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> That assumption became obsolete the moment that Matt implemented task packing, but we didn’t notice. This code, which was still simple and easy to read, was now also wrong.

It seems like Matt did not fully understand the platform he was developing for and introduced a bug as his code did not satisfy the invariants.

It is really nice when invariants are checked either in types or in tests so Matt would have been alerted when he introduced the bug.

I don't like the discourse the article introduces. It must always be the one who writes the newest code who has the responsibility to adjust previous code. That also includes changing obselete modules (where invariants does no suffice anymore).
I built a successful tech career that I hate How did it happen?
Also the borders. My grandma simply cannot avoid touching the screen while showing me something. “Oh, it disappeared”. Borderless devices require very specific, unnatural palm motorics to handle.

Also, when choosing my phone I was between 13 mini and se2. I got se2 and my buddy 13 mini. Our every interaction in telegram ended with <buddy recording audio>, because to swipe away an app you have to squeeze your phone in palm, which touches all sorts of borders. I want to shame everyone “borderless” designer out there, you suck.
What do you mean “the deal with the library”? What deal are you referring to? Libraries does not make individual deals with publishers or authors. They buy the books at market price and pay authors some additional royalties determined by objective criteria according to an agreement with the organization for authors and illustrators. It is all public information.

If you want to make an accusation of corruption you need to be more specific.
yeah, it's an analogy to how odd of a strategy it is to design a consumer VR-device at this point in time without considering VR-gaming as a central use-case.
"is practically nothing on modern hardware" if the data is already present in the L2 cache. Random RAM access that stalls execution is expensive.

My guess is this is why he didn't see any speedup: all the code could fit inside the L2 cache, so he did not have to pay for RAM access for the deference.

The number of different classes is important, not the number of objects as they have the same small number of vtable pointers.

It might be different for large codebases like Chrome and Firefox.
The EU tried making micro USB mandatory only after first asking the industry to cooperate and self-standardize. Legislation was the very last thing tried.

After years of Apple stalling not cooperating, the EU got fed up, and forced them.

GDPR was similar: Only after years of abuse by adtech etc.., the regulator took action.

Maybe this is a communication mismatch between US and EU culture? EU companies tend to take the hint from the EU and do something before they are forced. US companies say: ...but there is no law forcing me? Then act surprised when said law is written.
I tried creative coding. Sonic Pi, Processing, p5js, there are so many frameworks built around creative coding that I didnt know even existed. It was really fun.
Ugh this guy was trying to argue that only HOAs can control leaf blowers. Only an American would forget the existence of actual government when talking about central authorities who can enforce rules.
I myself improve my crypto code with rock spiders all the time!
Kaboom was a pleasure to use.

Don't get me wrong, it's very simple, but it was fun.

Felt like using Flash again. :)
>The team discovered that a single chip responsible for storing a portion of the FDS memory — including some of the FDS computer’s software code — isn’t working.

No one thought of having backup computers on the spacecraft?
I went all out for my gramp's PC:

- Linux Debian with default user privileges

- XFCE kiosk mode with everything as shortcut icons (that can't be deleted) + removed all UI access to everything else

- Monthly Borg save of the /home dir

- X2Go for screen sharing when assistance required

So that's the great thing with Linux: you can make it look exactly how you want (huge icons, etc.), and you basically just save the /home dir to save the "state" for the user. Downside is that config is a lot of work.
Do you have to check just for the product that you're selling or for the inputs into that product?

Do you have to check that the tablets, keyboards and mice used by your employees and those of outsourcing companies were not made in North Korea? Do you have to check that the ink used on the keyboards weren't made in North Korea? Do you have to check that the coal for the power station for the keyboard factory didn't come from North Korea?
They have product managers doing product management; you're no longer the audience.

Mature Enterprise products will have so many obscure and random features that you practically need certification to understand all of them; but most end-users are not supposed to understand all of them. They just want to understand the ones that affect them. The fact that the features offered are maybe 50% as good (if that) as the ones offered by competing products is completely besides the Actual Value Proposition available to users who get hired to work inside BigEnterprise, which is the following choice:

a) Use a 50%-as-good product that is already installed and supported and by internal team;
b) Take the hard road to try to get a new product in: find the budget for a new product, convince the internal (IT?) team to install and maintain it, get them to integrate it with the rest of the BigEnterprise's systems (at least stuff like user management and sending emails), get the new product through Procurement processes.

Is it any wonder that 99% of the time, BigEnterprise employees choose (a) ?

Product strategy when selling to these customers is: be the default choice, not the best choice. Get internal enterprise users to keep choosing (a). Eventually, so much internal enterprise usage depends on 50%-utility features, that anyway the system becomes nearly impossible to rip out, and then you can start to put in yearly price increases that they can't stop paying.

As long as you have a mainline feature that is best-in-class to get your foot in the door with new customers (so that their users can start using the 50%-utility features), you have a coherent product strategy. GitLab's best-in-class mainline feature is the combination of Git repository hosting + GitLab CI; their closest competitor is GitHub Enterprise which is more expensive (also GitHub Actions sucks), and Bitbucket is a sad joke.
> If it was made industry standard back then, USB-C would have probably never come along or would have taken much much longer.

USB-C is a clusterfuck of a connector, and I'm not just talking about the various voltages and how using the wrong cable can fry your equipment. I'm talking about the physical connector itself. See, the USB-C port has a shroud around the outside and a "tongue" in the middle where all the contacts are. The USB-C plug has a shroud which fits into the port's shroud, but inside the plug's shroud are all the contacts which align with the contacts on the tongue. This tongue is fragile, necessitating replacement of the whole port if it breaks or is otherwise damaged. If I am not very careful with my phone's USB-C connector, it can get flaky and make even charging (let alone data transfer) difficult and annoying within a year.

Do you want to see an example of a good design? Look at Apple's Lightning connector, where the fragile tongue is on the more easily replaceable plug, and the port is just the shroud. Meaning my wife just plugs or unplugs her iPhone all the time, never worrying about what kind of damage dirt or lint might cause if it gets into the port or whether inserting or removing the plug too hard might permanently harm the port. It Just Works, every time.

Mandating USB-C just made the connector situation worse for everybody. Mandating an open standard doesn't really help much if it's a shitty standard. It just squelches any improvements a company might make.
I worked on a 25 year project that stretched the tech many times in its life.

On many occasions to get ambitious things to work despite a lack of good support, special subsystems were created with whatever wacky solution could be made to work, wrapped in sane surface API’s so the system as a whole could remain organized and accomplish the task well.

Five or so years after any of these were created, they could have easily been replaced with more reasonable code. But they worked reliably and efficiently. Their API’s were sensible and stable. So they accumulated.

If you reviewed all the code as a whole for the first time it was like finding a secret circus.
The movie about Ellison "Dreams With Sharp Teeth" has some great moments like that, it is worth a watch.
Hard disagree. Lobbying is moneys end run around public debate, and public interest. Where conversations happen in public (aside - they can't currently in US, due to the near complete ownership of all media outlets by a few conglomerates) - politicians can be swayed by public opinion. When conversations happen in private, especially post citizens united - money literally talks. There is no evaluation of context beyond electoral consequences. Frequently all too easily manipulated with campaign finance and scare mongering. By conflating the lobbying of corporate institutions, investment firms and wealthy Super PACs with the requests and communications made by citizens and non commercial groups, you serve to disguise the nature of lobbying in the US. Which is explicitly legalised corruption. Cash for votes.
Everybody's suggesting changing to Apple or Chrome products, which sounds like a good idea to me.

With my parents, who are 80 and having an increasingly hard time using technology, I have the added complication that my dad (who is the acknowledged tech guy in their marriage and who probably has OCD) absolutely hates everything Apple, and, now that he in turn manages his 90-year-old sister's use of her Chromebook, is dead set against getting a ChromeOS device either.
One of the sites has a fantastic landing page: https://needle.tools/
(you scroll through 3D scenes)
I'm not sure if this is a suprise for anyone. At 3.5k this is completely unaffordable for most of the world and even for high-earners in the US it's a tough pill to swallow for a first generation product. Not to mention that the Quest 3 is highly capable at 1/7th the price.

I'm not sure what Apple's sales expectations were but if the Apple Vision Pro is not meeting them, they built the wrong product.
No, I guess that's just a joke.

That's the script:
https://github.com/larose/utt/blob/e31c7340cd4c151b7a5bfa004...

Edith wanted to add that that's the actual changelog of utt: https://github.com/larose/utt/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
I'd estimate that maybe a trillion dollars of capital will be sunk into AI in the next 5 years.

If this camp had won comprehensively, they'd dictate the nature of that spending. Instead, AGI-seeking capitalists/nationalists will be making those decisions.

I would say the "we're the resistance" vibe is consistent with the fact that those people will control perhaps less than 1% of the capital expenditures.

Sure they've got the capitalists paying lip service to the ideas of safety. But who are they making AI safe for? Corporations and states, if anyone at all.

So it seems the win you describe is a false win - they arguably win the right to play petty woke games with other people who are ultimately excluded from true power.

I would say their anxiety and sense that they lack power is actually rather keen and based in fact. There are billions of cash flow they can't control, going into projects that oppose their goals. Let them lament their loss and try to regroup. We should all be aligned against corporate and state vanguardism in the development of AI, since it will surely harm those of us on the margins of society.
Parabiosis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_nonce

In general, it's a made up one time value. In this case, it satisfies an additional property.
Yeah, why? Because the additional information layer benefits some people? Depending one your type of color-blindness and the choice of colors this might even be an improvement that works for color-blind people.

We are not talking about encoding information only in color (= bad idea), we are talking about encoding information that is already present additionally in the color. And if your app has accessability settings (it should) this would be a thing that you could switch on and off.
It's a tech report. Fair enough to include the whole lab.
The bill of materials might not come close to that number, but materials are not the only cost when creating a hardware product. In your end price you need to factor in stuff like time spent on research, designing, testing, prototyping, writing & debugging software. Then there's manufacturing, packaging, storage, marketing and probably others. When you take all these into account plus the fact that this will not sell in millions of units, the price suddenly doesn't seem that high.

And from a consumer point of view - a very technical person could probably pull off something similar to this, but the amount of hours a project like this would take a single person is probably in the hundreds and you would not approach the quality of this unless you invested a lot of money into equipment (assuming you don't own high quality 3d printers and other things required to build this).
If you can't define a null hypothesis, you can't make a coherent or convincing argument. You're just restating your bias.
SponsorBlock for Safari exists btw, I use it. Check the App Store, though you can also compile it from scratch if you're adventurous.
The reason is that they are just trying to cause chaos. They do not have any real goal other than that.
My new book 'The Nonvisible Part of the Autism Spectrum' is done
Thank you for your response.

Given the undertones of your comment I wonder if you think the original question I posed is a legit question for a person to have?

Since you invoke HN I find it interesting how there is often a hostility toward inquiry by commenters like you. What’s the justification? Am I inexcusably lazy or maliciously operating in bad faith. Is it a crime to ask a question on a message board if it can be answered through google queries?

If this was conversation in real life would you dismiss a person who might have asked the same question and tell them they should take out their phones out and answer their own questions with google?

Anyhow, my stake in the topic is limited. I read the article, read the comments and found a position on erosion surprising so I asked a question. Not sure if this necessitates me seeking the fine institutes you’ve enumerated but maybe one day I will find myself in need of a deeper knowledge so thank you.
Because it was started by ex-FAANGers, Amazon specifically.
I might humbly suggest that architects and architecture should rarely if ever be employed to induce fear, disgusts, sadness, loss of control, smallness, oppression etc. That fact that it all too frequently does so, especially in public housing and industrial architecture is my point exactly.
How often did you go to the library?
bro how much did you pay for your car that is presumably around 1000kg?
Former Microsoft developer says Windows 11's performance is "comically bad,"
>isn't it quite different when there's a canonical measurement

Not really. For an unbiased estimator the "revisions" should be random (half upward and half downward), so if you're always making improvements in one direction you can infer some sort of systematic bias.
BCG says AI consulting will supply 20% of revenues this year
vtuber?
I have a suspicion the design team didn’t engage with any competitors headsets in a meaningful way and just assumed they knew better. Because wear a heavy headset for 15 minutes then swap to a lighter one and the relief is palpable.

Glass and aluminum is just the wrong choice for something pressing on your face, but they just really wanted an excuse to play with curved glass in a design.
I lucked into a demo yesterday while my wife bought a new iPhone and Apple Watch. The guy was free. The device is stunning, beyond our normal experience with other devices. One should try one, before debating its future.

My potential use case is to better understand 3-dimensional topology. I'm not concerned about "popular" uses other than how that affects the viability of the product.

There's a potential for some astounding abstract art, when visual artists catch up with musicians who master their own digital tools. This thing is capable of inducing drug-free hallucinations. And of course one recalls the killer app for VCRs...
https://archive.ph/3Cj2e
Here he goes again, selectively calling out censorship from governments he doesn't like.

He is more than happy to quietly censor on behalf of India and Saudi Arabia! Just not Brazil or Australia.

Why the double standard? He wants pliable governments aligned to his thinking and he's using X to achieve that.
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Good luck distinguishing 0 and O with that font in a random sequence of characters.

The type face you linked is not optimized for humans.

> Its monospaced letters and numbers are slightly disproportionate to prevent easy modification and to improve machine readability.

It's a slightly different issue than what was described in the article (e.g it can't address the cases where IDs are written down).
What is your experience with serverless hosting versus self hosting?
Hold limits are different to borrowing limits, and I would guess that most people borrow a lot more than they put on hold.
> Well a library is a place where a population can spend the day getting smarter while not spending money.
If you're rich, powerful and an unethical asshole those are two things you definitely do not want.

This is conspiracy level thinking. Nobody wealthy is sitting around scheming how to keep the proles dumb and subdued.

The assault on public institutions like libraries comes from 2 places:
1) Stop wasting my tax dollars on stuff I don't use or care about.
Or
2) I bet there is an untapped commercial market that can be built, and people will love my solution more than public libraries.
Metrics for bias in machine learning datasets
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I don't know how many people from AI ethics / algorithmic fairness browse around here, but just in case, I wanted to share our last work. Basically, we study metrics to measure fairness, but not in the model, but in the original data.

The paper with the all the information is linked from the README in the repo.
Yeah, this was a devkit and hype machine, outside of some devs, people with money and Youtube reviewers- there’s no market for a $3500 device
It's probably a lot easier in a way, because they don't have to worry about external dependencies changing at all. Modern code is a real PITA that way.

What's hard about their work is 1) it's really, really slow to communicate with, so you can't iterate quickly, 2) the tech is really old and unlike today's stuff, so it's very specialized domain knowledge.
I think it's pretty easy to see things from the perspective of those in the medical field. You're treating a vast (and ever growing) number of people each year, you're overworked and buried in paperwork, and in the end - regardless of how much personal attention you dedicate (or don't) to somebody, their odds of survival are not going to change much. It's soul crushing work that's often paired with lots of quite dark humor. The more death you're around, the darker and more frequent the humor becomes, to the point I don't feel comfortable offering examples here. It's a coping mechanism.

And then after all of this you need to go to the next patient, smile, and do your best to make them feel comfortable and completely confident in everything you say, all the while they [understandably] see their or their loved one's case as the single most important thing in the world. If you want to create a tech solution for something, it would definitely be the paperwork. But it's mired in a million rules, regulations, and restrictions that alone probably make any sort of effort to streamline it probably unworkable if not unlawful.
Germans write the number 1 almost like an upside-down capital V. It’s not horizontally symmetrical though, which is why it looks like a 7.
1. They need it for style and language, not necessarily for the facts

2. Since GPT-4 is seen as the very best general-purpose LLM in existence, it makes sense to emulate its performance with less resources.

3. Phi models are also trained with other high-quality data
OP made reasonable points; not sure what your disagreement is. I think speaking in questions is detracting from your argument.
True for hardware, but their record on software is far less convincing.
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> betting that your investments bring legitimate value to the economy

My understanding is that this is where Buffett falls short. Or - probably a better way of putting it - this is where "value to the economy" takes on a different meaning to "for the good of society".

The main reason investers like Buffett look for monopolies is that they don't have to innovate or improve efficiency. If anything, the general tendency is for prices to go up while quality goes down. This is all done in the name of "good business". The result is that consumers lose out.
The app-switcher in newer IpadOS is an endless confusion to my mother. Somehow she opens multiple copies of web-browser, email, etc, and then cant find anything.

How much I hope I could disable that one feature!

Hiding the Inbox folder in Email is another classic I need to fix monthly.
Keep at it. I've self-published my first two (and beaten the odds - somewhat - judging by this article, while still paying substantially below minimum wage for my time, but that's ok), and the experience is "interesting". The first time I had someone somewhat accusingly message me on twitter to ask when I'll get the next one out (I'm way overdue) was exciting.
> "GDPR nightmare for everyone" -> only for companies that intend touse personal data in non-ethical ways

You do not understand GDPR. It is a burden even for businesses or non-profits that keep a minimal amount of data and do not trade it. As with all Eu regulation it is designed around big business. It actually helps the like of FB because they are more able to push people into agreeing to let them use their data.

> "cookie banners for everyone" -> cookie banners only if your website is using cookies in a way that needs a cookie banner.

Yes, but it does little good, and it stops end users from white-listing sites allowed to set cookies because you need to allow the cookies that track your cookie options.

> "USB-C" -> Good for consumer, I believe.

I disagree. It stops new connectors being introduced (because you will still have to provide USB-C). There is little gain: essentially slightly lower sales of charger cables.

Add to that messes like VAT MOSS which was ridiculously heavy and even lead to some small businesses stopping sales to other EU countries to avoid complying with it.
I feel sorry for the individuals to get all worked up about language like this.
... really matter are algorithmic complexity ...

This is not entirely true either... Measure. There are many cases where the optimiser will vectorise a certian algorithm but not another... In many cases On^2 vectorised may be significantly faster than On or Onlogn even for very large datasets depending on your data...

Make your algorithms generic and it won't matter which one you use, if you find that one is slower swap it for the quicker one. Depending on CPU arch and compiler optimisations the fastest algorithm may actually change multiple times in a codebases lifetime even if the usage pattern doesn't change at all.
How so? And what dangers?