skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I talk about FLAME outside elixir in one one of the sections in the blog. The tldr; is it's a generally applicable pattern for languages with a reasonable concurrency model. You likely won't get all the ergonomics that we get for free like functions with captured variable serialization, but you can probably get 90% of the way there in something like js, where you can move your modular execution to a new file rather than wrapping it in a closure. Someone implementing a flame library will also need to write the pooling, monitoring, and remote communication bits. We get a lot for free in Elixir on the distributed messaging and monitoring side. The process placement stuff is also really only applicable to Elixir. Hope that helps!
> Why a whole language rather than a library that could just as well abstract the cloudy infrastructure and expose its data structures as "first class citizens" ?

"Very cool, but what here cannot be done by a library or compiler extension?

In existing languages, where there is no way to distinguish between multiple execution phases, it is impossible to naturally represent this idea that an object has methods that can only be executed from within a specific execution phase (or within certain scopes of the program). You are welcome to read more about it here (including code samples that show the same app built in Wing vs. other solutions)."

https://github.com/winglang/wing#very-cool-but-what-here-can...
Where do you typically find out about local meetups, events, etc.?
That’s what makes Altman a great leader. He understands marketing better than many of these giants. Google got caught being too big. Sure they will argue that AI mass release is a dangerous proposition, but Sam had to make a big splash otherwise he would be competing with incumbent marketing spendings far greater than OpenAI could afford.

It was a genius move to go public with a simple UI.

No matter how stunning the tech side is, if human interaction is not simple, the big stuff doesn’t even matter.
Let's be honest here. It isn't some objective definition free speech, it is whatever Elon believes to be free speech at the time [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]. It is absolutely silly to expect any company to financially support a platform with a dynamic and fluid version of "absolute free speech." I certainly don't want my consumer dollars flowing through companies to Twitter/X as marketing spend based on how it operates.

If you have speech others don't like, be prepared to get your wallet out and pay for it yourself. No one is obligated to financially support speech they don't agree with. You might believe that to "name and shame companies that take actions that try to restrict other peoples' free speech" is going to result in some backlash against these companies; it won't except in some small, immaterial population. Let Elon put comms out and say, "If you don't directly pay for Twitter, Twitter will die" and lets see how many people show up to pay their expenses and fiat behind their belief system.

> but outside of that free speech is simply a good idea.

This is an opinion, and other takes are going to be based on the limits involved [6].

> 65% of Americans support tech companies moderating false information online and 55% support the U.S. government taking these steps. These shares have increased since 2018.

> Americans are even more supportive of tech companies (71%) and the U.S. government (60%) restricting extremely violent content online.

> Democrats are more supportive than Republicans of tech companies and the U.S. government restricting extremely violent content and false information online. The partisan gap in support for restricting false information has grown substantially since 2018.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/15/media/twitter-musk-journalist...

[2] https://www.thefire.org/news/twitter-no-free-speech-haven-un...

[3] https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/twitter-elon-musk...

[4] https://time.com/6229960/twitter-bans-accounts-elon-musk-imp...

[5] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/twitter-suspends-user...

[6] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/07/20/most-amer...
I think it should be copied too, but I think it’s a bit of a stretch to call Elon a fascist.
If it reasons and helps with a lot better code for me than the other chat, perfect.

If it does not it's too late for me to change.

That's where i am at atm.
"At the same time, the level of hype about ECS today reminds me an awful lot of the amount of hype surrounding OOP in the 90s."

I appreciate that most of the ECS hype has been around specific use cases, though.

OOP was claimed as not a specific useful tool, but the answer to all programming, a billing it has not lived up to. It achieved "useful tool", no question, especially as some of the very rough bits were sanded off the original proposals (particularly the idea that objects should only and exactly match real world objects, an idea which I believe in hindsight was accidentally carried over from a simulation worldview in Simula where maybe it worked into the general programming world where it didn't), but it certainly has failed to be the one true programming methdology.

I haven't seen anyone claiming everything should be rewritten in ECS.
yeah, people fell hook line and sinker for put 'your everything on the cloud'. Now if someone doesn't like the way you think, all the things you 'purchased' can be blocked'. all 'your' photos, gone.
> they can design the said framework themselves

Congratulations, you have just invented entrepreneurship
Obviously it's not W3C, but I keep wondering what account leaving Twitter would feel like an absolute nail in the coffin of the platform.
Yes, correct, exactly.

So I need someone to make an OS with the longstanding windows user in mind. Using a GUI absolutely is easier. I need drop down lists and check boxes. Mouse hover tips and visual menus. Not some cryptographic string of command line arguments that I am futilely copy+pasting from some random web page.
https://www.amazon.com/Pentel-Graph-Gear-0-5mm-PG1015/dp/B00...

https://www.amazon.com/Pentel-Hi-Polymer-Block-Eraser-ZEH10P...
Planned all along. Many roles were hired as remote, with then requiring people to relocate for RTO. Easiest way to downsize.

The real reason for RTO is of course tax benefits that Amazon gets from local/state governments only if there are buts in seats in the office buildings (since people coming into the office means they are in the area which means that they spend money in local restaurants/shops, e.t.c)
Regrowing nerves and healing without scars?
Sure, anti-capitalist-impulse Me 100% agrees.

It's just doubly icky in the context of Google's original "letter to shareholders": https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/29/business/letter-from-the-... ("Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one")
> And if you don't like that, don't take the money.

If christian missionaries had these attitudes, Protestants with their ethics would have still be just around the Northern Sea. (And I consider protestant church a carrier of protestant ethics, that Webber described.) Because, those peoples where they sent the missions, were not living to the rules of protestants -- some had no weddings and changed wifes over time, some probably did human sacrifice, or killed each other, or stole, etc.

Missions taught people literacy and arithmetics. And also cared about the 10 commandments. Yet they sent and kept missions where people didn't adhere to those.

Same should apply to human rights -- rather than stay away proudly, let others interact with you and let them absorb your moral standards.

=============

If the above is too archaic/colonial, here's a current example: some Western universities, and the German Goethe Institut have their branches in Central Asian ex-USSR countries. All of them are wannabe-muslim, with 60+% of people considering themselves muslim. Open discussion about LGBTQ rights is a very thin ice -- it may lead if not legal consequences, but a very unpleasant mob, or demands to close the event, and bureacracy will silently follow these demands. One of the countries (Kyrgyzstan) has even an "underage gay propaganda" law, which makes any open discussion legally dangerous.

I bet Goethe Institut management deeply cares about these rights.

Should they close, or keep working, spreading their word and values in these countries?

p.s. Maybe it's all just about not spoiling the PSF brand name, by putting it next to some state entity (which state violates some human rights), then PSF should be open about it.
My favorite restaurant served gas
Given his eagerness to champion the kinds of anti-worker policies that are dirt common in the US the critique isn't baseless.
>If the license expires I would call it a rental.

A license is a license. They don't have to expire either. I can sell a perpetual license to something.

> For me if DRM is involved it is always a rental, license or no, as I am left unable to legally keep an archival copy to retain access to the purchased item beyond the undisclosed access window.

Call it whatever you want. The correct term is a license. You were licensed something in accordance with a bunch of terms that may have included, for example, DRM. It's a license to use the good in accordance with the terms of the license. Why confuse things?
Right, so that's one transit company in one country. The whole point is that global flight tracking data is standardised and easily machine-parsable.
A friend of mine has a severely mentally damaged family member who has decided it'd be a whole bunch of fun to have an indoor swimming pool. She repeatedly opens all the taps in their bathroom while arranging for all the water to spill everywhere, and proceeds to splash around in it. This has been going in daily for over a month now.

The sad part is the family has at this point given up entirely on correcting the behavior or even drying the house, and it's just a matter of time before there's irreparable damage and severe illnesses throughout. Even worse, it's a townhouse connected to other houses the the left and right, I wouldn't be at all surprised if the damage/sickenss spreads to the neighbors.

High density living definitely has its downsides...
"Secure boot", despite the name, really has very very little to do with security and everything with only running "sanctioned" code, even if that sanctioned code is an ancient browser engine or 300 MiB worth of .text.
are you kidding? the government LOVES this. Now they can also tell companies to block your content and all of your purchases with the flick of a switch. Say something the US government doesnt like, and all of those youtube movie purchases are gone with 1 ban.
Make NFTs. That way you can claim your copy again from anyone who licenses it out. And if you sell your digital copy the original owner can earn royalties.

Hell you can even make it so its costs $1 to register it to a new device.

Lots of possibilities here.

Or am I wrong?
Some more results from my essay-grader GPT
Based Beff Jezos and the Accelerationists
It seems to me that it was Twitter that got political.

That leaves everyone using it with no non-political options -- there are political implications whether you stay or go.

Leaving it now (when a bunch of others are going too and the front man has recently been dropping bombs) is probably the less political option -- especially in the long term if you think the site is going to get more radical.

Bonus points for moving to a federated alternative, since you can move away from big tech (which is more of a principled stand and/or tactical move than a political statement, IMO.)
Just an observation based on some people complaining that this isn't some significant advance over GPT-4 (even if it happens to actually be a small percentage gain over GPT-4 and not just gaming some benchmarks).

One thing I consider isn't just what the world will be like once we have a better GPT-4. I consider what the world will be like when we have 1 million GPT-4s. Right now how many do we have? 3 or 4 (OpenAI, Gemini, Claude, Pi). I think we'll have some strange unexpected effects once we have hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands and then millions of LLMs at this level of capability.

It's like the difference between vertical and horizontal scaling.
Sometimes that is needed if you offer native login and SSO to login. Once a user enters the email, the system then checks if they should go to the SSO flow or normal password flow.
For over 15 years, the Comixology app has been a staple for me
This is just a special case of this general phenomenon:

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/04/economist-meets-physicist...

We can't have unlimited economic growth for ever without boiling the oceans, or without figuring out a way to have economic growth without increasing energy usage. It's not about global warming, it's about just waste heat and entropy, even assuming maximally efficient engines and 100% renewable energy.

And really, all of that blog post is a special case of the observation that life is a way to more rapidly increase entropy on earth by finding and exploiting energy sources. Eventually earth will reach a life-induced thermal equilibrium which will be incompatible with the continued existence of life on earth.
I am done with steam because its forcing me to update my computer from windows 7, which I am not going to do.
Purchasing a license is not the same as purchasing the thing, and everyone knows that. It’s not 1997 anymore.

Whether they have an enforceable claim to access the content depends on the terms of their license, and while I haven’t read it I think we all know they won’t.
It says they will use a molten salt reactor--has anyone made one of those work reliably? I don't actually know--I just have a vague sense that every molten salt reactor I've read about suffered from corrosion problems and had to be shut down.
AWS's (De)Generative AI Blunder
>It's like opting out of the genepool.

And sometimes that's a perfectly fine thing to do.

>Twitter/X is still where everything happens and where you get closest to the source.

Please explain why this concept would be vital for W3C, and how it might be detrimental to their existence to opt out.
Stares in soviet-era car body fitment issues. Best what now?
Apologies and many thanks. It was an honest typo, should have been 160 x 200. I've corrected it now. Appreciate the headsup.
That's certainly an interesting view. Can you expand on that? What were they doing before that they're not doing now, or doing more of under Doctorow's influence?
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Digital memories are disappearing and not even AI or Google can help
Nice project! I made Beak.js which has a similar way to connect a language model to the UI via React hooks: https://github.com/mme/beakjs
> You see some very sexually explicit titles on steam but then again even relatively harmless stuff can get you flagged. This creates an insecure situation for devs in certain niches and not just erotic. For example Visual Novels can be easily flagged for having a certain art style.

This seems a lot like intentional obfuscation of precisely what that "relatively harmless stuff" or "certain art style" is because you know it's going to sound a whole lot worse if you actually explain it.

I'm fairly pretty sure the actual answer here as to what's likely to get you flagged is: "drawn/animated characters that look like children in explicit or highly suggestive settings", maybe with the lip service of calling them 18 in text, maybe not.

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That content is in a legally risky area of it's own AFAIK and is a massive political/PR risk in a way that other content is not.
This isn't related to secure boot or TPM/hardware-secrets-management. It's just an vulnerability[1] in some configurable[2] software running with privilege. This is downstream of the TPM keys for sure, and running validated blobs from the perspective of secure boot.

You could have this bug with or without that stuff, and it would be bad either way.

Or maybe you're trying to say that secure boot is an impossible problem and we shouldn't try? No, it clearly works. Boot cracks on UEFI devices are real, but comparatively rare.

[1] An image format parser bug

[2] To display that image at boot
https://archive.is/nyGOK
What Google Got Wrong with Its New Gemini AI Model
At least it's unlikely to be interested in eating the least tractable males.
Cold start time is the issue with most serverless runtimes.

Your own mission statement states: "We want on-demand, granular elastic scale of specific parts of our app code." Doing that correctly is fundamentally a question of how long you need to wait for cold starts, because if you have a traffic spike, the spiked part of the traffic is simply not being served until the cold start period elapses. If you're running hot runners with no load, or if you have incoming load without runners (immediately) serving them, then you're not really delivering on your goal here. AWS EC2 has had autoscaling groups for more than a decade, and of course, a VM is essentially a more elaborate wrapper for any kind of application code you can write, and one with a longer cold-start time.

> Under load you are rarely paying the cold start time because the pool is already hot.

My spiky workloads beg to differ.
This. To me a well engineered game from a data perspective is a set of seperate datastores optimized for the job they are doing referencing one another through handles. I can see the drive to represent this in a general purpose way but you nearly always lose performance and/or flexibility. Ironically the “where do I put chat messages in my ECS” example illustrates that nicely.
They're not the same thing. You can use Redis for either a cache or a durable-ish online store. The cache is purely an ephemeral storage layer. You could in theory bundle up a Redis Cache in front of a Redis Online Store, but it won't help much.

This solution is mainly meant to complement an online store backed with Bigtable or Dynamo to improve response times and cut down on infrastructure costs, especially when using serverless dynamo where you're paying per request.

Generally it's cheaper to store larger volumes of data on Bigtable/Dynamo at the expense of latency and request volume. Redis tends to do really well at low latency, but is fairly expensive if your datasets are large, and becomes somewhat problematic if your dataset is frequently changing and or growing in size. This is primarily due to the difficulty in scaling a Redis cluster up or down in a timely fashion. Using a cache in front of dynamo kind of gets you the best of both worlds.
> weren't flexible enough for common scenarios

Does openAI support that stuff, or is that a more general MLOps (or whatever you'd call it) list of functionality you need? The API call aspect seems like a pretty easy part that's not a barrier to switching models. It's whatever customizations for a given application that I'd expect to be more work. But re your text I quoted, I'm always wary of "one line of code" solutions that are harder to customize than it would be to just write the the thing.
I do not have account at Twitter. Sometimes Twitter shows me content sometimes it does not.

Anyone who is posting just on Twitter is limiting reach. Twitter is closed internet.

W3C posting to open platform is not limiting reach.
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> Lomuto partitioning is flawed though; when implementing Quicksort, you want the original Hoare one.

Can you elaborate? It is 'flawed' in that it requires more moves than Hoare as I write in the conclusion, but as the benchmarks show for a variety of input sizes, types and distributions it is superior despite the extra data movement.

> Has someone attempted branchless Hoare partitioning?

I mention a paper and three implementations (one of which is my own) that implement some variety of branchless Hoare partitioning in one way or another in the section on Hoare partitioning.
I'd consider your point more if you could actually write the name correctly.
Tools and generally integrating to switch from OpenAI is good even if that never ends up happening, because that puts pressure on them to not make their service worse.
New leader of GM's Cruise acknowledges 'all-time low' amid safety review
Better an ancient browser engine and 300 MiB worth of .text than a trojaned userspace launched by someone with a USB stick.

This is a bad take. Authenticated and validated secure boot is an important feature that keeps us all safe.
The rule of 72 is useful. It would give roughly doubling every 35 years for a 1000years means 28 doublings or a bit over 256million x increase in power usage. Only off by ~50%.

I'm guessing that would put the population over a quadrillion, as well, with efficiency increases.
you haven't seen pika then.
Do you feel the same way about them not posting on 4chan?
AMD Launches Instinct MI300X AI Accelerator, Up to 60% Faster Than Nvidia H100
I think Flexbox specifically
is around about the time a lot
of people last looked at CSS and it’s actually everything after that that I was referring to.

I think this resource is pretty well put together from
the Chrome dev rel folks https://web.dev/learn/css it obviously goes from 0 so you can pick and choose what parts make sense for you but based on both my own experience and after having talked to many others in the same scenario, if you feel like you never really “got” CSS with any sense of confidence I’d say start at maybe reviewing the box model and going on from there precisely because so much has changed all over the place since then.

How we think about layout is totally different, how we think about positioning is different, how we measure things is new, even things like colour have totally changed in big ways.

But more concretely I think a lot of the reasons that people had particularly bad experiences with CSS in the past that drove them towards things like this or Tailwind for example are now solved problems and that both this and Tailwind are kind of obsolete in many senses.

Keep in mind that this system while it was released publicly today is actually rather old technology and was built around solving a problem in a very specific way that makes a lot less sense now because it was solving problems that now have native CSS solutions with great cross browser support.
Everything is political. Anything you do will be considered political to someone somewhere :shrug:

Being on the platform is considered political to some and leaving the platform is considered political to others.

All things considered, I think they did fine by not making a big fuss about it. They don't seem to be looking for pats on the back.
I've been developping a map web app for a few weeks. It's amazing how wikimedia commons's geotagged photos can help build a nice experience.

Of course it's far from Google Maps in terms of numbers. Like an order or magnitude lower. And almost nothing about commercial POIs. But still ! It's free.

Bringing beautiful, up to date and tagged photos to Wikimedia commons could power dozens of cool applications.
Oh come on. He made headlines last week for telling advertisers to go fuck themselves, then a few minutes later complained that they were doing ot bankrupt/destroy the company and saying he would put out detailed documentation on how they did it. If he does not actually want or care about their money then stop whining about bankruptcy and making sad accusations of blackmail and so on.
Magnets. How do they work?!
(2018)? This is a 2021 repost of a (2018) interview.

> With the arrival of Adam Curtis’s new series Can’t Get You out of My Head on BBC iPlayer, we publish editor Tom Hodgkinson’s 2018 interview with the documentary maker

(Side note, Can't Get You Out of My Head massively won me over as a Curtis fan.)
This is a question you would ask if you/they had already provided some evidence for the claim and it was deemed insufficient. Making a bold claim should come with some ability to justify it ready-to-go.