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WASM GC is already shipped with Chrome. Flutter is already compiling to WASM on the web and can execute with Chrome and apparently Firefox now, using the "native" GC instead of shipping one with the Dart runtime: https://docs.flutter.dev/platform-integration/web/wasm

EDIT : to clarify it, both Chrome and Firefox (nightly) require feature flags to enable WASM GC as of writing.
To me, screen tearing is if anything good since it indicates that the pixels on the monitor are seeing the most recent data from the GPU at all times. I think the people behind wayland just don't care about my use case.
I think many of us will be really interested to know exactly what syntax you found the crashes it.
> While I agree with everything else you said, this is only technically true, last I checked. Only small island nations had more expensive electricity.

That's probably right if you take last year's prices (these were insane, that's correct). But right now you can buy electricity again for 2X ct/kwh, which is still on the more expensive side but certainly not the highest price in the world.
You could try to perform a silence detection, if there is a silence after every song.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42507879/how-to-detect-t...

ffmpeg -i audio.mp3 -af silencedetect=n=-50dB:d=0.5 -f null - 2>&1

# -50dB is the threshold for detecting audio as a silence
# 0.5 means the silences must at least have a duration of 0.5 seconds

In your case I would try:

ffmpeg -i audio.mp3 -af silencedetect=n=-30dB:d=2.5 -f null - 2>&1

That should give you a pretty accurate list of where the songs begin and end... that way, you can extract the songs and run fingerprinting.

After this, you could use the ability of `tone` to add `chapters` to audio files (for mp3 it is id3v2 chapter addendum, see https://mutagen-specs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/id3/id3v2-cha...) to have at least marks for each track as title. MP3 chapters will not be recognized by most players, but at least it is within the specs.
As an end-run around the trademark policy in the iceweasel style, crablang is useless. You can already use rust without being in violation of the trademark policy - you just can’t name your project rust-foo or call your compiler rusty unless it’s actually rustc. Crablang doesn’t change anything about that.

The iceweasel situation is different AFAIR - Mozilla (IMHO reasonably) wants binaries that are called Firefox to be unmodified Firefox to avoid confusion, bug reports etc. Debian didn’t want to respect that policy and this decided to fork and patch, renaming the project to comply with the policy. You can do the same for rust, but that’s not what crablang does, at least now.
If they truly don't want the tech - meaning this is a straight-up acqui-hire - then the employees of the acquired company continue to have a job, and ideally some sort of bonus or earn out for staying N months or years. It is a nicer landing than bankruptcy.

The executives of the firm being acquired usually don't come, unless they have some skillset the acquiring company needs. But they (hopefully) get a cash bonus for the successful acquisition.

Everything is negotiable of course.
They don't want 25k they want jobs in the next presidential administration
Part of the complaint being made by Molsen is that even after two days of deposition, he's being asked to return for more, for is critique in a blog post. Is that considered normal in a case like this? If it is normal, are there some protections to keep a witness from continuously being deposed to the point that it is abuse, or is that something that one side would take up with the judge?
> Those are mistakes

They are not just mistakes, they are mistakes at scale. Mistakes en masse. Thus, they are mistakes that should carry a heavy weight and a heavy culpability for the wreckless carelessness that brought them about.

If I made a mistake and my software enabled mass media piracy, lawyers can, would and should come after me regardless of me or my software's pledge to learn and make those mistakes "more rare".

Especially if I keep committing those mistakes and cover up for them by adding individual specific blacklists rather than making expensive systemic fixes.
Today's real issues are not that important compared to human extinction.
You thought correctly.
> I’d say this is like worrying about deadly quantum laser weapons that will consume the planet when we are still in the AK47 phase.

Directed energy weapons will almost certainly exist eventually, to some extent they already do.

The reason why it makes more sense to worry about AGI than laser weapons is that when you try to make a laser weapon but fail slightly not much happens: either you miss the target or it doesn't fire.

When you try to make an aligned superintelligence and slightly fail you potentially end up with an unaligned superintelligence, hence the panic.
IANAL also, but who knows, there could be some technicality or loophole that lets them do shit like that

Btw Fuck Amazon
I agree.

But as you can see yourself, there are countless people even here, in a technical forum, who claim that AI poses no plausible threat whatsoever. I fail to see how one can reasonably believe that.
Yes, of course, they benefit hugely from the ability to select students. They're also less answerable to parents or the public than public schools, in many way, which can free them up to ignore stupid demands from parents (they select families, as much as they select students)—or free them up to maintain stupid policies or approaches that could never fly in public schools, which is sometimes exactly what their customers want (as in the case of e.g. fundamentalist religious schools). They're more answerable to the set of expectations they've created for their families, than to the particular whims or desires of any given family, or any constituency present in the broader public.

... which doesn't necessarily mean preferring a better school that's only better due to selection bias (and knock-on effects from being able to remove very-disruptive or low performing students) is a bad way to go, at the individual level, if one has that option. The observation's more relevant to policy-making, than to the relative merits of those options to any given family.
Cost savings was definitely a factor, but this is the key point from the article:

"And yet, until very recently, Lyft had limited control over that navigation experience, which was built using Google Maps.
“For our entire existence, we couldn’t fundamentally change that product,” says director of project management Ben Schrom."

I've worked in the mapping space for more than 20 years and I can tell you one of the biggest annoyances with using third party mapping data is that you are beholden to their cadence and tooling for making updates to the map - you have virtually no control over the data. This is a big reason both Google and Apple built their own map.

The benefit of using OSM is that you are provided decent tooling and a relatively streamlined process for making updates. Map data quality is incredibly important, especially for navigation and it's really hard to manage because the map is always changing - it's not a static thing.
I think that covers it. Backlogged tabs are like bookmarks, but more immediate and less work (no question of what folder they go in).
I ponder how many engineers remain at VMware that still play tricks like that. These days Workstation seems like a carcass of its older self.
It's Google's fault because there's no "remove me from having access to this" button.
> This means something about Mozilla policies/politics is going wrong.

Again.
People who want to "be authentic" instead of just "getting a degree" will suffer.

This is exactly how civilizations (eventually) collapse.

It wasn't always this way and people weren't always so fearful as they are now.
Did you reply to your review at least, to complete the circle? /s
> How do you start screening without an annual physical? You book doodle appointments from things you saw on Wikipedia? I just can't, stop. Calm.

So basically your point here is that you claim it is impossible to convey information about standard screening schedules without doing an annual physical? I mean you understand that's a ridiculous claim right? It could be done by a doctor over the phone, or a nurse, or another system.

Your point is totally illogical. Why does it need to be yearly? Why not every other year? Why not every 6 months. Even taking your ridiculous claim as fact, it doesn't imply anything about how often these physical exams need to occur.

> This is insane and your ego too.

My ego? You've claimed over and over how bad the article is, yet you haven't pointed out any reasoning supporting your statement. You are the one with an enormous ego. You seem totally incapable of accepting that maybe just maybe you could possibly be wrong. Learn a little humility.
I see that the specs are defined in 2019 excluding the Websockets spec in 2020. So over 3 years, these specs are implemented almost only by Fastmail. It feels like it is yet another standard [0], which could not be adopted by neither commercial nor open source email servers and clients.

0. https://xkcd.com/927/
The only risk with AI is that it will be abused by the wealthy and the powerful, especially autocrats, who will no longer need labor, only natural resources. Hence the solution is to promote worldwide democracy and public ownership of natural resources instead of diverting attention to technology.

In this particular case, one cannot miss the irony of the wealthy and the powerful offering us protection if only we entrust them with full control of AI.
No, the virus is far harder to kill than a human. You have to crate a virus killer that also does not also kill the human host. That is astronomically harder than making a virus that kills.
Given his available paths and options of how to proceed are vastly different between being sued himself and being subpoenaed in a lawsuit between other parties, I would not call it an irrelevant technical detail.
SUSE and openSUSE leadership declare Conservatives to be “Rotten Flesh”
But the air is very dirty - wouldn't that be a problem?
Yeah, I haven't done the math, so I don't know what the exact boundary would be. Supposedly Quest 2's tracking is precise down to ~7mm, SteamVR to 75mm, so depending on the system, micro head movements may not be larger than IOD. Assuming we discount micro head movements, then the ICD is the only stereo cue. I think I remember seeing someone do the math once and said devices like the Oculus DK2 couldn't show anything beyond 10m for 0.07m displacement. Or something like that. Notionally, for some pixel size S, you will not be able to see a discernable difference at Z distance for X view displacement; the left and right eyes will resolve objects to the same pixels.
I'm guessing the critical issue is this assertion in the original blog post

If we sell our products for less on channels outside Amazon and Amazon detects this, our products will not appear as prominently in search and, if you do find them, they will lose their prime check mark and with that, their sales.

Everything else seems pretty straightforward facts or opinions, but that bit attributes some significant behavior to Amazon without providing any sort of evidence that it happens.
This is great!

Addressing the model limitations a bit: in the demonstration data that is provided to the base model, we should prevent computed or "looked up" answers.

I've seen some of the demonstration data that people are using to train instruction-tuned models and are being taught to respond by making up answers to solutions it shouldn't try to compute. Btw, the output is wrong.

{ "instruction": "What would be the output of the following JavaScript snippet?", "input": "let area = 6 * 5;\nlet radius = area / 3.14;", "output": "The output of the JavaScript snippet is the radius, which is 1.91." }, [1]

The UI note for now would get us very far but by filtering out demonstrations that retrieve or compute information we can go even farther.

Symbol tuning [2] is addressing the quality of demonstrations but we can take it further by removing retrievals and computations altogether.

Bonus: we can demonstrate how to make it respond so that the user/agent be informed of how to compute or retrieve.

1: https://github.com/sahil280114/codealpaca/commit/0d265112c70...

2: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.08298
As a non-lawyer, at what point does that become abuse?

How much of my time do I have to burn for free because someone else is suing someone else, and my name came up?
Makes a lot of sense, thank you! I'm not much into Rails these days, but that's one thing I really appreciate about RoR's "frontend" efforts - their work tends to be quite reusable across ecosystems, e.g. Stimulus, Turbo, and apparently even Hotwire itself [0]. Heck, that even seems to apply to a lot of their non-frontend stuff, such as MRSK [1].

[0] https://www.akshaykhot.com/using-hotwire-without-rails/

[1] https://mrsk.dev/
I miss these kinds of articles on the net. Is anyone else reminded of the CPU Praxis articles that were part of ARS Technica's early rise to popularity? I really miss those. This article, is of course, much shorter, but still, I miss that sort of content on the internet.
Generally the philosophy I think works best is to tax activity you might well allow but want less of to close incentive gaps for things you want more of.

So, I'm pretty interested in vacancy taxes, because that's something we definitely want less of.

I can't think of how that would apply to people who got <4% mortgage rates. If you want fewer low-interest mortgages, you can just raise mortgage rates, which has happened. And I can't think of any behavior associated with past low-interest mortgages that is a problem that wouldn't be better addressed directly, especially without hitting people who are just living in their home they were lucky enough to get a good rate on.

Punitive and unfocused stuff like that probably would never happen. But I think vacancy taxes are politically viable, along with things like property taxes that increase with regional volume of ownership or rent prices above a standard deviation from median.
Hacking my “smart” toothbrush
Ask HN: Where have you found community outside of work?
Asking for myself and those who are looking for what good communities often provide: feeling of connection, purpose, a place to go, etc.
The UI issue is that the chat itself has no error messages or even warnings for many things it can’t do. Imagine a compiler that worked that way. (Well, they are sometimes like that, such as undefined behavior in C, but we know why that’s a problem, right?) A blanket disclaimer isn’t a substitute for more specific error messages.

The reason there often aren’t good warnings or errors is that the LLM itself doesn’t know its own capabilities. Warnings need to be trained in, and there are lots of gaps.

Whenever you ask it why it wrote something, it should warn that it doesn’t know [1], but it can make a guess. Whenever you ask it for citations, it should warn that it’s guessing and they might not exist. And so on.

[1] https://skybrian.substack.com/p/ai-chatbots-dont-know-why-th...
Do you imagine 4/5 are impossible because you haven't seen some proof? What would constitute such a proof?

superintelligence and intelligence aren't different in type. only in magnitude. intelligence is bounded only by physics and energy.

recursive self improvement is just a tighter loop than natural selection, biological reproduction and cellular growth.
I guess from Twitter threads and bitcoin podcasts. It seems to me that bitcoin is trying to be Fedwire, not Visa.

Plus, trying to generally replace fiat and the monetary standard.

To be clear, when I say "bitcoin", I mean the L1.
This seems complicated and messy. A few random thoughts, I am not a lawyer...

* being a critic of Amazon's policies IS being a critic of Amazon. There is nothing wrong with either but let's not pretend they are different.

* he made a specific claim: that amazon's policies increased prices for consumers, that is VERY hard to define, let alone. You could argue just as well that their policies REDUCED prices on Amazon. I think that was foolish as he has invited this suit and now has to offer some defence. If his claims were repeated to congress, he might have some immunity there, but I don't think that applies to a civil suit...

* the CA DA who brought the main case should be assisting here, as he is "their witness". That might mean helping get documents, it might mean quashing requests for them etc.

* the US legal system is a huge mess and basically whoever is willing to spend the most money probably wins. "Don't hate the player" etc.

* I wonder how courts will rule on this policy, I can see arguments both ways...
A minimal ChatGPT Neovim plugin
A minimal neovim plugin to ask ChatGPT about your code. For those who want it at hand for quick queries, but don't need the bloat of a full blown ChatGPT interface.
Bootstrap 5.3.0 Is Here
The verge is a GPT 3.0 level bot responding to the prompt "please generate a plausible sounding but fake problem with technology <x> that is alarmist and will wind people up who don't understand the technology well."

Week after week of silly fake alarm.
> while the developer only has to think in single threaded mode because deadlocks and data races are literally impossible

Does Elixir somehow automatically solve the case where a row in a database is loaded into memory simultaneously across multiple requests and a value is incremented? (can be easily solved with row locking, but still needs to be done explicitly at the application level)
I’ve been hearing about Jai for, what, maybe close to a decade already?! Is it actually gonna happen? I feel like it’s one of those languages that falls under the category of vaporware.
This is a period of uncertainty in the world, so buyers are waiting for lower prices
I'm willing to bet they are moving from databricks offerings, considering their pricing is insanity.
I was about to mention EGCS, then looked it up to refresh my memory: wow, that split didn't even last two years, crazy how the passage of time changes as you become less young.
It depends on what you mean by "this discussion", but I don't think that follows.

If for example, we were in scenario 2 and it was still the case that a large number of people thought AI doomsday was a serious risk, then that would be a much stronger argument for taking the idea of AI doomsday seriously. If on the other hand we are in scenario 1, where there is a long history of people falling prey to apocalypticism, then that means any new doomsday claims are also more likely to be a result of apocalypticism.

I agree that is is likely that humans will go extinct eventually, but I am talking specifically about AI doomsday in this discussion.
> The Rust Foundation (responsible for trademark drama) and the Rust Project (at fault for conference drama) are separate entities.

They both appear to share the same tone-deafness, though.
I think you can see a modern CPU as a network. There are some beefy servers doing all the heavy lifting which is what the outsiders see. But there's also a few smaller servers here and there monitoring the system (or even responsible for powering on the entire network).
> The problem with every discussion around this issue is that there are other statements on

Sure, but we're not talking about those other ones. Dismissing good faith initiatives as marketing ploys because there are bad faith initiatives is functionally no different than just shrugging and walking away.

Of course OpenAI et. al. will try to influence the good faith discussions: that's a great reason to champion the ones with a bunch of good faith actors who stand a chance of holding the industry and policy makers to task. Waiting around for some group of experts that has enough clout to do something, but by policy excludes the industry itself and starry-eyed shithead "journalists" trying to ride the wave of the next big thing will yield nothing. This is a great example of perfect being the enemy of good.
Legal: probably. I don't expect consumers installing their legally bought software on a machine the manufacturer didn't approve to hold up in court.

Without breaking the EULA: no. For the same reason you're not allowed to install Windows on an ARM Chromebook.

Legally and without breaking the EULA: only the Darwin kernel and the various open source tools that can run on top of it.

If you've bought an OS install disk, I'm not sure how enforceable "you may only use this disk on hardware we sell" is in countries with consumer protection laws (i.e. large parts of Europe). In some jurisdictions, you would even be allowed to reverse engineer and patch any code that breaks compatibility.

If you're using a license tied to your MacBook on another machine, or pirate a copy, that's probably illegal in every way possible.

In theory you can install Lion, software you can physically buy and the last way to get a separate OSX license, install it, probably legally, and then upgrade the OS through official installers. That becomes a complex legal matter very quickly (as you often need to fake hardware IDs of real Apple devices to get through the process) as every upgrade comes with its own EULA, but it's a way forward.

However, blocking these installs is pointless anyway. We're at the point where docker run -it [...] sickcodes/docker-osx:ventura spawns a VM for you.

Lastly, as long as the software was developed on a Mac and tested with the open source kernel on other platforms, there's no legal reason why they couldn't have created an emulator. Darwin is a free kernel in almost every sense of the word and while their customers may be breaking the TOS between themselves and Apple, there's no restriction on selling software that may break the TOS if run on the wrong machine. With Macs being Intel PCs capable of running Linux and Windows, often lacking special drivers from Apple, targeting generic x64 seems like a perfectly fine solution.
I grew up in the US and remember this too, an absolute gag inducing gel that they put in a little mouthguard shaped thing and jammed in your mouth.

There have been various iterations of dentist office flouride treatments I remember.

As an adult the dentists I went to switched to a 2x 30 second rinse (60 second?) with a mouthwash at the end of the appoinment.

The last 10 years they eliminated that and I do a nightly flouride rinse.

I lived various places as a kid, from 10-18 I lived somewhere with no flouride in the water (rural with well water) and we did pills and dentist treatments instead.

Too much in this thread assumes everything is the same everywhere in a given country.

I have also probably never brushed my teeth with a non fluoride toothpaste living in the US. So it's not like that's different from the EU.

I have very little tooth decay in my mid 40s.
They have a scapegoat to create a "new normal" that will persist for a decade or more. No wonder they tried to jack up the price of eggs so high. Vote with your wallets, even if you have the means to just eat the bill.
>Obviously the big question in this scenario is how to convert heat into electricity, without a temperature differential. AFAIK we haven't figured this out.

Wouldn't that mean you create energy out of nothing breaking the first law of thermodynamics or that energy goes from a colder body to a warmer body, breaking the second law?