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“Trust no one! The minute God crapped out the third caveman, a conspiracy was hatched against one of them! ” ― Col. Hunter Gathers, OSI
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I think information gain will be easy to measure in principle with an AI in the near future: if the work is correct, how unexpected is it. Anything trivially predictable based on published literature, including exact reproduction disguised as novel is not worthy of too much attention. Anything that has a change of changing the model of the world is important. It can seem minor even trivial to some nasty reviewer, but if the effect is real and not demonstrated before then it deserves attention. Until then, we deal with imperfect humans.

Regarding large multimodal data, I don’t know what people you refer to, so I can’t comment further. The current math is useful but very limited when it comes to understanding the densities in such data; vectors are always orthogonal at high dim and densities are always sampled very poorly. The type of understanding of data that would help progress in drug and material design, say, is very different from the type of data that can help a chatbot code. Obviously the future AI should understand it all, but it may take interdisciplinary collaborations that best start at an early age and don’t fit the current academic system very well unfortunately.
More information can lead to unnecessary procedures(by way of insistence either of patient or doctor) which have their own complications.
As we see more and more promising therapies like this, that are essentially custom fit to the patient, it makes me all the more worried about the US health care systems. A treatment like this will be expensive, which in the long run means that we'll have a society where people with money won't have cancer (or at least will have a less deadly version), while the people without money will not. We'll be converting cancer to a problem of poverty. None of this is to say that we shouldn't pursue these advancements, but rather we should start thinking about how we can change our system to ensure that every member of our society has equal access to medicine.
Equity holders are probably forever, and the incentive problems are a hard thing to solve. But you won't be a founder or early joiner if you're not allowed to keep your equity anyway.

Fortunately it doesn't take that much to get top talent, because so many other companies underpay. Jane Street only has to pay out a small fraction of their PnL and doesn't even need to have a non-compete.
Google's search engine share in the USA fell to a 15-year low
MRSA [1], though? He could have been inoculated with it.

MRSA is awful, difficult or impossible to clear, and can certainly be fatal.

This could be a very diabolical way to assassinate someone.

How would you be able to trace it? It could have been laced in his food or drink. Or simply transfered by touch (got on his hands, then wiped on his face or nose). Or aerosolized as he walked by.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methicillin-resistant_Staphylo...
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A. Who says they need to follow the MO?

B. Plenty of killings that we know of do not follow your typical MO. For example, the killing of Litvinenko by polonium which can only be created in a nuclear reactor (still the most overkill death of a whistleblower ever known).

C. In which case, is it possible you think that's the MO, because the others didn't get caught? And the corporations are now realizing a car bomb is too predictable?
2% of people are carrying it around; it's a pretty common hospital complication.
For me it never does. Always throws me to a human agent. I haven't had a single case where a bot solved my issue.
That’s a bummer. I recall back in 2013/2014 the KSP subreddit was basically the most welcoming corner of the internet. Hard to imagine it would still be that way with that much discontent between players and the studio.
What if it's a giant company with a lot of problems? Couldn't there be a ton of whistleblowers? It's easy to suspect foul play, but I don't know how pneumonia subsequent to MRSA infection could be deployed as a weapon of assassination. And I'd imagine that every part of being a whistleblower is depressing; you are inevitably alienated from one of your main social groups when you do so.
Isn't that kind of the point though? AV1/AVIF has an extremely strong case for hardware implementations: you need efficient (both in terms of processing and compression) video decoding on modern devices because the battery cost/bandwidth cost is so high otherwise.

Image decoding is nice to have, but less important. When you are deciding to put custom hardware into a device, that's a huge investment in something only useful for that one task. Being compatible with a video format so you can share that hardware between the two tasks is a huge win for hardware manufacturers who get two-for-one, and for the rate of adoption.

With AV1 already very efficient and rolled out in a lot of hardware already, it just has a huge advantage.
Not really obliterating. Gaza is being obliterated (civ casualties through the roof). The Ukraine conflict has very little civ death compared to the mil deaths. Compare that to the wars the US fought and you see the Russians are very careful. No bombs om population centers.
A defense contract will suddenly materialize
It sounded like sarcasm, to be honest.
But again: why do you want that? The pizza example is downright stupid, in no world would anyone prefer to tell an assistant, robot or otherwise, to order them a pizza. It's such a trivial task that outsourcing it to another entity, irrespective of what kind, is just less efficient, full stop.

And, even going for their big example: why would you want to outsource the planning of an overseas trip?! Planning a trip is the FUN part for goodness sakes! Choosing your destinations and building an itinerary. The only way I could see this is if you're so drowned in money and so utterly dead inside from years of casual overseas vacations that you just don't give a shit where you go anymore, and like, fair enough but a virtual assistant is not going to solve the yawning chasm of meaninglessness in your soul. You should probably see a therapist about that.

All of these things feel like faint imitations of something like JARVIS from the Iron Man movies, and look, if it worked like that as just a disembodied voice built into my home, and my cars, and my armored battle suit and my cell phones, hell yeah I'd have that. But the only way I would accept any technology that invasive is if I was running it on my own hardware, I will never, ever, in a thousand years give over that much hardware and privileged access to another pop-up company from silicon valley.
Depending on context, I cycle between espeak-ng with mbrola-en or RHVoice, but even plain espeak shouldn't be discarded.

RHVoice sounds slightly more natural in some cases, but one advantage of espeak-ng is that the text parsing logic is cleaner, by default.

For example, RHVoice likes to spell a lot regular text formatting. One example would be spelling " -- " as dash-dash instead of pausing between sentences. So while text sounds a little more natural, it's actually harder to understand in context unless the text is clean to begin with.

I don't know if speech-dispatcher does this for you, but I'm using a shell script and some regex rules to make the text cleaner for TTS which I don't need when using espeak-ng.

Another tradeoff: espeak-ng with the mbrola doesn't offer all the inflexion customization options you have with the "robotic-sounding" voices. When accelerating speech, these options make a qualitative difference in my experience.

I can see why each of these can have its place.
Given what Glenn Greenwald has to say about The Intercept (who was the co-founder before leaving for similar reasons), and now this -- I think it's entirely appropriate and reasonable that this person wanted to sound the alarm that 'this organization is no longer what it used to be and should not be trusted.'

To pretend like this announcement is like 'every person on the planet voiced their displeasure about something happening' is so incredibly disingenuous.

The Intercept started out with noble goals and intentions, that at least one of it's founders felt have gone so far astray he cut ties very publicly with the company he founded, and now we have another journalist there corroborating his take.

The organization that broke the Snowden Files, along with many other uncomfrotable stories (for those in power anyway) is now a husk of it's former self, and the author is basically telling you if you read closely 'I left because the organization has been coopted and now refuses to run stories that make certain powerful people uncomfortable', and you are hand waving it away as if it's the equivalent to some random twitter using complaining about their coffee this morning.

Glenn Greenwalds statements and actions around The Intercept should have been a wake up call that it cannot be trusted and has likely been co-opted by some Mockingbird-like program, and now we have further validation of the muzzles being put on staff there. If you can't see the forest from the trees here, I don't see how it can't be due to deliberately putting your head in the sand.
yes yes. you're brilliant. what's these supposed ideas that nobody else has come up with? it ain't braggin' if you can do it. otherwise, you're just some rando on the internet crying about how smart you are.
3 days ago: "Google layoffs: Company fires entire Python team for 'cheaper labour'"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40202281
Helpful response to Griffin's piece.
"gigacasting" is akin to semiconductor lithography vs discrete logic.

A cast part needs a bit of finishing machine work and validation, but is otherwise "liquid metal goes here / finished part comes out" -- very very fast and space efficient.

Welding things together introduces dimensional errors, is slow, messy, and requires tons of space.

But like semiconductor lithography -- the bigger the output the lower the yields. At a certain point it probably makes sense to just make 2-5 parts and bolt them together vs 1 big part. (See also -- chiplets)
AC is super easy with ESPHome, eg:

https://esphome.io/components/climate/climate_ir.html

TV also:

https://esphome.io/components/remote_transmitter.html
Perplexity has definitely stolen >10% of my search traffic.

Just got meta glasses. Curious whether they'll steal another 15% of my traffic. Primarily the "looking up a random fact for my kids" volume.
Have you ever imported anything?

Once you receive the bill from US customs for tariffs due and you are writing the check, it becomes painfully obvious that Americans are footing the bill and it is not just "free market ideology".
I don’t know about strippers but I am right up there with you on tips becoming absurd here. Every kiosk where I swipe my credit card wants a tip now. I didn’t really “like” tipping before, but I accepted it as just part of the transaction for getting a waiter or waitress to write down my order and deliver me my food and refill my drinks.

Now the companies want a tip for the food I pick up myself directly from the restaurant and leave. I am not sure what I would even be tipping for, for making me the sandwich? Shouldn’t that aspect just be rolled into be price of, you know, the sandwich?

I used to feel kind of guilty for declining to tip at these kiosks, but I don’t anymore. In fact in a way I guess it’s sort of saved me money since I dislike this process so much that I have taken to just buying groceries and making food at home more often.
Isn’t that viewpoint just the result of nationalist propaganda in education/media in the US?

The US is infamous for extra judicial killings, both domestically and internationally.
No, but Screen Studio does allow you to tweak how the mouse appears to move, in the sense that you can make it move more smoothly or quickly.
Is there a must have course on executive voodoo and "dark rhetoric" for execs of large dysfunctional companies? Which MBA teaches sociopathic courses like these? I only know about one such college in Paris...
Companies that want to maintain the ability to outsource or hire cheap developers if push comes to shove is actually pretty common. They want commodity labour.
For what it’s worth, I was also thinking this is a very wordy article. It has lots of asides, and seems to get distracted from the main point. It gets distracted enough that I have a hard time following it, which is not conducive to what any writer wants to achieve: telling some sort of story.
Yes.

It really depends on the context. If you ask your spouse, it's probably the latter. When talking about strip clubs, it's more of the former.
What makes it even more interesting is more and more people are starting to enjoy AA games more than AAA games for various reasons .. (cost, more experimental/novel game play mechanics/story)

It feels like the next few years would be really glorious for handheld gaming...
I gave it a selfie from the middle of some forest in Yellowstone and it nailed it. No signs or anything obvious, just a bunch of trees (also scrubbed EXIF).

I gave it a much harder photo from the Borrego Badlands, and it got SoCal, but was 200mi off.
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Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.05699
> There is no way more information is bad unless some serious irrationality comes into play.

I have some bad news to deliver about humans...
Modeling usage-based billing with Stripe, from pricing model to code
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BTW, the previous whistleblower: John Barnett, had worked at the Material Review Segregation Area (MRSA) at the Boeing plant.

If this is just a coincidence, it is a weird one.
No reason to downvote someone for asking for a source (before one was given).

A source is helpful context for claims like this, and the person that responded with one may not otherwise have had it not been questioned.
This is blatant historical revisionism. It was always "save and effective" and that's all people know. Furthermore if you refused to take it you were forced out of the company.
> WFH doesn't mean you have to move out of the city

It doesn’t, but within the context of this discussion (“distribute geographically”), it does. The logistics of groceries—even exempting my driving to the grocery store versus walking down the street, and despite being physically closer to farms than I was in New York City—practically doubled my emissions alone. Suburban living is massively more impactful than most people realise. There is a reason most of the world lives in either cities or rural destitution.
That's not what the world numbers mean.
My body, my choice.
GOOG, which has a reputation of being slightly bloated, made $138 billion in revenue across 140,000 employees. That's $2.3 million per employee.
Introduction to the coordinate system and different coordinate spaces in Unreal
A lot of fragmented promise for video editing amongst these different apps. Hopefully someone will make a comparison chart for these. Good luck on your launch!
Actually, the article text is just playing it cool. Evidence of an oxidizing atmosphere is a whole other level of Earth-like than just having liquid water. Our oxygen atmosphere is created by life. So if these rocks were in fact formed by atmospheric oxygen, that's huge. I'm not sure it's a smoking gun, but it's at least a big bang and you can reasonably look for a gun nearby.
A little non-portable but there is an xterm escape sequence[1] that gets the user's background color: \e]11;?\a

You might also be able to use the reverse-video[2] escape sequence to get something that works depending on the user's color scheme.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/7767891

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_video
I know, but what I mean is that just getting a wildcard cert and handing it to all servers that need it comes with some tradeoffs, as does requesting a single-host cert publicly for each host (mainly that I need to talk to a CA, which needs to be available, and it'll publicly log a possibly internal-only, preview etc. hostname).

Having domain-constrained sub-CA certificates granted by the exact same mechanism we use for wildcard certs today would combine the advantages of both.
Let me add that more often than not, it's also absolutely useless when you DO know the exact thing you're looking for, shoveling literally any content at you at all cost.
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OK, maybe it isn't capitalism but US society that implies that promise. Many (insensitive) people respond to tales of economic woe by saying, "Get a job!" As if that's going to solve even your basic money woes. As others in this discussion have noted, many people employed full time still struggle to provide the basics. That part of the social contract just isn't holding up for a lot of people. And that's a recipe for social unrest.
> What happens when iGPUs get good enough for 1440p 120 FPS high-end gaming?

Hell yeah, we celebrate.
Yes, but cutting the number of shares given to Elon doesn't increase the amount of money available to pay employees. The people doing payroll and the managers allocating departmental budgets aren't looking at the share price to determine the numbers.

I can flip the though experiment around to "People completely stop buying all Tesla vehicles and products, but the brain damaged Muskites, swept up in his announcement of a time machine, drove the stock up to $10,000." Now there is a situation where Musk's compensation would be in the trillions, but the company itself would be cutting employees left and right.

Employees aren't paid with stock. So stop comparing stock compensation to cash compensation.
Guy comes in with routine influenza, transfer him to emergency, pacify him and forcibly intubate him with MRSA infected tube. The rest happens as if by mistake.
It could work as an Array if javascript supports C++'s small-buffer-optimization on the backend.
It’s not going to help that Biden was previously taking credit for it with the imo poorly considered “Bidenomics” official catchphrase. Spending a ton on Build Back Better than no one can point to the building or the better. And pushing these in an abstract while people are very clearly seeing grocery store prices.

Right or wrong doesn’t matter. This admin and the media has been doing their best to gaslight a great economy, and that I think will hurt. You can be so blue that your commie red, and still see the messaging of this admin has been bad.
Very Forth-y.
Consciousness is perhaps the most glaring one (as far as current models offered by natural sciences are concerned), if nothing else then because we deal with it every moment of existence or because it is what natural science itself stems from, is shaped by, is dependent on and exists because of.

Of course, whether it is the only unknown is unknown.
Thank you for the original.
A great book on this topic is Consciousness and the Brain ( https://www.amazon.com/Consciousness-Brain-Deciphering-Codes... )

It really shows how a lot of who we are is unconscious and happening without us being aware.
Great point as well. I had to look it up to see what the actual origin may have been:

https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/google-it/

It's possible that Larry Page himself may have started the whole "google" as a verb thing, though I'm sure he probably wasn't thinking about it that hard. In any case, at some point he must have patted himself on the back for being a part of making his company part of the English language.

But yeah, language is not to be underestimated. Although Xerox isn't nearly as relevant as it used to be, there are still some people that are Millennial and older who still sometimes use "xerox" as a verb. Yes, I've heard this at FedEx Office, though I don't know if it's just regional to California. If Xerox ever tried to rise again in the public consciousness, I don't think it would take very long at all.

As far as The Google is concerned, no one was seriously going to say "Just AltaVista it." And "Just Yahoo it" has an inherent awkwardness I can't describe.
Here is a video from a YouTuber who has been historically very pro-Tesla, and very pro-Supercharger.[0] He has a lot contacts in the wider charging industry.

He is simply stunned by the firing of the entire team. Everybody in the entire charging industry is just getting bounces when trying to email their contacts about the hundreds of contracted Supercharger installations in the works. Think about all the external contractors working on maintenance of existing stations, also no way to contact Tesla.

Here is an article claiming that Tesla may be looking to rehire some of the fired team. [1]

Firing the exec who won't listen to the CEO? Sure, that's business. Firing the entire team as some kind of punishment? That's cutting off your nose to spite your face.

[0] https://youtu.be/iVaViiX0xZY

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-may-rehire-some-laid-o...
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What? The US governed Japan for several years and wrote thier constitution. Seems like occupying territory to me.
Would've preferred such a resource to be edited in open. The awesome-x lists usually found on GitHub are a good example of this. Unrelated perhaps to the tools list, the blog seems like AI-generated SEO spam.
It depends on the system design. If I have an organization like Google, with many employees, *.google.com would be a horrible cert.

That's not every organization.

I maintain many groups of /related/ servers (including dynamic ones which appear and disappear at whim). There, a wildcard makes a lot of sense. If I have https://[username].[domain]/, https://[git project].[domain]/, https://[client].[domain]/ or similar, that integrates nicely with a lot of security infrastructure in ways which http://[domain]/client/ don't.

E.g. A network can filter https based on domains, but can't look inside the envelope. A browser will highlight domains to users who want to know where they are. Etc.

There are also many good reasons why managing one credential per server (which can map to many domains) is better practice than managing a dizzying array of credentials.

So I agree about the general best practice, but there are exceptions. Mandating (as opposed to recommending / encouraging) non-universal best practices is usually bad practice.
> In a general purpose allocator, you can just store allocation metadata next to a payload so the lookup from a pointer address becomes O(1).

Yes, but the downside is that now allocator metadata pollutes the cache. It's super efficient for the allocator, but it may harm efficiency of the actual use of that memory. I believe most production allocators don't use object headers for this reason.