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Soviet-style micro-districs aren't that great. Its just modernist ideas done cheaply.

Soviet-style certainly is better then US style suberbia but its not actually good compared to real urbanism.

What you actually want is not a bunch of identical blocks spaced far apart. You want proper streets with connected blocks with commercial in the lower floors to frame a real urban feeling. That has many advantages. You can still provide real public parks and open spaces in such a structure (see Oslo for example).

There is a reason tons of tourist go to places that are beautiful urbanism and almost nobody goes even to the best Soviet microdistrics to look at them. And nicer building wouldn't change that.

> Western individualism doesn't really play with that collectivist setup though, everyone needs their own private building, their own private micro park, etc.

And yet somehow the capitalist west has built amazing cities and towns for 100s of years.

And places like the Netherlands, Austria, Denmark are very much on the forefront of modern example of these things.
> I mean if he was that power hungry you'd expect him to try to monopolize AI for himself rather than make it open

Can you point me to the Github repository for Grok ?

That's right it doesn't exist so the facts on the ground are that he doesn't care about openness. And if he truly cared about humanity he would give away all of the designs, code etc for Tesla, SpaceX etc.
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Exactly, that's pretty odd. They could be delusional, just bluffing, or they really expect someone from the US government to put their finger on the scales for them, or make the scale disappear altogether.
Most USB / FireWire interfaces will play and record audio without additional work. Interfaces with DSP or internal mixers require additional software. The same goes for PCIe.
Best proof of this is seen in shared kitchens.

A sign saying that keeping the place clean is a shared responsibility is sure to get things back on track…
You can fine tune over the API. Also, Russia and the CCP likely have the model weights. They probably have spies in OpenAI or Microsoft with access to the weights.
Nerdy internals of an Apple text editor
It's this. At this stage in one's career you're much better off relying on your personal network than anything else. The last few times I was looking 100% of my conversations were either people I knew or from intros by people I knew.
> Atlanta’s transportation department budget was cut by 12% last year. She said that about $50 million is three times less than peer cities.

Can’t they say ‘it’s one third the budget of comparable cities’? Is that what ‘three times less’ means?
> They have employees, they have servers, they absolutely exist in a physical location.

Many years ago, yes. Today, no.

The servers are in "the cloud". Employees are all remote, there is no location for the company itself.

My previous company was 100% remote from day one. I never met anyone in person.
Actually, does Qt have something like FastUI? Been looking for one.
I've been complaining about the death of ES4 since it was killed back in 07 or 08.

The proposal might have compat types with TS but what about all the other TS features like generics. Now more than ever, it seems risky to bet the house on TS.
Quest is open because you can sideload. Apple is not.

See the recent article where Apple says they'll block porn apps however they can on vision pro. Not cool, it's a really great tech for people with an open mind. SexTech is a fast growing market and imposing morals on your users isn't a nice thing to do.

On quest you can just sideload such apps (though unfortunately sidequest no longer allows them in their store either after they started working with meta). Nevertheless you can still just sideload the APK directly even through sidequest. Which works fine.
Saved by NixOS Integration Tests, Surprisingly
There is less than 1g of sugar in a serving of Doritos
This from the company I had to call all my banks to refuse charges from because they harbor rampant fraud.
Yep. Say of meta what you will but they stand by VR despite years of getting flak for it.
iMessage runs on desktop Macs and can be easily automated there... in fact, how to do it is so trivial and so commonly known that I just asked ChatGPT how to do it and it told me without balking: it is just a handful of lines of AppleScript, as Apple doesn't even try to make it difficult (and arguably has gone out of their way to support it). I am thereby not sure what mechanism you are contemplating that ties the generation of spam to rooted and/or jailbroken devices?
Interesting prompt hack, but not sure it required a whole article about it, this will probably be patched in the coming days
I also suspect ruthless prioritization is my main driver of increased productivity.
WebP near-lossless is very far in compression density against that kind of visually lossless. Still 2-3x more bits I think. No reason to compare. The near-lossless (at settings 60 and 80) is closer to pixel perfect no matter how much you zoom, whereas Jon's "visually lossless" is what I'd rather call usual very high quality lossy without pixel precision guarantees.
There are very few FOREX currency pairs that aren’t USD to whatever. Most cross currency trades are currency A to USD and then USD to currency B. So USD is involved and thus the US Government has jurisdiction.
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Haha, ik wanted 5 days but got only 3, it took me a long time to figure out why i wanted 5, it seemed so self evident. It was every bit as dumb as you make it out to be.

A coworker did eventually get 5 days, after 6 months he said, what have i done, My life is just work now.

I remember working 5, i made more money. It was just as easy to spend as it is now. Nothing changed.
Thats what a benchmark is, and they're all gamed by everyone training models, even if they don't intend to, because the benchmarks are in the training data.

The advantage of a personal set of questions is that you might be able to keep it out of the training set, if you don't publish it anywhere, and if you make sure cloud-accessed model providers aren't logging the conversations.
My point is that it's a spectrum, not a bright line. We do, in fact, have roads that go into parks. Some parks even have trails; some even provide bathrooms and campsites, with varying degrees of amenities. All of these things increase accessibility at the expense of the nature and wilderness of an area, so it's important to have lots of diversity in degree of hardening: does every waterfall need an ADA ramp? Probably not; should no waterfall in the world have an ADA ramp? No, that's needlessly cruel to disabled folks who deserve reasonable access to natural beauty.

There should be (and are) sites of natural beauty you can take pubic transit to, drive to, roll to, bike to, ski to, hike to, climb to, ice climb to, and yes, even cannot access at all, each category with it's own sub spectrum of difficulty (eg some one mile hikes, some weeks long treks). To me a via ferrata seems like the left hand side of this spectrum -- something in an already heavily impacted area that gives casual users access to something they otherwise wouldn't. If someone starts proposing putting them there they don't belong (real wilderness, serious climber spots) I'll be with you in advocating against that.
This is a bit of a misdirection because it equates jobs, which are work done for someone else, with all work. I am sure that the majority of people would still do something that can be considered work in a world without jobs.

It's obvious that few people are going to subordinate themselves in a world where they don't get paid for doing so, and if they did it would look more like volunteer associations (only emergency response involves much hierarchy, most volunteers are only loosely associated with the org, individuals choose which shifts to turn up to, local leaders are elected and view it as a burden rather than a privilege) and less like work (you don't get to choose anything).

Edit: I should add that I'm in no way against jobs, I just think that people who are doing largely unproductive work for free are still working, even though it'd be better for everyone if they were getting paid to do something more useful.
Overly intensive forest management is a huge problem in my country these days. Nonetheless, the general progress in wood processing technologies does feel remarkable. I remember discussions on somehow pre-processing softer wood like alder or aspen (or maybe it was still birch) to make it stronger, and then and then using it for building structures. This is interesting for sure (considering how quickly these species grow), even if one would philosophically side with the environmentalists.
Streamlit's state management is so painful, feels like constantly writing hacks.
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Don’t blame Wright. The builder changed the design and didn’t pick the right concrete.
Found some bugs in TESTS which have been running fine for <=4 years, but failed today.
Hasn't this been the case since RCS has existed? I've never seen anyone get it working on a custom ROM. RCS simply isn't a solution until it doesn't rely on Google.
It’s the sort of surprise that seems obvious once you see it, but isn’t so easy to predict. Without this experience, most people would guess that in a long exposure picture of the night, you would see a black sky with perhaps brighter luminaries and more easily seen objects on the ground, not a blue sky.
Roll your own distro.. provide your own RCS services. As lame as it may be sound, you wanted out of the Google ecosystem, right? Can't eat your cake too bros.
It was mostly accidental: first, I took a 3 month leave of absence to explore a midlife crisis. I came back announcing I'd like to go half-time to do a masters degree which my company was okay with, and when that was over, I just never went back to full time and my company was okay with it.

I guess and hope that simply directly asking for this is another strategy (and what I plan to do if I ever lose this job); otherwise, performing the above sort of misdirection, consciously, might also help justify the exception for management and peers.
No, there are some Samsung apps that can, but the RCS API is not able to used by 3rd party developers
No bitstream changes. In JPEG XL we have a 3-bit control field for each 8x8 square to guide which pixels participate in smoothing.

The heuristics (here https://github.com/libjxl/libjxl/blob/main/lib/jxl/enc_ar_co...) for choosing that value are quite primitive and produces only two values: no smoothing and some smoothing (values 0 and 4).

If we replace those heuristics with a search that tries out which of the values is closest to the original, we should get better quality, especially at the lowest bitrates where smoothing is important.
Oh yeah totally. I think its easier to do so for one single rarely made decision than a bunch of small ones every day. From like, a practical perspective if you wanted to make one sacrifice that's the one I'd reccomend.

But yea govt level would solve it much better
Would love to talk further — if you email me at the address in my profile, I’ll get the current wishlist from our accounting dept on Monday. FWIW accounting needs are similar across all talent agency workflows and nobody’s happy, so there’s an undeserved market here for sure.
They scammed him out of tens of millions of dollars and a significant amount of his time and energy.
As ChatGPT attracts millions of users, some are leveraging the AI chatbot for workout guidance, seeing it as a cost-effective alternative to hiring a personal trainer. However, fitness professionals caution against the notion that they can be easily replaced, highlighting potential drawbacks of relying solely on AI-generated advice.

The use of AI for nutrition and health guidance is already facing scrutiny. NBC News recently reported the disabling of the National Eating Disorders Association's chatbot, Tessa, following complaints from users who received weight loss recommendations. Medical experts emphasize the importance of consulting real-life health professionals rather than relying solely on AI chatbots. Despite these warnings, some users still entrust their fitness and health goals to chatbots, utilizing online workout planners to structure the training programs provided by ChatGPT. https://fitnessprogramer.com/
Usually I reach out to recruiters on LinkedIn after applying for a job, or even better, reach out to a mutual connection at the company. Even if I haven’t spoken to them in years, people are usually happy to help. You can also just make connections at meetups and tech talks and reach out to them when the time comes. Besides that, I get headhunter emails often enough, with multiple follow ups.
While the sentiment is relatable, I think it’s too harsh. Frontend devs would better thought why people ignore their mainstream and use simpler tools instead. For what’s worth, the scenario you described assumes they did something useful behind that trash fire and for some reason avoided dealing with a frontend team/guy. Explanation through pure incompetence fails to see and meet their needs.
There is a whitelisted set of apps in the OS. Samsung's messenger also is allowed on Samsung devices. They talked about opening the API many years ago and then suddenly stopped talking about it.

For most people, Google Messenger app now uses Google's RCS gateway anyway, so the carrier does not need to support RCS.

I do not know of anyone trying to get carrier-based RCS working with a non Google app using a custom rom with a different whitelisted set of apps, but it sounds to like maybe that would be possible
Under the Microscope: Three Dirty Dwarves
Hugging Face, the GitHub of AI, hosted code that backdoored user devices
It's doubtful drivers are able to see whether or not a rider tipped before they are prompted to rate them.
Mostly agree but Firefox does not have the best Android extensions. Kiwi thrashes Firefox and Iceraven is better too with support for custom ones
I think that's a good strategy.
Prior comments are important:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11313928

I recommend the POSIX way: https://gist.github.com/EvgenyOrekhov/5c1418f4710558b5d6717d...
According to Wikipedia, there are both the Roman-derived names and numbered days.
How did you come to this idiotic conclusion after reading the article?

Elon Musk cofounded OpenAI as a non-profit organization in 2015 and provided the majority of funding until 2020. It wouldn't exist without his funding. Sam Altman lied and now GPT-4 is closed source and is controlled by Microsoft. How does that benefit humanity? OpenAI was meant to be open, sharing their research with all of humanity. Sam Altman is a fucking sociopath, a ruthless scammer. The lawsuit demands that OpenAI releases all of their research and technology to the public. Right now GPT-4 is only enriching Microsoft, the largest tech company on the planet.
This is probably the best summarization I've seen that describes this space. Even outside of ML, there's a real use case for building small, contained UIs for non-technical people to use in place of CLI tools.

The focus of these products should be 0 to 1 rather than 1 to Inf.
Understanding the key reports that your customers need in a SaaS business is crucial for providing value and ensuring customer satisfaction.
Easily automated does not mean Apple’s servers won’t detect spamming patterns and block that device. If the software is not tied to that device- make up a new identity and keep going. But if it’s tied down with SafetyNet or Apple’s DeviceCheck… that gets expensive. Is it worth buying a Mac Mini if it’s easy to automate but will be blocked in hours?
...did you even bother to search through that? There aren't any Haswell iGPUs in there, because they're non conformant.

I'd agree that overall Intel's Linux drivers work better (though afaik they've had a lot of problems with Alchemist, and seem to have prioritized Windows performance over Linux for them).
I can bypass HDCP trivially, but it's still there. I'm not arguing its effectiveness, but maybe it's a just one of many defense in-depth solutions they intend to implement. I'm guessing if they block jailbroken devices that it may include emulated devices as well.

p.s. had to do a double take when I saw your name, been a while since I've done anything jailbreak related with iOS but I really appreciated all the work you did when I did. <3
It's not an open federation
Glad to hear Monster is still around!
I'd only tip a uber/rideshare driver if the experience was above and beyond... I do not expect this kind of service from every driver, nor do I expect them to try to provide it every time.

It should be a reward for exceptional service, not a default assumption for average (or so help me, sub average) service.
Great Stuff Guys! But I worry the concept of a long-running gag may be lost on today’s youth.

If you had some way to illustrate an aging joke, possibly situated near to something much younger (for comparison) I would be deeply obliged if you could print it on page 94 of your organ.
> I've learned to not care when people say 'expresso' instead of 'espresso'

I stopped correcting people on stuff like this 20 years ago, but sadly haven’t been able to stop myself caring :-/ “Expresso” still grates
Every single member of the UNSC has facilitated nuclear proliferation at some point. Literally every single one, without exception. It's not really a core objective.
What's there to farm on your CV if everything is on LinkedIn?
YouTube Music workers laid off after Cognizant contract ends
It is unfortunate that the company that became incredibly successful, at least partly, because of the hackability of Linux and open source software is now actively working to suppress hackability.

I recently had to unroot my phone since it was too much pain. Almost all apps were constantly fighting to not be allowed to run. After a while, I had a variety of root-hiding modules installed on Magisk, and every time I downloaded and installed a new app, the dread was there that it would not work because of root.

War on General Computing[1] is here. For some reason, most people do not seem to care that they do not have full control of the devices that they bought with their own hard-earned money.

It is one of those rare cases where 'your choices affect my choices' and therefore not meshing with the idea that maximum individual freedom is always a good thing. Therefore, I don't think this can be solved by market forces- we may need some regulation. I think it would be fair to ask the companies to allow the apps to run on a rooted device so long as the user takes responsibility for any resulting losses. Any service provider should still be responsible for securing their own systems though.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg
That's like judging the Blue Angles pilots to be the worst in the world, based upon the fact that they have the highest death rate per flight hour. The judgement should be a bit more nuanced than that.
> Freedom to root/jailbreak one's phone

You don't actually have that freedom - the DMCAs anti-circumvention provision robbed you of the right to unlock your own property. You are merely permitted by the manufacturer to root them, and sometimes, for a 3-year period, the copyright office will let you do it too [1].

The company you are defending, and others like it, use every legal, contractual, technical, and economic means to restrict what you may do, so they can sell it back to you, and so they can control which companies can do it, stopping competition before it can even start. The recent ban on open-source HDMI drivers is another such example [2].

[1] https://www.eff.org/is-it-illegal-to-unlock-a-phone

[2] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/hdmi-forum-to-amd-no...
Stephen Covey Quotes
If you really think that most people don't like other people, you've been isolated away from a representative sample of people for too long. SOME people are like that, for example I'm like that, but I can see that's not the norm. One of the hardest things about the early days of COVID for many people was the social isolation, the inability to 'hang out' on the weekends or go to events full of other people.

We're social animals, that's really all there is too it.
Software engineering practices I like, in 2024
It's spam because they don't respond to candidates who apply. [1] [2]

And they have posted the same positions for over an year. It's extremely unlikely that a company doesn't find a suitable candidate in that time frame.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38101261

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38923019
Good news! Newsom’s team is stating there is no Panera exception. If because of public backlash, all the better.

> Newsom’s legal team has concluded that would not apply to businesses, like many Panera locations, that mix dough at one location and then bake it at stores.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/29/gavin-newsom-fast-f...
When debating the benefits of fine tuning people always focus on "culture" but what about spelling mistakes?

I think we too easily forget about all the other reasons for fine tuning. Without it I assume using ChatGPT would be more like chatting with an average reddit comment or Twitter post, full of typos and emojis and random gif links.

I'd much rather chat with something that gives me reasonably "cleaned up" answers even if it takes a little work to get it to do what you want.

It's obviously rather hard to hit that fine-tuning sweet spot though, no doubt.
Microsoft does take security pretty seriously with windows. There have been times they make mistakes, but historically, they are doing better now than they were in the early 2000s before Bill Gates sent a memo noting that they needed to take security seriously. You could argue they take security as serious as any major play like apple and google, seeing they touch a lot of private user data.

[1] https://news.microsoft.com/2000/12/07/gates-offers-new-techn...
Microsoft also has similar courses on IoT, and Data Science. I found the IoT one really nice [0], and it covers a lot of ground.

[0]: https://github.com/microsoft/IoT-For-Beginners
Yes, this is often mentioned in discussions of Alzheimer’s disease. It is so far defined based on symptoms, but without a true cause, there is no certainty that the is one cause.