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I’m assuming this was built with AppKit?

If so, yeah AppKit has some warts, and it isn’t all that well documented. That’s how it’s been since I got started with it back in the early-mid 2000s, where your best sources for learning were random blog posts or books (the latter of which I couldn’t afford as a teenager).

If you ever do iOS dev, UIKit is a lot nicer to use in almost every way. It’s been polished and modernized a great deal in comparison, and because iOS as a platform is so much more popular/important it’s throughly documented end to end.

Still, AppKit does have some advantages, like its batteries-included nature which allows one to build complex apps with few or no third party dependencies.
I'd like to fat comma shame you for this, but I've done the same on occasion, so meh. The thing that irks me about it is that it appears as if the function takes a hash on first read, and I'll happily cargo cult the call style until I finally read the docs for capture, in this case. I don't know, would you put this in prod for other devs to maintain?
What a strange comment. The article gives a thesis followed by support for that thesis.

I suspect we can blame the stock market for this decadence.
Does it really make much of a difference?

You're usually feeding a ton of multiplies into an accumulator. You can handle one or two mantissa bits as the same bit shifting except that it outputs two or three numbers to accumulate. And accumulators are very easy to scale.

Also in the extreme I've seen powers of 4 get used.
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Your field of view can be moved to sweep over an infinite area. Again, including fluff might not help but it's infinitely preferable to not including something important.
The point is they don’t need any code. They can copy paste a csv or something even messier and ask it to write a somewhat personalized email to each person in the list, if they’re smart about it they can include a few small details with each input entry that get included in the email. They also now have access to most NLP tools like sentiment analysis or feature extraction which allows them to process large amounts of text and extract valuable insights. They don’t need Python or a programmer as long as they’re smart enough to try out new things and learn the ins and outs of these models.
> It’s one thing to want to do contribute to the global knowledge base. It’s another thing entirely to monetize that knowledge wholesale

You mean like a search engine scraping content and putting ads by results?
Tcl (inb4 not obscure)

Pawn (used in SAMP)

Or maybe SAKO, an ancient programming language with Polish keywords
Agreed. I have a number of 4K 144 Hertz monitors, I'd like a 6 or 8K monitor but until they have it in high refresh create I'm not switching. I'm not much of a gamer, but when I do occasionally game it is significantly more fluid as well.
Amazon.co.uk was built in Perl and Booking.com is still a Perl shop.
No, this is a design problem. The fact that so many missed it is just evidence of how subtly tricky good design is.
A question and point on resolving racism without giving up on meritocracy:

- I tend to think scotus believes racism is/was real but the best way to fix it is for congress to vote into law an actual remedy. Instead congress whines then fund raises off it. That control vacuum does not mean scotus has to fill the void. I'm pretty sure this what Roberts thinks anyway.

- on remedy: based on a young adult's background mainly by looking at parent's income and their educational attainment, and school quality k-12, under served kids that appear to have potential could be subsized to take a kind of finishing school with the idea of getting them backfilled education wise so they could take and pass MIT like AP exams in math, science, English. It'd be like a really high end HS to get them current. Kids who don't follow through are evicted, and are required to payback costs. This way they can compete reasonably well for open seats and colleges of their choice.
We might call this the National High School Program perhaps mainly online. Congress can create and fund this. Seats are filled in time order of approved applicant only.

- remedy includes reducing or eliminating grants to private universities sitting on tons of money or have too many administrative costs. US education is too damn expensive. There has to be a way for the system to penalize stupid cost. If you've done hiring, ivy league credentials doesn't guarantee much. There are some darn good kids from state schools too

- a federal run super high school gives parents and kids a choice: state education or fed. Or state then fed later to fix shortcomings. This would also eliminate the fed/state/local control quagmire since US education is locally controlled. The fed could instead focus solely on its own school system letting parents/kids choose.

- in summary: congress has to get off their butts. Scotus would have to uphold congress' law. And if the national HS was demanding, nobody would be focused on race, which is the way we want it. It puts the focus on good kids who did good work which is also the way we want it.
I mean it sounds like you just don't like drinking that much. People like different things.

Personally, I love it - in particular, the fact that any night of the week you can have one or several unique, powerful sensory experiences to savor and enjoy. Inebriation is basically an unfortunate side effect, for me, if my body stopped metabolizing alcohol after my first drink I'd be perfectly happy - what I'm into is the tasty drinks themselves.

I can have a moscow mule, a mojito, a margarita, and an old fashioned, one after another, and they're all delicious, and all different, and I love that. I can go to another bar tomorrow night, have those same drinks, and yet they'll all be slightly different than the last. Variety is the spice of life!

It's like the difference between a snack drawer filled with your favorite snack, versus a snack drawer filled with a dozen different snacks - you can, on a whim, choose any particular flavour or form you happen to be in the mood for at that moment. That's absolutely delightful for a hedonist like me.

... of course, that's a lot of sugar and salt, which isn't particularly healthy, I know that. But in terms of questions like "Why would you ever have more than one drink?" or "Why would you drink often" or even "Why would you drink alone?" - that's my answer, because I like the way cocktails (and beer, and wine, and cider) taste; And one important factor to enjoying my life is doing things that I like. Simple as.
No, it was FoundationDB [1].

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10164/?time...
You can bet that Jimmy will talk about it within the next few months.
It's a robot, it's supposed to do what the user tells it to.

We don't expect MS word to stop people typing death threats, we let the law deal with people who send them. Why do we expect robots to be different to any other program?
I’ve never been to the US but somehow West Virginia was my first guess and I got it down to zero miles eventually. I don’t know why that state is so particularly recognizable
"Another missed chance to talk about X problem I find interest in and would bloat the article"
How about Microsoft Tay? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(chatbot)

While the underlying model is certainly different, and my understanding is that current LLMs don’t learn “live”, the principle seems worth keeping in mind.
Western Sahara but realistically it’s all morroco. They have largest reserves now and at the price to mine 4500m deep underground, it would turn a lot of resources in morroco to reserves.

I did feas work on a project in Tunisia a decade ago that was quite substantial but economics marginal and couldn’t get it over the line due to then prices of phosphorous and the ability of morroco to just ramp up production (actually should probably dust it off). There are lots of resources like this that would become economical faster. Supply/demand and all that.

That said the initial ore body may be great and 50 years from now who is to say
No one opposes that. We oppose forbidding it despite this, in the name of freedom.
Ok, we can ban M&A for all businesses who exceed $x million in revenue. Mom & pop can still put the work in and cash out, but bigger businesses are prohibited from eating eating their competitors and preventing disruptive businesses from growing and having a fair shot in the market.

The $x million limit can be decided upon based on the industry and other factors.

>nobody would ever create Goodreads

Lots of people create of businesses and pursue non-profitable enterprises for non-profitable reasons.
Oh one more question (checked out your repo): why the usage of GPUs here vs CPUs? The possibility of more parallelism when traversing the graph versus CPU?
And looks like previous workaround, embed preview, does not work for >280 character tweets: https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?id=16759907122... (i.e. it wraps right at "future of the product…")

No way this is gonna make me shell out for a cringe mark. Buying organic followers is harder than this ("Rocket to the top of replies, mentions, and search" - an actual quote from @TwitterBlue). Look at owner's own account: 146.4M followers, 94 subscribers to his premium tweets.
Who cares? Honestly, you can slice your finger on a knife cutting cucumbers.

You can graze your knee on a swing.

Comparatively LLM are mild and do not need to be very robust to malicious use.
"Unrolling @_" is still a Perl ritual.
Internet facing honeypots have a place in detecting threat actors in the "pre-attack" phase (see MITRE), but you need a more sophisticated methodology to filter out all the background noise from script kiddies. You may find that threat actor's OpSec is less disciplined in the pre attack phase also, meaning you get more chances for real attribution.
Can you explain this a bit more, I tried googling but I can't quite understand what you mean here by pixel fill factor and how it would differ between the resolutions?
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In a couple of weeks I'm giving a presentation on Software Product Development / Project Management to a group of university students that are doing a Master of Engineering Management degree.

Most of my insights are from working as as software engineer, so I thought it might be valuable to reach out here and get some wider insights / takeaways that I can share with the students.

So here goes:

What roles have you played in software product development, and what insights have you had? In your experience, what does good project management look like, and what are some of the pitfalls / gotcha's to be aware of?

Thanks in advance for sharing, I'm interested to hear what people have to say!
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Yeah along with porn, which despite being prohibited is still mostly watched in these countries :roll-eyes:
Oh god, after reading the comments I'm so upset that they were all from the same place. I got 1.7 miles away on the FIRST GUESS! and I fucked it up....
I have 60, 144 and 165hz displays. I have to say I don't really see much of a difference. Around 30 hz yes. But not over 60. It's probably some sort of genetic vision difference thing.
> we can't just have an entire world of sites and services all available for free with just a few ads slapped on top of them

Arguably, advertising on the Web is too cheap and too ubiquitous. This may be even the key problem. As a reminder, before this, a select, smaller number of media like newspapers, magazines, even TV, was able to sustain itself by advertising with consumer prices only contributing to a minor part of the overall costs of production and distribution. (The peak in revenues from this actually isn't that long ago: 2008/2009.) The current model of ubiquitous, but also infinitesimal small prices & revenues, plays only to the brokers, while sustaining nothing.
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Things are a bit more subtle and complicated than that. Using the logical conclusion of your mirror claim it does constitute that excessive toxicity can be generated unintentionally. That this can even happen through simple cultural differences in understanding. As an example to this, many people think Chinese are being rude due to their directness and hashness but this can just simply be because a direct translation of the words is used rather than reframing into the cultural context. So in this respect intent is divorced from the produced effect. It also is reasonable that to study these effects you would wish to start by intentional provocation. Complexity and subtly comes later.

But the more complicated aspect is that of mode collapse. A good example of this is with Alpha Go's game against Lee Sedol. The game that Sedol won was weird. Alpha Go played in a very weird way, and a very bad way. This is due to the probabilistic nature and that it had likely wandered into a latent space that it had not seen before. Remember that it was mostly trained against good games and so can easily get confused in bad games (as Sedol also got confused due to its previous high performance and he thought it was playing some "5-D chess"). This compounds with the above aspect as now there exists a mechanism wherein such toxicity can arise through seemingly unprovoked means. We call these hallucinations btw.

Of course, this does mean there is good reason to study said toxicity. But we shouldn't conflate academic curiosity with theater. Are people uninformed and taking AI risk too far? Most certainty. But the same can be said about the hype of these tools too. Both are clearly detrimental to the progress of AI advancement. In this we probably should be a bit more measured in our quickness to respond and critiques. Tribalism doesn't belong here but people will encourage it.
LLMs don't even register the list of deliberate weapons.

Just seems like pearl clutching at it's finest.
Fun little thing to mention about Phosphate mining.

A tiny island country called Nauru (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nauru) got super rich off of Phosphate mining which kept going into the 1990s. This led their government to invest in many projects abroad, including what may in fact be the worst large-scale well funded musical ever.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_the_Musical:_A_Portra...
We see this with Amazon Music offerings as well. Focus on acquisition and accumulation, not innovation.

For Books, Amazon has (1) Kindle, (2) Kindle Unlimited (... a direct competitor to Audible), (3) Kindle Vella (somewhat of a Goodreads competitor), (4) Audible, (5) Amazon.com (retail), (6) Prime Reading, and externally (7) Abe Books, (8) Comixology, (9) Book Depository. And then there are Children's versions...

For Music, Amazon has (1) Amazon Music Unlimited, (2) Prime Music, (3), Amazon Music Free, (4) Amp, and has just acquired (5) Wondery.

I'm cool with checking out audiobooks from Libby, and whatever music app opens consistently when I want it to (i.e., not Amazon Music). Support your local libraries!
>From my experience, most people don't read the instructions or text notes anyway.

This happens in my life constantly when dealing with family IT problems or mentoring juniors at work (and sometimes working with seniors too!). People just do not read the output of their computers.
Natural gas generators absolutely should get capacity payments as firm generation that can be called on rapidly (newest combined cycle turbines can ramp within 15-30 minutes), but so should batteries and battery firmed renewables.

If you can generate when called upon, you should get paid to be there when sufficient capacity is questionable. If you cannot, your generation should trade at a discount to reflect its intermittent nature.
Or it could have gone the way of Wirecutter if NYT bought it. Nothing is permanent. Centralization is "better is worse."
People say this, but I’ve had people fail double blind tests for 120hz vs 90hz vs 60hz. I’ve yet to find anyone that can reliably tell 144hz vs 120hz.

What people mostly notice is latency not refresh rate.
Yeah, that's correct. Stupid mistake on my part; was writing that comment in a hurry. Not sure why you're grayed out tbh. Thanks for the corrective.

> or has a shockingly cavalier attitude

Meh. Median response time was 40 seconds. The question didn't have a bounded time-frame for the risk. Five is small but non-zero. Also all of the other issues I've already pointed out.

PhD students spending half a minute and writing down a number about risk over an unbounded time-frame is totally uninformative if you want to know how seriously experts take x-risk in time-frames that are relevant to any sort of policy or decision making.

I think you and everyone else making comments about "shockingly cavalier attitude" wildly over-estimate the amount of thought and effort that respondents spend on this question. The "probability times magnitude" framing is not how normal people think about that question. I'd bet they just wrote down a small but not zero number; I'd probably write down 1 or 2 but definitely roll my eyes hard.
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I found the name "cluetrain" itself a pretentious turnoff when I first heard of it, and didn't bother reading it for a while. After reading it I didn't feel like I gained anything of value.
Comparing Go to Perl is apples to oranges.
Yes, they considered it a double whammy trademark violation, Mac + GPT = total criminal. Nonetheless, I'm getting requests to also bring the contexts thing to iOS, so maybe whatever happens happens for a reason.
0 mi in 4 guesses. The funny part was I forgot to look at the photos after the first two and had to go back and look at the photos to see what I missed. The first photo has a bridge, so that informed the clicks a bit since I knew I needed a stream, so some help from the content.
Now ask yourself: how do you know you are not already a resident of a village like that?
Dell cuts cost anywhere they can. Their power cable, keyboard, and mouse have the tiniest gauge wire I have ever seen and this is a $2500 system. Do not buy Dell.
Maybe you should ask chatGPT to explain what a cargo cult is
For little effort the defending dev can ask a second layer of LLM to check if an output is explicitly toxic, filter it, and nullify the red team.

Filtering shitty content is easier than creating it with a properly constructed LLM system, the complaints about toxic outputs seem to me to be analogous to an electrical engineer complaining that the voltage from the mains is wrong for their device, but refusing to google what an (electrical) transformer is.

Toxic writing pre-exists LLMs. LLMs output writing. This is not a new problem, but we have a new solution - LLM filtering.
8K is four times the pixels and therefore four times the bandwidth as a 4K monitor.

It took us a long time to go from 1080p to 4K. It has taken even longer for 4K at 120-144Hz to be practical.

It’s more likely that you’ll end up with intermediate steps to 5K, 6K, than getting 8K 120Hz.

The other limitation is lack of demand. You need a gigantic monitor for 8K to be worth it, and you need a powerful video card to drive it. The number of people who would buy such a monitor is very, very small.
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More recently with Windows 10? Far fewer. But just back with Windows 7 it was easy to let your computer run close to forever. I would host game servers on my personal computer and it would run for weeks to months without a reboot. I would usually only reboot because I would install new software that required one.
Anecdotal, but my friends and I have passed such tests. YMMV
Harvard without Legacy Admissions will still retain the Harvard brand.

For example, UCs don't offer a legacy bump, yet Berkeley and UCLA still retain a major brand presence in the Tech and Finance industry both within North America and Asia.

In fields such as Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Law, and Business Harvard does hire very strong faculty AND gives them a significant amount of funding and autonomy to continue their own research pursuits.

Also, in my own friend group and as someone who attended one of these Ivies+Ivy Adjacent Programs, just getting into either a T20 school overall or a T10 school in your field is more than enough to gain the prestige cachet needed for your field.

The alumni networks in these 20-30 public and private universities are strong enough that you'd be able to do well globally. While legacy does play a role in the undergrad experience, it's not like CMU, UT Austin, UVA, UW, or UCLA don't have students from elite backgrounds even though they might not have the street cred of "HAVHAD".
Amazon buying it is one problem. But the other is the users, review-bombing books they haven't even read
Asimov wrote a lot about what we could call alignment. I'd argue that our focus on benchmark based evaluations is akin to a misalignment with what we are actually trying to evaluate. While benchmarks are great tools and highly useful, the over-reliance of them is many a short story by Asimov.
As I said, we're close to nailing the problem, and the element web team has literally been working on nothing else for weeks.

I have no clue why you think we're disregarding it; it drives me nuts too.
POSIX could make everyone’s life easier if there was a standard facility to make signals run on dedicated “signal handling threads”. If my SIGINT handler has its own thread that only ever runs that handler (and never runs it re-enterantly), most of these safety issues go away. It is possible to implement that now, but it would be a lot easier if it were just a feature of the C library-and unlike other solutions like the self-pipe trick, the coding model is essentially unchanged (no assumption the program has an event loop). That doesn’t really work for inherently thread-specific signals such as SIGSEGV, but far fewer people are interested in handling those
State’s Travel advisories are a bit of a joke. Often they’ll be issued for places that are safer and have stronger rule of law than the USA.