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And with VGA displays.

My favourite though is the IBM 3290 terminal.
A facebook ActivityPub alternative already exists with Friendica.

https://friendi.ca/
I think you need to understand your audience better. Remember that most people have a very shallow understanding of DL systems. You got blog posts that talk about attention from a mathematical perspective but don't even hint at softmax tempering and just mention that there's a dot product. Or where ML researchers don't know things like why doubling batch size doesn't cut training in half or using fp16 doesn't cut memory in half. So I think toning down the language, being clearer and adding links will help you be more successful in communicating.
i loved the first one and was so hyped for the sequel, what a disappointment
Now I regret having lived a life full of regrets.
To be fair, companies that merely launch VMs on GCP constitute a small fraction. GCP truly excels when you leverage its object storage, BigQuery, managed postgres database (which starts at 7$/month), and serverless solutions for cloud-native applications. Our company operates around 500 services, with billing per second, and a significant number of them are scaled down to zero when not in use. If you need a GPU for a batch processing task involving 10,000 images, you can simply activate a VM equipped with a high-performance GPU for an hour, pay for that duration, and then shut it down. At Hetzner, you're required to pay for a whole month upfront, regardless of whether you need the GPU for just an hour each day.

Therefore, I'd argue that if you require continuous, raw computing power, Hetzner is indeed cost-effective. However, the cost-effectiveness elsewhere really hinges on your usage patterns.
It's actually pretty profound for a certain audience, and that audience overlaps pretty heavily with HN. A lot of people expect to gain lessons about what'll work in the future by studying the past. They'll point to successful product X, and then build product Y that tries to replicate all the good parts of product X, and not realize that there are a lot of subtle interactions between a product and the social & environmental conditions of its audience that lead to it taking off. If you build the same product but the environment is different, you get different results.

Similarly, it's a lesson to pay very careful attention to what's going on in the environment today, and index more on that than what has worked with the environment of the past. That's why good VC presentations always have a slide for "What has changed? Why is this a good idea now when it wasn't in the past?"
It's quite clear that you've never actually studied history.
I'm IT, so managing the HTPC is a bit of nothing to me. Setup a wireless kbd w/ trackpad and it's off.

Once they start locking basic functions behind garbage like that, I'll roll to a large monitor or projector.

What will never happen is me buying a TV, then ceding control of said device to the manuf. They can fuck right off with that invasive garbage.

YMMV.
Good piece
Just so we're on the same page: the article I linked is from the Financial Times, and it's quoting a report from the IMF. There is no creative accounting here.
For sure there could be creative accounting when the Russian government publishes figures, and indeed those figures are even higher than the ones mentioned by the IMF.

About your other points: I'm not sure why you're mentioning them if you already knew that I'm not defending Russia. I'm against their war, against their government and against how they are treating people, including their own.

On the other hand, this is no excuse to close your eyes to reality. The EU sanctions that were supposed to hurt the Russian economy, ideally by so much that support for the war would stop, don't have the desired effect. In fact they might even have boosted the Russian economy at some point, and also they are driving Russia into the arms of China.
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You correlate that with the chat logs you've secured from a phone that's been confiscated or subpoenaed.

The metadata itself is just as valuable as the content of the messages.

If you want to prove that criminal A was in correspondence with criminal B, that's how you do it.

As per this comment, they store much more than just the last connection time[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39445791
How to you suggest to fight spam accounts without registering with a phone number?
Yes GN IMO is a much better experience than CMake. Its fully self-contained in a single binary that you can easily just distribute with your code. I have a small python script I use with it to regen files, and then to run Ninja to do the actual builds.

I've been using it for years and have no complaints.
"friendcode" seems to be pretty standard in multiplayer video games
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Want to grow? Introducing the AI that intelligently name drops your product or service in the Twitter, Reddit, Linkedin, in the most relevant conversations - to get you the best leads.
On the other hand, if being anti-indoctrination is the goal, it might be a good idea to turn the same lens toward universities that see an oversized volume of alumni participating in the defense industry, something seen as pro-American (albeit against many of the criteria you list off). Historically, some universities have been extremely fond of propaganda in this regard, going as far as to creating direct pipelines from school to participation, like Caltech's participation in the V-12 program, JPL, or Project Vista.

If that isn't indoctrination, I'm not sure what is.

Indoctrination isn't bad, and students should be able to have a choice between whether they want to get indoctrinated by the types of people who created the nuclear bomb, if they want to get indoctrinated by hippies, or if they want to get indoctrinated by a church-funded university.

Education is inherently ideological, and the market is really leaning toward hippie faculty at the moment. Allowing market forces to do what they will seems fine. It'll come back around eventually, and in the meantime, state school kids are doing what prestigious university students are too good for. Look at Anduril, which is far more impressive a defense achievement than anything that's come out of Caltech since before you were a student.
News feed is when it broke. It was described as “stalker mode”. Before to see your friends you had to purposefully visit their page and see what had happened. you had to go to another friends page to see their comments on that friend. There was some implicit privacy in all of this.

At the same time it’s probably the greatest business success of facebook.
> Whatsapp message content can be pulled via a subpoena along with a lot of other private data. Signal's can not.

Your own link does not say that. At all. It directly disputes that.
You can't shut down a decentralized alternative, which already exists with the Fediverse.
Again, I like a lot of the thinking behind this. I’m personally a big fan of having clear data models and data flows, and I think there is a lot of potential in ideas like reactivity that clearly define sources of truth and relationships in single places so derived state gets updated automatically when its underlying source(s) of truth change. I also believe realising the full potential of some of these ideas will, as you’ve mentioned yourself, need better tools than we currently have. However, we can already get pretty far with these ideas, and when they work well, it certainly does make for a nice, clear, easy-to-follow design compared to having state and relationships scattered all over the code base.

Where I suspect we might disagree is the idea that everything should fit into this model. Sometimes the data models and relationships get more complicated and the one-way flows implied by the basic idea of reactivity are no longer sufficient. Sometimes the shape of the data flow graph changes on the fly, because we need multiple instances of certain parts of the state. Then we need a way to distinguish between those instances and often some way to connect the repeated parts of the graph back to the wider graph so that we can make changes to the duplicated parts but still enforce relationships with other parts of the data model.

I have never so far seen a reactivity-based approach to modelling state that handles more demanding scenarios like these gracefully, nor a convincing theory for doing so without introducing more than just a general global data store and simple reactivity. This is where I believe there is still a lot of potential for finding better ways to model the data and then better tools to implement those models. The trick, as again you said yourself, is to find the essential aspects and make it simple to describe them without the accidental complexity from the tools becoming excessive.
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> I am not aware of instances where the left disagrees so ardently with firmly established science

Let me introduce you to the "lab leak hypothesis", which was decried as racist for years by prominent Democrats and scientists. It lost this reputation around the time that another prominent liberal (Jon Stewart) saw fit to mock its detractors on national TV a while back. This was not firmly established science at first, but those on the left made impossible to even discuss in mixed company, which shut down the conversation and any rational investigations.

For other examples, check out Vinay Prasad's writings. He's a Bernie supporter, a UCSF professor, and the rare progressive who is willing to call out hypocrisy and graft even when it appears on the left.
Here u go

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop
> Signal is more dangerous...

Definitely not true. Facebook literally censors private conversations. You simply can't send certain text strings to your friends. That is far more dangerous than relying on a third party that claims to be protecting your privacy. Especially since all signs point to them being honest.
You haven’t addressed any of my questions, but I’ll play along.

Im also tired of having to pay my employees a slice of my revenue every month for “making my business magically better.” Hidden salary demands, dark patterns to fire them, etc.

I own my car. I own my laptop. Why can’t I own you?

I guess what I’m saying is, why do you think the code you write for your employer deserves to be sold on a subscription model (salary) —- yet you don’t afford the same opportunity to indie developers?
> some form of dictator who could enforce the separation.

Like a lead developer or architect? Gasp!

I wonder if the microservices fad is so that there can be many captains on a ship. Of course, then you need some form of dictator to oversee the higher level architecture and inter-service whatnots... like an admiral.
But the only faculty-activists are the 'Faculty for Yale' mentioned in the article?

Administrators (and students) are not faculty.
Until Apple nerfed them, they weren't for simple cases.
Again, I'm not talking about spikes (though better tail latency is always desirable) but poor latency in the 50%ile case. And for high-QoS applications, not batch stuff. The snap paper linked elsewhere in the thread shows 10 µs latencies; they've put in some optimization to achieve that, but I don't really understand why we don't expect close to that with standard kernel networking and TCP.
Because a regular person, being given not a number for something, is going to call it a username.

Later explaining "you can have multiple usernames" is easier then trying to undo that conception. People are familiar with it. Your username is how you identify yourself on the computer in every context when it's not obviously your phone number.
The fact that you're all the time in hackernews probably means that you're very bored in your actual work, as well with the "FoMO" on AI. I don't think you're on a good position to judge what you're judging, or to give business insights. I believe all of your takes are bad in this thread..
This sounds like a great use of hardware accelerated raytracing. The problem itself is very similar. Sound attenuation can be modelled as transparency.
I have the same problem in Canada and it's really frustrating. Our lifestyle would be better staying as is, but I get taxed insanely hard, even if my wife doesn't work.
What specific AI talent do you need, and to do what? Is this to use tooling or build tooling?
The sales pitch the manufacturers give is that L-Threonate is better at getting through the blood/brain barrier so it is more effective for stuff like sleep. I do notice a difference between that and when I just take Magnesium Chloride but I haven't tried citrate so I don't know.
Counterpoint, most monoliths are built like that; I wonder if they think that pressing a green button is too easy, like, it HAS to be more complicated, we HAVE to be missing something.
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Yeah, I’m curious how they would respond to the claims in the article. In [1], they talk about aiming for low latency, for consistent performance (apparently other SSDs could stall at inopportune times), and support on-disk encryption. Latency is often in direct conflict with throughput (eg batching usually trades one for the other), and also matters a lot for plenty of filesystem or database tasks (indeed the OP links to a paper showing that popular databases, even column stores, struggle to use the full disk throughput, though I didn’t read why). Encryption is probably not the reason – dedicated hardware on modern chips can do AES at 50GB/s, though maybe it is if it increases latency? So maybe there’s something else to it like sharing between many vms on one host

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxie0FgLogg
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I was referring to the BCM47722, but I was basing the assumption on the assumption that all the other 64bit SOCs had 64bit in the title page, and that one didn't. But it is also 64bit. After poking around it does indeed seem like they don't make anything 32bit with an mmu anymore.
Looks similar to Hex Fiend
Is it any different than real life?

Some people organize their entire lives into boxes and containers and labelled drawers. Some people have, basically, a big pile that they just shuffle through when they need something.

For example, I prefer a backpack that's one or two large compartments. Yet they sell backpacks with dozens of little slots. That's too much for me, but somebody thought people wanted it, so somebody must. Over organization doesn't work for me.
I was a user and a fan. Spent years recommending Signal to others. People are pretty used to software turning to shit but it still sucks to have to reach out to tell people they should look for alternatives to the software I'd once recommended to them.

I swear if VLC ever turns evil I'm giving up on recommending software forever (in the meantime, check out VLC if you haven't already!).
This became RFC 8701 in 2020: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8701
We probably live in a different part of the world, but where I live no one who is not very techy knows about Signal, it was never close to Telegram or Whatsapp.
At Google, it's really hard to use GCP for first-party products due to all the security lockdowns.
LlamaParse solves exactly the problem I've encountered over and over with RAG. Getting structured info from unstructured data is a pain.
Also, they removed SMS support way too soon. That it was also a good SMS app was one of their main appeal.
What’s a spam account anyway? If I create a new account per conversation does that count as spam? It puts exactly the same strain on Signal servers.
A change order is going to be either the change of a nameplate on a room, or a change to an entire layout of a project.

Regardless of the innocuous ones being a nameplate - to as drastic as floorplate change... here is where I see the master:

Project is El Camino Hospital - I was TPM.

Innocuous:

installing all LV net port in the MRI room, the LV consultant read the symbols wrong and cabled all the cables that were going INTO the room, on the EXTERNAL facing wall FROM the room.

Reviewed plans were correct... change order was obv in budget review as we determined fault... but they had to eat that cost - we had to eat that TIME... as Siemens needed ports live on their private stuff to commission their equip on their end... SO even though that starts small... we can track all of this now against INTENT of proj budget and scope, and see in full how certain butterfly effects affect the result from the intent... (+plus data... blah blah)

Bigger ones can be a relocation of a piece of equipment that requires extra structural... same but bigger ripple.

Others can be Owner desires...

But - if you could advertise a change request/order via a system and just have each trade reply in appropriate format when they are impacted - then incorporate that to the core project - then push back a summary with a simple "approve this interpretation, your responsibility and your first born shack, check the box"

Now you can graph all the interrelated charges, parties, approvals - but you push out summary change reports and simply ensure each stake check yeah. else voice issues and just keep a fn journal of the process for litigation if it were to come to that (which is often)

(OH Yeah in addition to project timeline impact --- change orders always include unexpected labor, equipment, negotiations, permits, blah blah blah -- they are CRITICAL money devils if plagued by them... this is what sets all stellar engineering firms apart... so if change mitigation is imbued in the process organically... $$$ - continuously align understanding of intent with the outcomes is wise...
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> Consumers value their time at $0 so they get free tools subsidized by intrusive ads

I mean, I just use Thunderbird, but I'm sure there are ways to torture myself if I wanted to.

100% reliable contacts and calendars and email for the last 20 years.
Sure. I don't claim the free content is all good.

But from my limited sample size, the best free content is better than the best paid content.
Is JMAP the base for an email experience revolution? Wonder if we're ripe for one.

For a long time, The Bat! was one of the best e-mail client for its times in the 2000s. Loved it's ticker-style notification bar back then. Sad to see that this piece of software has deteriorated over time and not evolved to support Mac/Linux.
Next, Thunderbird emerged as an open alternative that was stable for a time.
When GMail took over, few innovations came for email with its own Inbox being a starting point, followed by Superhuman and Hey.
Is there room for more? Or are folks too attached to the traditional form of email?
It's called DUML/DUSS, there's a lot of documentation about it in http://github.com/o-gs/dji-firmware-tools
https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/2024-618-p...
It's not a big expensive task to look at what data an app is sending/receiving. Anyone with minimal reverse-engineering skill will know how to intercept HTTPS to/from their own phone in 5 minutes. Signal uses some other protocol, but it's also doable, also it's open source anyway.

The conclusion isn't that Signal should be closed-source, it's that Signal's servers should not trust the clients not to be tampered with. So after 90 days, they will remove phone numbers from the protocol for users who have hidden them, breaking old clients, which is fine. What is the alternative solution you're thinking of?
I think a major limiting factor here for many applications is that mobile users are a huge portion of the user base. In that space storage, and more importantly battery life, are still at a premium. Granted the storage cost just seems to be gouging from my layman’s point of view, so industry needs might force a shift upwards.
So if a couple creates N fertilized eggs, what is their legal jeopardy for not having all N eventually implanted? Can rhe state criminally or civilly charge them if abandoned? Suppose the intended mother becomes unable to carry, for example due to something incontrovertable like a hysterectomy? Will she be prosecuted for child abandonment or homicide?

Don't do IVF in Alabama, I guess. Although when enough scripture is cited in the judgement, the ruling might become more easily overturned.
It's subjective, but from my viewpoint, the message passing and it's relative simplicity and readability, compared to Swift.

I can completely see why people would think the opposite, though.
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> NVDA can make things that no one else can

What about AMD (MI3000), Google (TPU - actually designed by Broadcom).

It's really TSMC (who actually make NVIDIA's chips, as well as those for AMD, Google, Apple ...) who are close to making things that no-one else can, although afaik Samsung are close.
Then how is suppressing activism, which in its peaceful form is the most threatened expression of the contents of the Bill of rights, as the Mar professors claim to want to do, not “anti-American”.

I’m sympathetic to the idea that the university as an institution should maintain neutrality. However, at the same time, individual professors, students, and even administrators should be protected by the university when engaging in speech.
Very old DJI drones were 5Mhz WiFi (Atheros). Newer ones are LTE based (OcuSync).
Can you just use the background refresh, and fetch for new emails like every 5-10 minutes or something? Email is not messaging, don't really care if I receive some email 5–10 minutes later, unless I am expecting email (like email verification), than I will be opening the mail app by myself.
Blizzard has had this for a number of years, at least for World Of Warcraft. You can start playing and it downloads the rest of the game in the background. I think the loading screens are a bit longer since my guess would be that the program checks to make sure the needed files are there for the zone and, if not, it downloads them as a priority.
My company alone has over 150 case studies that document specific positive ROI on cloud adoption. Not every can or will run their own; I’m pumped for Oxide and I think they are going to smash, but some teams really really benefit from Public Cloud.
American leaders have a pattern of creating a crisis and using it to manufacture consent. The immigrants didn't come out of nowhere, you might want to look into the US's history in the region.
The op talks a bit about the limitations of Cairo.
Mentioned in the article, maybe. But it’s common knowledge that most faculty today are de facto activists, they just done self identify as such usually.
As far as I'm aware, everything is open[0]. Only issue I know of is that the server code isn't consistently up to date and you can't run your own. But you can compile the app and desktop clients yourself. I guess there's also the issue of reproducible builds but AFAIK this is a play store issue and doesn't seem that problematic since you can compile from source. I mean they even have a commit from 4 days ago for the Android app.

[0] https://github.com/signalapp
XMPP cries in a corner. I wish XMPP had more accessible (to the general public) desktop clients. Conversations is great, but speaking from experience, people aren't going to want to use Gajim because it looks like it's ten years old (even though that's a good thing ;). XMPP needs better clients in general. The last time I used Profanity it had very annoying bugs about sending and saving OMEMO encrypted files.
Lawns are incredibly stupid in California. There are so many more appropriate ways to cover ground. There are definitely choices better than a dusty gravel pathway.