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This is my first ever blog post. It's about Bootstring, the encoding algorithm behind Punycode domain names. I wanted to cover both encoding and decoding in a single post, but I spent so much time on this already I decided to publish the decoding part as a Part 1, covering the encoding in a second part.

I spent a lot of time building small demos / widgets so you can see the algorithm in action.

As I said, it's my first ever blog post, so if you read it, please let me know what you think and what I can improve!
CO2 remain in the atmosphere for more than a century. What is causing the change in climate is the cumulative amount of it since the start of the previous century, that was enough to unbalance the entire global system and push it to the increase of global average temperatures that we are seeing today.

Even if we stop emitting at all today, what is already up there will keep warming up the planet for many decades, with massive negative effects. And we know about that for many decades (Carl Sagan testified at the Congress in the 80's about that). And yet, we are not decreasing, not maintaining, but still increasing our emissions.

For our civilization it won't be an accidental death, but intended suicide.
> I think 5G isn't that necessary on a phone like that, except maybe for future-proofing.

5G is more than future proofing, at least where I am, 5G is deployed at new lower frequencies (taken from broadcast TV) that provide for more full coverage. With my new 5g phone, I have less dead zones than my old 4g phone.
Musk more than met his fiduciary responsibilities when he increased the stock value tenfold. In what world is that not in the best interest of the shareholders?

And wasn't the board elected by the shareholders? It seems likely that the shareholders supported Musk so they chose a board that also supported him. What's wrong with that?

(Unless Musk somehow selected the board without shareholder approval, which I agree would be wrong.)
In many European countries, you actually do get government assistance for children [1].

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindergeld
I chose Ada over Rust for my company a few years ago and couldn't be happier. My entire embedded and tooling code bases are now Spark compatible. I don't believe any language can match Ada for drivers, memory register and network protocol handling.
It's a clever accounting trick. Try it with a random selection of countries instead of a cherry-picked sample. We have seen no decrease in global emissions.

Advanced economies rely on international trade for their emissions-heavy industries, effectively outsourcing emissions. Carbon molecules don't respect international boundaries and the atmosphere doesn't care what country burned it. From a climate perspective, global CO2e in tons is what matters, everything else is accounting tricks.

You can build a more complex model to deal with the carbon accounting intricacies of trade. Or you can analyze on a global scale. But analyzing national data without proper controls is straight up invalid scientific inference.
Why not? Being the new guy/gal sucks - all the institutional knowledge that you have accumulated means that you’re much more efficient that when you move to a new place, plus you know everyone and you’ve got relationships and likely friendships that you’ve cemented over the years. When you move to a new place, you suck until you’ve worked how things work - you need to hope the excitement of a new job carries you while you find your feet.
I don't have sources, it's just a rumor.
Price fixing by algorithm is still price fixing
>> When you say "DEI is an indoctrination theory", I read instead that you are against treating people with respect and dignity.

> You're reading that wrong then. Seems like leftists will often interpret disagreement as evidence of evil.

You didn't even define DEI. I summarized a definition, as "treating people with respect and dignity".

I'd be glad to hear your definition and/or a summary of what "diversity, equity, inclusion" means.

Cause so far, you attack it because that is the programmed Republican/conservative response. It's basically a conditioned 2 minute hate ala 1984.

> This is an incredibly supercilious attitude that's far too common on the left. "Reality has a liberal bias", etc. that doesn't even offer the possibility of reasonable disagreement.

I never said anything about 'reality has a liberal bias'. What I did say was that Republican/closed minded types have a real problem with studying history and for seeing evidence of how things happened.

Historians also vehemently disagree with each other. And many a times, new evidence is found that changes what we thought the history was. Again, this is science, not some liberal indoctrination ground.

> Sorry if your upbringing was bad, but you've somehow replaced it with something far worse, close-minded & intolerant.

Closed minded? Yawn.

Can we at least get away from the usual Republican vs Democrat yell-at tropes? If I wanted that, I'd have stayed at Xitter.
Thanks, super helpful.

But I'm still confused what the giga factory does, if not manufacture batteries?
We put in all of this work and we’re still doomed? I don’t know, man. I’m going to take it easy.

Environmentalists told me I shouldn’t recycle, offset with Terrapass, or live in the city. Now they’re telling me that the things we are doing are not going to work? Then why are we doing them?

If we’re doomed I might as well enjoy things.
I’ve found the opposite, it makes tedious tasks like looking up how a specific powershell function works, easy.

Hmm I can’t remember how to read a file into xml in powershell… ask gpt and save yourself 15 minutes
When did you start taking adhd meds? I've noticed many many americans start as children and then basically can't function as adults without meds.

This is very rare in Europe.
For a business site I would either put up a contact form or just write the address out in plain text. Don’t make the customer work to get in touch – unless you already have more work than you can handle.
He’s not. I am. The wealth of a nation is the goods and services available to its common people. We’ve shifted a lot of economic measures so that we’re really just paying attention to the value of assets as opposed to what they represent.

An example: In early February, retail sales numbers came in strong. The stock market went down. Why? Because analysts know that strong retail means a lower likelihood of our central monetary planners lowering interest rates, and lower rates mathematically cause asset values to grow because you’re making the denominator smaller.

Stocks should not thrive on denominator changes, but on a growing numerator: earnings. Earnings reflect actual economic activity.

But most people have their economics education provided by this regime and think it’s totally fine for the market to be determined by interest rates instead of productivity.
"simple"?
Sorry, unfortunately do not do consulting.

In your other comment, you said you are looking to price "weird derivatives". How weird are we talking? If its OTC I won't be able to help anyway, if its standard then I can at least try to point you in the right direction. The fact you mention Black Scholes makes me think it might be something closer to "vanilla" than the other way around.
captain crunch would say "execute a nine-N instruction".. ask Woz! also the frat guy coders at Apple would openly hate on Andy Hertzfeld, who insufficiently hid his affection for an occasional toke in Palo Alto
Fusion is reasonably easy. You can do it in your garage with an electrostatic confinement fusor. I’m talking about fusion that generates significantly more power than it takes to run the reactor. Only that kind is useful as an energy source. That so far has been elusive.

Inertial confinement has sort of achieved this but only on paper. If you tally up the total input to set up and run the system it’s still way in the red.

ITER has the potential to run just a bit over unity but it’s really just a research platform.
A 2014 book on machine learning sounds quaint and historical.
Not to mention that "the app store is a better ecosystem because it's easier for kids to impulse-buy in-app purchases from scammy games" is a heck of a take.

If mobile games are sticking to the app store purely because the purchase model on the web discourages impulse buys, that is a strong argument for investing more time and resources into the web as a platform and pushing more apps in that direction.

"It's easier to monetize children" is not an argument in the app store's favor, it's an indictment on Apple's payment UX and parental controls. Presumably in this theoretical world, the only thing keeping Candy Crush off of the web is that he web isn't exploitative enough. Which... again, just a weird argument for anyone to make if they're arguing that the app store is the best solution for everyone. Everyone except users apparently.
Yes, most free lunch theorems and results of this kind, which make overly general assumptions, tend to be too pessimistic.

For example, many people naively think that static program analysis is unfeasible due to the halting problem, Rice's theorem, etc.
I agree with you, but consider — for an Ultra Low Emissions Vehicle, wear and tear on the tires probably contributes more to local environmental degradation than the fossil fuels used. EVs have no answer to that, nor will they — tires are by nature ablative.

IOW we need to factor externalities into EVs as well, just like IC cars.
C++ is so large that choosing the safe subset is completely non-obvious unless you're deeply experience in the language already.
How much of this was China? My understanding is the government subsidizes the industry there, and the size of the market could make it have a very large impact.

In the US, apparently the percentage is about 1/3 of the global 20%: https://www.coxautoinc.com/market-insights/q4-2023-ev-sales
> assumption that legislators will always eventually give in to bribes and lobbying

Yes this is my assumption. Not all legislators and not everytime, but on a long enough scale eventually tenacious lobbying will find ones that will and get what they want.

> We'd be better off with no legislators at all.

I'm cynical, but also practical. As churchill said, "apart from all the others, democracy is the worst form of government". Its advantage is that sometimes bad laws can be overturned and good ones put into place - at least for a little while. It has happened before and could happen again. Just because I think things are awful now doesn't mean I don't think they could be worse.
LLMs definitely would not pass the mirror test at this point.
Your point is valid in that being able to face life unaided by medicine is ideal, but often unrealistic.

Such that I think this comment of calling it a band aid for being in a bad situation is overblown, and that the situation in general is more comparable to drinking coffee to remain alert.

I'd be curious to know if you also think that drinking coffee to overcome tiredness at work is also equal to giving up aspirations for betterment.
So private refers to two things here, sorry for any confusion.

When we say "chat over private data" we mean that this data isn't publicly available and no LLMs have this knowledge in their training. Meaning that with our system you can now ask questions about team specific knowledge. For example, you can ask questions like "What features did customer X ask about in our last call". Obviously if you ask ChatGPT this, it will have no idea.

The other part is data privacy when using the system. The software can be plugged into most LLM providers or locally running LLMs. So if your team doesn't trust OpenAI but instead has a relationship with say Azure, or GCP, you can just plug into one of those instead. Alternatively, a lot of users recently have been setting up Danswer with locally running LLMs with tools like Ollama. In that case, you now have a truely airgapped system where no data is ever going outwards.
I'd argue that's ultimately still a political usage, to create a motte-and-bailey arrangement whereby large corporations with more bureaucracy and less accountability than most governments are given a pass based on the merits of small nimble actually-private companies.

Google was for sure a creation of that private sector and its virtues. And even though it had some public handouts (like university research funding and the corporate liability shield), it had many private aspects - actively involved owners, a small number of employees, who were in touch with the mission, having to compete for customers, etc. But applying that term to the modern day Google as if there is a strict dichotomy of public-private seems like whitewashing the actual reality of large corporations having much more in common with government than with small businesses.
> But the issue with these laws was whether or not it constricted the platforms’ ability to express themselves in the way in which they moderated. That is, the editorial decisions that were being made expressing “this is what type of community we enable” are a form of public expression that the Florida & Texas laws seek to stifle.

This is taking the platforms' arguments as true, when it doesn't need to. Regardless of whether moderation is "speech", it's something Congress wanted them to do, because the alternative is that they don't in order to avoid liability and then everything is full of spam.

And "corporate moderation is protected speech" seems like a bad precedent. Even if you like it when it's Facebook, what happens when it's Comcast?
Nice idea but I still prefer something purely visual.
I feel any LLM that wa trained on data post GPT is unreliable due to contamination
Good point. I would think you could make operator[] bounds-checked with an opt-in mechanism like a #define but I don't know if such a thing exists and I would assume it could cause unpredictable behavior in code not designed to handle exceptions.

Thinking about this example, it seems like the other problem is that even when bounds-checked, C++ code handles out-of-bounds conditions by throwing exceptions, which seem to have a bad rap in C++.
I agree one shouldn't humanize the model. Mistral is an "it", not a he or a she.

But in this case, I don't think humanizing, much less gendering, was any intent. Lots of languages use genders in places where we wouldn't in English.
Ah. Well maybe not in _this_ specific instance, but generally capitalism generates the incentive for people to put share their knowledge (in an attempt for profit) and that's what came to my mind when I watched this video. The the internet made it technically viable.

I'm 39 now. I remember when I was 9 so many things were just not knowable. Maybe a book exists that contains knowledge X, but how would I find about that book and even if I did how would I get my hands on the book? As an adult I believe I would know how to navigate the problem of finding knowledge without internet, but A) certainly not as a 9yo, B) would still take me more time/energy than with internet. This is the technical challenge that the internet makes possible. But capitalism creates (or maybe just multiplies) the incentive.
I agree, but we gotta tell that to CI/CD engineering and yaml-pipelines
All of the argument parsing functions are insanely large, at least most of the actual individual argument handling stuff is autogenerated.

[edit: a lot of the older code involves huge single functions, webkit, etc are similar and I suspect it’s true of most projects. It seems like a fairly standard code evolution pattern: a function is written, and keeps have logic added so it becomes bigger and bigger, until eventually someone adds something where refactoring makes enough sense that the functions are broken up. I wonder if someone has ever just done an analysis of commit history vs function size to see just how common this actually is. Something like “how old vs how recently modified vs function size” - I’m genuinely curious]
>According to Der Spiegel magazine, the videoconference was not held on a secret internal army network but on the WebEx platform.
I expect also that chickens have been bred for thousands of years for this exact feat. There aren’t wild birds that lay unfertilized eggs non-stop — it would be too big a waste of energy.
Where is most of this spent?
If you pass by the slightly inflammatory language (“indentured servitude”) it’s just a different model.

As in: if I want to go and work on Mars, but can’t afford the flight, it’s not unreasonable to take a proportion of my earnings up front (in kind) and then work off that debt subsequently. Obviously the devil is in the detail of how that would work, and which protections I might be afforded, but the underlying concept doesn’t seem bad to me.
How do people get Alzheimer’s without type 1 or 2 diabetes? Sincere, not rhetorical.
As a reminder, both Android and Amazon are being investigated for antitrust, and part of that complaint for Amazon is that they utilized an algorithm called Project Nessie to raise prices across the web for consumer goods even on 3rd-party storefronts: https://fortune.com/2023/11/02/amazon-algorithm-raise-prices...

These are maybe not the shining corporate examples you want to compare Apple to.
I call prior art - documentary link below:

https://youtu.be/oye9AmOdsZc

Watch from around 7:53 for around 1 minute.
Bad negotiation tactics
The central bank (Federal Reserve) is intentionally decoupled from our government. (Yes, it is subject to certain political pressures but the institutional independence remains.) I’d recommend reading biographies of Alexander Hamilton to learn more.

I’m not going down the MMT rabbit hole with you; it is a waste of time.
It seems like OldNews has a very limited set of papers, I couldn't find results from any of the major newspapers (NY Times, WaPo, Chicago Trib, etc) or from a sampling of local papers that I tried.
A benefit of knowing a non-english language is that my native language wiki entry usually is a good tldr of the english one.

Many of the english math entries seem to be written for math students (as in math program students, not students studying math).
I feel like a better solution is to have Congress define where speech is protected online. "Publicly available social media websites count as public spaces". Otherwise we go down this route where "Comcast's free speech is being infringed by not allowing it to censor its users"
An obvious end-goal for car companies is turn all ownership into ten year leases, at the end you give the car back and they recycle it replace the battery and sell/dispose of it.

Car as iPhone. Trillions.
What is the law that requires divulging a source? How would that law be constitutional as per the first amendment?
The immune system and the body is only degraded by infections. Its not like a muscle and immunity debt is a concept introduced in 2021 by the anti vaccine movement. It has no science supporting the concept. Far from it infact we know every infection in our lives does damage and ultimately its a large part of what kills us in time. It was unfortunately a lie that has become mainstream "knowledge", its not medically sound at all.

At the UK inquiry the Chief Medical Officer made the point that pursuing herd immunity via infection is deeply flawed and highly unethical. Given the population has gained little actual immunity to the virus so far and it continues to circulate all year around and has so disabled over 100 million people and killed at least 28 million and every week kills many thousands in the US its not going to stop. Covid is the third biggest killer in the world currently and the death count associated with it due to a massive reduction in testing is unfortunately enormously undercounted especially with the increase in heart attacks and strokes which Covid causes due to its vascular impact.
Technically a tardigrade's inert dessicated survival form is called a 'tun'. But this is nitpicking. /s I'll see myself out.
he's had a handful of singles out in 2018 and 2019. He's also released a VST too I think, although I didn't get it.

His passion is his passion. He's a talented and inquisitive and seriously interested in this project. If he can afford to devote his life to his passion and not be broke he's winning life, in my eyes.
I think a statement like that merits a source. You mentioned tires being ablative. 30k miles of tires being worn off ~= few pounds of material vs 600 gallons of fuel (assuming a 50mpg ulev).
I patented a few things so I could be officially called an "inventor" ! I know, I know, the sin of pride.

Here's a list:

Patent 7831208 Wireless mobile phone having encoded data entry facilities
Patent 7812993 Lossy method for compressing images and video
Patent 7711748 Method and apparatus for simplified access to online services
Patent 7028033 Method and apparatus for simplified access to online services
Patent 6897977 Lossy method for compressing pictures and video
Patent 6850782 Wireless device with vibrational communication capabilities
Patent 6657647 Controlling the order in which content is displayed in a browser
Patent 6418323 Wireless mobile phone with Morse code and related capabilities

I could have patented many of D's innovative features, but chose not to. Many have been incorporated into other languages without attribution, but although that's a bit irritating I did sign up for that.
I am assuming this technology will not be hoarded by a single company indefinitely.
The Jeremiah O'Brien, while docked in San Francisco, actually is in running order.

Once in a while there are cruises around the Bay.

It was at the 50th anniversary memorial for D-Day, steaming off the Normandy shore.
I don't think he minds.
> I think they've earned the ability to charge whatever they like.

They can charge what people will pay, not whatever they want.
The ads do not use the content and claim it as their own?
The only thing remotely EV in the minivan class is the Pacifica Hybrid, and that’s $10k more than everything else.

VW is coming out with a EV minibus, let’s see.
> The discussion was mostly about Thomas and Gorsuch’s confusion over 230

I find this distressing. If anyone should know what the law says, it should be a Supreme Court Justice. I know they have clerks and aides to help them with all that - the ability to know the whole law and all its variations and caveats is a monumental, and almost inhuman task.

A Supreme Court justice shouldn’t mix up parts a law. They should know what it says, and what it does not say.
Would be neat if this new site gives a bit more visibility to CWOP stations.
What makes you think it's not normal that it does this? It's a statistical model that predicts the most likely response to your prompt, and the internet is full of news and references to GPT these days as well as GPT generated output, so isn't it expected that the most likely response to such a prompt might refer to GPT-3?
> CSIS wrote Qiu was using the level 4 lab in Canada "as a base to assist China to improve its capability to fight highly-pathogenic pathogens" and "achieved brilliant results."

Information that helps fight diseases should be public anyways
The person you're replying to didn't say we were doomed. They said we have to keep pushing if we want to succeed.
Even if it isn't 2.1, the off the shelf adapters will definitely cost, but it is a long-term strategy. If every card supports DP natively and everyone is shipping hdmi 2.0 adapters, monitor manufacturers will be strongly inclined to include a native DP port everywhere, no more HDMI only devices, including potentially TVs. At that point the card manufacturers stop shipping with the dongle.
The people who go to engineering school for a few years generally get engineering jobs, rather than making crazy art projects. There's plenty of room in the world to also fit some autodidacts following their dreams in apparently inefficient ways.