skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The linked tweet only really shows that some of their documentation language was 'borrowed'. The actual API semantics are nothing like Mantle or Vulkan.

The synchronization model is completely different, the queue system is completely different, the memory allocation model is completely different. The binding models are massively different. Maybe some of the core ideas behind Mantle were taken with explicit synchronization, and maybe they started from Mantle as a base but the end result is completely alien to what Mantle was.

Microsoft could never justify using Vulkan over DirectX 'Next' to its developers. It would be a total deprecation of Direct3D. It would require all their developers to throw their entire renderer backend out and start fresh with 100% new tools. A lot of effort was put into making the transition to D3D12 from D3D11 easy, even to (IMO) the detriment of the API semantics. They even kept shaders inter compatible while adopting an enormously different binding model.

D3D12 is also largely a much friendlier API to use. Vulkan is (was) verbose to the extreme in ways that really didn't matter to the majority of Direct3D users on desktop GPUs. Vulkan render passes are a nightmare to work with, and largely served no benefit to the desktop and console GPUs Direct3D is used for.

Vulkan has evovled a lot since 1.0, relaxing lots of the excessive restrictions that were originally there. A lot of this stuff likely wouldn't have happened if it weren't for D3D12 putting pressure on Khronos to improve the developer experience.

Vulkan is not the panacea people think it is, but it's getting better. And so is D3D12 by borrowing some of Vulkan's better ideas. To say D3D12 should have never existed is just 'M$ bad' dogma.
That's exactly what I want. I have too much energy at 2am and not enough at 9am. Hence the coffee in the morning.
PE is a good example because different people have different physiology and will respond better or worse to different exercise schedules.

As an adult, people are so varied. The concept of forcing kids, who absolutely are as or more varied than their adults, into so much structure is cruel. I get that some people are lazy and without something telling them what to do they will happily fail. But school today is more about grinding then down than building them up. And they bully and harass each other as consequence.

Leaving my soapbox there…
https://www.nytimes.com/article/ohio-train-derailment.html?s...
I also had to crawl through garbage contracts in 2009 to make ends meet - took me over a year to find a good job.
This is what I was looking for, thank you.

Lost in the profoundly unhelpful debate between "no one has heard of this" and "well I have" are the actual conditions in the community and whether the concentrations of either the initially released compound or the byproducts of the "controlled burn" are high enough to cause effects in humans. From the EPA link:

> Feb. 13, 2023 Update

Re-Entry air screenings are underway. Community air monitoring will continue operating 24 hours a day. As of yesterday evening, 291 homes have been screened. To date, no detections of vinyl chloride or hydrogen chloride were identified for the completed screened homes. There are 181 homes that remain to be screened.

Good news, to be sure, though this is only the very beginning of the process.
That's a beautiful explanation of loyalty in this context. I've always struggled to define it. Thank you!
Geely begins testing the largest eVTOL prototype ever flown in China
Well, i can tell you the around 50% tax rate where i am has compelled me to be far less employed, so your argument on that front is wrong.
Java is almost 30 years old.

How does it compare in your mind with, say, Rust and Kotlin?
Anyone else get major hans reiser vibes from this guy?

Maybe it’s just the “on the war” section … I.e, Ukraine section and not the vehicular manslaughter or accident.
They very likely took that into account.

This is a design tradeoff.

The few times I tried VR headsets I have to say that I was annoyed by the adjustments and the cheap/weak materials that was used, also I noticed some drift after a very short time (likely due to wear for a demo headset, but still)

Not sure if custom made is necessary, but like with any eye wear, the correct size and alignment should probably be built into the device itself, it is more practical and durable.
Yes depends on the business model.

For some 10k * $100/m customer might be of interest, if there is little support required. I think for a simple "API" type service this could work.

For others they want 100 * $10k/m and they are offering a rich service with in depth support.

A middle ground is provide indicative pricing for enterprise plans, provide documentation so the end users can decide if this will work for them before contacting sales.
"Encrypted queries for an encrypted database" could be as straightforward as encrypting both the keys and values using a known public key and putting the results in MySQL. You have to be careful with the claims made around these kinds of things because they often appear to be more complex than they are.
It feels like the fear of the all powerful AI is giving the space way too much credit. In the same way that register-free Amazon Go stores and driverless cars were supposedly destroying working-class jobs, the rogue AI gives a false narrative of tech's endless capacity to innovate and disrupt without accounting for the pretty obvious limitations, unreasonable costs and overall lack of value.

At this point the tech sector has shown its limits and they're pretty considerable. In a higher interest environment that is likely to be lasting, the ability to sell people on "potential" is waning. This article feels as important as hearing someone argue that maybe we shouldn't move to our moon colonies that we will build one day in the future. I guess it's a fun debate but not really necessary.
I think about this a lot.

My personal bias is that open source authors and maintainers don't owe anyone anything. They're making their code available to anyone for free, and it's on you if there's something you don't like about it. You can always fork it if you need to. Heck, you don't even have to use it. Write your own thing if something fundamentally bothers you about it.

And yet there's a large group of people who think they're somehow doing you a favor by using your open-source code, as opposed to the other way around. I've tried to talk to some of them, to try to get some idea of it. It typically boils down to either

1. I used and advocated for the project, making it more popular, and therefore they owe me.

2. Using an open-source library is an investment. I'm making a compromise by not writing it myself exactly how I want it. I'm attempting to do things their way, which in some ways is mentally harder than writing it to begin with, so when it changes radically or goes away, or they ask me for support, they have done me dirty. I deserve better.

3. #2, except they recognize that the author/maintainer doesn't owe them anything and hasn't acted maliciously, but they're still bummed that they either have to change things or fork the project and maintain it themselves. It's emotional rather than logical.

Of the three, I can kinda understand the last one, but I'll never agree with it.
I think that comparison is just heir hosted offerings, not what the software (open source code) supports.
Having enough time to read a couple pages and move a bookmark forward during bowel movements sounds to me like a sign of constipation and a risk factor for hemorrhoids. Would not recommend. It's really best for those bathroom breaks to be fast and easy. Heed my unsolicited advice and spare yourself the considerable undue suffering that awaits.
Just quit if you don't like the job.
The problem is that as soon as he turns this into a billable enterprise solution it will artificially inflate the price. He’s giving all the people who depend on this project a chance to get it at a discount.
I'm really, really curious to how it actually works under the covers. Needless to say, I'm sceptical, primarily because "near plaintext speed" fundamentally isn't currently possible with true fully homomorphic encryption, at least in my understanding.

For example, they give an example of running queries against data that is never decrypted. I'm very curious as to how they do this. I've used blind indexes [1] to solve the "encrypted data searchability problem" in the past, but with blind indexes you're still left with the fact that you can only do exact matches - you can't sort the data or use less than/greater than queries.

With true FHE you should be able to sort results, but my understanding is that it's several orders of magnitude slower than plaintext searching, so I'm very curious as to what Vaultree is actually doing.

1. https://medium.com/@joshuakelly/blind-indexes-in-3-minutes-m...
I’m not laid off but was putting my feelers out and I’m getting lots of denials/ghosts at the first stage. In the last few years I had a very high return rate on the initial contact. I have a phone screen tomorrow but unless that goes amazing I’ll just chill for 6 months and hope my company doesn’t do more layoffs
Yeah, also you stay at any tent cities? There was. documentary about tent cities on netflix awhile back and it was just so neat.

the city near me had people staying in tents under the bridge and then they had to move cause the city claimed it was an eye sore. Some of the people there had jobs.. they just had issues/rent was too high.
It's hard not to imagine AI tools becoming the most powerful instruments of propaganda ever created. What happens when the state can create unlimited quality content? When it can turn years of phone conversations, social media posts, and browsing history into a one page summary and risk profile? When it controls exactly what issues get attention? I don't think people are alarmed enough about the political implications of these tools.
And author's first example was a mistake, which was pointed out by the comment.

> The first one is debatable as there is actually a corded version of that vacuum cleaner which has a 16 foot power cord

Does this mean the author also "can't be trusted"?
A bit crass these days, but this is probably where Reddit-style fake accounts will probably shine. Maybe a mix of manual work + judiciously crafted chatGPT prompts?
"Hey, that's Ohio, that's a quarter!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf0XU_3DlKQ
If there is a large scale pogrom of journalists who criticise the government then there would be a chilling effect on critical coverage of the government. Large scale protests wouldn't exist and wouldn't be successful.

Your statement does not jibe well with the lived reality of most Indians. We have plenty of access to critical coverage of the ruling party and its leader. Plenty of journalists are living their lives, paying rent and venting out their frustrations against the government on twitter without being arrested.

A sample of Indian publications that are critical of BJP:

https://www.deccanherald.com/national/national-politics/govt...

https://caravanmagazine.in/politics/hindutva-pop-hate

https://www.newslaundry.com/2022/12/24/aaj-tak-and-india-tv-...

https://thewire.in/politics/twitter-amit-malviya-bjp-it-cell...

https://thewire.in/politics/if-rahul-gandhi-were-really-irre...

https://www.ndtv.com/opinion/bjp-accused-of-using-app-tek-fo... and https://restofworld.org/2022/the-wire-vs-meta-india/ - This bit of critical journalism was found to be outright creative writing. But since you Anglos don't trust Indians on how their own country works maybe check out Alex Stamos of the Stanford Cyber Policy Center on this piece of news. I couldn't care less about the guy but maybe you will give his words weight. The reason I am giving this example is because this is a clear cut example of journalists publishing literal fake news critical of the governement and going about their lives without imprisonment and consequences.

Time to time a corrupt politician tries to throw around their weight and gets people arrested, but our legal system typically strikes down the case. This is a problem with every political party in India but we don't have mass imprisonment of journalists critical of BJP as some publications may want you to think.
> No. You spend more money when I get you on the phone.

On the phone -> $0, as they're not going to call

Easy self-managed sign up -> $some, as this is what they're willing to do
https://github.com/vector-im/element-web
Same, I would not buy/use any Meta product if I can choose.

I have a very mild interest in VR but if the tech really improves this is something I could try. Past experiences have been disappointing.
The us economy is 77% service-based. If you delete intellectual property value, what do you expect to happen?

Let's go back to joking.
If you would have read the article, you would have seen the image from a Babel maintainer saying they won't fork because they don't have the resources to maintain it.
Not sure if you're trying to be snarky or helpful.
Honestly that's the type of data that would help calm the situation a bit.

Five cars of vinyl chloride, three cars of diethylene glycol, and two cars of oil are the problem children at this point. At least the quantities involved aren't too large, it wasn't a whole train of vinyl chloride.

Still preventable though and things aren't getting any safer from here if the railroads have anything to say about it. And the local wildlife getting sick is still concerning... if the measurements say everything is fine and the local wildlife is dying, you aren't measuring what needs to be measured.
I absolutely agree with the conclusion of this website: that AI will be net harmful. Whether AI can ever become truly intelligent is totally irrelevant except to philosophers. What matters is what it can do, and how it will change society.

The one aspect of this website that I vehemently disagree with is that we should pursue rapid technological and scientific development, even without AI.

Instead, I believe that AI is harmful and should be totally destroyed, but also that technological and scientific development has also reached a point where it TOO needs to be regulated, because a large part of the reason AI even exists is because of unfettered technological development.

Of course, there is some science that is good like understanding more about our NATURAL world so we can save it, but a lot of it is either totally useless or also net harmful (and I say this as a former researcher in the sciences with more than a decade of experience). For example, research into advanced computer systems makes AI easier to develop.

Thus, it is not just AI that needs to be shut down and destroyed, but all of technological development needs to be regulated as well.

It is simply apalling that anyone would contribute even one line of code to AI.
Microsoft faced an antitrust lawsuit (United States v. Microsoft Corp) for embedding IE with Windows, which was seen as an abuse of their position in the OS/PC market to further their own stake in the web browser space.

Apple, in this case, is similarly seen as abusing its position in the US mobile market by not merely bundling Safari with iOS, but going a step further, and preventing any competition to its own browser by banning competing browser engines.
At least a year ago, maybe longer. Syncing with the larger rooms in the Matrix homeserver definitely took its toll on self-hosted servers. Took minutes (at least) and couldn't be canceled.
Don’t burn all that coal for decade after decade. It’s 20% of greenhouse emissions.

If instead we are going to rely on miracles, maybe we should further develop AI to work on these miracles.

It’s sort of irrelevant how good ChatGPT is, the entire benefit is that it will bring more R&D into the field.
> Yesterday, DeWine added it’s “very understandable” that residents might want their homes tested before reentering. The state says Norfolk Southern must pay for the cleanup costs, and that “the burden is upon them to assure the public that what they do everyday is safe.”

What a shitty thing to say given that the public has no direct way to deny them what they do if they don't deem it safe.
I was always really bullish on Web Components since the first whispers started...

Then I wanted to start building non-JS websites. And suddenly "Web" Components just weren't an option. Now I've dug even further to SSR, and the shortcoming is painful. I don't want to use Next.js, I want to use HTML. I want standards.

Maybe in 4-5 years this will finally be a solved problem...
Wu Yibing makes tennis history as the first Chinese player to win an ATP title
https://xkcd.com/2347/ for any readers that didn't get the reference
The generic "how can i inject unexpected input?" has always been an appsec concern. This is just a special case.
We've complained long enough about complexity in code being the barrier to speed. Now it's processing power once again.

I'll take it if we can rely on the security.
Silicone valley type company or quant fund type companies. Target those.
So, it's not the actual disaster that you don't care about but the "you have not heard about this" part of the news?
What about building schools closer to population centers and provide pedestrian and bike infrastructure to it from nearby residential areas, such that kids could safely walk or bike to and from school?
I also believe the same thing.

However, to be fair, Clojure's response to types is `org.clojure/spec.alpha`, and if you give it a really good chance, you'll see that it brings a lot to the table.

It doesn't change that I believe strong typing (a Haskell or Idris/Agda-like flavour of it) to be the future, but what it did change was how I thought about type systems and how to write and test programs.
Huh? How would you search on any encrypted fields?
> Clojure is really good at self-selecting for people that really care about innovation in programming languages.

This is a very pompous, pretentious, self-serving, statement.

How about Rust? C++? Kotlin? F#?

You find people interested in these things in all languages, and people not interested in these things in all languages.
A good part of the code is open, that changes the equation. It’s also why there will never be another IE6, all browser are open source these days.

Having said that, I’m using Vim. Mostly because I love it but I also can’t imagine using a closed source editor.
I wonder why VR headsets have not been designed from modified headphones instead of ski goggles.

Those can be trendy and nice looking, and people are still wearing them outside, even the bulkier models.
See also: https://twitter.com/ThrillScience/status/1625326912083226625
who is behind this site ?
Not really, no. As an ex-convict with massive fines he can't pay who is unable to leave the country and a newborn child, I cannot really blame him for not sticking his neck out publicly in an increasingly totalitarian state, nor for being angry about the sanctions obliterating his already bad financial situation and freezing a portion of the already small amount of money that had already been given to him.

Imagine how you would feel if you worked for minimum wage at McDonalds and the police froze up your savings accounts for more than a year because a distant uncle you've never seen was discovered to be a hitman for the mafia.
Also add on that the rail workers tried to strike over the issues and Biden was like "lol nope"

It's just capitalism being capitalism in the end

For all of you who down vote:

https://time.com/6238361/joe-biden-rail-strike-illegal/
This is just the beginning of the wave of next gen headsets that are employing microOLED + pancake lenses, both technical breakthroughs that have only become available recently in the VR / AR space. Expect to see a lot more like this over the next 6-12 months (including Apple), especially once XR2 gen2 chips are widely available (this one not requiring it because it's entirely dependent on an attached PC). In fact, to some extent, I would say what we are seeing now is a rush to forward-announce by those trying to get in ahead of the big players that will be rolling out this tech. Hence why shipping is in Q3.

This is one of the reasons why I think the people discounting VR/AR are misguided or at least basing their thinking on incorrect assumptions. These breakthroughs will fundmentally change some aspects of the value proposition.
Go electric for your brain and others
"It's Not Possible for Me to Feel or Be Creepy": An Interview with ChatGPT
This is very good insight. I do contracting for USPTO and from what I’ve learned from my time there, this makes sense. All patents applications are examined (“prosecuted”) by patent examiners, people who take the time to ensure the submission is original work or at least a derivative thereof. This takes a ton of time, effort, and money. Though USPTO != US Copyright Office, I imagine there is a similar process because it’s still IP, and IP must be owned by a person, multiple persons, or a business, therefore AI cannot own IP.
> Shadow DOM seemed like a tightening/winnowing/control thing

This is useful when you need to apply constraints on teammates, same as applying a linter to your project's CSS. You need to guarantee your internal components work well together.

If your style is more "make a component and throw it over the wall for people to use," making everything "public" may be a better approach.

But most web components will never be public or shareable, and that's OK.
Archived: https://archive.ph/4NYxa
Reminds me of my travels in Iceland.. arrive around 10PM (it was still daylight in summer), ask if they have a room with a discount; they'd rather have a guest paying less rather than an empty room. At one place the guy configuring the room for me told his colleague he's giving me the room with the OTA rate, i.e. what they would've earned if I had booked with an OTA..
I use oak often to flavor food. Oak makes exceptional flavor when smoking food and brings out many flavors. Great whiskeys are also aged in oak. So although not a spice, oak is used to flavor food and drink.
The disaster is terrible, but I'm completely ambivalent towards the "underground" narrative and overall response to the story.
I think this is peak silicon valley bubble right here.

Most people do not have home automation products at all. Not because they are ludites but because the technology is not evenly distributed and isn't doing as well in all markets.
My Homelab
Perhaps this, incorporating a quote from the copyright office?

> U.S. Copyright Office tells Judge that AI Artwork "created without any human involvement" is not protectable

alternatively,

> U.S. Copyright Office tells judge it affirms decision to refuse to name the AI as an author of a protected artwork

(when I wrote this, the title on this post was "U.S. copyright office tells judge that AI artwork isn’t protectable" and links to https://petapixel.com/2023/02/09/u-s-copyright-office-tells-...)
Just don’t move to a cabin in the woods of Montana and start mailing out letter bombs…
Plus advertisers (which could include chemical plants etc) are their clients.
I have no reason to doubt that harmful chemicals were released. I can understand that the risks haven't been communicated to the satisfaction of the public. And I can see how that would trigger a panic.

My issue is that a random person filmed the sky on a cloudy day, confidently claimed the clouds are fumes, and so injected falsehood into a serious event. Lots of people are doing the same right now, guided only by panic and distrust of the authorities.

This Twitter account is no different.
I live and work in Amsterdam, so I cancel out your anecdata.
This is tempting to believe, but unfortunately the dream is to be able to run applications on someone else's servers without them knowing what you're doing. That's when I lost interest in FHE. If you want to use it, you have to use it everywhere, and it's just too slow.

Hopefully I'm wrong about that.
Wow, this typeface is delightful. Thanks.
That kind of caginess is so unbelievably disrespectful.