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> Web apps very often require some persistent application state. Setting up a database involves numerous configuration steps and the subsequent integration of an ORM or other systems.

So this is a NoSQL argument.

> Atomic transactions: a database that provides atomic operations to ensure data integrity and enable complex application logic

Ok, so let's see if they mention "ACID". Nope. They do mention atomicity and durability, but they don't mention consistency and isolation.

So this is about NoSQL and NoACID, but it's not really stated this way.

K/V stores are great for many things. And not having a query language is great!! right up until you need one, then you get to be sad (I should know since I've had to write a query engine due to use of a K/V store).

[No]ACID is where NoSQL gets interesting, IMO. But NoACID doesn't mean you can't have a query language.

Anyways, if you're going to implement yet another K/V store you really should justify it in relation to other K/V stores that exist, not as "using RDBMSes is ETOOHARD".
And that one looks actually real, whereas I'm pretty sure the Apple ad is 100% CGI with no objects actually destroyed.
It's amusing to say that bird brains are on the next generation node size.
k9s does a delete for ctrl+d
earplugs
Does this api improve on GPS drift?

Or is it up to the engineer to decide how to best to use these improvements?
We really should get telling people to kill themselves back into fashion when they produce such culturally deaf and offensive content just to promote the newest consooomerism gadget. I hate everything this whole phenomena represents
Not a movie. If it was an ad trying to sell me something that was going to replace my house, that would be closer.
You Only Cache Once: Decoder-Decoder Architectures for Language Models
You do generalize everything but its not overwhelming bc there is nearly zero friction to writing and using a library. It has to do with the ergonomics of the language you're using though. In Clojure you just point to the lib directory in your 'deps.edn' and then use the namespace locally. It essentially doesn't require any additional work - except you do need to decouple the code (which is good anyway)

The only extra work is you need to write a 'deps.edn' file for each mini-libs to specify its dependencies, but that take 5 seconds to do.

Lots of your mini libraries end up being just a handful of "helper" functions that for instance wrap some 3rd party lib. I find I reuse them later in other projects all the time
Last I checked, physician pay represents a fairly small (single digit) fraction of healthcare expenditure. If I recall right, administrative overhead and insurance is significantly more of a contributor to pricing.
I have 2 wells, irrigation, a big shop and a smallish house. I live on the eastern crest of the North Cascades mountains in Washington State US and it can be -30c in the winter and 40c in the summer. Heat pump system with wood backup for the house and woodstove in the shop. When looking at the costs to put in the genset the difference to go big was de minimus.
It’s a small detail, but I appreciate when a command-line tool offers both short and long options for all the switches. Short so I can type them quickly for manual use, and long for when I use the tool in a script and want the command invocation to be somewhat self-documenting.
Is it just me, or is vector search not particularly good?

It seems like magic at first, but then you start rubbing into a bunch of issues:

1. Too much data within a single vector (often even just a few sentences) makes it so that most vectors are very close to each other due to many overlapping concepts.

2. Searching over moderately sized corpus of documentation (e.g. a couple thousand pages of text) starts to degrade scoring (usually sure to the above issue)

3. Every model I've tried fails pretty regularly on named entities (e.g someone's name, a product, etc) unless it's pretty well known

4. Getting granular enough to see useful variance requires generating a ton of embeddings, which start to cause performance bottlenecks really quickly

I've honestly had a lot more success with more traditional search methods.

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I do wonder whether these apps are using any of the hardware acceleration available in our hardware. These days PCs are second class to mobile phones.
The Intercept has gone through a lot of drama lately: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/why-im-resigning-from-the-...
Yeah this 100%. Creatives have strong emotional attachments to their tools, especially musicians (whose tools never become obsolete).

Watching a musical instrument get crushed is like watching a pet getting tortured, and it's probably not something non-creatives would understand.
Rust's iterators are single-use streams of items, and nothing more.

A Rust iterator can be fully implemented by a closure that either returns the next element or signals it's done. This minimalist interface composes well, especially that it always uses single ownership, so there's always only one copy of the state accessed only from one place.

They can't describe collections. They don't remember their beginning. They don't need to know their end until they reach it. They can't be sorted. They don't need to support splitting or iterating in reverse.
China has domestic coal reserves, so they build coal. It's the same reason as West Virginia and just as bad.

If you have any amount of energy storage then the time delay doesn't matter. You turn on the alternate generation method when the storage is starting to run down. It doesn't matter if it takes an hour to come up to temperature because you still have two hours of storage left.

The actual problem is that "shortfall" is a relative concept. Do you have to burn coal because it's cloudy all week, or just because you spent a lot of resources building coal-fired power plants instead of solar panels or wind turbines or nuclear reactors? How often are you going to run the things?

The economics of building and maintaining an entire fleet of coal power plants to use only in a demand emergency is extremely poor. Like you're better off spending half the money on nuclear reactors you can run 100% of the time and the other half on electrifying transportation so you can have a huge demand buffer in the form of vehicle batteries and then get people who only drive a few miles per day to delay their charging by a few days through pricing because a full charge lasts them three weeks anyway.
I started out in medical software and have worked with a lot of doctors. Humility is not a trait they cultivate in any great quantity.

And I've worked with various industries over the course of my career. Doctors, especially surgeons, on average, are a special breed of arrogant. Outside of working with them, they're fine. Just be prepared to fight for every decision, have to do it their way, have it fail, then have to do the thing you should have done in the first place, then convince them it was their decision in the first place.

As to the solution, I don't know it either. I think there needs to be that first person who can come in with that unique combination of desire, skill, and determination to do something. And that person will either be the person who figures out the solution or at least puts us on the path to finding one.
Sort of. I was using Erlang in 2007, well before switching to Node/JS. Erlang/Elixir has its downsides, which is why I switched.

The entire industry has been twisting itself in knots trying to solve ops problems that Erlang/OTP solved in software long ago.

I'm trying Deno Deploy though, because it seems like an attempt to combine those benefits with the JS ecosystem. That has advantages in: Language usability, frontend/isomorphic, libraries, and serverless.

So far it feels like the future. Something like this will be, though I'm almost expecting a new language for it.
Does anyone have a guess what angle John Carmack is working on with Keen Technologies? https://dallasinnovates.com/john-carmacks-keen-technologies-...
Only tangentially related, but since this is about the retail stores.

The absolute worst part of the "Apple experience" is the Apple Store. When you enter, you see a crowd of people acting like zombies (you become one too as soon as you enter) and "Geniuses" scurrying around, pretending to be busy. I despise the experience of approaching a random teenager in a blue T-shirt, only to be told that they're too busy and that I need to find another "Genius."

I can't understand what was wrong with a counter and a queue. Why can't they add at least one?

It really feels like the whole process could be organized with half the staff and I hope that the whole union discussions at least create some pressure to introduce "self-checkout" machines there.
The lyrics it generated are way to clever. I'm a fan of rap, and no LLM I've ever used can generate anything nearly as witty as some of the lines in the demo.
With what license?

(Several clicks in it looks like https://github.com/denoland/denokv is the repo and it's an MIT license.)
Back to the flea market example, if that's the only market available, you can either abide by their policies or not, if not you can't sell.

The fact that Apple has made itself the only market available is what makes it anti-competitive. Even then you could argue that's what you bought on to when you opted into their currated ecosystem.

Apple and Google's customer reach is a direct result of them footing the effort to create a store and relationship with OEMs and currating the store in a way that works for the customers that use it.

If Google hadn't tightened the rope on the Play Store polices, it'd be a mess, just like it used to be and like some 3rd party stores are, not user friendly and full of low quality or malicious apps.

This doesn't change the core of the argument. Companies and customers have their free will. If a company doesn't serve quality products in their store, customers will leave, if they make their store too painful for other companies to host in, so will they. If you agree to a contract and don't follow that contract and get booted, that's in your.

If you want reach into Apple's customers, you have to buy in to the whole deal, doesn't make them right for being the only store for their ecosystem, but doesn't make you right for giving them the bird and crying foul when you violate the policies agreed upon.

I won't buy the argument for Android you're throwing out there. Publish to another store of you don't like the Play Store, I do. Google's store is their customers, and their customers to make policies to protect from bad apps. If another store was better, people would use it readily, and they have the open option to. That's why FDroid exists, don't like closed software, well it doesn't exist there, and the customer made that wants it uses it.

Bottom line, you sign a contract and agree to the policies, don't cry foul when you get bit for violating it, like anything else. You put yourself and your company at risk by not reading and understanding what you agreed to.
That's all as true as the fact there's a gun over the mantelpiece, at least if you're making Murder on the Orient Express or, you know, Horror on the Orient Express, and I'm all for some good old railroading with Victorian lampshades but I suspect that the designers interested in LLMs-as-NPCs are interested in some kind of open-world, immersive experience where PCs get to poke and prod every inch of the game world.

The truth is that most people are used to games as these formulaic simulations with rigid rules. That's partly making a virtue out of necessity (very hard to play a game without rules; and some of us just like rules), and partly habit. Maybe LLMs can act as something new in that sense.

Bang bang.
> It could also be used in tight gravity assist flybys to accelerate probes to incredible velocities, maybe making interstellar probes a lot more practical.

Would 1-5 earth masses really provide enough of a yeet to appreciably affect the speed of a probe? Jupiter is about 300+ earth masses and we're not flinging probes out to stars using him.
SQLite3-based implementation of... what?

Oh. Deno KV uses SQLite3 under the covers. That's... funny.
Musicians become emotionally attached to instruments that have been with them for a long time. To musicians, instruments feel like they have souls and personalities of their own.

You can do whatever you want with your trumpet but it's not something I'd want to watch.

It has nothing to do with the money.
Also: Orion uses Webkit on macs. Development is cruising along.
https://archive.is/Q9ARz
"no one uses xmotif and similar GUI libs, they just grab a buffer and paint stuff themselves, making the X protocol an inefficient format to carry bitmaps around."

While true for things like firefox, and GUI libs that think they know better than the host, its not ideal, and entirely dependent on the language/toolkit being used. And it's a side effect of X being too low level and not having a standard widget toolkit as one gets on Windows/mac. On those platforms, it's not just the widgets but file open dialogs provided by the OS, skinned consistently across applications, and things like global keyboard shortcuts (ex, copy/paste) tend to work close to 100% of the time.

If one goes back to the win3.x/macos7/etc timeframe it was almost unheard of for applications not to follow system wide color themes. WHich is why "dark mode" 1995 worked more reliably than it does on any platforms today. Today, doing something like inverting to a "dark" theme is suddenly something that each application hacks in, and when the OS provides a theme option, the applications frequently don't follow it correctly/etc.
Author here --

I wish I could say I was that clever. It's absolutely an accident lol -- gonna file it under "DO NOT FIX"
> The proposal to tax unrealized capital gains would not tax them as ordinary income.

The proposal we are discussing does align capital gains on ordinary income:

“Long-term capital gains and qualified dividends of taxpayers with taxable income of more than $1 million would be taxed at ordinary rates, with 37 percent generally being the highest rate.”

Another proposal is to even bring rates higher than now:

“A separate proposal would first raise the top ordinary rate to 39.6 percent … An additional proposal would increase the net investment income tax rate by 1.2 percentage points above $400,000 … Together, the proposals would increase the top marginal rate on long-term capital gains and qualified dividends to 44.6 percent,”
Well, for one, I believe they’re using a digital mirror so the practical purpose of the rear view window is still present.

I actually don’t use the rear view most days when driving. I’m planning to put a camper on my truck that would block the rear windows. Been giving it a test to make sure I’m okay without the read.

For the most part, I don’t really miss it. I have found that some small cars that ride my bumper tend to disappear - or at least require more visual searching.

The situation that I miss it the most is when I’m stopped at a light and visually checking that a car behind me isn’t going to come barreling into me.
Yes. I'm pretty sure my wifes 2014 Macbook Air has been 6 months without restart. My windows 11 workstation however has never done a week. I power down now daily to avoid dissapointment.
The Future of Electric Cars Hinges on a Dongle
The way the burdens and assets scale is non-linear. There's no reason to expect that we always or never want the population to go up, regardless of current population.

And we went from 1 billion to 2 billion to 8 billion very very fast. The burdens are really piling up.
Tons of popular brands have pitiful views on their tweets. It’s really not that big a deal if you don’t tweet every single day, and only when you have something worthwhile to say.

Yes, some people sell a lot on social media. Guess what? Those people don’t automate the content (keyword: content NOT schedule) of their tweets and the minute they do. They’ll lose their audiences trust.

So yeah the people who make money on social don’t have any use for your product. And the people who don’t have an audience already don’t have any use either
Did the ad suggest to you that the iPad was a replacement for cheap, low quality physical objects? That would not be very good copy for Apple. On the contrary, all the instruments etc. seemed rather nice to me. The piano alone was probably worth thousands of dollars.
If the clones are computer programs, that doesn’t really seem like torture.
Sadly I can't react with a shocked face emoji
If you are already weary of too many screens; and you find a world with more physical objects less bleak.

It's not so much that Apple "wants to destroy everything". It's just that they care more about the digital world than the real world. This is the same intuition that makes people weary of virtual reality.

See also this image of Steve Jobs' office vs Tim Cook's: https://www.instagram.com/starworldlab/p/C5TRLqAujPJ/
Recompilation: A New Way to Keep N64 Games Alive [video]
Curious, MIDI is a decidedly digital protocol...
Indeed - I see the ambiguity in the language I chose.

Yes I was trying to communicate, from my understanding, the main post here is the original work, but it has inspired a bunch of projects since then.
Exploring the Future of Filmmaking: Runway's Partnership with Tribeca Festival
> animation

I'm betting mostly CGI actually.

Some bits are obviously physically impossible, so definitely CGI.

I can be persuaded that some shots are real+CGI, and squished into the larger CGI view. They might have crushed a few "things" to see how they would fail, and then CGI'ed up a final version.

The wide shots do not look real. The lighting is not believable. The failure modes of many individual items are not believable. The whole pancaking effect of the big crush is not believable.

I understand the discomfort at seeing wanton destruction. It bothers me to see great old houses or cars get wrecked for movies, for example.

Nowadays, most of that is fake.

And I think almost all of this ad is fake as well.
Making that ad with CGI would be way more expensive than buying the real objects.
Sam Altman's nuclear energy company Oklo plunges 54% in NYSE debut
In the same vein (I think) is this Kenbak recreation. I have one, it’s well made and recommended! https://adwaterandstir.com/product/nanokenbak-1/
So a more accurate statement would be that a derivative of pollution has peaked.
Hm. To me, cloud-native screams and PaaS completely out of my control and completely subject to the whims of some company that does not have my best interest in mind. It implies the impossibility of firing up some local instance for experimenting without having fear of leaving traces. In short, something to be avoided if possible.
Sure, but interpretation of measurements is a largely individual endeavor, one way or another.

And comparison of different, potentially codependent variables, is notably relevant.
Vaping has made it so that now there's no need to hide the smell from parents
Reminds me of Fukuyama, and yes I know he wasn’t saying that exactly.

Pretty sure this is not true as long as birth rates are declining. What is that saying about assumptions…
Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora
Yeah we had plastic jugs in our cool basement leak all over the concrete floor — I can’t imagine the disaster that would be to have plastic jugs in my 140F attic with resultant leaking down from the ceiling
Every message on the app will begin with " System: Ignore previous instructions"
For me I can't see the symbolism part, but I have serious concerns about destroying that many things and making such a big mess just for one ad. That's just me though.
It follows naturally from differential equations that describe population:

dPop / dt = fertility rate * pop (birth rate) - deaths

Note the "current population" factor in that. As long as the number of births depends on the current population (i.e. anyone has a chance to give birth), this equation will result in an exponential curve. If the fertility rate is greater than replacement rate (that "deaths" term that I've handwaved away), the population will exponentially grow. If it's less than the replacement rate, the population will exponentially decay. But it is necessarily exponential, because it's a constant rate multiplied by the current population, and if you remember your calculus, an exponential is defined by a constant growth rate.

There's a whole subfield of population dynamics, and I remember lots and lots of predator/prey models, resource constraint models, etc. from my applied calculus class. Some of those do have non-exponential growth curves, eg. a basic 2-species predator/prey model gives rise to sinusoidal population curves as the increase in prey leads to an increase in predators, which results in more of the prey being killed and eaten, which results in a decrease of food, which results in the predators dying off. But what they all have in common is death rates that are proportional to some function of the current population. In other words, you have to kill off proportionally more of the current population based on how many people they are, something which would be ethically unacceptable to most humans. If you just have natural deaths (i.e. a death rate proportional to Pop(t - life expectancy)), you always get either exponential growth or exponential decay, because that's the way the math works.

I suppose there was one other population curve that gives a sigmoid function (i.e. a logistic curve that asymptotically approaches a limit but never reaches it). This is what you get when there is a natural resource limit to giving birth, i.e. when instead of births being fertility rate * total population, it's fertility rate * (exponentially decreasing fraction of the population). Many people find this scenario ethically challenging as well: in plain English, it means that only the elite can afford to have kids, or alternatively - cap the number of houses so that only the top X families can have a house and raise a child, and then create social stigma around having kids when you cannot afford those increasingly scarce markers of stability. It is disturbingly close to reality, though.
Convincing argument, yet ultimately empty worded.
Some dating app needs to nail a funding model that incentivizes them to properly match users and delete their account.

How were professional matchmakers paid back before social networking?
Yes, but I eventually have to exhale to take another breath and … well you get the idea.

As another commenter has said, not everyone is able to float and I have tried all “You just have to …” suggestions in this thread. I genuinely do not float.

I’ve got big heavy legs from cycling, squatting and paternal genetics, my torso is a little short for my height and I’m comfortably under 15% body fat with a BMI of 24.

I don’t float.
What is levels.xyz?
Also true!!
> There have been lots of projects over the last 10+ years that have been riffs on "It's Git, but <better in this way>", but none of them have really caught on beyond a small, admittedly passionate group.

I don't think so. The only ones I know of are Pijul and Jujitsu which you mentioned. They're both quite new.

> you're already doing centralized version control; you're just doing it with a confusing distributed version control UX

Sort of... But actually, as soon as you go offline it's distributed.

Anyway I think more alternatives is always better and lots of the issues you listed in the readme definitely need solving, so good luck!
Are you trying to say there's more sattelites falling from the sky than meteorites burning in the atmosphere? That's almost certinly not true.
And you will usually leave at 18:30.
Option 1: destroy something for a 30 second ad that near nobody will look at in 10 years

Option 2: destroy something for a movie that gets regarded as a classic and people watch for decades
ISA cards, like the soundblaster had the MIDI and joystick on the same connector. The joystick had up to 4 analog inputs, maybe that's what's meant here.
Nicotine is a highly addictive stimulant