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People thought he had some engineering skills, until he took over Twitter and started talking about all the idiotic engineering decisions he was making.
Believe me, I'm fully aware of the differences between copyright and patents. But the "open source" licensing isn't so different between the two.

Open source licensing originated with copyright because, in the US, it is not possible to release something into the public domain. Your copyright is automatic and you can't renounce it.

OSS licenses are an attempt to leverage copyright law in order to accomplish something that approximates the important features of putting something in the public domain.

This is not necessary with patents, because nothing is automatically patented and you can absolutely renounce patents.

That said, as OSS licenses evolved, they became more than trying to approximate putting things in the public domain. They started to carve out a space that isn't fully public domain, but also isn't fully proprietary.

It's this sort of licensing that could have huge value with hardware. And that licensing would rest on the legal rights of having a patent, just like how with software, it rests on the legal rights of having copyright.

So, in the end, the principle is the same regardless of whether the underpinnings is copyright or patent.

Although, since (unlike copyright), patents actually have a reasonably short lifespan, this effort is less necessary with hardware. It's entirely feasible just to wait until the patents expire and they enter the public domain.
Clip Image and ANN Vector Search in the Browser (With ONNX, Rust)
Firefox runs like cold molassas on Android, unfortunately.

Bromite seems like its sticking around, fortunately.
Definitely down for more Habermas in my feeds. No opinion here but interesting social theories.
The nokia 3310 was amazing.

But compared to what we have today, it's very basic.

Same for chatgpt.
How are the Mirage containers powered and controlled? You have a very interesting product and I wish y'all the best of luck!

Also, there's something about the animations in your demo video that reminds me of a Dahir Insaat video.
I have one and the hardware is so slow and the software ecosystem is still so incomplete... I understand still holding out for a 'good' Linux phone despite those things.
My Honda did… I was pre signed up for my convenience. and apparently they gave XM my address too because I started getting regular mail when the trial ran out..
I get that this discussion is a simplified presentation of arguments, but to add nuance and depth:

• I personally text to send quick updates that don't need an immediate response, exchange funny GIFs, share links, and forward small documents. I can also clarify my communication with emojis or reacts (done well, this is the "tone of voice"/"facial expression"/non-verbal communication of medium of texting).

• But I wouldn't spend a half-hour to hour-long session just texting someone to catch up with their life, nor would I use text for an important, complex conversation. Then again, I typically wouldn't video chat someone to receive a very quick update about something.

Similarly, in VR, perhaps the medium can provide a method communication that is more rich than both texting and video calls, which adds something instead of acting as a substitute for something else. Maybe VR will make it easier for people to share and compare multiple screens at once (to compare a document or code). VR is already great at presenting certain types of artwork in museums (e.g. an immersive 3-D sculpture with music and a beautiful background, which nicely complemented a physical display of artwork).

Perhaps in certain fields (maybe architecture, design, film production, or video game development?) VR can become the preferred way to communicate, where people can prefer to use VR instead of video calls or text updates—especially if VR becomes commonplace.
Security is not remotely comparable. Google couldn't even be bother to fix the glaring Wifi attack that their _own_ team found. I would be scared to own an Android phone, even a Pixel.

Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBxBUIoeNYo&t=603s
I think the silver lining of loneliness being so prevalent is that other people are feeling it too and want to do something about it. Knowing nothing about your situation I would guess that statistically if you're feeling lonely then your friends are also likely to feel lonely -- maybe they also say that their friends don't call them. I think this is a great opportunity in that there's desire from other people to connect with you that you could tap into.

Speaking from my own experience, it's very uncomfortable to be forward about trying to make friends / strengthen friendships. It reminds me of the stigma that online dating had when I first did it circa 2010 -- it has a connotation of being "desperate", and maybe that cool people wouldn't have to be desperate. But in my personal experience I've seen this shift a lot in the last year, where there is a lot of relief and appreciation when I mention wanting more friends and hint that I want to be friends with the person I'm talking to (they often respond by saying that they want more friends too). So I personally decided that I would rather risk looking desperate than feel lonely, and I recommend that tradeoff, especially because it's not perceived negatively like we worry it will be.

That's not to say that I think there's some easy option that I think you're avoiding; from my experience it has taken a number of incremental steps (and it's not like I've fully "solved" it). I guess I'm just trying to say don't get discouraged by the magnitude of the situation -- it might seem like a single phone call to a friend could never make a difference, but things like that add up over time.

As for practical suggestions, I've found video games to be a good activity to do with people that I don't live near. I've also found Buddhist meditation to be a great option for this -- it has the same sort of social structure and benefits as organized religion, but without requiring any particular sorts of beliefs or devotions. A lot of that has moved online these days -- I haven't tried this out but there are things like this https://www.sit-heads.com/
My dad had devastating lower back pain that he described as being stabbed by a knife, and no history of heart disease. I understand that I need to make choices to minimize the possibility of this happening to me, and I nevertheless believe that heart disease is the more significant health threat.
Fyi I don't think this issue is limited to Safari, I've seen the exact same problem in some third-party apps which, as far as I can tell, look and feel native.
Mullvad wants this browser to use usable even by people who don't use their VPN. Tor Browser is never intended to be used outside the Tor network.
> EDIT: looks like they have _not_ cleaned up their act whatsoever:

That link states that is is fixed now, though?
Well, if Mozilla's own web developer API documentation contradicts the spec here, then I'd say that none of the browser vendors are doing on good job on this particular issue.
yeah, it is very easy, and I'm trying to be very non-specific.
Yes! However LDP and and especially RSVP weren't. Thankfully with Segment Routing and PCE it's kind of solved problem now.
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more like memory mis-reporting, since when you mmap a file in, IIRC that counts against page cache rather than memory usage (you can evict the page without causing write IO so the memory isn't "used")
> There's far too much uncertainty right now to engage in anything like planning.

I agree there's a huge amount of uncertainty. But I think there still must be some sort of plan B. Maybe a sort of nest egg of sorts of what to do in case it all goes to shit.
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Too bad polars like everything else written in rust has horrible ergonomics. I don’t know how anyone can look at the polars rust API and say in good faith that not having default arguments and named parameters was a good idea.
Some phones do. I had a Motorolla G5 Plus a couple years ago, and used it often to listen to the radio on walks.
My idea is more fun. To give a simple example: One can serve the odd rows of pixels first and construct the image when half the data is received. We can slice it horizontally and vertically as often as we want. Say 2784x1856 can be served as 100 images 280x190 one after the other.

When rendering a web document requires only a small version it needs only request the part it wants. Crappy resolution is desirable on a slow connection, with limited ram or a small screen. If the next customer wants to zoom in on it on his 4K display he can download the entire thing.
It's not even FTDI, it's any of them.

And if you plug it into a different socket, it has to go on the Internet to find the driver all over again.

Janky.
My two year old M1 Mac is going so strong I don't see why I should buy a M2 machine.

Yes, it has more cores and is more power efficient but the end user experience of browsing HN and running Xcode wouldn't be improved much. Not enough to shell out for a new machine at least.

The M1 is just too good. Unless Apple adds some insane stuff to the M3 I think I'll be upgrading with the M5.
There is good reason to have such feelings about music, however. In the last 10-15 years autotune has really become common, and it has not done good things for mainstream music. At the same time, the quality of the masters from around 1970 and later are good enough that a modern re-master has quality as good as anything recorded today. This gives music from that era staying power it wouldn't otherwise have.
> I'm starting to wonder if it's organized.

While I strongly disagree with that GP post, baseless speculation invoking conspiracy theories, just because you disagree with an opposing point of view, is one of the primary reasons I don't use Twitter. Please don't bring that to HN.
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You're blaming this all on the shutdowns, but really, much of what we're dealing with right now is due to a response by the federal reserve that lasted a lot longer than it should have.

I don't think 'the economy' is worth millions of deaths. The fact that over 1m people died in the US is an absolute disgrace, but had we done nothing, we would have had another 3-4M dead. You really think it's possible to have a functioning economy with that sort of death toll? The actual 'shutdowns' were very short lived. Much of what you're discribing is down to natural human behavior in the face of risk. Even if covid only has a 1% death rate, the rates of long term side effects of infection are what? 10%? That's huge, and 'long covid' is something we're still grappling with today, and will do so in the future.

China is an excellent example of what not to do. After years of zero-covid policies they've effectively given up, let the chips fall where they may, and their economy is getting ravaged as covid burns through their population.
What OpenAI API calls allow sending these small chunks?

When you query something like "What is this research about?" is it able to use data from all chunks?
Awesome - I knew about vectorising/embeddings for semantic search, but I hadn't thought of using the search results as a prompt prefix - clever!
Why is a retracting mast preferable to a freestanding rig with, e.g. a roller furling main or a nonsuch style wishbone boom? Is there a physics reason or is this a pragmatic trade-off to fit under bridges and stay out of the way during loading?
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It's super interesting that you immediately started railing against the government, which I didn't even mention. I'm critical of currently-popular economic dogma, and I don't understand why that should imply that I'm some kind of authoritarian socialist.
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Last year I asked the numbers to our IT department for a similar discussion.

On about 2000 macbooks, 2000 thinkbooks and 6000 hp elitebooks, all of various generations, the macbooks scored best on reliability and best on 'how many tickets do these users create for our service desk'.

The cost savings are there. But obviously there was still a significant amount of issues with these laptops. They are not perfect, but they performed better than the other two families.

The big issue with macbooks is usually that if they fail after 3 years, they are an immediate write off. The others get repaired. Oh and those butterfly keyboard years were horrible and nearly stopped us from allowing macbooks apparently.
I was not previously aware of ACT, but as someone who went down a rabbit hole of mindfulness meditation with a side of (secular) Buddhist philosophy, it struck me how similar some aspects of this are. In particular, the focus on aversion and the realization that aversion is usually worse than whatever pain is involved in the thing we’re avoiding.

Going down this particular path has been life changing as someone who grew up in an environment that essentially conditioned me to default to aversion/avoidance, a default that culminated in a pretty big burnout.

Realizing that aversion/avoidance was almost always much worse than the thing I was avoiding was a major aha moment, and realizing that this could be corrected is when my life started changing.

Whether it’s ACT or some form of mindfulness+related philosophy, I can’t recommend this kind of internal exploration enough. The associated mental shifts are like freeing up numerous processor cores that were previously consumed by unhelpful thoughts and feelings.

Mindfulness meditation was the tool that made this go from something that I knew intellectually, to something I could observe directly within myself. Once you can see these things clearly, changing them becomes far easier.
Everyone's talking about foreign prices and inflation, but foreign prices have always been absurd.

I think we've just hit the end of the COVID-era hardware refresh wave. Literally everyone has already bought new hardware they've been wanting to buy, the supply chain crush ended months ago. In addition, the number of people who were desperately waiting on Apple to move away from Intel have now all bought in. We've just entered a quiet period.
My understanding is that it maps a file directly to memory to reduce disk usage.
So what? Job hopping has been the norm for so long.

I don't want to be kept. Even if they wanted to keep me, they most likely wouldn't make it anyway.
Tor is borderline useless for privacy. It was literally built for the government [1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(network)#History
Going to work.
K3s seems like a terrible name, given how people will be confused with the numeronym for Kubernetes.
the title doesn't make sense, it reads like "comparing Ubuntu with Linux, How Ubuntu is often the better choice".

k3s is a kubernetes distribution
Well, yeah.

Short version: the claim that llama could use much less memory by memory-mapping the model data file was wrong. It's just that the Linux utilities for memory use don't count memory-mapped file area.
Yes, thank you for pointing this out. To be more precise about it:

Original PNG: 1310987 bytes
Lossy PNG: 1154386 bytes (90.4% of LZ4i)
Lossy LZ4i: 1276477 bytes
More Lossy PNG: 693278 bytes
More Lossy LZ4i: 818774 bytes (84.7% of LZ4i)

So it's notable that this lossy PNG technique has diminishing returns for LZ4i - it actually becomes more effective as a PNG preprocessor as you get more lossy, relative to LZ4i!

Still, there's a decent argument that PNG is no longer Pareto-optimal. There's stuff that gets close to the same compression ratio but decompresses much faster, and there's stuff that compresses much better and is also lossless, e.g. JPEG-XL lossless mode.
My experience is that Polars generally isn't supported by third party libraries, hopefully tjst'll change soon but in the meantime it has some pretty snappy to and from pandas functionality, so converting when you hit a library that needs pandas often still brings a good deal of speedups.
Can you bill the time as a tax write-off?
Yeah, a lesser host might be tempted to be a little cocky in front of a big celeb and try to one-up them on their spice tolerance. But Sean is always okay playing second fiddle.
> The idea isn't to write better code faster, it's to build better products faster.

All else being equal, better code means better products.

Also, to have a better product without better code, you're implying that the design of the product is better and that these "AI" tools help with that.

Until they can reason, they cannot help with design.
You can do some simple multi-colour work if you knot symmetrically and you have appropriate length threads (one super long base colour, usually). For seldom used colours in the bracelet, it's a bit like multi colour 3D printing with purge-to-infill. You just go back and forth with the background to hide the colour you're going to use later and the background just weaves back and forth over the threads (instead of adding a knot on each thread each time). The knots are the same as usual, but you do a mirror image to reverse the direction. It's less pretty than these, but you can easily do single colour pixel fonts. It requires a bit of planning if you need to move colours around to different columns though.
Transcribed by a token predictor,

A machine that pretends to think.
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> a perennial problem with students in particular.

is it? AFAIK kids these days need less storage than ever before, because everything's cloud based. No one has itunes libraries, its spotify/applemusic subscriptions. etc.
What a horrifying business model to add to an already horrifying, parasitic line of work!
That's a nice bumper sticker, but managed markets and other non-laissez-faire economies, like the ones in India and China, could make a similar claim, even though I wouldn't want to live under them.
The "Lossy" images on there also compress much better as PNG files, as PNG uses Deflate, which combines LZ-compression with Huffman compression.
Sweden doesn't care about NS2, but they'd rather not embarass the US (if this is true). After all both countries were very vocal since day 1 that Russia blew up their own pipelines. I'd love to find out the truth, even 10 years from now.