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> Interesting that the quest 2 wins for Vr headsets even though it’s stand alone.

The reason for this is pretty clear, there's nothing as good as the Quest 2 in the PC VR headset market anywhere near the Quest 2's price, and even if you're willing to fork out more the options are either long on the tooth or mediocre for the price. It's why I use one as a PC headset.
> a machine resembling a human being and able to replicate certain human movements and functions automatically.

I'd call that an android, which is a subset of robots in general

> Would you call a windmill a robot?

No, I'd call a windmill a power plant.

To be honest, I have a problem squaring most dictionary definitions with how I hear people talk about robots (but most of the people I hear talk about robots are robotics people), so I don't put a lot of stock in them, really. To me, a dishwasher is unambiguously a robot, just a simple one.

But, really, none of this actually matters much. It's just semantics.
Railway signaling works based on whether something is there, not based on whether it should be there. If the freight train stops, then the signals for the passenger train will tell it that it cannot proceed.

I don't know anything specific about Poland's rail signaling, but they can't have messed that up. It's written in blood.
I get what you are saying and I’m not really disagreeing, but I would say that subjectively it’s a little easier to reason about single digits instead of double or triple digits for most normal people.

Like saying “he is 6 feet tall” is slightly more ergonomic than saying “he is 1.83 meters tall” or “he is 182cm tall”. Both of the common metric versions of that measurement are less ergonomic than 6ft. cm feels too big and m feels too small.

Another way to put it is that the range of measurements for many everyday things often fits on your two hands.

Another example “I have a 7 inch penis” translated to, “I have a 17.78cm penis”, subjectively doesn’t feel the same in conversations.

The number 7 subjectively fits in your mind a little easier than 17.78.

Anyway, as I said I don’t disagree with you, the metric system is better in a lot of ways and I’m happy to use it when I can, but I do think that people spend far too much time talking about how superior their big brain unit of measurement is when it doesn’t really matter that much.
Impulse Labs, a startup, is doing lithium-backed kitchen stoves.
Claims to heat-up 1L of water in ~40secs. That's at least 8.6kW.

https://twitter.com/sdamico/status/1592553611879673856?s=20
> There is no threat to rail passengers, unless a passenger train does not know about a stopped train ahead of it on the tracks, e.g., a cargo train go stopped by the hack, but the passenger train 10min behind it did not and continues to rush onward towards the stopped cargo train.

Almost everywhere in Europe uses actual signalling blocks backed by axle counters and DC detection circuits between the rails of a track, or by physical key/token based interlocks to detect if a train can safely enter the block. The way the US does it (especially detecting if a train has not been separated along the way by using a caboose/end-of-train beacon) may cost less money, but would be viable to such issues.
Though in the CRT days 19" was the most common size (large did exist). I'm not sure what the most common size TV is today, but it is bigger than that.
If you want to know how neglected Steam on macOS is... it's an Intel binary (now using 100% CEF for its UI) and about 2/3 of the catalog doesn't work because they targeted x86 (not-_64). If you're looking for native Apple Silicon games it gets even more grim.

I was hoping for that trend to reverse with game porting toolkit, but it doesn't seem like that's happening. Whoever pushes for Gaming at Apple doesn't seem to have massive internal support. Metal VR died almost as soon as it released and somehow they thought making Game Porting Toolkit license incompatible with Wine/Proton/CrossOver was a great move, because all you need to convince a game developer to invest in a dead (to your audience) platform that will likely deprecate your API in a year or two is a proof of concept of how well it can run.
Age of Empires and live ants used to test theoretical ideas on combat
Define "being". If it's so fundamental, it should be pretty easy, no?

And I'd like if this were simple. Unfortunately there's too many people throwing around over-simplifications like "They are not the same because an LLM is a construct" or "These LLM entities are not beings". If you'll excuse the comparison, it's like arguing with theists that can't reason about their ideological foundations, but can provide specious soundbites in spades.
How esle is the home going to get renovation work and upkeep done?
The resistance to tearing out a bad abstraction isn't just cultural: combining two different functions into one is a lossy operation, which makes splitting an abstraction harder than creating it in the first place.

While the functions are distinct the call sites are self-documenting. You know which calls are for which purpose because the names are different. After combining them to deduplicate the code, you've lost that information, and to disentangle the abstraction now requires you to infer and reintroduce that lost information.

It's not that it can't be done, but there is real friction that doesn't just exist in people's heads.
> Its not impossible to solve this with interfaces and composition but those solutions are sub-optimal.

The growing popularity of ECS and data-oriented design in game engines suggests otherwise: keeping components separate from entities enables both performance enhancements and separations of concerns that are much more difficult to achieve with the traditional inheritance-based approach. To illustrate a bit:

> it is very common to have a base object such as "Node" that has some properties that every object in the scene graph must have, which all share the same implementation. For example they should all have a parent property and a collection of children, and ways to modify those properties.

You don't need subclasses for that; you just need a table of entity IDs (where both the things to render and the scene itself are entities) and parent IDs, which you can then recursively walk to get the entities you want to render:

WITH RECURSIVE entity_children AS (
SELECT id, parent FROM entities
UNION ALL
SELECT ec.id, ec.parent
FROM entity_children AS ec
JOIN entities AS e ON ec.id = e.parent
)
INSERT INTO scene_entities (scene, entity)
SELECT $scene_entity_id, id
FROM entity_children
WHERE parent = $scene_entity_id;

(Obviously you probably won't actually be running SQL queries in a game engine's rendering loop; this is just to illustrate the logic.)

Once you've got that list...

> They'll also share methods such as "render" which probably must be overridden in every subclass.

You don't need subclasses for that; you just need a table of entity IDs and things to render, which you can then query and send to the GPU:

INSERT INTO some_buffer_in_GPU_memory (entity, mesh, texture, position)
SELECT se.entity, em.mesh, et.texture, ep.position
FROM scene_entities AS se
JOIN entity_meshes AS em ON se.entity = em.entity
JOIN entity_textures AS et ON se.entity = et.entity
JOIN entity_positions AS ep ON se.entity = ep.entity
WHERE se.scene = $scene_entity_id;

(Again: you probably ain't actually using SQL for this; this is also overly simplified, since most modern game engines use all sorts of other stuff besides a mesh, texture, and position when rendering something. Note also that "em.mesh", "et.texture", and "ep.position" need not be actual meshes/textures/positions, but could instead be indices into buffers already on the GPU.)

The key advantage in both of these cases is that the parent/child data and the render data can live where they make the most sense, and can be processed by independently-running systems with minimal contention. This is critical for processing game logic in parallel - something which the game industry is learning the hard way with legacy engines that can't fully exploit multicore hardware.
Maybe it's an OJ Simpson kind of situation?
I regularly use other distros' docs and guides for getting things done on Debian. I probably spend more time on the Arch wiki than any Debian-specific sites.
You know how a con man whose scheme is unraveling will resort to more and more desperate measures to keep it alive for as long as possible?

This is that.
If you're claiming something as a principle, when in reality it means nothing to you but empty rhetoric, you are by definition a fraud.

Politicians do this all the time, and it's a fundamental part of why people hate politicians.
I wish Apple could figure out something like Proton for MacOS. It feels like a relatively small investment in this area could unlock a huge catalogue of classic games. It's the only thing I feel I'm missing by switching from Linux.
Look up Ada Web Server :-) no IMAP though. And no QUIC yet, sadly. I hope someone is going to write a whole HTTPS stack using RecordFlux. One can dream.
Nothing to discuss. Use local working models, don't depend on others cloud.
How has ejecting through a wall got anything to do with server load??
I think this one is already a mirror, with the original lost in time, but not sure... I had the .txt files as a collection downloaded in 2004 or so, the readme file in it says the previous location was on an Oulu University FTP site.
Sure, but that doesn't imply it's more efficient than the other options. Just that it's also very efficient.
What exactly did it win?

The prize for greatest number of incompatible versions?
I have this laptop with windows and its pretty awesome. I had simple criteria of long battery life, processor, storage space. I got the fake leather version and it's been great.

I really wanted the Zenbook 14x Space edition, if it didn't suck at power I might have gone with it. Mostly because it looks rad but glad I didn't purchase it, battery life was half of Z13.
Yeah, I’m willing to say it’s very bad.

It’s the first step toward commoditizing human life, in a way that isn’t dependent on some Marxist analysis of capitalism. Maybe some think that’s fine, and that having designer children is “good”.
Because the same big companies (Microsoft, Google, and Facebook) that are offering LLM products today have been shown time and time again to lie about data retention/use/privacy and prefer to just eat fines over complying. That and the ingestion of data into the training data of these systems is crucial to their functioning so there is a reason why these companies are very likely lying with their data processing agreements.

Adobe still claims that their Firefly product is only trained on publicly licensed stock photo data and yet it has been repeatedly found outputting watermarks from artists that are not supposed to be in that training data.
why aren't hack sabotages seen as acts of war?

they can do as much or more damage as, say, blowing up a bridge
Most video games don't require high-end gaming PCs, though.
Ah, but the solution is to turn that 12 argument function into a class that does one thing (runs the function), and dependency inject all those arguments. It still totally sucks, but you can pretend you're writing "clean" code by obfuscating the parameter passing.
Note: I am the author of this article.

They have at least one device with an unencrypted copy of their data, likely two or more. They only need this passphrase to set up sync. If they ever forget it, they reset sync, set a new passphrase and re-upload the data. No nuking.
Imo, the biggest problem with management is too many hierarchical levels. Whenever there is too much hierarchy, each manager in the hierarchy tries to impose something below them to show their own "impact". Each manager tries to do better than their peers by forcing it down the ladder. Often the stakes for managers are too high - aka, they need to constantly justify their existence. They are not really producing any output so their existence is only justified by creating more policies or implementing their boss's policies.

With each level comes additional policies - all of which get dumped to the leaf node workers who are actually producing the output desired by the company. But these policies are putting additional burden on output producers, thus bringing output to a grinding halt.

The common theme for such management is that the only thing that matters is "optics". The only types of managers that can survive this kind of environment are the sociopaths who don't care about anything but their OWN existence - which leads to all the behaviors pointed in the article.

1. Self-centered

2. Input-focus

3. Afraid of failure

4. Information hoarder

An easy solution to all this nonsense is to reduce the number of levels. But I have only seen this at Netflix, Roku and a few startups in the past.
Lesson learnt....bla bla...selected scape goats disciplined. We promise we won't get caught doing this again....
> Perhaps the key is for them to work closely with Valve to make Proton work well on macOS

Apple are doing something very similar already with their Game Porting Kit framework. It supports DX12 games translated to Metal and runs very well. This effort only become public this year, though, so the fruits of that labour are yet to be borne.
Easier to pick up, harder to use. A spade is easier to pick up than a digger, but try digging foundations with a spade.
Byzantine Calendar (Year 7531)
I think that's overselling. I mean, sure, 3 phase is better for motors and you can get more power a little more efficiently and with less vibration to deal with in the mechanical design. And that's valuable. But come on, US workshop afficionados are doing just fine. No one is crying in their shop wishing for the blissful experience of a Danish band saw or whatever. It's better. It's not that much better.

What actually wins this fight is on the other side. A two-connector polarized NEMA 1-15 plug is a tiny, convenient, easy to use form factor that will still deliver 1400W. The experience of a normal consumer plugging in their normal junk in the US is just plain superior to the poor folks across the oceans charging their devices with BS1363 connectors that are almost bigger than the phones. And don't even get me started on Europlug.
I'm going to suggest that is correct and also unusual behavior.
I suspect that training time for a pigeon is a lot longer than programming time for a drone.
These tools should be an extension of you, not a reliance.

See, I’d still be able to do my math without a calculator (to some extent)

Your comment above sounds like you get paralyzed when ClosedAi (OpenAi)s service have outage.

Why would you want to depend on a private corporation to this extent?

It blows my mind!
"just following orders" implies doing something inherently immoral, but refusing to take responsibility and laying it on higher authority. Nothing like that is happening here. RTO is not inherently immoral - while I prefer remote work, it's a valid choice for management to have different preference for their teams. The team members can either agree with that or move to another team or employment - neither choice is morally wrong in any way. I personally think handling it this way would be detrimental for Amazon, but I am not their manager and they are, so it's their authority. There's no need to put it like there's only one obviously moral way to handle it and the other way is morally flawed.
This way of doing things (which I agree is often the correct way) is the reason for Greenspun's Tenth Rule: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule

Though it's less true today and in languages that are not C or Fortran. Even something like C++ or Java has the template method pattern, which gets you 80% of the way there. Dynamic languages like Python or Ruby tend to have pretty reasonable facilities for building DSLs, as do more modern languages like Scala and Rust.
>Social Security is relative generous by the standards of the industrialized world. For example, I will receive $3600/month from the government at the standard retirement age, in addition to any other retirement savings I may have. Similarly, the government will pay for my healthcare when I reach retirement age.

That amount is near the max, and not typical at all.[0] You must have had at least 35 high-earning years in your wage/earnings record.

Also, the government only pays for part of your healthcare (Medicare Part A = hospitalization), you still pay for all the rest (routine checkups, treatment not requiring hospitalization, preventive care, prescription drugs). You don't get any coverage at all unless you enroll and pay your share of the premiums.

[0]https://faq.ssa.gov/en-US/Topic/article/KA-01897
That's probably another category for whom employment seems like sort of an optional activity at least for a bit. I admit I hear it--at least in my circles--from decently-paid tech workers who are ready to take some time off,
Huh, I've been running an openbsd router as my prod home network router for ~ a year now without issue, and it has handled power outages and more without issues.

I wonder if the outage happened during patching or something maybe?
> There is no reason to believe that Gore who contemporaneously expressed support for a different strategy would have followed the exact same track as Bush.

and I have said nothing of the sort.

> You can't actually reject that dynamic we are stuck with it until we fix it.

according to you.
Historically, Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc were very office-centric. Their in-office perks were pretty much legendary and they always tried to instill the company culture built around being together in an office space. They invested heavily in real estate for this very reason. So it shouldn't come as a surprise to anybody that they are pushing for full attendance back in the office. They will gradually go back to a 5-days a week in the office, mark my words.

For smaller companies, this is great news. And not just this Amazon news, but the whole push of the bigger companies to force people back to the office. We were not able to fully compete with Amazon, Google or Facebook on salaries, but now we are in the position to offer attractive flexibility options (i.e. 100% remote) to people who value their time and work-life balance more than money. Engineers' salaries are very high already, and not everybody needs the absolute high-end salaries offered by these huge companies. I believe this might help spur more innovation and create attractive workplaces outside of the FAANG companies, as some of the very best talent will now have viable reasons to work for smaller companies and help them grow.

It's really horrible for people who joined Amazon last year, believing that they will be able to work remotely forever. Let this be a cautionary tale to everybody who decides to work for FAANG in the future.
I grew up near one of these [0]. My friends and I would go to the air traffic control hut just to hang out and watch planes. There was also a vending machine where we could buy soda (enticing for kids in a rural area with not many services). The airstrip had a role to play in WWII apparently something that was mentioned when developers wanted to build a large condo complex there and local opposition mounted to scuttle the project (NIMBY in retrospect). I remember an accident when two planes landed too close together if memory serves correct and killed one of the pilots. Anyway, I loved that little airport checking out the parked Cessna's and watching planes land and take off. The landing flight path was right above our house. Over the years the trees grew taller and we could no longer see the landing strip from our house. The red fuel towers were there until recently (long after the airport closed, probably had toxic waste that required elaborate cleanup), but apparently no longer there[1]. Good times...

[0] http://www.airfields-freeman.com/NY/Airfields_NY_SE.htm#maho...

[1] https://goo.gl/maps/99chYDHCWkFmbhku5
Little variable-speed units sold as ductless minisplits are fairly inexpensive in the US. They’re especially reasonable if you actually use them in a ductless configuration, because you don’t have to install ducts.

The fact that they might have a higher list price than a conventional single-speed outdoor unit and indoor evaporator coil is a red herring, as the conventional units can’t do anything on their own, and they need a furnace and a fan added to be useful.
Speaking of Japan and frequency differences, one funny indirect consequence of the power differences is the video game Super Smash Bros Melee having separate NTSC and PAL versions, one at 60Hz and another at 50Hz, and consequently running at 60fps or 50fps (unless you override this at start). For good players, 50fps changed the game a lot, so they'd always use NTSC or override to 60. But PAL Melee also had other gameplay changes.
I am not understanding the value of the open source builder, if I am not able to download the code and host it on my own.
What does the opensource gives me additionally apart from integrating the studio on my own website.
The hobby/free plan already has unlimited projects, pages and team members.
Looking into the builder, I cannot see the code but just the css. Would have been good if I could create one of components and be able to download the code using the open source builder.
Congrats on the release! I'm keenly interested in this space, as I believe that Observability is one of the top ways to steer LLMs to be more reliable in production.

I noticed your SDKs use tracing concepts! Are there plans to implement OpenTelemetry support?
Kagi Number of Users and Searches Stats
Interesting to see the drops on Fridays and Saturdays.
White House and Dark Money NGO Hype Hate Crisis to Demand Censorship
People don't 100% agree with everything the people they vote for support. The byproduct of representation is you go along with things you don't agree with to support the things you find more important.
The problem is that actual people are trusting the output they get, not realizing that it's just plausible sounding, not correct. It is surprising just how plausible it sounds. Which is the uncanny valley into which any number of people will walk off the proverbial cliff and fall into. The hype surrounding the capabilities of LLMs far exceeds its actual output.
If someone is spending extended time on land that is otherwise completely unused... I fail to see the problem. In this way, "squatting" is like "jaywalking" -- a perfectly normal thing that we invented a crime for (typically on behalf of wealthier people against poorer ones).

You can, of course, ask someone to leave your land if you need to use it. There's a reason that adverse possession takes years to decades.
In the US code requires shutters so you can't stick anything into the socket other than the correct plug (IIRC as of 2008?). Other responses are implying the UK (and I assume EU) now require that too.

On the other end, in India I saw a power strip that would accept EU, UK, or US plugs. I took one look and refused to get close, but someone else plugged my laptop in and it worked. (everything got 240 volts, which my laptop power supply was fine with)
Since electricity is metered in kilowatt hours, it's much easier to see the running costs of a device with a power given in that unit.
I think you have every single one of these risks exactly backwards:

Potential for Data Breaches:
- The idea that third parties have inherently higher breach risk is pure FUD.

Data Sovereignty and Compliance Risks/Limited Overside:
- Having every single company solve all of these problems for every single part of their software stack is obviously very inefficient. That's why we have SOC II, Pen Testing, etc, as other commenters point out. The process of reviewing vendor SOC II reports is way, way easier than having to manage the cost of managing compliance for the hundreds of little productivity apps your team want to use!

Shared Responsibility Model:
I think its pretty typical at this point for companies to take ownership over the behaviour of their sub-processors from a risk perspective.