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This is stupid. Look at the marketshare for Xbox vs. Playstation today and across the last couple decades.

Obviously their goal is to compete with Playstation...

If you think this merger will "eliminate" or lock-out Playstation for these major titles, you're seriously fooling yourself.
That seems correct to my understanding. So the question is, will RISC-C SBCs standardise on some set of technologies which makes it possible to make generic RV64 images which work across a host of machines? Or will those technologies stay niche, like SystemReady has in the ARM world?
The absence of things can be as profound as their presence.
Paul Graham, Co-Founder of Viaweb and Y Combinator [podcast]
“Ryan Weed, Jeff Wynn, Charles Hoskinson, J.J. Siler and Amir Siraj are all engaged in this effort.”

The founder of Cardano is on the team? Weird. I thought maybe just a coincidence of two people with the same name, but appears confirmed on his twitter. [0]

[0] https://twitter.com/iohk_charles/status/1671496735267467264
> Ultimately IO is [an] intrinsically complex topic, and trying to paper over that complexity with simple interfaces is disingenuous and falls flat on edge cases.

I’m not against pointing out the edge cases in the Plan 9 file model[1,2], but the thing is, I haven’t seen complex I/O interfaces that aren’t a horror show, either. Granted, I haven’t seen that many of those at all, but I’ve had a thorough look at the ones in OS/2, Win32, and NT, and none of them seem particularly inspiring.

I’d very much like to see some nice alternatives, to be clear!

The reference to io_uring also doesn’t seem all that strong of an argument, honestly. I’d like to say there are three layers to the idea of “traditional” “Unix” “files” as an OS (not storage) interface:

- System and user resources you have access to are identified by unforgeable references (called “fds”; the merits of allowing userspace to control their naming as opposed to having the kernel assign the names are debatable). You can feed bytes into these, (ask to) get bytes out of them, and perhaps have a out-of-band call to e.g. transmit one of the other references you hold to a peer. You can of course also delete a reference.

So far this is just dynamically typed object-capabilities by another name. It’s going to require higher-level protocols on top, but so does basically everything else on this level of generality.

Plan 9 mostly (if not completely) eliminated ioctls here by using separate control files instead.

(The part where the OS merges the payloads of write calls into a byte stream then cuts it back up into reads is more opinionated, but I don’t think even Bell Labs systems ever adhered to that principle strictly[1].)

- You obtain (most of) these references by navigating a stringy hierarchical namespace. There are additional calls to do so and to modify that namespace.

This is less of an obviously correct least common denominator, and as history shows the consensus is less strong here as well. Mountpoints, symlinks, namespaces per TFA, even the *at() calls all change how this part functions. On the other hand, I don’t think anybody longs for version numbers or nesting limits (or even drive letters) of other systems that have used naming approaches similar enough for a comparison.

- You access these services through synchronous system calls write(), read(), ioctl(), close(), open(), etc.

This is the part that is changed by the introduction by io_uring... But I don’t feel it’s all that important for the conceptual model, unlike the preceding points.

[1] Cutting a bytestream into packets is as always a tedious slog of buffering so some of the protocol implementations use write() / read() boundaries thus actually (depend on being able to) use the API in a datagram-like fashion (which 9P enables IIUC).

[2] Auth is based on a /proc/self-like hack wherein the kernel-side implementation of the “file” inspects the opening process through kernel-side knowledge you can’t access nor proxy from userspace.
Because open-source models keep catching up faster than companies like OpenAI can stay ahead of the curve. They're generally staying ahead of the curve by virtue of being able to throw money and resources at the problem but they're quickly maxing out how many parameters they can possibly incorporate into solutions like GPT.

And that's really the 'moat' companies like OpenAI have right now. It's not a technological moat but a resource moat. There's not much OpenAI can do to stave off competing AI solutions but there's still only a handful of companies that can currently run this stuff at scale.

If companies like OpenAI were smart they would switch to a service provider model running these AI systems at scale rather than centering on a single AI model/system.
>Every now and again (say I enter a house which has a no-shoe rule), someone will spot them and find the concept strange,

I find it more strange that people wear outside shoes inside. The same shoes that go on dirt, mud, who knows what else are used to walk on your floors and carpets.

Taking your shoes off at the door prevents a lot of dirt/who-knows-what from entering the house.
I think it's fair to say we have one corrupt extremist party and one corrupt inept centrist party.
Is this the software equivalent of buying a generic drug? It's the same basic product but the details may make it work just as well or less well for any specific user. If it works for NASA and they save money, it seems like a win.
Make Your Renders Unnecessarily Complicated [video]
I went to ASU from 2002 to 2007. People ask/comment me 2 things always. They have always said, "whoa party school." But recently people now ask, "online?" I used to think it was because I'm east coast. This is the first I'm hearing that its a "degree mill"

I had no idea i didn't go to a "real school"
It’s actually mostly robots but (to your point) with humans at various stages.
Isnt this the truth. I have no problem owning Apple and MSFT shares, but boy do I want to avoid their products!
The only time I was asked such "leetcode" interview questions was for a contract at a company that coincidentally went under a few months later. Asked something about css colours in HEX and doing some magic stuff with them. When I asked what is the relevance to the task at hand they told me this was a question a friend of theirs was given at a google interview. Hilarious.
> For the past half century, inflation adjusted wages have remained basically flat while productivity has more than doubled.

So how is it that real median household income is up almost 50% in the same timeframe?[0]

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N
1. This blog post is far from the first to do this, but I object to the use of the term 'lawmakers'. For one thing, the term is an unnecessary simplification, and refusal to use the proper titles for members of legislative bodies (in this case, Teachtaí Dála and Seanadóirí) only exacerbates our cultural solipsism. For another, the nature of these 'lawmakers' is crucial to understanding their motivations and intentions: a 'lawmaker' can be any of the following:

* A person elected to represent a constituency that has an equal share of a population, e.g., a Member of Parliament, Deputy or Member of the House of Keys;

* A person elected to represent a constituency that has an unequal share of a population, e.g., a US or Australian Senator, or a US congressperson;

* A person elected to partially represent a multi-member constituency, e.g., a Teachta Dála;

* A person elected to a legislative body on the basis of proportional representation albeit with no specific constituency, e.g., a list MP in New Zealand;

* A person appointed to a legislative body on the basis of merit (e.g., a Canadian Senator or some life peers in the House of Lords);

* A person appointed to a legislative body ex officio, e.g., the Lords Spiritual;

* A person appointed to a legislative body on the basis of ancestry (e.g., the seventy-two representative hereditary peers in the House of Lords or the now-defunct Fijian Council of Chiefs);

* A lobbyist or employee of a non-government business or organisation writing 'ready-to-enact' bills;

* A non-political monarch, viceroy or other head of state who provides Royal Assent (or otherwise signs bills into law), e.g., the King of the United Kingdom, the Governor-General of Australia, or the President of Fiji;

* A political monarch or head of state, e.g., the King of Saudi Arabia; or

* A person appointed to political office, e.g., the Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia or a US cabinet secretary.

2. Irish Parliamentarians are elected by the people of Ireland to solve problems for the people of Ireland. Every right granted limits other rights, and so governments must balance these competing rights for the benefit of their people. The article makes no mention of the actual situation in Ireland, of examples of problematic discourse in Ireland, or examples of problematic suppression of discourse in Ireland. This is, again, cultural solipsism.
> The tax on labor is far higher than the tax on capital.

So, in the USA, if I were to make $50,000 in a year producing widgets, the tax rate on that amount would be higher if I made the widgets by hand than if I had a robot produce the widgets for me? That is interesting. In my country, the product of capital is taxed at the same rate as the product of labour.

Or are you trying to talk about capital gains? The human equivalent of gains on the sale of capital would be profiting from a slave trade, and I understand that is illegal in the USA, as it is in my country. I am not sure you can meaningfully contrast capital gains with anything human-related, and certainly not the product of labour.
I doubt it's allowed under gdpr, but it's also hard to prove it's being done. Much of it can be done server side based purely on IP address.
The Little Old Lady I help out with her computer got hit by this. Didn't understand that she has signed up for Amazon Prime. I cancelled it but saw the trick. Basically, they re-used the "Amazon yellow EXECUTE!" style for purchases as part of the sign-up flow.

The elderly seem to favor a lot of muscle memory over reading the screen, so any UI updates are painful.
There are a lot but the one implemented as LDSR in most stable guis is this one. https://github.com/CompVis/latent-diffusion

upscale wiki is really the place to explore everything image scaling:

https://upscale.wiki/
I bet it will. Why would you bother hampering the design of the charge port door by requiring it to be large enough to cover both J1772 and NACS? The adapter solution is much easier for Tesla and others. And the adapters are cheap.
Spain? Damn soulless commercials even have an internal list of old, vulnerable people to sell them anything.

I'm talking of supposedly legal companies, not thieves.
I have also looked there and what makes me unique is that nobody else has the same list of installed fonts, which is not a surprise for me, because I have bought several commercial high-quality typefaces, while most people have only the fonts installed by the operating system and by popular office suites.

Besides the fonts, only 3% of the people recorded in their database have their monitors configured for 30-bit color.

Therefore it appears that taking good care of my eyes makes me easily identifiable, but there is no workaround for this, except for running the browser in a VM, where the characteristics of the hardware and whatever else is installed could be well hidden.
Yes, one would assume if you charter a boat to the middle of the ocean hunting for alien debris, you are inclined to want to find some.

Fortunately, as we know, it isn't the end of the world that humans have motivations to do scientific research, as long as their methods are sound and they publish their findings in the right way.
The biggest problem for me is that Comcast does shitty things with the devices that they provide to customers. The CPE Comcast gives with their highest XFinity plan comes with "unlimited data", but if you refuse the device they charge an additional $30/mo to get "unlimited data", because they use the CPE to enforce customer-hostile QoS and throttling to negatively impact throughput and performance. When you use your own equipment you aren't impacted in the same way by this (with some exceptions, which you can workaround). The $30/mo fee is really just a "fuck you" from Comcast to try to get you to give up or abandon the idea, but is completely meaningless from a revenue perspective.

Comcast's problem isn't that they can't afford to provide the service you paid for without the caps, it's that they're oversubscribing their backbone so heavily that they would never be able to do it from a technical perspective. The reality is most people don't hit that cap, so the cap is actually meaningless and does nothing for large consumers. It's just a consumer-hostile practice, where Comcast is trying to take ten miles where they were given an inch. This FCC is just going to codify it though, the FCC has been in the pocket of one provider or another for the last 15 years at least.
In my reading the plaintiff does have the contents of the email, it's in their filing. The contents of the email within the filing itself seem to be redacted from the public.
> I’d counter that buying power is the only metric that matters

I'd counter that protection of buying power over long periods is what really matters.

My CD collection had an enormous buying power in the 90s, now it's almost worthless.

I reckon one cannot rely on buying power of CD or DVD or VHS.

> often to the benefit of companies and nation states.

In this regards people, companies and nation states interests are usually aligned, i.e a stable currency that provides protection against wild fluctuations and retains its buying power and its usefulness.

Unless you are an enemy of the people, I don't see why someone should not like it.
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Definitely should be able to. I'd recommend getting a professional to spray closed cell foam insulation.

I have a diesel heater. It's hooked up to a heat exchanger with my engine coolant loop, runs to my hot water heater, also to the forced air fan, and also throughout the entire floor. I laid pex down in the floor so I have floors that I can get up to 80 degrees F. I rarely use the forced air as the diesel heater barely sips fuel and keeps the floors nice and toasty. The advantage of the heated floors in van is that it's a thicker radiant heat, so it heats the cabinets and the walls. Then when you open the door it doesn't let all the heat out.
WhatsApp made hundreds of billions for facebook by preventing rise of major competitor.
A lot of things that we use all the time couldn't be reasonably tested in operational scenario in any other way than by just using them(most planes are in that category - you can test a lot of things on test benches but there isn't a way to test an airliner at operational speed an altitude other than actually flying it)
Taxi driver in that case? Someone paid to take rich people around...
SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son Shifts to ‘Offense’ in A.I. Race
At least they are collecting and analysing samples and not just writing or making videos.
It probably helps that WhatsApp's backend is written in Erlang, which excels in fault-tolerance and reliability.

https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/20-years-of-open-sourc...
> Speaking up is a career limiting move in the short term.

What do you mean by "career limiting"? Just at the company in question, perhaps, but speaking up like that should be considered a good thing. If it's not, why would you want to continue working there?
Wrist-Friendly Git Shortcuts
And don't forget their new IDE in the cloud move with VSCode.

I guarantee once they got enough devs locked in their cloud to write softwares, the spanking will start.

And once again, the victims will act all surprised.
The new blockchain.
Separate issues. Yes American car designs sucked, but they were moving production to Mexico either way. It's not like they closed all the detorit plants because they didn't have any money, they just wanted to make more.
While you're complaining about people conflating things, scroll up to where... someone conflates illegal undisclosed personal gifts with legal disclosed campaign donations.
My understanding is digital c-types use LASERs to expose the paper.

Could you in a similar way use a UVASER for this process?
Is it just me or is Reader Mode completely broken on this website?
I burned all mine for heat, giving the books one final purpose. I got rid of things that used to be very precious to me -- an ancient book on HTML, a very old guide to CSS, hilariously outdated texts on stuff like Java 1.4 design patterns, guides to software that doesn't exist in any form and stuff like that. The books served their purpose. They were born from the carbon in the air and back to the Earth they went.
Show HN: DevHunt – An Alternative to Product Hunt for Dev Tools and Open Source
We've built this open source. https://github.com/MarsX-dev/devhunt
Direct page link (most in-browser PDF readers support #page=43)

https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/amazon-rosca-pu...
I certainly wasn’t expecting to see a rousing defense of terrorism and violence on Hacker News today.
I bet the reparation will be three months of Prime.
In other news, spats are passe and opera glasses sales plummet.
The Euronews article leads with Donald Trump Jr's objections, and finishes with the Irish Council of Civil Liberties supporting the bill with some minor reservations which they submitted amendments on (as is normal in democratic procedure).

The bill went before the house in september 2022 so there's been quite a lot of discussion, submissions and amendments accepted. Public engagement has been high.

On whether Euronews is neutral - I don't know much about it tbh. Wikipedia says it's French and has been accused of having ties to Orbán of all people, which would align with the Trump representation.

> IE, if a comedian makes a religious joke, why do they not face prosecution under this?

The qualifier is direct encouragement of violence toward a group and there's explicit protections listed for "a reasonable and genuine contribution to literary, artistic, political, scientific, religious or academic discourse,"
Conflicts of interest are mainly defined by the mere possibility of such. We hold low-level accountants and government workers to higher standards of avoiding and outright preventing conflicts of interest than we do the highest members of government.

If you are one of these workers and break the conflict of interests rules or regulations, you will be fired, whether or not you were taking advantage of the conflict.
WhatsApp does make money. About $900 million in 2022. It's a small part of Meta's total revenues, but the margins are really good because of how well built and efficient it is.
This seems pretty consistent with what Sam Altman has said in past interviews regarding the end of continuously increasing scale and having multiple smaller specialist models: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-sam-altman-says-giant-...
Oracle enters the chat.
Everyone cheers VSCode, but I'm happy with Spyder now that it has VIM.

Maybe its time to fork VSCode seriously if people want to use it forever.
Chrome stopped reporting chrome version because of this iirc.
I honestly believe fast food and frozen food provided a lot of value to the society. Much more than the harm they did.

So I'll take this as an optimistic view to AI.
Apple's online sales (and product value) are in part due to consumers knowing they're able to walk in to any of their physical locations and receive good support.
Bots or no bots, that'w why arguing on the Internet is pointless.

I could argue with you, "Havoc", for a while, and perhaps convince you that there are 2/3/7 genders, or whatever, and then as sure as the sun rises, along comes another user. Or infinite set of.

Most social media is "man yells at cloud", quite literally.
Perhaps this one from Graham Hutton?

“A parser for things

Is a function from strings

To lists of pairs

Of things and strings”
ClickHouse if you need search + analytics and full SQL support: https://clickhouse.com/blog/vector-search-clickhouse-p2
> Thus my assertion: whether you’re working with people or with technology, your ability to change decisions in the future will often outweigh the importance of the decisions themselves.

Sounds like another possible convert for the Malleable Systems Collective. (And a belief I tend towards as well.) https://malleable.systems

Their top of page quote, from Lick himself,

> The user wants open software, software that can be modified, and that can participate in a progressive improvement process.

Not as many users resemble this as they used to. But they are the interesting users, from whom new value & possibilities will spring. Attend to them.
mathematicians: Humanities are stressful because you don't know what's the right answer!
wolverine876: The question is whether crypto in particular facilitates crime, and it does.

evandale: Cash has been used for facilitating crime since currency was invented

wolverine876: How is that relevant?

The question obviously isn't whether crypto facilitates crime because USD facilitates crime better. If the ability to facilitate crime was a question of whether you should use a currency or not then we wouldn't be using USD anymore.

> It's not easy if I want to pay someone who isn't local to me, or whom I don't want to meet in person, or if I don't want to possess physical criminal assets.

No idea what you're trying to say here but it doesn't seem like you're arguing in good faith. Everybody will accept USD for any good or service anywhere in the world and USD is less traceable and more anonymous than bitcoin which defeats another "bitcoin is only used for crime" argument. No. It isn't only used for crime. It's actually a terrible thing to use for crime because of how traceable it is.
Thanks, I guess that works in Firefox too
Has OpenAI started notifying people about the breach? I haven’t received anything. Does this mean my creds were not part of the leak or does it mean OpenAI isn’t disclosing anything?
Neither nor, I assume some universality among civil liberty unions. You maybe can sanction insults, although I wouldn't recommend that either, but can not legislate hate, love, solidarity or apathy. It is a fantasy and will surely at some point collide with the freedom of individuals, which civil liberty unions should protect.
I'm sure that is the modus operandi for any business. That is, to find ways to give the business an advantage over any competition...and hopefully put them out of business in the process.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Not the Op, but I have recently been working on applying "state of the art" AI for translations into languages other than English and I was pretty disappointed with rather mediocre results from Chatgpt, normal gpt and Google translate API. As it is, just running fairseq M2M100 locally (even just on a cpu) gave me significantly better results for English->Polish translation. And I was properly amazed by the quality of Microsoft's translation service.

It wasn so much that the output ChatGPT / Google created was wrong, but that it used wrong type of language for the context. For example speaking using very basic/common words no real person would use in a business document. MS translation service was really good in this regard, only making mistakes on genders of people in the translated text (too small context window?).
Weirdly specific off-topic discussion. I tried the same thing two days ago and the mouse scrolling worked well - I could scroll through the system menus using the wheel on BT mouse. The termux brings the power of linux to Quest. You can have vi/emacs inside the termux. It also runs my own developer editor with small 3D runtime. You could in theory run a 7B llama on Quest2 (disregarding battery life and the heat on your face). The OS software quality is not good overall but basic Android stuff works.

This is all tangential and doesn't really detract from your point.