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>Anyone gaming seriously will still take a Switch because even if their phone theoretically has more horsepower, in practice it's just not as good a gaming platform.

I love my switch, but it and the steam deck do highlight an aspect that died in Gen 8: "pocketable" handhelds are really no more. I can fit a vita in my pockets with little issue, and I have baggy enough jeans where I could even fit a GPD Win in if I really tried. But I'd say the latter is past practical pocketability. You can throw a switch in a bag but so can my laptop. I liked handhelds for the ability to simply grab and go.

Phones picked up that mantle for 6 years, since there was nothing else left. and I await the day that some portable PC strives to hit that Vita size. won't happen for years but probably by the end of the decade.

>pushing the gaming angle on it pretty heavily, but they got rid of it.

I think they pulled out the same time they gave up in the Kindle fire lines. Kindle was a store that penetrated the market but not Amazon. I even remeber the days where they had "free app of the day" a LA Epic Games Store.

It still technically exists but isn't really trying to compete as a store anymore. It has some "Amazon coin" deals for a few f2p games that let you get expensive whale packs for slightly less money. Probably due to some deal they made with certain game studios.
Amazon sellers say they made a good living – until Amazon figured it out
Building on the greenbelt is central to solving the housing crisis
I liked their first album better, but okay.
You're spending those resources regardless, at least you get to be the deciding how much to spend, and where, rather than having that decision taken from you
Life improvements when humans have something to take care of their basic rights. Shocking. How many more projects and pilots to collectively keep scratching our heads as a species.
Really interesting device, thank you for the link! Reminds me of those tiny Sony laptops that where hip a decade or so ago.
So in 1985 or wherever, we’d be driving big Chevy station wagons with little reactors in the back?
This is a great writeup. However, even after also reading the CVE, I'm still unsure about under which circumstances you would be affected. As far as I understand it, you are affected if you

* use a SOCKS5 proxy, AND

* you use the SOCKS5 proxy to resolve hostnames (which AFAICS is NOT the default), AND

* the size of the buffer was changed from the default (100kb) to something below 65541 bytes, AND (EDIT: Not correct: 'libcurl' re-uses the download buffer for this, which by default is 16kB, however it is said that 'curl' itself sets it manually to 100kb UNLESS you use --limit-rate)

* the SOCKS5 proxy is too slow to handle the request immediately (which however, as the CVE states, can usually be provoked if the attacker has control over the request rate). (EDIT: This is wrong, the CVE actually says "Typical server latency is likely "slow" enough to trigger this bug without an attacker needing to influence it by DoS or SOCKS server control.")

So to me, the attack vector seems very small. Am I missing something?
What the other person seems to want is revenge or some arbitrary punitive action against someone, perhaps decades, after they've already been through the legal system and answered for their actions.
Also, there are governments and then there are governments. I would rather have a company keep zero-day a secret than disclose it to government run by assholes such as Victor Orban or Emmanuel Macron.
Of course it isn't more difficult to become a polymath these days. It's arguably easier than ever as information is so widespread and available. However, the way that society works today tends to discourage it. The polymaths from before times were almost always tutored extensively. Going through modern education systems with the rigmarole, standardized testing and the frankly, delayed, development for bright students is just completely different than the kind of education that most of these bright minds had.

It's not that specialized knowledge is the only thing useful. The system simply rewards and produces specialized graduates as a result of modern education and employment practices, so that's what we get.
Same when I worked in Kmart and Subway. I was on camera while on the clock.

When I worked at the bread factory I was on camera while on the clock.

I always assume all computer work is the same. I'm on camera all the time.

That said I've a chip-clip over the camera and my earphones (plugged into the computer) have a hard mic shutoff.
Was that before or after Uber completely changed the market?
The individual pixels (other than the black ones) would still emit light so it wouldn’t be convincing. A normal picture doesn’t emit any light.
Why not "A case for GPT-4's capacity to reason"
Shareholders are the only people who matter.
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While true, I think the original complaint about the backlight was more about the fact that the TV is emitting light, which a picture doesn’t do. OLEDs don’t solve that problem unless you want to display a black square.
Not even PHP version 7 receives security updates any more. https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php
Don't you think governments need to know if their software has a known actively exploited vulnerability that exposes their private data, especially if you are going to take months to fix it? Or are you saying it is fine to stay silent if you notice Russians are using an exploit reading private user data and it will take months for you to fix it?
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and it's not even fraud because they told you to lie
Yes, the attackers will obviously open many connections. In fact, they've always opened as many connections as they have resources for.

But establishing a connection is extremely expensive compared to sending data on an already established channel. With this method they need to open far fewer connections for the same qps.

There's no need to confuse the issue by trying to diagram multiple connections at the same time.
In videography the term "log" is heavily overloaded and you'd want to ask for more detail in order to figure out exactly what is meant.

A pixel value, be it integer or floating point, means little on its own. There's a context for that value which is a color space. In the typical process, you have several color spaces in play: the camera has one for capture. There's one for color processing (the "working" space). And there's one for the display. When a pixel goes through the pipeline, it's processed via color space transformations.

In the "classic" color spaces, the pixel values have a linear relationship, and all of them carry the same amount of information. The "log" color spaces all have a non-linear (gamma) curve: they retain less information at very low and very high pixel values, but subsequently retain more information in the middle. It's a form of compression.

The human eye doesn't respond equally to all levels of brightness, so throwing away detail at the ends for more detail in the middle is usually a great choice. We retain information in the signal at the brightness level where the eye is able to perceive small details and texture, while throwing away information in the signal where it isn't.

We can now map more dynamic range into the same amount of bits, due to our non-linear compression. How large a dynamic range is given by underlying color space we are operating in.

If you go up in camera quality, you will typically see pixels use 10bits or more for their values. Combined with a log-curve, this leads to more information density, which allows capture of an even higher dynamic range. In turn, post-processing can now fix e.g. exposure to a much larger extent.

Finally, a LUT is linear approximation. "Real" color space transformation will use the underlying mathematical curves for much greater precision.
If you don't mind me asking, is it an application for a specialized field?

I ask because it seems if one want to go CL route, the options would be scarce for basic stuff that other programming languages have lots of tried and true libraries for. Take webdev for example. What are CL options that are on par with Django and Fast API?
The comment had nothing to do with the linked-to article. It suggested ChatGPT was involved, followed by a "sarcasm" disclaimer.
SaaS

Sokal-as-a-Service.
I think I finally managed to disable tracker-miner on xfce.

systemctl --user list-unit-files | grep -o "tracker-\S*\.service" | xargs systemctl --user mask

...wasn't enough. What did the trick was unchecking the remaining two entries in the "session and startup" settings dialog. Good riddance. It was the number one reason for my notebook heating up and draining battery.
Reports of security breaches need to be reported to ENISA which is an EU institution.
I guess the problem remains that the legs still don't need to lift the body weight.

For example in a barbell squat, your shoulders lift the bar, but your legs lift that weight plus your bodyweight. In space, bodyweight is not a factor so your legs only have the same load as the shoulders. So upper body / shoulder might end up being the limiting factor, not giving the legs the same amount of load they would under gravity.
Fedora Project and Slimbook Collaborate to Deliver New Fedora Slimbook Ultrabook
HN goes fit: Whats your strategy to lose weight?
I wanna hear what to avoid and what not.
What are your best suggestions to have a normal shape?
Don't ask the question about database systems. Ask the question about data.

Instead of asking "how can rows in my posts table reference a deleted row in the users table?" ask "how can I show posts by deleted users?"

And that's a business requirement. Either you delete the post, or you delete the post's author link, or you delete the post's author link and content. Find out which one, and design and implement it.
The vocabulary section is also very iffy, assuming some common Japanese words haven't changed their vowels in the last two centuries!

The whole section is a reminder of how much we take for granted freely available and accurate information from the other side of the world, something that was absolutely not the case when this book was written, instead relying one presumes on sources based entirely on "travellers' tales".
I'm quite happy to read something in a paper that ChatGPT or equivalent has written, just as i'm happy to read something that has been written with the assistance of other tools such as Grammarly, LanguageTool, Spell Check etc. I see it as the (human) authors responsibility to ensure that what has been written is factually correct.
When Enfamil Fedex’ed a case of baby formula as a “welcome baby” gift for the child that we lost to a miscarriage, I got pissed off and dug into it.

They told me where they got the lost and I bought it for my zip code for $50. So I found out which neighbors were pregnant, had diabetes, were buying a car, etc.

The medical information was sourced from “anonymized” insurance subrogation data and prescription data. They were able to correctly identify that my wife was pregnant and project the due date, but didn’t have the diagnosis or the reason for the hospital/OB admission.
Designing the New Era of Teams
It’s a shame the article doesn’t talk more about the possible benefits of AI in academia. The ability for researchers to spot new patterns, discover new areas of research. The way information is generated, disseminated and then read by other researchers in this space is fairly prosaic if you think about it. Causally is a company I think is trying something in this space
You are unable to.

“LLMs can’t self-correct in reasoning tasks, DeepMind study finds“

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37823543

Anyone who says otherwise is either ignorant of the underlying function of llms or trying to sell you something.
If they could, they wouldn't have used sarcasm.
The most important and most useful thing is the hardest to obtain: latency simulators.

I just want an IPv4/IPv6 proxy that does nothing other than delay, rate-limit, and/or drop packets.

This is a critical aspect of application performance that all developers just ignore because it's such a PITA to simulate.

Your loopback adapter has a latency of 30 microseconds, but that same web-to-database connection might traverse multiple switches, routers, firewalls, and load balancers and have a latency of over 1,000 microseconds (1ms) in production. That's thirty times worse, and I'm not even talking about zone-redundant deployments, regional-to-region failover, or any such thing!

Ditto with web apps, where every developer mistakenly believes that their Angular or React monstrosity is "performant"... because it is... on their own machine. With loopback networking. Try that over a 3G connection... in rural India. Not Indiana. India.
The folks working for your local news org are getting paid to take photos on phones. Almost all of the people you would probably consider “professional photographers” in that industry got laid off years ago.

Watching them take photos on their iPhones at high school sporting events is always painful.
‘Actively exploited’ and ‘public knowledge / actively exploited en mass’ is also an important definition here.
You can request an LLM to write in a particular style. You can request a paragraph to be written in an Allan Poe style (complex prose) or in the style of US Navy Technical Manuals (simple to the point language).

What we associate with chatGPT style prose is just the model's 'default voice' but can arguably be curbed.
Arrays of coils that make a lot of polarity.
I'm trying to under the last comment

> the SOCKS5 proxy is too slow to handle the request immediately

the request seg faults immediately, no delays, no redirects

root@1aac5e228e16:/build/curl-7.74.0# curl -vvv -x socks5h://host.docker.internal:9050 $(python3 -c "print(('A'10000), end='')")

Trying 192.168.65.254:9050...

* SOCKS5: server resolving disabled for hostnames of length > 255 [actual len=10000]

* SOCKS5 connect to AAAAA...

* Send failure: Bad file descriptor

* Failed to send SOCKS5 connect request.

Segmentation fault

https://gist.github.com/xen0bit/0dccb11605abbeb6021963e2b1a8...
Any result of a function has a return address in the globally accessible namespace distributed in a manner like DHT.

All data / code grow into a permanently distributed addressable routable form. In as much as the identity of the object having the means to be provided for by a deterministic route; which is not finite in size (allows growth for addressing for example md5/sha-256/sha-512 which would be part of the base routing protocol to access coordinates in such a system).

See: https://www.xanadu.com.au/ted/XUsurvey/xuDation.html
I don't know why people are so reluctant to just use -O3
4.8 is not a good Uber rating these days. Giving anything less than 5 stars requires you to justify your rating now. 4.8 means roughly 1 in 5 passengers were annoyed enough to go through this.
You'd be surprised how much a pet can understand.It's more like we can't understand them.They know all our ticks and can sense emotions before even we realize.
Sure, I have no doubt about that. But you wouldn't be on their app store to begin with. Or at least, not expect to be on the store for long (I don't think any of the alternative app stores I used were on the play store). That does lose you some marketing, but you're already swimming up a creek as is trying to sell premium games to begin with.

Now, can Google remove your apk regardless? I haven't heard of a case, but it's not impossible for Google to her in the way. The much less publicized lawsuit from Epic involved Google blocking Epic from negotiating with Fortnite pre-installs with OEMs, so Google won't just sit by and let their money walk (even if they were leaving it on the table to begin with). Not a bad bet if you're determined, but it's not easy street even if you find your audience.
Mastercard CFO: India's UPI 'incredibly painful experience' for participants
Does the phone really take a sharp picture of the moon, though, or does it just add detail it knows is there.
Is it not possible to install windows on mac and be an iGamer ?
Not really !
What is central to solving the housing crisis is de-centralising and building in other places.
What was the first thing that happened when people were allowed to work from home ? They migrated from big cities to nicer places where the house prices reflected the fact that there was no crisis there.
What happened next ? Politicians and companies pushed many to get back to the office.
Must be a hint somewhere in this chain of events...
> but I failed to see how it warrants a new "format". You should be able to do that with any existing video format

It's about support.

The .zip format supports LZMA/ZStandard compression and files larger than 4 GB. But if you use that, a lot of software with .zip support will fail to decompress them.

The same way with log. While in theory you could probably make .mp4 or .mkv files with H264 encoded in log, I bet a lot of apps will not display that correctly if at all.
And that looks very appropriate. If the vulnerability is actively exploited, telling the governments about it doesn't add to your hurry. You're already racing.

If it were not exploited, then telling 27 governments would create 27 opportunities for leaks, which would add considerable pressure and disturb your best judgment. But the phrasing says "actively exploited".

FWIW I once had a vulnerability reported to a widely used piece of software I alone maintained. I took a couple of days to fix and distribute it. Wrote a patch on the first evening, slept on it, looked hard on it the next day, had someone else review it, and finally released it about 40 hours after the report. Much more speed would have been difficult to achieve in a careful, responsible manner. My best friend once did something similar in 36 hours as part of a large team, and that was 36 really, really stressful hours. 24 sounds hard to my ears.

Very difficult to make and distribute a reliable fix in that time. Knowing that the leaks may start in 25 hours... that would be bad.
psychologist, with a phd, expensive one (not $60/session insurance covered therapist). this is what your tech salary is for. psychoanalysis is how you get to the bottom of issues like this and work through them. sessions are done on zoom now so no excuse not to find someone great.
Intermittent fasting (but unsure if it really helps).

The big one is calorie counting. It's not fun. After a while you think you can do without and just estimate your caloric intake. You're wrong. Very, very wrong, as I had to find out. I'm back to counting.

And of course, cutting out sugar as much as possible.

Yes, sports, but it has very little direct effect.
Beej's Guide to Network Programming (1994-2023)
OK I'm now imagining a 19th century job interview when the candidate is given three weeks to 'devise and construct a steam-powered apparatus capable of emulating the popular parlour game based on multiples of 3 and 5'. I'm sure modern steampunk enthusiasts can be nerd-sniped into having a go !
The guy in the video is Stu, not only does he have an impressive resume (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0556179/ known for originality, e.g. he did Sin City's look), he is also the original author of MagicBullet, which is one of the most used software by people in the industry to do easy color work. If there's one person who knows about color work, LUTs in creative work, color encoding systems, etc., it's him so naturally he knows how to present relevant subject matter without nonsense.
> I think it was downright wrong to switch mode like this, since the user asked for remote resolve curl should stick to that or fail. It is not even likely to work to just switch, even in “good” situations.

Yes, the author shares your opinion.
Don't try to use AIs as omniscient oracles.

Use them to replace grad students / interns.

In other words, AIs are useful when you can confidently evaluate their output for correctness.

Note that this also applies in novel scenarios, such as new scientific discovery. It's often much more difficult to come up with an answer than it is to verify it.

As a random example, modern AIs are very good at image recognition tasks, which would make them ideally suited for finding rare phenomena in all-sky surveys. The AI doesn't need to write the research paper! It can be valuable if it can just find candidates for detailed evaluation by human researchers.

Similarly, I've found AIs are quite good at spotting errors and inconsistencies. Don't make it write the paper... just ask it to proofread it for you.

Etc...
The meta of all of this is interesting to me. Pop sci-fi has done a good job of exploring a lot of this but I have still been surprised by the enthusiasm with which the idea is dismissed by some.

If you're in that camp, maybe you can shed some light. Why are intelligence and reasoning so well defended?

It almost feels as if we were watching a Boston Dynamics display and the audience divided itself over whether we could really call that walking when in reality it's just actuating servo motors in such a way as to propel itself forwards with a regular gait.

And unrelated: if the author is reading this: I think stripping that extra padding on small screens would make the blog feel less cramped on mobile.
Absolutely not victim blaming, but how do you use it? The biggest issue with local LLM is prompt structure prompting (like how you feed the instructions, not how you say something). If you even deviate a small bit from how it was trained, you’ll get terrible results. I’ve been using codellama 13b + ollama + continue and I’ll be honest, it’s almost on par with GPT-3.5 for my stuff. It’s been amazing as a pair programmer. It’s better to make draft and bounce ideas with it than to ask it to start from scratch. Long story short, try ollama + continue. If you’re using llama cpp by itself, chances are, you’ll get bad results.
I have lost 20kg (20/4) via intermittent fasting and getting rid of sugar and sweeteners. No sport at all lol.
> The offsets in the full PoC need to be tuned for different distributions.

I remember an old joke about linux not having viruses because it is hard to guarantee it could run reliably on different distros. Well... that is not too far from reality actually.
I kinda dislike this sensationalism regarding XY years old bugs. Every large old projects have such old bugs and it's quite normal that if it's so low impact, it doesn't get prioritized.
The issue with the “bring your own widgets” approach in my experience is that it’s unusual for third party widget packages to have anywhere near the sort of depth and breadth of capabilities compared to the same widgets that come OOTB with native UI toolkits. This means “shopping” for the widget with the best tradeoffs for one’s particular use case and making up for whatever inadequacies it comes with yourself (or just living with the inadequacies, resulting in a crappier app), which is annoying at best.

It’s so much nicer to just be able to trust that an extensive library of stock widgets will be able to do whatever it is that you need, as tends to be the case with AppKit/UIKit.
You want all available information to be able to determine a fair EV imho (valuation information, shares outstanding, cap table, etc). Otherwise, you’re getting sold on equity value that is aspirational or outright inaccurate so the business can scrimp on cash comp.