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How would Facebook, say, in this case work? No longer available on mobile devices and you have to buy Facebook specific hardware?
> Unless it's used to cross-subsidize the military nuclear industry it just isnt worth it.

I feel sure Ontario does not have nuclear weapons ambitions.

> If you round trip solar and wind via hydrogen

Do you have any examples of this at commercial scale (hundreds of MW) and their costings?
They played fine on my laptop, but would not scan as gifs in iOS. It was a nightmare of a problem to debug - what are your search terms here?

The GIF specification, GIFs that work and those that don't, and a hex editor.

Given all the other impressive work in this article, I'm surprised that wasn't an easy problem for them to debug --- the latter seems almost trivial to me (find the differences) in contrast to the amount of creative thinking required to figure out how to run Doom in iPhone Photos.
> Zed exists, it's new but it's already a very good IDE.

An IDE needs at least a working Debugger (or, to be more precise, a graphical interface to debugger(s)).

And Zed has exactly the same problems VS Code has, minus actually contributing LSP and DAP (Debug Adapter Protocol) to "the editor community". So, Zed is actually worse in that regard.
Hello everyone! With immense joy in my heart, I want to take a moment to express my heartfelt gratitude to an incredible lottery spell psychic, Priest Ray. For years, I played the lottery daily, hoping for a rewarding outcome, but despite my efforts and the various tips I tried, success seemed elusive. Then, everything changed when I discovered Priest Ray. After requesting a lottery spell, he cast it for me and provided me with the lucky winning numbers. I can't believe it—I am now a proud lottery winner of $3,000,000! I felt compelled to share my experience with all of you who have been tirelessly trying to win the lottery. There truly is a simpler and more effective way to achieve your dreams. If you've ever been searching for a way to increase your chances of winning, I encourage you to reach out via email: psychicspellshrine@gmail.com or website: psychicspellshrine.wixsite.com/my-site.
Vocalists, especially choral singers, will learn all sorts of techniques to put syllables to a particular rhythm. Some languages (Hebrew, Latin, Sanskrit) lend themselves to rhythmic chanting and singing, with generously interspersed vowels. You can also hear bad singing, with extended sssibilantsss... or multiple pops, as each singer finishes a "t" or "p" out of sync.

It's interesting to think about lengthening of different types of consonants, such as glottal stops! But mentally, if you put two t's together, it makes sense to hold them longer?

The linguistic principle of sandhi means that when we verbalize words, the adjoining sounds can coalesce, so sometimes if you're between two words, it would make sense that the sound is held for longer as partly a remnant of the first word, running into the second.
Digital demurrage currency bank notes that show you the current balance
No, it is still in beta and I haven't actually launched it. Did you like it?
The Corona is my favorite font at https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/font?cordata_...

On FreeBSD the SPARC console font is called “gallant” by the way and is easy to use if installed: vidcontrol -f 8x16 gallant
Such standards exist already:

1. The ancient “X-Face” header: 48×48 black or white pixels: <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=X-Face&oldid=1220...>

2. The “Face” header, from 2005: 48×48 PNG image <https://quimby.gnus.org/circus/face/>
One channel, multiplexing, sequenced packets. It looks like you are describing SSH.
core form link(https://coreform.io/)
So can we produce AGI by training on human data + one single non-human datapoint (e.g. a picture)?
Australian telco guy here. No they won't.

Here's the law: https://www.legislation.gov.au/F2024L01103/asmade/text

When a telco IS CERTAIN that a phone won't work, they are obligated to tell the person, and offer them a free phone to replace it (subsidised by the government, it's mentioned in passing in the act linked).
Let me guess: Those platforms just happen to be web-based, so the platform owners can track users there anyway?
Plato’s Republic was more fun and engaging than other foundational philosophy texts I read as an undergraduate because the dialogue format made me want to interrupt Socrates in way that I don’t usually experience when I read things that I disagree with. It activates the conversation lobes of my brain or something I guess, it’s simultaneously frustrating and satisfying.

Anyway, the introduction to this article does the same thing.
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I did the same thing, running one book I edited and another book I wrote through it, and it did quite well. I was particularly impressed with how the “hosts” came up with their own succinct examples and metaphors to explain what I had written at much greater length. (I should mention that one of those books was in Japanese, and they captured it clearly in English.)

Lately, when I just want to get the gist of a long article or research paper, I run it through NotebookLM and listen to the podcast while I’m exercising.

My only complaint is that the chatty podcasty gab gets tiring after a while. I wish it were possible to dial that down.
1992 was 7 years before 2004, which was 20 years before today.
> What is the actual, concrete concern here?

The concern is that the models do some fantastic sci-fi magic, like diamond nanobots that turn the world into grey goo, or hacks all the nukes overnight, or hacks all human brains or something.

But, whenever you point this out the response will usually be able to quibble over one specific scenario that I laid out.

They'll say "I actually never mentioned the diamond nanobots! I meant something else!"

And they will do this, without admitting that their other scenario is almost equally as ridiculous as the hacking of all nukes or the grey goo, and they will never get into specific details that honestly show this.

Its like an argument that is tailor made to being unfalsifiable and which is unwilling to admit how fantastical it sounds.
Try “fall of civilizations.” Best pod I know. Maybe Shwep.net
I've read Google's announcement and I'm not sure why it's a Google announcement, the BIMI group published this change here:

https://bimigroup.org/announcing-common-mark-certificates/

But that document seems unfinished. It refers to there still being requirements to get a CMC, at at this time it tells you to go refer to a PDF where those requirements are documented. But that PDF is the old VMC documentation.
Isn't Jai still vapourware after a decade ? How does one even get the compiler and build programs ?
It was a bug. If the phone was not making VoLTE calls, the carriers were panicking. Instead, the phone was just trying 3g first, it worked, so VoLTE was never triggered.

VoLTE is just SIP. There's no longer two channels, one voice and one data, it's just the same one (and for those that know the REAL technical stuff, please accept that this is a deliberate simplification!).
I'm working on my dungeon planning tool for tabletop games.

Currently I'm implementing the export of a player map that can be partially revealed.

https://github.com/H4kor/dungeon-planner
What you're describing is basically a modern phone. Just get an iPhone pro, done.
This is true but the quality frontier is not a single bar. For mainstream content the bar is high. For super-niche content, I wouldn’t be surprised if NotebookLM already competes with the existing pods.

This will be the dynamic of generated art as it improves; the ease of use will benefit creators at the fringe.

I bet we see a successful Harry Potter fanfic fully generated before we see a AAA Avengers movie or similar. (Also, extrapolating, RIP copyright.)
It almost looks like a Rust syntax to me, which is only one way to do that. A concise syntax is always possible if that's prioritized, like `(ctx.get(thing)? == Thing.A) ?? false` or `ctx.get(thing)?.(_ == Thing.A)`. Actual Rust programmers would also prefer to check against the explicit value whenever possible: `thing == Some(Thing.A)`.
It's a huge space, so I wouldn't say it's easy. Also several ideas will just not be interesting to you at first, and many others will only be revealed as uninteresting after a while (ie you hit a problem you aren't interested in solving).

One idea might be to learn something new, if you don't have a project. Think about a textbook or a class, or online texts, or just some interesting popsci at the local bookstore/library for example. any might work depending on your style.
My favorite aphorism about luck is that you can’t win the lottery if you don’t buy a ticket.

After becoming adults, luck rarely falls into our laps. We have to make decisions that make us lucky.

Through that lens, bravery is the will to buy a ticket. Many people don’t. Cleverness is the quality of the ticket, since they have different probabilities of success. And persistence is the decision to keep playing the game, even after you’ve lost every other.

So I think the three qualities are aligned with the view that success is just another word for luck.
So I've this code, it's called ShoggothDb, it's less than a megabyte of definitions. The principle is easy, it's fully deterministic.

Code as Data, Data as Code.

When you start the program, it joins the swarm : it starts by grabbing a torrent, and train a model on it in a distributed fashion, and publish the results as a torrent. Then with the trained model, it generates new data, (think of it like alpha-go playing new games to collect more data).

See it as a tower of knowledge building itself, following some rough initial plans.

Of course, at anytime you can fork the tower, and continue building with different plans, provided that you can convince other people from the swarm to contribute to the new tower rather than the old.

Everything is immutable, but there is a versioning protocol built-in that allow the swarm to coordinate and automatically jumps to a next fork when the byzantine resistant quorum it follows vote for doing so (which allow your swarm to be compliant of the law and remove data if it was flagged as inappropriate). This allow some form of external control, but you can also let the quorum vote on subsequent modifications based on a model built on its data (aka free-running mode).

It's using torrent because easier to bootstrap but because the whole computation deterministic, the underlying protocol is just files on disks and any way of sharing them is valid. So you can grab a piece to work on via http, or ftp, or carrier pigeon for all I care. As long as the digital signatures are conforming to the rules, brick by brick the tower will get built.

To contribute, you can either help with file distribution by sharing the torrent, so it's as safe as your p2p client. If you want to commit some computing resources, like your gpu to building some of the tower, it's only requiring you to trust that there is no bug in ShoggothDb, because the computation you'll perform are composed of safe blocks, by construction they are safe for your computer to run. (Except if you want to run unsafe blocks, at this point no guarantee can be made).

The incentives for helping building the tower can be set in the initial definition file, and range from mere access to the built tower to tokens for honest participation for the more materialistically inclined.

Is it OK to release with the new law ? Is this comment OK, because ShoggothDB5-o can built its source from the specs in this comment ?
why not tell us?

Or point out what is actually false?

You rebutted the points that the flop limit will not actually limit anyone by saying that gpt4 is out of reach of startups.

Is OpenAI a startup? Is Anthropic? Is Grok? Is Perplexity? Is SSI?

You ignored the counter points that advanced technology exponentially raises flop limits and changes costs.

You said that the flop limit can be raised over time. So startups shouldn’t worry.

You ignored the counter point that flop limits in export controls are explicitly designed to limit competition from other nations.

Flop limits not being a real limit is a ridiculous argument. The intent of a flop limit is to limit, no matter how you sugar coat it.
Yes, their C++ LSP isn't really good and I've heard C# isn't good either - but that's because they want to sell Visual Studio too. But especially "Remote SSH" and "Dev Containers" are so called game changers. And their Typescript and Python extensions are actually good.
For backing up VMs, it's possible to use Xopero Software https://xopero.com/
comptime really should have been the approach to Generics taken by Golang instead of trying to blindly follow Java/C++ . It would have also fit into Go's philosophy of keeping it standard and simple - no separate mini language for generics . Wish the language designers had looked at Zig before rolling out generics.
Tyty! To be honest, Godot and UE have been very tempting. I'm just too deep into Unity at this point. Even I'm surprised that their years of fiascos didn't shake me off. But it looks like things are getting better over there.
"Remote SSH" and "Dev Containers".

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/devcontainers/containers
money would buy you mercenaries to overthrow the nobility.
> If a technology comes up in a meeting or 1:1 that you don’t know, add it to a list of things to research later. Then, dedicate time in your week to go through that list and learn about the technologies on your list well enough to have your own opinions about them. This practice allows you to have further discussions with whoever mentioned the technology.

> If you get interested in what you learn about the new technology, you may want to keep trying to understand it better; you may read more or embark on a personal project using it to gain more practical knowledge. As I said, it isn’t that you must stop coding. It is that, eventually, it shouldn’t be your day job anymore.

One thing that gets elided in a lot of "servant leadership" style chatter is, as a manager, you have permission to be straight up selfish. New leaders often struggle falling back into their old "inefficient" patterns of learning things but you have a team of resources at your disposal now.

You can just straight up ask a member of your team to prepare a bunch of background on the new technology and book a solid hour for them to personally tutor you through it. Sad to say but your time is more valuable than theirs and it does them no good for you to struggle at the other parts of your job because you're too modest to use your vested power. Often, teammates are actually happy to take the burden off your plate, if you poll ICs about gripes about their manager, one that comes up a lot is they wish they could get a few solid hours of the manager's time so they can educate them properly on a technology concept.

If you look at leaders as they move up the chain, one mark of who gets to the next level is who has learnt to be "selfish" enough to really leverage the resources under them. People are often under the misapprehension that these leaders are just sociopaths or heartless but if you actually ask them, it's not comfortable for them either and it's something they've had to learn but it's necessary mathematically to get any work done as your span of control increases.
Doesn’t your upbringing essentially manifest itself into your personality and virtues?
> The short summary is that MS uses multiple, constantly changing methods of DRM to make it impossible for people to patch out the "only official VSCode" check from the Pylance extension. This is very clearly malicious.

Huh? There's been lots of outrage about this. Repeatedly.

However, the problem is that nobody with any resource is willing to step up and replace the Microsoft closed source plugins. And developers aren't willing to put themselves out to use non-encumbered extensions.

It's basically a big "Put Up or Shut Up" from Microsoft, and nobody is willing to "put up" so we wind up with "shut up".
you're right, I forgot that the periodic part would make a big difference!
Drugs cost money to develop whether you like it or not, the only question is how exactly the money flows.

If it was taxpayer funded research it would still cost this much.
This is awesome, congrats and thanks!
That sounds like a really, really fun class with an enthusiastic teacher. I'd never heard of that kind of thing. Thanks not just for the story but also sharing the name of the technique! It definitely sounds like it allows flexible pacing in the same class that could help a teacher to accommodate different students well.
Try Xopero Software to back up your Windows instance - https://xopero.com/
I’m solidly reinventing the wheel by building my own cut-down version of Ghost, cut with a minimal platform such as Blot, Bear, Mataroa, etc; using classless HTML as the source (rather than mobiledoc).

Aim is for a static-site development/writing experience but with a dynamic app to allow for email subscriptions, payments, etc.

Not building it as a business, just to meet my own needs.
> Who is building and operating a plant (these need to be more or less 1:1 per MW to back your intermittent power sources) that sits idle 95% of the time?

This is what the capacity market is for; ensure the plant needed to operate the grid can pay the bills. https://www.utilitydive.com/news/pjm-interconnection-capacit...

It does feel like an inefficient use of capital. My best explanations for intermittents are
1) they are fuel savers, making natural gas cleaner by having them run less;
2) they siphon money into the generator’s pockets (from taxes via the Inflation Reduction Act and other subsidies, from other electricity generators via renewable energy mandates, from the utilities via rooftop solar which reduces the consumption when energy is easier/less costly to produce).
Oh man, I'm probably half schizophrenic, tried some antipsychotics at some point and had same reaction, and recently started to spend most my time outside (sleeping too), I found a nice spot. Fortunately I still have my remote developer job, and try to remain stable but I'm over sensitive and in the long run I can't sleep in my apartment (noise, smells - cigarette, here in France, it's horrible, maybe WIFI waves too). But isolation tends to makes me a bit more tolerant to people, I love birds and any really natural living being though
My last job had an internal tool for deploying all, or a reduced set of, their platform into a kube namespace. We called them One Time Environments and used them for testing and development. They were fantastic, really fast to spin up, and pretty cheap to run as they were on our own hardware. I've never found anything similar that doesn't cost an absolute bomb of money.

Now I've moved to an early startup and I'm really missing the tool. So I've started putting together my own with a few improvements.

This one can support multiple infrastructure types such as ECS, K8S, and anything else you could write an agent for. It's also going to do the same for zero trust auth, starting with tailscale.

Once we've got it up and running we're going to open source it. Could be a few more months though.

Building it using elixir, phoenix, and live view as that's my background.
FFI is the shell's only job.
> I agree, but IMHO when WFH many of these are weakened or even completely lost for the local American employees too.

Fair point, but that’s WFH done poorly, imho.

“100% remote” wfh teams should almost always have periodic get togethers on the company dime (among other things) to enhance/develop the relationships within the company.

Programmers will definitely lose some of their current market power in the future, but I don’t think that off-shoring will be seen as the main culprit.

I can’t tell you how much off-shoring is largely seen as a joke except by the VPs who are trying to get a promotion via cost-cutting. The quality of work needed is just not there at scale.
Probably 1). LLMs have already shown that people can deny intelligence and human-like behaviour at will. When the AI works you can say it's just pattern matching, and when it doesn't you can always say it's making a mistake no human would ever make (which is bullshit).

Also, I didn't really parse the math but I suspect they're basing their results on AI trained exclusively on human examples. Then if you add to the training data a single non-human example (e.g. a picture) the entire claim evaporates.
You don’t need to speak much Thai if you live in Bangkok, Chiang Mai, or the more popular beach resort cities. You can get by with no Thai at all unless you intend to live in rural Thailand.

Thailand does not have a remote worker visa like some European countries do. The requirements for the DTV (erroneously called a digital nomad visa) look hard to satisfy, and then you only get to stay 180 days in a year.

https://siam-legal.com/travel-to-thailand/dtv-visa-thailand-...

Thailand does offer other visas you can research. Digital nomads in Thailand typically come and go on tourist visas. Look into Thailand Privilege (formerly Thailand Elite) for a decent visa you can just pay for.

Honestly without a college degree and a high income you can document, combined with a passport that I guess limits your options, you will have to put significant effort into moving anywhere long-term. Look into Indonesia and Malaysia, both friendly to immigrants and nomads, cheap, safe, if not democratic in the American/western European sense.
This is just integrated codegen into the build tool, right? Datadog has a similar project here https://github.com/DataDog/orchestrion that does the same thing.

I think this kind of code gen is very wonky, and hard to debug unless there is some official API support for it. Using a sufficiently advanced build tool to handle this in a separate build step would help as well. But that usually causes problems with IDE support.
I wouldn't read an AI-generated book (except maybe once as a curiosity), but I would definitely listen to AI-generated music if it were good enough.

Reading a book is a time investment so I want it to convey the thoughts of another human being, otherwise it would feel like wasting my time. Listening to music, on the other hand, often is something that I do while I exercise, to keep a brisk pace and not get bored. As long as it sounds good, fits the genres and styles I like and is upbeat enough for exercising, I wouldn't have much of a problem with AI music - maybe it would even be a plus, since there are some specific music genres where I have already listened to pretty much everything there is (and no more is being made), and it would be great to have more.

I don't listen to podcasts, but I suppose in that case it depends on how you do so: devoting your full time and attention like a book, or as a background while you do something else like exercise music? As far as I know, many listeners are in the latter case, so I don't see why they wouldn't listen to AI podcasts.
I supposed that also applies to blogs, especially to those featuring a relentless positivity.