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Unfortunately for Netscape, U.S. regulations prohibit the export of products incorporating strong cryptography. In order to distribute an international version of its browser overseas, Netscape had to weaken the encryption scheme to use keys of just 40 bits, leaving only a million million possible key values.

In 2000, the Clinton administration relaxed cryptography export rules, allowing the export of strong encryption (e.g. 128-bit) without special licences to most countries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...
Would love to see some of the talks. What is Pycon's policy on releasing talks to Youtube?
Worked out excellent for Korean (Hangul) though. Also English.

Both massive wins
> If you want to rise popularity of your blog in many modern capitalism countries, always start any blog record with any form of modern capitalism blaming

As this forum is mostly populated with techies, one would hope Tim Bray is a known name which doesn't need increasing his blog's popularity, or being suspect of pulling such stunts. :)
I split the difference. I went with an overkill watercooling set up with quietness in mind, just so I could have nearly-passive cooling at high clock speeds.

I’m currently using 2x 360x360mm radiators stacked together, with 4x 180mm 300rpm fans. It’s virtually silent yet keeps my CPU and GPU quite cool, even when gaming.
The point of the article is that the big business model is "continued growth", which depends on constantly increasing sales, which means products necessarily get shittier so that they must be replaced more frequently. Small "lifestyle" businesses do not operate under this principle and encourage reuse and renewal. They represent opposing philosophies.

Whether you can "just" get a sofa from big business or not, that is precisely what they hope for, and ideally you should be purchasing a sofa more frequently than you already do to further support this notion.
That is admirable though. I ran a little consultancy for a few years - it never exploded in size or grew beyond me, but I could always look myself in the mirror.
No one writes JavaScript anyway… ReScript: the ReasonML successor [video]
On Android only I think?
That seems a bit of a stretch. There is a lot of room for debate around the details but if someone harms someone else then they should be liable. Otherwise there isn't effective legal feedback to stop people from harming each other. The principle is sound.

EDIT Sorry, misread the comment. I removed the part of my response related to my confusion.
Hehe, you’re replying to a comment that exposed issues with the stated assumptions behind the so-called paradox.
You may be interested "Deterministic Quoting"[1]. This doesn't completely "solve" hallucinations, but I would argue that we do get "good enough" in several applications

Disclosure: author on [1]

[1] https://mattyyeung.github.io/deterministic-quoting
All talks are put on YouTube (unless the speaker specifically opted out of recording), but it usually takes 2-3 months for them to be put up.
Not a single data breach resulted in the guilty company's demise or even noticeable financial or reputational damage.
Nothing will ever change and this will keep happening more often.
Depends what the topic is.

IME it hallucines rarely when asked practical programming questions but basically constantly when asked math questions beyond basic calculus.
I think it depends on what you mean when you say OOP. I agree with the statement that OOP as it's taught in a text book with heavy emphasis on modelling the domain with deep inheritance taxonomies and polymorphism, that is largely a methodological cryptid.

These are tools that are relatively rarely used in Java. Not that they aren't ever done or used (anyone using almost any of Java's own APIs is knee deep in this), but the emphasis is in application code is typically on state-light services and immutable models. Not that I quite understand what is the problem with that.
The same can be said for a human CEO.
People around me go less to the doctor/hospital for "small" things, mostly because of perception of how long and expensive one session can be. Sometimes it makes them neglect preventative things. More hospital would induce this demand and make people consult doctor more often.
No one for whom money is still an object should buy one, but absolutely everyone should schedule a demo at the Apple Store. It’s heavy, uncomfortable and has few legitimate use cases, but the demo is incredible. It’s a glimpse of what’s to come.
It is removed now.

Updated Date: 2024-06-02T11:17:09Z

steamcommunity.com is also registered with Network Solutions. I wonder if that blew up in Valve's face.
Rare deep-sea squid with the largest known photophores filmed at depth
Sorry, but fuck OKRs.

I'm so tired of meta-work. Work that adds to the workload of already overloaded and stressed employees of a company. It feels like nonsense that everyone goes along with simply because they are all too terrified to say "no, this doesn't help me get my job done".

HR that pushes for OKRs can bite me.
It could simply be that the work environments they're in are simply echo chambers, which is probably a necessity of working there. They likely talk to each other about happy paths and everything else becomes noise.
Tangentially related - I hit my head last year and lost almost all low frequency hearing on my left side. (I had an existing loss, and had almost no high frequency hearing on the other side already.) Everyone sounded like a chipmunk for a while. A year in, and I am no longer subjectively aware of any difference. I still struggle with direction - which way is that siren? But music sounds like it used to, subjectively. People who I know sound familiar - exactly like they used to. But I have trouble identifying the sex of new people on the phone now. It's very surreal how stable my subjective experience of reality remained, how the brain has sort of just patched over the missing bits. The reports about how people can become accustomed to glasses that flip vision in just days, etc., are much more believable to me now.
Trust fund kids do not need to work, they just choose to do so and they like to watch lower management jump up trying to catch the carrot dangled in front of them. Aristocracy never disappeared only it took them a while to learn how to use modern inventions. Look at who's working as a "trustee" for a lot of projects and watch how everyone is trying to lick their arse in the most imaginative ways.
There's no modern successor to Rails because Rails itself os still modern and very much up to date. The recent introduction of Stimulus allows to implement a SPA completely on rails (if they wanted) with the same simplicity present everywhere else in the framework.
It’s a joke about how automated processes will become.

And to be fair, you could have machines repairing machines. It’s basically how we operate. Some humans do the work, some fix the others
Magyar?
And there will be lot of jobs to clean up all the mistakes AI makes (currently being hidden or swept under the carpet to keep valuations up).
Be the change you want to see in the world. Those that feel the same will follow, and even moreso if they see they’re not alone.
A measurable goal can be "Deliver feature X" etc, how is that not value for customers?

But yeah OKR are usually done at higher level than individuals, I didn't write any OKRs just the people above me. In general it is something managers should do, the lowest level employees shouldn't have to.

I can agree that individuals being forced to write OKRs is a bad thing, but managers being forced to write OKRs is a good thing.

At higher level OKRs looks like "attract X more customers" or "reduce customer churn by Y%" etc, to achieve those they instruct people like you to create customer value, at your individual level such goals aren't as easy to write since they are the result of contributions from many parts.

Edit: But if you can come up with good measurable goals for you as an individual since you have enough individual freedom to do so, then yeah writing that down is good. But if you don't have any long term project and don't have control to plan what you work on then writing down an OKR is just hazing, you need to be responsible for the things your OKR measures, if you lack long term responsibilities then you shouldn't write down any OKRs.
Unfortunately gaming the system is still a temptation.

By rewarding growth, schools are incentivized to prevent earlier grades from doing too well.

One student with potential pushing the overall performance higher than that school might like for that year might be purposefully stunted in order to allow room for growth in later years, robbing them of getting as far in life as they would have.
Thank you. I try to write these for major conferences that I attend. It is a good way to absorb what I learned and remember what I did. I see myself building on these experiences over time.
Problem is most states assessments can't measure growth and "growth measures" are numerically nonsense.

Growth measures do exist, but they require adaptive tests.
It's a thinly veiled ploy to get training data to train their generative AIs in user activity with the hopes of teaching AI the workflows of people, so it can replace them.
Step 1: the C-Suite sells out middle management in return for a bigger year end bonus.

Step 2: the CEO sells out the rest of the C-Suite for an even bigger year end bonus.

Step 3: the shareholders replace the CEO, promoting one of his now AI automated fellow C-suite, to maximize shareholder profit.

It's corporate hunger games ... just without winners.
Lord Kelvin and his analog computer
My new business, electric chairman, has even loftier goals.
To each their own but I'm pretty glad masks are on their way out. I wore one when I had to during the pandemic and I'm quite happy that I didn't have to wear one to any of the conferences I've been to since the pandemic ended.
I agree, the information provided in this article is a treasure. Maybe someone will add some "magic sauce" to it?
Example: You are editing a table row with some application, but when you try to save the changes, the system discovered that the row has been deleted from the table. The business logic does not permit you to create rows arbitrarily, so a new row cannot be inserted instead of updating existing one.

The behavior admittedly does not make sense for files (although I suppose you could rename or delete the directory that contains it), but it's sort of unavoidable if you don't want to take locks while some client application you don't control may or may not make changes.
How is this different from grammarly, that has been around for many years?

This was a middleman job anyway, so it was just waiting to be removed, like travel agents.
Tricking iOS into Animating Icons [video]
I hope you're not a parent.
I think if you just exit your subjective perspective, this type of adaptation becomes obvious. What is using a game controller, keyboard + mouse, bicycle handlebars, snowboard, etc but augmentation. Yeah, it's designed to be ergonomic from the outset, but that doesn't change the fact that it is an augment.
Nice piece. Maybe because I havent seen many articles these days with any sort of objective comparison of software approaches in general. Ok… I’ll admit that any attempt I’ve made to find such pieces never makes it past all the SEO spam these days.

A little surprised to not see any games using Janet- since it seems to be both made for gaming and has a surprising number of ‘batteries included’ like a web server and graphics. Then again, I’ve only stumbled upon it pretty recently myself. From my minor hacking with it, it’s def worth a peek in the Lisp/games arena.
Hamilton is basically Sweeney Todd for the historically literate.
Seriously. How to acquire and manage an extra set of eyes? How to install a mini-map capability onto your daily person?

I'm thinking about cameras connected to a network where a server computer performs as the central hub for information and control. The set of cameras are mounted on drones or something and you have to control the drones (since artificial intelligence is still a tricky problem to solve).

The problem to solve is getting over not just control but constantly receiving new information types and pathways. Instead of the photo receptors in the human eyeballs, you now have in addition to your old eyes digital information from an array of cameras. You have the drones for taking the cameras with you everywhere you go. A whole lot of new stuff gets dumped on you and you're now basically undergoing physical therapy for a new organism or species.

Maybe twitching your tongue becomes a new daily occurrence? Or how about some hand signals forming to trigger indexed movements (a mapping between signals and output responses stored in the networked system's central database)? This is maybe how commands are sent. And that means you need an increase in power production for supporting the new infrastructure of your new lifestyle. And it will look like a gross hack in the end. Not that clean and sleek looking stuff you see in the movies. I guess pioneering is rough and rugged like that?

Sending commands is the easy part. But reading information, on top of the baseline of daily living, seems to create an information overload situation, yes? Because how to do remote control if you can't see what it is that you're remotely controlling? It's not simple like flying an RC drone. It's augmentation of all aspects of RC drone flying.
This is the same kind of thing people always say, that a machine can’t replace a doctor’s bedside manner or a pilot’s intuition. Here is a clip from the first Iron Man, watch the first 15 seconds, word for word same kind of sentiment:

https://youtu.be/ZygApeuBZdk?si=6rRDvAncOoiO4cEo

And then technology proceeds to trounce humans and it turns out that people dont want London Cabbies to have “The Knowledge”, they’re totally happy with an Uber driver to mindlessly follow the GPS routing system which knows far more about traffic. And then a self driving car which never has any social issues and can regale you with anything you want during the drive, stay silent or play you any movie. Did you ask your parents for most subjects or ask google? People overestimate how much their special idiosynchrasies are needed by other people. They just want to get in, get out, and get what they want.

This was a year ago:
https://nypost.com/2024/03/26/lifestyle/im-a-model-whos-so-h...

https://medium.com/@blinx/combating-the-proliferation-of-soc...

https://futurism.com/ai-generated-influencers

And if you add partially AI-produced content, such as automatic clips translations b-roll and edits etc. it becomes even more content that’s AI produced.

People expect that increasing level of production value, and soon they will treat human influencers the same way they treat, say, a picasso painting vs DALL-E. The Picasso painting is just there, it can’t crank out what you want every minute. So it is a curiosity. But not where you get most of your news or whatever.

All the qualities you mentioned can be replaced by a superstimulus and most people will come to prefer it the same way birds prefer rounder fake eggs to their own eggs, and even kick their own eggs out.

As for where they will get the content? Where does news on twitter and telegram appear from? Crowdsourced news from everyone having a cellphone and then everyone discussing what they just uploaded. Citizen journalism. Just summarize a freaking forum and you have a podcast in all languages recorded in whatever voice and hottest anchors you want. And they can then also tell you anything you want to know in the “would you like to know more?” fashion of Starship Stormtroopers, if it had been a thing LOL. And sell you far better because they can give you individual attention and remember preferences of millions of people and your friends. And solve the two-sigma problem for educating students. Results will matter for parents. This next generation will grow up with AI friends and tutors, and will not want human tutors — for most subjects ! Let’s hope this next generation will still want human friends.
Thank you for reading and commenting!
Any ideas for a "magic sauce" for this?
Then do it. LLMs are out there. Where are all the people founding billion dollar companies run by LLMs? Maybe they’re just quiet about it so everyone else doesn’t catch on.

If the article is not about the author starting a real company with AI that deposited real dollars into their bank account that they could spend, then I don’t see why anyone should care.
Thank you for that lifestyle lecture.

My kids hated the bjorn and so did my (very third world communist country) foreign wife. I liked it.

The stroller also has storage space for, for example, the medicine bag that keeps my last kid alive in case he swallows <insert long list of allergens>. The stroller has everything ready to go except the baby and we don't have to don our various accessories.

Finally, as Europeans, we find those Americans and their various polyester bags (back, front, bjorn, fanny, etc) look ridiculous. One looks like a marine about to assault Fallujah. The stroller has a dignity to it that all those bags lack.
Hugging Face detected 'unauthorized access' to its AI model hosting platform
$1000 to the charity of your choice that this isn’t available in any generalizable way before 2030.
> This is even on the off-chance that the user has even read the message, which is incredibly unlikely. I can't count the number of times I've had developers tell me they had an error message and don't know what to do, and my solution was "let's read it, it says this is the error" and that being revelatory for them.

I agree that the problem with technical and non-technical users alike is one of motivation. Like you say, someone who is not technically minded won't care that the server is out of pace or their wifi is disconnected and developers who just want to get their code to compile don't care about learning how some new framework works.

But in all these cases, the users do care about doing whatever they were trying to do when they got the error. And the best way to help them is to give them all the relevant information they or someone else needs to fix it. Giving some generic error like "sorry your file could not be saved" neither helps those who are motivated to fix it, nor those who aren't motivated.
That’s true. But why would Java take inspiration from Kotlin, which adds very little new to the picture (scala has done basically everything before, let alone ML, from where most of the new features java (or any other modern language) copies originate from)
Then you must apply the same logic to public infrastructure for cars. Why would someone who only walks or bikes have to pay for the gigantic and expensive infrastructure needed for cars? Why would they have to have their immediate surrounding sacrificed to make room for all these cars?
Well, I'm sorry for your experience. Now in a manager chair I have both experiences, setting bad OKRs and good OKRs. The performance and communication improvements when you get it right are astonishing. Unfortunately, I'm not consistent yet.

But when you find a manager/ place where people get it right, you'll love it.
AI research is making grand progress at a rapid pace as everyone is aware. As for the human experts of the field, I can't say, I'm not up to speed. I'm not looped in enough to tell if the developments border at theological inquiry at this point.

The ethical concerns, such as military applications, and potential negative social effects, lends a manic, rabid tint to the trend, that existential risk can cause some people to pray. The field of research deals with its own existential questions as everyone knows. Douglas Hofstadter said he was depressed about it.

It's fair to call the research a branch of math, but it's certainly applied, the developments are often explored via empiricism and not pure reason, in the sense that results are achieved partly through practice and then described with reason, rather than pure analytical reason causing results. I'm not intending to denigrate that, iterating on experience is the method of great painters and so on. Yeah, let's quote Leonardo Da Vinci: "Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments". It's undeniably giving life force to science and math, less in the Abel prize/Fields medal area and more in the Turing award area obviously. One or many Turing awards and the like are probably imminent to be given out.

The optimism is more in the realm of business, isn't it. After all it is institutions of business, not academy, that are the driving force. AI is undeniably an optimistic space, I passed on buying NVIDIA in april 2023 and it has quadrupled since then as an example. So I suppose I'm not looped in with the hype, even though behaviourally I left work and returned to academia due to it arriving. The technology itself is unlikely to produce an extension of our limit to knowledge in the same way as the mathematicians of the former century, not because it's without utility but because it can't reason in such a structured way yet. Rather the technology itself will like a very broad irrigation system fill in the gaps and ease the flow downstream, rather than heightening the peak. We are starting to see this institutional efficiency become realised, but also the produced slop itself is starting to cause negative effects especially in the social sphere.

Yes, the current period and the research branch has to be deemed optimistic in the sense that it extends the limits of what we know, not in the purely analytical way, but in a mix of reason and experience that is part of daily life itself. Wonder what the generation growing up with it will accomplish, and what difficulties they will face.
The big shared car park that I presume you see is the college's parking for a theater almost any parking lot you see in Williamstown is the college's.

I'm not saying it is not cyclable. When managed to get a bike path built all the way to North Adams. The neighborhood argued against using the easement on their properties and caused a multi-year delay and 2 mile diversion of the bike path.

I'm saying that the entire environment is built around cars. The entire notion that limiting parking for apartment buildings will help housing costs is backwards. People need access to groceries all year round and if the closest grocery store is in North Adams it is too soon to worry restricting parking.

North Adams on the other hand has a really weird relationship to cars and the destruction of the local economy.

Sometime in the past 50 years some central planner decided that have Route 2 run through North Adams downtown was inconvenient. The fix was to tear down all the buildings on Main Street and replace them with an overpass and Route 2 can then run through straight through with only a couple of stop lights.

This plus the loss of factory jobs decimated the economy local economy in the late 70's. When I move to the area in the 2001 they had the highest teen pregnancy rate in at least Massachusetts.

MassMoca is a contemporary art museum meant to lift North Adams and I would say after 25 years it is showing some traction with the local economy. North Adams is the best place for housing in the area. The downtown has everything one needs including affordable housing. North Adams doesn't need to build more parking. If the trolly that used to connect Williamstown to North Adams still existed that may change my position on parking in Williamstown.

My Mom was anti-car and growing up in Florida we could do anything we needed in Gainesville on foot, bike, or bus. When we moved north to Pennsylvania Dutch country we got a car.

I'm surprised by your diligence and I'm happy to answer any other questions you might have.