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by ericb 3y ago
What in the world are you talking about? This reads like someone who doesn't understand how to use a tool so they think it is broken. I've worked on Rails apps that outperformed Spring/Java apps routinely and node apps routin
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> My team is starting to rewrite some of the services we own in Golang because Rails is no longer a good fit for the problems and scale we use it for. What sort of web app do you have that is CPU bound?
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by ericb 3y ago
Does this type of attack have a name?
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Ukraine war YouTuber: My Channel is being held hostage [video](youtube.com)
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by ericb 3y ago
That should read: InfluxDB said in March this year it had solved the cardinality issue with a new IOx storage engine for it's hosting customers only There isn't an influxdb that you can download with cardinality solved.
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by ericb 3y ago
The NextJS folks and Go folks are in that sweet spot. You use the framework du jour, you pat each other on the back, beaming with the folly of your ancestors to use such inferior tools, thinking "this is a golden age of NextJS (or Go)
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by ericb 3y ago
On top of which, if you were an alien culture you might be interested in: 1-Where the nukes are. 2-The state of development in the richest, most developed areas? 3-Where the biggest military is.
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by ericb 3y ago
If you think that: * It is possible to create von Neumann probes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replicating_spacecraft * At least some percentage of civilizations would create them * The odds of intelligent l
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by ericb 3y ago
Is it me, or does that picture look like poison ivy halfway down the page where he says: "and possibly two smaller ones (unconfirmed, since they didn't look like they could spare any leaf) peeking out from under a pile of downed t
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by ericb 3y ago
Sure, tooling could be better. But the real work is all the hard work that goes into a fork. I've watched open forks die all the time--all it takes is no one to step up and do/pay for the work, which is basically the default, beca
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by ericb 3y ago
> They should have worked on their value prop. AWS customers like that there's one bill and one account. Who wants to deal with multiple vendors if they don't have to? It isn't a level playing field when Amazon offers a
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by ericb 3y ago
I can see where it might sound that way if you haven't watched the testimony. "I provided this classified information under oath to the inspector general" is not an avoidance tactic but a direction where to locate classified
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by ericb 3y ago
It's a fair point. If you rephrase it as "a civilization that mastered interplanetary travel and can split the atom somehow keeps crashing on our planet" it makes me wonder. What if bugs, suicidal or thrill-seeking pilots or
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by ericb 3y ago
Did you watch it? He doesn't come off that way. He testified under oath. Every time he was asked for specifics, he said he had them, had already provided them, or in some cases would provide them immediately after because they were cla
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by ericb 3y ago
I think they were bloated a bit, but that was mostly staffing for red herring projects and extra management layers. The bloat was a mismanagement problem "solved" by cutting everything but management. That plus a bit of over-hir
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by ericb 3y ago
> Personally I think it is all of the above. I don't know--based on the behavior observed from the client-side in chrome devtools, twitter seemed to be DDos-ing itself with no exponential backoff and no jitter. That seems like exac
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by ericb 3y ago
What's left to do for the release? Also, the alpha aspect seems surprising--isn't influx running this in production now?
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What is it parroting here? I made the puzzle up myself. https://chat.openai.com/share/a2557743-80bd-4206-b779-6b06f7...
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by ericb 3y ago
> Any real superintelligence will decide for itself whether it wants to do something or not, thank you very much. I disagree--that's the human fantasy of it, but human wants were programmed by evolution, and these AI's have no
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by ericb 3y ago
If super means "surpassing normal human intelligence" then, YES. Take a look at the table in this article. If a human did that, was fluent in every language and coded in every language, we'd say they were superhuman, no? htt
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by ericb 3y ago
Is your comment self-referential?
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by ericb 3y ago
Yes, I see a huge problem. Preventing damage is an order of magnitude more difficult than causing it.
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by ericb 3y ago
What? ChatGPT 4 can already pass the bar exam and is fluent in every language. It is super intelligent. Today. No human can do that, the system is here, and so is an architecture. As for the existential risk, assume nothing other than evi
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by ericb 3y ago
If there's no humanity, presumably those people would be worse off, no?
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by ericb 3y ago
Agreed that it should be spelled out, but... If a superintelligence can be set on any specific task, it could be any task. - Make covid-ebola - Cause world war 3 You may have noticed that chatgpt is sort of goal-less until a human gives i
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by ericb 3y ago
I'd bet you're using the default model, GPT-3. If not, can you give me the non-summarized version? I'd love to see examples that GPT-4 gets tripped up on--I'd find them reassuring.
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by ericb 3y ago
> If there is an aspect of the world that isn't covered by the training text, the model cannot divine it. It is just correlating text to other text. You could say the same for human perception, though. We don't actually "
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by ericb 3y ago
Where should it be used, and where shouldn't it? I think, right now, with something like mitmproxy, for example, you can't use the wireguard mode unless the other proxy is "elsewhere." With this, perhaps you could use it
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by ericb 3y ago
I have a different feeling about the morality of in-person work: Forcing regular, superfluous, commuting is immoral from a climate-change perspective.
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by ericb 3y ago
Have you ever helped someone without some connection to a reward? As a thought experiment, you are in a room with a deaf, blind dying person--they will soon be gone from this world. They are reaching for water you can see on their bedside,

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