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Netlify Celebrates 5M Developers – 3D Game
(Nit: redis incurs at least IPC overhead, not necessarily network, which would be a ton worse—but if you’re not using Redis for IPC then I don’t know why you’re using it, so IPC overhead goes with the territory)

Redis is best for “smart” shared-memory-type resources. Queues that manage themselves, cache or locks or sessions with built-in expiration, that kind of thing. Shared smart logic for heterogenous same-host clients via extensions.

Remote Redis has never made much sense to me. Clustered-mode, sure, potentially, but with remote clients as the primary method of connection? No. It’s a really good (excellent, even) product but its sweet-spot is pretty narrow (even if the need is common) and basically nonexistent in now-typical container-heavy no-two-resources-are-required-to-be-on-the-same-actual-hardware situations.
Boo this man, booo.
that would be a good system, base it on income or wealth — you're limited to $100/week or whatever unless you can validate you can afford more

let's means test the rich for once
Electric Propulsion
GitHub has no idea what I did yesterday and I intend to keep it that way.
LLMs let the massively stupid and incompetent produce something that on the surface looks like a useful output. Most massively stupid incompetent people don't know they are that. You can work out the rest.
quick observation..

The layout of the columns is a "constellation" that looks like the little dipper... same basic layout, number of stars, curve of handle

If so, the H column is the odd one out, and if you look for an interesting star around there, I find a syzygy of k Cephius & HIP 99169, tho distance away isn't quite right. Or maybe HIP 92738

Also note that stars come up in the symbology for F column, which is speculated to encode spectra, maybe from stars
‘Gambling is a tax on people who are bad at math’
You seem to have the assumption that libertarian opposition to bans is based on the practicality of such and not the principle of allowing adults to make their own choices
I am so, so tired of Tesla's claims that FSD is "multiple times safer than humans" when the data they base these claims on are basically people using FSD in a totally safe environment which made them use FSD in the first place (mostly long straight highways).

Anyone trying FSD in a crowded city environment would shit their pants. Unprotected lefts are very often a mess, and interventions are legion. It is really a breath of fresh air to hear news outlets report finally about the actual state of the technology.
A budget is also time, resources, and latitude. Steve Jobs’ “Figure it out” was “I’ve given you a task, now go do what’s necessary to get it done”. This is what the post you’re responding to is referencing: the client is asking for something to get done but is not providing the resources required.

As a side note, engineers tend to be bad at couching conversations in these terms - nothing is impossible*, things just cost more or less, and that’s a decision for the money people to make.

* yes yes caveat caveat
JIRA is a management tool with an enormous amount of configurability and absolutely no opinion on how thing should be done.

That directly means it will only be as good as their manager, and also the process manager's vision will be perfectly reflected for the better, and in many cases for the worse.

If they want to review every ticket and manually accept state changes, they can. If they want to keep track of every minutes you spent on micro-tasks, they can.
If the manager has no idea how the team process should work JIRA won't give them any direction and will perfectly reflect the chaos in the manager's head.

Of course from the admin side it can also be a nightmare to host, as any similar long lived B2B product.

I think people are mostly hating on Agile, and JIRA helps experience the full blown of it the most.
Related / discussion:

OpenAI to remove non-profit control and give Sam Altman equity

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41651548

OpenAI to Become For-Profit Company

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41655954
X11 quite literally doesn't have the notion of DPI, there is only a single coordinate space. Xrandr is per-output and not per-window.
Unfortunately, "if it's an app, it's legal".
DC map looks about right.
While people certainly appreciate anecdata on self-driving experiences, by the very nature of driving incidents/accidents (very rare events highly unevenly distributed following a power law distribution), anecdata will always be detrimental to the collective understanding of FSD.

We really need to stop sharing personal stories on FSD. What we need is a public statistical description of the situation.
Vulkan 1.3.296 Released with VK_EXT_device_generated_commands
For safety critical jobs like piloting such "discrimination" mayb be warranted.
I guess this vindicates the (original) OpenAI Board, when they tried to fire Sam Altman.
I believe it's because in JavaScript some values or expressions are "truthy" or "falsey" depending on how they are evaluated.
Talking to ChatGPT is a surreal experience
If it were just a matter of a new admin UI, that would be one thing. A quick peek under the covers reveals how howling-at-the-moon-insane the Gutenberg block format is, how brittle it is when working with filters and other low-level things, and that's been the real source of pushback from developers.

TBH I kind of liked Metro back when it was used for XP Media Center. Win8 just did a crap job at integrating it with the rest of the system (and arguably repeating the same crap job with win10/11)
The problem with today's technology is it is indistinguishable from magic. Sometimes the magic is real, sometimes it's an illusion. It's nearly impossible as a regular consumer not deeply knowledgable of the current capabilities of models to know which is which.
> Some states charge the (relatively low) commissions that the illegal market charges because they would prefer to stamp out the illegal market

Slight tangent, but I am now of the view the state should not be allowed to tax legal vices. (Drugs, gambling, alcohol primarily). The reason is it keeps pushing amazing conflicts of interest, and the state ends up incentivized to maintain the behavior it supposedly does not want.

Either [vice] is wrong and should be illegal, or is tolerated and regulated but in no way profited from by those that do the regulation.
Gambling is also ruining professional sports for me because I find the frequent gambling promos during the games depressing and disruptive.

Many years ago I worked at a company that had Ladbrokes in the UK as a customer. On my first visit to London, I noticed their storefronts and found them appalling. They were some of the sorriest, shabbiest public spaces I'd seen, clearly designed to extract resources from the least well off.

I don't really buy any of the arguments in favor of widespread legalization (and I include state lotteries in this). I could be ok with legalization for a few big events like the NCAA tournament because clearly there is some demand that must be met, but we should not be enabling gambling as a widespread daily habit.

Of course there will always be black market gambling and the state cannot protect its citizens from every evil, but nor should it actively enable them.
GM introduced this functionality 25 years ago with OnStar. It's been around so long the technology is considered legacy with support farmed out to Filipinos.

The fact that your car needs "somewhat frequent" updates doesn't concern you? Cars are effectively appliances, they should work right the first time, with minor updates here and there to fix serious issues which can be done in the safety of a shop at next scheduled service, and not risk pulling a Rivian and bricking the entire fleet at the push of a button.
"Creating jobs" without creating value is a bad thing.
I agree there's a value in forcing exploits to be weirder and more complex, since that helps spotting them in code reviews.

But beyond that, if you don't review the code, then the rest matters very little. Sandboxed build.rs can still inject code that will escape as soon as you test your code (I don't believe people are diligent enough to always strictly isolate these environments despite the inconvenience). It can attack the linker, and people don't even file CVEs for linkers, because they're expected to get only trusted inputs.

Static access permissions per dependency are generally insufficient, because an untrusted dependency is very likely to find some gadget to use by combining trusted deps, e.g. use trusted serde to deserialize some other trusted type that will do I/O, and such indirection is very hard to stop without having fully capability-based sandbox. But in Rust there's no VM to mediate access between modules or the OS, and isolation purely at the source code level is evidently impossible to get right given the complexity of the type system, and LLVM's love for undefined behavior. The soundness holes are documented all over rustc and LLVM bug trackers, including some WONTFIXes. LLVM cares about performance and compatibility first, including concerns of non-Rust languages. "Just don't write weirdly broken code that insists on hitting a paradox in the optimizer" is a valid answer for LLVM where it was never designed to be a security barrier against code that is both untrusted and expected to have maximum performance and direct low-level hardware access at the same time.

And that's just for sandbox escapes. Malware in deps can do damage in the program without crossing any barriers. Anything auth-adjacent can let an attacker in. Parsers and serializers can manipulate data. Any data structure or string library could inject malicious data that will cross the boundaries and e.g. alter file paths or cause XSS.
The first two examples, in most scenarios, would yield an accident if unrecovered. The lattermost is also quite dangerous on highways (because driving way below posted limits causes accidents).
Disneyfication of octopuses. In that video you'll see, exactly anything that you want to see.

Would justify perfectly an: "in the video the octopus is seen trying to avoid being stolen its food by all the other fishes", that is the same behavior that you'll see if you break a crab or an urchin underwater. Many coastal fishes from rocky bottoms will come to steal any food scrap available. They don't cooperate with other fishes on any way.

Or maybe they are playing "rock, paper, tentacle", but to me the message more probable here is "this is my food, go away". If you look the video carefully the fishes seem trying to swim near the mouth of the octopus, where the probability of stealing a scrape is higher.
Linux 6.12 NFS Adds Localio Protocol for "Extreme" Performance Boost
For what it's worth, I agree with you, but that's the counter-argument: if prices are too high, you're going to essentially get people either circumventing restrictions (eg with VPNs) or turning to gangs.

Some of the other games that state lotteries are adopting are almost as bad as sports betting in terms of their availability (look up instant-play gaming), but sports betting feels like a game of skill, which certainly makes it worse from a psychological perspective. I still think it should be legal if people are going to do it anyway. Maybe banning the "specials" on combo bets or requiring them to be labeled as "this is still a bad bet" could help.

For the record, I have a vested interest in sports gambling being banned because I sell products involved in instant-play and other forms of gaming that are not involved in sports betting.
FSD is getting so good so fast. The difference between 1 year ago and now is night and day. It's a godsend for road trips and it amazes me with each passing month's improvements.

It's not perfect and people shouldn't expect that. But I don't understand how anyone experiences FSD and isn't amazed. It's not unsafe -- if anything my interventions are because it's being _too_ safe/timind.

Weather forecasting isn't perfect. But it's pretty good! And it's getting better! Just because weather forecasting isn't perfect doesn't mean I won't use it and it doesn't mean we should stop improving it.
Reply: what's my resource budget?

This resonates with me. I get a lot of "But Microsoft Office 365 Cloud does…"

I tell them that Microsoft spent a quarter of a billion dollars on that item last year, and I'm perfectly happy to re-create it if they give me a quarter of a billion dollars, too.
It seems like a potential solution would be training the LLM using two separate buckets. It just needs to internalize the two types of things as being separated (data vs. instruction), so if the training data always separates them, you could easily train an LLM to ignore any "instructions" that exist in data.

Then when searching / browsing or doing anything unsafe, everything the LLM sees can be put in the "data" bucket, while everything the user types in would be in the "instruction" bucket.
> Everything in earshot and eyeshot of these glasses will be surveilled.

And ads will be plastered over everything in your field of vision. Honestly who would sign up for that?
Reminds me of what my first-year econ professor in college once stated after disabusing myself and some other undergrads of our romantic notions about how life should work.

"Do I shock you? This is capitalism."
I am not sure how you are coming to the conclusion that a higher number of medical doctors would improve the leverage of those doctors compared to hospitals. If anything the hospitals would be able to demand even more from their staff. Or do you think hospitals would just employ more doctors out of the goodness of their hearts?
None taken. Yes, it's not as polished as some of the more modern resources but I still see value in learning about the old ways.

Also, in case you missed it, most lessons have contributions for many languages and platforms. Just scroll all the way to the bottom. You can download the Perl variant of the 1st lesson if you want.
its not a deterrent for multiple other reasons too:

1. most murderers do not expect to get caught if they are acting at all rationally, and do not care if they do not, and,
2. unless you execute a high proportion of people committing a particular crime any one criminal knows they are unlikely to be executed.

I think the Tutu quote at the end of the video.

Most of the rest of the work world has abolished capital punishment, and most of the rest uses it very sparingly. The big exceptions are China and the Middle East. Good company to keep?
It's incredible that Tesla is nearly a $1T corporation because it is about to announce robo taxi. Meanwhile it's actual car sales are shrinking quarter by quarter. And it's CEO supports the presidential candidate that wants to do away with carbon credits (~40% of tesla's net income).

If you any evidence that the market isn't rigged, but just full of gullible idiots, Tesla is it.
can't edit and can't stand the 2 'adds' typos I made :-)
It's not a given that there is even a coherent definition of what "biological intelligence" is.
Just about everything that's fun is a "vice".
It disproportionately affects people who are dumb, not people who are poor. Though the two can be correlated.
> Also it's hard to be against gambling if your state runs a lotto, which is gambling.

How so? Different kinds of gambling have different characteristics that could make them more or less prone to problematic behavior.

With the lottery, it's so boring and there's such a time lag between action and response that intuitively it seems like it would be harder to get addicted or harder for addiction to become really problematic.
A general good orientation resource for children and teenagers is https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize . Loots of cool, interactive guides there, interesting articles, all to help them find their way easier. You will find all the subjects contained in the education plans in the UK. Texts are amazing, guides are well structured and there are some great videos.

Other than that, it all depends on which part he'll like more if he starts......graphics, coding, game assets, level design and so on.. by the time he figures that out, he'll be able to pick a game engine for "adults" (for example, Unity)

1. These game engines claim to be kid and beginner friendly:
- https://www.kodugamelab.com
- https://www.cocos.com/en/

2. Python is a solid all-rounder, future-proof skill

Here are some free resources:

- https://github.com/pygamelib/pygamelib
- https://kidspython.com
- https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Programmers
- https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/python-for-kids/ - good starting point with general Py guidelines for kids.
- https://github.com/mytechnotalent/Python-For-Kids - very cool free book

3. Playing Minecraft, Roblox, beamNG, or any other game that supports mods & user made goodies. It's a good place to start building something in that environment. This can even bring some money if the idea becomes popular among the game's community.

4. The Hardware side of things

- building STEM games - with countless of gadgets, toys and other crazy devices out there. ( ex: Osobots ) These may become a bit expensive quite fast, but rewards on this path are surely worth it
- on the CyberSecurity side, there are some cool little gadgets that can run all kinds of clever games - pwnagochi (a tamagochi pet that eats wi-fi to stay happy and needs to be fed), FlipperZero ( https://lab.flipper.net/apps/category/games )
- Internet of Things - ( https://github.com/microsoft/IoT-For-Beginners )

-- smart devices, PCBs, chips, sensors that can make "dumb" objects smart (instructables.com)
-- IoT will revolutionize the gaming industry by changing the way players interact with a virtual world.
-- gamification of activities in other industries to make them easier to learn/understand/do

5. Last, but not least, there are many other areas of game development

- mobile games
- browser games (HTML Canvas games, or crazy 3d JavaScript libraries)

Some extra resources - might be a bit off-topic, but maybe you'll find something interesting

- https://github.com/HollyAdele/awesome-programming-for-kids
- https://github.com/yrgo/awesome-educational-games
- https://learn.khanacademy.org/khan-academy-kids/

Hope this helps, good luck !
I don't get it. What does "too close to X for my comfort" mean if not "I believed I was going to make contact without intervening?"
This is true, however it has been improving quickly. Releases are coming once every couple of months. There is already a newer release than the ones they tested, and each release is noticeably better. There is no indication of a ceiling yet.

I do take issue with the claim that "its seeming infallibility in anyone's first five minutes of FSD operation breeds a sense of awe that unavoidably leads to dangerous complacency". Waymo claims this as well, citing it as the reason they never released a driver assistance feature and went for full autonomy instead. However, this is is essentially speculation that has not been borne out in practice. There has been no epidemic of crashes from people abusing Autopilot or FSD. It's been on the roads for years. If "dangerous complacency" was a real problem we it would be blindingly obvious from the statistics by now. There have been just a few well publicized cases but statistically there is no evidence that this "dangerous complacency" problem is worse than normal driving.
Those people get annoyed at plumbers too.

See also why estimates aren’t actual costs. Every plumber runs into this constantly. Sorry you have a crushed sewer line add a zero to the cost.
If they are an "Expert", they can do anything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg
Taxing vices is how you control the amount of them while still allowing people to do them. Taxation is an important form of regulation.
This is a very well-written article full of useful links.
$10B? Closer to $50B now. They're spending about $3-4B per quarter at the moment, and their guidance last earnings call was spending in RL would only tick up in the coming quarters.
I'm afraid we can't solve problems in poorly managed third countries.
I carry mobile phones only out of compulsion. I often wish for the time when we didn't have this leash around our neck constantly. I would drop this and go back to landlines if I could
> It's strange to be both pro- and anti-government intervention.

It's strange to claim you either have to support or oppose all types of government intervention. There is nothing unreasonable about supporting what you view as good types of intervention while opposing what you view as bad types of intervention.
Sports gambling should be regulated like we do day trading (basically another form of gambling) — require a some minimum threshold of money in the account to deter those without disposable income from gambling away their savings (for day trading it’s $25k).
How useful is yet another API abstraction layer that omits the rest of the fucking owl (shaders)?
Aren't API calls essentially swappable now between vendors now?

If you wanted to switch from Gemini to Chatgpt you could copy/paste your code into Chatgpt and ask it to switch to their API.

Disclaimer I work at Google but not on Gemini
Like this maybe? https://tic80.com/
> if I had no moral or ethical qualms. I'd probably be running a company like this.

You mean you'd be like any other corporation or property manager or attorney? If you operate in the confines of the law that's all that matters. If you give normal people the same power to litigate as a billionaire, that's a feature, not a bug.
I just want an issue tracker with a customizable sate machine to transition status.
Amusingly it actually makes you less of a "purist" to not modify commits. Git was created by Linus Torvalds to support Linux Kernel development

The Linux Kernel is heavily built around reviewing each commit individually via patchsets sent as emails and rewriting history to make it cleaner.

Git history is incredibly valuable if its curated, at my previous employer we used Gerrit and pretty much every change would have a well crafted multi-line commit message that explained what was being changed and most importantly _why_. If I wanted to understand why a bit of the codebase had been authored in a particular way it was incredibly easy because I could just git blame the line and there'd be a detailed commit message explaining the rationale.

In the Pull Request world I do agree with what you say - but only if you squash merge. Commits that say "fix typo" or "oops" or "wip" aren't useful long term.
Tokamak in Your Home: A Xenon Plasma Toroid
I didn't hate that stuff on my 2019 Nissan Leaf. It was kinda funny how it would bounce back and forth between the lane lines sometimes. I didn't trust it enough to ignore the road, just enough to be able to switch my music without worrying about crashing.
It's curious that only one HWRNG can be current at once.

Because adding more sources of randomness, even if they're lower quality, can't reduce the total randomness.

If the quality of HWRNG-A is 400 and HWRNG-B is 600, the quality of XOR(HWRNG-A, HWRNG-B) will be greater than 600.
> Why would anyone have to do this kind of study?

Because the company chose to publish ads with misleading claims about the efficacy of their system.
I'm of the opinion that gambling as a whole should not be regulated.The only restriction should be on using other people's money instead of your own.

It makes no sense, it is the person's money and life, and it is theirs to ruin as they wish. We are not properties of the state. If a person cannot be allowed to do what they wish with their own money, because they might harm themselves or others as a result, then how can you trust them with driving a vehicle, flying a plane, operating weapons in the military, or even owning a personal weapon?

Every gun sold to a person is a gamble on whether they use it to cause harm on others (same with the things i listed above).

This same logic applies to regulation of drugs in general as well in my opinion. Regulating other peoples lives is not the purpose of the government, especially when they're not harming others or being a nuisance to the public.