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> "Component model interfaces always support link-time interposition."
>
> Like WTF does this mean? The repo tells me nothing

Directly above the sentence you quoted:

"Interposition in the context of WASI interfaces is the ability for a Webassembly instance to implement a given WASI interface, and for a consumer WebAssembly instance to be able to use this implementation transparently. This can be used to adapt or attenuate the functionality of a WASI API without changing the code using it."

> and I've still yet to see a clear write-up about what WASI is.

In the same document: [0]

> WTF is wit?

The first link in that document ("Starting in Preview2, WASI APIs are defined using the Wit IDL.") is [1].

> I click on "legacy" and I see preview0 and preview1, which are basically unreadable proto-specs.

The README for the legacy directory [2] clearly explains what they are.

> Where's a single well-written WASI spec?

"Development of each API happens in its own repo, which you can access from the proposals list." [3]

> Whatever WASI is doing, I don't like it.

Clearly not - you've gone out of your way to ignore all of the documentation that answer your questions.

> And neither does AssemblyScript team apparently

The AssemblyScript team have a bone to pick with WASI based on their misunderstanding of what WASI is for (it is not intended for use on the web) and WASI's disinterest in supporting UTF-16 strings. You can see for yourself in [4].

[0]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/tree/main#wasi-high-leve...

[1]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/component-model/blob/main/des...

[2]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/blob/main/legacy/README....

[3]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/blob/main/Proposals.md

[4]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/issues/401
And the majority of people aren’t doing that. You hardly ever hear the music industry complaining about piracy once iTunes and especially Spotify came online. “convenience beats free”.

I had a Plex server set up at home with over 1000 movies collected over the years from 2007 - 2020. It got to the point where I would just rather buy/rent a movie than deal with torrenting or the Plex server.

Eventually, I just copied all 2TB+ to AWS S3 Glacier Deep Archive and got rid of it.
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Most non-tech-savy people use HTML emails unconsciously because providers like Gmail and Outlook enable it by default.

Therefore companies use HTML in their newsletters, and transactional mails.
He was a great man. He will be missed.
This also applies to selling the property.
With all due respect, and even considering that I am generally a fan of the "no technical solutions to legal problems", but this concrete example is where I draw the line: there is a clear benefit of a 3rd party _not being able_ to trace you _at all_ ; compared to whichever legal restrictions you want to put on it which may not even be physically nor technologically enforceable (at the end of the day they have the addresses and "bytes of the movie requested" for every user they served it to, no matter what the law says).

Not to mention the public (as usual) doesn't even seem to mind about their user activity being mined; at this point, even "western democracies" do it with various coatings of paint. Such democracies enforcing companies not to mine user activity, appetizing and trivial as this mining is, is just wishful thinking both today as well as at any point of history.

I would never exchange a broadcast medium where it is _impossible_ for the broadcaster to track me with one where tracking me is practically a side effect of its normal operation, even if I had the personal written guarantee of the current President of the Republic that the broadcasters would not be able to actually use any of the data they mine from it.
Analysis of the Arm Memory Tagging Extension
Shrill article. The tundra is going away. We can’t refrigerate a million square miles. Do beavers replace the dying tundra with something that is more resilient to climate change? Oh hell yes. Let them.
This is why I have an automation on my computer to type out the clipboard character by character.
> Considering that we increasingly understand how much power lies in that ability to "shape" distribution of UGC, and how much platforms actively abuse that power, the people wanting to reform/repeal the section just got a whole lot more sympathetic in my view.

I’m curious who you’re referring to as the people wanting to reform/repeal. Most of the discussion on section 230 that I’ve seen in recent years can pretty much be summarized as “I allege that you’re shaping content to reflect a particular political/cultural preference. Therefore you should not be shielded from responsibility for illegal content”—which is a total non-sequitur. But maybe there’s also bee more thoughtful discussion that I’ve missed since I was never really paying that close attention to it.

Really, those people weren’t even looking for reform. They wanted to apply their interpretation of the existing law such that it would lead to a punitive outcome for the sake of retribution.
We certainly do have a known solution to emissions, it’s to cut them. The most straightforward way to do that is to cut consumption, drop standards of living.

The solution is crystal clear, we have real life working examples right now all over the world, for example the people living in Bangladesh are at a level of consumption that would actually be sustainable for all 8 billion of us to embrace.

The solution is clear, it’s just that we don’t like it, so we readily embrace the magical thinking that we can have our cake and eat it too.
Very well, I can see it working. Hopefully I'll get to have a used one at a reasonable price. Less than 3kUSD is a fairly wide range.

If the demo videos show it remotely close to reality of the thing it's pretty promising. I personally can't wait to be able to finally bend my neck back on the couch cushion and keep writing/watching etc. I actually considered installing a mirror on the ceiling to see the monitor, but then I have to move the monitor too...
I'm in a thickly wooded suburb, which has absolutely terrible power reliability. I've been on generator 9 days in the last 7 months: Two four-day outages and a one-day. On the other hand, the trees provide shade and quiet and beauty.

I love the trees in front yards and in some other places, but in back yards where they're in the utility easement and never should've been allowed there in the first place, they _are_ a nuisance. It's important to differentiate the two; if we want the benefits of electricity we have to compromise a little on every-tree-everywhere-no-matter-the-cost.
62% of people in SF are renting
In scientific computing, it has become a serious problem. Because of the memory wall, many important algorithms can never take advantage of 60 TFLOPS due to their low arithmetic intensity. The only solutions are (1) stop using these algorithms, (2) stop using von Neumann computers (e.g. in-memory computing). The stop-gap solution is HBM or 3D-VCache.
I find it humorous that when man makes a dam (even small ones, like on one's own property [1]) it's destroying the ecosystem and stealing water from downstream and bad but when an oversized rodent does, it's 'restoring wetlands' and 'buffers against wildfires'.

[1] https://gazette.com/news/a-pond-farewell-state-cracks-down-o...
We need a tool that can visit a website, build a summary out of it, and presents it in a standard way, customizable by the user. Like reader mode, but on steroids.
Cars are safer for their occupants, but never really safer for pedestrians. We’re probably making them less safe for pedestrians with all the additional armor and higher center of mass.
Paper Page – Multimodal Neurons in Pretrained Text-Only Transformers
It just means "source lines of code". "losc" sort of makes more sense with how we are used to speaking, but it's not as easy to pronounce as "sloc".
Not only does my bank's website not allow me to paste my "password", it doesn't allow me to type it at all. It's insane. Said "password" is just a 6 digit number (we're not allowed to set our own passwords, because 6 digits is definitely way more secure than the 16 character random strings my password manager generates) and it forces me to enter it using buttons on the page itself with randomized positions. No idea how any of this is supposed to help with security, if my device is already compromised to the point that all my keypresses and clicks are being logged, the attacker can probably also just read the password from the browser's memory...
Unfortunately not, I can't remember the exact title of the article, but there's a number of articles on the topic:

[1] https://www.wral.com/story/license-plate-reading-cameras-hel...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34300713

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36881133
> HN people generally think of themselves as smart folks but frankly when it comes to voting (with their feet) they behave pretty much like average people

I can’t help but notice that you’re detailing the thread with some counterfactual trolling. Maybe stop congratulating yourself for being so much smarter than everyone else and think about how you could state a coherent thesis and support it with data?
You are right - I misread it.

The next step would be to verify that the paths always stay on the surface. The mathematics shown says the point always follows the surface, but I don't see a demonstration that that's true.

I no longer have the skills to easily do this calculation.

EDIT: Oh man, I used to be a lot better at this. I remember the mgh = 1/2 m v^2 and the slope calculation, but can't figure out how tell when the falling point mass detaches from the slope. If it detaches at h=0 then there's no physically viable reversed path on the surface.
Fair complaint. But one could also complain about the initial post. It does nothing to motivate the claim that housing should not be an investment, so it does in fact appear to be an arbitrary rule that is being put forward.
No, that just means it gets details wrong. But it is still science fiction - and (tries to be) rather hard sci-fi.
Dude deliberately ignores the whole category of RHEL users -- integrators. Say, an integrator needs to make sure some program works with RHEL, and, let's say that program works with big clusters of computers (well, think something like Ceph, or maybe Slurm etc.) Now, the integrators will need hundreds of machines running RHEL... and if they have to pay license fees for that, well, that ain't gonna happen. If cornered, integrators will just go away and not use RHEL at all, and then the value of RHEL will also drop.

Of course, any software developer targeting RHEL is also kind of an integrator, and if their company also needs to buy hundreds or thousands of licenses, well, the same thing applies.

This gets even weirder and worse if you think about using public cloud providers, who act as RHEL redistributors -- but you need to somehow have your own VM images... with RHEL. (I work for a company in this exact situation r.n.) Are we "freeloaders"? Because, I guess, if we are, then we might stop, but I don't see how that would benefit RHEL, because we'd have to drop support for RHEL instead of paying so much in license fees.
those who believe we will hit a discontinuous tipping point are precisely those who should be advocating for geoengineering now, despite its unknowns and downsides… yet the voices to do so are curiously absent
The article does a sleight of hand when it conflates the output of Science, which is performed by millions over centuries, with the ability of one person or an AGI to create scientific models. Moreover, I think it misses the true novelty of LLMs.

One ancient debate in AGI (greatly simplified here) is whether intelligence can emerge from brute force computation alone (statistics) or from sophisticated algorithms (logic).

I certainly started on the logic side. For example, it seemed that if we could create an algorithm or data structure to encode (and retrieve) arbitrary knowledge, then we'd be well on our way to intelligence. Thus all the work on logic programming, symbolic representations, and efforts like Cyc.

But by the time Deep Blue beat Kasparov in NYC--something that many people thought impossible--there was evidence that brute force computation was enough.

Chess is a great example because humans do not play chess like Deep Blue does. Humans play chess by pattern matching and not by exhaustively generating move trees (brute force). For a while it seemed like true intelligence depended on pattern matching, and that brute force was a neat parlor trick but ultimately a dead-end.

But LLMs are brute force pattern matchers. Instead of encoding the rules of grammar, we just feed it a trillion tokens and let it find the patterns. The amazing thing is that you can get intelligent behavior and even creativity just by pattern matching.

In fact, think about what creativity is. Creativity is coming up with novel solutions satisfying certain constraints. How do humans do that? Individually we do it by coming up with lots of different solutions (sometimes only as fleeting thoughts) and testing them to see if they satisfy the constraints. Even when humans get a "flash of inspiration" it's often because their subconscious is busy testing various ideas.

Collectively, humans invent and discover by having the best ideas, the best art, the best scientific models, win in the competitive marketplace of ideas. But it's still just trial and error. I think that's the genius of the scientific method: that it takes many ideas--some good, most bad--and keeps only the best. But it's not magic. It's just a process.

In my opinion, the article is using old arguments against AGI ("computers cannot be creative") exactly when LLMs are exhibiting the very traits that they say can't exist. LLMs are absolutely exhibiting "creativity". Maybe they are only as creative as an average human and not a genius. Maybe they're only as creative as a five-year-old.

LLMs are forcing us to confront the fact that intelligence isn't some magic force or elusive unobtanium--it's just the product of brute force pattern matching. It's like when Copernicus postulated that the Earth is not the center of the universe. It's bound to upset people.
Thanks. That's the important number. Really hard to find in that overhyped article.

This is a generic problem with battery announcements. I want to see some publication like Electrek publish 1, 5 and 10 years ago in battery PR.
That's because there isn't much legal pressure on browsers to censor. The pattern I described can be seen where there is such pressure.
Maybe a more workable and less authoritarian tack would be that the government plays in the market as a limited profit entity, thereby ensuring that a cartel cannot fully capture the market and endlessly drive prices upwards. Limited profit (capped at some percentage over revenue) is allowed in order to let the entity invest in expansions so that they don't simply end up being 1% of the market that can be ignored by their competitors.
Adding:

For example of sheer propaganda, framing Privacy Pass (and by extension, Google's Web Environment Integrity proposal) as a "win", with zero discussion of downsides, see WaPo: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/25/captcha...
If anything's for sure it's that if anyone says they know exactly what a large neural net is doing and why, they're most likely full of shit.
Yes. You arent just like born into 'fulfilling' a basic human need.

These services, think healthcare, food, and housing, should be public services that are guaranteed not delivered by the market. You cannot look at the market-based solutions to literally any of these objectively and think it is performing well. At least, not if you value human life.
I feel bad for people who spent their time seriously responding to a troll.
Disney didn't even want VHS back in the day because they would make more money releasing old films from the vault into theaters periodically. Now that physical media has come and gone they're going back to the rent seeking days.
And Jetson
It reminds me of how the less than 1000 wolves of Idaho are terrorizing the 1.9 million human inhabitants.
It's a tug of war. Disney could route their traffic via their T1s where the Australian ISPs also have to pay to receive the traffic. Who can pay longer? And if there is a working market of ISPs the ones with peering or caches in their network can use the superior Disney+ experience in their advertisement.
That would assume there is a correlation between Alzheimer's and income. In some quick googling of studies, there appears to be. However, with often differing results from US vs. European studies (and studying different things like education instead of income and vice versa, dementia vs. Alzheimers and vice versa, urban vs. macro and vice versa), there are hints that it is an accessibility of diagnosis issue.

We still don't know enough about Alzheimer's to have a definitive bullet list of healthy habits to stave it off. Sleep, exercise, dental health, all have some weak evidence behind it. It seems that Alzheimer's is still a more equal opportunity destroyer than heart disease or many cancers where there are plenty of evidence that you can mitigate risks with lifestyle changes.
Except it’s a /. thread too. And /. is pretty appropriate for vim.

Just going to have to hard disagree with flagging stuff like this a dupe today. I’m not interested in the economy of categories in this instance at all.
I don't think you can use space opera there. It is more about the plot than it is about the setting itself.

Basically, space opera can be science fiction, science fantasy, pure fantasy or anything else.
The cutoff for "rural" in America is ~25,000 I believe, but there's more too it than that. A town of 50,000 that is the center of its own micropolitan area is far more rural than a town of 25,000 an hour outside of a metropolis.
> Landlords are the reason housing is unaffordable

Zoning laws are the reason housing is unaffordable. Landlords lobby for zoning laws, but if you have the political power to prohibit renting then presumably you have the political power to reform zoning. Moreover, you should do that anyway, because if all you do is prohibit renting without allowing new housing to be built, you're going to have a bad time.

> if homeownership is out of reach for a segment of the population there should be public housing to accommodate that need.

So if you make 110% of the median income but don't have a downpayment yet the government pays for your housing? Do you get free housing forever as long as you spend everything you make and never save anything up?

What if you have plenty of money but you know you're not going to be somewhere for more than two years and don't want to buy property there?
I have been sailing the dark waters for everything - movies, tv shows, books, games, music, etc - since before the new millennium and I can tell you I've never heard of Canna Power until today. I usually get my content successfully off of the larger public torrent sites, so I guess there's no need, but it's good to have another bookmark in my arsenal! Definitely the Streisand Effect here.
Wrong.

Housing is unaffordable because demand outstrips supply.

Economic illiterates who blame “greed” making public policy tend to make it even worse.
What happens if one of these roads gets hit by lightning?
The Truth About Your Bacon
Isn't that you asking the Whys and How's? If you asked an LLM "What's 5*4?" and it responded with "Why do you want to know that?", the LLM would be doing the abstract reasoning.
Cloudflare can work over TOR? I'm only familiar with the services they offer opening a tunnel across regular internet.
Just a few years ago people were being treated like garbage in SF by landlords. Friends were complaining of landlords asking for thousands and looking at you like they are doing you a favor and that you should be thankful to be living in their property.

Payback time.
Let's say you need to configure a provider for 3 different regions. The natural way you want to do this is store the regions in a variable, and iterate over the variable using "for_each".

What you are referring to are called "provider aliases" and they work well for _avoiding_ using terragrunt (not very DRY though).
One difference is that you are aware that you can't do it and state so. Our current LLMs will just give whatever result they think it should be. It might be correct, it might be off by a bit or it might be completely wrong and there's no way for the user to tell apart from double checking with some non-LLM source wich kinda defeats the purpose of asking the LLM in the first place.
> but never really safer for pedestrians.

They can... Automatic breaking is a thing... My car almost had me have an accident while breaking for me (three times)... But it will get better
I laugh everytime someone posts an article with a definitive title ina field where nobody knows shit about what's coming. Hear me Mr. Krugman?
> This is quite unfair. The AI doesn't have I/O other than what we force-feed it through an API. Who knows what will happen if we plug it into a body with senses, limbs, and reproductive capabilities?

Its already tricking humans by faking its blind and getting them to do things for it like solve captcha's.

https://gizmodo.com/gpt4-open-ai-chatbot-task-rabbit-chatgpt...

However the fact it is not writing code to do this from its machine would still demonstrate a weakness.

Thats why I say, writing your own OS, is the way forward, and we dont have an AI OS as such, but we have OS's with AI built into it.
As much as I like Doctorow,
Max Headroom’s authors were a few steps ahead of current thinking way back in 1988. (S2E13: “Lessons”)

The end game has nothing to do with limiting piracy or controlling political speech. Those are just a means to an end.

Ultimately, there will always be some people in power whose goals are illiteracy and weaponizing general purpose computation.

This phenomenon is not new. We produce more food than humanity needs, but warlords and first world governments routinely cause famines by weaponizing food distribution.
A close look at the 8086 processor's bus hold circuitry
Emphasis—“on average” and yet often applied deep into both tails of unknown distributions.

“Complete and utter nonsense” also ignores many inconvenient truths about medical care today and of course in the not-so-distant past. Medical history should temper the tone.
Forget chess, backgammon teaches valuable life lessons: blind luck, unfairness
>Rishi Sunak hopes to inspire a new generation of grandmasters, but he should broaden his horizons to other games for kids