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who says open source colloquially? ime anyone who doesn't care about software licenses will just say free (per free beer)

and (strong personal opinion) any software developer should have a firm grip on the terminology and details for legal reasons
Kind of mad it's not called Kawa-wii
Can't wait to see how open-source tools for LLMs emerge! Big congrats to DVC for jumping into the LLM scene. Definitely excited to try it out, especially with LLMs running on dstack
I wrote about ASCII and UTF-8 elegance at:

https://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/utf8_programming.html
Edit:
from the same article - This what he seems to be referencing:

In 2021, the Biden administration reversed Trump's rule that previously increased the flow of water in showerheads. The Washington Post reported at the time, "Trump's shower head rule was part of a broader effort within the administration to relax energy efficiency standards and regulations for an array of household appliances, including dishwashers, washing machines and clothes dryers."
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All the content generated by llms (good or bad) is going to end up back in Facebook/Instagram and other social media sites. This enables Meta to show growth and therefore demand a higher stock price. So it makes sense to get content generation tools out there as widely as possible.
Totally tangential thought, probably doomed to be lost in the flood of comments on this very interesting announcement.

I was thinking today about Musk, Zuckerberg and Altman. Each claims that the next version of their big LLMs will be the best.

For some reason it reminded me of one apocryphal cause of WW1, which was that the kings of Europe were locked in a kind of ego driven contest. It made me think about the Nation State as a technology. In some sense, the kings were employing the new technology which was clearly going to be the basis for the future political order. And they were pitting their own implementation of this new technology against the other kings.

I feel we are seeing a similar clash of kings playing out. The claims that this is all just business or some larger claim about the good of humanity seem secondary to the ego stakes of the major players. And when it was about who built the biggest rocket, it felt less dangerous.

It breaks my heart just a little bit. I feel sympathy in some sense for the AIs we will create, especially if they do reach the level of AGI. As another tortured analogy, it is like a bunch of competitive parents forcing their children into adversarial relationships to satisfy the parent's ego.
They are so complex, and in practice unreliable, that my employer runs a caching proxy for our (non-browser) users (they mostly don’t want fail open).

IMO it is unfixable and should go
the iCalendar rfc shows nov 1998 - https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2445

iCalendar is based on vCalendar, http://www.imc.org/pdi/vcal-10.txt - need to go to archive.org to see it, which shows Sept 1996.

from wikipedia, XML is listed as first published in Feb 1998, JSON is early 2000s.

edit:
XML'd iCalendar, 2011 - https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6321

JSON'd iCalendar, 2014 - https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7265
The 1st one just normal spy business.
The 3rd one is just some guy hosting a piracy website, which has nothing to do with espionage.

Your evidence for some grand scheme of technology theft doesn't seem to be well supported or justify racial profiling.
TLDR; Microsoft says EU to blame for letting competition to exist.
This seems more like a problem with Italians than a problem with Google maps :\
I can tell.

Knowing how your machine works is the only answer. It’s funny you cite the age of pointer issues as some kind of proof. Pointers themselves are abstractions. I’m not saying avoid abstractions or code everything in assembler, but if you want to be a strong practitioner in this field you better be able to disassemble any code and understand what is happening. And alter your practices accordingly.
Isn't this an idp? I'm totally unclear how this is differentiated from an idp that also requires a hardware key.
Sure thing! I'd reframe this as a nearest neighbor search over (start time, duration) tuples. KD trees are what I'm most familiar with for that problem, but there are others that would fit. Check out chapters 1 ("Multidimensional Point Data") and 3 ("Intervals and Small Rectangles") of Foundations of Multidimensional and Metric Data Structures: https://books.google.com/books?id=vO-NRRKHG84C&pg=PR9&source...

R-trees are more generic in that they can store intervals, shapes, volumes, etc, but (start time, duration) tuples are point-like, and that opens more possibilities. The ordered map is going to give you good memory locality. It might be that you'll only beat that when searching for larger durations (that require you to iterate over more of your ordered map). There will probably be an inflection point somewhere, depending on the distribution of your data and queries.

Hope that helps!
diluting open source into a marketing term meaning "you can download something" would be a sad result
Hit and miss. It’s pretty equivalent to % of finding product market fit in startup land.

Mostly worked on internal products. One HUGE hit, a few moderate hits, and quite a few failures.

The calculus for projects at a large bigco are different from a startup though.

It’s not necessarily clear bottom line revenue, especially for innovation teams. Crypto, for example, bigco needs at least some folks working on it to build an understanding of the technology, market, pain points. Some of these projects are started with literally no intention of profitability, but as an explicit build-to-learn.

There’s a wide spectrum of SWE interest and capabilities. Some folks love the creativity of greenfield new product exploration. Others love the focus of crafting a perfectly scalable, maintainable system. These are really just points along a product lifecycle.

I understand myself enough and am unapologetic about getting “bored” easily, and need to be constantly working on creative things.

Others at the other end of the spectrum have a visceral reaction to that. They can’t do what I do, and I can’t do what they do.
Lol. That's up there with the [1-bit Bloom filter](https://www.xkcd.com/2934/)
MS is damned if they do damned if they don’t. You can already see it in the comments. “They had 15 years to fix this”, “this na an excuse”, “they are already on the attack” etc.

If MS had blocked these type of things people would be in here complaining about antitrust and MS is evil.
>And it was all Google Maps’ fault.

No, it was your fault.

Paper maps can be, and almost certainly all are, wrong. It is normal to blame a paper map if you sail off the edge of the Earth where the map says there ought to be more sea?

Even if you run into an island where there should be no island, or drive into a space that should be fit for cars but is not, your hands are on the wheel and your feet are on the pedals.

>Consider this: have you ever been in a situation where you’ve seen a beautiful landscape or watched something funny happening and your first thought is, “how can I take a picture of this for Instagram?”

No.

Something is wrong with this person's brain.
At least you're a SWE :)
I didn’t notice any actual quotations, and the article ends:

Euronews Next has contacted Microsoft for comment

High quality stuff.
Great example, thank you. I had indeed conflated "static" with "non-interactive," and I definitely see how Yew could be a great fit for this sort of content. I appreciate the clarification!
Ask HN: Lesser-known/underrated cool new web-oriented tech?
I've been surveying the space lately and I re/discovered some really powerful new-ish tech which woke up my tech taste buds and am now looking for more such "tasty" tech (sorry I guess I'm due for a meal soon :P)

Example as starters:

- Qwik and resumable web apps (https://qwik.dev/)

- SurrealDB, maximally flexible multi-model DB w/ realtime capabilities (https://surrealdb.com/)

There are others, but I'm trying to keep to the starkest examples and not to influence the discussion too much.

I do think this is the best place to ask such questions - I'm explicitly interested in cutting-edge tech, but the edge doesn't have to be excessively sharp ;).
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Where do you get access to those as a member of the general public?
> In that same period, the overall maternal mortality rates in the U.S. nearly doubled, from 16.5 to 31.8, with the largest increase of 18.9 to 31.8 occurring from 2019 to 2021.

31.8 what? Football fields? I'm guessing per 100k, but this is a .edu domain for Christ's sake.
What an incredibly embarrassing response. They didn't even have to say anything.
Is forking really possible with an LLM or one the size of future Lama versions, have they even released the weights and everything? Maybe I am just negative about it because I feel Meta is the worst company ever invented and feel this will hurt society in the long run just like Facebook.
Now that this is the second comment is added to your comment, wait for another 5-7 minutes, then edit your initial comment adding something short and witty about life, the universe, and everything, and see the comments and karma exploding!!!
:)
I hate LinkedIn from the bottom of my heart. It’s absolute crap, just utter crap.

It’s exactly where all the LLM, SEO, “LeadGen” spam goes to and comes from.

Social networks are awful but I think I despise this one the most.
They are positioning themselves as champions of AI open source mostly because they were blindsided by OpenAI, are not in the infra game, and want to commoditize their complements as much as possible.

This is not altruism although it's still great for devs and startups. All FB GPU investments is primarily for new AI products "friends", recommendations and selling ads.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/
I like it. My one problem is that, like many SPAs, it displays "NA" in the fields until data loads for a few second, which left me wondering if it was working properly.

If it had some loading spinner it would be great, particularly if you had a loading indicator that fit in thematically.
Things I said as a manager part 2: Hiring is emotional
Looks like a third dup of the same plot:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41038520

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41029590
Absolutely. FAANG wages are certainly competitive, but not out of line from what you can make in any old Poducksville software company. It is the becoming an owner of FAANG that sets them apart financially.
This nodel is not “open source”, free to use maybe.
Unless I'm misremembering, they announced it at one point. It's just giving people more options.
They had 15 years to fix this.
Reading the article, I guess he's just saying that sharing a link will make the algorithm rank your post lower. This has been happening everywhere, I suppose, recently on Twitter, quite a while ago on Facebook... a combination of social networks wanting to keep readers captive on the platform, preferring content that's been adapted for the platform, and some (probably justified) suspicion that links are more promotional than informative.

So what's "hard" is using SEO-style tricks to share a link without your post being pushed into obscurity. And for people without the time or desire to hack the algorithm, it means sharing links on LinkedIn isn't very effective.
Exactly. The best reason not to ask is that it's personal and none of the customer's business!

And it's usually not innocent small talk. For a lot of status-conscious people, the purpose of asking the question (and other similar ones) is to suss out exactly where that other person is on the social status totem pole, so you know how far "beneath you" you can treat them.
It’s not the trouble of sharing links, it’s the fact that the post is downranked, did you even read the article?
I completely agree with you. HN is very anti-vegan, so mentioning not eating meat always comes with a torrent of downvotes. I imagine any self-sustainable colony would not have meat in their diet because there is no need for it.
> What in the hell is he talking about? It is a good idea to include some quotation or a summary of the link's content. Other than that, how is sharing links painful?

It’s explained in multiple parts but often sharing a link will “downrank” your post simply because it contains a link.

This is also very common on social media sites, not just LI.
I spent a week in Warsaw in 2020 (right before the world shut down, to a point where it was not 100% clear I'd be let back in the US), and thought it was an extremely underrated city. As you said, very clean and walkable, and as an American it's really cheap due to the exchange rate.

I go to Poland nearly every year because of Lambda Days, which is in Krakow, though next time I fly over I might take the train over to Warsaw again.
I try to do this as much as possible. Unfortunately some people are not actually interested in knowledge transfer. Those people are just interested in unblocking themselves for the ultimate short dopamine hit. For those people doing this is like nails on a chalkboard.

"Just tell me what I need to do"
Also distinction between learning (mostly) and production (mostly). In investing, business and no doubt poker there is nothing wrong with a period of losing money while learning. But you better be aware and be learning and you better not tolerate that period lasting indefinitely.

I hear this often about investing: people get started (losing money) with grossly insufficient education and they do learn for a few years, then give up, move on and blame it on "the professionals" or "science shows". When the fact is, if you start investing and learning at the same time, most likely you will underperform everyone else for a while. It's not because you were stupid; it's not because of "the professionals"; it's that you didn't know. It's an important distinction, and the equally losing opposite of "sunk costs".
You can’t “fix issues” if the software is running at the kernel level
it is a tragedy.
He was taking money from the department of energy for research while collaborating with Chinese universities and did not disclose this and lied to investigators about it.
This would make it unbearable to watch a movie with anyone else, so it doesn’t really solve the social issue. But even if you’re watching it alone, it only really makes sense if the movie itself takes advantage of it in some interesting way, which starts to get into game territory. It wouldn’t even work for the most part: how do you deal with cuts and changes of scenery? It makes no sense in the context of a movie; what you’re looking for is a game and we can already do that.

Maybe you could have it work as a documentary (good luck getting a bored social group to go for that) or a virtual tour, but we already have 3D interactions of those too.

We’ve had tons of movie viewing experiments and ultimately always go back to the tried and true 2D screen, with the bolder ideas being relegated mostly to the domain of theme park gimmicks. Which are interesting in their own right, but don’t survive on their own.
I'd be ok with it. As long as nobody that's contracted to build housing or apartments here is involved. We'd somehow have meltdown before they laid the foundation.
> he glosses over this

All of information theory is relative to the channel. This bit is well communicated.

What he glosses over is the definition of "channel", since it's obvious for electromagnetic communications.
None of these national secrets. If you think they are industrial spies, many, many other people are also convicted for stealing trade secrets.
No. I want the DNC to provide some basic money all valid candidates (say those who get above certain percent of votes) so that they can spend their time making their case to the primary voters, instead of trying to raise money.

In the end, it is the primary voters who will pick the candidate who will run for presidency.
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I do think Cory Doctorow has done an unwitting disservice with the
word "enshitification". It's great to name a phenomenon, but after
that it serves to hide more than it reveals. Far less often discussed
is the emotional dynamics around 'social media'.

Way I see it, most all BigTech social media is bitterness and
resentment. The platform owners have as much contempt for the users as
the users have for the platform.

That is no basis for a 'community'.
What kind of bum doesn't take care of your kids? That's no independence. That's a dereliction of duty.

Pure incel talk. Pure loser talk.

Who wants to go through life being a loser?
I honesstly don't understand why anyone posts on LinkedIn. It seems like such a pick me move from anyone who can't build an audience on Twitter. The only people who I see post on LInkedIn are wanna-be "thought leaders" and people who are looking for a job.

LinkedIn is such a user-hostile platform with no value proposition to anyone who isn't in those two groups. You have a LinkedIn profile as a CV with connections as a kind of social proof and never think about it otherwise.

As for the "trick" in this post, it seems like every platform with a feed have this issue. I've seen people recommend posting Youtube Shorts and untick the box "send notification to subscribers" because most subscribers are dead accounts so if you do this Youtube thinks the video has poor engagement.
And that explains the not-in-the-EU affected computers how?
Imagine you are a young woman that dropped out of high school, the best job you ever found is waiting at whatever coffe joint there was in your town. You have seen some similar aged collegues come and go, for most of them the job was a short term job to support their studies.

Once a week some customer asks you what you study. How would you feel about that when it happens for the 50th time?

This is not empathy-rocket science.
I'm just a lowly outsider to the AI space, but calling these open source models seems kind of like calling a compiled binary open source.

If you don't have a way to replicate what they did to create the model, it seems more like freeware than open source.
On mobile, after a while it stops doing anything when any button is pressed.
Linux outages and upgrade fuckups happen all the time. The difference is that Linux isn't on a unified upgrade cycle so issues come as a trickle rather than a dulge, so the problems are usually localised to a corporation and don't make the news.

Also Linux fanboys will usually blame the system admin for not configuring things properly if things break: "it's not the operating system, it's <something stolen from OpenBSD>".

End of the day Linux is only popular because of the inertia UNIX had on mini-computers/servers. For standard end users GNU Linux is lightyears behind Windows and macOS in terms of usability and stability.
It's totally possible to both acknowledge its something that can be surmounted or is only a single factor in attraction while also acknowledging it's almost always a negative, the same way being short, being stupid, being poor, having bad style, being fat, being awkward etc. would be.
How Olympics officials try to catch “motor doping”
Are kids these days actually able to grasp things like this? I don't have kids and am never around them, so please take this question as genuine and in good faith.
Why would Microsoft even bother making this comment? Is the outage in some part their fault? I was under the impression it had everything to do with the botched croudstrike update, and nothing to do with Windows itself. This could have just as well happened with some widely deployed antivirus running in the Linux kernel.
Approximating an arbitrary shape by covering it with tiny squares is not exactly new. The method of exhaustion goes back to 200BC.
> safe from any users without an authorized hardware key

If you do this, make sure you support multiple hardware keys.

Single Yubikey and no backup is not safe, since the key can be lost or damaged easily.

Single Yubikey and SMS backup or "contact customer service to reset" backup is NOT secure, as it reduces your security to that of SMS or the CS rep.
My Mac sometimes prompts me to see if a Mac application should have access to certain directories, such as “Downloads,” so I’m not sure that’s entirely true anymore?

But in any case I think this is missing a distinction between what software developers can install in “developer mode” versus stuff that’s in the store for non-technical people to use. Apps in app stores see widespread use by people who barely know what a computer is, so I think there should be hoops you need to jump through to get distribution to the masses, at least for certain types of apps.

And those apps aren’t useless, they do important but security-sensitive things like banking, things us developers need to do too sometimes.

It’s a different world than hacking around on your Raspberry Pi or an old phone, and I think it should be different. Treating these situations the same muddies the issues.
What I understood is that in Linux you could program this kind of security tools in use space by having a somehow estable binary API.

Sure, if you access the kernel you can break it. So we should make easier to do the right thing.

EU complained that Microsoft was the only one that could access the kernel because a lot of Microsoft applications needed kernel access.
I don't quite follow this. Surely each poker player who raises thinks that they will take the pot and the other players will lose. So they don't each think that the raise is mutually beneficial. Player A thinks that the raise is beneficial for player A and detrimental for player B, and player B thinks that their call is beneficial to player B and detrimental to player A. Which seems like the definition of 0 sum.

Compare this to something like trading apples and oranges, where one person gets an orange (maybe they are tired of apples) and the other gets an apple (maybe they are tired of oranges). Both gets something they want in exchange for something they don't want.
A good point.

Forgive me, I am AI naive, is there some way to harness Llama to train ones own actually-open AI?
Isn't that the charge he was cleared for?
> Overall government doing anything is a bad idea.

that is bereft of detail enough to just be wrong. There are things that government is good for and things that government is bad for, but "anything" is just too broad, and reveals an anti-government bias which just isn't well thought out.
Is this even a standard worth comparing ourselves to? That’s a bar so low that “at least we don’t …” doesn’t even make sense
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You need to read the next paragraph of the article.
Now Microsoft just sounds like pre-Brexit Britain. Why reflect on your own shortcomings when you can blame the EU instead :)

I suggest Microsoft follows Britain's example and leaves. The main difference is that we Europeans actually miss the Brits, whereas nobody would miss Microsoft and its shoddy products and business practices.

On a more serious note, I fully understand that the Digital Markets Act is causing Microsoft headaches. But I think this headache is well deserved. Big Tech has been building moats where they should have built bridges, and now our computing landscape resembles medieval Germany where everything was at the mercy of a few feudal lords. It is time to drive out those lords and reshape software in a way that empowers, not enslaves.
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It’s an arbitrary human rule, not fundamental knowledge. Quite understandable how someone may not have the interest or knowledge to know this nuance (perhaps to their own detriment). It’s somewhere along the spectrum of the knowledge of arcane laws, for example. The federal tax code perhaps isn’t ’arcane’ by popular consensus in educated circles, but it’s on the spectrum of arbitrary human knowledge that keeps changing and evolving.

Would you be shocked if a CPA knows more about this than a theoretical physicist?