you're less than a rounding error in its books.
That's more or less what I did over time. No harm in a few folders of clippings for old times sake but not really boxes and boxes of magazines that will probably never be looked at.
What can I say, "Report Spam" seems to work for me. I'm just a customer of Fastmail.
I'd say the same. I've tried a bunch of different AI tools, and none of them really seem all that helpful.
El Salvador probably think they're one step ahead by using the IMF loan to buy more bitcoin - unfortunately the IMF can lead the horse away from poison, but they can't stop it finding it some other way.
The world is figuring out how to make this technology fit and work and somehow this is "behind" schedule. It's almost comical.
This last week, gmail failed to filter as spam an email with subject "#T Anitra", body,

> oF1 d 4440 - 2 B 32677 83

> R Teri E x E q

>

> k 50347733 Safoorabegum

and an attachment "7330757559.pdf". It let through 8 similar emails in the same week, and many more even more egregiously gibberish emails over the years. I'm not pleased with the quality of gmail's spam filter.
I think that really depends on the product. I worked on a on-prem data product for years and it was crucial to document all changes well and give customers time to prepare. OTOH I also worked on a home inspection app and there users gave us pushback on training because the app was seen as intuitive
What I find odd is that o1 doesn't support attaching text documents to chats the way 4o does. For a model that specializes in reasoning, reading long documents seems like a natural feature to have.
This is blatant blogspam to promote a product from a company that seems to be a self-declared social media expert and a wannabe life coach whose youtube video content includes 'how to make money using AI to produce videos.' The social media guy appears to be using ChatGPT to spam links to his blog about dogs.

The whole thing smells like a scam.
The mindset of the article is old-fashion.
It labels the use of RC as a sign of weakness -- as if sending soldiers which end up as casualties is a sign of strength.

The Ukrainians won that battle with significant less human loss and cheap tech. That's all that counts tactically?
Not sure what you are using it for, but it is terrible for me for coding; claude beats it always and hands down. o1 just thinks forever to come up with stuff it already tried the previous time.

People say that's just prompting without pointing to real million line+ repositories or realistic apps to show how that can be improved. So I say they are making todo and hello world apps and yes, there it works really well. Claude still beats it, every.. single.. time..

And yes, I use the Pro of all and yes, I do assume coding is done for most of people. Become a plumber or electrician or carpenter.
I spent 2 seconds clicking on your bio and saw this account was created 4 hours ago.

Makes me wonder why you felt the need to create a burner account.

This isn't to say anything one way or another about you, its just my 2 second of reading about you.
Nobody said it's surprising though, they are well aware of it having done it for more than two decades. Many newcomers are not aware of it though, as their default is "cloud" and they never even shopped for servers, colocation or looked around on the dedicated server market.
This is really interesting. A proof that "not everything was thought of yet" and revolutionary ideas still wait for people whose thinking is sufficiently out of the box.

Who would have thought that "confronting your demons" could work in such a literal way.
I get no spam on fastmail, I assume this is because I never give out my email to anyone and creating new ones for every interaction. This way I keep track of who I'm interacting with and also who's selling my alias emails.

Just wish there was a decent way to do this with mobile numbers!
O1 is effective, but it’s slow. I would expect a GPT-5 and mini to work as quickly as the 4 models.