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Nix would probably be my first choice if I was going to use an "enthusiast" distro. I tried it, I liked it(Unlike everything else non-debian/Ubuntu I've tried) but it seems unnecessarily powerful.

Ubuntu provides an opinionated workflow with self contained packages, with less work and more of an ecosystem, and more or less uses only concepts familiar to apt users already.

Nix still hasn't completed the Flakes transition, and it's not immediately clear at first glance what's declarative and what's not.

Snap is a lot simpler of a model. Include almost everything, except the base snap stuff, in a single package file, like an old school video game cartridge, rather than the UNIXy idea of software as part of the OS, carefully configured as part of a unique hand maintained system instance where all the parts have to work together perfectly.

NixOS has better reproducibility, because config files as well as apps are part of their declarative one file to rule them all system, but Ubuntu is easier to make changes on.

It's the first disto that doesn't feel like it's still built for the era of instances that would be maintained by a dedicated sysadmin for decades.
Until you change the formatting rules and the whole codebase is in one diff. This seems to happen at least once a year from my observations.
The inconvenient truth is that people say they want more, better security but they don't want to pay for it. So to survive you need "just enough" security to get by, and that "just enough" turns out to be quite low. It's also not clear if a significantly better proactive security is necessarily better - humanity is still collectively figuring out how to balance the security/privacy vs the convenience, and we do risk fossilized information technology stacks if we jump on the security too hard.

That said, it's often easy things that get the most benefit and we are collectively a long way away from getting the basic security things done properly across the board.
I second this, please. I can't even update the preinstalled apps I use on my 2018 Samsung TV because they keep adding more default apps and there's literally zero free space with nothing but their default apps installed.
I keep a compost pile going in my chicken run to supplement the chickens food. They can't survive on only bugs though, there's a lot of minerals they need that come directly from plants. Some people may be surprised to learn that chickens will eat just about anything, including you.
It was useful for some old games where the frame rate was tied to the cpu frequency.
You spend the extra 10 minutes, and not tell him, immediately you're a 1.5x engineer.
Replace "eat bugs" with "verb thing" and you've pretty much described the entire dynamic of class struggle spanning several centuries. The "verb thing" baseline has just shifted as humanity makes some progress.
eating bugs is gonna be the new trend where wokies in Bay Area are gonna champion eating bugs together with tree barks, all in accordance to WEF’s studies and charters.

Ppl had been promoting Beyond Meat as meat replacement, and it tastes worse than dung
How do you differentiate between honest to goodness mistakes and a willful/malicious attitude toward just getting (product) done to make money at all costs?

It seems like a fine structure would have to take that into account? Or am I way off base?
"Or, are people treating the prompt design as some secret sauce?"

Some people/companies definitely. There are tons of services build on ChatGPTs API and the finetuning of their customized prompts is a big part of what makes them useful, so they want to protect it.
ICCC estimates that climate change will result in the deaths of a small number of millions of humans, not billions.
This is what I do with my web-component framework:

https://realm.codes

The website itself also built with web component
Yeah agreed, that is why I said "if you like the component style of other frameworks but want to use Web Components, Google Lit is quite nice"

Lit is just a lighter weight version of that and closer to web standards without having it bolted on to a larger, almost monolithic framework now.

I still prefer direct and custom with less dependencies but Lit is somewhat trying to communicate web standards while other current frameworks really want lock-in to the platform rather than caring about making sure devs understand the standards.
I borrowed a car that did not have a stick supporting the gear selector. Instead the gear was selected by a slide switch in the plane of the top of the center console. In my muscle memory, that is not where that function is.

What do I win in exchange for getting accustomed to this?
The blog post would benefit greatly if it had some examples from the world of web dev. It's not very clear what kind of principles they are talking about.
How can you provide assurance that that there are no false positives or negatives? XSS detection was a thing that people attempted and it failed miserably because you need it to work correctly 100% of the time for it to be useful. Said another way, what customer needs and is willing to pay for prompt injection protection but has some tolerance for error?
Outstanding write-up! We actually built a business based on this technology (occuspace.io) and have had to address almost all the questions that you brought up. To answer some of them here:

Q: How accurate is BLE beacon count, as a proxy for occupancy?

A: It's very highly correlated but different dining locations, classrooms and library floors have very different correlation factors. Consider using other, perhaps more complex features, as well.

Q: How accurate is BLE beacon availability time, as a proxy for dwell time?

A: We don't believe it is very accurate given that BT MAC's randomize every 8-20 mins depending on manufacturer.

Q: Can we improve the accuracy by setting an RSSI minimum, for which devices weaker than it do not count, to ensure only those who are really nearby get counted?

A: That's a great idea. It's worth noting that different types of spaces and depending on where you installed your sensor, will have different threshold levels.
I'd guess it's something "deeper" since humans wouldn't have existed without meat.
IBM's NorthPole is faster and uses less energy than Nvidia's best AI GPU
>easily counteracted

No, it's not easy.

This requires specific kinds of seaweeds to be effective, the species grows only in warm places(so not close to where we tend to keep cows) and it is not grown in large quantities yet, nor is the impact of doing that known.

We are quite some time away from doing this large scale.
> they earn 56.25% (1/0.64 - 1) more from any user they can attract to Android from iOS

Look at downloads versus spend (circa 2018 graphic, as this is an older deal):

https://www.data.ai/en/insights/market-data/global-app-downl...

And check out concepts of share of wallet and size of wallet per user:

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/share-of-wallet.asp

I'm not debating your stat, I'm just saying it's more complicated than that, if you're looking at ad market pay for performance.
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DiffEQ was probably my favorite math class in college. Eventually I created https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=simplicial.sof..., originally for a course about computer graphics. I think it lays the foundation for an intuitive understanding of the basic concepts in a way that a text book cannot.
The AES and SHA instructions are part of the vector units so their energy will be similar to other integer SIMD instructions. The overhead of issuing the instruction is higher than the work that it does so the details don't matter.
This does not scale well when your drawing is more complicated. A simple example is a square, which can start in 4 places and go 2 directions, now you have 8 samples, but it gets more complicated because some people use multi-stroke for the square.

The other algos in the family are more robust to this, but after experimenting, a RNN or vision model does much better on the consistency side of things.
Nope :'(.
I’m the author of perfect-freehand. It’s a good amount and I found the whole interaction really great: I get to tease library users on twitter to sponsor me, get a bunch of engagement, and give the company the opportunity to sponsor me to get a positive boost from a happy ending. No complaints.

Having my work used in a visible way by large companies does make me wish I’d productized it more. Maybe sometime I’ll release a refactored/improved version under a different license. However, I’ve also started a company around a different open source project of mine (tldraw.com) and if there’s a bag to be got, I’m sure I’ll get it there.
Ditto! I’d also love to know what is being used for the visualizations.
I don’t get that attitude frankly. The reason you are here is testament to all the generations of your ancestors. If you had and raised good children that’s the obvious thing that will go on well past you.

If you create ideas, help people, etc then that outlives you too. It’s unfortunate your parents weren’t able to explain it like this.

I wouldn’t worry about college cost. That stuff is getting disrupted.
Illegal immigration is incredibly easy to stop.

You make it a felony directly to the CEO to employ any illegal immigrant or any business that employs illegal immigrants anywhere in the contracting/subcontracting chain.

Employing illegal immigrants will come to a complete halt which will cause illegal immigration to come to a complete halt.

The problem is that everybody likes slave labor from illegal immigrants.

I believe it was Georgia(?) who cracked down on illegal immigrants and then couldn't get their crops harvested because nobody local would do the work even at minimum wage.
My mom was diagnosed with a form of aggressive kidney cancer about 10 years ago that had no really great treatments. Luckily it had not spread (apparently) and they cut out the whole kidney with good success. Until about 4 years ago when it returned, and it had spread to several places. She was going downhill so fast the changes were detectable day-by-day, but they started her on an immunotherapy combination that worked wonders. Gave her about 4 years, as it turns out, she finally succumbed to the cancer a few weeks ago. But it was an amazing four years! And that treatment did not exist when she was originally diagnosed. She'd have been dead years ago if they hadn't been able to buy her enough time for the treatment to become available.

Which is to say, I don't agree with your statement. Cancer treatment has made really great strides and continues to do so.
Over a long enough timespan we will eventually run into it happening in an instant.
Confirmed. I have tried all photogrammetry apps on the iPad and political is by far the best. Regardless of how good these apps are the meshes still need a hell of a lot of treatment before they can be used in production.
I dunno...It definitely makes financial sense to make sure stuff you work on doesn't appear in someone else's DEFCON presentation.
I was a kid listening to "grown-up talking" so I could remember the wrong reason for the funny pairing, or maybe I'm getting old :-) (it's been 30+ years).

English Wikipedia isn't very helpful on the regard but I found a page in German [1] that lists a number of 387DX-compatible chips running at 40MHz, so maybe it was just a matter of price, local availability, or lack of trust in the brands.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_x86er-Koprozessoren
As someone else commented, this is what shaders are supposed to do with games from that time https://wackoid.com/game/10-pictures-that-show-why-crt-tvs-a...

Notice how the physics of CRT ends up rendering the pixel art the way it was meant to appear. Pixel art was not the final image, the one appeared on the CRT was. You can not make up those details without CRT, shaders should get us there though. I wish this github repo had comparison images like that article.
Super Mario Nation.

I know I can't be the only one.
ChatData brings RAG to LLM apps with FREE knowledge base with millions of files
Register allocation is not on the roadmap, I think it's too hard for this series... But maybe I just haven't figured out an easy enough way to do it yet :^)

Memory allocation? You mean making a heap allocator? In the spirit of lowering the bar for creating new languages, I lean more towards calling into libc's malloc instead of building a custom solution haha
Nix would probably be my first choice if I was going to use an "enthusiast" distro. I tried it, I liked it(Unlike everything else non-debian/Ubuntu I've tried) but it seems unnecessarily powerful.

Ubuntu provides an opinionated workflow with self contained packages, with less work and more of an ecosystem, and more or less uses only concepts familiar to apt users already.

Nix still hasn't completed the Flakes transition, and it's not immediately clear at first glance what's declarative and what's not.

Snap is a lot simpler of a model. Include almost everything, except the base snap stuff, in a single package file, like an old school video game cartridge, rather than the UNIXy idea of software as part of the OS, carefully configured as part of a unique hand maintained system instance where all the parts have to work together perfectly.
Yes, I saw that quote, but it doesn't fill me with confidence. For one, I think developing a custom bootloader[1] qualifies as a hack. It certainly doesn't feel like an "actual feature". Is it documented anywhere?

Also, how do they know that "Apple does not intend to lock down what OS you can use on Macs"? Again, I would like to see some official confirmation from Apple.

> Worried about long term support etc for a mission critical system. Asahi is not pretending to be an enterprise solution.

No, I'm looking at it from the perspective of a single user for personal, and potentially professional, use. I _really_ don't want to go back to the user experience of Linux in the 90s, when barely anything worked, and the user had to spend hours tinkering to get basic features working, if they were supported at all. If that sounds fun for you, go ahead and enjoy the Apple hardware, but I'd like my machines to work. I'm annoyed by mainstream Linux enough as it is; I really don't need more reasons to dislike it.

> If Asahi works today on your M1 Pro, and its good enough for your daily work, then it's fine.

Buying a $2k machine to realize it doesn't support my workflow seems like a risky investment. As well as being at the mercy of a small group of volunteers and a trillion dollar corporation that it will continue to work for at least a few years.

[1]: https://asahilinux.org/2021/03/progress-report-january-febru...
On Android at least sideloaded apps still have to ask for permissions. Is this not the same on iOS? Is the permission model not enforced by the OS? I would be shocked.
Share my weekend project: ComfyUI Workflow Assistant (using GPT4-turbo)
t answers all your ComfyUI-related questions and gives workflows that you can download.
> Maybe every response can be reviewed by a much simpler and specialised baby-sitter LLM?

This doesn't really work in practice because you can just craft a prompt that fools both.
Are you serious? What better way to spend money than on not dying?
There's no "training", it's more of a data sample matching, akin more to these new vector databases than a neural network. You have to have gesture or point cloud samples in the data set
It's impossible to know which of these are parodies anymore.
How about this link then: https://thehill.com/homenews/4091544-liberal-justices-caught...
Clarifying because my previous message was over-ambitious: I started recently in the domain, so I'm still very much in the learning phase. Take everything I write with a pinch of salt.

That being said, to the best of my understanding, you are absolutely right. It is entirely possible to have algorithms without stable/corrected qbits. However, developing an algorithm without stable/corrected qbits is something that can take years of research and a PhD in quantum mechanics – the only part that looks remotely like programming is that quantum algorithm researchers use Python at some point in their toolchain to setup the system.

On the other hand, while with stable/corrected qbits, there is the hope that, some day, the industry can build quantum processors with gates comparable to the logical gates that power today's computers. This would in turn let developers program with quantum programming languages – in fact, some quantum programming languages that are recognizable as programming languages have already been designed, they just can't run on any actual hardware yet.
your redundancy is another player's opportunity (to paraphrase Bezos)
While I've believed that developing privacy and encryption tech was ignoring the deeper problem, and it was a poor substitute for using that effort to actually engage with and reform the institutions we use privacy tech to protect ourselves from, when you are up against anonymous cynicism like earmarking continuity of government bills, the only thing left to do is shrug and become a cypherpunk maximalist. Life is too short. Might as well ride this civilization into the ground.
Maybe it's time to build a new transit further up?
Intelligence is not the only physical attribute we excel in. Humans are frequently cited as the best endurance runners among the animal kingdom[0]. Some extant (and probably many prehistoric) tribes hunt via exhaustion, running down even large mammals until they collapse.[1] Humans also have excellent manual dexterity for tasks like grabbing, pulling and digging. Humans also seem to have better vision than most animals excluding birds of prey, with good performance across a number of attributes like color perception, depth perception, motion perception, etc.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endurance_running_hypothesis
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting
I've pulled together (yet another) list of useful various Postscript resources (books, tutorials, articles, etc) here: https://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2022/09/postscript-coding-resour...
because technical founders have ideas enough of their own and your idea would have to be crazy good for them to consider it.
I guess I was assuming the LLM would be wrapped into some larger goal-seeky thing. Explaining the goal seems like the easy part; it could be as simple as "Make it possible for execution to reach this function."
How much value do you think you add to your employer? Your value is based on how the market values you, not a specific dollar amount that your lines of code generate (if you are a developer). Similarly the CMO’s compensation is based on how the market values that job. Does the person make more than CMOs of similar companies?

If you suck at coding, you’d likely have a hard time landing a new job. If the Unity’s CMO sucks at doing their job, it’d be a stain in their resume, although it’s likely that they can still have a lucrative job in the future (Unfortunately that’s the reality)
Can someone (an admin) maybe add the direct link to https://github.com/sirixdb/sirix in the URL field. Totally forgot, that it's possible to add both a text and a URL ;)
> already compiling

Hmm, well if you mean torch.compile, y'all should still check out stable-fast, which is claiming ~16ms/iter on a 4090, twice that of torch.compile:

https://github.com/chengzeyi/stable-fast#rtx-4090-512x512-ba...
It's really striking in action, how the two things (the screen geometry and the bezel reflections) really make it feel like you're looking at a television. At times I completely forget the rest of the giant flat panel even exists.
It's all the same to the users, and making mistakes impossible is also part of quality. I'd say go for it.
I mostly agree but Web Components is a web standards as is templates/custom elements now.

The others like React/Vue/Svelte etc are all going more for platform/framework lock-in over making sure people are doing augmentation of standards.

Those frameworks have incentive to lock you in while standards are lock-in at a lower level.

Other standards I like playing with direct like html/css/canvas/WebGL/storage/svg/video/audio/geo/etc and ones that are newer are WebRTC/WebGL/WebGPU/WebAssembly etc. All of these are and will be abstracted by some frameworks and people will know less about them and more about the platforms on top if they aren't regularly going direct. I think people that know about the standards more low level make for better framework developers an developers that use frameworks even.

I like platforms that make web standards the core aim not the platform lock in.

Lit is just a lighter weight version of that and closer to web standards without having it bolted on to a larger, almost monolithic framework now.

Lit is somewhat Angular like since Google make both.
did this whole site/blog used to be on a different domain? cyrnel.net?
I have to rotate my password at work every 3 months. Without a system, it wouldn’t be sustainable.
If you're looking at declaring schemas for CRDT docs in Yjs, I've found https://syncedstore.org/docs/ productive if you're open to using TypeScript.

Agreed on migrations!
Czech news crew in SF covering APEC robbed at gunpoint while filming
You can see the physical flow in the Baltic grid and the whole Europe here :
https://energygraph.info/d/7dWs1mVVk/interconnect-physical-f...
>Domain. Team. Project Planning. Combine any of them and the projects demand different things, but with Rails you are out of luck.

I mean you could have at least picked some better example. Considering Rails was precisely extracted out from Basecamp which is "Domain. Team and Project Planning".
The TV Pickup is a wonderful piece of trivia.
I'd view this article as an example. I suspect it's not that hard to get a malicous document into someone's drive; basically any information you give to Bard is vulnerable to this attack if Bard then interacts with 3rd-party content. Email agents also come to mind, where an attacker can get a prompt into the LLM by sending an email that the LLM will then analyze in your inbox. Basically any scenario where an LLM is primed with a user's data and allows making external requests, even for images.

Integration between assistants is another problem. Let's say you're confident that a malicious prompt can never get into your own personal Google Drive. But let's say Google Bard keeps the ability to analyze your documents and also gains the ability to do web searches when you ask questions about those documents. Or gets browser integration via an extension.

Now, when you visit a malicious web page with hidden malicious commands, that data can be accessed and exfiltrated by the website.

Now, you could strictly separate that data behind some kind of prompt, but then it's impossible to have an LLM carry on the same conversation in both contexts. So if you want your browsing assistant to be unable to leak information about your documents or visited sites, you need to accept that you don't get the ability to give a composite command like, "can you go into my bookmarks and add 'long', 'medium', or 'short' tags based on the length of each article?" Or at least, you need to have a very dedicated process for that as opposed to a general one, which makes sure that there is no singular conversation that touches both your bookmarks and the contents of each page. They need to be completely isolated from each other, which is not what most people are imagining when they talk about general assistants.

Remember that there is no difference between prompt extraction by a user and conversation/context extraction from an attacker. They're both just getting the LLM to repeat previous parts of the input text. If you have given an LLM sensitive information at any point during conversation, then (if you want to be secure) the LLM must not interact with any kind of untrusted data, or it must be isolated from any meaningful APIs including the ability to make 3rd-party GET requests and it must never be allowed to interact with another LLM that has access to those APIs.