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> IE 6 was abandoned because Microsoft won the browser war.

This has never been adequate to explain how MS treated IE.

Microsoft also won the desktop decisively, arguably more decisively than the browser front. And yet far from abandoning windows, it pretty consistently iterated via major releases and service updates, even when competitors were almost rounding errors and when they had a business base that often valued backward compatibility as much or more than anything else.

Microsoft doesn't abandon things just because they achieved dominance.

IE was abandoned because MS of the early 00s still thought most computing would stay on the desktop, in network-aware applications, maybe even using different runtimes, but still desktop apps.

> It's ridiculous to say that in 2006/7 Microsoft thought web was a fad

It's ridiculous of you to choose 2006/2007 when you're responding to a comment that specifies "circa early 00s."

And yes, by 2006/2007, MS realized they'd made a mistake and the web was becoming something that could deliver experiences competitive with desktop apps.
But he does tweet multiple times per week about Twitter features. I can count at least 7 such tweets in the past week.
In another Tailscale discussion I saw someone from Caddy hinting at some further integration coming very soon… is that still on the radar?
Thanks for the feedback! This is super valuable.

1. There isn't anything fundamental about that tool that requires React. We have a lot of React experience and it's a very popular framework, so it made sense for us as a place to start, but we can definitely consider supporting other options.

2. Absolutely! We have a first draft of our mapping protocol already that works reasonably well, but still needs more iteration before we open things up. It supports a custom hook for attaching things to the DOM, so shouldn't require React specifically either.

Can you share a little about how you use web components, so we can better understand what an integration should look like? Do you use any kind of JS framework (at build time or runtime)? Do you use JSX, or is it all vanilla HTML?
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Whoopses shortly after a load with

Uncaught Error: buffer is either not set or not loaded
ti https://unpkg.com/tone@14.7.77:1
start https://unpkg.com/tone@14.7.77:21
triggerAttack https://unpkg.com/tone@14.7.77:21
triggerAttack https://unpkg.com/tone@14.7.77:21
processPianoState https://kevinzakka.github.io/robopianist-demo/examples/main.js:174
render https://kevinzakka.github.io/robopianist-demo/examples/main.js:255
onAnimationFrame https://kevinzakka.github.io/robopianist-demo/node_modules/three/build/three.module.js:27951
onAnimationFrame https://kevinzakka.github.io/robopianist-demo/node_modules/three/build/three.module.js:12661

This is in a recent Firefox.
That's why we did it, instead of spending money dragging the decision or even taking more money and spending them while building mediocre company, we wind up operations in a shortest term, and returned everything, to minimize damage for investors. We even cancelled the checks which were about to get wired.

How to perceive it—is up to you, we sleep well because we did the best we could in that situation.
Maybe we've just had bad luck. Our integrated lights all failed in less than a year, whereas our bulbs have all lasted a few years at least so far without any failures or apparent changes.
Supply of engineers is bottlenecked by education and experience. Not similar to diamonds
Arbitrary functions that are differentiable, unless I am mistaken.
Nazi and antifa are not equivalents in any way whatsoever. I think the only equivalence you might find is that both tendencies are somewhat open to the concept of political violence? But beyond that, banning nazi content while allowing antifa is a perfectly reasonable stance for any platform to take.
This sounds very interesting - can you link me to video or blogs where others have done something like this?
Care to post some examples? I'm not saying they don't exist, I've just never seen it in the wild.
Recommending the Sonim XP3 or XP5 for anyone looking for a dumb phone to try out. Good models and great form factor. New(upgraded/"Plus") models were released recently if you fancy a try
I can only think of if the UX is really good.

But that still doesn't seem to have enough moat regardless.
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LoRA (Low-Rank Adapter) is way to customize/finetune the LLM to a new datasets without needing to retrain the entire network (which makes it better (and in theory easier to do). It doesn't not change the speed significantly afaik
In the Sponza scenes there is fairly obvious dithering going on which makes the visuals look very unstable especially in motion, idk whats up with that? Its most clearly visible in this screenshot: https://ktstephano.github.io/assets/portfolio/Sponza2022_3.p...

Also the lack of AA adds to the visual instability.

But still, nice work! I'd love to see what this could do with better assets/art (and maybe some extra shaders)
That was addressed in my last point (“religion”).
Eh, I know you're being facetious but the opposite of bad advice is not good advice. Things are more complicated than that. Which is why even a 20% hit rate (say) could be very impressive.
Did a quick google search, it still does not seem to be possible to add using the namespace system they implemented in 1.13 (supposedly for such a reason) and datapacks. Currently, it looks like 'custom blocks' involve using a hacky method involving invisible armor stands and item frames holding items modeled as a block. Which means they count and behave as entities instead of true blocks, and this can be an issue since too many entities will lag a server.

Data packs and resource packs certainly seem very promising as a modding API, but it still seems the devs are artificially restricting their usage.
> a worse teacher doesn't create 10x losses

I would argue this is exactly what a worse teacher does. They can discourage/mislead/destroy 100s or 1000s of students over their career which can have dramatic effects for a society.
check "Summa technologiae" by Stanislaw Lem, from 1960ies, one chapter is comparing bio-evolution with all kinds of technological (r)evolution(s), lots of similarities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summa_Technologiae
Vicuna: An open-source chatbot impressing GPT-4 with 90% ChatGPT quality
I've installed GNU/Linux (mostly by Mint distro and Mate desktop) to both of my non-tech parents home laptops like 10 years in a row now. Non-tech in this case means browsing, banking, printing, email, docs and sheets, video conferencing (mostly MS Teams), etc. I keep these machines updated remotely ~once in a month.

After Windows XP/7 family originated support requests have declined like 95% being only 1-2 per year for past years. I don't give all credit to Linux/Mint/Mate/apps but to the fact installing any unnecessary bloat to an average Linux requires a bit more than just clicking "Install me" button on any web page and then (generously instructed by the browser) run that .exe in admin privileges.

Yes there are Flatpak and friends and I'm already a bit scared they will evolve easy enough to install bloat increasing family originated support requests to Windows days.
Curious to know your use case. Were you hoping to use Retool Database with your existing Postgres as a schema builder or as a data editor via their spreadsheet UI?
This explains why they denied me access to the API a few days ago.
Well, String Theory hasn't made any practical impact on the day-to-day life of millions of people.

This is a bit different.
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2500 hours is 100 days. I hope I live longer than 100 more days :(
Thanks! No one ever mentions this about being founder but there are so many decent potential taglines for our product that it can be difficult to choose one!

Would you have any feedback on our website and the verbiage we use there? Any ideas you may have?
It's not that it's hard for them to quit. If you've ever worked low wage jobs you'll notice turnover is quite a bit higher than high wage jobs.

The reason they aren't paid much is it usually low wage jobs are pretty easy to hire and train for. Which means there is a very large potential applicant pool.
I'd say most software developers are comfortably middle class. They are not upper middle class professionals in the same way as lawyers and doctors often are.

Median full-time income is a good starting point for defining the middle class, at least in developed countries. People earning around the median tend to be pretty good examples of what middle-class life looks like. Most software developers earn above the median, but not so much above that their lives would be qualitatively different.

In the US, the median is currently somewhere between $55k and $60k.
> Group therapy is for helping people deal with something. It's not a process to understand a phenomenon, that's not its goal.

Yes, and I have ears - and use them. I listened to what the kids were saying. I listen to the kids I work with in the youth organizations in which I'm involved. I listen to the kids on the teams I coach. If you haven't figured it out, I'm around a lot of kids.

You wanna know something none of these kids have ever complained about (and boy do they complain a lot!) - social media making them feel bad. I don't know a single kid that was like I may as well quit since I can't do X as good as some social media darling.

I can tell you what they do complain about, and I wrote about that elsewhere on this thread.

But I do know politicians love blaming social media so they can use it as fuel for their TikTok ban. They can use it as fuel to reign in "Big Tech."

Being a Gen X'er I can tell you in the 80's and 90's it was video games and heavy metal music they were blaming for the kids' woes. Today it's social media. All I can say is they were wrong then, and they're wrong now.
Not that expensive. This dumbass did it for the princely sum of 4000 pesos (~$220), then killed himself rather than face trial. He had 5 kids too.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/16/us/von-nukem-suicide-drug-cha...
A video demonstration, cleaner example of what it is, etc... You can experience it by observation
What??

For years, I've been using my laptops connected to external monitors and I/O devices with the lid closed. I've never had any of them get anywhere near hot enough to damage the screen.

I wouldn't be so quick to blame that on Linux as much as it seems there was a hardware fault in the laptop.
Markus Winand's "Use The Index, Luke" site is the classic reference. It covers most of the major DBs, but also gets into PG specifics.

https://use-the-index-luke.com/sql/explain-plan/postgresql/o...

Understanding query plans is a universal skill that mostly transcends database particulars, so even this Planetscale article will serve as a good primer too.
There are finned LED bulbs which can fit standard Edison Screw sockets, e.g.:

<https://www.designboom.com/technology/self-cooling-100-watt-...>

<https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b5/c2/c5/b5c2c5d69fb240a571ba...>

It's also helpful to recognise that existing lighting fixtures and lamps were designed around the constraints of incandescent bulbs. The first generation of LED bulbs and lamps largely conform to these. As LEDs mature, both fixtures and lamps which address the limitations and requirements of the technology (transformers, perhaps dedicated 12v circuits, heat dissipation for the transformer rather than lighting elements themselves, and better light-temperature and intensity regulation) should emerge.

We're presently in the somewhat-messy half-emerged state. Think horseless carriages, wireless, and the days of dual gas/electric lighting and lamping systems (yes, these existed, and yes, the failure modes were ... much as you might imagine).
> Somehow not surprised Bellard is also going to make an impact in AI[... ]

He also wrote an engine: "LibNC: C Library for Tensor Manipulation"

https://bellard.org/libnc/

> [ ...]/LLMs

That could be a wish come true.

Edit: in fact, already one of his marks can be seen: «Larger models work optimally on lower cost GPUs (e.g. RTX 3090, RTX A6000) thanks to efficient quantization»
Would this be the sound of fibers under nourished compounded with growth or structural changes? Like a house settling during temperature, humidity changes?
> I get where you're coming from and it'd definitely agree that the average keyboards has strongly converged on a standardized layout.

They didn't converge: that was my whole point. They never diverged (significantly) from the original typewriter. All of the letter keys are in the same relative position.

Where to place function and return was a new question (the typewriter didn't have those), so naturally that aspect actually had variance until converging on a few standards.

Take one look at a dactyl, and you can see what I mean.
In my hometown when I was growing up, the longtime sheriff was convicted of drug trafficking. It made me wonder how often law enforcement is directly involved in the drug trade.
My main issue with Fedora/gnome is that it doesn't remember where I had app windows when I reopen them. I know in the Xwindows days apps would remember and place themselves. With Wayland apps don't have access to their environment (which I understand and agree with) so IMHO that means the DE has to remember, which seems more sensible anyway.
I would be astonished if customs even finds it useful to appropriate any budget for seizure of Cuban cigars. It wouldn't surprise me if they let them through because it's less work than filling out the seizure paperwork. Everyone knows it's a measure that achieves nothing, and not even the rabid anti-drug people are going to give them an attaboy for finding tobacco, and the political will to do anything meaningfully further with the embargo is withering.
Exactly this. Despite the promise of open source and computing "empowering" users, see the last 20 years for a refutation. Most people live in a silo - Apple, Microsoft, Google, some combination. AI is not an equalizer of user power, but an amplifier of those who already have it. AI coupled with the big data that made AI possible plus the holders of big data knowing who you are, where you are, who you associate with, what you say, and potentially even what you think... yet some people still believe it is somehow a democratizing force.
Whoops, sorry -- full discussion on a slightly different URL over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35312352
Even more interesting reverse of that, hairworms that infect grasshoppers will once mature cause the hosts to jump into water and drown where the worm then reproduces before starting the cycle again.
It already is a game changer, Bing Chat's Creative mode appears to be using >8k token context (though I'm not sure if it's 16k or 32k).
The SV formula has always been: Get users. Get big. Go home.

Facebook and Twitter and Google and the rest have all got their users with free cool, dynamic development over the years. They've grown and pushed (and bought) everyone else and they've all sold the vast majority of themselves and everyone involved is insanely rich. The current owners are shareholders.

The people on the hook for these things (looking at you, Musk) are desperately trying to figure out where the monetisation's at. Damn everything else. If they can't turn these money pits into a business, what's the point.

I'm still hopeful there'll be a point in time where we're comfortable paying for services, and that these companies find a way to deliver on that value without making us the product. I'd happily pay $10/mo for search that genuinely trie to find the best results. Same for social media.
If you have a smaller number of parameters, then quadratic descent (eg. Levenberg Marquardt) is a lot faster for most problems.

Gradient descent is only used for NN because we initialize all the parameters to random values, so the assumption of the JtJ approximating the Hessian (required by LM) doesn't hold, since residuals are too high. I suspect there might also be something about the learning rate effectively being too high when using quadratic descent.

Even for large problems there are techniques like LBFGS which converge a lot faster than gradient descent, that don't require O(N^2) memory on the number of parameters.
He leaves me totally cold. IMO he's very unmusical, like a guitar shredder but 100000x worse.
At the moment, yes, since our MVP is still pretty limited. We have a first draft of a protocol for integrating any components/theme into Noya that should support the use case you're describing. It still needs some more iteration though before we ship it!
So now changing the "lightbulb" becomes an infinitely harder task, and in some areas requires you to pull a permit and or hire an electrician (e.g. do you think a retiree is going to change this themselves?). This seems nice predicated that LEDs last 10-years or longer, which per the article and elsewhere isn't the case.

This movement away from standard bulb-sockets to direct wiring is short-term-ism at its finest. Least of all because very time you rewire this, you're going to degrade or shorten the wires.
"Return to the office" brought to you by the people who have a bunch of money tied up in the commercial real estate market
Why not just run it as a chromium app at that point?
You sound like a very self-reflected founder to admit this!

Wish more YC founders could learn from you
Misleading title ("Their" Genes). I don't see what introners have to do with the human genome??
They found evidence for introners in 5% of species...

Original paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2209766119
Midjourney kills free AI image generator access after explosion of deep fakes
> I stopped taking the train after a ride where we had to evacuate because someone was smoking fentanyl (apparently even the second-hand smoke can affect a person).

This is obviously proscribed under most localities' current regulations, since we mostly ban regular tobacco smoking indoors. Legalization advocates are not advocating for tolerating involuntary exposure or other externalities. Enforce the existing laws against second hand smoke, DUI, etc.

> we have people using in my neighborhood park

Annoying for sure. In my neighborhood, dog shit and hobo piss are omnipresent sidewalk hazards. But I don't think there's a solution to the dregs of society being a highly visible/smellable nuisance - real estate tends to be stratified by class, and I'm not financially equipped to insulate myself like the upper ones. Until we decide to actually deal with the economics that produce these frictions, it's just a fact of life.
It seems as though you're just defending unreasonable behaviour in the sprit of diversity. Assigning value to things necessitates narrowing the diversity of all possibility. I'm not clear on what value exactly tolerating unreasonable behaviour provides, can you elaborate?

To most effectively ameliorate impolite situations we need clear, written codes of conduct (read: communication protocols) dictating what is and isn't polite to say, and explaining why. None of this "It feels impolite to me therefore it is impolite" nonsense. Clarifying and standardizing communication is unsurprisingly the best way to avoid miscommunication.

The military's main goal is to succeed (read: win). I concede that organizations optimize for adequacy, but hold that organizations that consistently meet and exceed their objectives are those to be emulated.

Many people working at very high-functioning (military and civilian) organizations (and teams) report an environment of clear, direct, communication and a culture of personal responsibility and ownership. These traits are antithetical to the indirect, blame-shifting style that is being advocated in the above thread. If something is your fault, you should be the first person to admit it, and others should not hesitate to (directly) point it out. This is a hallmark of high-functioning teams, and is a great example of how communication style is inseparable from wider team and organizational culture. And it's the culture of ownership found in high-functioning organizations that we should all aspire to.
AI is unstoppable, it is a race.

On the other hand, problems related to climate change are solvable, but only using science and technology, there is no way around that. Putting the heating a few degrees lower or only use windmills and solar panels will only slow down, not mitagate the risks, it is too little too late. We need more sophisticated solutions. Do you see any other way than more intelligence? I mean better models, faster accurate simulations and prototypes.

On the world order front: machines might come to know us better than we know ourselves and provide us with a solution.

AI could be arriving just-in-time.
I wish retool had two things, more granular permissions for users on team plan. right now this is reserved for enterprise. I can not simply share only specific apps to certain users.

I wish to be able to pay yearly. We are on a hosted solution.
On the desktop, newer kernel usually means more stable, although it becomes less true as the hardware running it ages.
closure_matching: wat!

I figure out that "|_| Some(2) =>" in a match arm is just a disguise for the alternation "_ | Some(2)" with prefix separator, but what does the `let` do there?
>> What makes you think those results would be neural, and not sponsored/SEOed the same way everything is these days?

> Because it would be the less profitable bussiness.

How so? Considering that almost everything on the web right now runs on ad revenue, why would they pass on the opportunity to cash on that if they do no worse than the rest? Especially considering how lucrative those referrals might be, with our lack of preparedness countering those with traditional ad blocking techniques and being more susceptible due to inexperience.

> We are just not all ready to accept all the same shortcomings also apply to humans.

Because they do not. If you hire a human to do a job for you, you are bound by a contract (and protections, and recourses and enforcement). In the end you will be able to know whether you got robbed into a referral scheme and that's bad for business. With this kind of AI, the result is all you get (technically there is no way to explain it), which gives unfair deniability. Regulators might end up ruling whole classes of algorithms as unfit for purpose/deceptive, and I would personally applaud that. We are just at the beginning of all that and we should focus on developing the technology so it keeps working for us reliably, and not against us or under undetermined circumstances.
To make Ubuntu a lot more tolerable, uninstall Firefox Snap, grab Firefox from mozilla.org, unpack to a folder of your choice. It will work fine and even auto-update itself.
We didn't take 375k in fact. In W22 batch they were optional, and would trigger MFN for many. As for the rest of money, we returned what has been left. That's why closing so rapidly - to be able to return more.
We were W22. It was a HUGE batch and we were raising at a large valuation, during the boom, so the YC standard deal didn't make financial sense for us.

IIRC as soon as we signed the deal they would have 10x'd.

Overall, I think not signing was a mistake. But YC is very expensive.
100% right is likely impossible, but the way it was written it made it sound as if it was right 50% of the time, which is essentially the worst you can do. Anything below or above that is valuable. Obviously, the closer to 0% or 100% the better.
The original claim makes no sense to me, nor does your complaint; `git revert` specifically creates new history rather than trying to do something rebase-like and change history/force push. That's why it's easy to revert the revert. Yes, I highly recommend git revert.

So if the author really means "git revert with a nicer user interface" then by all means have at it, although I don't see what anybody is disagreeing on.