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Y'all just need to read the executive order (or at least the white house fact sheet) itself it's got way more stuff than this article covers and to my eyes is overwhelmingly positive. It's like the white house read all of the complaints people on HN have had about inappropriate uses of LLms and bundled them into one huge omnibill telling every federal agency to stop people from behaving recklessly with AIs that are are mirror of the average Redditor.

Outside of reporting that you're working on a new huge model and some maybe down the road future NIST guidelines they don't actually restrict the production of models at all. It's all about telling the humans jumping on the move fast break things train that no you can't use these tools for for <obviously dystopian thing> like renter screening, price fixing, and judicial sentencing.

Good on the white house for recognizing that the harm these models produce is almost entirely the humans connecting them to the real world.
One of the most abominable toxic plans ever devised. The utter rampant destruction of hypertext, hypermedia, interoperability, user-scripting, & likely many many accessibility tools.

Replacing standards & protocols & structured information with "developers choice" is madcap, is such a huge downgrade. But Flutter, Kotlin, and countless others do not give a crap about the web. They just want to ship their native software elsewhere, run roughshod over the web because it's be convenient to them. It's so so so ugly.
The problem here is one of inertia. Companies and government offices can’t support platforms they can’t readily and affordably hire devs for. It’s why there’s historically only been room for two popular platforms, leaving others to fall by the wayside. (Though in the case of mobile, I think we could’ve had three had Microsoft not shot themselves in the foot repeatedly.)

That said there could stand to be standardized APIs for things like banks, which would free users to develop their own apps.
As far as I know they only became mandatory with Windows 11, so give them a few years to become universal.
There are tons of answers to this! I'm going to say that in projects I've worked on, LODs have been hand made about 60% of the time.

There are tools for creating automatic LODs that come with their own pro's and con's. A bad LOD chain can express itself as really obvious pop-in while you're playing the game. There's also these things called imposters that are basically flipbook images of an object from multiple angles that can be used in place of the true 3d geometry at a distance. Those are created automatically. They tend to be like 4 triangles but can eat more vram because of the flipbook sizes.

Unreal engine has nanite, which is a really fancy way to side step needing LOD chains with something akin to tessellation, as I understand it. Tech like that is likely the future, but it is not accurate to describe it as the "way most games are made today"
> The rates of chronic illness - especially if we include mental illness, have been steadily going up in all age cohorts.

Obesity has been on the rise, especially in younger cohorts, and we know that all kinds of chronic illness is correlated with that.

And, as I pointed out, bans on these chemicals have been staggered. If the chemicals are causative, you should see it in the data.

HPV vaccine comes online--cervical cancer cases collapse in the cohort. HRT is abandoned--breast cancer cases decrease with a step function. etc.

These things are not invisible.
Youtube is largely composed of amateur content and — Kurzgesagt aside — not-very-good professional content. This is a different market to high production quality TV shows and films. perhaps you went to Youtube, but I suspect most people's next port of call is just piracy
IIRC I needed to use Microsoft Edge, and some codec from the Windows Store. Then I HAD to use HDMI (all my monitors are display port). There was something else too probably

Point is, if I can't just use my Firefox browser on Linux to get high quality content for money that I will happily pay, I'll just go get it for free.
You carry a sword?
But it won’t, so… https everywhere.
This specialness causes no end of supply-chain problems often requiring vertical integration of items that might be low volume, complex, and far afield from the main b2c products.
Lots of research on why phones for kids generally ends their childhood at the age they get it.

Phone aren’t tools anymore. They are digital slot machines designed to increase usage. It’s well researched and established and an easy google.

Using tech for creating instead of consuming is for kids and young people.
> It's completely normal in AAA games to have a few imperfect and in-optimal things.

No, mate, stop. The state of C:S2 is well beyond anything we should accept as "completely normal". It's a defective product that should not have been released. Stop normalising this crap.
How often do you hear about the downsides of malaria eradication in the United States (probably spraying most of Florida with DDT would be one…)? What about screwworm fly elimination in the United States and parts of Central America? That program is much more similar to the thing described in this article than spraying every puddle with insecticide.
And a supported CPU. Zen 1 is not officially supported, in spite of how new it was when 11 was released.

But yes, Rufus removes the stupid requirements.
No, the 80% figure only includes agriculture. Not grass fields on commercial lots. Consider this: produce is mostly water. Now consider the weight of all the produce in California (including waste like corn stalks or potato plants) to the weight of all the grass lawns. 8:1 would be an extremely generous ratio in favor of the lawns.
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You are again free to leave. It's a relatively simple social contract. If you take something from society, you'll have to pay for it.

If I go into a walmart and take products off the shelf, Walmart also expects that I'll pay, and will enforce that under threat of violence.

I'd gladly switch to a voluntarism based society, but it turns out the vast majority that claims to support voluntarism just wants to take advantage of society without paying for it.
iirc, try catch does have performance impact in js.
Why don't you configure the nginx that's in front to cache? I mean, it's still hosted on the device, it's just got a caching proxy in front, like all the big boys do.
> that tells you nothing about maliciously constructed files. Even if a hash function has no known collisions today, doesn't mean that they won't be found someday.

This is what I meant by "barring any discovered hash collisions" but in retrospect I didn't make that clear enough.

Though, if you're crafting your own malicious different-content-same-size files and storing them in your NAS to cause a hash collision to make them appear the same, then I bet several governments are willing to pay top dollar for your abilities :D

Or, different scenario, say you're hosting a Dropbox-like service and you're storing files for hundreds of thousands of users, then you shouldn't be using a duplicate-file-finding util anyway, it'd be better if it was implemented at a different layer anyway.

The scenario you describe (lots of big files of same sizes, few dupes) I agree hashing the entire file would be wasteful. From my experience on my file server, when I had two or more files of the same size, and the size was larger than a few MB, they likely had the same content.

Put another way, if multiple files of the same sufficiently-large size are encountered, expect to read the entirety of those files anyway, whether hashing or checking byte-for-byte, because they are likely dupes. So, there's still potential for perf gains by avoiding hashing, but I'm willing to bet it isn't as much as one would hope/expect.

(You do have me curious as to how much difference it could make, though)

Edit: I'm also willing to admit that I have so many dupes because my backup strategy is TRASH and I have dupes everywhere, and so my scenario could be more unusual than other people.
If you've got a respirator & an angle grinder, cast iron is easy to grind smooth.
It makes for an easy horror movie plot: car gets hacked or a sensor gets confused, and kills the occupants who can't override the Airbus-like automation lacking "direct law" or anything resembling a manual backup.
The Web PKI is hierarchical, but it isn't particularly centralized (other than Let's Encrypt increasingly eating everyone else's lunch, which is probably a good thing).

But in terms of actual failure points: if you're initiating a connection over HTTPS, then the only way an attacker can MITM you is by convincing a CA to incorrectly issue them a certificate for that domain. That's why Chrome and Safari monitor certificate transparency logs, and why website operations should also generally monitor the logs (to look for evidence of misissuance on their own domains).
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Just a config generator. I don't run any servers.

I'm trying to strike a balance between full fledged solutions like tailscale, cloudflare tunnels, et al, and cli or gui based self hosted solutions like wg-easy and subspace.

So you get to host your nodes, exit nodes, devices whatever and fully control what goes passes through but also a really easy way to manage which device gets what config, esp when dealing with end-users.
Some snakes can certainly kill you, but it's rare. Partially because rattlesnakes are courteous enough to warn people who get too close (rattling) and partially because North American hospitals all know what the native venomous snakes are and have antivenom for them. Most people who get bitten by venomous snakes were deliberately messing around with them but there's a small chance that you might accidentally step on one that wasn't rattling. Copperhead bites are more common than rattlesnake bites, probably because they don't rattle as much, but they're less likely to kill.

There are only one or two kids killed by snakes per decade in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_snake_bites_in_t...

Spider deaths are even more rare. Brown recluses are pretty spooky though.
I don't remember game engines ever being polished and tuned. If you needed optimization it was always on the community to figure it out. Usually they'd do a good job though and make it go up 10 fold compared to what the game devs came up with.
You don't have to use every tool in the world just because they exist. It also doesn't mean you're "disempowered". Choosing one or the other is a personal choice, for personal reasons, and doesn't necessarily imply something about that person, their morals, reasons, or abilities.

One person could use a gas-powered weed whacker, while another weeds by hand. I'll bet you money the second person is a better gardener, knows more about how to get rid of weeds, enjoys themselves more, and is healthier. But they're shunning technology, oh no!! They must be a fool, to be pitied and judged.

There's nothing wrong with giving up violent weapons for pacifist ideals. And "the real problem" is taking one person's life decisions and boiling them down to something inaccurate to fit your own narrative.
the son is cool and the mom is not
I've only ever seen Realtime Operating System abbreviated as RTOS, so that should not be a problem. I mean, it hasn't been so far, and ReactOS has been around for a while.
I _guarantee_ they knew about it.

They even posted on social media 1 week before launch warning people to expect lower than expected performance, and raised the system requirements.

If companies have to decide between prioritising features that they've advertised, show stopper bugs, and performance, guess which one always takes the back seat :)
On a carefully built WebSocket server you would ensure your WebSocket messages all fit within a single MTU.
Comparison to the era of linear TV based on cost or ad volume glosses over the incredibly valuable change to on-demand viewing. If cable TV companies could have made a purely on-demand service in the 1990s they would have charged a king's ransom for it. Now it's table stakes.
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> However, TPM-backed DRM on general-purpose OSes is impossible in the current world and is fear-mongering. The TPM can attest to a remote party that you've booted a certain OS, but this OS would need to maintain that chain of trust all the way for it to be effective

Why don't you think that can work? Windows already limits drivers to ones signed by Microsoft - or else you have to be in "test mode" where - among other things - DRM-protected video playback is disabled!

And Windows already contains a "protected media path" component which protects encrypted DRMed video data.

Sure, there will probably be bugs in a drivers sometimes allowing for a signing bypass and then a DRM bypass if the DRM is done in software. Once they're discovered, those drivers will be blacklisted, and yes, that will mean you can't use that hardware. And the masses will blame the pirates.
> They are digital slot machines designed to increase usage

You made me think about how when I started using the internet (early 2000s), it wasn't optimized like that and it was still so addictive. I can only imagine the damage it does to kids minds nowadays.
FHE does still add a huge overhead (measured in orders of magnitude, not percentages), so it would not be applicable for large models that are comparable with state of art models. You can apply FHE to neural networks in general (e.g. https://developers.googleblog.com/2023/08/expanding-our-full... lists it as one of potential use cases), but the unsaid assumption is that they are relatively small NNs, and that's in an era where we know that simply using a larger model brings meaningful improvements to the outcome, and the main limiting factor for people training their own models is the cost of compute.
Hey, it worked for Jerry Pournelle and Robert Scoble ...
I have my computer on 24/7 and I probably use it at all hours of the day.

Several times I have tried to use those wireless keyboards and mice, especially when they advertise 'up to six months of use' but invariably they run out of battery within a week or two.

My solution, as the OP found, is to just plug in a USB wired keyboard and mouse. Problem solved!

(I have a desk with monitor, keyboard, etc. Why would I bother having a wireless keyboard or mouse, anyway? What advantage would that bring?)
> There's no purpose to Secure Boot if I can just put your hard drive in a different computer without Secure Boot.

There are scenarios where you can't take the hard drive out (evil maid attacks, public computers, ...).

But regardless, you are attacking SecureBoot with an argument against full disk encryption.
I admit & admire that the story could change any day, & these tiny little niche communities could become relevant & important.

But there seems to be this attitude specifically against the web that the web needs to remain small enough for anyone to DIY quickly. That's just not how you get the most popular most useful most interesting hypermedia canvas on the planet.

The desire to reduce the web down is a sick one, malicious projection of a limited conservative worldview, on something that has become so great because we have cared about it enough to grow it.
If your stack merely had "run the production code on a typical user environment" as part of the process, you'd have caught this ahead of release though.
I am also scared by the amount of comments here saying that it is objectively good to grow up without the best technological advancement of recent years - supercomputer that fits in your pocket and you can lookup everything humanity has done in seconds.

I understand the boomer sentiment of „phone bad”, but let’s be realistic.

You can’t do banking, communication with friends and family, looking knowledge up without a phone. Some countries’ services also de facto require it (unless you want the process to take 3 months longer than it will using a phone).

Best to educate the kid like parent comment said
Ah good one!

I already support having a single WireGuard interface belong in multiple networks. So you can enable just a single config on your phone and be able to access devices in multiple, unrelated networks.
Making a AAA game sounds horrible. And making one in Unity sounds doubly so. All of these things sound like fixable issues. They'll likely be fixed. Hopefully the developers made these oversights because they focused on what makes the game worth fixing to begin with: that the gameplay is fun. In many recent games I feel developers have focused on the wrong things and totally forgot the core, meaning if they fix the bugs - the game is still quite hollow (cough, Starfield).
A game like this should of ocourse have a continous perf process and if it doesn't run ok (min 30fps on median hardware 60 on enthusiast hardware for example) then it just shouldn't ship. I wish more studios would stop having crunchtime for meaningless deadlines such as holiday seasons. Someone has said "it's ok to be just 10fps on beefy hardware, we can fix that later, let's ship it now".
A simple .bvh animation viewer in C using raylib
Does Kant focus this way on the individual's experience and reason?

It seems to me that we only reach some provisional truth when communicating minds agree on their experiences and how they are reduced by reason to concepts.

Only by formal processes for reaching agreement with past and candidate truths by multiple individuals do we avoid error, delusion and fantasy.
I mean you’re not wrong (well kinda wrong, it’s more like a few minutes). But with 2 kids, a full time job and myriad other hobbies, I couldn’t be arsed to spend another 10 seconds on dishes.
It is that. But also efficiency above all else.

Let’s run lean, let’s do it without human interaction, let’s push our solution first, we can force people in to this, etc.

I used to think Ayn Rand’s comments about creators and consumers were smarts people vs dumb, but that isn’t it at all. I think we’re in a complexity crisis and MBA driven business and large government is in a race for unsustainability.
The US should be giving more freedom to existing H1-B holders so they aren't indentured to the companies that employ them for 10+ years, at H1-B minimum salary, while waiting for them to generously sponsor their green card. Make H1-B not tied to employment so companies stop abusing them.
Should just let me subscribe to individual shows for less. Then at least you'd still have a subscriber. As it stands now I've canceled most of my streaming subscriptions as each only has one or two shows I'd like to watch, and individually each show isn't worth the full sub price to me.

The barrier to ease of consumption for a decent price is what Netflix originally solved, that's broken down now. I'm thoroughly considering going back to the high seas.
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Great subject, poor video. Too much 'wow' and travel photos, not enough explanation of what's going on in those things.

I've seen the Jaquet-Droz automata[1] in Neuchatel on the one day a month they run them. They're demoed by a watchmaker who understands and maintains them.

The three automata are the Musician, the Artist, and the Writer. These were made between 1764 and 1778. The Musician and the Artist are just playing back pre-recorded motions from a set of cams. To increase the length of the recording up, there's a stack of cams, and after one turn, the stack moves vertically to play the next cams. So there are two clockwork trains taking turns - playout, and cam selection. It's a beautiful piece of work, especially when you realize someone made all those cams by hand, with a file.

The Writer, which writes text with a quill, is programmable. There's the stack of cams that move vertically to switch cams, as with the others. But with the Writer, the cam selection is programmable. There's a programming wheel made of little screw-on sections of different heights, and a supply of cam sections which indicate what letter to print next. It's an encoding with at least 26 different levels, probably more. I'm not sure if letter case is encoded on the main cam.

It's all very compact, fitting inside the bodies of the dolls. There's no huge mechanical box hidden away somewhere. Even today it would be tough to make that mechanism work, although there are still watchmaking companies that could do it.

Better video of the Writer.[2] You can see the cam stack and the programming wheel working.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaquet-Droz_automata

[2] https://youtu.be/ux2KW20nqHU
The irony is that is absolutely does have business value. Unfortunately, it's easier to quantify the problems you've had on prod than the problems you've prevented on prod, so people tend to measure against the former.
The modern equivalent would be carrying a gun…
Nice.

Java has what looks like SQLx on steroids with the manifold project coming down the pike.

https://github.com/manifold-systems/manifold/blob/master/man...
Yeah I usually deglaze my dishes at some point if I am cooking with my stainless.
Netcup are pretty much the go-to for german sysadmins looking for something in the sweet spot between cheap and well supported.

One thing to be aware of is that the cheapest plans lock you in for a year.

They often run promotions (sometimes with vouchers you can get from existing customers) that can give you pretty good discounts on top of their already quite fine prices.
Plenty of arguing with my parents to let me leave the computer on overnight to finish compiling KDE 3 on a Pentium 4.
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You’re not really supposed to blast heat stainless without anything in it either. But you can certainly get it hot. Just as with nonstick. At least to Leidenfrost temps.
Tell me when it's in production and I can see a price listed somewhere.
There are only 30,000 skilled worker visas issued per year. There are additionally 65,000 H1B visas issued, with an additional 20,000 issued to folks with a masters or higher from a US university.

H1-B is specifically for specialized occupations and generally requires a minimum of a bachelor’s degree and specialized skills in demand. It is, in fact, called the H1-B Specialty Occupations Visa.

I suspect you’re thinking of the Diversity Visa program, which offers a lottery of 55,000 visas annually to anyone (except for some eye brow raising exceptions).

There are also other programs like migrant worker programs that allow unskilled labor into the country for a limited time to fill seasonal work gaps.
I'm aware of the difference between vector and raster; but this is image creation via mathematical modeling, which essentially is how vector graphics work. Seems like it would be a very small jump.
I do that.

I spent a lot less time being self-destructive with it than my phone.
Thank you so much for the Digikey reference. That video was one of the ones I watched also!
Ah yes, we generally think it's a good idea to give children swords to play with unsupervised.
Where does logging enter into it? To my understanding, serving traffic over HTTPS doesn't require you to do any additional logging (or any logging at all).

The point about static webpages would be a potentially good one in a world where ISPs and other Internet middlemen are honest and transparent actors, but this has so far proven not to be the case. I think it's in everyone's interest for your static content to reach my browser without ads or tracking mechanisms being injected by a third party.
As someone who was a mechanical engineer in the oil business, I think you have a very positive view of engineering processes in general.
I'd be more than glad to send them tanks and other munitions if I had any.