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Garbage collection with zero-cost at non-GC time
The unfortunate aspect is that this only works for code you control.

If you have code you need to run, but has no control over (such as a database library), then you will have issues.

For example, you want to test that an entry in a caching library is indeed expiring entries like you wanted. How do you change the library to consume a time interface, if that library doesn't expose it to you?
Users could also make interoperability a requirement and thus drive standardization. Nobody is interested in an email provider that cannot send emails to other providers. After WhatsApp changed its ToS in 2020 and I didn't want to agree to the new terms, I decided to delete all IM apps which depend on a single provider and only use a single one which is compliant with the XMPP internet standard. I also wouldn't sign up for any social network that isn't ActivityPub compliant anymore.
Cant find the original leaked document anywhere, just an interpretation of the commandments. Anyone got a link?
It was also nicer on the time-blurry CRTs of the era. The previous frame would still be a ghost of a memory covering a lot of flaws.
What's your question, more specifically? Also what do you mean by "the original sky"? Because it was already a skybox in the WoW original 2004 release, even if there were some procedural elements added on top.
> The proposed order will require Rite Aid to implement comprehensive safeguards to prevent these types of harm to consumers when deploying automated systems that use biometric information to track them or flag them as security risks. It also will require Rite Aid to discontinue using any such technology if it cannot control potential risks to consumers. To settle charges it violated a 2010 Commission data security order by failing to adequately oversee its service providers, Rite Aid will also be required to implement a robust information security program, which must be overseen by the company’s top executives.

Not a ban. They'll have some oversight, and a little slap on the wrist.

Boo hoo. This isn't a win for consumers. This is a win for Rite Aid.
If it's first come, first served, then why didn't the other planes have to wait for their ILS landing
> non-public residential addresses

What is a "non-public" address? All addresses are public information. It is not at all clear what you're protecting and from whom; there is a distinct lack of a coherent threat model.
Yes, in-band signalling is error-prone.

If you want to do it properly, you better have good language support for it. (Eg dependent types might help?)
I feel with some niches this already happens. The art and monetization happen in lockstep.

Partly, monetization is synonymous with release; a part of the consumption platform itself. You launch on Spotify and YouTube, monetization is already there or just a click away.

Another factor seems to be the survivorship bias. The ones that stick around are the ones with enough monetization to pay out and continue working with consistency.

It does seem like creators generally have more control though, if they don't sign away rights for an infusion of capital. This is replaced with a percentage of sales paid to some service (hosting the content and providing advertisers, printing tshirts as a service, etc...), if product isn't bought in bulk and inventoried
I think they’re drawing the right conclusion:

LLM’s are still in their infancy and easily mislead with the right prompting, and are still far too prone to hallucination to have applicability in the way some people are trying to implement them.
That’s probably a better point as to why it’s not invested in although most games are not CPU bound so thermal throttling wouldn’t apply then as much. I think it’s multiple factors combined.

The render pipelines you refer to are all offline non-realtime rendering though for movies/animation/etc right? Somewhat different UX and problem space than realtime gaming.
It always sounds worse on LiveATC because the antennas are weaker and not optimally placed
Sure, can you cite which criminal law was broken or demostrate damages for civil claims?
In the USA, perhaps. An amusing statement really, given the context.
Yeah certainly not one to tell it not to divulge the prompt.
In my early-40's, I've found that the massive gap between youth culture and adult culture has, thankfully, shrunk. While it's still the case that no 16-year-olds are going to want to hang out with us, their language and activities and perspectives don't feel as foreign as Boomers purported to feel about, well, everything. Because unlike previous generations, who fetishized leaving behind childish things and creating stark barriers between kid world and adult world, many of us have continued to do what we like as we've grown older. And it turns out, the reason kids like to do things like play video games or obsess over anime or take drugs is because these things are fun. And because we're still "in the game", so to speak, we don't balk and criticize and feign outrage like previous generations. That leaves a tremendous amount of space for connections, because we all play games and have niche interests and like our weird TV shows, even if the specifics vary greatly (and more than ever before).

I recently bought my nephew a box of Pokémon cards. I don't play Pokémon, I have no interest in it and frankly it seems kind of dumb. But I would never say that because all I wanted at age 12 were boxes of comic book cards and Magic the Gathering cards. Equally dumb, at least! So I 'get' it, unlike my mother who, though sometimes obliging, thought all of these hobbies were incomprehensible nonsense.

This doesn't seem to be a passing phenomenon. Once you've established a perspective that respects and expects change, there's no law of nature that will magically revert that. That doesn't mean it will be frictionless. And it does require some conscious effort to keep up. I have TikTok on my phone. I rarely use it, but I'm familiar with it and it's not foreign to me. I see it as my task to refuse to let changes in technology or culture become foreign to me. And that task seems vastly easier today compared to the pre-internet era of scarce information, overwhelming monoculture and insular, defensive subcultures.
Not the person to whom you're replying, but I suspect the problem isn't that the database is using NOW(), but that your code being tested will be using an entirely different time.
AI generates proteins with exceptional binding strengths
Just adding to the list others have already started here

https://news.t0.vc
The forum itself enforces a level of in/out. There's the green text for new users, then karma thresholds gating some actions.
We absolutely need to sanction this clusterfuck of an economic bloc. The EU contributes nothing to consumer technology (outside of ASML) and yet seeks rent on American companies.
You have to agree somewhere for communication. I'd rather agree on who publishes the internet protocols level than on the who runs the server level.
How is there not an OpenGL at this point in this space? It seems like it is in all of the hyperscalers benefit to get this going - why haven’t they?
Can you explain the satire to me then? To me that article looks like another example of Clinton's have people killed. Who is being made fun of? What's the joke?
I do. I'm quite fond of it.

I think one thing I would recommend is actively muting accounts and words that you don't enjoy and creating lists.

Over time, you'll be able to fine-tune you feed so you get a really great "newsletter" and takes around current topics.

The lists are important because sometimes you don't necessarily want to hear about experts daily. Maybe once a week. Or when something breaks out in a part of the world you're interested in.

Muting words is a very powerful feature that's under utilized, because humans are mimetic and something in the zeitgeist may resonate for quite a long time. Especially if it's cruel or chaotic.

I mute any words or accounts that make me frustrated in a powerless way.

Anger is an important emotion, especially for overcoming fear. And expressing disdain for something you don't like is a healthy response. Most importantly, it can be fun. I'm not so naïve as to not acknowledge that.

But I do think if you live in a garden, it should be a place you enjoy. Whatever that may be.

For now, Twitter and many social media platforms lack the ability to fine-tune the "algorithm" to your specific needs. A feed that's only positive might take some time to get there, but as your interests expand, you'll find your niche.
I mean it’s a massive exit missed for him and he has to now gamble with more fickle public markets in an adverse environment. I’d be bummed too in his shoes because it means I’d have to keep working hard with a continued risk after already taking such a massive risk.
Cities are employing the same kind of technology to Orwellian levels of dystopia. It would be nice for the same level of scrutiny to be applied if I'm honest.
Maybe what they are feeling is a deep unconscious unease at the realisation that the cancellation culture the leftists have bought to life is bad karma. What goes around comes around.
Even if that happens, they will have plenty of housing. Worse things to make too much of abound.
That's a good point. It was famously the preferred policy of Milton Friedman (presumably as a cheaper alternative to the welfare state, back when the Overton window was still more FDR than Reagan). A negative income tax might need to be paid out weekly or monthly to make a meaningful difference to the homeless and the working poor (to say nothing of access to banking services; as long as we're waving policy magic wands, let's add postal banking to the mix.)

Of course, I feel obliged to bring up the Georgist objection: that either negative tax or UBI would need to contend with the problem of ground rents, lest landlords simply jack up the rent by the $X additional income that they know for a fact that everyone has.

Fun aside: Thomas Paine, the author of "Common Sense", made one of the earliest proposals for a citizen's dividend [0] (funded by ground rents), but going the other direction: a one-time lump sum during young adulthood, as a means to bootstrap a homestead or small business.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrarian_Justice
I mean, I can literally see with younger peopler are doing in my country and my environment. I'm not really participating in it, so if I'm searching for good and fun date spots I'll TikTok, watching motorsports on Facebook, cool highlights on Instagram and more.
> American Airlines (at JFK) proved you can call emergency just because you feel like it with no repercussion.

I don't think it's that simple. In the AA case you refer to, the pilot was concerned about the high crosswind on the runway ATC wanted him to land on, so he declared an emergency so he could land on a safer runway. Crosswind landings are dicey at the best of times, and I suspect that if the AA pilot didn't get any repercussions it was because in that situation his action was considered a reasonable judgment call. Yes, technically it wasn't an "emergency" since nothing was wrong with the plane, but it was in the sense that the pilot did not think he could safely land on the runway ATC wanted him to land on, so it was a safety issue.
The EU's attempts to regulate these externalities impose literally impossible burdens on American tech companies. And similar attempts to do so with the AI Act are impossibly flawed and technically impractical. Conditionals keep on being added and added.

Do you know that Meta, Google, etc have to hire literally tens of thousands of people exclusively to keep up with EU regulations? And even then, it's not even possible, so the EU tosses massive fines (up to 20% of global revenue.) This is rent-seeking no matter how you cut it.

Perhaps if the EU had the barest shred of competency in developing modern consumer technology, it would understand. But wildly, regulators doggedly proceed ahead with simply absurd asks, not realizing that the EU tech industry is well and truly dead because of their actions. Let's not let them do the same to American tech.
this blogpost is specific for C++ -- in most dynamic languages like Python or JS, the default approach is to redefine time functions from standard libraries.

This would correspond to option 3 in the blog post, except instead of clock factory you redefine individual methods.
I appreciate the write-up and the nod to AWS RDS. However, I was wondering if there was any focus on AWS Aurora (MySQL)? For those that don't know, AWS build a protocol compatible database platform that pretends to be MySQL or PostgreSQL. It would be interesting to see if Aurora MySQL has the same "features" as RDS or even MariaDB.
I'm getting "FTC website currently unavailable" - the other comments here are discussing the article, making me wonder if I'm being geoblocked?(!)
Based on how neurons work, you could say a component of free will is a bloom filter.

https://llimllib.github.io/bloomfilter-tutorial/
I believe those restrictions are in addition to the ban:

> I. Use of Facial Recognition or Analysis Systems Prohibited

> IT IS ORDERED that Respondents, in connection with the activities of any Covered Business, are prohibited for five (5) years from the effective date of this Order from deploying or using, or assisting in the deployment or use of, any Facial Recognition or Analysis System, whether directly or through an intermediary, in any retail store or retail pharmacy or on any online retail platform.

https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/2023190_riteaid... (PDF, page 14)
I would much rather send my personal information to Microsoft and the NSA than people in my neighborhood
Rent control does not produce units. You get units by reducing barriers and costs to construction.

One avenue is stronger property rights. Don't let local governments and randos have an opportunity to make demands or issue denials.

It took me nearly four years to get approvals and permits to repair an existing home in California. Building a new one seems impossible.
Interesting anecdote, and entirely rational.

Time and time again, the leftist vanguard eventually find themselves on the wrong end of ideological purity. Remember that Lenin was on the outs with Stalin at the time of his death, and Trotsky met an unfortunate end.

"like Saturn, the Revolution devours its children", Jacques Mallet du Pan said of the French Revolution.
> Rite Aid is currently going through bankruptcy proceedings and the order will go into effect after approval from the bankruptcy court and the federal district court…

Talk about kicking someone while they’re down.
"help us bring Microsoft to every home's network"
Should just call it the OAT theorem (old ass triangle) to avoid any more eponym issues.
Hobbies are not like a career, or a job.

The goal of a hobby is to have fun. If it's not fun, then stop doing it. Start doing something else. Dont think of it to same way you would a career.

So don't look at your ex-hobbies as failures, or things you didn't master, but rather as things you enjoyed for a season. They're not a marriage "in sickness and in health".

Yes, some are productive, some are not. But the-producing- should not be the point. The journey is all that matters.

Feel free to sell all the junk in your garage. Or better yet pass it on to someone who's interested themselves. That guitar I don't play anymore us someone's dream Christmas gift. And when they're done either it, they can pass it on too.
> The extreme personalization of the internet/modern life can lead to a feeling of isolation.

The extreme manipulation, not personalisation. The latter would be for your benefit, Youtube would study how to make their users happy, have better sleep, be better informed, not fall for scams, etc.

But instead they are studying how to make us spend most time on the most clickbait cospiracy theories.
There's at least one more step for me at least. I had to close a pop up panel about "Sign in or create an account". There was no indication that anything was behind it. If the were trying to hide the true nature of this thing, they'd be doing a great job.
> One vendor specific API, not "various OS' native APIs".

Incorrect. Firefox uses Windows Media Foundation, which is cross-vendor, on Windows. It uses MediaCodec on Android which is again cross-vendor. Presumably it uses whatever iOS' equivalent is as well.

It only uses VA-API on a single OS, Linux, and that's probably more a reflection on the media qualities (or lack thereof) of Linux as a whole. Maybe Vulkan video extensions will be the savior on Linux. Or maybe it won't because it won't be anyone's focus of investment since it's largely a Linux-only problem in the first place.
How the FBI seized BlackCat (ALPHV) ransomware's servers
But those "someone else's servers" aren't always commercial. Communities run on sweat/passion and donations feel a lot different than those that make their money more commercially. It's not always so black and white either, more of a spectrum.
Governments and authorities all over the world seem to be adopting technology as magic pills. Need more such stories to temper the enthusiasm and make them see the pitfalls and harm such blind adoption can cause.
Your quoted text is ambiguous, but the order is not. The distinction is "facial recognition" and "biometric information".

> IT IS ORDERED that Respondents, in connection with the activities of any Covered Business, are prohibited for five (5) years from the effective date of this Order from deploying or using, or assisting in the deployment or use of, any Facial Recognition or Analysis System, whether directly or through an intermediary, in any retail store or retail pharmacy or on any online retail platform.

> IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Respondents, in connection with the operation of any retail store or retail pharmacy or online retail platform by any Covered Business, must not use any Automated Biometric Security or Surveillance System in connection with Biometric Information collected from or about consumers of such retail store, retail pharmacy, or online retail platform, unless ...

So, it is a ban on facial recognition, and additionally any use of biometric information is subject to this bureaucracy.
I've been driving for years and I don't brake check tailgaters, but I don't accelerate either. The only times someone has rear ended me was when I stopped at a traffic light and they weren't paying attention, so as much as people try to intimidate you, it's rare they will actually hit if you are driving in a reasonable manner, so I think it's actually fairly safe.

I would like to reduce peoples stress though and I feel like indicating that your vehicle is in some sort of automated mode would likely reduce other drivers stress and generally be beneficial.
Not necessarily, in the same sense that I'm my neighbor's neighbor.
I believe the Fourteenth Amendment gives Congress the power of enforcement, not the Colorado Supreme Court. I don’t think the framers intended for people to pick and choose parts of the Constitution to go after people they don’t like.
Does a support chatbot have the right to reprice items for sale though? Seems like the same situation. Tricking some low level employee or bot in to saying something they shouldn't doesn't seem to be that important.
There's a reason the EU barely has any successful tech companies over the past two decades. And yet, people will still say "the EU has done nothing wrong!"

Tell that to the literal trillions of euros in growth the EU regulated away into oblivion by stamping out any hope for an emerging tech industry.
I wrote a super simple flame simulation a long time ago as a toy in C after reading an article somewhere.

You just set each pixel’s brightness to be the average brightness of the immediately adjacent pixels. Calculate from bottom to top.

Add a few “hot” pixels moving back and forth along the bottom and boom, instant fire.

Looks very cool for a tiny amount of code and no calculus. :)
> the heights of clouds, the atmosphere’s optical thickness, and the elevation of haze in the atmosphere

It amazes me that we can detect any of those with telescopes so far away. Does anyone have a rough explanation for how this is possible?
I think almost every single distro's Firefox would be patched by that definition. Pretty much every package format requires at least one line of shell script to be invoked in some fashion.
I wouldn't expect it to. I have plenty of RFC-1918 addresses in a subdomain of my public DNS zone for my home network. It's been that way for decades. (Perhaps I should use split DNS, but...)
If you can't keep up the pretense of a free market, you get sanctioned. The EU can regulate US companies out of the EU but it won't end well for either faction.
Actually, I was expressing faith that shaking molecules in a jar is the path to creating general intelligence. Training over text might work too, I don't know; what I can say is that the more AI tempts investors with the prize of replacing all human mental labour, and the more billions of dollars and brilliant researchers are thrown at picking that prize, the more likely it is that someone will eventually crack the challenge. The apparent effectiveness of transformer-based LLMs is merely weak evidence that, whatever the eventual solution does end up being, it might only require a relatively small number of core insights that work unexpectedly well when applied at large scale.

What I don't have is blind confidence that it's an impossible problem that nobody will figure out no matter how hard they try. (Whereas I do have that confidence with respect to perpetual motion remaining unsolved).
> How are they supposed to know that an ILS approach - a completely routine procedure - is not available?

it's not that the ILS wasn't available, it's that the atis would've said

"VISUAL APPROACH, RUNWAY 28L 28R IN USE"

and the lufthansa crew would say, "huh, we need something different than that". in aviation if you want something non standard, you need to let air traffic know so they can put you in their plan. If you don't tell them different, they're going to plan for you to do what's being advertised.

> What was SFO going to do if it clouded over, close the airport?

then SFO would've advertised the ILS (checks atis) like they're doing right now ...
No one has ever stored any non trivial amount of data from a computing system that long that we know of. You would in fact be the first person to do so.
There is no excuse to be using MyISAM instead of InnoDB in 2023. It was a scarcely forgivable mistake in 2013.

The read performance advantages of MyISAM are solved better by using SSDs instead of HDDs.

MyISAM will cost you dearly when performing actions like "trying to create a new replica of an existing database".
That's exactly what I said in the first post.
Does anyone else sometimes have the experience where you feel like you know everything that’s going to be said or happen, as if life were a movie you saw so many times in grade-school that you know every line, but forgot about the film until just now?

I feel like this is another situation where sense of time can be reversed.

Derives from consciousness being actually a slow integration of diverse parallel processes.
I fail to see how that is the comparison to make. That's what you'd make if you want to be as extreme as possible. If you'd like to compare the best selling ICE sedan with the best selling EV sedan, then you'd compare a Camry and Model 3. They're also at least closer in price and someone considering a sedan might actually look at both. The person buying a Model 3 isn't going to buy a Hyundai i10, or a Fiesta.
Still a ludicrously low bar. Doesn't change much (again, compared to Lewis's inner ring).
Ahh so still a holdover from the Soviet system, in a way?
Was an ancient bacterium awakened by an industrial accident?
https://archive.ph/yckFV