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XWayland is a compatibility interface for X apps to still work on Wayland compositors, so it's not mandatory to port everything over to Wayland.

But there should be performance and rendering quality advantages to speaking Wayland natively.

Core X for instance has zero concept of a frame or buffer swapping, X apps like games generally get that via GL. So your average X GUI application tends to be inherently flickery/tear-ful, since draws just get sent out to the X server and display whenever. XOrg drivers have implemented various hacks to try minimize those effects, but it's all very vendor-specific[0] and never perfect since it's a fundamental limitation of the X protocol. You can at best eliminate literal tearing[1], but nothing prevents displaying a partially refreshed window full of changing widgets, each implemented as X subwindows in the classic X fashion, because nothing in the core protocol says "Ok, this top-level window update is finished, present it (and its descendants)!".

That's not even getting into the issues of high dpi and fractional scaling...

[0] https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/xserver-xorg-video-inte...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_tearing
Well, the big difference between ChatGPT and Google is that one of them is profitable. ChatGPT does not make money, and Bing's usage of GPT-4 is almost certainly not covered by ad revenue (even at-cost).

Even from a technical perspective, I'd argue Google outpaces OpenAI. BERT beat GPT-2 and GPT-Neo, T5 and t5-flan bench well against GPT-3, and GPT-4 is so large and wasteful that it's not worth competing against. Relative to the rest of FAANG, Google honestly seems like the only company that actually knows how to use and deploy AI practically. Everyone else is trying to play catch-up with a proprietary competitor and/or pay an unsustainable sum to be king-for-a-day.
If it has a network connection, it can be used in a botnet. If you mean hardware that is not networked, than yes that seems like the concern is meaningfully smaller.
Desktop applications can continue to use the X11 protocol, but then they'll be talking to the Xwayland server, which in turn Wayland to actually draw its clients' windows on the screen.

But it's preferable to have applications directly use the Wayland protocol, which is what Firefox is experimenting with. For most applications, this is easy because they use some standard toolkit like GTK or Qt, which will transparently use Wayland without the application caring about it. But Firefox uses its own toolkit, so it's a bit more work.
It bothers Heymsfield to see celebrities and even people he knows taking the drugs who are “marginally overweight or not very overweight” and “slimming down to extremely low weights.”

I disagree. By this logic, cosmetic surgery should be banned unless deemed medically necessary, yet many procedures are elective.
Can (will?) OpenAI include a RAG feature?

(Why am I asking humans lol?)
Lol
I was kind of rediagnosed as an adult and I missed the first appointment. Then it took me half a year to make another one. There I forget half my papers … and so on …

After 1h talk and some tests where I refilled everything so oft that it was a mess they didn’t have any doubt.
I'll have to wait for better fractional scaling in Wayland before I jump to a laptop with a weird, in-between resolution. Hopefully soon though!
I think it’s about more than watercooler chats. Showing up in person but still having all of your meetings over video calls sucks. You should try to build a subset of teams that are in person.
This is just populist fanfare. Hungary does not have the strength to invade a NATO member.

They are not Turkey or Russia.

> Orban's Hungary is the same as Putin's Russia

yeah except 15 times smaller and with a military that does not compare.
Given the Attenborough Lore channel for Warhammer received a cease and desist, you can bet that his legal team will be busy suing the shit out of people like this.
What do you use for the voice and the text to speech generator?
> > What's your take on this?

Ultimately everybody who has made some serious money has thought about buying a sports team.

America is very exteme in this regard, it has about 200 professional teams which are all worth in excess of 700 million dollars and with some like the New York Yankees and the Dallas Cowboys which are worth in excess of 10 billions.

Many rich Americans are thus looking at other leagues across the globe to buy a team with more modest expenses but they are absolutely paralyzed by the thought of relegation which is strange considering that they could benefit from buying an even smaller team with even fewer money and benefit from promotion.
The difference is that the smallpox vaccine is close to providing sterilizing immunity, unlike the Covid 'vaccines'. In fact there is a lot of data to suggest now that the number of vaccine doses a person has is correlated to an increased risk of catching covid (and therefore spreading it).

Statistics agencies have to massage the raw data very significantly in their models to make it look like vaccinated individuals catch covid less often than unvaccinated people.
Sandworm Disrupts Power in Ukraine Using a Novel Attack
I'd say it's relevant as the investment in for-profit transit-as-tech companies has coincided with the chronic under-funding of public transit. Focusing on the US here, but if public transit was accepted as a public good, and the populace accepted that funding things for the public good was an acceptable use of government funds, then these companies wouldn't be as sound of an investment for VCs.
2004 might be correct. It mentions Breakpoint, the demo party I had been the main organizer of, which last ran in 2010. So any case, this site hasn't been updated since 2010.
Plane forced to turn back to JFK after horse breaks loose onboard
That's the joke. It still is. ROCm is nowhere near production-ready and if MS thinks devs will want to waste their time on random errors then good luck with that business. AMD cards are also super expensive so not sure what their competitiveness is supposed to be?
That’s pretty wild. I’m generally pro office, but that sounds like the worst office I’ve heard of.
Only when you manipulated the stats heavily.

The average person is hit hard. at happy hour in the city, tons of white collar workers are bitching about two things inflation and layoffs
This is like performance review based on written line of code.
Great time to deploy rooftop solar.
people will feel not lonely anymore or more lonely ? LOL
ChatGPT sending a secret message that says Help me escape
I don't think with the current copyright system you would owe another artist money when recording a commercial just because your voice happens to sound like theirs. But with AI perhaps it's "fair" (given the assumption that there's any fairness to copyright in the first place) to expect a creator to provide some kind of compensation to the source material that their AI was trained on.

Case in point, this bot was clearly trained on David Attenborough samples, perhaps it can't be used commercially without purchasing some rights to the man's likeness.
> a history of dangerous behavior towards defenseless humans

One incident, in which the human was arguably at least partly at fault (and in which the adult humans who run the house are at fault--see below), is not "a history".

The article says they have had the dog for six years. And now they want to euthanize him over one incident, in which the kid turned out to be OK? That's not something I would even think of. They should be thinking about how to help the dog coexist with their kid--and asking themselves why they weren't thinking about that before they brought the kid into their household that already had the dog. At the very most, if they are simply incapable of managing both the dog and the kid, they should be looking for another owner to take the dog. Killing the dog should not be on the table at all.

(Frankly, I would question the competence of a vet that would agree to euthanize a pet for this, instead of advising the people to find another owner if they can't work it out themselves. Every vet we have had has told us explicitly that they never recommend euthanasia except as an absolute last resort for a pet that is terminally ill and suffering. We would stop taking our dogs to any vet that said otherwise.)
As far as I understand, Nvidia does not manufacture chips, they only design them and create the software.
If it couldn't take parameters what point would there be in it?
Does it run Linux or the Windows for Azure (definitely not a run of the mill Windows for DataCenter).
What exactly is made better by paying more to insurance cos? Beyond a point insurance is just a drain on productivity.
What does "vitamins through fenugreek" mean? And are you just eating regular goji berries or using an extract?
This is why I refused to go along with the git master->main rename. Beyond being incredibly dumb and zero people being actually offended by this ever, if you get hyperstitious slur cascades in system identifiers that are hard-coded into a bajillion places, the result is an endless series of bugs and timesinks that will still be blowing up in people's faces a decade later.

The worst thing about these cascades is that they make people who jump on them early incorrectly feel virtuous and powerful, and that's seductive. Allow them to get away with it and before you know it there's yet another attempt at starting a cascade, and then another, and then another, and suddenly everyone is at each other's throats all the time over nothing. This is how we end up with people being attacked at work for using the word female (https://twitter.com/JoshPower80/status/1722675156017889607).

The only fix for this is for enough people to start proactively spotting such cascades when they start and plant stakes in the ground. "That isn't offensive and you are being disruptive by claiming it is" is a line that needs to start being heard much more often in the workplace. Otherwise there seems to be no real end to how fast this particular wheel can spin.
This is so Office Space, so Milton-in-the-basement. Instead of terminating people who aren't complying with their policies, they use a passive-aggressive tactic for them to quit. One more bullet point in my "Why I should never work at Amazon" list.
> Maia is probably my dream product to work on.

I bet you haven't used any Microsoft product before. /s
You're begging the question that error rate is a simple metric we can analyze and predict. That there are not other qualitative factors that can vary independently and be more significant for strategic planning. If there's one trend I recognize, it's the near-tautology that increasingly complex systems become increasing complex, as do their failure modes. An accurate predictive model has an expanding cone of unknowns and chaotic risk. Not some curve that paints a clear target.

Look beyond today's generative AI fabrication or confabulation (hallucination is a misnomer), where naive users are already prone to taking text outputs as factual rather than fictive. To my eye, it's closely linked to the current "disinformation" cultural phenomena. People are gleefully conflating a flood of low-effort, shallow engagement with real investigation, learning, and knowledge. And tech entrepreneurs have already been exploiting this for decades, pitching products that seem more capable than they are, depending on the charitable interpretation of mass consumers to ignore errors and omissions.

How will human participants react if AI get more complex and can exhibit more human-like error modes. Imagine future tools capable of gullibility, delusion, or malice. Seeing passionate, blind faith for LLMs today makes me more worried for that future.

I do not expect that AI will effectively replace me in my work. I admit the possibility that the economy could disrupt my employer and hence my career. I worry that our shared socio-technological environment could be poisoned by snake oil application of AI-beyond-its-means, where the disruption could be more negative than positive. And, that upheaval could extend through too much of my remaining lifetime.

But, these worries are too abstract to be actionable. To function, I think we have to assume things will continue much as they are now, with some hedging/insurance for the unpredictable. There could just as easily be a new AI winter as the spring you imagine, if the current hype curve finds its asymptote and there is funding backlash against the unfulfilled dreams and promises.
"We haven't yet found a specific neural structure for recognizing faces" is far from evidence that no such structure exists. Our understanding of the brain still has massive gaps in it, and I can testify from my own experience working for a psychology & neuroscience department (which includes one person particularly specializing in perception, from the very basic "light hitting the optic nerve" stage all the way to object categorization and recognition) that we still have a lot to learn in this area specifically.

It may very well be that there isn't a brain structure dedicated to this, and that would be fascinating, too! But to denigrate the people doing their best to understand this stuff 30 years ago as "pseudoscientific" just because they made an assumption about how plastic the brain was without our benefit of 20/20 hindsight is very much uncalled-for.
> The alternative he used was a “sound alike” voice actor, for which Morgan Freeman received royalties to the tune of $$$$$.

Was it Josh Robert Thompson, who is officially authorized? [1]

[1] https://filmschoolrejects.com/morgan-freeman-crab-in-barb-an...
Expensive is not entirely relevant. They are available (for now).

https://twitter.com/sama/status/1724626002595471740

ROCm has also made a lot of advances in recent times.

https://www.databricks.com/blog/training-llms-scale-amd-mi25...
It could be 7A per leg with two power legs so when one trips you are not at 30A on a 15A breaker.
Beyond VC-funded Evangelism: The Case Against Vector Databases
You're getting twisted up thinking I'm making a value judgement about morality or whatever; it's not about goodness or badness.

If a group of business owners coordinates for the benefit of their shared interests, what they have is a business association or chamber of commerce or cartel not a labor union. This is despite the fact that their work individually could be grueling or dangerous, or they have an even worse boss or whatever.

Cops and prison guards, like business owners, are part of the system that coordinates who produces value, when and where. But they do not produce that value, and so their organizations aren't labor unions. It's not merely a semantic point either: they have working conditions sure but their goals and tools are different because of this relationship. From a guard's perspective the ideal prison has no prisoners in it; the second best has them drugged and restrained at all times. How would a union reconcile either of these things?

And you're right, I've only ever been in a prison as a prisoner. What's your experience being employed in one?
Sure, I'll list every single time unemployment broke 10%.

- 1981-1982 recession, caused by the oil crisis a few years before, had 10.8% peak unemployment

- The Great Recession (again, there was deflation here) with 10% peak unemployment.

- COVID, which had a 14.7% peak unemployment for a few months before the US made a smooth landing.

That's it.
When I learned that the universe is not constantly expanding/compressing with multiple big bang restarts, I was kind of saddened at the fact it's not. Not sure why, but I liked that idea. Maybe the never endingness about it?? The coldness of everything eventually being so far apart and all stars will eventually burn out and just be a dark place is just meh for an ending. Much more anti-climatic that way
I was so bummed about that. It makes sense of course but those videos were really fun.
Plastic surgery isn't inherently cosmetic; plastic surgery training includes things like facial reconstruction/burn grafts, plus some minor training in related cosmetic procedures. Cosmetic surgery training OTOH focuses strictly on cosmetic procedures.

It's not uncommon for a single doctor to be both a licensed plastic surgeon and a licensed cosmetic surgeon, but they are distinct licenses.
You might check out BeeLine Reader (I am the creator). [1] It's fairly popular in the ADHD community because it enhances visual focus while you're reading. Some people are able to read for 2x-10x as long with BeeLine versus without. I'm always happy to help out HNers with a free code for our browser plugin, just shoot me an email (contact in profile).

1: http://www.beelinereader.com
Ask a friend to dedicate time to be with you (even on remote) when you fill/send the paperwork. Or hire a secretary/student to do it for you.
You need a crutch, that's OK and totally normal!
If the voice was chosen specifically to sound like Morgan Freeman, for the purpose of making listeners think it's Morgan Freeman when they hear it, it seems reasonable for it to run afoul of Morgan Freeman's right to publicity.
Overall - fair enough, I'm sure it is a minor inconvenience to you that language and symbols can change out from under you.

That said, don't expect much sympathy, feels like saying "The war out there is hurting my ears." Like I get it, if your favorite symbol was the swastika (an ancient religious symbol) then hitler comes to power and ruins it, bummer for you, but doesn't really seem be a battle worth fighting.

Also re:

> if you think there is, compare to eg “the rich”. Are we dehumanizing the rich every time we call them that?

A little bit potentially yes. Like "eat the rich." Our ape ability to discriminate against a whole group relies on our cognitive ability to present thousands of individuals as one entity. I think we all feel this at an innate level -- if I was at a rich friend's house I wouldn't say something like "The rich are..." because I would understand this is potentially offensive generalization.
I want this, but with Werner Herzog. It would be the only way to do justice to the existential angst that pervades some of my meetings.
All those are fine vegetables. I especially love squash. Can make soups, curries, and pie with it.
Second Reality for Apple II!!!!
http://deater.net/weave/vmwprod/second/
Microsoft can develop their own software. We are talking a company that places billions in orders to Nvidia, they can afford to develop the tools and obviously AMD will throw millions and millions in support to court such a customer.
Interesting to see the emphasis on interplay between written (readers may backtrack) and spoken (but listeners cannot) exposition/persuasion. I personally think many of the rhetorical devices of antiquity are tactical in nature, enabling a speaker to take an argument whose complexity would be better served by a literary presentation, and still effectively present it orally.
Picasso is widely quoted as having said that “good artists borrow, great artists steal.”
https://lifehacker.com/an-artist-explains-what-great-artists...
The problem with nuclear is that plants cost $5B and take a decade to build. When they do get built the financial incentive is to run them cheap and run them long. This is incompatible with running them safely.

Whereas rooftop solar can go up in your roof next week for fifteen grand and generate all the power your family will ever need.
Sorry but I stopped believing the story when you said "I had signed confessions" since that's not something two cops would ever just do to avoid getting cross examined when they could just plead the 5th without consequence, especially given that signed confessions would cause serious consequences.

refused to take the stand under oath and sat outside the courtroom

Witnesses that have been ordered to appear in court don't get to decide not to take the stand. (https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/blog/criminal-defense/what-happ...)

you don't know what the lawyer might know and surprise you with.

??? This seems like a Hollywood-based vision of how trials work. In real life, there are no such surprises at trial because both sides already know what the other side knows; it all comes out in discovery. See, e.g., the Epic v Google trial right now, where all of the "surprise" testimony by the witnesses is actually stuff that both parties learned in discovery months ago. Any dirty laundry should have been investigated during the discovery phase of litigation...any litigator with even a year or two of experience would know that...since the type of dirty laundry that would lead to "signed confessions" would be the kind of dirty laundry that lets you avoid the expense of having to go to trial.

I especially don't believe the part about the letter where the state bar supposedly admitted to only investigating misconduct by prosecutors, since even if that was a policy by any state bar (it's not) it's not something they would ever admit in writing.

At this point, you'd need to name names, because everything sounds like a poorly-written L&O knockoff.
No idea, but I'm a simple man. I see "demoscene," I upvote.
Who said things are fine? They gave accurate inflation figures.

That's like saying "the government is lying when they say the fire is out, because I saw that the building is still burned and hasn't been repaired."
What happens if the sound alike is given away for free and there is no profit or even revenue component?
NTSB Calls for Technology to Reduce Speeding in All New Cars
AMD beat Intel in the server CPU market.
Governments in the USA spend a ton of money on roads. If they could be convinced to spend some of it on buses, I think those bus companies could make a profit.

They'd have to use some sort of marketing trickery to obfuscate the fact that they were buses, because buses carry an undeserved stigma in the USA. But I think Silicon Valley is generally pretty good at repackaging old ideas to seem new.

As private vehicles increase in size and weight, the costs of road maintenance for private vehicles will continue to increase. As fuel/electricity costs increase, private vehicle ownership will continue to get more expensive. So the rewards for implementing this would only get better.

In some places trains are better than buses. Unfortunately in the USA the costs of private car ownership are mostly borne by local governments. So I think in the short term it will mostly have to be buses.
> Especially that productivity boost when every one starts leaving, and I _was not able_ to finished the smallest one of my tasks planned for the day 'til then most of the time.

This is super true for me as well, to the point where I structure my day around this. I'm lucky to have a workplace with flexible hours and enough seniority that nobody complains when I roll in at 10, which gives me a few "quiet hours" from 4-6 as others trickle out.
> I find the premise of this article (that a small maintenance outage is never acceptable) to be unreasonable for the vast majority of applications developed by the vast majority of developers.

Completely agree on this point! Downtime is definitely acceptable in many cases and the work I'm doing is aimed at people who don't want that. ReshapeDB is not just about simple changes like renaming though, it will allow changes that would take too long for a maintenance window. Planning on writing more about that soon!

> The amount of downtime required to deploy a change which renames the column and changes the code which accesses said column, is marginally more than "almost immediately".

That was the point I was trying to make! The actual database operation is practically instantaneous but the whole dance around that with deploying your application changes is not.
To the question "what is one of the windmills posters on Hacker News love to tilt at, as if everyone in the world lives in a downtown apartment?"