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640K ought to be enough for anybody.

The question is really whether 640k is enough to last you until your next hardware upgrade.

OP's take seems to be unfairly critical. I wasn't at the MIT or Georgia Tech lectures (Gene Ray spoke once at each) but it sounds like the audience was pretty respectful, all things considered. He was given uninterrupted time to explain his ideas, then question and answer. No shouting.

Ray didn't convince anyone. No surprise. But he apparently wrote to someone "They treated me like Einstein" so it can't have been too unpleasant.

A quote from the Georgia Tech student paper, from a participant: "I’m glad we live in a society where people like Gene Ray are not locked up and beaten, but instead respected in their own way."

Honestly it sounds like the best possible case for someone with seriously nutty ideas (and possibly some mental illness). Bit of a modern day Emperor Norton. The rationalists did ok here.

You seem to be banging on a stereotype. Yudkowsky doesn't speak for everyone (not even everyone on lesswrong) and AI safety/paranoia is an incredibly polarizing issue.

There's a loosely structured community of people who self-identify as "rationalist". There are some general themes of belief but no coherent platform, per-se. Some of them are nutjobs. Maybe at an elevated rate from general society, but not dramatically so.

People can and will use LLMs to curate the training data for the next generation. I expect they already do.

Is this mobile app only? I don't see "time management" on the website.

.st went down for most of a day:

https://blorn.com/post/29851770158/beware-cutesy-two-letter-...

Little TLDs may be poorly run. Would not trust again.

Fall behind what? Able to produce "as much" what?

Customer meaningful features that move the needle on the business.

I think this is strictly true. And not because LLMs can write code faster. I think it's true even if you're still writing most of your code by hand and using the LLM as an assistant.

My anecdotal but decades-long observation is that most of the time=cost of a project comes not from writing code, but from dealing with "issues". Weird bugs, surprising behaviors, spec ambiguities, library defects, mysterious test failures, etc. Stuff that requires intense debugging and building out a mental map of code that might not even be yours. LLMs excel at this kind of thing, freeing you up to spend most of your time working on business logic.

This has certainly been my experience.

Also Ant Design. The word is too heavily overloaded, even in the JS ecosystem.

This is exactly it. If you want someone to do some analysis for you, you're obliged to give them some context regarding what analysis you've already done.

Eh? I write that way sometimes. Long before LLMs.

I'm sick and tired of reading comments like these.

"Software saved the aerospace industry. Every other way of adding cost to an aircraft also adds weight."

Don't feed trolls.

Ethnicity is a social construct with some fuzzy boundaries, but I don't think anyone credible tries to claim that there is an "American Ethnicity". Usually when that term comes up it's from some racist overly proud that someone in their ancestry came over on the Mayflower.

Personally I think it's one of the strengths of this country that a first generation immigrant can come here and become an American. I don't think this is very common around the world.

The black population of the US is unquestionably descended from immigrants.

1.4% of the U.S. population is "American Indian and Alaska Native alone". 2.9% is "alone or in combination with another race" per the 2020 census.

I have no idea what you're going on about.

Immigration is a hot topic in every society. You can hear people in Arizona kvetching about the Californians that move there.

The difference is that - excepting about 1.4% of the population - everyone here in the US is either an immigrant or descended from immigrants. Most of them long after the Mayflower sailed. However long it takes to create a new capital-E Ethnicity, it hasn't been long enough.

You said "no" then vigorously agreed with me. My point was that, contrary to the grandparent, US v Jones does not resolve this question.

A cellphone is effectively you in the eyes of the law.

Any automobile may be driven by many people. Only 30% of households are single-person households.

We'll see how this plays out in courts. I'll bet the license plate readers survive. More skeptical about facial recognition though.

US v Jones ruled that installing a GPS car tracker requires a warrant because it trespasses on private property (the vehicle).

On the other hand, law enforcement can follow your car with a drone, helicopter, or other vehicle without a warrant. Are cameras more like a helicopter or more like a GPS tracker? The Supreme Court has not weighed in yet.

We probably all agree that a cellphone is closely associated with you and acts as a surrogate brain, so it gets treated as "you", at least as much as the _inside_ of your house or car.

You the right of free travel (with or without your phone). Automobiles are different. You can't take it everywhere; you can't park it everywhere; you can't move it about in secret (plates MUST be displayed, always).

You have an expectation of privacy for the inside of your car. But not the outside of your car. And even the inside... if it's visible from the windows, it's public.

This is factually incorrect. You do, in fact, have a legal right to own a cellphone. Cellphone ownership is not licensed and law enforcement cannot stop you from buying a cellphone or carrying it from point A to point B.

Cars are different. You must be licensed and cars must be registered with the state. Cars must display tags for the purpose of tracking. They must be inspected periodically. When driving a car on public roads, you are subject to implied consent; for example, taking a blood alcohol test on demand.

As they say, "driving is a privilege, not a right". Cars are different.

Ask yourself: If a US state passed a law requiring geo trackers in all automobiles, do you think it would be unconstitutional? What about drones, airplanes, boats?

Of course. We're all here speculating on how the courts will rule. We can come back to this in a few years and see who was right.

Flock produces a record of a car's travel history. Automobiles are highly regulated and driving is a privilege. There is no _right_ to drive a vehicle from point A to point B, in secret or not.

I'm going to predict right now that this will boil down to "automobiles are not individuals" and automobiles do not get 4th amendment protections.

Automobiles are not cellphones, and the state is free to regulate automobiles. It could mandate tracking devices in all cars, if there was political will.

No, it's not about the contents. It's the fact that the data is presented in full public view with the specific intention that it be read.

This question seems preposterous on its face. If you walk around in public wearing a t-shirt with text on it, there's a reasonable expectation that people will read it. Specifically because it reflects light.

Fun fact for people whose scaling plan anticipates moving from Postgres to CRDB:

SELECT FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED works great for turning Postgres into a job queue. It does not work the same way on CRDB and you will likely have to rewrite those queries or use an external job queue.

If you're stressing your database, offloading some work to Redis can buy you a lot of Postgres headroom. But sure, start with YAGNI.

When an article has a misleading clickbait title, I think it's fair game to redirect the conversation to the subject of the title.

Then he knowingly blew it all up overnight to ally with Trump.

This is speculation, but I am guessing that he didn't do this knowingly. He's probably surrounded with yes-men who didn't challenge his fever dream of swooping in, fixing the government, and being lauded as a hero.