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If small infrastructure companies don't do this, companies like Amazon get to suck all of the air out of the room. They reap the profits and directly compete with the company doing all the work. At scale.

This is the same for database companies like Redis and Elastic.

Open source has become a weapon used by the giants. This isn't about OSS anymore. It's about the largest companies in our industry setting compensation and soaking up all the profits.

I'd say an IC at one of these companies deserves more than an IC at Amazon and should see outsized reward. But that's not what's happening.
You can try https://pod-genie.com which is slightly cheaper but I must admin the voices aren't as good.

Great work Wondercraft team!

Full disclosure - I built pod-genie.
This comment is certainly true for me. The article really resonated for me.
Firefox for Android is lacking on so many basic features, it's amazing that they prioritize anything else before fixing those.

E.g deep links. Which is very, very basic feature for mobile. Firefox on Android is unusable without it - and it seems like no one prioritize this, so excuse me for not being excited by any other feature.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54653641/app-links-not-w...
https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/15202
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1809264
Tamper seals are also easily non-evidently bypassed.
I just got a Pico W to run Forth on. It's like a REPL for low level hardware, and I'm unreasonably excited to play with it this weekend.

Somehow I've gone 36 years without anyone telling me I could do explorative programming on bare metal, and now I can't shut up about it.
Can someone elaborate why Mozilla gets hate? I don't pay much attention to that and just use Firefox.
The role of vector datastores in generative AI applications
Science North is a treasure! You can also see from that laser display how pleasing sounds have a stable, synchronized relationship whereas atonal key combinations do not
Imagine being super thirsty and having to dig, with hooves, through hot desert sands for a sip of water.
Universe’s Jive"

(Complex instrumental sections with shifts in time signatures. Lyrics have a satirical undertone.)

Verse 1:
Summoned a shadow or just a silicon brain?
From chessboards to streets, it's all part of the game.
Think we're the champs, but are we just inane?
Compared to the cosmos, are our brains too lame?

Interlude:
(Jazzy guitar riff mixed with an odd-metered percussion line.)

Chorus:
The singularity’s knocking, or is it just hype?
Caught in the loop, the stereotypical type.
Predicting, speculating, swallowing the tripe,
But can we decode the universe's archetype?

Verse 2:
Markets and dreams, the billionaire’s dance,
All looks rosy, till you're out of chance.
Machines boast of a masterful glance,
Yet, who pulls the strings in this vast expanse?

Bridge:
MuZero's groove, feeling so elite,
Thinks it’s got the rhythm, can't accept defeat.
But against the universe, can it compete?
Or just another tune, incomplete, obsolete?

Chorus:
Singularity, they say, is the ultimate dive,
But can we, mere mortals, really derive?
Predictions abound, but can we survive?
In the end, it’s about keeping the jive alive.

Verse 3:
Computations, simulations, all in a grid,
In this tech circus, we're just a tiny squid.
Chasing echoes, in shadows we're hid,
But the cosmic joke? It's just a quid.

Outro:
(A whimsical woodwind section, possibly a kazoo solo.)

In this cosmic game, we strive and strive,
Dancing on the edge, trying to thrive.
But remember, as the stars contrive,
It's not about the end, but the drive.
As if individuals don't have plenty of choices?
Ah I see so it went into the "useless UI shifting" bucket rather than the "deleted features" bin. But I am happy to know it still exists thankfully.
I don't hate all murder mysteries. It's more specifically books with really bad pacing, boring characters driving boring plots. That can happen in any book really. And those kinds of things don't really come out until I get past the first few chapters and at that point I just want to see how awful things can get before the end. A book can still be entertaining even if I don't like it.
> Have you considered that they are doing some of these things to survive?

How many Managers does one need to negotiate prices for VPN and Pocket? So far, the excessive management does not make the impression to be very valuable for making money, or even let Mozilla survive one day longer.

Of course do they need to make money, but at no point so far did they make the impression that they made any serious attempt beyond some lip service. Well, except VPN, which is just a resale of a popular service, with a natural chemistry for their philosophy.. And I'm not sure how much money their VPN really made so far.
Tip for your GF: always have another "card up your sleeve" when searching for opportunities. If you solely focus on the option at hand its easy to be disappointed when it doesn't work out and to dwell on it. But if you already sent out another application you have something to move on to.
While I’m sure you are earnest, you should probably stop right now. Forking a repo is not sufficient. You need to remove trademark infringement and anything which does not fall under the MPLv2 license - much like the (former) CentOS process for rebuilding RHEL.

Should you ever distribute binaries, you also need to do a better job than HashiCorp of obeying the license terms of your dependencies around attribution.

Finally, as someone who has actually done the job of core maintenance of Terraform, I suspect you are also vastly underestimating the amount of work involved. I just set a reminder to look at this fork in 3 months, I’d put money on it being dead.
Not really, just push the tarball with sources to nginx when you deploy a specific commit.
right, I forgot to mention that manufacture also requires a tax stamp which is only available to registered manufacturers.

And yeah the Glock switch thing is absolutely wild. Sure, calling a shoelace a machine gun[0] stretches philosophy a fair bit. But the widespread availability of a bit of hardware that can only add select fire to a handgun tells me that enforcement is only a problem for those willing to adhere to the rules at all.

0: https://i.imgur.com/FCbDv.jpg
On the other hand, assuming it's OK to ignore the special edge cases (or not even thinking of them) can come back to bite you (or your users) when eventually one of them does show up in a situation you didn't anticipate.
I wonder what Google is going to do in this space - it seemed like terraform had been their de-facto infrastructure as code tool for GCP - they really need OSS or to build something first party.
>I picture three docs, A, B, and C which is a summary composite of things pulled from A & B - C will still need its own manual curation and updating if A and B are changed to remain legible, flowing, and meaningful, and I'd rather have a stale doc than a garbled one.

I think I see what you mean. Garbling, as you mention it, is actually what Xanadu is supposed to prevent. The problem is that it is not explicitely mentioned that a document/version (a collection of pointers to immutable content) should also be an addressable entity (an part of the "grand address space") and must not change, once it has been published to the database.
In particular, if a link, e.g., a comment, is made to a text appearing in a document/version, the link must, in addition to the content addresses, also contain the address of that document/version (In Fig. 13. [1] that is clearly not the case and I think that's a serious flaw).

This way, everything that document C refers to - and is presented - is at the time it was when the composition was made. How revisions are managed is an orthogonal (and important) problem, but with the scheme above we lose no information about the provenance of a composition and can use that information for more diligent curation.

[1] https://xanadu.com.au/ted/XUsurvey/xuDation.html
Poisoning the water supply / bio weapons are bits of knowledge most people don't typically have. I think a better analogy might be using a gun to shoot up a school. We have laws against it, but guns are so widely available and easy to obtain, that the tiny pool of sociopaths willing are enabled. Will AI be in the former or latter camp?
I get that it’s not this simple - but my flippant response is that “with kids, yes!”… this is an essential part of being a parent or role model - tell kids how/why to be “good” , and largely they won’t be bad.
Interesting! What happened in 2019? And sorry I'm speaking in kind of broad strokes here; I live in the US and don't own my roof so I haven't gone as deep into this as I'd like.
I don't know what caliber of teacher you're looking for, but as someone who's always been interested in image & video editing/manipulation, I've always enjoyed watching Captain Disillusion[1], a YouTuber who focuses on fake viral videos. His breakdowns of how disinformation in these videos can be spread is combined with entertaining and easy to grasp explanations of VFX techniques all packaged in short digestible videos.

While his breakdowns aren't tutorials to be followed (unless you're already experienced with Blender and its ilk), they're great for learning how different video effects work and how the most minor of things can immediately give the game away.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@CaptainDisillusion/videos
Branches on a comparison function, doesn't count it as simple functions end up as a conditional move. Branches in a loop back edge, doesn't count it as there's a branch predictor.

I was hoping for a binary search without branches in it. Not really what we got.
Interesting re the moving rate -- it does seem I'm wrong on that; my demographic is by far the highest moving rate so probably personal experience colored that.

Regarding loneliness, here's a great study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36618547/
My first PC was a Pentium 90 that I got in summer 1994. It had the FDIV bug. I read about the bug, didn't think it was a big deal for how I used my computer and never got a replacement chip. I still have the CPU in a box in the closet.
> some obscure technical goal

A multi-process architecture is not an obscure technical goal, it's an essential for modern browsing, and something that Chrome had from the outset, and is a large part of the reason that Chrome originally clobbered Firefox in both security and perceived speed.
Do not do blindly follow API changes in long term.

Provide some tool to verify compatibility, but in general the goal is for open-source to be the standard, not HashiCorp flavour.

Your goal is to convince the most popular Hashicorp providers that you are the standard and build the community.
thanks. no it's happening on different IPs, different browsers.

maybe on every 2nd or 3rd refresh it locks the account and forces the captcha the process. and the captcha process itself is the most difficult i've ever seen.

i'm not using 2fa btw.
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34725554
> You may make production use of the Licensed Work, provided such use does not include offering the Licensed Work to third parties on a hosted or embedded basis which is competitive with HashiCorp's products.

Using GitHub Actions to deploy your Terraform code (you becoming the third party) is competitive with HashiCorp's products. There is no delineation about commercialization.

HashiCorp probably won't come after you, but to me it shows this wasn't really thought through or it's maliciously ambiguous.
A very Nietzsche approach to ego-driven writing. I don't disagree with the points the author makes. I just disagree with the way he makes them like you do.
I get that there are pros and cons of different licenses, and reasonable people my disagree, but this is the first time that occurred to them? This far down the road?

No one forced them to be open source. They did it for certain benefits. They would have gone nowhere in the early days with this new license, most likely. I can only see these moves as bait and switch. Encourage everyone to use it, allow and maybe even encourage companies to build offerings on top of it to help with traction/mindshare... and then oh btw we changed our mind. It may be their right, but I'm glad people are talking about the implications.
And? Citing this as a sign of legitimacy is incredibly Hacker News.
PKCP: Private Key Control Procedure
Sid has always been pretty good for me. I run a mix of Sid and Stable machines. It really depends on what you're looking to use the device for, but I've never found severe breakages or anything on Sid. I probably wouldn't run Sid on a server though.
Not halted by any means. It currently relies on Litestream to do streaming replication, but unfortunately the author of Litestream removed streaming replication. I have been working on a Rust rewrite of Litestream which will be ready within a few weeks and will be incorporated into Covert. My focus on the Litestream rewrite is the reason there hasn't been any commits directly to the Covert repo the last months.
Semantics is generally not the most interesting topic, but since the actual science behind the title claim is well-discussed elsewhere...

We already have strong evidence of a fifth force, the Higgs force, by most accountings (assuming you enumerate the other low-energy forces as gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak forces; or, if you look at the higher-energy gravity, SU(3), SU(2), and U(1); either way).

IF the g-2 experiments point to unknown particles (which seems unlikely), that could (and also could not) point to a sixth force.
OP here – Supabase fans have been asking for something akin to Firebase Firestore's (limited) automatic offline support. We've gone a step further and built a SDK with embedded local database as well as a sync service that plugs into Supabase.

It's available to try out here (free): https://docs.powersync.co/integration-guides/supabase-+-powe...
It’s a similar psychological phenomenon to the “big lie” principle. It’s easy to believe a mediocre CEO is mediocre. But it’s really hard to believe a person who is richest on the planet, is so mind bogglingly incompetent and terrible in obvious self-evident ways, so you keep thinking there is a “plan”. Him cultivating the image of being a “quirky genius” also plays a role. And it’s always been entirely intentional.
It's an Elm blog. It starts off with saying that even when writing Elm, you still have to drop in to Javascript.
Another tangent: This assumes the AGI on our phones are all discrete entities, rather than a singular entity. We know what it means for a human to die, and hence for independent agents to exist, compete, cooperate. What does it mean for an AGI to die? Can it?
Wow, interesting point. Read Cryptonomicon so long ago, didn't clue in to the connection with crypto/blockchain.

I think my take on it was more just that he called the virtualverse "metaverse", where 10 years before the idea behind it was in "True Names" by Vinge, as the "Other Plane", and Gibson's "Neuromancer" with "matrix"
Sun blasts out highest-energy radiation ever recorded
High level of heart attack protein linked to risk of death from any cause
I sucked at Vim. My tribute to Bram will be to learn it and master it.

It is one shoulders of these giants we ALL stand on.
So many people making reading like an endless chore, rather than a lifetime love affair.
I did it for a while, for "exposure".

Now I keep my own personal technical blog that I consider a technical diary of the things I learn each month.
> Other people in this position, what did you do?

Got medicated, and reduced the amount of billable hours to a minimum that lets me make rent, and gives me a ton of unstructured fun time to pursue today's source of dopamine. Today it's one library, tomorrow it's hacking on a project, next week, who knows?

In other words, make it so programming is a way to express your creativity, rather than simply your day job.
My biggest issue with i18n is not the grammar. It's the sheer uncanny valley of it.

There are translations to "Hello" in Portuguese but I'd cringe at being greeted with them by a webmail client instead of the more formal Good Morning/Afternoon.

The formal/informal gradient is very culture-bound and even hard to pin to a scalar space of possibilities. In a work environment people will fluently code-switch too -- say, between ranks or in the middle of a tiresome meeting when everyone takes five minutes to kick back and comment on lighter matters. It's hard to situate a computer in this social context.
The bugzilla issue you linked was fixed 3 months ago. So it would seem that they did, in fact, prioritize it.
“Can’t be bothered to do the legwork asked if you to get accelerated and funded by YC” is honestly a wonderful filtering function.
Interesting, I find audiobooks faster end-to-end as I don't re-read pages again and again. But it means i have to focus more, so I absolutely can't walk/cook/clean at the same time!
> Disabling extensions had nothing to do with their market share

It kinda did because it removed a reason to pick Firefox over its competitors.

If Firefox doesn't actually bring anything tangible to the table, why would people pick it over whatever they're currently using (which is likely to be Chrome)?

The average user doesn't hate Google like some people do, so a purely ideological argument of "it isn't Chrome" won't work (and didn't work as its marketshare kept declining). Users need tangible, non-niche features to switch.
This would have to be a server board, or at least a HEDT board.

And yeah, as said below, 4x 4090s would trip most circuit breakers and require some contortions to power with a regular PSU. And it would be so expensive that you mind as well buy 2x A6000s.

Really, the problem is no one will sell fast, sanely priced 32GB+ GPUs. I am hoping Intel will disrupt this awful status quo with Battlemage.
> pay an intelligent professional otherwise [...] discriminator to classify AI

Exactly. "Ah but your system to organize the warehouse is not intelligent!" "No it isn't, but it does it intelligently - and without it you would have to pay an intelligent professional to get it done optimally".

AI: "automation of intelligence".

(Not "implementation of intelligence itself" - that is AGI.)
Girkin was first: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Girkin
This is not cognitive bias. The question is indeed not straightforward because, indeed, society has tended to see 'meat' and 'fish' as two separate categories.

So when Justice Scalia says:
" “Of course fish isn’t meat!” he boomed. “Why else do I—and millions of Catholics—eat fish on Fridays during Lent?” ", he is making a legal argument that there is an established precedent in society that 'meat' and 'fish' are understood as different things.

By the way, two definitions of 'meat' I quickly found on Google:

Oxford Languages: " the flesh of an animal, typically a mammal or bird, as food (the flesh of domestic fowls is sometimes distinguished as poultry ). "

Merriam Webster: " animal tissue considered especially as food / flesh of a mammal as opposed to fowl or fish / flesh of domesticated animals "

So even dictionaries are not that clear-cut that 'animal' should be understood by is pure biological definition and do say that 'meat' is often to be understood as NOT including fish.

Edit:
This also illustrates the importance of defining terms in a discussion. A term might have an obvious meaning to me and an equally obvious but different meaning to someone else.
well, at least we are trying to solve i18n with tech https://github.com/inlang/inlang :D
I think it's called "Mathematical Methods for Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems". It's this one:

https://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Methods-Artificial-Intel...

I found my copy at Goodwill.
I moved to another country and I use it to send money back to my family in my home country.

It's by far the cheapest and fastest option. It takes less than 30min to transfer between my bank accounts.

It works something like this
Deposit->send from and to an exchange - > convert to local currency - > withdraw into bank account

The total cost ends up being about 1.5% including the exchange rate.
With my normal bank it takes up to a week and the total cost ends up being about 4~6%
Even if I was converting currency at an airport the exchange rate tends to be worse than 1.5%
Remember when Zoom was silently installing hidden web servers on Macs?[1] This vulnerability allowed any website to forcibly join a user to a Zoom call, with their video camera activated, without the user's permission.

Zoom has had such an amazingly flippant attitude towards security the entire history of the company. It's not that they aren't investing enough in security or that they have buggy software... they are just so damn brazen and actively create their own exploits. How else can you say it?

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/10/20689644/apple-zoom-web-s...
Yes, I don't think it makes sense that the definition of "open source" requires that people can arbitrarily re-sell it. Like, just the words themselves, in my view, clearly don't imply that. I'm happy to stipulate that this is what was meant when the term was invented and that there is a single gatekeeper of the official definition in order to keep it this way. I'm just telling you that I (and I think many people) find this to fall outside what the words directly evoke. So to me "source available" just sounds like a slightly more awkward synonym. But I don't mind using the official language, because I know people care a lot about this (to me) extra ideology, and I think they're entitled to advocate for that.

But this second part of the argument I just don't grok at all. These licenses like BSL provide significantly more of what I want in software I use than proprietary software does. (Namely, the ability to read, modify, and self-host the software of I choose to.)

I think what must be going on is that when you see a license like this you think "there is no point to something like that besides a PR stunt trying to imply proprietary software is open source", and I think "oh this seems like a really useful compromise that allows commercial enterprises to create software with code that I can read, modify, run myself, and contribute to if I want to, without a different company that did none of the work on the software making all the money from it". Just totally different perspectives.
Those barebones ‘XXX Error’ pages are sent from the server and rendered in the browser just like the post talks about. Browsers have always handled the html returned with the error code in the same way (by showing it to the user). The only difference from the old days is that now sites show a nicer page instead of using the default barebones error pages.
This article is materially wrong in several respects (as one would expect had they been following Spacelift and their doublespeak around open source - especially from former “devrels”).

This one particularly irks me though:

> Can they do it?
> Yes, they can. They required every contributor to Terraform to sign a CLA that allowed this.

This is untrue, and only covers contributions since the CLA was added, many years after Terraform was started. I for one have never signed it.
The question is also whether it's meaningful to polish our deeply mathematical models to scales so extreme that we may have troubles in reaching them. Keep in mind that this is just some model of reality, not necessarily how reality truly works.

A true paradigm shift that would have implications in our scales would be much more meaningful.
>> At the moment it is deeply dissatisfying that our theories describe the universe that is accessible to our experiments so well.

That should be very satisfying.
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