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I agree. In my opinion, the problem is that Microsoft and Apple discovered more lucrative markets, making their desktops less important. For Apple, the iPhone’s revenue completely dwarfs the Mac’s, and even services bring in more revenue than the Mac. Microsoft still makes a lot of money selling Windows licenses to OEMs and corporations, but somehow Microsoft still feels compelled to extract even more money from Windows by placing ads in the OS and by selling subscription services.

As a fan of desktop GUI software that conforms to well-developed platform UI guidelines such as the old Apple Human Interface Guidelines, I believe the rise of mobile computing and the Web hurt the desktop. Software companies ship cross-platform applications using least-common-denominator frameworks instead of writing apps with UIs that are tailor-made to each platform. While this saves development time, and while it’s popular to say “having an Electron app is better than having no app,” it makes the desktop experience less consistent and more difficult to use. In addition, the desktop UI has become more mobile-like even in ways that are inappropriate for desktop computing, such as the proliferation of hamburger windows, the tendency to hide settings (thus requiring additional clicks to perform operations that used to be done in one or two clicks), oversized bars, title bars being crammed with buttons (making it harder to move windows via dragging the title bar), excessive padding, etc. There is a difference between making things easier for users versus dumbing things down, but I feel that a lot of software designers these days don’t know the difference.

I would like to see a return to UI consistency across applications, and I’d also like to see a desktop environment that caters to power users.

A dream of mine is some type of “component-based” desktop operating system, where everything is an object that can be manipulated through either a GUI, the command line, or programmatically. The backend would be inspired by technologies like Smalltalk, GNU Emacs, Lisp machines, and Apple OpenDoc, but with modern considerations such as security and parallelism.
In my experience, the conflict in many bigger orgs isn't even on the cost vs profit axis, it's on the tangible vs non-tangible axis. It's a lot easier for middle managers to show they did well if they deliver customer impacting features than a nebulous "improved security". This is item true even when higher up management actually wants to invest in security.
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Elon Musk bets Tesla on Optimus, says over 1,000 robots in factories next year
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Nice kit.
> I couldn't use my normal `i3`/`sway` bindings to switch between terminals inside a tmux session
Just curious, what are your normal 'i3'/'sway' bindings that you cannot get to work with tmux ? And what actual terminal program do you use ?
Perhaps tmux wants more config than most people care to bother with, but scrollback and copy-paste can be configured just as you like.
That'll be $3.50
Except that they literally said "was supplied by the commercial processing facility." I don't see any reason to doubt their word. And as someone who also works in academia, in the kind of mushy low-budget research that these folks might be in, I take issue with the idea that we assume they couldn't just pick up the phone and call the meat processing plant. It's really not hard to do. I've randomly bought fish from fish processing plants, for my own personal consumption, and I didn't even have a grant and a grad student to do it.
I figure the same thing would happen in the Metaverse if it ever gains traction
The PS3 was a ridiculous machine
Are you sure that wasn't iron/steel? I've seen long term degradation of the sort you describe with those, but IME aluminum tends to get pitted and chalky.
I think mosh first appeared in 2012? How can you have been using it for decades?
This is a nice document, and many of the suggestions dovetail with my own ideas for a component-based operating system, which I wrote about in 2020 (http://mmcthrow-musings.blogspot.com/2020/04/a-proposal-for-...) but haven’t had the time to work on. I wonder if there’s been any follow-up work on Ideal OS?
As they should - I've been a paying PS customer for almost 10 years and quite good with Photoshop. Recently though, the capabilities or tools like Diffusion Bee, controlnet, img2img, gfpGAN, etc is really eliminating need for my hand-tweaking of images.

Adobe's generative fill and their annoying "safety" filters really aren't up to par with these free tools.
Note that quantized versions of llama3 70B can be ran on CPU on much cheaper server. I am personally using it via llama.cpp on bare metal 6-core Xeon CPU with 128G RAM for ~50 euro monthly.
I didn't understand the 18th slide about screen time.
If you happen to have the right traits: white, male, can speak "business", come from a wealthy background, have a support system that actually works, etc, then it seems pretty doable.

But without those, it's nearly impossible, I can tell you from experience.
No caffeine after lunch or no caffeine at all. Dark room, heavy blanket, perfect silence. I wind down an hour before bed, leave my phone in the other room and read myself to sleep. It helps to exercise during the day and to actually be tired. In my bedroom I try to have a fix for all the little problems: chapstick, headache pills, skin cream, water. Once I get in bed, I don't have to leave until morning.
That is cool and all; but if the US is going to seize assets after building a watertight legal case then countries can't just by default leave their sovereign assets in places where the US can seize them. A country's bankers are not interested in taking that sort of risk needlessly, there needs to be something in it for them.

Of course the international finance system is complicated so maybe there still is enough of a payoff to holding US dollars, we're seeing something of an exploratory process here as China, Russia and probably India start testing the system. It might hold.
Yeah. There was some HN discussion about it when the story broke too; maybe someone can dig it up on HN Search.

I think the civil suit will probably be dismissed due to lack of evidence, but it’s likely the police have probable cause to start a surveillance warrant. At that point, either she’ll stop all activity (which it doesn’t seem like she’s doing) or it’s inevitable they’ll catch her in the act.

The slim hope is that maybe it’s not her, or that police won’t pour a lot of resources into surveilling her. Maybe she’ll get lucky. But given the aggressive ways law enforcement has gone after people for e.g. scraping AT&T’s website, I wouldn’t bet on it.
Incumbency is why younger options aren't being considered. It's more of an "in spite of" rather than "because of" situation.
Given that 99% of the removed comments were legal, it doesn't seem like it's the governments that are restricting what people are seeing.
Starlink satellites have gotten big. The V2 Mini they are launching now is 1600 lb, and they fit only 20 some on Falcon 9. The V2 for Starship will be 2700 lbs.
You do realize that this is a standard that countless CEOs have been held to for a while now?
McDonald’s CEO:
https://www.npr.org/2021/12/16/1064943356/mcdonalds-ceo-sett...

CNN CEO:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2022/02/02/j...

NBCUniversal CEO:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/24/media/jeff-shell-sexual-haras...

And so on… has Musk been confirmed to meet this level of misbehavior? For some of the above examples the answer is yes, for others no. But where there’s smoke there’s fire. It seems to me like you’re trying to move the Overton window on what is deemed acceptable CEO behavior.
for SVG and Lottie animation Glaxnimate: https://glaxnimate.mattbas.org

for simple pixel-based image animation/distortion Anime Effects: https://animeeffectsdevs.github.io
Google makes zero-trust work by having a highly "centralized" or "uniform" tech stack all the way from tooling, to hosting, to infra. So everything defaults to zero-trust and it's not something you would need to think about setting up.

Most big organizations have built up their internal/external tech over decades, with large parts of it being essentially "mothballed", and high degree of heterogeneity stemming from tech changes over time/acquisitions/departments having flexibility in what tools and design they can use. Shifting to zero-trust requires a lot of migration work across all of this, "training" ie figuring out how to get stubborn IT people to buy in to the new way of doing things, and most likely a shift to the "centralized" kind of model that Google uses.

Even if the first two are funded, that third "centralized"/"uniform" model can be very expensive. One of the reasons Google has to deprecate things so much is that the centralized model requires constant migrations and breaking upgrades to keep things running, which makes it so "mothballing" isn't a thing: you either have enough people assigned to handle the migrations, or turn it down.

I agree that zero-trust is the best security model and it solves many problems. But I guess I'm also saying it's much easier said than done. With my startup I want to solve a lot of these kinds of problems (ie introducing "uniformity" that follows best practices) for my customers, but it's inevitable that some point a customer will ask for the ability to "turn off zero-trust and allow for IP whitelisting" - is it worth it to close a potentially big deal? It's also probable that any reasonably successful company will at some point perform an acquisition involving a company without a zero-trust model - is that reason to cancel the acquisition?
I recommend you read the linked post above: https://gwern.net/story-of-your-life, which argues that the story is not about precognition at all.

> and on my first read, I thought [Story of My Life] was downright mediocre—it seemed like some formal experimentation ... wrapped around an unnecessarily confusing plot & second-rate physics mumbo-jumbo in the service of a heavy-handed point. On my second read years later, having read some more about related topics in physics & philosophy since, I realized that I (along with almost everyone else who read it, judging from online discussions & reviews of the story and Arrival) might have been badly mistaken and that the plot was deliberately open to misreading and the physics mumbo-jumbo was in fact the whole point and the formal structure nicely reflected that.

> Didn't she do something like this in the short story as well? The part where she learns the non-zero-sum phrase?

If you carefully read the section, she learns the "non-zero-sum" phrase before having her daughter. The flashforward where she uses the "non-zero-sum" phrase is just her recalling the memory - no precognition required.

> “Mom, what do you call it when both sides can win?” I’ll look up from my computer and the paper I’ll be writing. “What, you mean a win-win situation?” … “I’m sorry, I don’t know it either. Why don’t you call your dad?”…A representative from the State Department named Hossner had the job of briefing the U.S scientists on our agenda with the heptapods. We sat in the video-conference room, listening to him lecture…“You mean it’s a non-zero-sum game?” Gary said in mock incredulity. “Oh my gosh.”…“A non-zero-sum game.” “What?” You’ll reverse course, heading back from your bedroom. “When both sides can win: I just remembered, it’s called a non-zero-sum game”
There's not really that much specific to change I think; the general thing is just reducing the number of rules, as in a parallel thing you'll be applying every rule to every part versus just the rules given preceding context (there is the option of filtering parts to process if there are a bunch of rules applying to the same small subset of the input, but that requires such cont).

All I can point at is from the array language world, with the notable thing of Co-dfns from Aaron Hsu, an APL compiler capable of running on the GPU (pointless as that may be): https://github.com/Co-dfns/Co-dfns/tree/master; and a 284-page dissertation: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/items/3ab772c9-92c9-4f59-...

And Marshall Lochbaum following (https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/implementation/codfns.html) that work, and covering some basics of parsing expressions of infix & prefix ops to stack-based/RPN at the bottom of https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/implementation/index.html, though the code is in BQN.

From that same author, parsers written in BQN, that I think should have sub-linear critical paths:

Markdown: https://github.com/mlochbaum/BQN/blob/master/md.bqn

XML: https://github.com/mlochbaum/bqn-libs/blob/master/xml.bqn

and a compiler of BQN itself: https://github.com/mlochbaum/BQN/blob/master/src/c.bqn (outputs stack-based bytecode).
I believe there is either only one solution or multiple equivalent solutions (e.g. in board where all squares are an equal probability, it doesn't matter which corner you start with.) You should assume an optimal counter-strategy when figuring out your move.

I don't have the time to rigorously prove there's always an optimal solution, but it seems to be the case.
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It's not just that. Some kids live in unsafe or car-centric areas, with parents who are uncaring or unable to take them to places where they can socialize in-person. Every kid goes to school, but maybe the kids at school bully them, or maybe the school is too focused on coursework and doesn't dedicate enough time for socialization, or maybe the kid is home-schooled. Especially if a ban were enacted today, some kids spent most of their life on social media, so they might have trouble adapting and socializing in-person.

Personally, I think the most likely and best solution is better social media. Currently, social media is regulated to shield kids from explicit content and predators, but it should also be regulated to shield them from negativity and mindless engagement, and to promote positivity and healthy behaviors (including not spending too much time on it). Recommendation algorithms for kids should be strictly controlled by the government; keep in mind that the government already strictly controls what kids learn in school, and it doesn't have to outright ban "non-explicit harmful" content, just down-weight it enough that kids don't find it without intentionally looking. Plus, a social media with healthier recommendations and discourse may become popular for adults as well, even though they wouldn't be locked into this version like minors (I can imagine a system that requires consent like adult ID but then lets adults stay anonymous, which could be bypassed by dedicated minors, but most wouldn't care enough to do so).
> Even if you're right and I haven't looked at it the specific one cuz I don't really care

That. Therein lies the problem that destroys the Angloamerican-led world order and the countries that are under its yoke from within: You prefer a certain version of reality that appeals to what you believe and feel. As a result, you literally ignore anything that contradicts those and amplify whatever supports those - which allows your establishment to literally lie to you to get to believe what YOU want to believe. Because, even if they tell the truth, you wont believe it ANYWAY, and you will do it...

> it's a short-term result.

...like this. All the indicators show the contrary of what you currently believe. You even went much further than the majority of the population and actually acknowledged that this may be the case, and the situation may be different than what you believed. BUT, you STILL gravitate back to your preferred reality by rejecting the contradicting indicators, by labeling them 'short term'.

They are not 'short term'. The entire world order changed. NYT admits it, Reuters admits it. But you, the public, WANT the reality to be otherwise. It wont.

https://www.reuters.com/world/brics-poised-invite-new-member...

> The invasion Ukraine happened cuz this is the last disposable generation Russia could muster for invasion.

The invasion of Ukraine happened because it was the last project of Brezinski and his proteges are still running the US foreign policy. He outlined how it should happen, and it was implemented precisely how he planned it before he died.

> Combine that with the fact that it hastens the adoption of EVs and the moving off of fossil fuels

Another delirium, that lives on the lie that the Angloamerican media sold to its public by saying that Russia was "an oil rig posing as a country". Its not.

One lie supporting another, one lie being used to reject the uncomfortable reality when the numbers and actual events contradict it, gravitating back to the PREFERRED, false reality because, well, it makes you people 'feel good'.

I'll leave you to your denial.
I agree. I've seen a lot, but that Christchurch video was a very hard watch.

But in a way I'm happy I did see it, just to know what some people are capable of.

I feel that I'd be quicker to react if I was ever unlucky enough to be in such a situation because of it. My brain wouldn't be in shock and trying to work out if it was real or not for so long.
Thanks for mentioning this, I hadn't noticed.
has a lot of the same flaws as sora, just more prominently than the demos Open AI showed. its just that Sora may be good enough
I agree with the short version, but that doesn’t answer the question of why. It’s one thing to invade other countries’ sovereignty to materially benefit your own citizens. But to do so without such benefits is irrational. It’s religious nutjobbery, like the crusades.
Any pointers for where people working on the DIY side of image genai hang out? Any specific forums or subreddits?
> Very few modern process so far has lead to more efficient / scarcer use of earths resources,

Scarcer? Probably right. More efficient? That seems very, very wrong. We're constantly looking for more efficient ways of doing and building things - if you'd like to frame this in a cynical way, look at it like this: businesses/industries are always looking to reduce costs. Sometimes this is done by firing thousands of people, sometimes this is by using more efficient materials/processes.
1,000 people control 1 game of Doom
If they were obvious they would already be known would they not?

The world 'remarkable' implies that people will be hard pressed not to communicate about it. You don't see an aminita muscaria and not tell someone about it. Clown red mushroom with white spots? Of course you're gonna tell someone, and of course it will have a name if it didn't already.
Notebooks are used for crunching data, for scientific, mathematical, or engineering purposes, and showing your work (revealing to your colleagues exactly how the data was crunched). If you're deploying them to production you get what you f'n deserve.

That said, when I'm writing code, if I want it to be good quality code then I might use org-mode and its literate programming facilities to type up my thoughts, interlineating code as necessary. This is more useful on greenfield and personal stuff, but there is a high probability that I too have undiagnosed ADHD and the use of org-mode helps to organize and clarify my thoughts before I commit them to code. It is a hallmark of the programmer personality to jump into coding without thinking things through beforehand -- or really, sometimes, at all. The management consultant Tim Bryce wrote about a programming class he took in the 70s:

"When given an assignment, the other two members of my team started coding immediately, then keyed up the source code (Yes, we were using punchcards back then), and kept compiling and debugging until they finally got a clean compile. While this was going on, I pulled out my trusty old template, worked out the logic, wrote the code, keyed it up and usually got a clean compile on my first shot. Inevitably, I beat my teammates everytime."

The use of org-mode and LP helps with these organization and planning issues... well, at least it does for me.
That's a misread - Adobe wants to be those tools. Firefly is an example of that.
What's the Magic Word? A Control Theory of LLM Prompting
I wonder how Slack/Discord channels change this.

In several of ones I'm in, we have a dedicated channel for topics that are best treaded lightly about - one is called "adult chat", another one is called "taboo". The understanding is that if you cannot participate in a civil manner, you leave the channel, for awhile.

I've had to leave those channels on occasion. The chat, and I, were better for it.

It also helps keeps discussions going, because I know that if I just want to vent, I can head over to #vent. If I need some tech support, I can go to the tech channel. If I want to shitpost, boy oh boy, have we got a channel for that!
The engine behind the modern Western economy is consumerism, and ads are both the lubricant and effuse of that engine. They eventually permeate everything they can because they always bring more money on top of whatever other revenue is made.

Escaping ads means escaping consumerism. Individuals can step away from consumerism and those that do can avoid ads, but society as a whole is not going to give up on consumerism until some crisis makes it do so.

Ads are not going anywhere. If you're sick of them, your escape doesn't come by innovation or revolution -- it comes by logging off and focusing on people and nature and community instead of media and markets and goods.
The Stanford Internet Observatory is being dismantled
Hopefully Shkreli nuts up, chances some more jail time, and releases his copy so these crypto freaks get some amount less than they would've had it not been free. I know the article says they're "in talks" with the artists but I don't believe for a second that the people who actually did the work will get what they deserve for having made it, or even close to what these vampires will get for shitting on the original point of the album.
This is a non-solution, and automatic "head rolling" and punishments will only lead to reducing the actual meaningful experience accumulation - the mean time between major breaches like this is long enough and variable enough that the next person would be likely equally incompetent, inexperienced and inattentive.

There's no easy solution, because it's inherently very difficult problem - making a correct trade-off between security and everything else for the society, and determining what exact line needs to be drawn, are inherently extremely difficult problem, and no amount of laws and punishments will help with finding the right balance.

I do like what CISA seems to be trying to do, and I think they can do a lot more here - I think we need CSRB or some similar org to get to a place where NTSB is - I think the key value of NTSB for humanity is ensuring that some of the critical knowledge around safety incidents get accumulated and shared across. Right now, learnings from key infosec incidents are not broadly shared in any reasonable timeframe, if ever, and so we repeat the mistake over and over again.
> the group chat was quickly infested with people trying to sell stuff (cloud services, HR services, etc)

In one Slack I'm in, I can usually spot these people within 30 seconds, and as soon as they confirm my suspicions, I grab the banhammer.
No you’re right. I neglected to mention them because I think it goes both ways and it acts as a test.

In the end, after the shock, it went back to business as usual.

It’s like despite the Jan 6 riots, everything still is business as usual.

It’s like the old adage about investing in the S&P 500 over any 10 year period… you will make money, but it doesn’t mean it will have made money the entire time during those 10 years. But if you expect that you will be around at least 10 years, then it makes sense.
I’m not affiliated with Databricks but Unity catalog is probably the platonic ideal of what a data catalog UX should be like. Blows competition out of the water.
That's an interesting point. I'd never do these at work where I primarily use Slack.

I do these things in group chats with people I'm friends with and care about and actually spend time with in real life.