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> I guess since the tech industry in Europe can’t export anything worthwhile

Let's see!

I, for one, would be very excited to watch Apple admit that the European audience isn't worth their while. After all, Apple acquires their companies year[0] after year[1] after year[2] after year[3] after year[4] after year[5] after year[6] after year[7] after year[8] after year[9] after year[10] after year[11] after year[12] after year[13].

Well, maybe Europe matters to Apple... b-but not much!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIS_Records

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/ronshevlin/2022/03/27/why-apple...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primephonic

[3] https://www.macrumors.com/2020/04/03/apple-acquires-ai-start...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_XMM_modems

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialog_Semiconductor

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beddit

[7] https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-acquired-finnish-compa...

[8] https://techcrunch.com/2015/11/24/apple-faceshift/

[9] https://www.pcmag.com/news/report-apple-buys-digital-magazin...

[10] https://techcrunch.com/2013/08/28/apple-reportedly-acquires-...

[11] https://www.macrumors.com/2012/05/30/apple-acquiring-italian...

[12] https://venturebeat.com/mobile/apple-buys-c3-technologies-on...

[13] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_Rose_(facial_recognition...
Roads were built for cars.
You can paste any wallet address (ERC-20, BTC or TRC-20) and it will provide you analytics about this wallet's holdings. Which tokens and how much it holds, its total value, 24H and 7D change, mcaps, and all of that. Up to 10 wallets and without any signing up or all of this stuff.
I wholeheartedly agree with where you were aiming your goals. Other thoughts I've had:

- What if access is time critical but your backup people are distributed across timezones? Or they aren't available for some reason? Could be hours to days before you could recover your account

- Adding/removing people as they enter/exit your life could make it a challenge to maintain (PGP + trust vibes)
I think you mean maybe Iraq (Mesopotamia) not Iran?
Crossing the road is different from what is being discussed which is riding along side cars.
What an awesome writeup. Just wanted to add a link to a good website tracking the progress of the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel expansion project, something near and dear to me as someone who has suffered much frustration driving through the current one. The three bridge tunnels around HR themselves are pretty cool engineering feats. I found the explainers at this website about the TBM in use quite interesting.

- the main project site: https://hrbtexpansion.org/

- TBM page: https://hrbtexpansion.org/tunnel-boring/

I can no longer find the exact page there that has the details of the TBM but these are pretty close:

- good slide with diagram: https://www.virginiadot.org/VDOT/Business/asset_upload_file1...

- some cool stuff but lots of broken links: http://www.virginiaplaces.org/transportation/hrbt.html
> as a service provider, I'd like to see some device attestation

As a user I hope you don't get it. Having an easy way for services to require that everyone using them is doing so via the official app on an iPhone or OEM Android phone sounds like a nightmare.
> It’s the same as with people. The more variations people see of something, the more likely they intuit the underlying pattern.

> The fewer examples, the more likely they just pattern match.

A kid who uses a calculator and just fills in the answer to every question will see a lot more examples than a kid that learned by starting from simple concepts and understanding each step. But the kid who focused on learning concepts and saw way fewer problems will obviously have a better understanding here.

So no, you are clearly wrong here, humans doesn't learn that way at all. These models learn that way, you are right on that, but humans don't.
When it comes to charging and serial standards which have not meaningfully evolved in over a decade... yeah. It would be kinda nice to trade marginal improvement for compatibility and stability. The USB-C connector is not limiting smartphone data or charging speeds anyways.
ahhhhh! yet another setting I have to go disable in my Google account. I use yubikeys for 2fa for a dang reason, don’t try and force me to do stupid shit like this which will actually decrease my security!

I’m glad I only keep my Google account around for historical purposes and YouTube.
Lack of users means lack of budget to pay for the said “someone”.

Also, there's no reason why Apple can't support OpenGL properly either, there “no reason besides the refusal to task someone to it”.
Samsung's Sales Drop 13% in Sign of Persisting Chip Slump
I have a job where we all check each other's work as a routine part of the process. Most of our work undergoes five official rounds of double-checking/feedback, and we often do a couple more unofficial rounds of testing just to be sure. Every round of testing always finds at least a couple of issues (often many more) and so we're all very used to getting feedback.

Testing takes time, but we factor it into our schedule.

When new people join the team, they make more mistakes than experienced people, which can be very demoralizing for them. There are a couple of things that I find helpful for this:

1, I warn them during training that they will make a lot of mistakes, but it will get better as they get practice, and I ask them to be patient with themselves. You can only learn one thing at a time, so some of the training won't click right away.

2, I tell them that even those of us who are experienced make mistakes; that's whole reason we have this feedback process. I ask them not to shy away from pointing out issues if they notice anything in anyone else's work, even if that person is much more experienced than them.

3, I make sure they see other people's mistakes before they start making their own; once they are out of the training period, their first tasks are to check other people's work, rather than do their own work. After that, they may be tasked with fixing other people's mistakes (which also helps them understand the sorts of mistakes to watch for in their own work later). Only then do they start their own work.
My uncle has been doing genealogical research for over 20 years now and has 130k individuals in the db. He uses The Master Genealogist (TMG) running under Wine (Windows gave up a long time ago). TMG ceased development some time ago but it was written by someone who really knew their genealogy but not so hot on the programming/db front. It is FoxPro based and a bit odd. However, I can get at all the data via Libre Office so at least the data is safe for the future - even as just a set of tables.

If you ever get into genealogy you will discover GEDCOM as the lingua franca. It is/was a file format developed by the Mormons. It is a bit idiosyncratic but at least it is a standard and still developed. The CofJC&LDS (Mormons) have their own reasons for getting into genealogy and they are probably not your reasons. However it is a standard and it works pretty well. You can always overload notes fields for your purposes.

We are currently settled on Geneweb as the presentation medium for the data in TMG. Geneweb is written in OCAML and I am learning OCAML as a sideline. GW is very, very fast at some calcs and reports and a bit weird in general. It will be a while before I can request a git pull. I've slapped Privacy Idea on the front to secure it.

My personal favourite self hosted app is webtrees. It's a LAMP jobbie and well supported. Go for that, if you are starting out.

Now, one of the biggest issues you face in genealogy is what to record and even how to get that data. Be very careful how you approach the living. Human relationships are frankly rather messy and memories can be rather malleable, documentation can be wrong or illegible and so on. So your recording system has to be rather flexible. Ideally you assign a confidence score to each fact, event, anecdote or whatever.

Me and my Uncle have decided on a policy of "as close to actually happened, as possible or redact and note as such, unless the object has a hissie fit". So if your fictional aunt does not want her second boyfriend of 10 years noted, then an entry is made without a name, if she gets really unhappy about it then remove the record altogether - the living get to decide what you record about them.

That brings me around to another issue: Significant relationships - what to record and why: What are they? Marriages only? Nope. Also note that the notion of sexuality and sex are rather more nuanced these days than they were. Genealogy needs to keep apace with real life.

What genealogy really, really needs is not another website. It needs some clever kids who understand the subject matter and can come up with a decent data schema - perhaps by modifying GEDCOM. This is data that needs to be textual and ideally self describing. It needs to work in 500 years time.

Help!!!
Yes. You go an add secondary passkey when logged in on another device. Or with another tubikey.

But not all setups support this. Some only allow one. Obvious issues abound.
They still keep it updated and even fix macOS specific bugs so I'd hope they'd keep that up. But yeah, I guess once Rosetta goes they'll probably just throw the towel in.
I didn't vote either way, but this is news to me. As long as e-ink has been around, all I've ever heard were the patent issues. If you're saying it's actually manufacturing difficulties, can you provide any links or additional info? I believe you, but as someone not familiar with the field, I'd love to learn more both to counteract the patent narrative and just for my own curiosity. What is hard about e-ink at scale that other products don't share?
I've run both. First k8s is free and nothing beats free but that's not about it.

Nomad's mental model is hard to grasp. Or let's say is not as elegant. It's is nowhere near k8s. And k8s at least from a usage standpoint can be explained in under ten minutes. Pod, Deployment, Service, Ingress and you're pretty much done.
Businesses are set up to find out the maximum value what people will pay for their product.

If people have more money, won't it just increase the prices of things?
Does that run on ARM instruction directly or through the x86 emulation layer?
For the end consumer it isn't different. But in a pragmatic sense:

1. Apple has multiple teams of well paid engineers to solve any problem that arises. There's a lot more money in the game supporting Mac than Linux.

2. Apple has been shown to be hostile towards game development and make active decisions to make it harder to port to them, whereas Linix's most hostile issues arise from the proprietary nature of games vs. the open source nature of Linux (e.g. Package management, DRM, etc).

3. Linux makes concessions on its philosophies for games while Apple makes ultimatums. You can't ever trust that your game on Apple will work in 5 years, at least if you were developing in the 2010's. Meanwhile there are proprietary ways to deliver your game if you want to launch on Linux (not as sure about DRM but I've heard of solutions that simply haven't had mass adoption yet).
A very fair question, but the possibility of such happenings could probably not be used for the initial funding stream
Yeah, I'll grant that there are problems with ammonia, but I think this parallel quest to come up with synthetic fuels is a good one. A car is just one part of a car-fuel-road system, and if you can move complexity out of the car and into a chemical plant, that might be good -- particularly if that solves the range and recharging issues.

Fuel cells are close cousins of batteries anyway.

And there are even redox flow batteries that are even more intermediate. The energy density isn't high enough (these things are actually used for static energy storage, with vats the size of buildings), but imagine a "fuel station" that exchanged Vanadium in different oxidation states with a car, or that swapped some hydrocarbon that can store energy like ATP in biology.

Heck, including the atmosphere in the system could be ok too (e.g., CO2 capture), so long as everything balances to zero and the thermodynamics work out (even just mixing and unmixing CO2 with oxygen and nitrogen is an expensive trip up and down in entropy though).

I'm quite happy for this kind of work to continue.

And like you say, people are putting big money towards running container ships on ammonia. It's sure better than bunker oil. And we're also definitely not going to use big batteries.

So, good on Toyota. Somebody needs to keep exploring alternatives.
It's still a tool after all.

I've had to work with imperfect machines a lot in my recent past. Just because sometimes it breaks, doesn't mean it's useless. But you do have to keep your eyes on the ball!
M1 Macs can run the Windows version of Steam with Crossover

https://www.codeweavers.com/crossover
> A main idea of passkeys is that the private keys are bound to hardware and cannot be copied.

This seems incorrect. “ Like passwords, passkeys are encrypted and stored in your iCloud Keychain”

I also just recently set up some passkeys via 1Password and they are also not hardware bound.
Reading this makes me glad that you can't feel what the intense magnetic field does to the hydrogen atoms in you. (I don't know, I've never been in one)
I don't hear that proposed solution.

What is an open source kamikaze drone composed of, and which of those parts do you think can be controlled, and how?

I have some disturbing news for you, every rando in the world already has free access to all the materials, tools, and info needed to make all those scary sounding weapons. Anyone can already bomb buildings or even shoot planes out of the sky. The extra exotic controlled materials that governments have access to don't actually matter. They just give them slight tactical advantages in wars. If someone wants to bomb a bridge, or a whole city, they don't need a nuclear bomb. If they want to destroy a tank or shoot a person, they don't need a fancy depleted uranium bullet. Ordinary materials are already quite good enough to build quit good enough canons and missiles etc, and the knowledge is just ordinary engineering. You can't build a bicycle without knowing enough engineering to be able to design a functional gun from scratch. I could design, fabricate, and fire an 'RPG' right now, and so could you.

An "open source kamikaze drone" is like that. It's made up entirely out of ordinary generic knowledge and materials. Their potential has existed ever since the first electric motor and radio. It doesn't even require any software or even any ICs.

If that alarms you, well it must be terrible to require assurance that no one else has the power to harm you, yet live in a universe that you aren't the god of.
Now I just need to access a windows computer to sell my skins and never buy anything valve related again.
I don’t believe they grow back at all.
From looking at it, the problem is that JSON fails to define "what is a string?" and "what is a number?". Possibly there are duplicate-key concerns as well.

Postgres's JSONB inherits the definition of Postgres's string and numeric types.

SQLite's JSONB punts the problem down the line to whoever uses the JSON.

(this all is a reminder that JSON is a horrible format and you should never use it if you care about your data)
Agree. Another way I like to think about it is to pick the simplest path to solve the problem, which might not be the most popular solution. Choosing postgres by default bakes in a ton of assumptions and often adds extra layers of complexity. Which ORM do you use? What if you want to version your changes?
Now do fraudulent flash drives on Amazon!
You should upgrade your phones and laptops then: Apple just released a phone that does 2000 nits outdoors, and similarly the MBP can dip into its 1000 nit sustained HDR brightness rating for SDR content if in direct sunlight

In reality this is one of those slow burn deals where the improvements in anti-glare coatings, bonding between digitizer and displays, and brightness come slowly enough that it's easy to take for granted just how awful old displays used to be.

We've come a long way from the days of hazy plastic suspended millimeters above the actual display, which in turn had its own coating with a different refractive index leaving two layers of reflections to deal with
I'm sad to see this comment, scoffing at an independent creator just selling something cool online. I wonder why this reaction? Is it the imagined profit margin? Or just the choice of words in the listing?

The listing says it's a 43" 4K Samsung display, which a quick look on Amazon shows goes for at least around $270. They also offer free shipping, so shipping is effectively included in the price. I don't know how much walnut or acrylic costs, or desktop CNC's.

The price doesn't seem unreasonable to me for a turnkey complete package, since I don't have the skills or tools to make this myself.
I would also add that the portfolio he manages is over 350 billion. That's a huge chunk of money to invest. The number of places where he can invest without overpowering the investment is very limited. He's mostly left with big companies that aren't growing as fast as the rest of the market. That's my guess.
If the gaming support strategy is "we'll try once and completely give up if it isn't immediately a wild success", the chances to succeed are pretty small.

That's not how you get the Xbox, you'll barely get a Stadia shaped hole if you give it a fair shake.
Would you mind expanding on this? In what ways is PG's replication support lacking versus the competition?
Exciting to see how consistently Fresh is improving.

We're trying out Deno and Fresh on a recent project and it's been excellent so far.

Only downside is the limited plugin ecosystem (would love to see some Zod schema validation and OpenAPI plugins for API routes, for example)
These blogposts document the attack. Documenting it and acting in it are different.

There’s no practical action being taken besides « use our profucts cause we can tank it for you » here.

The mitigations listed are better than nothing, but the fact that every skid out there can hire a botnet of a few thousands compromised machines (like here) and send you a few millions (say this protocol attack allowed a 100x higer than avg impact) rps is way enough to kill the infra of 99.99% websites. No questions asked.
You have been able to get them on ebay for a while too
> write a paper

Also publish yet another "SOTA framework" thats barebones and won't be maintained for very long!

The researchers who published the negative CFG LLM paper made an earnest effort to pull it into the popular frameworks. That really stands out in my memory, that is incredibly rare.
Kind of. But I wouldn't call Valve a top down decision maker for Linux. Simply a very talented contributor and influencer. And you always need to keep in mind that their work is still in the interest of supporting their proprietary platform.
So Disney is a theme park company that produces very expensive ads that people pay to see.
This was not so much health and safety regulation-related, but simple ignorance. The dangers of rapid decompression were not recognized until early 20-th century when underwater construction became more common.

That's why "decompression sickness" is called "caisson sickness" in several languages.
Clever approach, and as can be seen in the relative lift for GPT-3 to GPT-4, this appears to be an approach that will compound as the underlying model improves at analogy.

I just wish there was an appendix with more detailed examples other than the shortest link one, wherein the first step seems less to be about analogy and more about decomposition of the problem before a final recomposition during aggregation.
They are trained to predict next tokens in a stream.

That is the learning algorithm.

The algorithm they learn, in response, is quite different. Since that learned algorithm is based on the training data.

In this case the models learn to sensibly continue text or conversations. And they are doing it so well it’s clear they have learned to “reason” at an astonishing level.

Sometimes, not as good as a human.

But in a tremendous number of ways they are better.

Try writing an essay about the many-worlds interpretation of the quantum field equation, from the perspective of Schrödinger, with references to his personal experiences, using analogies with medical situations, formatted as a brief for the Supreme Court, in Dr. Seuss prose, in a random human language of choice.

In real time.

While these models have some trouble with long chains of reasoning, and reasoning about things they don’t have experiences (different modalities, although sometimes they are surprisingly good), it is clear that they can also reason combining complex information drawn from there whole knowledge base much faster and sensibly than any human has ever come close to.

Where they exceed us, they trounce us.

And where they don’t, it’s amazing how fast they are improving. Especially given that year to year, biological human capabilities are at a relative standstill.

——

EDIT: I just tried the above test. The result was wonderful whimsical prose and references, that made sense at a very basic level, that a Supreme Court of 8 year olds would likely enjoy, especially if served along with some Dr. Seuss art! In about 10-15 seconds.

Viewed as a solution to an extremely complex constraint problem, that is simply amazing. And far beyond human capabilities on this dimension.
Define ‘safe deposit box’?

If it is a safe at your home, you need to have a fixed home address in the first place, and the usual advice about off-site backups also applies.

If it is at friends or family, you’re back at the same problem.

If it is a rented deposit box, you need to trust the company you rent it from (banks don’t usually offer such services anymore, and there are risks like in [1])

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/business/safe-deposit-box... (archive: https://archive.is/7qbkR)
Oh boy wait till this guy finds out about copper
Researchers find pre-Columbian agave plants persisting in Arizona landscapes
Why is a piece of paper not a piece of hardware? We do this for TOTP too as a last resort, nothing wrong with that.
IP reputation is already a thing. And plenty enough ASNs are well-known for willfully hosting C2 servers and spam, DoS, etc sources…
This is very exciting! The pace of sqlite development is suprisingly fast for a project that mature.

The only real type that I miss from SQLite is a native datetime. Currently each library uses a different parsing strategy and it's a mess. I fixed the diesel (rust) implementation recently and boy was that not fun.
LED on oled stands for light emitting diodes, so they are a backlight.
Legal in what respect? It wouldn't be legal to drive it
This is quite an achievement.
I really like the curation and the process to make it a front-page.
You automated your own editorial news.
Love it!
> Also, there's no reason why Apple can't support OpenGL properly either, there “no reason besides the refusal to task someone to it”.

They do. OpenGL is deprecated, but still supported. If it wasn't supported at all it would not have worked on apple silicon macs.
I tried it on a video I made a few months ago. Here’s the original, in which I speak English:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JUepj7wIl0

And here are the first two and a half minutes with me dubbed into Japanese:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z85FXwH6pUU

Aside from some pacing problems, the voice and intonation sound quite good to me. But anyone listening to the translation alone would find it hard to follow, as the tool seems to have mistranscribed some of my English and mistranslated some of the rest. (I understand Japanese.)

The dubbing would probably be a lot better if I had spoken English more slowly and with awareness that what I said would be interpreted into another language.
It's cross platform in that if you want, you can write implementations for other platforms. In addition to supporting multiple platforms in its current state.