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> when they threatened to use MFi on USB-C, up until an EU Comissioner threatened to boot them from the market

Except this never happened.

And it doesn't even make any sense because MFi is when there is proprietary Apple technology involved which isn't the case for USB-C nor 3.5mm, Bluetooth etc.
The key is "that must be enforced at non-zero runtime cost." Safe Rust is indeed generally free of UB, but that requires bounds checks at a minimum.

> I could imagine a world where we define annotations around “signed integer will never overflow” that you can add to hit paths but otherwise disallow optimizing around that UB

That's kind of what Rust does - overflow is not UB, but you can use unchecked_add/mul/div/sub to get UB-on-overflow if you explicitly want it.
* [...] monetary or hardware costs.

We could perhaps create a GoFundMe page for making it cost neutral for Chrome's partners. Perhaps some industry partners would chime in.

* Does JPEG XL work best for the web?

Yes.

* What is JPEG XL compression performance across a broad range of images?

All of them. The more difficult it is to compress, the better JPEG XL is. It is at its best at natural images with noisy textures.

* Is the decoder fast?

Yes. See blog post.

* Does it render small images fast?

Yes. I don't have a link, but I tried it.

* Is encoding fast?

Yes. See blog post.

* Hardware support keeping encoding costs reasonable for large users.

https://www.shikino.co.jp/eng/ is building it based on libjxl-tiny.

* Do we need it at all or just optimize existing formats to meet new use-cases?

Jpegli is great. JPEG XL allows for 35 % more. It creates wealth of a few hundred billion in comparison to jpegli, in users' waiting times. So, it's a yes.

* Do other browsers and OSes support JPEG XL?

Possibly. iOS and Safari support. DNG supports. Windows and some androids don't support.

* Can it be done sufficiently well with WASM?

Wasm creates additional complexity, adds to load times, and possibly to computation times too.

Some more work is needed before all of Chrome's questions can be answered.
in principle, The plug in hybrid is better than an EV in every way. the weight of an entire ICE+gas tank is less than the weight of 70 kwh of battery. You get all of the benefits of being a hybrid in terms of energy recapture, and all the range of an ICE in rare situations. You can also make 10 of them per pure EV.
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> we will see calls that it is unfair Apple allows for one kind of web apps (on their own browser engine) but not others and that is self-preferencing.

We have been seeing people say that for years. And mostly, they've been right; Apple's treatment of WebKit and Safari was anti-PWA for years. Even today, Apple has zero competitors who could meaningfully encourage them to adopt new PWA features or change Safari on iPhone.
Why did a Pulitzer-prize winning NYT journalist choose a non-journalist with a military intelligence background -- and her nephew in law -- to do the on-the-ground reporting for an extremely consequential story?

Based on the (lack of) fallout, these orders almost certainly came from the top.
Sort by citations (https://dl.acm.org/action/doSearch?SeriesKey=cacm&sortBy=cit...) to see the most seminal ones.
No. MozCo is for profit owned by Mozilla Foundation which does additional things to satisfy the IRS and has been that way since the begining.
This is a very cool idea, but I can’t help feeling afraid it might catch on something.
If you have a Galaxy Watch you can export workout as GPX file through the Samsung Health app
The point of their charter is not to make money, it's to develop AI for the benefit of all, which I interpret to mean putting control and exploitation of AI in the hands of the public.

The reality: we don't even get public LLM models, let alone source code, while their coffers overfloweth.

Awesome for OpenAI and their employees! Every else goes without. Public benefit my arse.
I think they're making the same point as you: "nonprofit" is usually a scam to enrich executives anyway.
Fans of the FF games are very passionate about their favorite game(s). In the earlier days of the Internet, there were endless debates about VI vs VII. Those truly had an inspirational effect on people—but rarely in a good way. Or maybe it's just the perfect cross section of Internet-arguers and JRPG-obsessives that makes for insufferable, endless debates and ranking lists.

Anyway, enough beating around the bush. Here's my list (B tier and above):

1. Tactics

2. FFVII

3. Chrono Trigger

4. FFV

5. FFIII

6. FFVI

7. FFIV
Can some of you provide some good ones? I'm always curious what other people are subscribing to.
He’s making a (valid) point having to do with tax avoidance.

Want to open a bakery in your small town? Start it as a 501(3)(c) and promise it’s a charitable endeavor for the local community. Then invest your $500k into the bakery maybe even from your local community (it’s a tax deductible donation!) to get the bakery up and running.

Then once it’s turning a profit, ditch the original 501(3)c and replace it with a LLC, S-Corp or C-corp and start paying taxes. (And hope you don’t get sued or audited)

His point is mom and pop bakeries aren’t typically sophisticated enough to pull of schemes like this, even if it would save tens of thousands on taxes.
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As the government sees it, you realize "profit" when you, as an owner of the business, take the money it makes for yourself.
> Do new building codes account for this?

Yes, we have code about fireblocking, minimum insulation in wall cavities, etc. for that.

Structural code also updates with wood quality testing. In structural charts I've seen, old growth is around 3x stronger for the same size as newer SPF. It's about on par with an LVL product.
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Adding to my own comment, because I was curious and had to look it up:

In Galician (which is very similar to Portuguese), the days of the week use the Roman-derived names, unlike Portuguese.
I would love for local bike shops to build these and let people use them.
Read elsewhere. Piping can be dangerous if there's a disconnect. You can also detect piping server side. Piping is strictly worse. Convenient, yes, but 99% of the commands can non-streams and no difference for the end user who is copy pasting it.
I'm not referring to end users like yourself but projects like Deno who have invested a fair amount of resources into supporting TS.
Oh man, I had a Bloomberg terminal, and got data from their Data License product.

Even if you have all the calendars, it’s still non-trivial to apply the calendars correctly for different counterparties based on instrument and function.

And corporate actions are awful. The Bloomberg Data license data sometimes doesn’t match what the terminal has. Bloomberg said they updated it in the terminal but would not fix their bulk data sources since the errors were for actions that happened a while ago.
>Am I missing something?

Other than (potentially) creating a(n) (unhealthy) parasocial relationship, no
Attitudes towards the Iraq war changed massively during the presidency of George W Bush [1].

Sure it changed once they saw the (wholly predictable) actual reality of the war. But the fact that a solid majority supported the debacle at the outset, despite Bush's lies at the time being roughly on par with Putin's lies about Ukraine today (in terms of being transparently BS) -- does tend to support the point the above commenter is making.
That's the same basic structure, on paper, as OpenAI, it didn't “switch to for-profit” in terms of taking the nonprofit entity and converting it to a for-profit.
Storing borrowed data in trait objects
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> If they are non-profit, they do not make billions in profits. I suspect you mean revenue :)

Uhm, profit is a fact of accounting. Any increase in equity (or "net assets", or whatever other euphemism the accountant decides to use) on a balance sheet is profit. Revenue is something completely different.
Musk claims the deal between OpenAI and MS is - MS gets access only to OpenAI pre-AGI tech. And he claims MS influences OpenAI board to not classify their AGI tech as AGI.

Based on that it stands to reason Musk would make a case of determining whether openai achieved AGI internally via gpt4 or q* through discovery. Maybe he can get depositions from ousted openai members to support this?

I'm not a lawyer, just trying to follow the breadcrumbs..
The most amazing thing about Yellowstone (or any of the famous National Parks) is that, as busy as it is, if you get 1/2 a mile from the road, it is still very wild.

There is a certain tension in that the nature of the experience of wilderness areas is necessarily exclusionary. For example wheeled and mechanical transportation is excluded with limited exemptions for the disabled, the current limitation is that wheelchair users MUST use chairs that are 'Suitable for indoor pedestrian use'. Indoor use chairs are notoriously shit on natural surfaces, but should we allow ATVs? Probably not. Should we allow handcycles so disabled people can go through mud? I think so, but purists think otherwise.
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I think that's exactly what OP is trying to say when they say 'correlation, not causation'. There is no causal link between 29th February and the bug, but they happened at the same time (were correlated, i.e. had the relationship that they happened at the same time).

This is a fairly typical informal usage of the word correlation in my experience, and while it might not be _technically correct_ (I don't know, I'm not an expert), it's an often enough used idiom.
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My takeaway was not that we should harvest old-growth (doing so is inherently unsustainable), but that we should not throw out old growth wood when we find it (say for example when tearing down a house)
Liking the environment at Microsoft is very different than liking what the company does. I know far more people excited about space x than whatever Microsoft is doing and none uses any Microsoft products whereas tons of them opted into buying a Tesla!

Working at Microsoft is considered easy work whereas it's the opposite for Elon's companies. Doesn't make him a bad person.
I was a subscriber of CACM for many years, but didn't renew my subscription this year because CACM had more and more content on social issues. The equity of this, the privacy of that. I find such contents incredibly boring and really hope that they focus more on researches.

P.S., I was going to show some examples, but the latest issue of CACM does have more research-related articles than my impression with the past issues, so I could be wrong....
They knew they were breaking the law in their lack if browser choice.

The PWA issue is a completely different one.

Although what I assume is they floated removing PWAs to see if that would get users / communities on their side.

It might have worked if PWA support was first class rather than half abandoned.
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Right? This kind of content came out around 15 years or so ago.
> in order to engage in some activities that they wouldn’t normally be able to

What activities couldn’t they do with their charity arm that required this for-profit arm?
Could he be the one behind the recent coup at OpenAI, as well?
I'm a fan on simonw's datasette/dogsheep ecosystem https://datasette.io/
NEON is strictly not a vector processor for all intents and purposes in Apple cores. Execution units (ports) capable of dispatching SIMD/FP instructions are part of the core itself alongside regular ALU, and Load/Store units.

https://dougallj.github.io/applecpu/firestorm.html
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"King Of Stonks" [1] is also pretty entertaining and inspired by the Wirecard scandal and pretty fun to watch.

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I can download the Firefox sources and everything else they produce.

That they make money incidentally to that is really no problem and a positive because it provides reasonable funding.

What if Firefox made a world beating browser by accident. Would they be justified in closing the source, restricting access and making people pay for it?

That's what OpenAI did.
This was a good opportunity to say "overtook" as it breaks the idea of acquisition (and sounds more like racing)
Anyone making such silly statements as you can't be a good <Language> developer is just silly, and not worth the time or effort to bother with.
Google "Microsoft strikes deal with Mistral in push beyond OpenAI" bro...
https://archive.ph/SFnoZ

please if you are going to post a paywalled article, take the time to post an archived link
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Yes, that's the new capitalism. Privatizing profits while socializing risks.
> My hunch is that the initial change may have been performative, but it was likely performative for the EU regulators and not the customers.

Funny I was thinking the exact opposite: they floated it in case PWA removal got people to complain about the EU.
> Before 2022 Ukraine shut down the pipeline to the EU in 2009 and threatened to do so again in 2014.

That is a complete lie, Ukraine did not "shut down the pipeline", Russia did - both times - because of their disputes (both trade and physical) with Ukraine. During those shutdowns, Ukraine was not receiving gas either.

The root of the dispute being that Russia massively increased the price Ukraine had to pay for gas as political punishment.

Russia then used that as leverage to try to get other nations, like Germany, to put pressure on Ukraine themselves.
This is a standard negotiating tactic, right? Ask for something really difficult AND for something entirely unacceptable. Then, after pressure is applied, drop the entirely unacceptable demand and "show your flexibility". And there you go, you made a concession, now the other party must make a concession ...
Not really. Open source and proprietary models aren't that far from them.

They don't have moat. Their main advantage have been people and aleady we see entire Anthropic spinoff, Sutskever absent, Karpathy leave, who is next?
I mean, I definitely disagree with the statement that GPT-4 is an AGI, but OpenAI themselves define an AGI in their charter as an AI that is better than the median human at most economically valuable work.

Even when taking that into consideration I don't consider GPT-4 to be an AGI, but you can see how someone might make attempt to make a convincing argument.

Personally though, I think this definition of AGI sets the bar too high. Let's say, hypothetically, GPT-5 comes out, and it exceeds everyone's expectations. It's practically flawless as a lawyer. It can diagnose medical issues and provide medical advice far better than any doctor can. It's coding skills are on par with that of the mythical 10x engineer. And, obviously, it can perform clerical and customer support tasks better than anyone else.

As intelligent as it sounds, you could make the argument that according to OpenAI's charter it isn't actually an AGI until it takes an embodied form, since most US jobs are actually physical in nature. According to The Bureau of Labor Statistics, roughly 45% of jobs required medium strength back when the survey was taken in 2017 (https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2018/physically-strenuous-jobs-...)

Hypothetically speaking, you could argue that we might wind up making superintelligence before we get to AGI simply because we haven't developed an intelligence capable of being inserted into a robot body and working in a warehouse with little in the way of human supervision. That's only if you take OpenAI's charter literally.

Worth noting that Sam Altman himself hasn't actually used the same definition of AGI though. He just argues that an AGI is one that's simply smarter than most humans. In which case, the plaintiffs could simply point to GPT-4's score on the LSAT and various other tests and benchmarks, and the defendants would have to awkwardly explain to a judge that, contrary to the hype, GPT-4 doesn't really "think" at all. It's just performing next-token prediction based on its training data. Also, look at all the ridiculous ways in which it hallucinates.

Personally, I think it would be hilarious if it came down to that. Who knows, maybe Elon is actually playing some kind of 5D chess and is burning all this money just to troll OpenAI into admitting in a courtroom that GPT-4 actually isn't smart at all.
> If they are non-profit, they do not make billions in profits

Wrong. Non-profits are not called that because they don't make profits, they are called that because they don’t return (even as a future claim) profits to private stakeholders.
>A trillion-dollar company

A company wants RoI for what they spend money on. Having a high market cap doesn't mean money is able to be spent indescriminantly.

>with 161000 employees

Which may already be assigned to be doing work for something more important to Apple.

>had known about the regulation for two years

There are trade offs a company can make. Knowing about a potential trade off for years does not mean a company will pursue that option.

>cannot enable something they already implemented

PWAs being able to be supported in a secure way across arbitrary browser engines was not already implemented. Making it so PWAs can only use Webkit is a legal trade off that has seemingly been reconsidered since the original announcement.
... but you only need a C compiler, not a grotesquely and absurdely massive and complex c++ compiler.

This is all wrong.
Big leaps in performance are usually tied to process node changes, like 5nm to 3nm, where the change also results in lower power consumption.
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Do the private companies get some special IP rights on the public sector research? It seems like in a competitive market, those private companies would have thin margins. What stops a lower cost competitor from using the same public IP? I’m clearly missing something important here.
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