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No, Sandstorm is not owned by Cloudflare. Cloudflare hired most of the team (myself included) but the company remained independent. Sandstorm the company dissolved last year. The open source project remains alive via the Sandstorm Community on Open Collective[0], but admittedly there has been little activity lately.

[0] https://opencollective.com/sandstormcommunity
Cloudflare hired most of the Sandstorm startup team. It did not acquire Sandstorm, and it remains an independent open source project.
I think one of the things I noticed about a lot of Asian tech newbies (both East Asia and South Asian) is how different they were to be in terms of money and wanting to "live it large" in a place such as Los Angeles. Obviously these people were attracted to tech because of the money, but this blog does show me that even these tech newbies will eventually realise the errors of their ways. I rarely drive and never place too much value on money, and realise that a lot of the "socially warm" cultures that some people rave on about are a little pointless.
Purdue manufactured opioids in measured doses without unsafe adulterants.

Guess what? Junkies lived. Turns out that when they get a clean high manufactured by competent pharmaceutical engineers, they tend not to be found catatonic by callous law enforcement who say "fuck it" and refuse to save their lives with the naloxone they have with them.

When did junkies start dying? With the supply of oxy dried up because the DEA shut down pill mills, they had no other options than dirty street heroin that it turns out is mostly just fentanyl and carfentanyl.

I have no clue how this is considered an improvement by the media that reports on such things, or why so many are so eager to buy it.

If El Chapo started selling clean/safe drugs that didn't kill people, how the fuck would he be anything other than a goddamned hero? How many are dying of overdoses every week again?
I'd rather spend my time at home with my kids than grocery shopping every other day. Sure that would make it easy to transport groceries on foot, but the mental load of remembering when to buy what would be much larger than just going through your weekly routine. On a plus side, I like buying raw fish and other very perishable goods and going grocery shopping more frequently would give me more options to enjoy those over the course of the week rather than in a concentrated period after grocery day.
All the techbros wearing rose colored glasses need to get a god-damned grip. AI has about as much chance of avoiding extensive regulation as uranium-235, there is no scenario where everyone and their cat is permitted to have their own copy of the nuclear football.

You can either contribute to the conversation of what the regulations will look like, or stay out of it and let others decide for you, but expecting little or no regulation at all is a pipe dream.
> But then again, the CDC was pushing the idea that getting vaccinated means you won’t get sick so I guess believing the CDC holds some scientific validity is an error to begin

There was a chance that this was going to be true. It didn't turn out that way. You're basically blaming them for trying, or what is your point?
Buck2 Unboxing
> Even if your sending end is regulated, at the other end, there has to be a regulated bank.

Are you referring to some specific regulation here?
Man now I want to see this.
Having "bigger goals" is meaningless by itself, especially when crypto has repeatably failed to deliver.
I agree that keeping nuclear would have been the right choice, but it is also easy to see why it was politically impossible.

After years of public debate and negotiations nuclear was accepted as a bridging technology just a couple of months before Fukushima happened. Fresh in the publics mind on already extremely shaky ground Fukushima sealed the fate for the existing nuclear plants.
I joined a local Rotary club twenty years ago (in my mid-40s) and it’s become a pillar of my social health and personal productivity. Service clubs like Rotary (Lions, Kiwanis,etc) are facing an existential demographic crash right at a time when people have a renewed interest in IRL social/community engagement. Fingers crossed that resolves!
And if the community was confident in Rust's leadership, this wouldn't be happening.

Which, to me, makes it seem that "hey, don't fork the community" is kinda brutally missing the point at hand, or at least feels aimed in the wrong direction.
If you specifically like improv then Hey Riddle Riddle is pretty good, and their neighbor Hello from the Magic Tavern. The anchor characters here perform at the Io Theater in chicago.

None of them touch on current events and the tavern's meta narrative is not important so just click anyone that that catches your eye.
Smoking tobacco has clear negative health consequences today, but the association may not have been so strong when the predominant forms of heating households were open wood and coal fires. It's also worth keeping in mind that smoking tobacco wasn't always the predominant form of taking tobacco, chewing tobacco and nasal snuff are as old as tobacco itself to Europeans, and if Google's ngram viewer is anything to go by, cigars only overtook snuff in the late 19th century (bit of a dodgy data point, since snuff has multiple meanings).

Today some 500k-1m Swedes regularly take snus, and the association with oral and pancreatic cancers is tenuous at best, and the BMJ reported in the 1980s that there has been one case of nasal cancer linked to nasal snuff in the 300 years it has been used in the UK. Chewing tobacco is a little more harmful but not by much.

Cigarette companies have done a good job the past century of associating any harmful effect of smoking tobacco with tobacco and nicotine itself, despite cigarettes being 100x more harmful than either snus or snuff.
There are literally thousands of podcasts out there that are not polished knock-offs of terrestrial broadcast media. If you aren't finding them you aren't looking very hard.
From what I have heard from various talks on Cheri that I attended, it only targets about 72% of memory safety issues. Handling the remaining 28% is not mentioned, but I suspect it would be future work.
The two I'm most fond of are

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3iPrBrGSJM&t=104s

And

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubNF9QNEQLA
This is my take on most AI discussion

Many are like "Oh yea, AI isn't at good as us doing..."

And my response is "Thank fucking god, we aren't ready yet".

Sudden society changing events aren't great, especially when they start coming rapid fire. You can go from "there's a few angry starving artists" to "why are people rioting in the streets" pretty damned quickly.
My yoga studio and sailing community. Nearly every day I find myself at my yoga studio after work to practice. It's how I met a lot of my initial friends where I currently live. Then, there's the hobby of sailing which has a rich community where I live. Intentionally I don't seek out tech-based communities, but ones centered around other aspects of life.
I mean, you can't be 100% sure in any one case but they do have a lot of third-party companies listed for support: https://cloud.google.com/terms/subprocessors
It's not as clear as you think, because companies are watering it down. Just have a look what "serverless"-branded services AWS published the past years.

Take "OpenSearch Serverless" for example: They claim "you only pay for the resources consumed by the workload", but even if you have an OpenSearch Serverless collection you don't use, you pay at least ~$690/month (and that's not even accounting for stored data)!

https://aws.amazon.com/opensearch-service/pricing/
Personally I'm a fan of the one where in the middle of talking about how smart he is he mixes up Cartesian and Euclidean.
I looked in the github repo, and it seems the collective effort of all the 400+ commenters here is more effort than the authors gave to this “language”.

Someone just forked a repo and put on some “statements”. Okay. There is no real effort behind this.
I've only see GF on photographs; does it work for anything else yet?
> academics

Academics get paid (and compete hardcore) for creating status and prominence for themselves and their affiliations. Suddenly 'signatory on XYZ open letter' is an attention source and status symbol. Not saying this is absolutely the case, but academics putting their name on something surrounded by hype isn't the ethical check you make it out to be.
> The only "goal" of crypto is to make money. Anything else is just worn as a mask for promotion because, "Lie, cheat, steal" isn't a great set of principles for a new economic universal ledger.

This is exactly why generalizing doesn't work.

The most visible parts of the crypto space (exchanges, VC-funded blockchain, etc...) are there simply to make money. If you meet some of the longer-term devs, you'll see a completely different side of it.

How can someone think that Vitalik is in this space for money when he gives so much of it away and has been known to question whether the price matches the value of Ethereum (meaning that Eth was priced too high)? He can also walk away and retire at any time, but chooses to keep working on Ethereum and helping other chains when needed.

It's not just Vitalik either. There are many people in this space who value decentralization, personal freedom, financial inclusion, etc... but you dont read news articles about them because they aren't trying to get your attention or money, they're trying to make something that's meaningful to them that they think will make the world a better place.
I wish this wasn't brushed off, but when I suggest it, frequently, as a scientifically proven method of improving happiness, well, it gets brushed off. I guess it's really difficult to relate just how much it can improve your life. Some of the highlights of my entire life have been coaching 3rd/4th grade girls basketball at a YMCA. Yeah, it's a lot of work at the time, but the memories are priceless, and the benefit to the kids is definite - they tell me, years (and sometimes years and years - with a baby in their arms) later.
I'm not sold that it's reasonable to equate "losing Featured Offer status because of violating objective criteria" with "Amazon is suppressing my listings". Amazon does look at off-Amazon prices to decide whether to feature an offer, but abstractly that's entirely justifiable from a consumer-friendly perspective: if Amazon knows something is available for less elsewhere but still promotes the sale they are setting up the buyer for a negative experience and themselves & the seller for excess returns and/or customer service hassles. If Amazon doesn't look at external prices at all then they have no way to protect against price gouging on platform. It seems like what's implicitly being asked for here is a special carve out to sell for less "on your own website", but that feels like a really slippery slope: what qualifies as "your own"--e.g. would an Etsy store? a drop shipper storefront?
A lot of things are called "world models" that I would consider just "models" so it depends on what you mean by that. But what do you consider to be strong evidence? The Othello paper isn't what I'd call strong evidence.
Agree. AWS charge a minimum of 3% of your bill towards support. Which is fine, it makes support scaleable and even a profit centre.

What's weird is that GCP charge the same but apparently don't deliver
*took, as its shutting down
OK, which of the following propositions do you disagree with?

1. AIs have made rapid progress in approaching and often surpassing human abilities in many areas.

2. The fact that AIs have some inherent scalability, speed, cost, reliability and compliance advantages over humans means that many undesirable things that could previously not be done at all or at least not done at scale are becoming both feasible and cost-effective. Examples would include 24/7 surveillance with social desirability scoring based on a precise ideological and psychological profile derived from a comprehensive record of interactions, fine-tuned mass manipulation and large scale plausible falsification of the historical record. Given the general rise of authoritarianism, this is pretty worrying.

3. On the other hand the rapid progress and enormous investment we've been seeing makes it very plausible that before too long we will, in fact, see AIs that outperform humans on most tasks.

4. AIs that are much smarter than any human pose even graver dangers.

5. Even if there is a general agreement that AIs pose grave or even existential risks, states, organizations and individuals will are all incentivized to still seek to improve their own AI capabilities, as doing so provides an enormous competitive advantage.

6. There is a danger of a rapid self-improvement feedback loop. Humans can reproduce, learn new and significantly improve existing skills, as well as pass skills on to others via teaching. But there are fundamental limits on speed and scale for all of these, whereas it's not obvious at all how an AI that has reached super-human level intelligence would be fundamentally prevented from rapidly improving itself further, or produce millions of "offspring" that can collaborate and skill-exchange extremely efficiently. Furthermore, since AIs can operate at completely different time scales than humans, this all could happen extremely rapidly, and such a system might very quickly become much more powerful than humanity and the rest of AIs combined.

I think you only have to subscribe a small subset of these (say 1.&2.) to conclude that "AI is an uniquely powerful and thus uniquely dangerous technology" obviously follows.

For the stronger claim of existential risk, have you read the lesswrong link posted elsewhere in this discussion?

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uMQ3cqWDPHhjtiesc/agi-ruin-a... ?
One thing that kind of opened my eyes is his asking the reader "what do you prefer about your cigarette brand?" It made me realize that they all taste like sh*t.
more like 160 seconds. check you b's
Addressing hierarchically constructed tiling is quite similar to addressing hyperbolic tilings. Both the "hat" tiling and "spectre" tiling already work in HyperRogue. (Spectre is not yet released but pushed to GitHub.)

There is a brief explanation here: https://twitter.com/ZenoRogue/status/1638997769141604360
MorphoSource: 3D data representing the world's natural history
Huh? Are you saying human artists don't consider composition while creating their works?
I can definitely agree. I used to be very skeptical about how fun or healing volunteering could be. I started volunteering at an animal shelter and beyond being incredibly relaxing - I love animals - it's nice to switch from trying to optimize my career, code, education to just using my hands to help take care of something and meet new people.

My anxiety has gone down a lot since I started doing this and I was able to meet some new people. Strongly recommend trying to volunteer with something you care about
Sounds like a good idea, if the subway has working elevators and isn't too crowded.
They could sue you in court, and the court could find for them and enjoin you from doing a particular thing (an "injunction"), and then if you did that thing any more you'd be in contempt of court, which can result in fines and jail time.
The problem is that customers did not necessarily appreciate the difference between their amateur creations and the professionals' enough to pay for it. I feel like there is going to be a rerun of the decimation of the professional photography market with designers, illustrators, writers, etc.
I usually refrain from posting ChatGPT answers on HackerNews or other social media just because it's so low effort and boring, but I found the below humorous and on-topic, particularly how strongly caveated the response is:

> Q: if James Joyce was a Power Ranger which one would he be?

> A: Assigning a Power Ranger identity to a historical figure like James Joyce is purely speculative and subjective. However, considering the inventive and imaginative nature of Joyce's writing, his penchant for pushing artistic boundaries, and his ability to delve into the depths of human consciousness, one could argue that he might align with the Blue Ranger.

> The Blue Ranger is often characterized as intelligent, analytical, and introspective. They possess a keen intellect and a thirst for knowledge, traits that resonate with Joyce's intellectual pursuits and his exploration of complex themes in his works. Additionally, the Blue Ranger is known for their creative problem-solving and ability to think outside the box, qualities that parallel Joyce's innovative approach to writing.

> It's important to note that this analogy is purely for fun and shouldn't be taken as a definitive representation of James Joyce or his literary contributions.
Lobbying... that's the kind of corruption that's enshrined in the first amendment, right? So important they didn't even leave it for the second or third or tenth amendments? The amendments which are collectively known as the Bill of Rights, or the United States' founder's first attempt at crafting a list of fundamental human rights?

That one?
Haven't ever used Rust and probably won't. Regardless, the melodramatic cliquey "I'm leaving the project" bluster as of late reminds me of my 14 year old self on various vbulletin forums and grants me conviction avoiding adopting this language and its ecosystem. I prefer the tools I use for building businesses to be administered by adults.
Check out Tim Dillon’s podcast.
Since the thread is about YVR, it's actually pretty easy and safe to walk all the way to Richmond (or a shorter distance to the east side of Sea Island which has normal businesses / residences). Sidewalks all the way from the terminal, and no crazy crossings are required. I'm sure this isn't typical, but if you don't mind the walk it's perfectly viable in this case.

You can also take the SkyTrain for free within Sea Island (which is not well known, I feel) - 2 stops to Templeton, and there are probably plenty of Ubers around there, since there is an outlet mall near that station, or at least a much shorter walk into Richmond.
The 26% that aren't covered makes sense to me. It's the gap between the 54% and 72% that I'm trying to understand.

My recollection is that by default CHERI provides strong spatial safety but it requires work (and possibly primitives that do not fully exist yet) to get the temporal safety. I'm wondering if that's what this is/ if my recollection is correct.
William Gibson on coining the term “Cyberspace” (1993) [video]
Definitely. A bike trailer or cargo bike could work though.
religion
aviation
previously MTG
I've never found myself coding undo actions, because it seems that if a forward step can fail, so can a backward step. And now you've got two things to debug.
Our app crashed by simply changing an environment variable. Was searching for over 45 minutes without finding anything.
Damn, 30 days is quick. I found out about https://neon.tech but then quickly ran into a major bug, and then thankfully found out about bit.io, which is what I use for https://dittoed.app.

Looks like I will have to go back to neon (they fixed the bug).

If anyone has other ideas, I'm all ears. Project is hosted on Cloudflare and they have D1 now, but Dittoed uses a little bit of PostGIS.
The problem here is not exfiltrating data via bizarre side channels. It's the availability of the data. Because it's the old and tired "visited link color" problem all over again.

Can browser vendors just stop honoring the a:visited style completely? Or at least in iframes and other sources that don't arrive with the original page? That could initially be a configuration flag, like it was with rejecting third-party cookies.

I don't think that the impact of never coloring visited links differently would be noticeable for 99.99% users.
If the subject are interested you I highly recommend picking up the Quark and theJaguar, by Murray Gell-Mann. Its a foundational survey work in the subject and delightfully approachable (even though its theoretical physicist author doesn't consider himself much of a writer.) The author, who also happens to be the Nobel laureate whom gave the quark its name (after hypothesizing it's existence) is one of the founders of the Institute for Complexity Studies where much of the field's research activity is concentrated.
Bemmu said a random weekend, so I would expect it to cost about the average of what they spend when no big events were happening . I didn't even add blow out weekends for vacations or major events.
This is interesting... possibly a move by Databricks to try and build on their "data lakehouse" concept to counter the recent "Fabric platform" announcements at MS Build.

Databricks coined the "Delta lake" concept and are still (just about) leading the way, but Fabric has the potential from MS to take away that marketshare. Databricks need to improve their "serverless SQL" offering, and add a serious "data warehouse" component alongside the lake.
Sorry, I was being obtuse in that. CF now employs enough people that think "Standstorm" that it will eventually and perhaps does now support all the machinery necessary to implement Standstorm on CF.
it sure does
I used LLM because the people shouting the loudest come from a LLM company which claimed their newest language model can be used to create bioweapons in their whitepaper.

Semantics aside the recent interest in AI risk was clearly stimulated by LLMs and the camp that believes this is the path to AGI which may or may not be true depending who you ask.
Okay, so AI has access to a gene printer. Then what?
> It’s pick your poison: that or global warming. Japan and Korea are ramping up their nuclear power; Korea gets em up and running in 2 years…

Everytime a nuclear advocate mentions Korea their build time seemingly gets shortened by a year, all the while Flamanville 3 adds another year of delay.

Sadly the South Korean model seems to require falsifying certification documents so following their lead seems supremely unwise.

> In November 2012 it was discovered that over 5,000 small components used in five reactors at Yeonggwang Nuclear Power Plant had not been properly certified; eight suppliers had faked 60 warranties for the parts. Two reactors were shut down for component replacement, which was likely to cause power shortages in South Korea during the winter.[25] Reuters reported this as South Korea's worst nuclear crisis, highlighting a lack of transparency on nuclear safety and the dual roles of South Korea's nuclear regulators on supervision and promotion.[26] This incident followed the prosecution of five senior engineers for the coverup of a serious loss of power and cooling incident at Kori Nuclear Power Plant, which was subsequently graded at INES level 2.[25][27]

> In 2013, there was a scandal involving the use of counterfeit parts in nuclear plants and faked quality assurance certificates. In June 2013 Kori 2 and Shin Wolsong 1 were shut down, and Kori 1 and Shin Wolsong 2 ordered to remain offline, until safety-related control cabling with forged safety certificates is replaced.[28] Control cabling in the first APR-1400s under construction had to be replaced delaying construction by up to a year.[29] In October 2013 about 100 people were indicted for falsifying safety documents, including a former chief executive of Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power and a vice-president of Korea Electric Power Corporation.[30]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_South_Korea#H...
Funnily enough I've met a couple people in the past through housemate searches (and made friends with an actual housemate).

The common element was that they were all new to town.

One girl declined my spare room but said she'd like to see me again, and one time I told a guy he had some cool pics in his profile, and we ended grabbing a drink and formed a bit of a friend group around playing board games.

So... maybe go house hunting?!