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The thermal conductivity properties are perhaps what makes this material most interesting. Translucency is fine in many applications, for example as greenhouse windows.

I've been fantasizing about building a rather big greenhouse lately, and a translucent insulating material would be great! Currently, if I want decent thermal retainment in the greenhouse my options are triple pane glass(really expensive!) Or plastic. If transparent wood can be produced cheaper than glass, and with less environmental impact than plastic, it'd be a pretty good contender for this kind of construction.

I can also imagine it being great for building energy efficient houses, as any translucent material will allow the interior to absorb heat from the sun, and if it the also doesn't leak heat very much, you might be able to reduce the cost of heating somewhat by installing such a roof. And complete transparency isn't necessarily needed or even wanted in a roof, whereas for a window it's more important.
I don't think that's a totally fair comparison.

We don't have overcomplicated distributed training infra. They are pretty much as complicated as needed.

Scaling vertically (having a bigger chip) is very hard. There are tons of tradeoff when making the chip, and it's overall an insanely complex problem. That's why Cerebras is a 8 years old company and yet you would be hard pressed to find anyone using them still.

And even if you give me a Cerebras chip that works perfectly, it will still be much easier for me to buy two of those chips and link them together in distributed training mode, than it will be for Cerebras to build a chip that is 2x the size.

The scale of the current generation of clusters to train models the size of GPT-4 are in the range of 25,000+ GPUs with 80GB of memory each, so no matter your chip size, complicated distributed infra is a necessity. Even assuming everything on Cerebras' marketing page is fully accurate, you would still need to distribute the training over 500+ of those massive chips to replicate a 25k GPU cluster.
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The mafia shakes down people who don't interact with them, apple does not.
Wouldn't lazy loaded relationships mean that every time you access one of the entities it lazily loads, leading to n+1 fetching behavior?
Yeah. I'm imagining e.g. a full database schema at my disposal in the ORM layer, but with only the handful of rows relevant to the logged-in user.

Could be useful in many read-heavy scenarios, and would make a default way that skips DB fetches.
I'm a Canadian who travelled to Seattle recently and I found that city legitimately scary downtown. The addicts were unstable and violent like nothing I'd ever seen, even in some of the worst parts of our country.

Walking through downtown Seattle at night with a suitcase trying to find my hotel is the first time in my life I thought I was about to be attacked or robbed, but thankfully I only had stuff thrown at me by the junkies.
Gen Z is stressed out because the world is incredibly expensive and competitive for them in a way it wasn’t for elder millennials and other older generations.

That’s really all there is to it.
Sorry I can't reproduce the issue since I don't have an Android device. But I do find the caffeine habits diagram is broken hmm. I will see what I can do. Thanks for the headsup!
> they are codifying their patents into open standards like 5G.

What do you mean by open standard? I don't think 5G is patent-free by any means, nor is 802.11/Wi-Fi for that matter!

That's just how most hardware standards are developed, as far as I know. The best thing you can hope for is a consortium maintaining a FRAND patent pool, like for the MPEG family of codecs (and even there you can't be sure that there aren't any patent trolls lurking outside the pool).
Exactly. Epic actually created a third party store on Android, and then Google abused their monopoly position and colluded with phone manufacturers to hurt Epic's store. Apple just didn't allow them to create a store at all.
Oh I interpreted the thread to be talking about heroine use in general. Could go either way I guess, there's a lot of comments at this point.

Though ime most users don't die. Which is why I support legalization. What I watched happened with my drug phase and others, it was mostly a phase and people just needed time, support and patience to get through to other side. There might be extreme examples ruining it for all, but I saw a lot of people stop after some serious use.

Unfortunately some die because of the policy we have like a few people I knew personally. All uncessarry.
Seriously, if the Play Store is what's protecting Android phones... then Google's OS devs fucked up.
https://www.zenarmor.com/site-classification
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You’re right. I stand corrected. There was discussion about it internally but I forgot that iMessage didn’t make it out as “open” by the end.
MU-MIMO was not popularly supported (iPhones never did). It requires devices to be in different directions from the AP. https://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless/wireless-features/w...

MIMO is very useful. It literally multiplies link rate. https://www.wiisfi.com/#MIMO

Beamforming has marginal benefit and is real. Up close your device already has max speed. Far away beamforming won’t help much. It’s in the between that helps, and mostly in the downlink direction as beamforming requires the transmitter have more antennas and DSP resources (aka the access point that’s not running on battery and does not have to be miniaturized like a smartphone). But the uplink direction is usually the range limiting factor. There’s Maximal Ratio Combining for the uplink direction but it again is not universally supported in APs.
Getting an interview for global entry is actually pretty easy, you can just do it on the return leg of international travel with no appointment needed.
> that happens to work well for traditional compiled languages,

It doesn't, though, which is a big problem. WASM starts the heap at 0x0 which breaks the null handling of 99% of traditional AOT languages _and also_ breaks the null handling of optimized higher level runtimes that rely on page faults to identify that a null deref happened before backtracking and converting that into an exception.

The MVP priority for WASM was to protect the host and make it simple to be the host. The guest features, security, and general sanity is very poor as a result.
Our maturing world (not just the US) is starting to recognize that religion is BS. We can't go back to relying on religion for keeping our bad instincts at bay. The influence of religion is and has been low in many European countries for decades, which did not result in an increase in homelessness we are seeing in the US.

Social programs, education, keeping corporations in check - these are meaningful alternatives to the idea that we need to bring Jesus back to control the population.
> If the password database leaks, the TOTP shared secret can be used by attackers (one can't hash the TOTP shared secret like we do passwords)

OTP secrets are stored encrypted, not in plaintext.

> they'll be barred from doing important operations like changing the password, if the service asks for the TOTP code for such things.

Yes, that's what "help" means here. OTPs limit the access lifetime and rights of the session. They help. They're strictly better than a password alone, whereas you claimed they're "not more of an MFA than using the password alone".

To reiterate:

1. The password to unlock a password manager isn't MFA for the services the password manager protects because it's part of the authentication flow of your local system, not of those services. This is also why it does nothing to combat phishing, brute force attacks, or data breaches.

2. Where OTP secrets are stored, on the other hand, is irrelevant for those same threat models. Their value, limited as it is, is the same either way. In fact, if you use a password manager with OTP autofill and never type codes in by hand, you're basically doing as well against phishing as people using FIDO. But again, U2F and FIDO2 are strictly better.
If they are able to increase the speed 4.8x, then instead of that they could divide that increased throughout into many more narrower channels of previous speed?
> Lock down your platform tight as a drum and you may employ all manners of anticompetitive practices because you legally forbid the existence of competitors and you're "curating your experience"

That's what a video game console is, technically speaking. It's a completely locked down environment which is curated tightly.

> but open yourself up to any competition and your behavior becomes anticompetitive.

That's called the antitrust investigation into Microsoft Windows; or the complaints about Apple's "sherlocking."

Edit: I'm actually OK with this, even legally, because I view devices as being means to an end for an experience, which is also how I think most consumers view devices. When viewed that way, we really have three major "buckets" of devices if you will: "Computers", "Gaming", "Phones".

The "Computers" market is a race in most minds between Windows and Mac (and thus Windows gets hit with antitrust investigations). The "Phones" market is once again a 2-cart race between Android and iPhone (and this time, Android gets the antitrust investigations). The "Games" market is a 4-cart race between 3 console manufacturers and the PC, with 2 additional smaller carts called Cloud Gaming and the Smartphone (which, themselves have 3 and 2 carts respectively) - thus, no interest in investigating anyone there. However, if gaming didn't exist on the PC and was strictly Sony v. Nintendo, it would totally be investigated.
I don’t think this is it. A lot of the unhoused in Seattle are locals or in state, and many of the out of state are from neighboring states such as Idaho or other West Coast states.

Rather I think the problem is that half assed decriminalization efforts simply aren’t enough and that drug overdose has become a much more severe issue because of the opioid epidemic and the proliferation of fentanyl. What needs to happen for decriminalization to work is much better social support for addicts, including safe use sites staffed with nurses, free health care for addicts including detox hospitalization and substance abuse treatments, social housing including housing specifically for recovering addicts and active addicts. In addition full legalization and regulated drug markets (preferably via pharmacies with a strict non-profit motive) wouldn’t hurt either.

What Seattle has done is basically just decriminalization without any of the support needed to go with it. Yes we support addicts and spend a lot of money on their care, however these are all suffering from austerity and are often just post-hoc measures (which often cost more in the long run).
The case is about the fees in an anti-competitive situation, not about whether or not consumers should be allowed to install their own software on these devices.

The stores can be the exact same with the fees removed and device prices hiked, afaict
You mean like Epic cut with console makers for co-marketing dollars or like every company does with large customers?

I’ve got news for you - AWS also cut special deals with AWS, Spotify with GCP and OpenAI with Azure.

Do you really think large comoanirs get the same deals as the creator of random Indy app maker?
What does "legalize and regulate" mean? Isn't that true of most drugs?

We are talking about what those regulations should be and what to do when people break the regulations.
Considering how poorly the prescribed medication works, maybe it's just not that big of a difference.
This reminds me of the old Microsoft DAO dynaset multi-table record set back in the VB days [1].

You used to be able to treat that as a mini-database, it was queryable and updateable and you could sync changes back to the db.

What's old is new again...

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/client-developer/ac...
Not saying I agree with Singapore's methodology. But their calculus is that one drug trafficker will bring in enough drugs to kill 5 people. Therefore, the murder of one person is saving 5 others.

Once again, I'm not endorsing or condoning this, just trying to show you how they conceptualize their form of justice.
How and why I paid for Kagi
The burst of quests is, last I checked, mostly stuff about unlocking battle pets and allied races.
Apparently we're going through a stage right now when the loud voices have decided everything belongs in the HTML. Tailwind and HTMX are both frameworks trying to stuff everything in the HTML, which works great in simple demos and becomes hilarious in any more complicated real-world project.

The naive and inexperienced will follow those trends, and will generate countless "why I stopped using..." and "... considered harmful" blog posts 1-2 years from now, when frustrated, they'll flip on their God and declare them Satan.

Those who have been through these cycles before will smile, shake their head and know there's nothing that can be said to dissuade them, until they learn painfully from their own experience. And the wheel keeps turning.

For the record, behavior doesn't "belong" anywhere. The optimal solution varies based on the type of project and content. Considering the historical baggage of HTML and how specific it is to the browser, while many apps are multiplatform these days, I could easily argue HTML is the worst place to put your behavior.
because this is what computing used to be. you would download some random executable off some random website and hope you didn’t get infected with malware

except the stakes are much higher on your phone than your 1998 computer because your phone is more powerful: your phone has more personal data, financial info, and can consume costly telecom resources
That's even funnier because fentanyl is the Prince drug, not MJ's
The would be the end of consoles.

At this point consoles have very few advantages to PC. If they got "opened up" it would be zero.
Because it’s always been the case that OS vendors to third party manufacturers get treated differently than integrated players
What happens if we stop all the drug-related services? Stop the free needles and foil and pipes, and ban public drug use.

Does anyone want to try that experiment?
And a lot of cities have a higher crime rate than SF, but SF feels a lot worse when you go there. The difference is how effectively police can keep crime in certain areas and keep it from leaking into others. People enjoy and have better experiences in a city where the no-go areas are known and avoided than a place where the touristy areas ARE the no-go areas or where crime bleeds into major economic thrufares
How do I develop a mobile app which a majority of people in the US will be able to use without interacting with Apple?
I'd like to see legislation that halts legislation until they get things under source control.
It sounds like Google chose a jury, which means someone badly miscalculated how popular they were with people in SF:

https://www.wired.com/story/jury-will-decide-if-googles-play...
Well, if Google is willing to stop licensing Android to third parties and only sell Pixels, I’m sure they could
I don't think stores have an obligation to carry your products, it isn't like supermarkets are breaking the law because they don't have an open-door policy on products. You don't have some intrinsic legal right to use someone else's infrastructure to sell your own stuff, on your terms. Framing this as a legal or ethical issue leaves me cold, when the reality is just... you'd PREFER higher margins. I get it! I'm not saying that's wrong, it just isn't a legally enshrined right.
My Apple II "Mode 7" demo relies heavily on a "table of squares" multiply alogorithm, though it's signed (vs unsigned) which is even more of a pain on 6502.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8427JsfGwk

So many 16-bit demo effects assume you have a decently fast multiply or divide instruction, which makes it really hard to do the same effects on 6502 (as I found with the second reality remake)
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How can you seriously say "any and all competition" when Android and Google exist?
It feels like you're trying to use the existence of some criminal acts as a justification for a different set of criminal acts.

So, yes, when users literally own their own devices, it is difficult for the manufacturer to keep them perfectly secure without abusing monopoly power.

The door also swings the other way here too, because malware has certainly existed _inside_ the Play Store, and it took _users_ to bring it to the billion dollar corporations attention.
I parsed that sentence as - the separate web app gets its own cookie jar, and it's pre-populated with whatever cookies existed for that website in the browser at the time the user created the separate web app, but from that point forward nothing is shared between browser and web app.
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It's just look a lot more like a standardized PC. Which they they probably should by this point.
Most of the things government provide (like infrastructure) are built to accommodate a certain number of people. The costs of these things don't decrease as population shrinks. So logically the tax burden will be high per capita as it gets spread across less people and cannot realistically be shrunk (because infrastructure maintenance still costs the same even if less people use it).
from a assembly language structure point of view:

'pure' macros -> no state, everything registers as global.

functions -> stack state, everything's local. non-locals get what ever maxwell's deamon decides to provide.

methods -> heap state, methods to madness of functional local globals. at runtime, allows for everything to be routine or not.
Then Mom needs more training on how to differentiate between legitimate sites and non-legitimate ones.

I've said it before, I'll say it again, as many times as people need to hear it: There is no such thing as, "I'm just not a computer person!" We're over and done with that era of human history. Just like we're over and done with, "I just can't read and write!" Too bad. You live in a world were reading and writing is required just to exist. It's been that way for about 100 years, give or take depending on who you ask.

Now you need to have basic understanding of computers and the Internet. That's the world we're living in now.
Right, but the plan has still failed. If all the key players are on board and you can't even begin to implement the plan, then it was a bad plan, and the people who developed it had little comprehension of reality. We should not attempt this elsewhere.
People seem to forget that HTML is a markup language used to describe the content of a document. Once one remembers that, and thinks about that, everything about HTML becomes very clear, easy and manageable.
Problem is that Google tried to have it both ways. Android is technically much more open, but then they would make deals to squash any other competition. It’s exactly the un-openness that Google’s gotten in trouble for.

This article lists a bunch of the special deals Google made with various companies in order to prevent competition https://www.theverge.com/23959932/epic-v-google-trial-antitr...

> One Google Play exec boasted she got Riot to halt development on its own app store by promising the company $10M in marketing.

> Another Google exec suggested that sharing revenue with Samsung would be “better at disincentivizing other app stores from being preloaded.”

> Google wanted to offer a 16 percent Google Play revenue share to key Chinese OEMs to “secure Play exclusivity” — and wound up giving them 20 percent.

> A secret Google deal let Spotify completely bypass Android’s app store fees

Apple made significantly less of these deals - they have their rules that you can either follow or not participate. I do think that some of those rules limit competition and make worse products for consumers.
> I don't think stores have an obligation to carry your products, it isn't like supermarkets are breaking the law because they don't have an open-door policy on products.

I agree. However, consumers have the right to go to a different supermarket, without selling their house.
Yes because if you could sell on your own website I’m sure you would make gazillions..

And since plenty of companies do have viable businesses on the App Store, doesn’t that say more about your business idea than anything else?
Well, yeah, to some extent most (not all) “shortages” are just things becoming more expensive than one wishes to pay. Unfortunately, teacher pay’s being stagnant (plus it took a huge hit, in relative terms, over the pandemic) and working conditions declining have been trends for long enough that a bunch of teachers have left with no plans to return, and the “pipeline” has finally caught on that the career—even if you really, really want to teach kids—kinda sucks a whole bunch now, such that teacher training programs have seen a large drop in enrollment. Higher pay will indeed go a long way toward fixing the problem, but only at a significant lag—this is on track to continue for years even with big pay bumps now.

I definitely didn’t mean to, like, blame teachers for this situation, though, so I apologize if I gave that impression. It’s definitely a matter of pay and work conditions. But, it’s gonna take a while to fix even if we throw money at it immediately, and I’m not seeing much of that yet :-/
Question for anyone reading the paper; what exactly is the notation in these two stages below supposed to mean?

𝑦(𝑡) = Ch(𝑡) (1b) 𝑦𝑡 = Ch𝑡 (2b)

This is from the section describing state space models. The paragraphs before seem to describe e.g. 𝑦(𝑡) as being presumably the real value element in function/sequence 𝑦 evaluated at time 𝑡. However, it then randomly adds the 𝑦𝑡 (note the 𝑡 is supposed to be subscript) notation for what looks to be a similar equivalence and I’m not sure how thats supposed to differ in meaning from 𝑦(𝑡). Am I dumb?
I think a lot of this stems from "take backsies" on a long term subconscious level.

The HN audience in particular is not just tinker-friendly, but the vast majority surely lived through the era of Apple where Jobs pitched the iPhone as more of a gateway to the internet in your pocket, web apps were even mentioned as being a major feature/philosophy.

Not to mention the "old world" of premobile OSes which still have the basic understanding that I can install programs programmed for this platform, without "protection" and the "protection fees" associated with a centralized monopoly, an old world of which macOS could never shed in the name of profits, but iOS and beyond has become the battleground for redefining the computing experience to the mainstream: is it supposed to be a bladerunner 2049 esque experience of hitting the predetermined icons on my pocket vending machine, infantilizing and commodifying people's lifestyle for wealth concentration of a company that uses it's wealth to...hmm.

It is, at the very least though, a bit of a betrayal to those used to the old ways.

At the worst, it's part of a larger regression against individualism.
Getting assaulted sounds like the main problem. Police are a reactive force, they're useless to prevent or break up an assault unless it's a very ineffective (slow) attack
The open model has won more openness, which is good for open models
And is it possibly because Android has a global dominance in market share well apple does not?
Hasn't Apple done that with the iOS/WatchOS resident language models, for one example?
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