skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This topic comes up occasionally. These days, people use the terms interchangeably. About 17 years ago, I wrote a post inspired by an article in an Indian Newspaper with more of an Indian context — more about the preference of IT grooms in matrimonial ads. This was a very personal view and lot had changed since.

https://brajeshwar.com/2007/are-you-a-programmer-or-a-coder/
Create an ASP.NET Core web server embedded in a binary bundled with Electron and a React frontend. (jk)
The AbiWord source has a ton of this, though a lot of it is now deprecated and broken.
maybe the next step is adding text guidance and generating non-existing games.
I’m a Unix person and I know nothing about Windows Server. How has PowerShell made it less competitive?
If current RF technology(or even 100 year old RF technology) doesn't seem like magic.. what do you require then?

The way photons behave in our universe seems pretty damn magical if you ask me. Sure, it's not Harry Potter, but we let fiction reset our expectations to a level where we'll never be happy.
Man, I remember using Finale to write music back in the 90s. I thought it was so amazing that i could write something that would be played back to me.
> The "free" Starlink service is calling 911. It is expected that mobile provider offers 911 service to everyone

What?

No one is saying "they'll charge for 911" they're saying - the satellite connection is what costs money. The concern is that they're offering that connection for free now, because it means to be competitive, every other service must provide that service for free. How are they going to do that when the service costs money? They cannot - so spacex leverages its income from other industries (and government subsidies) to fund a service below operating costs until the competitors are gone. At that point they can introduce pricing, and there is no alternative or competition, so they can charge much more than the actual cost.

This is not a new or novel concept, and is a historically common anticompetitive practice.

Given Musk's prior behavior, it is sensible to assume any claims or promises are at best misleading, and it is not unreasonable to assume intentional malice.
and now the phone will be able to physically communicate with satellites literally anywhere on the surface of the Earth. A huge improvement!

And while free emergency service has been the convention for terrestrial cell towers, SpaceX was under no obligation to extend the practice to satellite service. Existing satphone providers certainly did not.
This is absolutely true. It is wild how many people I know that can name a half a dozen or more notable American Senators, Congresspersons and politicians and yet have barely any working knowledge of even Federal Canadian politics let alone the (arguably more relevant to their daily lives) Provincial and Municipal political issues and persons.

The quality level of the discourse is as you'd expect, very low!
> but some of this is just clearly written by the people making the tools. It's regulatory capture to the fullest extent.

That doesn't seem particularly plausible. Almost all of the web accessibility standards predate these ADA lawsuits, as the first was in 2017. And much of it is just making use of existing desktop accessibility features, as this article points out.
It is not about "fossil fuel or nuclear". Fossil fuel has few (and fewer and fewer) advocates. it is about "renewable or nuclear", and the trend is clear:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/nuclear-renewables-electr...

... even in the most heavily nuclearized nation:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-fossil-renewa...

... even in the most touted nuclear-leading nation:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-fossil-renewa...
>some totally random person on my friend list who I’d never interacted with.

While the Algorithm(tm) is complete garbage, you could also probably add less Totally Random Persons(tm) to your "friends" list.

If Totally Random Persons(tm) are getting added automagically, we have bigger problems.
I think a lot of things. CRDTs predate the term "CRDT", they seem to be a mathematical construct/pattern found in the wild, that smart people codified and formalised.

IME CRDTs just lay out the rules you need to follow for syncing eventually consistent nodes properly, ie without weird surprises or data loss.

As for concrete examples:

- in the famous Amazon Dynamo Whitepaper, they perfectly describe a CRDT in section 4.4.
(https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/amazon-dynamo-sos...), though I don't think this made it to modern Dynamo DB

- I believe CouchDB follows all the CRDT laws

- TomTom uses them

I think the TL:DR is if you're going to sync two data stores that can be written to without coordination, learn the CRDT laws and make sure you follow them. They're fairly simple mathematical properties at the end of the day.
As a workaround for vulnerabilities in your ssh implementation ("Why Is This Even Necessary") this seems timely given the recent OpenSSH flaw. I wonder if this still works after 12 years of no commits.

spiped has been another tool sometimes recommended for addressing this and seems more maintained.
There is going to be a flood of these dreamlike "games" in the next few years. This feels likes a bit of a breakthrough in the engineering of these systems.
Good question! “Existing technology” is doing a lot of work here, enough that I would say no.

To get splats out of photos generally requires many calibrated photos all of which include highly accurate placement and orientation data attached. Like ideally cm-accurate 6 degree, plus as you mention calibration.

There are some pipelines that infer this data, and there is some work showing that models can be trained to do well with fuzzy/inaccurate position information. But they still would want like 30 photos + to do that desk demo video justice and look good.

Splatt3R (sigh on typing that name, geez) is a very different architecture, in that it’s a transformer model which is trained to ‘know’ about the world, and takes two (only) photos, combines that with its trained-in world knowledge, and hallucinates (infers) a set of Gaussians that it believes are a sort of plausible continuation from those two photos.
It's also a bit odd that they do not implement congestion control. Congestion control is fundamental unless you only have point-to-point data transfers, which is rarely the case. All-reduce operation during training requires N to 1 data transfer. In these scenarios the sender needs to control its data transfer rates so as to not overwhelm not just the receiver, but also the network... if this is not done, it will cause congestion collapse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_congestion#:~:text=ser...).
AWS Supports one of the tools for porting out of AWS. Supporting something that looks like an escape valve (whether it works or not) keeps the antitrust people off your neck.
Some new information (from MakeMusic in a follow-up email, https://www.finalemusic.com/blog/end-of-finale-new-journey-d...)

----------------------------------------------------

Updates

8/27/2024 @ 5:30 PM ET:

Clarifications on the initial announcement

Finale authorization will remain available indefinitely: Please note that future OS changes can still impact your ability to use Finale on new devices.

Finale v27 to be included with Dorico Pro Crossgrades: We are currently working on a solution for all customers who have purchased or intend to purchase a Dorico Pro crossgrade to be able to download Finale v27. This will ensure that you can export your Finale files using MusicXML 4.0, the most robust version of MusicXML available. Thank you for your patience, we will provide more information soon.

Updates

8/27/2024 @ 9:00 AM ET:

Clarifications on the initial announcement

Finale development has ended, but the Finale installer for any previously purchased version can still be downloaded from your eStore account. If your computer crashes or you need to install Finale on a new device, you’re not left without options.

We are committed to keeping the authorization process functional for a year. We’ve heard your concerns and are actively exploring ways to extend flexibility in the weeks ahead.

We understand that learning Dorico will be a steep learning curve, as it is with any complex notation or professional software. Both our team and Steinberg have developed extensive onboarding videos to guide you through the transition.
> I don't even know how to find this feed people keep talking about.

You go to https://www.facebook.com

That's literally it. If you don't have a suite of adblockers and extensions like FB Purity installed, you'll probably see a ton of crap. If you don't see a ton of crap, I would love to know what sort of wizard spell you have cast to ward it off.
I hear about lives being ruined or even just "identity theft" happening less often than it seemed to, but perhaps it's just my filtering is better. Still, given that to a first approximation the full details necessary for a fraudulent line of credit to be opened in the name of every US adult have been out there multiple times for years, and yet this hasn't happened to everyone, indicates something in the system works against it. Maybe something as simple as physical mail delivery/verification cuts down a lot of avenues of abuse for the average person.
There are a lot of functioning alcoholics in the world, in all sorts of professions... there are probably a lot of people working in offices drunk most of the day.
Why do governments allow cost follow pricing? Companies should bid a final price and pay for insurance that covers unexpected costs/delays.
Honestly it would be better if Blender ported over all the image filters and such. GIMP users don't want change.
Ethereum (+tokens) that go through Tornado Cash are "tainted" and sometimes censored [1]. This means not all Ethereum are equal.

Btw, calling Tornado Cash a "DPRK tool" is disingenuous. It's a privacy tool.

[1]: https://www.mevwatch.info/
Looks like I can reproduce this - although interestingly, it doesn't create a ScreenClippingHost.exe process, but rather one for a game I was playing earlier, which I already had a zombie process for, along with 2 ScreenClippingHost processes.
>Technically speaking, isn't this the greatest possible anti-Doom

When I read this part I thought you were going to say because you're technically not running Doom at all. That is, instead of running Doom without Doom's original hardware/software environment (by porting it), you're running Doom without Doom itself.
Increased spending is the simplistic solution. Government spending as percentage of GDP is 35%, compared to about 25% in the 50s/60s. Since then inflation-adjusted spending per student has increased by roughly 3X with no measurable increase in test scores. Baltimore spends 21k/yr per student, with abysmal results. College tuition prices have increased far more than inflation, in large part due to federal student loans. The USA spends more on healthcare as a percentage of GDP than any other country, with insane markups on routine procedures. The California High Speed Rail project has taken 15 years to do environmental reviews and lay a few miles of track in the middle of nowhere, all while costs have grown to more than 128B from its initial estimates of 10B.

Giving money to ineffective organizations is throwing good money after bad. I'd love to see competent government that can effectively use funds, but I'm not seeing a lot of evidence for it these days. There needs to be deep reform and anti-corruption efforts. Good luck doing that without the status quo powers pulling out all their dirty tricks.
It's insane that that this works, and that it works fast enough to render at 20 fps. It seems like they almost made a cross between a diffusion model and an RNN, since they had to encode the previous frames and actions and feed it into the model at each step.

Abstractly, it's like the model is dreaming of a game that it played a lot of, and real time inputs just change the state of the dream. It makes me wonder if humans are just next moment prediction machines, with just a little bit more memory built in.
“On” really is more casual/conversational than “nous”–I think both the original and your versions would seem stiff or impersonal coming from a shopkeeper in English, whereas the original French would not be confrontational in its word choice alone. Admittedly my reference point is modern conversational language in France and Switzerland, though.

https://www.commeunefrancaise.com/blog/on-or-nous#:~:text=%E....
There are CDTS that have "multiple versions", which look an awful lot like conflicts to me, ie, the Multi-Value Register in this paper:

https://inria.hal.science/inria-00555588/
You think Mark Cuban is risking being homeless or something? How insulting to equate the risk of people who already have over 100 million dollars to the risk of hourly wage employees who live paycheck to paycheck.

When you are wildly wealthy you are not risking anything, risk is merely an input to the math equation that only goes one direction. Up.
Not so much the suburbs as the countryside. I live in Ottawa these days, where you don't have to go far across the Quebec border at all before you end up in Pur Laine country.
Dense style can be found in a lot of pre-LLM writing. It is not necessarily bad, I have grown to treat it as a reflection of author’s ways of thinking. What makes or breaks it is whether it’s truly dense, whether it delivers the point precisely or words can be omitted (in which case it’s bad writing).

McGilchrist’s The Master and His Emissary is notable not only because it is often dense (in a good way), but also since it talks at length about different ways of attending to reality, among which there is no “correct” one, and where a particular way (even if seemingly objective) would bias our understanding of reality and inform further techniques we use to work with it, and how humanity has been lately drifting towards an extreme of one particular way of attending to the world. Similarities end quickly, though, the book offers a much deeper and more rigorous take.

The difference with dense writing produced by LLMs is that it tends to contain inconsistencies and errors if you re-read closely. I personally regularly have to, since a long and dense sentence may not always click right away. In a densely written book I inevitably find that it is I who didn’t parse it right, but with LLM-generated writing it turns out I was fed garbage in the first place.
I am using it in that manner. Ethereum OFAC compliance is enforced at the protocol level [1] so not all Ethereum are equal. Just like your "drug buy" example, some Ethereum are tainted. In fact, thanks to the public blockchain, I would argue crypto is far more "non-fungible" than marked cash.

[1]: https://www.mevwatch.info/
here are some ideas:

- you could build a non-real-time version of the game engine and use the neural net as a real-time approximation

- you could edit videos shot in real life to have huds or whatever and train the neural net to simulate reality rather than doom. (this paper used 900 million frames which i think is about a year of video if it's 30fps, but maybe algorithmic improvements can cut the training requirements down) and a year of video isn't actually all that much—like, maybe you could recruit 500 people to play paintball while wearing gopro cameras with accelerometers and gyros on their heads and paintball guns, so that you could get a year of video in a weekend?
> like everyone else but Apple, on Nvidia (InfiniBand)

Google also does not depend on NVIDIA, thx to TPUs. Rents NVIDIA GPUs to external customers - sure, it's a nice side business, but internally TPUs are king and there's no dependency on NVIDIA for that.
They aren’t being handed $150,000 in unmarked bills. It’s loan assistance for a house which is pretty fucking difficult to throw into the back of a truck and haul over the border.
CRDTs are powerful, but it's unfortunate that they leave behind a trail of historical operations (or elements), both in their ops- or state-based variants. Even with compression, it's still a downside that makes me concerned about adopting them.

There's nothing inherent in the concept of a CRDT that requires you to leave behind a trail of historical operations or elements.

You'd be better off directing your criticism and specific implementations than making this blanket statement about what is, at the end of the day, a set of mathematical laws that certain data types / databases follow.
Child-like wonder can bring magic back to tech
It seems a significant addition to the cost overruns is labor. Maybe this is a good example of the cost reality of bringing manufacturing back to the US. Given a difficult timeline, the US workers would need to be putting in a lot of overtime. Many of the laborers who took part in building the Burj Khalifa were being paid less than what the US workers would spend on a meal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_Khalifa

Edit: Here is the NASA report.

https://oig.nasa.gov/office-of-inspector-general-oig/audit-r...
It's more about being busy reading other more immediately important stuff :)
Accessibility engineer here.

If you talk to people in the accessibility space, most are all for the law firms going after companies who do not have accessible websites. This is mainly because literally everything has moved online. Your banks, your healthcare, your pharmacy, everything. If people with disabilities cannot access this, then you are denying them a real service, a service you have forced upon people because its saving money for your bottom line.

Having come from the legal industry myself, to me, this is the new ambulance chasing. Generally speaking the process is pretty simple. Find a site that has an accessibility flaw. Contact company and threaten lawsuit. Give company X amount of time to fix before lawsuit is filed. Sometimes they threaten lawsuits unless X amount is paid for extension.

Its borderline extortion because NY and CA now include anything digital in the ADA. This means a company can reside in BFE Kansas but some NYC law firm has a bot that catches a defect on their website and since jurisdiction is simply determined by the idea that if someone in CA or NY can access your site? Then its covered by the their new ADA rules.

Just this year alone, there has been a 200% increase in ADA lawsuits filed. Even worse? Let's say Target or Walmart get sued for a single ADA accessibility violation. They fix it, or have to pay some firm because they didn't fix it in time. That firm goes in, and finds another violation? Yeap, brand new lawsuit.

This is the new reality and any company who doesn't have a dedicated team of A11Y engineers working on this, already has a massive blind side. One that has started to really ramp up in the last three years. There are a handful of law firms that are actively scanning the web looking for accessibility widgets and other ways firms are cutting corners to try and make their sites appear to be accessible, when in reality, they are not and are now liable.
That does seem like the biggest risk for Amazon.

As a platform, they can probably get around counterfeit items being listed/sold, but sending one from a different seller seems it might open them up to legal risk if Amazon knows there's counterfeits floating around.

I'm sure we all accept the risk in the fine print somewhere, but that only matters until it makes the news and a politician thinks they can get reelected by going after them
Think of a single splat as a Gaussian ellipsoid placed in (usually) 3 dimensions, with size, shape, alpha falloff, color (varying both at any point in the ellipsoid, and when viewed from any angle at that point.)

Now think to yourself “Could I approximate, say Kirby with 10 splats? And could I get a GPU to hone in on the best splats to approximate Kirby, maybe using gradient descent?” Then ask yourself “could I get a 4k+ resolution photographic grade 3D scene that included transmissive and reflective behavior using this method?”

If your answer to the second is “obviously!” Then you have a good head for this ML stuff. Somewhat surprisingly (shockingly?) The answer is ‘yes’, and also somewhat surprisingly, you can use ML pipelines and autograd type tech to hone in on what the 18 or so implied variables for a splat should be, and when you have millions of them, they look like AMAZING reconstructions of scenes. And also are incredibly quick to render.

Splats are pretty cool.
> Everyone in the colony takes care of the children of one queen.

Depending on how you look at it, she is their prisoner and the only way they get to pass on a proportion of their genetic material is by looking after her kids that share some of it.

Alternatively you can look at them as little automata largely driven by pheromones.

Or you could see them as part of a larger pseudo-organism that doesn't really have individual wants and drives in the way we understand them.

Fascinating either way though.
If true this would be huge. I got burned on the whole silverlight, Universal Windows Platform, WPF etc. All these new and improved solutions had all sorts of issues, no designer, no or weaker accessibility stories, bloated, slow etc etc.
C# + Winforms would be appealing. Some of the performance with larger datasets in the new solutions (tables etc) was just surprising. I really feel like Microsoft got so distracted chasing phones, tables, touch etc they forget just basic line of business application development which they could and should have owned.
Thank you, I’ve been looking for an explanation of this. So Mono is useful to Wine because its users care more about licensing and running legacy software: Mono is free software and an acceptable runtime for pre-.NET 5.0 stuff.
The answer is to procure your binaries from sources you trust:

* Commercial vendors like Microsoft, Intel, Valve, etc. who have a vested financial interest in your continued patronage.

* Private vendors like the guys behind WINE, Notepad++, ffmpeg, etc. who are reputable and have that reputation on the line.

Speaking practically, if you don't trust your source to begin with you aren't going to waste your time auditing their code and compiling it yourself either.
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Security is built in layers. Is it theoretically possible for someone on the network to observe the knock sequence? Yes. Is it likely to happen in any but the most adversarial of conditions? No. And if it’s implemented in a cryptographically secure way, like fwknop, then it’s really very good.
> after 3 years now slinging code for money I’ve become very disillusioned

.. with hardware/software or the systems of humans which create them?
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Make those shares non-voting,
This is what Beam Dental did. They used to make a toothbrush and I'm betting they now license their tech to toothbrush makers and act as the middle man for dental insurance companies.
A2Pico - Apple II peripheral cards based on the Raspberry Pi Pico
Average of twice a night is freaking insane. I was burning out doing 1-week-in-3 with pages 3 nights out of 7. These were all actionable issues (DDoS, packet loss etc.) so I had to actually wake up and work.
We tried this a year ago and it was pretty cool to use. But viewing and comparing was very slow with about hundreds of experiments. Anything changed?