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I feel like this is how Android has been designed from the start.

Ages ago apps used to have a bug where form contents were cleared if the user switched from portrait to landscape orientation -- same problem: developers assumed they could store state in instances of input fields, when in fact these would be re-instantiated when the view was significantly re-rendered.

This specific case seems like a continuation of that misunderstanding and a difference in intuition between Android architecture and PC developers, rather than an actual fault with Android.
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I’ve worked for years implementing tools like this in enterprises.

My most fond memory was introducing a workflow platform to an enterprise with a fully outsourced IT-ops department - it was ruining everyone else in terms of cost, speed and quality.

The security dept (this was a large bank) was gridlocked in this setup and wanted the ability to automate their way out of the sourcing mess.

I spent roughly three months building a few “hot path” workflows important to them which enabled them to take the ownership back of the processes and save an incredible amount of time and money.

Encapsulating these integrations as workflows makes them observable and measurable. The customer had in the first quarter after deployment 10’s of thousands runs and avg time to completion went from 2 weeks to 2 days. It also cut out an rather expensive middle man.

And this is not the worst enterprise customer I’ve worked with. One hade 4000 Windows servers manually provisioned and managed.
There’s low hanging fruit out there!

You basically trade agility and quality for competence, unfortunately a lot of enterprise IT shops are not willing or capable to do so.
The article isn't describing something that will happen years later, but now. The comment author is saying that this current model is not AGI as it likely can't solve university-level mathematics, and they are presumably open to the possibility of a model years down the line that can do that.
fyi, I'd love to have you on a podcast ep. I run an actual radio show (like, over the airwaves) on sunday nights through my college. shoot me a dm I think we share a lot of the same beliefs on this :)
> LLM's are not anywhere near AGI and likely will not be ever.

Sutskever himself thinks that LLM are enough to get us to AGI, but he conditioned that with the statement that we should think about how to reach AGI in a framework of efficiency, and that there will likely be better paths to AGI than LLMs that we haven’t yet discovered.

In all reality, when AGI comes I’m sure we’ll look back on LLMs the same way we look back on vacuum tubes in computers; as outdated, but useful for their time and a somewhat necessary stepping stone.
For the same reason you buy nicer toilet paper for your home than the stuff you find at a truck stop: it’s not a significant portion of their expenses.
I swear the corporate swag manufacturers are in on it somehow. I usually don't even get the shirt from the most recent rebranding before the brand is changed again.
No crystals, but artificial neural networks:

Somatik Blues https://youtu.be/crZ4myW0xVw

Neverendingstory https://youtu.be/OGyzWyH8Hi8
They've announced NSX and SD-WAN is a core business unit under the new VMware as Broadcom offering.

EUC, Aria and Carbon Black are still up in the air.
iOS apps are built around Apple's policies which are more or less uniformly enforced on Apple phones. iOS apps started with near zero background compute and that was only added later.

OTOH, Android apps started with near zero restrictions on background compute and it's been added on in bits here and there. Two different Android phones may have drastically different policies and not because the user chose it. App developers can have difficulty making sure things work on phones where the manufacturer sets policies that limit when it can run or how it stays resident.

It's not always easy doing that for Apple, but there's not ten different ways you have to do things for ten different manufacturers.

Sure, there's tons of apps out there that have no business running in the background. But for every one of those, there's stuff that really needs it to work and the user wants it to work; the page on Samsung says some firmware versions would kill background execution if you hadn't used an app in 3 days, so if you had a weekly alarm in the clock app, and don't load the clock otherwise, it would likely not fire. That's not reasonable, and it's not what the user wanted or expected.
Pick a 4K in your price range from Dell or LG and you should be good to go.

Outside the US, recommending specific display is not particularly useful since stocks is an issue, not to mention the model would be straight up unavailable to you.
We disagree on how human nature works and the ability for normal people to become educated on every topic that can harm them. People trust their doctor and don't have the medical training to know if something is riskier than they're told. Addiction is dangerous precisely because it overrides someone's ability to change their mind later.

Purdue and our system of insurance created monetary incentives for doctors to overprescribe and misled them about the side effects. Normal people died even when they followed instructions because of the cycle of withdrawal symptoms.

History has repeated waves of addictive drugs because there's alway someone with an incentive to sell them. This is not a place where market outcomes work.
Not sure what you meant by that - mobile apps don't have main() or exit(), they are driven by onThingsHappen(Event event) calls. When the OS decides to call `onYourAppIsResumedFromAltTab(context SwappedOutMemoryContent)` instead of `onYourAppWasJustLaunched(void)`, your app can resume functioning. The former is more likely to happen on devices with larger RAM space. You as an app developer don't have full control over it, unlike how it is(used to be!?) with Win32 apps.
This reminds me that, with our species, the real power always lies with those that tell the better story. Skynet and HAL 9000 had a more profound impact on those researchers than years of practice and study in the field. No surprise therefore that the storytelling of someone like Trump is practically indelibly imprinted into the mind of his supporters.
Why did Budibase not suffice?
I see a lot of people reporting battery drain and overheating on the Pixel 8... Sigh. Why can't they make a good phone? It makes me wish other manufacturers would step their game up so GrapheneOS could support them.
From this[1] PR, it seems to be related to "sensitive information in synthetic URLs", as this[2] article was just introduced bundled with the advisory article.

So I assume the security incident is about those who:

> You have a synthetic monitor that contains sensitive information (like passwords or usernames) in a URL or script.

[1] https://github.com/newrelic/docs-website/pull/15307/files

[2] https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/synthetics/synthetic-monitori...
Page transition API for browser that behavior like native mobile app [video]
I was thinking the same.

But I'm not an app developer so there is presumably a reason for that. Data exfiltration?
Q* is the optimal (ie, correct for the decision problem) function computing the total expected reward of taking an action from a given state in reinforcement learning.
I'm a happy user of DAVx5 and my employer just recently issued one of the more aggressive killing phones.

I followed the steps suggested in the setup and it works just fine now. I'd much rather have a complicated opt-in to background activity than any form of opt-out.
I am a grid novice too so take this with a grain of salt. I don't think there is a bug, because even though you have a 4x4 grid when you count the lines starting at 1 you can count up to 5 including the last one. A little counterintuitive .. scroll down to the labeled grid right below the demo and it might make more sense.
Indeed. LLM is an application on a transformer trained with backpropagation. What stops you from adding a logic/mathematic "application" on the same transformer?
Fair bit of that can be done with Proxmox now. What esxi has going for it from what I hear is the ability to deal with 100/1000s of hosts over many many nodes and Proxmox struggles with that
What's worse is when the task switching app and/or the home screen app have to be restarted. My phone only has 4 GB ram, cause it's nearly 3 years old and low cost, but still... I feel like windows 95 could run (poorly) on 4 MB and the start button and the task bar never swapped out. (Well explorer.exe did crash from time to time)
Because it costs resources the developers are unwilling or unable to spend.

They might also be lacking competence. My local bus authority’s application is barely able to keep track of its state while it’s running.

An other common situation is an applications getting in an irrecoverably broken running state. If the application preserves state on shutdown you might not be able to get it out of the broken state.
Let’s write the Laravel client together?

jim@callstacking.com
I was just impressed that it was so convincing for the first chunk - it’s cool that it was able to seem so “solid”, even if superficially. I’ve been out of the loop for a while and stuff’s been moving fast!
It's one of those things that ought to be possible, but the problem is scaling middle management. Plenty of IC talent on the bottom, but it's impossible to have hundreds or thousands of IC report to the same individual executive with a vision. One you start to hire middle management, you get politics: fiefdoms, silos, power games, selective storytelling, cherry-picking statistics. In a small company where an executive oversees a single layer of middle management, it can be fought against, and stamped out where it's found. Two layers of middle-management, getting executives to be out of touch with the IC level, it starts to get very difficult to parse through what's bullshit and what's not; by three layers, there's too many people playing telephone, and you have an echo chamber.

The challenge for executives is to achieve strategic success in spite of the necessary evil of layers of middle management.
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The weird interleaving of the exponent with the mantissa - and the existence of noncanonical values - means you can't just through them into sign-magnitude integer comparison routines.
So if some intelligence agency deems e.g. Ben-Gvir a "politician" of active terrorist organization, it's OK to assassinate him in Israel? How about scientists working on Israel's "possible" nuclear weapons program?
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Sounds like your son is ready for you to bring it up another level and ask what the absolute value of a (bounded) function is (assuming they have played with functions e.g. in desmos)
None of this changes the fact that there are lots meanings of 'buy', they include the buying of things with limited resale, redistribution and modification rights and nobody is going to make it illegal for Amazon to label their buttons 'buy' when they sell ebooks.
likewise. i can already imagine a* being useful for efficiently solving basic algebra and proofs.

it could form the basis of a generalized planning engine and that planning engine could potentially be dangerous given the inherent competitive reasoning behind any minmax style approach.
I highly appreciate this comment as I'm hyped to see it with my GF, but since we're apart that'll be in a few weeks from now.
New Relic warns customers it's experienced a cyber ... something
So, Americans are justified killing Bin Laden instead of "accusing" ?
I've been wondering about things like this for a while. I run hot and sleep much better in cold temperatures (looking forward to cold winter nights). A weighted blanket helps, but I'll definitely look into the chili pad and bed jet. Thanks for mentioning!
I would love to begin using this system, but the licensing is giving me serious pause.
While most of the software is under the AGPLv3, the Commercial License section of the README [0] implies that the company takes on a fairly broad interpretation of the AGPL.

In particular, the line "[...] to build a feature on top of Windmill, to comply with AGPLv3 your product must be AGPLv3 [...]" seems to imply the company aligns with the stance taken by Google and other companies: that even calling the application via API is enough to trigger copyleft [1].

This implies that if I were to build a sign-up form that triggers a Windmill workflow in the backend, my entire application would either need to be AGPLv3 or I would need a commercial license.

That's perfectly reasonable, as it means any non-AGPL use will have to contribute back to Windmill via a commercial license. However, it does mean positioning this as an "Fully Open-source" alternative to Airflow is only technically correct. This is much closer in practice to "source available" than how most developers would think as "open source".

If this isn't how Windmill wants their license interpreted, I highly encourage clarifying things.

[0] https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill#commercial-license

[1] https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/using/agpl...
It’s still opt-in in vanilla. But it’s a simple toggle.
There was a really interesting interview [1] with Astro Teller, the head of Google's moonshot 'x division', in 2016. In terms of project selection, he focuses on trying to dismiss projects early on, by looking for reasons that a project might fail. And even rewarding employees for scrapping things early on. That doesn't sound particularly unreasonable, but it largely just amounts to a conservative planning process. So then what exactly is the difference between a 'moonshot' and a regular new project?

And so when you look at this sort of selection process it ends up being unsurprising that Google's 'moonshots' ended up being things like Waymo, Google watches, glasses, drone delivery, and so on. One of the largest companies in the world, with some of the deepest pockets in the world, and their 'moonshots' are things dozens of other companies are building as well. It seemed quite telling of the present and future of Google.

[1] - https://spectrum.ieee.org/astro-teller-captain-of-moonshots-...
Tutorial on how to set up a minimal Clojure app development environment with Postgres on DigitalOcean using Terraform.
Thanks for reposting, this was a very enlighting explainer!
Why do you perceive Altman as "slimy with limitless ambition"? I've always perceived him as being quite humble from his interviews and podcast appearances.
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I'm not the OP, but you realize that implying they were looking at the kids as spouses for themselves is extremely creepy right?

(Not that I agree with what the OP said either - I think most people have a protective instinct towards all children without thinking of them as potential spouses for their own offspring. We see this behavior in other primates too, eg: https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2021/mountain-gorillas-ad... )
Where did you bring this up? It would be interesting to read their response. If you hadn't, I imagine their Github repo would be the best place to do so https://github.com/urbandroid-team/dont-kill-my-app
Now we just need to be able to automatically convert aws lambdas to a web server running on a ec2 instance.
Oh, vixra has a reputation. It's the favorite preprint server for pseudoscience.

Want to publish anything about free energy, homeopathy, or your favorite personal theory why einstein and darwin were wrong? Vixra is your place to publish.
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Battery Life is something measurable. It shows well on tech spec and marketing materials.

"Not killing apps", on the other hand, is hard to sell.
User may notice some apps become less responsive, load slower, notification are delayed, etc.. but then they would blame the app, not the OS.

Don't get me wrong. I enjoy longer battery life.
I have to admit I haven't fact-checked this on my own but I have it on fairly good authority that several versions of Windows could swap themselves out, sometimes resulting in a bluescreen.
Thank you for the thoughtful response
They also only tried it in South Korea, so it’s not like a thing most BMW owners experienced.
The same guys who boost time and time again about “making the world a better place” would like everyone to wave away the responsibility on negative externalities their companies cause.
These are no fractions at all. The „/„ ist just the separator between the start and the end position (counting lines not cells)
For the current generative AI wave, this is how I understand it:

1. The scaling path is decreased val/test loss during training.

2. We have seen multiples times that large decreases in this loss have resulted in very impressive improvements in model capability across a diverse set of tasks (e.g. gpt-1 through gpt-4, and many other examples).

3. By now, there is tons of robust data demonstrating really nice relationships between model size, quantity of data, length of training, quality of data, etc and decreased loss. Evidence keeps building that most multi-billion param LLMs are probably undertrained, perhaps significantly so.

4. Ergo, we should expect continued capability improvement with continued scaling. Make a bigger model, get more data, get higher data quality, and/or train for longer and we will see improved capabilities. The graphs demand that it is so.

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This is the fundamental scaling hypothesis that labs like OpenAI and Anthropic have been operating off of for the past 5+ years. They looked at the early versions of the curves mentioned above, extended the lines, and said, "Huh... These lines are so sharp. Why wouldn't it keep going? It seems like it would."

And they were right. The scaling curves may break at some point. But they don't show indications of that yet.

Lastly, all of this is largely just taking existing model architectures and scaling up. Neural nets are a very young technology. There will be better architectures in the future.
Also he's saying "don't be evil" was the motto, but he joined a year after gmail and in the same year when the CEO was saying "don't be evil is purely marketing" in interviews in forbes in order to allay the fears of investors who were wondering whether to take that as an admission that google is defrauding investors and neglecting its fiduciary duties, clarifying that the only "evil" that matters is that which has no impact on, or that which materially harms shareholder returns. By that definition, their philosophy is no different from that of a tobacco company or Chevron.

So i mean ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
We’ll find out sooner or later. Personally, if the Verge and their “source” turn out to be incorrect I’ll permanently file them away under the “gossip rag” folder.
I kind of understand manufacturers getting aggressive about rogue inefficient apps wasting cpu cycles and making their battery life look bad.

But it’s weird and lazy that on an 8GB phone they kill the app rather than just suspend it (to stop it using any cpu)?

On iOS, even in low-power mode, and on a phone with far less RAM, apps rarely have to reload unless you’ve force-quit them or have gone for days without using them.
Does people really process uncompressed videos on their laptops?
My experience using Pixel 7 is it has the smoothest UI of any Android phone I've tried - including flagships like S23 and Xiaomi 13T.

Also the author assumes Google wants to do on-device AI processing, but given Google's desire for user data they may be uploading pictures and videos in the cloud just for the sake of having the data (and maybe use it to train say self-driving AI models ).
I would like to know as well. I am worried about RabbitMQ.
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The most egregious problem caused by this that I've encountered is an almost complete inability to use email 2FA on websites because my phone will kill the browser as soon as I switch to my inbox, and when I go back to the browser I'm back on the login screen which will generate a new one-time-password and make the one I have in my clipboard worthless. I've also encountered the exact same problem with 2FA using an authenticator app, though since the codes are valid for ~30 seconds or so, if I manage to enter my credentials fast enough or they auto-fill, at least the code I copied is still valid.
I don't understand why Samsung is up there, at least on mine there's options to let it run things in the background when you need to. And otherwise, I'd rather not have apps hogging the battery in the background.
Pet theory: Could it be some bio hacking/disease construction thing they have discovered? I know nothing of the subject (which is probably why it seem a possibility to me) but what if they have discovered something to that makes engineering pandemics significantly easier?
Did they say it was an LLM? I didn’t see that in the reporting.
I'm not saying to ditch the laptop, just do the processing on a machine made for it.

And of course use the desktop as your main device when you are at your home/office wherever the desktop is.
This story that Google would be destroyed if they had released GenAI tech before OpenAI is BS. Most people I know were instructed to tell people it was because of “responsibility” that GenAI was not out yet, while the entire company was freaking out and playing catch up with OpenAI (a 770 people company!) and promising non existent things to customers. There was nothing ready or thought through. Many people at Google thought they would be dominating AI forever. Little did they know that regardless of having a 170k people workforce, a 700 people start up nearly knocked them down. Google does not use Google Cloud for nearly nothing, also because of safety and security threats. I never understood why they could not be like AWS and use their own cloud. I wonder how long they will keep going trying to sell people something they don’t trust themselves.

About culture: it has deteriorated very much so. Working in Google was one thing, moving to Cloud was horrific and the sign I needed to get out of there. It has a culture that is rotten and somewhat worse than other Alphabet orgs, and tons of individuals with very poor technical acumen. Friends recommend friends who are morally flexible and they end up in Cloud. That is the easiest back door to Google and to a career ruin too given there are very poor execution and scarcity in technology innovation.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02989 ("xVal: A Continuous Number Encoding for Large Language Models", Submitted on 4 Oct 2023)
Question is - what are you using airflow for? My experience with airflow have been in data ETL, and if so you are not the target for something like windmill.

The target would most likely be automating HR, Finance and IT workflows and tearing down the shadow IT web of crazy integrations taking place at every larger organization I’ve ever experienced.

We’re talking “new hire” workflow for example, which at my current employer is about 25 activities in a workflow.

All assets have to be lifecycle managed in an enterprise and automated workflows will help you scale that. Far too many enterprises have a lot of people shuffle excel files and emails around to fulfill processes and workflows.

Airflow is a beast imho and usually not used in the same niche IME.
Nah configuration changes are definitely a fault.

Rotating your device or plugging in a keyboard should cause the UI to be torn down: it makes for a horrible UX and it's behavior that dates back to a phone that had 192MB of RAM.

It should have been ditched ages ago but in typical Android fashion lived on so long that now it can't really be changed and instead the SDK tries to work around it by providing developers with primitives to work around it.