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Hello everyone. I’ve noticed recently that the alt text box on Twitter can’t fit even close to one phone screenshots worth of text. Mastodon has a bit more space but it is still not enough. It seems like 1000 characters is not enough. Just to accommodate current phone screenshots, one might want a 10,000 character limit. You could imagine if you post the maximum resolution possible on a service, with the smallest possible text, what the real limit would be.

I’ve made a tweet with images showing the full alt text box compared to a full screenshot here:

https://x.com/tlalexander/status/1782160578368381025

To see the full alt text box yourself see this tweet:

https://x.com/tlalexander/status/1782128521483374736

And here’s a mastodon post showing the difference there as screenshots:

https://queer.party/@tlalexander/112311384100020761

And the original mastodon post with full alt text boxes:

https://queer.party/@tlalexander/112310834206926334
Yes you will be hungry but we are sentient beings who can ignore the urge to eat, just as we can control other base urges. You don’t see an attractive person and assault them, or someone with a desirable object and immediately steal from them. It’s called self control.
I think this will be solved by decarbonisation of heat intensive industries. There’s some very good thermal storage battery solutions now, that can store thermal energy at hundreds of degrees C for a very long time.

So once there’s enough of this excess energy you’ll start to see industry soaking up as much of it as they can get.

If you “only” need ~200°C there’s some very powerful heat pumps entering the market that can give you more than 100% efficiency.
Thanks for tip, TIL
I agree, and I may have downplayed the importance a pedagogy a bit too much. I’ve experienced first hand, and also see with my kids, the profound difference that a great teacher or coach can have on the pupils.

But a great teacher is not necessary to find a topic interesting, nor sufficient to spark interest in everyone who lacks interest.
SGT's puzzles has gotten me through so many waiting rooms, from the Nokia E61, onwards.

Today, with reliable Internet on my phone, I could instead scroll Fediverse or something, but I figure blazing through puzzles using rules I've learned is more meditative.
A great way to learn assembler is to closely examine code generated by a compiler, e.g. on godbolt.org.
This is the way. Anytime I have had issues with an open source project, creating a PR even if it's not great will often have it taken over, improved and merged.
Shoot me a message (should be in my HN bio)
I think it was Feynman who said something to the effect of “writing is thinking”.
Or malware. "Here user, just type this in the comand line and run as administrator"
You have about a 1 in 1 billion chance of dying for every 750 feet or so that you drive.

I take risks far in excess of 1 in a billion every day.
Congrats on launching something, that's always the hard part!

As a business venture, $9 without having a better idea of the value of the advice I'm going to receive might be steep.
Pretty sure a diverse portfolio will feature gold. It might not be in gold coins in the owners basement though.

Investing in stocks where most companies are doing their best to suppress worker compensation or out-right replace them with robots doesn't feel like it's doing much to help the average person either.

Public investment is on a downward trend since 2008 when governments had to save the bankers. What government spending there still is often has to filter through private service companies that are given government contracts. This usually results in good dividends and bad service.
Clearly, they beach elsewhere.

Penguins migrate 100s to 1,000s of km, and can swim great distances. They need not beach near their entry point, and are in the water to feed.

That said, where these penguin fledglings beach would be interesting to see.

<https://animalatlantes.com/how-do-penguins-migrate/>
Links in text posts don't get parsed so see here for clickable links:

https://x.com/tlalexander/status/1782160578368381025

https://x.com/tlalexander/status/1782128521483374736

https://queer.party/@tlalexander/112311384100020761

https://queer.party/@tlalexander/112310834206926334
Farmers (i.e., Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers) make a lot more than $450 a week. Average salary for these folks is $70k/yr.

A farm hand only makes like $15/hr on average, which puts it on par with a job at McDonalds or such.
Are you talking about sea life?

According to the video on the site, the boats travel at less than 3km/h and they have live video feeds monitoring the nets. Am I missing anything here?
I think the love for school subjects largely depends on the teacher
You don't exercise in your free time, just like you don't work in your free time.

edit: No, I do it in the time I set aside to exercise.

This might seem foreign to you but to me it's no different from someone saying "I need £100 to pay the rent" and so they make time and find a way to pay the bills (usually a job). They don't "work in their free time", they structure their life around it because income is important to them.
It hasn't. My guess is that 90% of the folks using proprietary models through chat interface have no need or wants to run their own locally nor do they have the hardware. For those of us who wish to run our models and do have the hardware, I would reckon maybe 20% of us using proprietary models will drop them. The latest models released are very good, but I'm not convinced they are GPT/Claude quality yet.
I don't think it's that America can't enforce sanctions, it's that sanctions don't work against countries with valuable resources (because everyone else wants to buy them), or against many countries at once (because you've just created an alternative trading bloc), or against very populous countries (because companies will go far out of their way to be able to access large markets).
Speaking of which, why haven't I heard of anyone using game engines as a platform for medical imaging and UX?
Agree, they are not the sole determinant but still
There is work being done on remote tower systems (RTS).

https://www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/non_federal/r...
I'm stunned to see upwards of 2 gigawatts of solar being curtailed at mid-day. As I understand it, those solar generators are producing beyond what the transmission grid can carry or beyond what native load there is.

Can anyone comment on what is the greater impact: transmission bottlenecks or lack of sufficient demand? FYI, my back of the envelope calculation for daily curtailment is 11.4 gigawatt-hours. I'm assuming that would be bigger but for the presence of battery storage on the grid.
You can't give millions of dollars to politicians. There are laws, and yes, they're enforced.

It's not even "thousands". Those are actually just the individual employees making donations. You have to name your employer so that the election commission can make sure they aren't filtering money.

The power brokering happens in terms of trading favors. Often, trading votes. (And these days, "issue ads", which was the Supreme Court's big ole fuck-you to election finance laws.)
Wouldn't say killed, but for certain usage cases definitely provided a strong alternative.

The 8B model seems particularly good at summarization tasks.
Welfare systems are nationalistic. The US will tax companies using robots and redistribute it to Americans while the people assembling widgets in developing countries will be out of a job. I'm still optimistic that the raw increase in economic productivity will somehow sort everyone out eventually, but it could be bumpy.
I keep saying it:

"Best of Breed" is Windows 7. It's been all downhill since there.

On the odd occasion that I must use Windows (and gets less and less each year) I use Windows 7 as a VirtualBox 'guest' on Linux.

If I didn't use HP software for multi-page scanning to PDF with my HP MFP, I wouldn't need Windows at all.
Robotic future is coming
This entire article is just wrongly conflating Verifiable Credentials (VCs) with DIDs and then citing those false conflations as weaknesses of DID.

> If decentralized ID is just an extension of the existing government ID system, it provides neither privacy nor financial inclusion.

VC is a spec built on top of DID, in no way shape or form is VC required for DID.

This statement alone shows the author doesn't understand (or is intentionally misrepresenting) the relationship between DID and VC (which is kind of crucial to write an entire blog post on either topic)
Well, two-off. https://old.reddit.com/r/pixel_phones/comments/1c98wpq/i_not...

https://preview.redd.it/f9d3rqpigrvc1.jpeg?width=1854&format...

https://preview.redd.it/0o75bbeogrvc1.jpeg?width=1584&format...
I don't have a good book to suggest, but one tip you may find helpful:

A typical function has two kinds of assembly code:

(1) The ABI-required logic for functions and function calls, and

(2) Everything else, which can be more or less whatever you want. As long as you don't stomp on the details required by the ABI.
Ex politicians can make speaking fees. Current ones can't.

There are ways to sneak around campaign finance laws but it's not that simple.
I remember being in my crib and my older sister toddling by to interact with me. I remember the layout of the room, etc.

I remember a good bit of detail around specific events when I was 2 years old or so, as well as how I felt about them.

Like you, I also learned to read before going to school or being taught. I just figured it out.

There is absolutely something to the idea that some people develop cognitive capabilities earlier in life. I believe there is a correlation to intelligence, but it's not absolute.
I prefer to be also known as John Bigbooté.
I don't see why something like this would work even in theory. They're scamming to make money, it doesn't sound like recruiting them to help with open-source projects aligns with that at all, there's no hook.
one thing I'd note: we didn't patch the kernel source, everything we did was through the module interface, though we did abuse it a bit, but a lot of that abuse was to provide our home grown cgroup/namespace like functionality that wasn't around when our checkpoint/restart work started. But it is fair to say because of that abuse, it was fairly tied to a specific set of kernels)

another project I created on the forensic side (steve bellovin asked the Q and I was like, yeah, I know exactly how to build thta) that might then interest you was something we called ISE-T (I See Everything Twice - Catch 22).

https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/D8HQ45MK

Two-Person Control Administration: Preventing Administration Faults through Duplication

Modern computing systems are complex and difficult to administer, making them more prone to system administration faults. Faults can occur simply due to mistakes in the process of administering a complex system. These mistakes can make the system insecure or unavailable. Faults can also occur due to a malicious act of the system administrator. Systems provide little protection against system administrators who install a backdoor or otherwise hide their actions. To prevent these types of system administration faults, we created ISE-T (I See Everything Twice), a system that applies the two-person control model to system administration. ISE-T requires two separate system administrators to perform each administration task. ISE-T then compares the results of the two administrators’ actions for equivalence. ISE-T only applies the results of the actions to the real system if they are equivalent. This provides a higher level of assurance that administration tasks are completed in a manner that will not introduce faults into the system. While the two-person control model is expensive, it is a natural fit for many financial, government, and military systems that require higher levels of assurance. We implemented a prototype ISE-T system for Linux using virtual machines and a unioning file system. Using this system, we conducted a real user study to test its ability to capture changes performed by separate system administrators and compare them for equivalence. Our results show that ISE-T is effective at determining equivalence for many common administration tasks, even when administrators perform those tasks in different ways.

I should note that the paper also discusses that 2 people might be expensive, so the same mechanism can be used by a single admin but in a manner that maintains an audit trail.

The above project wouldn't require any kernel modifications as the work was all about using unionfs (using normal vfs loadable module interface hooks) to capture changes and user spaces to log and compare them.

All this work led to what can be viewed as a proto-docker - https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/atc10/tech/full_papers/... and https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/lisa11/tech/full_papers...
If it comes through rna/dna editing it will be a good evolution
Yeah, from my point of view we're going to need more 38 year-olds starting new careers as developers to replace those of us that started at 28 and are ready to move on. I'm about 13 years in, but have been burned out for at least 5 years and I'm finally ready to admit it. Get me out of here.
There a lot more SaaS like adobe, cloudinary ( https://cloudinary.com/blog/generative-fill-ai-powered-outpa... ) . Huggingface among others, also openai (lol).
I use a Federal ID when dealing with legal purviews of the Federal government, and a State ID when dealing with the legal purviews of State governments (which is most things). This is the only reliable scheme I've found. As a matter of Constitutionality, the States are largely required to recognize State IDs, but no one is required to recognize Federal IDs because there is no authority and as a practical matter many governments don't.

It doesn't help that some clerks are confused by the zoo of government issued IDs that exist in the US. IDs in the US are a mess, the legal barriers to making it possible to have an organized identity system are very high, and both the Democrats and Republicans are resistant to removing those legal barriers, so this situation is unlikely to change.
I stand by thinking that the problem with memories fading is that (experiential) memories mostly work by replaying a frame of mind and checking the result for internal consistency, and if your frame of mind deviates too much from when the memory was formed, this fails; so memories you retain are memories you rehearse and thereby iteratively bring forward in a similar manner to if you walked a large software project that has had incremental "upgrade" steps from 1.0 to 1.1 all the way up to 39.75 or something. (This would also help underscore why being in the same "place" or "frame of mind" for memories makes your recall scores better - or the stories about people who take mind-altering substances and have memories that they don't recall when sober but can recall reliably the next time they take said substance.)

So killing neurogenesis might preclude this problem by preventing your mind from changing enough to make this failure mode happen.

(This would also explain why we freak out when other kinds of "memory loss" happen, e.g. from dementia or old age - it's not that we found it but it doesn't import, it's that we literally can't find it, and we don't have great handling for actual memory loss, so we freak the hell out. This could also be the reverse, where we load something and don't notice the consistency checks failing, and then as those are pointed out we become increasingly distressed at the cognitive dissonance from different parts disagreeing on the sanity of what we said, but...)
Yes, I bite the bullet on the God of the Gaps. What I object to is materialism of the gaps. At least God has explanatory power. Materialism does not.
Are you saying you don't recall losing teeth? I recall many cases of losing and missing teeth and I have several memories before any teeth fell out
Oh, I don't think there's a universal "better" when it comes to such things, and I'm not implying that one is universally better than the other.

I discovered the Elixir runtime (BEAM) a few years before Elixir was created (we were using the Erlang language then), and for my specific use cases, when I understood the principles of concurrency, error handling, and introspection in BEAM, it caused quite an epiphany. It was also scary, because I had to unlearn pretty much everything I knew :)

From a purely esthetic perspective, I find that pattern matching and tail recursion-enabled programming patterns are more concise, easier to comprehend, and are less error-prone than those offered by the more mainstream languages that don't have those features.

In my experience - and I'm not a particularly great programmer, so it was welcome - I found that I produced code with signifcantly fewer dumb errors when I no longer had access to imperative programming paradigms and was forced to come up with more "functional" solutions.

I don't believe that functional programming is inherently more complex than what we learn in school/college/work with conventional languages. My question really stems from the idea of learning functional first - and I do wonder what that would look like.
This type of propaganda is nuts. I want actual analysis, not West good, other people evil. We saw were the "axis of evil" narrative lead to.
Cool paint coatings help pedestrians feel up to 1.5°C cooler in urban setting
Even better, the latest release from a few weeks ago lets you manually set the delay for long press. I've set it for 100ms and can now blaze through mines even faster. But that guaranteed solvable makes it so much better than nondeterministic minesweeper as well.
You realize that those two ideas are identical, right? RIGHT??
Writing novels and analyzing novels are completely orthogonal skills. I bet there are many great authors who would completely suck at explaining other authors' works (or even their own), comparing different works, or explaining how literary works fit into and interact with the rest of the culture.
> I actually had a conversation about this exact subject with a family member just last week. We live in a rural area and have awful service from Spectrum. He opposes plans for better cheaper muni internet because “The county government can only do better because they get to cheat - they don’t need to make a profit, but spectrum does.”

This argument is dumb because it has nothing to do with the government. A non-profit could take out a loan and build an ISP and not have to turn a profit.

The real argument in this nature is if the municipal ISP is being subsidized with tax money their competitors don't get. But you can solve that too: Either they pay for the network by issuing a bond and then have to pay it back from subscription fees, or if there is to be a subsidy then anybody operating an ISP gets the same one.

The actual problem here gets back to the original issue: The ISPs lobby the government to suppress any competitor. If the incumbent sucks and people hate them, why doesn't a non-profit, or any other for-profit business, enter the market and take their customers? Because the incumbent has lobbied for laws to prevent that, or will sue them under whatever pretext they can find to slow them down, try to bankrupt them and deter anyone else from making the attempt.

It's harder to do that to a municipal network because the government workers operating the network will have insider knowledge of how to deal with their own bureaucracy and have the ear of the government officials who approved the network to get any artificial roadblocks cleared away. But the real problem is that none of those impediments should be there to begin with.

> The government should build and maintain the physical infrastructure like fiber and cell towers, and private industry should be able to access this infra at cost + a small fixed markup and provide all other needed equipment and services on top of that infra.

You can do even better than that. Have the government install cable trenches along all the roads, then provide cheap access to anyone who wants to install fiber in them. That reduces the build-out cost dramatically and then you get competition without anybody being able to make any claim of unfairness because access to install cable is available to every individual member of the public. It should be cheap and easy enough that if you want to run fiber from your house to your buddy's on the other side of town, your primary cost should be the two miles of fiber optic cable.
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Sorry, still not funny.
> Nobody really knows when it will release besides Sam Altman though.

The day after some model truly beats GPT-4, plus or minus 1-2 weeks, is my guess.
>by the next PM who wants to juice up their resume

Does having been a UX PM on Windows 11 on your resume actually help you or hinder you at this point?
SE Asia is the same. Literally in the culture. The mind boggles.
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> There is not a digital record of your ID being used to purchase alcohol at that exact location at that exact time.

Are you sure about that?

Even so, there's no reason age verification online couldn't work similarly.
If You Think You're a Genius, You're Crazy
Thank god! An example of human ingenuity going to clean up our human impact on the natural world INSTEAD of YAStory of boiling the ocean to generate the perfect cat meme.
For biology I loved most of Stephen Jay Gould's books. Ignore the detractors: the books are interesting!
More like whatever someone is willing to pay for it. There is correlation with performance, but it's far far from perfect, especially the kind of performance we're talking about here (long-term technical foundations).

People $4,000 for brand-name Whatever™ designer clothes. It's not really worth $4,000 in any real sense, other than what someone is willing to pay for it.
To me it seems like this would potentially encourage more of the behavior that lead to all this trash in the river, since now people may know it is not going to the ocean.