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They would have started the lobbying long before this year.

They seem to have given up on making copyright law even more absurd, there's no public support for it, instead they seem to be attempting to use trademark law to keep control over their characters (which only requires you to keep using and defending the trademark)

Notice how they use a clip from Steamboat Willie as the intro logo for Walt Disney Animation Studios, this keeps that design of Mickey as an active trademark of Disney, and they could sue anyone using it for trademark confusion. ("Mickey is the logo for Walt Disney Animation Studios, anyone else using it might confuse consumers into thinking they are Walt Disney Animation Studios and must be stopped!")
Yeah he said that in the article
It sounds very dramatic, but the fact that the article didn't include even a single quote from the EO to support their argument makes me skeptical. Perhaps it's a real concern, but the article itself is trash.
Agreed. I’m not sure Apollo Syndrome describes this situation.
That market is still there, there's a floor of fabric, and floors of tailors, you can get anything made.

I didn't start going until after 2010ish I think it's very safe at night, I've wandered all over, certainly safer that some US cities, there are a lot of cops around
You're talking about the frame generation part. Without it, DLSS upscaling introduces no perceivable input lag.
1000% this
Flowers are red, green leaves are green

There's no need to see flowers any other way

Than the way they always have been seen
> systemd solves the startup-dependency problem

And that's perfectly fine. My problem with systemd is that it didn't stop there; it became this giant monolithic thing that Linux hangs off the edge of. That's Poettering's sin.
You can't accept responsibility for things you don't control. If you want them to accept responsibility, you need to give them control over it.
Nice write-up! I wish there was a place where I could have a piece like printed _and_ painted.
Erm, that should be PVC, rather than PCV.
How was the government robbing us with the First Step Act? That's smack dab in the middle of the Trump Administration, complete with Democratic support and Koch Foundation support.

Also, the recent bipartisan bill to keep the government open literally did the opposite of robbing the public.

Here's a good one to check your insight: the so-called "Bipartisan Safer Communities Act." You've got Republicans helping to pass gun-control legislation of all things during the Biden administration! That's certainly a red flag if I ever saw one. So what is the way this law is being used to fleece people?
I knew one that lost his medical card due to drinking on the job. Under the union contract, they still get 2/3 or 3/4 pay. Lots of trips to a shrink in Chicago.

He drove a school bus to pass the time and for extra cash.
China Eastern 5735 is another recent one.
many languages have this feature. For example Russian or German. You can put in the words, with most words missing, in any order and somehow someone will get it. France cant do this. Why... I dont know why. Maybe because the are more desciptive.
Good point. I went straight to the most sensational way it could manifest.

And, yeah, still can’t think of a good solution.
> They give free compute and gpu resources to universities etc to cement the dependence on cuda.

It's actually quite brilliant. It never occurred to me before that the resources we had access to at university weren't the most popular because that's what the library wanted. They were the most popular because the provider made them cheap/free to widen their moat over the competition.

It reminds me of Thomson Reuters launching Eikon, a superior alternative (imho) to Bloomberg terminals. Every business school has Bloomberg terminals. But few/none had Eikon, which is why nobody knows how to use one.
I don’t know why it never caught on, but touchscreen buttons with physical finger guides are a pretty great replacement for buttons.

I mocked it up for the first iPad with a cut up screen protector and some silicone. Worked great for buttons of any size, sliders, and all sorts of other controls.
> Cars, houses and vacations possible on a single non-doctor/lawyer/etc. income. And they weren't outliers

It seems that the dual-owner bonus did not accrue to families and might have been consumed by increased costs for housing, health care, higher education...
The likely first longevity drug is based on sketchy science
I love Annie Rauwerda (Depth of Wikipedia). So much passion for these random bits of info. Her tiktok is absolutely delightful and she's been good on the Lateral podcast as well.
I'm not familiar with the background here, so I just checked on Wikipedia. It says
"After the United States' accession to the Berne convention, a number of copyright owners successfully lobbied the U.S. Congress for another extension of the term of copyright, to provide for the same term of protection that exists in Europe."
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act#:...)

This would seem to indicate that the parent was right -- the long extension to copyright is because the US decided to match Europe's protections. Although, on second reading of your comment, I wonder if you mean that US companies convinced Europe to provide longer protections, with the intent to then make the US match the policies they pushed in Europe? That seems very elaborate
The article The Madness in our Methods: The crash of Germanwings flight 9525 and our broken aeromedical system covers this topic excellently.

https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/the-madness-in-our-metho...
Easy - make mental health non-reportable to the aviation authorities. Instead, the shrink can report if they think there is an issue to public safety, as they would currently do for patients at risk of harming the public.

The problem is people think that any 'solution' to this problem needs to be perfect. "What if we never find out this guy was a problem" comes up. No. You just need to make the next system net _better_. Don't delay forward progress because the next step isn't "perfect".
Nate Silver touches on it a bit with his digression into academic roots and technocratic streaks, but I think the divide is naturally driven by incentives rather than differences of opinions and beliefs. One group rewards doctrinaires while the other doesn’t. There’s nothing new about deliberately forming multiracial coalitions and trying to profit before the inevitable collapse.
https://archive.is/oro6v
Rephrased and re-contexted: Is it my fault that you misinterpreted it as rhetorical? Yours?
Try this one

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33816014
Twitter: _akhaliq
During the evolution to machines that Hawking pontificated in his later years, this research could lead to a new definition of “AI-driven” workforce.
Quite the opposite.

Piracy (more precisely: systematically and arbitrarily attacking vessels in the open seas) is not considered legitimate for any government - not the US, not China and certainly not Israel. The violation of this rule by itself is grounds for war by the injured governments (which, by the way include most of the EU and the US).

The extraordinary claim here is exempting the Houthi extreme actions from the rule of not practicing piracy just because they are hostile to Israel.

The above line of thought also begs the question of what other extreme actions are supposedly justifiable if the perpetrator happens to be hostile to Israel. Is it a get-out-of-jail card of some kind?
There's no such thing as an unreversible transaction. There's merely transactions they don't want to reverse, which means you may have to go to court first, but you can still get the other side to send it back if you win.
I think a lot of those 5-10% would be thinking “I’m sure I can add it aftermarket and save $$”
Good point. I don’t know enough to comment further about the legality of lying to police as a person of interest or as a suspect (who hasn’t been Mirandized?)

It’s shameful though how many false police reports are not prosecuted because they fall in line with the perceived powers of police forces.
If they’re sometimes getting those things, maybe they should expect them.

I think, to some extent, there’s been a broadening of the set of people clued in that the connection between hard work and money isn’t just weak, but often nonexistent.

You don’t get real money doing farm work 7 days a week, after all. Real work, but not real money.
It might be far more effective to capture subvocalisations using surface electrodes and then running those signals through machine learning: https://annals-csis.org/Volume_11/drp/pdf/153.pdf
Such nuance only matters if you end up in a courtroom, which you never would because it would be beyond absurd.
As far as I can tell, the concern is regarding drug users. As an ex-user and as an ex-homeless person
drug use is a choice. Every recovered addict will tell you the same thing. I'd conjecture there's as much victimization in the drug game as there is in the casino game. I don't care if someone is filmed pulling slots or buying lottery tickets in public. If someone's in a public space airing self-inflicted diseases and are filmed in an impaired state then being documented is payment for the price of poor decisions. There's no expectation of privacy in public.

Absolutely we should focus on individuals. This isn't pornography (for pleasure). It's a crisis. And, just like Palestine or Ukraine or Darfur, it should be documented and individual's experiences should be broadcasted. Hiding the problem isn't going to fix anything. Treating it like a class thing isn't going to fix anything - this issue crosses race and class. It's a human problem and requires human-human interactions.
Define "the same board"...
In one fell swoop, Nate tries to redefine political alignments in order to artificially distance himself from a concept he personally dislikes (“wokeness”).

His statistical analysis is a fun way to follow political horse racing (even if his models aren’t perfect) but this post is the chef’s kiss of ham-fisted amateur political science. Appreciate the earnestness, but can’t agree with basically any of his unsourced “theory.”
Yeah, good luck getting a robot to plumb or wire an entire house anytime soon.
To keep your K8s clusters reliable, you can use Squadcast. Your team can get rid of unwanted alerts, receive relevant notifications, work in collaboration using the virtual incident war rooms, and use automated tools like runbooks to eliminate toil.
Ideological politics is at odds with correctness driven politics. Policy should be supported and implemented because politicians (policy makers) believe it will acheive a desired goal not because they must conform to an ideology.

For example, as a voter, I prefer a centrist president so that he/she won't wield too much power and influence and is better attuned to the needs of all the people, a DA and judge that know mercy is more important than justice, traditionalist senator that resists change for obvious reasons, an impassioned house rep that is full of ideas to change things for the better and so on. I expect them to do their jobs in accordance with what is the best interests of their constituents and the country at large, not according their party or ideology.

Political parties are tools of division and control. Politicians with common goals and interesrs should be able to form groups to support their causes but such groupings (caucuses?) must be topic-specific not ideology driven.

Even if you disagree with all that, I hope you agree that a politician's party affiliation should not be listed on a ballot, nor should voters be allowed to check a box and it will auto select every option on party lines or politicians be allowed to advertise their party membership as part of their campaign. They should explain the merits of their views based on correctness not conformity to ideology.

But the whole thing is so messed up I doubt anything remotely close to what I said will come true.
Exactly, the title is overly broad. More like "some people are concerned Biden's order could harm open source AI"
Yes, the code of the analyzer itself cannot be built on macOS or Windows directly. In those cases you will have to use either podman or docker to use the binaries prebuilt on/for Linux. The whole system depends on a lot of other stuff on Linux so it won't easily run on other OSes.
Widespread FBI abuse of foreign spy law sets off "alarm bells," tech group says
Perhaps that explains why it took over 100.000 years between anatomically modern humans first appearance and technological development past stone age.

For many millennia, ours ancestors didn't really feel the need for advanced tech. They just feasted on the big beasts that evolved before. But then they crashed their environment, erradicating the megafauna. Hunger ensued for many groups, and just then they really felt pressed to domesticate crops, to compensate for the now extincted calories. Our higher tech level was necessary to keep living in a world we managed to wreck previously using only stone-age tools.
My guess is repeatability is hard when it comes to AI
Source? How does it not sound plausible?
hahaha .. I have to lough hard. That is so True. Many people in paris speak english but the only way to get them to speak it is by speaking bad french. And they hate you for that.
It’s difficult to productively game on AMD cards I don’t even want to know how annoying it is to start training over because of a driver crash.
Density of new housing in the US is similar to China
The fancy expensive AI is owned by big tech.

But the moment you say "expensive", a thing tends to be limited to people with a lot of money.
Buttons are much better!
> this allows banks to squeeze a little bit more return out of the money

There was no return for the last decade because we had zero interest rates the whole time.
James Joyce said to a friend: "What makes most people’s lives unhappy is some disappointed romanticism, some unrealizable or misconceived ideal. In fact you may say that idealism is the ruin of man, and if we lived down to fact, as primitive man had to do, we would be better off."

Maybe study the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism. Understand that desire, craving, attachment cause suffering. Let go of the idea that you must achieve or become something and focus on living in the moment.

Perhaps also let go of the narcissism expressed in the humble-brag "[I] can always perceive all different angles and options when thinking about something" and "my perfectionist tendencies." Try humility, especially regarding the idea that you must accomplish something or perform to some arbitrary standard.
Just found out that you can send SMS texts for free
I came across this python script (https://github.com/acamso/demos/blob/master/_email/send_txt_msg.py) line and saw that you can send SMS texts programmatically just by sending an email to your mobile carrier.
> It's not rocket science to implement matrix multiplication in any GPU.

You're right, it's harder. Saying this as someone who's done more work on the former than the latter. (I have, with a team, built a rocket engine. And not your school or backyard project size, but nozzle bigger than your face kind. I've also written CUDA kernels and boy is there a big learning curve to the latter that you gotta fundamentally rethink how you view a problem. It's unquestionable why CUDA devs are paid so much. Really it's only questionable why they aren't paid more)

I know it is easy to think this problem is easy, it really looks that way. But there's an incredible amount of optimization that goes into all of this and that's what's really hard. You aren't going to get away with just N for loops for a tensor rank N. You got to chop the data up, be intelligent about it, manage memory, how you load memory, handle many data types, take into consideration different results for different FMA operations, and a whole lot more. There's a whole lot of non-obvious things that result in high optimization (maybe obvious __after__ the fact, but that's not truthfully "obvious"). The thing is, the space is so well researched and implemented that you can't get away with naive implementations, you have to be on the bleeding edge.

Then you have to do that and make it reasonably usable for the programmer too, abstracting away all of that. Cuda also has a huge head start and momentum is not a force to be reckoned with (pun intended).

Look at TensorRT[0]. The software isn't even complete and it still isn't going to cover all neural networks on all GPUs. I've had stuff work on a V100 and H100 but not an A100, then later get fixed. They even have the "Apple Advantage" in that they have control of the hardware. I'm not certain AMD will have the same advantage. We talk a lot about the difficulties of being first mover, but I think we can also recognize that momentum is an advantage of being first mover. And it isn't one to scoff at.

[0] https://github.com/NVIDIA/TensorRT
It’s not just about hiding the problem from the FAA, it’s about a pervasive fear of getting help due to losing their livelihood. There are tons of really common reasons for wanting some mental health guidance (loss in the family, career stress, martial, whatever). Imagine having to choose between letting a relatively normal and treatable issue fester, or getting help but potentially losing your 20+ year career. It’s a shit situation and for all the FAA’s gyrations about mental health, this is fully their problem and they should be positively ashamed with their lack of reform.
Touchscreens are effectively keyboards, just glossy flat ones.

Voice works as a very inferior substitute when hands-free operation is of overriding importance.
In my understanding, NeuraLink is just a research project thaf musk invested into and did some PR for. I wouldn't read into it more than that. Like any other similar BCI research project feel free to ignore it until papers are published. That is, unless you are involved in the field.
Better value I absolutely understand. But I thought they were claiming its out and out better/superior? As far as I was aware, the 4090 still edges out the 7900XTX in pure raster in most games, but again I'm not certain on that
I can see EU and China being in this, but why does US have to care? Ships full of shit from China can get to New York via Panama in about the same distance sailing as going through Suez.
ACH largely takes one day these days; the extra delay is just if your bank doesn't trust the sender to be real. But your paycheck comes in a day because it's always from the same place.
OpenAI was originally founded to pursue AI in an open fashion more able to benefit society than self-interested corporations walling it off and exploiting it to their own benefit.

To OpenAI's credit they still haven't taken down their original statement of founding [1] : "Because of AI’s surprising history, it’s hard to predict when human-level AI might come within reach. When it does, it’ll be important to have a leading research institution which can prioritize a good outcome for all over its own self-interest.

We’re hoping to grow OpenAI into such an institution. As a non-profit, our aim is to build value for everyone rather than shareholders. Researchers will be strongly encouraged to publish their work, whether as papers, blog posts, or code, and our patents (if any) will be shared with the world. We’ll freely collaborate with others across many institutions and expect to work with companies to research and deploy new technologies."

All the stuff about going closed source, fiduciary duty, competing, avoiding "undue" concentration of power, etc for 'safety' came in their new charter in 2019 [2] after they created a for profit entity, partnered with Microsoft, parted ways with Musk, and so on.

[1] - https://openai.com/blog/introducing-openai

[2] - https://openai.com/charter
I have the set of rules we built, and the "dumbed down" version of the rules that had to be presented to the world. The source code lives in a zip file somewhere and I may be able to dig that out.

Send me an email and I'll fire off a few things.
I mostly use Chrome, so I limit the question to Chrome only. However, thanks for the detailed answer.
It’s a disaster. The most knowledgeable dev on my team regularly uses ChatGPT to solve typing issues. At this point we’ve lost the plot.
Because authoritarian regimes should be plenty to dissuade tourists.

Or is North Korea a good tourist spot, because it's not an Islamic country?
Totally fair :) I'm going to have a play with it at work!
100%. That's when I discovered I needed non-spotlight search to bulk search what I just excluded from spotlight.
The last time I sent USDC somewhere it charged me like $15.
Ah the ol’ switcheroo. Yay.
It's owned by several quite large banks, it brings lots of market power to the table.
> but simply because they were first to market and have game studios using their stuff.

You say this as if momentum isn't one of the most powerful forces in the universe. Many a better technology has gone extinct because a competitor simply had more momentum. It's difficult to catch up and it's difficult to stop.

Nvidia also is aware of this and not making mistakes that many others do by sitting back and relaxing. They are doing everything they can to not let AMD even begin to compete, but they are also very aware that hardware is far from the full package. 75% max, but probably less.
Mango Cult
So an authoritarian country is not enough to discourage you from visiting? You only avoid authoritarian Islamic countries?

Have fun in North Korea, I suppose.
What's your point? I don't mean that to sound snarky, I'm genuinely asking.
HOAs outsource local government. People once frustrated with their local city council now turn their attention to their HOA reps, who are now responsible for maintaining their roads and sidewalks.
> If I was a pilot, you bet your ass I’m going to hide any mental struggles I’m having from the FAA.

There's an additional problem here: if you have depression, you can bet your ass you're going to hide your mental struggles.

Thus we don't know if the pilots interviewed in the article are a) not coming forward with their mental struggles because of the policy, or b) are using the policy as an excuse not to come forward with their mental struggles.

(Coming from first-hand experience with a pilot who used the policy as an excuse not to get help with their mental struggles. E.g., after the person was no longer a pilot they still did not get help with their mental struggles.)
I cannot say enough how much as I've aged I've come to appreciate how lots of big dumb matters around me feels essential to have peace & quiet.

You can find a peaceful out of the way place where there isn't sound or people, or you want stone and concrete aplenty around you. That's weight & mass. But that mass usually has so much cost. (And it has so many inconveinences. Where do the pipes and wires go when you are working with stone? It's not accommodating like framing & drywall.)

This is so cool. This is so so so cool. It's cheating, getting one of the best & nicest things you can get, and doing it not by just cladding your world in thick concrete, but by creative use of negative spaces. By resonance. It's a vast unmaterial triumph. Using much less matter but getting so many of the same upsides.

This is the arch of victory that embodies what I hope can carry us through the stars for a long time: getting so much from so little. Making stuff that is blisteringly effective. These are the triumphs that can sustain us as we voyage on.

(It also looks like something that would be pretty easy to mass produce! A bit bulky to transport though, but maybe there are some creative solutions.)
Thought this would be about rapamycin, but it's some drug (can't find any more info) that lowers igf-1 instead.
They have a couple of partners and an associate who are alumni of the law school.