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How are these "code pushing" technologies holding up when it comes to security?

Apps loading and executing additional code at runtime (as opposed to e.g. gating behavior using feature flags fetched from the backend) just doesn't sound like a great idea, even if it might technically pass the various app stores' review guidelines.
You're right. In those cases a lot of up-front investment needs to be made to hit critical mass
Such a Christian portrayal of hell and heaven.
That's the next one on the chopping block, wait till Sora and related services comes out, it's all going to be digitally generated and will look just as real so yes it will be content about humans but without human doing/creating much of it.
Occasionally people don't understand how to plug extension power cables together, either, especially during times of high stress and low sleep.

Once upon a time, when I was in IT support, I got a call from someone in a satellite office across town saying that their computer wouldn't turn on. A new production had begun and everyone was a bit frantic, so this was an urgent request. After asking them to hold the power switch in for a few seconds and try to turn it on again, I asked them to make sure the power cable was secure and that the computer was plugged in. It was, of course, but the computer still wouldn't turn on, so it was time to jump on the bicycle and ride across town with a new power supply in tow, figuring it would be a quick fix.

When I arrive, I see that, indeed, the computer was plugged in to a power strip. And that power strip was plugged in to itself. From then on, I always made sure to ask, "Is the computer plugged into the wall?" Saved myself a few bicycle trips that way.
Rewrite in (safe) Rust, I am sure many will enjoy to compare how it runs.
I've only once ever used an NVidia card long ago, and learned enough to never try that again.

I'm not talking about low-level system/graphics bugs, but standard shell/toolkit/application bugs. Things like "alt-letter does not select the correct menu" and "switching between English/Greek keyboard layouts sometimes gets stuck".
Gary Marcus has been calling the end of the AI bubble since 2012 or something.
Yes, it's a demo when you still have these issues going on:

Cruise: https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/cruise-to-pull-all-of-it...

VW, Ford: https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/26/business/ford-argo-ai-vw-shut...

Apple: https://www.therobotreport.com/apple-reportedly-pulls-plug-o...

Tesla: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-...
this is great feedback.

I updated the title to "automatically generate beautiful product updates" and the made the demo image a little more obvious with a heading etc

think this would have helped you understand the product a little better faster? :)
I assumed this was going to be about repurposing the dish as a solar concentrator, but they're literally just lining the dish with standard solar cells. This makes no sense beyond the PR value -- you could literally just put these panels on a southward-facing slope and get better net efficiency...
Before that, weak amateurs were just replicating human joseki. That's nothing new. They definitely give a player a good start, but knowing which to use and when, and of course how to follow up until the game is over is no simple task. It also happens to be the case that AlphaGo, KataGo etc. prefer simplifying the board state. Remove complexity and win only by a thin margin, because that's all that's needed. Memorizing AI preferences is much easier than some of these highly complicated joseki.
It’s amazing how he’s so far managed to avoid repercussions from his outright lies and deceit. The biggest example being Tesla full self driving that has been promised for years and never materialised.
You have to squint pretty hard to think that I'm "trash talking" anything in my post.
National id is completely fine inside shengen. Please inform yourself before spreading misinformation.
ARM64EC is one of Microsoft's mediation to this. It allows incremental porting of applications to ARM.
Passkeys on supported websites provide a simpler/streamlined experience vs passwords as they are automatically generated and strong/unique by default without requiring the user to manage the strength of each and every password that they create.

They are also phishing-resistant, which means if a user mistypes a website and lands on a phishing website, the passkey will not work, where a password would expose private credentials.

Passkeys are also exported/reimported in Proton Pass just like regular passwords without any additional work, and as soon as an industry standard for backups is finalized, we'll support that too. They can also be included in shared vaults.
It's just a little boost, AI will keep getting better and better at faster pace, humans will have to figure out a different strategy all together.
Different scoring models deemphasize the effect medical debt and medical collections have.

https://www.fico.com/blogs/medical-collection-removals-have-...
Wasn't the exponential increase in data and compute always part of the scaling hypothesis? That's my memory of it from reading [1] years ago. Most of the field thought scaling would hurt, openai thought you'd get logarithmic benefit from it, and openai won that bet.

1: https://gwern.net/scaling-hypothesis
Seems to load fine for me right now
"Culture fit"
> Err... isn't the whole point of a big number release to introduce big, breaking changes?

Certainly not. Breaking changes should still be avoided as much as possible.
That's not all that impressive compared to Lucretius, who writes the following in 50 BCE:

> In the beginning, there were many freaks. Earth undertook Experiments - bizarrely put together, weird of look Hermaphrodites, partaking of both sexes, but neither; some Bereft of feet, or orphaned of their hands, and others dumb, Being devoid of mouth; and others yet, with no eyes, blind. Some had their limbs stuck to the body, tightly in a bind, And couldn't do anything, or move, and so could not evade Harm, or forage for bare necessities. And the Earth made Other kinds of monsters too, but in vain, since with each, Nature frowned upon their growth; they were not able to reach The flowering of adulthood, nor find food on which to feed, Nor be joined in the act of Venus.

> For all creatures need Many different things, we realize, to multiply And to forge out the links of generations: a supply Of food, first, and a means for the engendering seed to flow Throughout the body and out of the lax limbs; and also so The female and the male can mate, a means they can employ In order to impart and to receive their mutual joy.

> Then, many kinds of creatures must have vanished with no trace Because they could not reproduce or hammer out their race. For any beast you look upon that drinks life-giving air, Has either wits, or bravery, or fleetness of foot to spare, Ensuring its survival from its genesis to now.
Trading with the EU is no harder outside than inside for the UK apparently. If that were the case then there'd now be less of it but after a brief adjustment period the proportion of UK/EU trade has remained constant. The EU rules are oriented towards the needs of Germany and France, so goods trading was "harmonized" around their processes and services trading (where the UK is strong) was never really addressed at all, by the EU's own admission.

Informal/reasonable interpretations of EU law don't work. To even bring that up as an idea shows the culture gap that drove the UK out. The culture in Britain is incompatible with that. What happens is activists go to the ECJ and get a ruling that's unreasonable but formal, which the UK civil service (which likes clear rules) then goes ahead and implements strictly whilst other countries with different cultures would just ignore the rules. This process was called "gold plating". The result was the UK would end up with the worst possible outcome: a reputation for fighting against bad rules and being generally disagreeable/uncooperative, but then actually enforcing those rules when they pass anyway. The approach used by many other EU countries was to all agree on how wonderful the new rules were and then widely flout them, hence why obscure topics like fishing took on surprising prominence in the Brexit debates, the flouting of those rules was a long term and neuralgic issue that typified the problem.

Ten years from 2016 is only two years from now. There won't be any big changes in two years. The UK economy has closely tracked the rest of Europe and isn't doing any worse post-Brexit than other countries, or even sometimes slightly better (nothing to write home about compared to the USA of course, though how much that's due to US deficit spending is open to question).

> From what my journalist friends are telling me

Journalists?! They are widely distrusted for good reasons! You certainly shouldn't be learning anything about Brexit from them, they will happily say all kinds of nonsense that isn't true to try and defend the EU.
Better in which way?
A common microcontroller board for building hobby mechanical keyboards is the Teensy 4. This uses an ARM Cortex M7 with 1MB RAM, 2MB flash, running at 600MHz.

In 1986, an exceptional machine like the IRIS 2000 ran at 10MHz, and fully-loaded had 16MB RAM.

Do you need something as powerful as the ARM Cortex M7 to build a keyboard the way you're describing? Well, no, but you'd have trouble doing it with less than a 6502 or a Z80, and computer keyboards have existed for decades longer than those chips. Which were the entire CPU of microcomputers such as the Apple // and Commodore 128, respectively.

So it would be possible now, but it would require rearchitecting a basic system which is working fine, for every operating system which could conceivably use it.

Furthermore, most people would be inconvenienced by this. The two sides of the coin are, on the one hand, you plug in your mechanical keyboard into any computer and it Just Works. On the other hand are people who switch keyboard layouts. They outnumber the mech enthusiasts by what must be hundreds to one, switching layouts based on what one is doing is very common in Europe and ubiquitous in places where the language is written using a script which isn't derived from the Latin one.

So that's the historical reason why it didn't happen, and the contemporary reason why it still hasn't, and probably won't. This actually inconveniences me, I have to jump through several levels of hoop to put Unicode characters on the higher planes of my split-key, but it is what it is.
I'm not sure a computer without search defeats the best human playing without any search, but I know it defeats 1dan players (very smart people who put in 5-10 years of deliberate practice) when they are allowed to use as much search as they are able.
They wanted to see a valid national id of any shengen country, which are easier to get than passports (except in sweden, because it's the police releasing both, so might as well just get a passport).
> spices would be more of a concern than produce

It looks like they were looking at ground spices?
What is smarter? If smart is doing infinite calculations at lightning speed then AI passed that decades ago. In many areas, AI is smarter than any individual so saying that AI will be smarter next year means nothing. Let's define the mark that defines smart first.
it really is astonishing that the FTC or some state AG hasn't intervened in this absolutely mental situation.
You can email me at exponentile@bellika.dk
Up next: 6502 emulator in a single SQL query
There are people who strongly believe data is a non-blocker possibility due to synthetic data that is of high quality.

Dario Amodei from Anthropic. https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/will-scaling-work
How will the war in Ukraine be viewed from this perspective in the far future?
Requiring MySQL for a desktop service running in the background honestly seems crazy to me.
"Unix interface on MacOS" which is OSX being basically built off of Free/Net BSD, is so broken that it spawned brew.
I liked and appreciated this, two points I'd like to make: you should disable optimizations and whatever inlining caused printf to become puts (or, alternatively, write the hello world to use puts directly), second would be to break your compile step into the 4 real parts: preprocess, compile, assemble, link. Or add --save-temps to the cc line and describe the various files created. There's a lot less magic involved if you can see the pipeline.
I agree that "still just demos" is an overstate. But I'd say that in 2015 a lot of people predict that in 2020 we'd have driverless Ubers everywhere. And that just didn't happen.

The challenges that are still open in getting driverless vehicles to operate in more chaotic scenarios like India or Latin America seem pretty much in line with what he's talking about: new improvements need exponentially more data.
>Why not? If you give everyone the same subsidy and adjust taxes accordingly, then the welfare cliff disappears, a marginal dollar of income is genuinely valuable, and a screwup in how someone’s need is measured doesn’t matter so much. As an added bonus, wealthier and more influential people might use more social benefits and thus apply pressure to make them better.

There's no such thing as a perfect calculation for this. There is essentially no welfare cliff now. What you're proposing is to tax "wealthy" people so much that they have no choice but to lean on social benefits, and expect them to be thankful for the opportunity to participate in the welfare system. You say it very optimistically but it is actually an awful thing.

>Why not? Healthy, well educated are a massive, and even essential, benefit to society. If nothing else, they’re the future taxpayers! Why, exactly, should their parents be the ones to bear almost all of the cost of producing them?

Parents of kids get most of the benefits of having those kids. That's why they bear the cost of it. I can't believe I have to explain this... Other people's kids will not help me with my bills or tend to me when I'm sick. If they are somehow taxed to pay for my existence, I expect them to avoid that as much as possible. My own kids on the other hand might actually care about me, even with all the moral decline we have seen in out culture.
Not "passport", valid ID. Which can be required also when not crossing a border, so you should have one.
It's still down.

18 days and counting. I'm getting notifications about impending domain registration expirations due to the billing failures. No response to urgent support tickets. Oy.
Just to stir the pot even further:

I recently picked up Dante and enrolled in an online course. Inferno and Purgatorio: no problem. I wouldn't say "couldn't put it down" but it was no problem to read. I also watched the Ken Burns special.

Paradiso: hate it. Beatrice is boring.
I have a serious medical condition, and at different times have had significant medical debt. I've never once had an issue getting access to care, even with organizations that I had bills in collection with.
Why big corps don't give donations to open-source maintainers?
Why make things fast and easy when they could be slower and more complicated?
I’m excited about the Windows release bringing standardization and solid hardware in this area. Apple Silicon is locked down, so having a traditional bootloader (which Windows Boot is) on ARM will be great for linux adoption in this space — which is really what I see for these devices going forward.
It isn't security theater at all. Did you read the link?

You wouldn't be able to switch to another application is the point. What you suggest greying out, would easily allow other applications to hijack that prompt or replace it with their own.

That's a large part of what 'Secure Desktop' aims to prevent, and it succeeds at doing so.
The difficulty is that we have reached a point where any advocacy for correctness is branded as "perfectionism".
not a weekend, but a week: https://instagib.me
> I reckon even a Markov chain model of similar magnitude could wow us in various ways.

I bet $100 it cannot.
It's only ~1000 LoC, seems like a pretty good case study to port over to other runtimes and show they can stand up to CUDA.
Pros saw the writing on the wall, but remember that no bot was even particularly close to pro strength until 2016. Go was dogmatically described as still being decades away from bots being able to play competitively. For some professionals like Lee Sedol, the burning desire was to play the best games and best moves possible. To such an abstract game about intuition, seeing it finally be dominated by machines could understandably be crushing.
This reminded me of this video "Advanced Hello World in Zig - Loris Cro" https://youtu.be/iZFXAN8kpPo although not a equivalent comparison but still a intresting watch
It does not look like the article you linked to mentions that, but the easiest thing to steal is livestock. Cattle and horses move on their own feet, you don't need to carry them. A few raiders can come back from a raid with a few thousands pounds worth of meat, and very little effort. Getting the same amount of calories in grains is many times more difficult and riskier.
107MB of cPython defeated

Go to try for self

Step 1 download 2.4GB of CUDA
I’ve had issues on Windows 10 recently with windows updates not installing properly. After lots of research in their forums I found that I have to run scripts people have come up with to fix the issue, which just does not seem trustworthy or user friendly. I have just let these updates repeatedly fail because I am worried about messing up my installed OS somehow. On top of this drop in quality, I’ve seen more and more anti-competitive / dark pattern behavior with notifications and pop ups trying to push me towards Microsoft software and services. I feel like Microsoft is violating what a general purpose computer is supposed to be.

Are newer Windows versions any better about software quality or these dark patterns? Given that MacOS already is free of such nagging and is already great functionally (like on battery life and performance), I am not sure what motivation there is (other than price?) to take a chance on future Snapdragon Elite laptops.
The true hacker mentality is technically this.
https://archive.ph/Yq1wX
Pitching a Lasagna Keyboard
Objective-C++ does exist, so their paths didn't diverge so much that they didn't remain in each others' ecosystems on a permanent basis (on Apple, which is the only place both regularly intersected)
Looking at the code it's just loops with simple floating point math. There's absolutely nothing in the code that would benefit from C++ features.
Change the example to a gun in a holster on a hip then.
The overhead really isn't that bad is it? Since the the python code is mostly about saying multiply matrix A with matrix B, and then that actual computation is done by optimized low level code.
I think your Flutter knowledge is really very out of date. They rewrote a rendering engine from the ground up and released it about a year ago and a lot of the problems you describe are no longer the case.
Can you give a specific example of what you could do with Awesome WM that you can't replicate easily with plasma 5 or an available extension?
Loki 3.0 Released
Key features mentioned in the release notes are:

- Bloom filters for queries ('needle in haystack' problem)
- Native OpenTelemetry support
- Updated helm charts
- Lambda/Promtail support dropping labels
- Docs improvements

Personally, I'm thrilled that the problem with high-cardinality labels will [hopefully] get addressed after 6 years (that's the top item, with bloom filters).

The architecture Loki has chosen is great for keeping costs down and using simple blob-storage (S3) for data. However, it makes it hard to quickly query unique keys such as trace IDs or user IDs. But bloom filters will hopefully will do the job.

I raised the needle in haystack problem back in 2018, so it's great to see this landing:

https://github.com/grafana/loki/issues/91

For anyone that's curious, bloom filters is a clever technique:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter
Exactly. I’m not a web dev dev and don’t run the dev channel builds. I don’t remember the last time Firefox didn’t work for me.
Im sure state level actors are building clones of old software with little network functionality to pwned people en mass.
IMO Homebrew's success is a testament to the compatibility layer. All of the modern "linux" tools run natively (resident, same FS, Network, hardware) on MacOS and the patches are minimal.
Raising the question of why it isn't in FORTRAN.
As far as I can tell, its optional dependency is Open MP, not CUDA. Doesn't seem directly dependent on CUDA.
> KataGo was trained with more knowledge of the game (feature engineering and loss engineering), so it trained faster.

Not really important to your point, but it's not really just that it uses more game knowledge. Mostly it's that a small but dedicated community (especially lightvector) worked hard to build on what AlphaGo and LeelaZero did.

Lightvector is a genius and put a lot of effort into KataGo. It wasn't just add some game knowledge and that's it. https://github.com/lightvector/KataGo?tab=readme-ov-file#tra... has a bunch of info if you're interested.
> and it seems very odd that the prosecution included no successful
rebuttal that I have seen. Perhaps such cases were the ones the PO
chose not to press??

Indeed. I do understand what you mean about the actual (legal)
prosecution, but if you'll allow me to use the word in it's more
ordinary sense.. to pursue... then Bates himself is a case in point,
no? He is a technologically and legally savvy person. He would not
sign anything that made him legally responsible for system errors and
when he challenged the PO with technical talk they just silently fired
him.

I think what we see here is a prototype of a particularly nasty kind
of "techno bullying" that seeks to bamboozle and intimidate ordinary
people who put faith in technology. People assume that they are not
being lied to by "experts". Those days have sadly gone. These are
bullies who will only prosecute people who are too poorly educated to
fight back.

This is exactly the sort of thing that disgusts me. And it disgusted
the late Ross Anderson too.

The change we need is in the law, to take away the weapons that these
bullies use to extract and intimidate... we must assume that systems
and those who build, maintain and defend them are not disinterested,
and so technical or expert accounts cannot be trusted prima facie The
burden should be reversed.

Another thing I'd like to see, is the legal ability to strip people of
qualifications and accolades. If you're a chartered engineer and you
lie to protect company profits then you can already get ousted from a
professional body. I think if engineers or managers lie or cover up
technical facts in court they should lose their status, MBA, or
masters degree. Otherwise we're allowing digital tech, especially
around security, to become a bullshitter's profession.
> can be super intransigent

I learned a new word today.

And I agree, but the end might be a bit optimistic at how often or efficiently that happens. In my experience, most are all too willing to accept the institutionalized choices.
I think the great architectural challenge would be - how does one add that byte to the IP header in a non-breaking way?
You can be in the upper-middle class and have medical debt that you're unable to pay.