> likely they are to do something to make the whole process cheaper for customers

I think this is the crux of our disagreement. In my experience, the more degrees of freedom the seller has, the more chances to fuck you over they have.

I think - and this might be my European perspective and maybe why we feel differently about regulations than Americans - the main source of risk is corporations trying to take advantage of you, not the government. Curbing said risk is what I believe a government should do with regulations.

It is an edge case in the same way that log4shell is a feature and an edge case for log4j.

That sucks - I've thankfully only had that happen once. Similar thing - I was testing my new X11 server, and it turns out that broken X11 packets can make Firefox crash, and I got a refusal on a sub-agent request Fable prompted to have an agent narrow down why.

Now if only OP talked to humans once in a while and not LLMs they’d stop writing “it’s not X, it’s Y”

Another win for machine learning:

>She then applied machine learning to analyse how information was encoded in the calls before testing her findings through behavioural experiments.

i never ever had a fly bite me… what sort is that?

In my opinion Elixir Ecto is ORM done right:

1. the functional/immutable nature of Elixir makes read and writes much more explicit and there is no need to magically track deep mutations of nested objects to translate them back into UPDATE/INSERT queries

2. Elixirs support for lisp-like macros allows for an embedded syntax checked query languages that mirrors raw SQL really well and frees you from string-oriented query building

3. the query builder DSL addresses one of the main weaknesses of SQL not being composable

4. The automatic conversion between JOINed tables (on the DB side) and nested structs (on the Elixir side) is done on the right abstraction level to work reliable and and being explicit enough to generate predictable queries.

That's very imprecise, and not at all convincing.

Eg.

The brain "does cognition".

Cognition <> consciousness.

I honestly like the shopping experience at Costco -- there aren't a million variants of the same thing to choose from, you find really good deals sometimes (on already good prices), they have new random and sometimes good things all the time (I'll sometimes spontaneously buy, then confirm with my wife at home and if not, return on our next trip), and my kids go to the food court and enjoy the pizza and hot dogs that are decent quality and low priced. We go every ~2 weeks.

Alright, we're halfway through the Pantheon scene where David hacks the data center with the satellite phone.

Though, the phone moving with the vibration was always the more believable half. The ultrasonic pressing of the keyboard is mostly sound science but questionable from an engineering standpoint.

The part in the beginning about Galois Connections is very worth learning. It has countless applications.

The model represents intelligence and the harness is toolset which allows the model to create more informed decisions with context. Specifically, loops, subagents, tools, connectors, prompts, skills, and much more. This is why Cursor performs so well.

i drove for a few years both a moped that makes noise (the electric angel weeping sound) and one completely silent. Not making noise made many people cross the road without watching and putting me and them both in serious danger, and i'm kinda glad i'm not driving the silent one anymore

Yeah I think there's a lot of science news about how plants are capable of more than the average person thinks, but people tend to conflate that with some kind of conscious experience.

Actually HN handles it almost perfectly. The automatic line breaks are really good.

Only complain would be that its sometimes difficult to see the parent comment(s) when you scroll down.

HN could fix this quite easily by making the current parents sticky while you scroll.

This sounds so American. Why not just do a home delivery?

Interesting - but at what point could “n version programming” step in? I speak of using alternative models as verifiers.

I write SQL every day, but I cannot get onboard with liking the language. Yes, it is incredible that the language has had such staying power. No, it is not great that such a flawed design has persisted.

I enjoy this article[0] about some of the persistent warts which will seemingly never change.

[0]https://www.geldata.com/blog/we-can-do-better-than-sql

It’s a US holiday.

They care. They'll fix it. They just won't pay the bounty for this bug.

The Costco buyers are all really quite good; whatever they are doing, they manage to fine really good suppliers for most things they carry in the store. The SoCal locations all carry really good mangoes when in season, rivaling one well known heirloom producer (Wong's...or maybe they buy from Wong's...). A local chef tried all sorts of strawberries from various farms for his line of ice cream, and concluded the Kirkland ones were the best bang for the buck...

>Comments should be passed to the model with clear role boundaries that prevent them from being interpreted as system-level directives.

Well, such clear boundaries would solve lots of problems. But those don’t exist, do they?

A useful test to see the value of definitions, is to check if there are simple programs which become conscious according to the definition. There are very simple programs (<1000 lines) which do cost optimization, interact with the os and other programs with a coherent self-reference, can reason if they will be able to do some simple tasks etc.

Of course, you can be like Daniel Denett and bite the definition bullet - he was talking about 'free-will', not consciounsess and that a chess program has the necessary properties.

It should be table stakes for any SWEs working on backend, but it's not. The DB and the code directly interacting with it are way more important than anything you're going to write on top. I keep ending up in situations where I'm the only SWE in the room who really knows SQL, let alone proper schema design, and I have to speak up or else they're going to build an abomination.

I asked it how people get blue eyes from their parents and it downgraded me to Opus because of safety.

I would love a DB full of this kind of random data, but not in OEIS

Funny how Dario’s and Sam’s concern for our safety dovetails so nicely with their companies’ strategies. How fortunate.

Grow up. Whenever push comes to shove, they reduce safety and alignment departments, rush out releases over the heads of the same departments. If you engaged with the news these last years you’d see it for what it is “models for me, but not for thee”.

I'd rather take a mess of ad-hoc interfaces. Forcing people to do domain modeling does not go well.

Cited sources are as-close-to-truthful-as-one-can-manage. This is how one avoids having the truthiness of the editors matter.

I'm not sure that there is any law forcing you to accept it, but if you have a mailbox, it will get put into it. I don't think there is any law requiring anyone to have a mailbox, though.