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> Thanks so much for your answer!

You're welcome!

I'll try to release more APEs for the sixel related projects because I'd like to make things like https://github.com/bytesnake/vim-graphical-preview/ more accessible.

A vim that'd use cosmopolitan binaries for the plugins would provide a solution without making everyone compile C code!

> The maintainer of elixir.vim doesn't even write Elixir anymore (though he is very attentive to PRs and issues). I've contributed a bit to it, but ultimately I don't spend a lot of time hacking on Vim anymore

If the community has moved to neovim and the maintainer of the vim package isn't writing in this language anymore, it may be hard to get a good "out of the box" experience with prepackaged solutions

But if the result you get still satisfies you, maybe it's not worth chasing what everyone else is doing with neovim? A minimal hacking around your working vim configuration could get you further, or at least fix your pain points enough to make everything else less important.

Also, you can't be certain that what the neovim elixir community find important, their pain points, will be identical to yours: hacking your own solution guarantees you'll be satisfied by it (because if you aren't, you can hack it some more :)
Not sure if there are other folks like me on HN .. but I'm really hurting due to Lego. I started back into this "hobby" 3 months back, and have spent 3K so far. This is unsustainable for me, and I'm a pretty decent income tech worker. I'm literally watching videos how to help me with my "problem".

I am all for entrepreneurship, success and creativity, but like in-app purchases, I think some folks have addictive personalities and these folks can fall prey to psychological manipulation of the sort enacted by games (with IAP) and also Lego. I know no one is forcing me to buy these expensive sets but the tricks being employed by Lego (e.g. short retirement of sets, GWPs, vloggers reviewing oodles of sets) feel wrong on my morality compass. Companies should not be optimizing for just profit .. they should, at least a tiny bit, factor the impact they are having on their customer's lives.
Right, nuke costs have only ever increased. For reasons.

Solar and wind costs have only ever decreased. For reasons.
This is pointless. The reason no nation on earth will green ligjt the use of it military maritime reactor tech for commercial use simple: this tech is secret and nobody wants the knowledge of said tech fall into opposition hands. ITAR is childs play in comparison.

This means, new reactor tech needs to be developed from basically scratch. And no, the mere handful of Russian icebreakers, and that one cargo ship which is half an icebreaker, don't count. Not if we talk about thousand of commercial vessels in operation.

One last question: Do you think we are faster to develop and build the tech and infrastructure for green fuels (which are needed everywhere from ships to planes) or to develop and build the industrial base to produce hundreds of small scale maritime nuclear reactors (for we don't even have the reactor tech yet)?
As a recently retired IBMer, I would love to know what the think of IBM today vs when they worked there.
And the safety systems worked so everything was (mostly) contained and no one got hurt.

Like a car crash where the seat belts and airbags lead to no injuries.

And then all driving was banned.
Some people will comply which will give the developers enough money to hire lawyers.
For those with kids: https://www.aao.org/eye-health/news/low-dose-atropine-kids-w... - this is what my eye doc and his colleagues do for their kids. I’m blind in one eye with retinal detachment and myopic macular degeneration in the “good” eye. My kids will be on this when old enough.
Thank you.

Is it correct to conclude that [vouch] links only appear on [flagged] submissions that are below the flag threshhold for [dead]. Maybe three flags or something.

Are the [vouch] rules the same for both submissions and replies, i.e., comments. I inadvertently used the term "flagged comments"; I was actually curious about flagged submissions.

For instance, as I type this there is a submission in /active that's [flagged] but not [dead], but there's no [vouch] link.
Here's one example:

> By studying the Linux Kernel, we document that commercial participation outweighs volunteer participation substantially

https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/AMPROC.2023.17240ab...

Also, empirically, many of the most popular open source projects are published by commercial companies, who hire developers to maintain them. If you review the commit history for these projects, you will see that many of them are, unsurprisingly, employees.

https://airtable.com/appiS6H4nkeXdyO89/shrATIy7RIOheo3gF/tbl...

There is inevitable overlap of commercial activity with popular open source software. Either it was a commercial piece of software to begin with, or because it is popular, it now has commercial value and garners commercial attention. Something like React falls into the former, and something like Linux falls into the latter.

There's a lot of community open source software too, but it trends towards smaller hobby projects with few users.
> What kind of hardware interface does arbitrary DMA protected by a secret but weak hash function?

I agree. This appears to likely be an intentional backdoor injected at the hardware level during design. At such a low-level I think it could have been accomplished with only a handful of employees in on it. There would have been no need to subvert Apple from the top down with large numbers of people at many levels being privy.

In early silicon there can be a bunch of registers and functions implemented for testing which are later pulled out. Except maybe one set of registers doesn't get pulled but instead a door knock is added with a weak hash function, making the registers invisible to testers and fuzzing.

It seems a little too convenient that the door knock hash was weak. After all, strong hash functions aren't unknown or hard. The reason it had to be a weak hash function was to create "plausible deniability". If it was a strong hash then once any exploitation was discovered there would be no denying the vuln was intentionally placed. If it really was just a test DMA function that someone supposedly 'forgot' to remove before production silicon, I can't think of a reason to have it behind any kind of door knock in the first place.

I read that it was patched by adding these addresses to the "access denied" list. While I don't know anything about Apple security, I'm stunned that any such low-level access list isn't 'opt-in' instead of 'opt-out'. If it was 'opt-in' it seems like any such 'undocumented' register addresses would by denied by default. And if they were on the 'opt-in' list, yet remained undocumented, then it would be obvious to anyone looking at the security docs that something was amiss.
Pheromone traps don't really work to eradicate an infestation. In my country they even have to be labeled as such. They are meant as an early warning system.
Do you have benchmarks and how does this differ from pointing SQLite to /dev/shm ?
You don't even "need" crazy battery breakthroughs - you can just build more wind and solar than you need + enough transmission infrastructure so you can deliver it to where it's needed. Of course batteries are getting cheaper regardless.
Yes you have to use tiles, but I'm not sure what you mean by "much stricter limits". The game boy can load 384 tiles at once, which is enough to cover the entire screen without duplicates.

You can't freely mix the first 128 with the last 128 but that's easy to deal with.
> the email clients are lackluster at best

To be fair, "lackluster at best" describes every email client ever made, proprietary or otherwise (though proprietary ones are better at hiding this under a shiny veneer).

Meanwhile, Kubernetes is probably a bad example, because nobody but large companies need Kubernetes, in the same way that we do not lament that people cannot build a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in their garage.
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Many of us are not "doing business" at all. Programming is my hobby. I cannot justify publishing my projects if doing that could get me sued. I already have enough liability at work.
Got any actual products to suggest? Requirements are vacuuming+mopping, self-emptying, and enough brains to recharge and continue (which implies some level of internal mapping.)

The roborock S7 barely makes that minimum requirement, and I've never found a second one - as far as I can tell, the alternatives are not out there, and I'm waiting with credit card in hand to be proven wrong :-)
It has nothing to do with Excel itself, it just looks like Excel. It is a programmer language like Python,SQL. Although SPL can be used as a plugin to help Excel to deal with some complex calculation, its main use is to do big data and multi-data source computing in application systems
FOSS offerings are almost always worse than their commercial competitors because of one obvious thing: people (that includes software engineers) need to eat and have shelter, and for 99.9% of us that means working for a living. Companies pay people to work on products that other people buy, ideally at a profit for the company. FOSS creators are rarely compensated meaningfully compared to the effort put in. The natural consequence of this is that most good engineers are not going to put much, if any, time in developing FOSS applications. The natural consequence of that is that these offerings aren't going to be as good.
You're comparing a one-time-use resource in U235 vs. the land required for a solar plant, which will last indefinitely for all intents and purposes. Adding the "in a day" constraint is quite misleading in your comment when that is not the long-term limiting factor.

Let's not forget that the externalities of nuclear power are generally much more costly than solar / wind.
Logic can only get you so far when it comes to genetics, environment, biological pathways, and feedback loops.
> Who cares, if it gets results

What I'm saying is, this (sad to say) lowers my estimate of the probability that this team will actually achieve such results.

Sorry if I was unclear.
I don't know how many times this needs to be said: solar and wind and batteries can't provide consistent enough power, either for current or the growing energy needs, of the US or the world. Alternative power sources are required to maintain energy sufficiency into the future. Period. Ask any company that builds green energy if you don't believe me.

What's more ridiculous than this oversight is the idea that the cost of wind, solar, or batteries is somehow never going to go up. News flash: all advanced industrial processes that depend on a global supply chain are subject to price fluctuations.
this is just an object offset to rate hikes.

prior to this, Erdogan was of the belief that raising interest rates caused inflation which is absolutely not how anyone economically minded thinks. America s fed also thinks unemployment is inversely related to inflation suggesting this act might be trying to increase unemployment.

overall, given turkeys unusual economic beliefs, it's unlikely this will be the last unusual lever to stabilize.

I really doubt Erdogan has changed his ego or beliefs and that this signals a return to economic prudence.
Does allowing a model to train on copyrighted material implicitly mean associated output would also be legal? They plan to expand upon this decision, but I’m curious in the meantime.[1]. I’d assume this NYT problem would still exist in Japan.

[1]https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Japan-panel-push...
Checkout Matic at maticrobots.com.

Few things:

1. We have HEPA bags - each bag acts as HEPA filter.

2. We found that more than suction power, the brush roll is more import for effective sweeping and vacuuming. It picks the dirt way better… so we have designed first of its kind to hair tangle-free brush roll. It is designed to be effective on all kids of surfaces.

3. We further improve efficacy with actuating cleaning head so it adjust the height for each type of surface with diff thicknesses.

4. The HEPA bags last a month if just vacuuming and about a week if daily vacuuming and mopping. It collects both wet and dry messes. It even has version of diaper salt and charcoal powder so it doesn’t smell or get moldy.

5. But the most important is completely Vision first perception with precision 3D system so that it doesn’t get stuck, chew wires, etc.

Indoor world is entirely built by humans, for humans, to fit our vision first perception system. So we have given it a very similar perception system.

6. Private by design. It was built to work completely w/o internet connection.
And the last small scale nuclear reactor project, NuScale, was completely cancelled. So the amount of power produced by this reactor type seems rather limited, trending to zero even. And guess what, we need snall reactors to power ships, reactors we don't have (no, those half dozen Russian ones don't count).

See how this game can be olqyed in both directions? Difference being, all the real money, and industry, is going for green fuels and not nuclear power when it comes to ships. I tend to believe those people.
SpaceX created a reusable first stage in ~10 years, for less than NASA spends in a single year. In that same time period NASA spent a quarter of a TRILLION dollars… to send out a handful of probes. NASA does interesting things, sure, but nothing that the private sector couldn’t do in half the time for 1/10th the sticker price.

The government may have contributed to the discovery of nuclear power, but for the last 50 years it has been the largest impediment to nuclear power.
Plus, it's widely used, thanks to Roblox!
Did he ever work on the System/3 or System/32 devices? (I am looking for a System/32 but there are very few around!) Also what was his favorite machine and why?
Folks below are saying Acquire caps out at 10K? That's a joke, my business isn't doing that poorly. Thanks for the suggestion though
It depends what your goals are. If you're a multibillion dollar tech company trying to capitalize on free labor while building closed source surveillance empires, sure, BSL, SSPL, and the like are definitely a problem.

They fix open source for everyone else.

It is honestly super weird that a largely anticapitalist movement is so militantly opposed to noncommercial licenses and so committed to ensuring Amazon can screw everyone over for free.
I appreciate the call out, thank you. I am sufficiently grounded in my world view and have been through enough that the town criers rarely sway me. And yes, I am plenty old to have a (literal) list of things to be very grateful!
> Of course they’d get a pass for that. But that’s not what happened.

It's very likely what happened here. Chamberlain owns so many brands of garage door opener, and they're trying to lock down remote access to make money off of. For example forcing customers to use their ad-filled app.
No, they could monitor when devices rebooted and re-infect them immediately, as the article states.
Okay replace that with "more than the latest version / LTS".
You should conduct a blind test! (If you haven't already). Conducting blind tests on my perceptual preferences has been incredibly eye opening. It's especially illuminating for cooking with spices. Trying to identify spices by taste is something i never though to do but really helped me elevate my cooking from, "i guess we'll try this", to intentionally placing and making informed decisions. I bet the same thing could be done with regular salt and iodized salt. Maybe a couple tests, straight, in water, baked in a cookie, put on an hors d'ouvres (who really knows how to spell that) or something. Could be fun!
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I was in a similar situation and I would strongly recommend to leave your comfort zone completely regarding the language and the technology. Python is a great language, but not your only option. In companies Java and C# are very common - and the advantage of these languages might be, that you learn about interesting concepts, that you possibly would not have to learn in another scripting language.

My advice is to start working on a fresh open source project of any kind of new technology. By that I mean a piece of software you would use yourself (e.g. an image conversion tool), not something like "advent of code 2023" or pull requests for an existing framework. Focus on shipping something useful...

One thing I noticed for myself is, that a private / open source project will not help you too much to land a new job in a bigger company, if it is not something everybody knows. I could not convince potential employers of my Java skills, even though I had worked on a presentable project a lot. In smaller companies the HR people tend to listen a bit more :-)

As soon as you have something to show, try to get a foot in the door in a smaller (but promising) company desperately looking for developers. Most of the time there is at least one person you can learn from and working for 8 hours a day is a completely other level than doing something for 2-4 hours a day in your free time.
Any idea what the license terms are on these? Or are they unlicensed outside of Japan and therefore free for use in most of the world?
As a US resident, it's not like a domestic vendor would be any better - we don't have anything you'd mistake for data protection laws (and security breach notification requirements primarily emphasize equal notification of shareholders, not consumers.) So, yeah, I'm not going to turn on any of this (and I worry about cheap ubiquitous 5G leading to boxes that don't need to be configured for my wifi to phone home - fortunately, the US is mostly network deployment backwater and it'll be years before that's a real threat, but not for any good reasons.)

But "they have no business" ... isn't particularly stopping them, is it?
If you commercialize this, please take care of this shortcoming:

> Both computers need to be connected and powered on for this to work

That's a deal breaker for me
I am too, and mostly feel the same way. I have only been on it a few months though. How long have you been on it? Do you worry about long term side effects? I notice my heart rate is faster all the time though, but my cardiologist said not to worry.
Or that it was morally justified as a means of self defense since the regulation was primarily intended to destroy the company as a means of sabotaging American industry.
This is like saying “well I’m 70 years old and perfectly healthy after smoking my whole life”.

We’re talking about probabilities and statistics over large populations. Not every child who plays outside will avoid myopia, like yourself. But looking at the population, the expectation is that children who get more sunlight tend to have a lower incidence of myopia and weaker myopia.
This is wrong.

Looking for write syscalls is not a valid way to figure out where buffering is happening.

Write by default is famously buffered in Linux, and stdio/iostresm functions map closely to it. So, if you call these C functions N times, you'll see write being called N times.

Flushing calls fsync or some ioctl depending on the file descriptor is, iirc.
I think it’s a completely valid point. Apple is still making (potentially a lot) of money off these old devices yet isn’t willing to fully support them. It seems very unethical.
My Dad worked at Honeywell on mainframes in the 1970s, too. In NY. In case the last name rings a bell: https://amontalenti.com/contact
Probably true, but is it the same for the vast majority of the app revenue? Quite possibly not.
I’d never heard of Three.js until I saw a talk on it at a conference this summer. Really mind blowing what you can do with it.
It’s definitely reversible. My left eye got better by about a whole point in my mid to late 20s.
> Most EV manufacturers use the 18650 battery cells

Is that still true?

Manufacturers have moved onto a variety of larger cells: 21700, 26650, and Tesla's 4680 (46mm diameter 800mm long).

And there are non cylindrical battery formats too: https://www.electrive.com/2021/03/15/power-day-volkswagen-pl...
Check out maticrobots.com. I am obviously biased as I am one of the co-founders but we truly have built the next-gen 10x better, fully autonomous mopping and vacuuming bot.

We have everything you mention above and have HEPA bags.

We went against self-emptying because 1) those docks looks ugly - my wife calls them rocket ships and don’t want it in our home. 2) building vacuum that cleans vacuum and makes a crazy loud noise just seemed so inelegant.
> He saw that languages are inseparable from the context in which they are used

That is one of the things that stood out to me in Searle's summary of his later work because I consider how the transformer architecture works and the way in which the surrounding context plays into the meaning of the words.

> Part of learning those language games is experimenting in the real world

It is interesting that the article we are responding to talks about how we have only just begun to experiment with RL on top of transformers. In the same way that Alpha Go engaged in adversarial play we can envision LLMs being augmented to play language games amongst themselves. That may result in their own language, distinct from human language. But it also may result in the formation of intelligence surpassing human intelligence.

> The fidelity of text is simply too low to communicate the amount of information humans use to build up general intelligence.

This does not at all follow from anything I've encountered in Wittgenstein. It is an empirical claim that we (as in humanity) are going to test and not something that I would argue either one of us can know simply reasoning from first principles.

What does follow for me is closer to what Steven Pinker has been proposing in his own critiques of LLMs and AGI, which is that there is no necessary correlation between goal seeking (or morality) and intelligence. I also feel this is concordant with Wittgenstein's own work.

> Without the ability to interact with the physical world, LLMs will never be able to reach AGI

Again, a confident claim that is based on nothing other than your own belief. As I stated in my last comment, I am excited to see if that is empirically true or false. We are definitely going to scale up LLMs in the coming decade and so we are likely to find out.

My suspicion is that people don't want this scaling up to work because it would force them to let go of metaphysical commitments they have on both the nature of intelligence as well as the nature of reality. And for this reason they are adamantly disbelieving in even the possibility before the evidence has been gathered.

I'm happy to stay agnostic until the evidence is in. Thankfully, it shouldn't take too long so I may be lucky enough to find out in my own lifetime.
> before the carbon industry start the smear campaign against nuclear.

The environmental Greens had a lot to do with the smear. Even recently, they were the ones who pushed for the shutdown of German nuclear power which ended up increasing German CO2 output.
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> It's called professional accountability.

Programming is not my profession though, it's my hobby. I chose to pursue another profession specifically so I could keep programming as a hobby. By all means hold the corporations accountable but please leave people like me out of it.
That is why I am an android dude, you will always find a random ROM on xda with the latest android security patch and sometimes even the latest android version on devices 10+ years old even if the manufacturer has stopped supporting it a while ago.