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> Sure, I suppose someone could develop/copy something in parallel with no knowledge.

I mean that’s a tad disingenuous as to how it worked before patents. Patents were meant to dissuade others from copying inventions for a certain set period. It was much rarer to see independent development of the same technology (not that it didn’t happen).
My original post literally asks if it’s more accurate to compare CEOs with film producers and not directors.
Granted, we're kind of Luddites, but my wife and I were going home from a social gathering, where some people were talking about the latest TV shows. My wife said to me: "I was embarrassed to admit it, but I don't know how to watch TV any more."
And never really seemed to learn how to code. I spent a bit of time in this phase of bouncing between tutorials and different learning approaches. Eventually, I found the one that worked for me. Coding is now the easy part. Designing this is the hard part.
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>I am using through Xorg a program which uses a frigging colormap

That doesn't change what I said. The colormap is mapping indexes to RGB palette entries and technically doesn't even support any other color spaces. Nothing about that is "non-RGB". The other visuals are just various other ways to do RGB. If this isn't making sense to you, think about how this would be implemented in the driver.

>None of this is about the GPU, but about about directly presenting images for _hardware_ composition using direct scan-out

I'm sorry? What do you suppose is doing the direct scan-out to the monitor if not the GPU?

>As if that prevented any of the extensions done to X11 in the last three decades, including Xv.

That's not relevant, XV actually does support running over the network as long as you don't use the SHM functions. But regardless, yes, it actually did. The main example being indirect GLX which hasn't been updated in decades because it's not feasible to run it over the network anymore.
I'm not sure if they're "new".

It looks like those servers use the SPARC64 XII, from 2017-18

"Fujitsu is going to continue Fujitsu SPARC M12 server sales until fiscal 2029 and support services until fiscal 2034." [0]

[0] https://www.fujitsu.com/global/products/computing/servers/un...
> The mission comes first.

Which might only be possible with future funding? From Microsoft in this case. And in any case if they give out any more shares in the wouldn’t they (with MS) be able to just take over the for-profit corp?
You can use differential privacy to protect from most (timing, memory, etc) side channels in distributed analytics.
I work in consulting the genai hype machine is reaching absurdity in my firm. I can’t wait until Monday :)
OpenAI's board: everyone who's been on it, their claim to fame, why they left
> Kara Swisher tweeted that basically the board is screwed unless they have an extremely unambiguous smoking gun.

Can you please add a link to that post? It’s been so frustrating trying to follow this story on Twitter. Kara’s feed has a single pinned post with no indication from the UI about where the rest of her posts are.
and what will you do with all that openness? i personally hoped that openai would continue to innovate and ship at insane speeds, continue to cut costs so i can continue to use their apis. providing the best ai for the lowest possible price is how they would have made me and the rest of the world better and more prosperous. now we'll have to wait and see what they actually deliver.
But… the example given shows that they place the video frame behind the window an make the front window transparent except for the round play button. This apparently offloads the frame… so why not just do the same for rounded corners?

What am I missing?
A PC will work fine for general viewing but might be a problem for those looking for more advanced features, e.g. Dolby Vision.

Apple TV has a few things one may consider “ads”, but they’re limited to promotion of Apple’s own shows (no third parties) and can be done away with by simply ignoring the stock TV app and moving it off the top row of the home screen where it’ll never get highlighted. They haven’t bothered me personally, and my Apple TV 4K working flawlessly since buying it in 2017 is worth that tiny tradeoff.
Yeah, so they didn't reverse engineer anything, they literally take your password and then have you approve them registering a Mac mini they control as a trusted device in iCloud.

At that point they have access to your entire iCloud account: messages (obviously), docs, browser history, browser tabs, iTunes/App Store account if you're using a single account, etc. Oh yeah, and that Mac mini is now a trusted device, so it can approve adding new devices to your account if they're compromised (or malicious, but lets give them the benefit of the doubt).

Now based on the problems presented in this article I don't think I would trust their data management or security practices at all, they clearly don't give a damn about customer privacy (beyond their already overt removal of message privacy/e2ee).
That's an industry term. Lithobraking is too.
On the serif side of things there's Go mono, which I like a lot and also doesn't feel monospaced. To me it makes code look friendly, like the pages of a book.
The board may come off looking pretty bad after all is said and done. It is reasonable to fire a CEO if there is a strong disagreement on strategy and direction but it seems unreasonable to do so without adequate planning and preparation.

The typical approach is to let the CEO know they are being replaced, line up a successor (even if temporary) and arrange an orderly transition (message key partners, customers, etc). This avoids the narrative getting away from you ("omg, the product is just mechanical turk, about to go bankrupt, have some serious accounting issues, CEO did crimes, etc"). These bad vibes have a way of persisting and can cause a loss of trust with key stakeholders (previously overlooked issues now get revisited with a more jaundiced eye)

The way the action was taken (suddenly and with accusations) gives the appearance of personal animos rather than measured, sober judgement. Of course, there might still be good reason for taking this approach but so far, it is not looking good.
this is why I never bought the "he has no equity in OpenAI, he's got no incentive to go against their charter". There were always plenty of ways for him to make a lot of money without direct equity, Microsoft could have gifted him some shares as part of their agreement to the OpenAI partnership. And now you have stuff like this. Wouldn't be surprised if he wanted to get fired so he could start his own thing and poach OpenAI talent while looking like the good guy
Author here - what we call "pg_plan" internally, is essentially very similar in spirit to what we do with pg_query [0], but the difference is that we pull in a lot more code from Postgres, and have more overrides in places that are not needed for the use case (e.g. MVCC handling, etc).

My gut feeling tells me that the chances of having an upstream library that contains the parser/parse analysis/planner are slim. Mainly from there being a lot of entanglement with reading files on disk, memory management, etc - I suspect one of the pushbacks would be it would complicate development work for Postgres itself, to the point its not worth the benefits.

For the pg_query library on the other hand I have hopes that we can upstream this eventually - there are enough third-party users out there to clearly show the need, and its much more contained (i.e. raw parser + AST structs). Hopefully something we can spend a bit of time on next year.

[0]: https://github.com/pganalyze/libpg_query
Has anyone successfully turned this into a nerd font? I'd love to know it works before handing over my $75.

Update: I tried the font patcher on the trial version, but it didn't work. The font patcher ran successfully, and I can see all the added glyphs in Font Book on my Mac, but the glyphs don't work in my terminal.

Output from the font patcher is here: https://app.warp.dev/block/sWNVtsGQkYqvaa3HXa0eFN

Further update: Works in iTerm2, but not in Warp. The plot thickens!

Further further update: Some removing and restarting and reinstalling fixed it! I think Warp was caching something.
You said: "Hoarding/saving for long periods of time is bad because it discourages people from taking risks by putting resources to productive use"

And later you added that by "saving" you meant specifically "not spending".

Then "taking risks by putting resources to productive use" is just a fancy way of saying "producing"

So, you're saying that people not spending is bad because it discourages people from producing.

In a market economy, the optimal level of production is the level that satisfies the desired level of consumption. If people want to save more, and therefore consume less, and as a result we also produce less, that's not bad. That's how the economy is supposed to work.
Yes, by running a credit check through one of the credit bureaus.
> All you have to do is "compare and swap" and loop through until you are done, this is way easier than Fizzbuzz.

I think you have this wrong, Fizzbuzz is actually completely trivial to the point where the problem statement is almost literally (modulo modulo) a description of the algorithm.

Bubble sort is very easy but it's not literally trivial to the same degree as Fizzbuzz!
I don't think that the absolute horrors that are the modern meat industry, somehow lessen the tragedy of animal testing.
I misread it then with directors instead of producers. Apologies for that confusion.
Interesting, like real hardware VAX, not something like Charon? What's it used for?
I agree that income tax is a tax on the middle class. Poor people don’t have enough income to be taxed significantly, and rich people get most of their wealth from capital and have things like trusts and companies to shield themselves. OTOH, income distribution is insanely sharp on the high end, it’s actually ridiculous. The top 10% in France have twice the income of the 80-90%. It flattens somewhat below that, but the gap is nowhere near what people pay in income tax. The middle class is a squishy and juicy target and it supports most of the budget of the state, but income tax does not really work as a tool to keep them down compared to wealthier classes. And it’s not really needed anyway.

It is socially oriented in the way that the middle class pay for the poor (which is great, I pay my share and am not complaining about that), but apparently national solidarity stops being a factor once you’re rich enough.
All you’re saying here is that it’s never possible to characterize a board ousting a ceo as a coup. People do, because it’s a useful way to characterize when this happens in the way it did here vs many other ways that involve far less deception and so on.
> And now I expect that we see this "board" dissolved.

The board has the power to dissolve itself, I am sure there(edit typo) are legal mechanisms for illegal acts, I think the IRS can revoke 501(c)(3) status but not dissolve, not sure if there are other mechanisms.
I understand that having these prototype rockets blow up may be a cost-efficient way of improving the design. However, I still wonder how much of that was really expected, and what it says about the project progress. Also, how many successful launches will they consider enough before putting people's life at risk. I wouldn't feel super confident going into that rocket after having seen it blow up many times.
Many many orders of magnitude. It really depends on the search algorithm. If you're looking up a single term, there are many standard ways to index this, but for instance using a trie or hash table, the lookup cost would be a number of operations proportional to the search term length (e.g. for "foo", it's a of length 3, times some small number of operations for each letter). Plus then if you want to combine the results and sort by frequency, to estimate the cost of this, add up the number of pages from each term, p_1 + p_2 + ... = P. Then the number of operations might be P*log(P). This dominates the cost. So if your search terms appear in 1,000,000 of these pages, you're talking about on the order of ~6,000,000 small operations. An implementation would be able to execute this many operations on a single CPU in 10s or 100s of milliseconds maybe, for an elementary unoptimized algorithm.
I think it is maybe best reframed as "good founders from the perspective of those who control capital".

Whether these people ultimately improve society, or create a better sense of purpose for their employees, or provide visionary direction for the company at a higher rate than other founders is kind of orthogonal (or perhaps anticorrelated) to being good stewards of invested capital.

Founders can, to some extent, get help with (or succeed financially despite the lack of) the other things, but I think it can be reasonably argued that if they're not personally regarded as good stewards of capital, then the whole enterprise is in doubt.
>We, the public, who are unwilling to fund quality journalism, have ourselves to blame for this.

I'm afraid that even if good journalism existed today, yellow journalism will always pay more.

>In both cases, the public is being screwed by entities they’d rather trust. The sad thing is neither of these entities appear to care they’re harming their relationship with the people they serve.

They don't and haven't for probably 20+ years.
Turn on showdead in your profile. You can also vouch for comments you feel were misflagged.
Exactly this. Where do these guys think the money to pay their salaries let alone fund the vast GPU farm they have access to comes from?
Freedom of speech is not the first amendment, are you not aware of the difference? You quoted me but you're not really replying to me.
Stop Copying Me: Desire and Design Thinking
I wonder if there's a specific term or saying for that, maybe "projection" or "self-victimization" but not quite: when one person biasedly frames that other people were responsible for a bad thing, when it is they yourself that were doing the very thing in the first place. Maybe "hypocrisy"?
A standardized approach would also let you use the OS’ standard video player widget which is practically always and upgrade from whatever needlessly custom-rolled players streaming apps tend to use. In fact the entire reason I subscribe to some services via Apple TV channels rather than directly is so I can watch their content on the standard tvOS player and skip the official apps.
I have no problem with non-competes as long as the company is willing to buy out the non-compete period, e.g. the maximum of current total compensation or competing offer comp, plus say a 100% premium to cover opportunity cost.

You might say "that makes non-competes unusable" to which I say, it means you'd only use them if you really thought it mattered, rather than as a tool for wage suppression.
Just write on a sheet of paper, then fold it, put on a ceramic dish plate and burn it with lighter. Make sure you keep a window open and far from anything flammable. Better if you have a fireplace.
> Those are rapacious and malevolent organizations.

Isn't that exactly why you should outrun them?
One of the applications are ZK-Rollups [1] which allow developers to move heavy computation off a blockchain. The blockchain receives the results and only validates proofs that they are valid. This is especially useful on Ethereum because its computational throughput is pretty low.

There's also ZCash [2], which is a cryptocurrency that lets you make untraceable transactions. This is in stark contrast to Bitcoin or Ethereum, where transaction information is available publicly to everyone. They have a series of blog posts [3] on the math that actually makes it work under the hood.

[1] https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/scaling/zk-rollups/

[2] https://z.cash

[3] https://electriccoin.co/blog/snark-explain/
In this particular case, the government could also just not spend my own tax dollars on authoritarian propaganda.
No, NDAs are the tool to stop your employees leaking information. Non competes are the tools you use to avoid paying market price for your employee.
A homomorphism is a function so that f(ab) = f(a) f(b). So you can imagine the cloud customer wants to compute ab, but the use a homomorphic encryption function, f, to ask the cloud provider to computer f(ab) given f(a) and f(b).

Then the customer decrypts f(ab). This doesn’t imply any weakness in encryption.

FHE is a bit stronger than what I’ve described, but that’s the idea.
The Islamic world's golden age of science reached its short peak over a thousand years ago. Hardly a relevant example. It's like using Euclid and Archimedes as examples of how the Greeks have a passion for math.
If it becomes, or is deemed, necessary to have, or recover, a theory of an implementation of an automation, then you have already lost. What is necessary is the theory of the business. If you do not have that -- and practically no one has that -- then your automations are towers of guesswork, and there is no way to determine whether they are correct.
It's hard.

The hardest part is the big gap between "I can write a function that does X" and "I can write non-trivial software that does Y".

That's where you're hitting walls - because there are a ton of them, and it is demoralising to try something that "should" be simple but end up spending numerous days and weeks fighting problems you didn't even realise existed.

Even experienced programmers have this issue. It's why a lot of us seem to think estimation is basically impossible. IMO it certainly is possible to estimate fairly accurately, but it requires a very good understanding of the problem, the technology, and the people involved.

First try to limit your problem space, only one or two new things to learn at a time. Use only mainstream ("boring") technology. Then spend a few hours every day banging your head against those problems. (Every day, not every weekend. A few hours, not 12 hours.) If you can, set goals you can achieve every week or two to keep morale up - small projects, proofs-of-concept, etc.

(I've been doing this for 20+ years, and if I'm working on stuff I'm comfortable with I'm pretty good. If I compare myself to people like John Carmack or Fabrice Bellard I discover am comparatively very very dumb indeed.)
"Does anyone know how scammers are getting numbers off of LinkedIn?"

They probably have their phone number visible on their profile or they have an email and the scammer found the number on another platform (like facebook)
Do you feel the comparison is unfair to corporations, or to communism?
What about this seems vulnerable to side channels?
Source Code Pro is damn near perfect for me, I've been using it for some years. Occasionally I get an itch to explore other fonts, but I always come back to this one, all its refined details just feel good to my eyes.
The criterion are where the work is and how significant it is. It is about culture, not nationalism.
There are LTE-over-satellite systems, cellular signals absolutely can register at that altitude.
You're ignoring the rest of the definition I provided. I did not say it was "any takeover of power". Please read the definition I gave in full.

And I am not referring to the CEO status of Altman at all. That's not the coup part.

What I'm referring to is the fact that beyond his firing as CEO, he and the chairman were removed from their board seats, as a surprise planned and executed in secret. That's the coup. This is not a board firing a CEO who was bad at their job; this is two factions at the company where one orchestrates a total takeover of the other. That's a coup.

Again, I'm not saying whether this is good or bad. I'm just saying, this is as clear-cut of a coup as there can be. This has nothing in common with the normal firing of a CEO accomplished out in the open. This is four board members removing the other two in secret. That's a coup if there ever was one.
Nothing happens in a vacuum.

Professional boards of directors are supposed to be attentive to the risks to the organization as a whole, regardless of whatever weird ass governance structure exists.

Blowing out your CEO on a Friday afternoon and then accusing him of lying is not the way to do this, and they are likely to find out why come Monday morning at about 9:30AM Eastern.
I am sorry, but I am not able to connect with what you are saying.

Many technologies have been studied properly and been found to be safe or unsafe. Smoking, non-ionizing radiation, airbags, alcohol consumption, exercise, beta-blockers, metformin, GLP-1, antipsychotics—all of these have been well studied and have been found to be clinically, not just statistically, relevant with regards to safety. Even vaccines are much better studied and understood with regard to risk compared to microplastics. So, I don't think I am just randomly picking on plastic research. I am holding it up as an example of research areas that are triggering skeptical red flags, as opposed to research that isn't stuck in the speculative phase.

I also wasn't commenting on the issue of overproduction of goods, which I have thought about, but that is not what I was focusing on here.
Probably a little of all of that all bundled up together under the umbrella of cult of personality.
The Falcon 9 rocket started off the same way. They blew up on launch and on landing multiple times early in its development, but has now become perhaps the most reliable and certainly the most reusable rocket model in history, with hundreds of launches per year now with no incidents.
That's very different, it was inspected but you could still use it...? It was not invalid.
> This new lab, called Kyutai, will be a privately funded nonprofit working on artificial general intelligence...

All of this investment on something that hasn't materialized yet seems a bit suspicious. The entire article talks in "future" tense. Nothing has come out of cuteAI yet, except that it's on path to become the next OpenAI (the nonprofit...).
> Regardless, they made very stupid decisions now sabotaging interests and the company itself, brutally beheaded itself.

The board in a real way decides what the interests of the company are since they are the majority owner. The interests they set however may or may not bring about the results they want though.
In this case, compensation is not a wage, it is to be paid after the employee has left the company but is still bound by the noncompete.

Also the employer may have the option of not activating the noncompete clause when the employee leaves the company, meaning the employee is free and no compensation is due.
We agree that it's a rare edge case. That's why the rationale of IP protection works. Before patents, important knowledge was lost because people didn't want to divulge it because they had no IP protection. Back then, everything was a trade/state secret.

I guess I'm not seeing the point made. If you agree it wasn't developed in parallel, you copied it from your previous employer. If it was their IP, you likely committed a civil wrong, and they can sue you. I can only see your point if you don't believe IP exists.
It's non-standard but I'd argue that the weird structure was designed to enable this exact type of decision to be made by the board. The non-profit board is a peer of investors like microsoft, not answerable to them like a normal company.
The first planned use for Starship will likely be launching Starlink satellites. And there's no immediate plans to directly launch with humans on board.

I'd personally ballpark that there will be well over 20 launches before anything regarding humans is considered.