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I'm a pretty happy Vultr customer. One of their engineers spent time troubleshooting an IPv6/BGP related issue eventually isolating my vps to one of their backbone providers that still had a clear path to my home.

Spectrum on the other hand refused to even acknowledge that I had an issue despite me having reams of traceroutes demonstrating that my home connection had disappeared into an IPv6 black hole for a very large portion of the internet at large.

So yeah - the company I have <$50/mo spend with cared more about making things work than the company I pay a lot more for an internet connection.

So... I'm going to give Vultr a pretty big pass on this goof up.
That's why Cory calls it "adversarial interoperability". All's fair in love and war, and all that. They play dirty, so should we.
Non-Locality doesn’t mean information travels faster than c.

The main article attempts to explain why instantaneous “spooky action at a distance” is real, yet information can’t be relayed this way.
nothing, but they will brag about it to get more money from investors
I just got the "no" ending. Didn't wanted to wait for the text slowly appearing another time :)
No. Under nearly any other circumstance a company like Boeing would simply go under.

If a car manufacturer pulled something like this they either have to fix it really fast or have to face severe financial consequences.

You have to realize that Boeing's customers have no alternative. They will be buying planes from Boeing.
Its not opening but I appreciate you adding other info to the conversation. Do you think as the trial proceeds we will gain new information?
No the real performance is 125 petaflops at FP16. That is 138 gigaflops per core.

You would need 64 of these to get 8 exaflops.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...
> "In June 2016, Tim Parker, the Post Office's then-chairman, told government ministers he had stopped an investigation into Horizon on legal advice, because of the upcoming court action by postmasters. The existence of that letter from the former chairman was revealed by the BBC last month.

In it, he said the Post Office would "instead address the issues through equivalent work taken forward in the litigation".

Now, the discovery of the draft Bramble report indicates that the investigation into Horizon, originally ordered by the government, actually continued in secret for more than a year, focusing on the branches involved in the case.

In it, Deloitte reviewed Horizon documents, examined transaction data and interviewed Fujitsu and Post Office staff. The purpose was to find out if Horizon was causing sub-postmasters' financial losses.

Deloitte found that while remote tampering by Fujitsu was possible, it would be "a complex procedure" and "likely a 'programme' would have to be written and performed".

In a table, the draft report detailed hundreds of debited transactions entered by "non-branch users", who the report explained "can access branches remotely for support purposes"."
copy on write, instant snapshots, data checksumming, easy rollbacks, auto trim, compression

proxmox takes advantage of zfs' features if available, like when you select block storage on zfs it makes each vm disk its own dataset which you can tune as you see fit for each one. cloning a vm is instant if you make a cow clone. suspending the vm to do snapshot based backups is also nearly instant, etc

Disable atimes and turn off the arc cache and metadata cache (don't really need either with fast storage compared to spinning rust) and use lz4 compression and you minimize write amplification or needless wear on the drive. zfs is perfectly fine on ssd for my use case
I just don't think it's possible in a capitalist society and today's economic climate. Everything and everyone is chasing the bottom dollar and squeezing out any coin they can from products. I have heard Microsoft Research, someone that can afford an actual long term research center, even has more pressure to publish than academia.
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I am starting to believe more and more that the shareholder value movement has done enormous damage to the social fabric. It basically declares that the only stakeholders of an economy are owners. Anybody else doesn’t count. If this doesn’t change, then progress in AI and robotics will lead to a very dystopian society with a few haves and many have nots.
Gotta love the headline writers.
Capital gains tax is not a technical issue per se. People also don't buy coffee with wire transfers, but nobody says wire transfers are a failure. btc/eth are better at doing what wire transfers were designed to do. The point is the tech is much better than people who have been sleeping on crypto seem to realize
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I wish I could keep my updates off.

Every time I turn on my computer dnfdragora is like "there are 35 new updates!"

Oh yeah? But my computer is working. Those updates could fix problems that I don't have but could break stuff I have as well. I'm not updating until they release Fedora 40. (my nvidia driver stopped working when I upgraded to 39, again...)

To begin with who thought these notifications were a good idea? Just appear meekly on the system tray when you have something to say. The only time a popup is acceptable is if it says "yo, your computer is on fire." Anything less is unnecessary distraction.

I want my software as-is, changing only when I want it to change. The other day a Windows update removed my "show desktop" button from the task bar to insert a copilot button. Who asked for this? The taskbar changes when I say it changes! I started using the program because I liked the way it was. If it wasn't the way it was I wouldn't have started using it, so why change?

To make matters worse, I don't think there has ever been a time a software updated that I said "they finally added X!" It just never happens. It's insane. Things really only get worse with time. Ten years ago GIMP didn't have nondestructive editing. It still doesn't. I'm still waiting for it. They said it will come in GIMP 3, for years. I feel like that update is just never coming. We're at GIMP 2.99.18 now. Can you believe it? 2.99.18. Who even reaches minor version .99?!
Hospitals and schools don’t support this thesis: in the USA, the bulk of the operators in both segments are either governments or non-profits.
I highly doubt he will serve all 25. There is no parole in a fed case, but could get reduced time for good behavior. Unlikely he will be in prison stabbing people.
Yeah, I think those people just didn’t watch Lewis’ interviews on SBF.

Seeing those tarnished my whole opinion on Lewis, and I cannot disassociate it from the book at this point. Not because I am “not able to separate the art from the artist”, but because Lews was talking about the exact subject matter of the book in those interviews. All while providing enough clarifying extra detail to fully affirm to me that he is either seriously delusional or is just on the grift of caring more about writing an exciting story (instead of actually having a more factual take on things).

I had already got burned by one of his books before[0], but i took it as a one-off. The SBF one, and especially those interviews, sold me on the idea that this is how he just is. Which is sad, because his writing and plots and stories are genuinely good, but the problem is that they pretend to be almost journalism. I really hope he considers going all in on grounded-in-the-real-world fiction genre officially.

[0] That was with one of his earlier books, Flash Boys. It was kind of embarrassing to reread it years later, once I actually gained some literacy in what the markets actually were and the high level mechanisms of how they operate. The framing of characters and events in the book was not only extremely biased, the whole premise and the problem statement were hanging on the absolute worst bad faith takes that were a almost a foot into “this is not a straight up lie only on the most technical level” territory.
The good thing is that you can sell your stock if you don’t agree with management and invest in their competitors who are encouraging remote work.
I'm not asking why Boeing continued to make money. I'm asking why the system as a whole didn't spot much sooner that their engineering had been trashed, and some kind of intervention wasn't made before two fatal airline accidents and other near misses happened. The point of the oversight we have is supposed to be to spot problems before they reach that level.

If your answer is that not just Boeing, but our whole system is in fact that corrupt...well, that's not a very comforting answer, is it?
Would probably be a lot harder for police to do anything since you could argue someone else did it in an attempt to get you in trouble or whatever.
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I made a Chrome extension to remove the number of upvotes, comments, and karma from HackerNews. These numbers bias readers' perception of the content and put pressure on writers to only produce "likable" content.

With this extension, you can remove easily these numbers and focus only on the content, which is what matters.
A quick search indicates that 14-18 year olds can obtain a permit to work in the state of California.
Their website is an epitome of idiocy of modern web product design. They want my email, because we are all "stardust". There is no clear explanation of what their product is or how it's different from a photo app and a notebook. Instead of a proper description of their business, they send to the Business Insider article about the founder who wants to prevent unhappiness.
Everyone's coalescing at a max of 4096 tokens/12 "pages" via API (page is 250 words, which is 1 8.5"x11" double spaced)

To your point, doesn't matter anyway, it's nigh impossible to get over 2K of output with every trick and bit of guidance you can think of (I got desperate when 16K/48 pages came out to "make it work", even completely deforming tricks like making it number each line and write a reminder on each line that it should write 1000 lines don't work)
Ephemeral key handshakes are blocked by enterprises that do TLS decryption.
So then what is the issue?
The search term you want for that is "binary erasure channel" + LDPC decoding .
> Markets are the best way we’ve come up with to allocate capital.

Properly regulated, competitive markets. Aerospace regulation is based on a lot of trust, which Boeing seems to have exploited, causing this problem. The market is not competitive; there are only two players and the output of only one of them cannot meet demand.

> Committees and commissars do not do a better job.

Dichotomies are good for making punctual arguments online, but you do yourself a huge disservice by using them to frame the options in your own mind. Do you honestly think that the options are 1. Antisocial free market allowed to do whatever it wants for capital gain, or 2. Despotic communism? You are smarter than that.
They might throw him under the bus or suicide him if it is bad enough. Right now he is still "one of us" so I don't think that's going to happen.
Or turn him white-hat and have SBF work for the SEC, using his skills to find other fraudsters
> 8 exaflops per sec

Your number is off by 64x.

It can do 125 petaflops at FP16

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...
Oh, I wouldn't try to squeeze it down into a one liner. Maybe for a simple definition of the quoted text that doesn't need to account for edge cases like escaped quotes inside...
The stamps have "unique" codes, but a genuine counterfeit must still have a code -- and to be useful it must duplicate the code on a real stamp.

If the counterfeit gets used first, the stamp is marked as spent, and when the unlucky purchaser of the real stamp tries to use it, they're told theirs is "counterfeit" because it's flagged as "used" in the database?
There's a sort of "layer 0" problem above this which is: requiring 1000 different libraries from 900 different publishers to make a hello world program is going to end in tears. The modern languages need to consolidate into a few stdlib type libraries. Once that's done the problem of assuring the supply chain becomes more tractable.
I had to run the linked articles through a translator, but I didn't see any mention of Audrey Tang or claims that this was in any way an assassination attempt.
that's not open source.
Back when my kid was born I bought a video cam. I upgraded the videocam a couple of times, but I realized I didn't use it much because when I did I was videoing not being part of what was going on.

As a result there isn't much video of the kid, but I don't regret it. By the timewe switched to video cams in our pockets, I had pretty much given up, and apart from a few few-second captures, I haven't shot any video in years. And TBH I don't miss it at all.

Apps like this are simply more of the same.
Layer 2 blobs aren't even a solution either, arguably. You have to then engineer the layer 2 bridge to have it's own anonymization and escrow handling technology that is disconnected to the Ethereum network entirely. And realistically speaking, "closer to zero" does not mean free (or even at negligible cost). L2 chains can only exist when transactions on the mainnet are made impossible due to unbalanced gas prices. It's a catch-22.
I wonder if MDMA would help, it definitely increases empathy.
SG&A is a cost on the income statement. This can only improve their quarterly earnings. Unfortunate it's the case, but stocks don't appreciate on goodwill (real goodwill not the line item).
> Or is there something unique about monero that makes it fast?

The fact people aren't using it. It's just a PoW coin with some special sauce. Same grey goo energy and equipment dynamics.
Isn’t that taken the analogy too literally? You’re saying nature is promoting humans to generate the next token to be outputted? What about all the other organisms that don’t have language? How do you distinguish nature prompts from nature training datasets? What makes you think nature is tokenized? What makes you think language generation is fundamental to biology?
So you can ship your shitty product and get paid. That’s almost always the reason. Engineers have this annoying quality of asking prickly questions and many managers, or people in general, aren’t exactly thrilled by someone constantly questioning them or pointing out errors in their reasoning.

There’s other reasons sometimes. Control maybe. Maybe they have damage themselves and don’t realize what they are doing. But the big one I’d say is the desire to control the product release timeline.

Btw we all keep saying managers, but I’ve seen structures where the lead engineer is in this position of having personell controls along with technical control and it can be, and in my experience was, even worse.
DuckDB can both read/write to PG. What exactly usecase you are unlocking?..
Not a true Scotsman after all, eh?
Only to be clawed back in bankruptcy court. The donations did more harm than good because of that
Madoff was in his 60s.
it looks like TensorRT-LLM (TRT-LLM) is the way to go for a realtime API for more and more companies (i.e perplexity ai’s pplx-api, Mosaic’s, baseten…). Would be super-nice to find people deploying multimodal (i.e LLaVA or CLIP/BLIP) to discuss approaches (and cry a bit together!)
Vim had this feature for years. But it took until I tested lazyvim (neovim distribution of plugins) that makes session restore so easily accessible, that I now rely on it.
My Amiga 2000 had a PC on a card in it that used a window on my Amiga workbench as output. It's not like making weird stuff work together was unusual.
how do you know they were being snarky? I consider what they said to be a good thing.
The best infosec advice I ever received was “data is toxic”.
Some lawyer put that there as boilerplate and nobody caught it.
The current system is crazy to me as well, I've come to refuse to use online dependencies in my projects. It's brittle and it's a security nightmare. If I need a library, I look for a self contained one and I vendor it into the project.

In other words I bypass the package manager but I still appreciate the ability to browse the online catalogue. :)
I have examples in my logs of GPTBot fetching only /robots.txt, and nothing from the same /24 block fetched anything else after that, so it seems at least that bot respects robots.txt.

Maybe your question is "how do we know if whatever system GPTBot feeds downstream didn't just get your content via something else that crawl your site?" I am not sure we have anything to defend against those, other than signalling via robots.txt to say that our content is not intended for AI use.
We use it every day for cross-border payments.
Don't forget the part where they based most of their valuation on a currency they printed.
I'm rather baffled at this level of nitpicking. Yes, if the software was being written by completely different people with completely different goals they might then start to acquire user data but what does that have to do with the point (that data this team and this management don't have cannot be leaked)?
That is a shame. I use a small set daily.
ONLY "for purposes of providing the services to you."

> You hereby grant to Vultr a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, fully paid-up, worldwide license (including the right to sublicense through multiple tiers) to use, reproduce, process, adapt, publicly perform, publicly display, modify, prepare derivative works, publish, transmit and distribute each of your User Content, or any portion thereof, in any form, medium or distribution method now known or hereafter existing, known or developed, and otherwise use and commercialize the User Content in any way that Vultr deems appropriate, without any further consent, notice and/or compensation to you or to any third parties, *for purposes of providing the services to you.*
The Transmutations of Dr. Price
There's a government app called Chivo that people use for this, and a lot of shopkeepers do have it, but they begrudgingly accept it. People much prefer USDC because they don't want to get paid in assets that are volatile
Are you familiar with bit shifts? When you shift a 32-bit integer by one, for example, one bit will get shifted “off” the integer. In other words, the integer will have lost that bit.

Shift on an array similarly shifts an element off the array. Unshift puts an element back on the array.

Maybe more graphically: I you shift books on a shelf, the outermost book may fall off the shelf. To put it back on, you first need to “unshift” the books.

How I actually remember it is from Perl, where shift is commonly used to process the next argument from the argument array. And you rarely unshift.
Ok, you try building a better one then.
Sounds like the person won't receive their mail if the "fee" is not paid though?
Well before the downfall they also referred to him as a wunderkind.
https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-odd

It's stuff like this which makes me hate npm and the modern Javascript ecosystem in general.

You start a new project and pull in a bigger thing like Quasar and npm fetches hundreds of packages and the summary tells you that 5 of them have vulnerabilities in them before you even get started. What am I supposed to do with them?

But regarding the string-width problem, im not sure if you've come across "What every developer should know about Unicode" [0], because it appears to be a problem which requires an external package.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37735801
If you look at the superbowl ad, it all looks American style and doesn't say much about offshore. "FTX US all rights reserved." and crypto is volatile it says in the small print. It looked kind of US regulated and US regulators certainly took note when it stole US customers money. https://youtu.be/hWMnbJJpeZc?t=129
Forging stamps is up to 10 years in the UK, it's considered the same as counterfeiting money.

But I think it has to be proven that it was intentional, so if the sender was simply scammed by someone selling fake stamps that wouldn't be prosecutable.
Congrats on the launch! I'm excited to see how your product develops.

A quick note: while playing around with the postmortem report presentation, I ran into a white screen of death. I appreciate you gave the user an error message, many folks just let the white screen appear and that's it! Anyway, if you'd like to reproduce the crash, here's what you do:

1. Open up the presentation mode by clicking on the "> Present" button in the top right corner

2. Navigate to the first graph page

3. Click the settings icon

4. Change the graph type to a bar graph

5. Under the "X" coordinate section of the graph settings, change the dropdown from "TIMESTAMP" to "100*(...)"

6. This will give an error message stating "Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information)."

and in the console I'm given a message saying

TypeError: r is null 69-b1345c3baf602dab.js:1:3791

maybe that's useful?

Anyway, congratulations again, I'm excited to see Thorntale's future progress!
We need a neutral code signing vendor that does international identity verification. We can fix this tomorrow, but the big three tech corps all make money from charging $$$ for what can be done with an openssl command.
> The problem is, most people are perfectly fine trusting their financial institutions.

Most people also don't need free speech, because they have nothing to say.
"I can't realistically use credit cards. I can't walk in a store and pay using my credit card. And if I want to send some money to my friend, I have to walk them through of opening a bank account which they won't do because it's pointless anyway and I can just hand them the $50 dollar bill" - Someone years ago.

Do you expect every store to start accepting it instantly?

Your argument does not disqualify Monero as a real currency. It is a real currency, it's used every day for transactions. Just because you don't find use for it in your life does not disqualify it.
Federal gas tax is not a percentage
There are expectations of course, but the ones from a corp will be different from a VC. Typically the corp will expect you to build something they need and can use, a VC will only want financial return on investment.
A reminder that US life expectancy dropped two years in a row before covid19.
You can always make an app that is not competitive with those which do store user data…
and for good or ill, even Borders is expanding again
If that was the cost of decentralization I am sure a lot of users and especially content creators would consider it. I would rather pay 5c per year on Twitter and own my social graph, rather than pay 0c and leave the platform in the hands of the highest bidder.
Bitcoin original plan was about "digital cash", it was fully focused on permissionless payments, but that's about it.
Not just the auto save, but that it is using GIT on the backend for the timeline. Such a helpful feature!
Thank you for telling this moron exactly what I wanted to say. White collar crime is incredibly violent, it's just well hidden.
https://archive.is/Vf2pR
He cultivated the "Zuck look" intentionally because he was tricking people like you who believed in it.
That's such an enormously huge loophole. A literal interpretation is that if I host a server there, they can feed my hard drive ("you or your end users submit, upload, post, host, store, or otherwise make available") into an LLM and sell it back to me, and, coincidentally, anyone else.

Maybe that's not what they intend. However, that's what it says.
Problem is that the people that are supposed to throw that book are just as morally (but potentially not only morally) corrupt and may too have skeletons in their closet. It is a systemic problem. The Post Office wouldn't have taken such a gamble unless they knew they'd be able to talk their way out of any consequences should it backfire.
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