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Very much agree with you on this - htmx (turbo, hotwire, alpine,...) are not trying to replace all your client side logic.

It's a spectrum of interactivity, and we should try to pick the best (whatever that may mean) tool possible for the job - sometimes that's hx-boosted links, sometimes it's a react app
They’re claiming to target 2050 in the hopes that the EU won’t come down on them with a sledge hammer.

The fact they’ve cut all targets for 2030, and cut back all renewable plans tells you there’s no actual plan to hit net zero.

This was a pretty obvious end result when the head of their renewables group resigned in April and instead of replacing her they decided to “shrink the executive group” by exactly one headcount.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/bp-cuts-size-executi...
FYI, I can’t downvote your replies. If you’re getting downvotes, then maybe you’re earning them? More incorrect assumptions?

It doesn’t really matter if film is soft. If there’s aliasing or ringing or sizzling in the digital source, it can be visible on film even if it’s blurred more by the film. Once aliasing is introduced during sampling, blurring doesn’t necessarily make it go away, and in some cases extra blurring can make aliasing worse and more visible. This is why the pixel filter matters, and it seems like you would know that if your background matched your certainty.

That said, I think your claim that 2k by 1k is too sharp for 35mm film is also just plain wrong. 2 megapixels is quite a bit lower than the estimated spatial resolutions of most films at 35mm, and some have a resolving power much higher than that.

https://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/film-resolution.htm

https://shotkit.com/35mm-film-resolution-vs-digital/

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

People can and did tell the difference between pixel filters on film, and it’s amusing you have jumped to a made up conclusion that it was otherwise and decided to presume to tell me you think it was something else, when it wasn’t. I worked on the renderer, it was indeed a pixel filter test, and people actually did similar tests at multiple film studios during the same time period. You’re wrong about this, making weird bad assumptions, and there is no math that backs you up on that.
A great point.

What examples do we have of publicly-traded megacorps that have successfully made shifts at the scale which we see oil companies trying to make? (With extrinsic motivation being a primary driver?)

Cigarette companies?
....and that's fine. We're not talking about the XNU kernel but the end-product OS that reaches users.

A distro is the appropriate comparison in this scenario, and Pop_OS! or Ubuntu are about as easy as can be.

EDIT: /facepalm, just realized the Stallman meme hehe
> using max(0, exp(x)-1) instead of exp(x)

Won't this cause the gradient to vanish on the left half, causing problems with training?
no one wants to comment on Linus anymore ? LOL
price + (10.percent * 2) looks like 12: If 10.percent = 1, 1*2 = 2. 10 + 2 = 12.

Under the usual rules of operator precedence, that would be the expected answer (multiplication having higher precedence than addition).
I remember it but not too well. The Invaders[1] was scarier I think...

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061265/
> mine is a very basic cheap model with no cameras or wireless connectivity.

What brand is it? So many these days have both cameras and wireless
maybe so, but sometimes spaghetti is delicious:

https://htmx.org/essays/a-real-world-react-to-htmx-port/
NNs have absolutely revolutionized systems biology (itself a John Hopfield joint, and the AlphaFold team are reasonably likely to get a Nobel for medicine and physiology, possibly as soon as 'this year') and are becoming relevant in all kinds of weird parts of solid-state physics (trained functionals for DFT, eg https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-64619-8).

The idea that academic disciplines are in any way isolated from each other is nonsense. Machine learning is computer science; it's also information theory; that means it's thermodynamics, which means it's physics. (Or, rather, it can be understood properly through all of these lenses).

John Hopfield himself has written about this; he views his work as physics because _it is performed from the viewpoint of a physicist_. Disciplines are subjective, not objective, phenomena.
It's like asking if we should install a manned toll booth that raises exactly enough money to pay the toll booth workers. Or if everyone should pay higher taxes to raise the social security benefits of a randomly selected group of people.

That's not an alignment issue, because it's not clear if raising prices on everyone to support a few thousands workers is pro-worker or pre-human. You could just as easily argue (and I do) that lowering prices and freeing up man hours is pro-worker and pro-human.
uh, which aspect do you think might not be correct? he didn't lose revenue? He didn't hope people would get angry? people didn't download bluesky?

I quoted the expert from the article speaking of twitter's lost revenue and there's a link about people turning to bluesky also in the article.
> The thing that people strangely still seem to not get is that these systems will continue to improve rapidly

Where is the plateau though? What we have so far is definitely impressive and useful in some cases, but I can't help but eye-roll every time I hear someone seriously talk about making nuclear reactors JUST to power the millions of GPUs needed to train these models.
I’m done with this. You’re either fucking with me or I’m not qualified to help.
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My cynical interpretation is that the current CEO needed to begin taking steps to meet this 2030 goal and determined they didn't make financial sense. The 2050 goal is also unrealistic but is his successor's problem.
Yet they stockpile them:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/7/24151497/tesla-lidar-lumin...
I feel like we aren't actually unique in this respect, except in the sense that we are able to see our own doom but still not able to act on it.

In essence, our extinction (if it were to happen) would be because we were unable to solve the collective action problem... each individual choosing their own best course dooms the entire species.

When looked at it this way, lots of species go extinct for this reason; resource exhaustion due to uncapped expansion.

The difference is that we don't expect animals to be able to reason through the situation and realize that individuals would need to sacrifice for the greater good of the species.
> Btw if you’re still on Windows 7 please fucking upgrade to something else do not stay on it you should’ve quit using it years ago

Needlessly rude and needlessly pro-e-waste. I don't have any non-Embedded (with EWF so they are fresh at every boot) Windows 7 systems but am really really sick of the forced upgrade treadmill in all of computing.
True, but the analogy is far from fitting. Your nudity is shared with people in the gym, your biometrics is shared with anyone that has access to anything you ever touched. Your nude picture being shown on TV isn't the same as you-and-15-other-million nude pictures being shown on TV, and while sending your nude photo to your boss can be harmful, it's hard to think about what harm can be caused by sending your DNA to... anyone.
Chinese hack shows why Apple is right about backdoors for law enforcement
None of that is evidence conservatives aren't under attack, it's evidence that we're winning the culture war.

About Musk, once he took over Twitter, that mostly solved the Social Media "Free Speech" problem, because as long as the most popular gathering place in the world is free we're [mostly] all free. So you're right, there's lots of reasons for Conservative optimism.
Surely this is sarcasm. None of the things you list are solely technical problem, or even technical at all. They are all political problems.

The politics that you claim artificially limit solutions are simply a set of politics different than your own.

The 1st world’s biggest problems start with the climate change they are causing.
In general, I think you're looking for self-fulfilling prophecy. Hearing the prophecy induces behavior that leads to the prophecy coming true.

Although I'm not sure sigmar's observation fits this criteria as it's a discussion of events that already happened, or that it will be disseminated enough to change the future if you consider it as a prediction of future events should some other widely substitute service cross the Brazilian courts.

Ex-Twitter wasn't the first service to get blocked in Brazil. Brazilians know from experience that if the service they use gets blocked, they should look for a similar service that's not blocked, and get on with their life. When the one they used comes back, they often go back, but it probably depends on relative merits. If you're a competing service, it's a great way to get a lot of exposure, but sometimes the load is too much and you leave a poor impression.
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I rewrote a scheduling system used in hospitals. This was when hospitals switched to centralized scheduling. It was a rule based AI engine that made sure patients would get the earliest possible appointment given x resources of y types required. There were 30 or so types of rules (it's been a few years now) and a great puzzle.
A reasonable libertarian however would require that all externalities be paid for (under the principle of doing no harm). If the price per unit of oil includes the cost of all the negative externalities (e.g. selling that unit comes with a requirement to remove the air pollutants and CO2) then it isn't really a problem (at least for the purpose of this discussion) if CEOs have to seek profit for shareholders.
The way to do this is to price in the effect of the transactions on global climate. The reason the market will never solve this issue is because the cost is an externality; if we made it so every good sold included the cost to offset the damage to the environment, the market could address this issue.
> The truth is like 10 or 20 thousand lines of game logic can make a lot of games, and that's really not much code to port to your own game engine compared to the rest of the engine.

I intuitively want to agree, but on the other hand I've also seen many, many hobby/indie/etc projects deadlock when they switched engines. Or even engine versions (Unreal 4 -> 5).
The word "required" is not exactly wrong, but not exactly right either. Corporate governance is complicated and CEO's have a lot of room to maneuver. Some more than others.

Incentives are not destiny, though they are often persuasive. Peoples' decisions do matter, which is why there are people in the system and it's not just some idiot algorithm.

Also true of consumers and politicians.
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This was my experience.

I dove into writing a niche game engine and stumbled over every hurdle that modern game engines solve.

Been learning Godot lately and going back to writing an engine I'm confident I could trivally solve a lot of those hurdles.

Additionally, if im trying to make a basic editor I can now see what is tenfold easier graphically (animations) and what I don't mind programming in.
Does it not seem like electric vehicles will eventually swallow the world? It feels like it's 1900 and you're fighting tooth-and-nail to combat horse maltreatment while the rest of the world is surging toward a car-laden future. Would it not make more sense to simply focus efforts on EV adoption?
Hinton was never in the running for a Fields medal since he never made a single contribution to the field of mathematics. His work is about empirical discoveries in CS.
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> ...the web used to be more interesting when more of it was made by people different from us

And there it is, beautifully distilled into one sentence.
It's not just depressing, it's ruinous. We will be ruined as a species from this.

I'm still pressing a head with my personal contribution by cladding our new house in panels!
Obama’s and Kissinger’s prizes are both disastrous for entirely different reasons. And I don’t mean anything partisan by that. Kissinger was awarded a peace prize for achieving a cease fire in the Vietnam war … a war in which he’d personally been responsible for some of the worst and most illegal excesses. Obama was awarded the peace prize for literally nothing. It was anticipatory, meant to urge him towards ending American wars in the Middle East (he escalated instead). The Nobel committee gets it wrong looking both forwards and backwards.
Good feedback, thanks! There's a related issue in the media chrome repo here: https://github.com/muxinc/media-chrome/issues/957

The situation is a little complex with "hot keys" for controlling the video in general (after clicking on the video), accessibility controls for each component, and then general accessibility expectations for the whole page. For example, should we capture the up and down arrows to always control volume when the player is in focus, or should we not do that because people expect that for scrolling the page.

All that said, we definitely have some iteration ahead of us on this front so thanks again for the input.
To be fair, the sharer may have just been quoting the ABC's own words. Clickbait is their MO of late, and their app is the worst for it. The website used to be better.

EDIT: the link in the app phrases it "The world's largest home robotics company has a problem - its vacuum cleaners can be hacked from afar".
if Neuralink became pervasive like smartphones I'd join the Amish
CB is roughly 11m wavelength and doesn’t require a ton of power, and doesn’t require any licensing.
Govts are in on the spoils of it. There’s no reason for govts to attain power over people and use it to lose their own power by destroying their economy.
Economies of scale are real, but there are also diseconomies of scale. Machines are often more efficient the larger they are, but organizations tend to become less efficient the larger they get!
> I've spent 6 months reading the archives of our local papers --- not for this Nazism thing, but for work I'm doing on zoning reform (we're on the cusp of eliminating single-family zoning villagewide, which will be huge).

Thanks for the context. I support your cause to end racially exclusionary zoning!

> This is what historians are talking about when they worry about "presentism".

If I understand what presentism means, I don't think I committed it in my argument.

Contrasting the openness of the US at a policy level to immigrants like Kulle in the 1950s vs the threats to the status of Haitian TPS holders being made today isn't applying a standard from today to the past.

Rather, it's applying a just standard from the past to today.
Yeah, and the important detail here is all of this happened years after the "browser wars", which saw Netscape rapidly free-fall from being worth billions to being discontinued once IE was bundled with Windows 95. And then years later, Mozilla built Firefox from what remained.
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> executing individual draw calls of meshes which map 1-to-1 to visible objects.

This has not been true since deferred shading became popular around 2008. Shadow maps were around much earlier than that even.

There's a reason the 1:1 draw:object API has fallen out of popularity - it doesn't scale well, be it CPU overhead, lighting, culling and geometry processing, etc.

That said, you of course still can do this if you want to. Draw calls and vertex buffers haven't gone away by any means.

> So now the idea that a dev can just bring their own shaders to plug into an existing pipeline kind of falls apart. You need a whole layer of infrastructure on top, be it node graphs, shader closures, etc. And dispatch glue to go along with it.

That's the job of rendering engines, not graphics APIs. If you want to work at that layer, then you use a rendering/game engine that provides the tooling for technical artists. If you _are_ the rendering/game engine, then you're thankful for the increased level of control modern graphics APIs provide you to be able to realize better looking, higher performing (more stuff is possible), and more flexible tools to provide your tech artists with.

> This is all true even with WebGPU where you don't have to deal with synchronization and mutexes. Just a shit show all around tbh. Rendering APIs have not kept up with rendering techniques. The driver devs just threw up their hands and said "look, it's a nightmare to keep up the facade of old-school GL, so why don't you do it instead".

Users of the drivers got fed up with them being buggy, slow, and limited. The industry's response was to move as much code as possible out of the driver and into user space, exposing more control and low-level details to userspace. That way, you would never be bottlenecked by the driver, be it performance or bugs. The industry has realized time and time again that hardware companies are often bad at software, and it would be better to let third parties handle that aspect.

The real failure of of the graphics industry imo was Vulkan 1.0 trying to cater to old mobile devices and modern desktop devices simultaneously, and much worse, never starting a large community project to communally develop a higher-level graphics API until WebGPU (which itself is underfunded). Even then its higher-level nature is largely a byproduct of wanting to enforce safety on untrusted webapps.

But yes, even WebGPU is still more complicated than OpenGL 2. If you find graphics APIs too much work, you're not their target audience and you should be using a higher level API.
Like the January 6 question, I’m assuming that anyone who had a neuralink would likely be ineligible for any sort of clearance to access information like this.
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It seems like a year ago 23andme was hacked and almost 7 million records were leaked. Wikipedia doesn't list one case of someone being affected by it. Was this kind of data ever used to harm someone? It sounds to me like we're just speculating.
I wonder how much music was lost forever when MySpace got bought and purged its servers. I was in a band and we lost several recordings forever thanks to that.
Oh man, Bic Camera and Yodobashi Camera were my favorite places to browse! So many cool gadgets. Treat it like a casino, go in with a set dollar amount you're willing to lose, or else you'll keep spending :)
There should be a law similar to the Australian Consumer Law for warranties that enforces ongoing support and security updates for products purchased that need to be usable for a 'reasonably expected period'.

This would be based upon the time period that a normal person would reasonably expect a particular product to be useful for.

It would stop businesses releasing products and then abandoning them after a short period of time unless they are willing to provide refunds if they do.
Totally cromulent position if it works for you and you can still get hardware that runs it, AND you can keep it offline? No security updates is kind of a big deal.
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You can already hack people by just telling them things. Many of them will do dumb shit if you just use the right words.
Sometimes it's pretty visible. Some slime molds (dictyostelids) form multicellular bodies when food is scarce and they have to hunt, and then go back to single-celled life when conditions are more favorable.
> U.S. budget shortfalls fueled by interest costs, Social Security, Medicare

Interest on the debt is the fourth largest line item behind the defense budget. It interesting how WSJ leaves the DoD out (as its budget is close to half that 1.8T).

The discussion between Ballmer and Stewart is worth watching.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PdX3nOo7BCQ
The thing in this particular case, as you know, is that we have a very obviously biased Supreme Court making decisions based on what's good for the corporations paying them, instead of either settled precedent or the intentions of the original legislators.

The intended checks having failed, they're allowed to do this. You're old enough to know that "allowed to" does not automatically mean "morally right."

EDIT: Actually, let's bottom-line it: Stop pretending that pointing out any flaws in a democratic government is anti-democratic. That's exactly backwards.
Single celled organisms do it all the time, on a local scale.

If you fill a jar with some yeast and sugar water, they'll feast and multiply at an accelerating pace until they've turned their environment toxic.

Painfully analagous to humans.
As a life-long A's fan (born in '74) I can say that nobody will watch this moneyball crap they put on the field in vegas, if they still try to sell everyone off every few years it'll be the same story as Oakland the last 20 years.
afaik you need cgroups if you want to accurately track a process tree regardless of what silly tricks the processes might be try to escape
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Could an equivalent demo be constructed using open-source components, e.g. via GrapheneOS?
a) Twitter was and to a lesser extent still is an important platform for news and information. And his role in furthering misinformation and division has influenced many people.

b) Musk’s unpredictable antics e.g. going to Trump rallys and setting up SuperPAC, being a government contractor and talking about Kamala assassinations is controversial and often newsworthy.

c) Rumors about Musk working with JD Vance and Peter Thiel to effectively run the government on behalf of Trump.
I thought they were complaining that any request is being cancelled by a subsequent one, since they wanted all the requests they made to go through (presumably the requests are altering state?) Probably I misunderstood what was meant by “losing work” though.
It's the standard cycle of progress. "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win". (misattributed to Gandhi).

Moving from one stage to the next is not guaranteed, but EV's, battery & solar and definitely well past the first two stages. I'd argue that solar might even be in column 4 -- China installed 100 GW of it in the first six months of 2024, and the rest of the world a similar amount.
And web development is not game development? And chances are that games don't ship chromium with them?
That was the reasoning given when Einstein won his prize for the photoelectric effect, not relativity (although the reasons were actually fairly complicated: https://www.advancedsciencenews.com/the-dramatic-story-behin...)
I'm not trying to blame this on "Elon" but that guy basically kicked off the revolution and is kind of destroying it. His cult following, toxic views and enthusiasm for conspiracies are starting to make EV ownership something for "weirdos" at a time when owning an EV was already contentious. At least in the US.

There was a time when I dreamed of owning a Tesla, there is absolutely no way I'd drive one now.

I think China is going to steam ahead towards Solar, Nuclear and EVs, so maybe there is hope there!
You're not forced to upgrade.

It's not like Windows 7 will suddenly stop working. If you have it installed already, you can keep using it. It's just a "continue at your own risk" situation.
Until they sheepishly admit to implementing and hiding covert systems that provide exactly that at the behest of law enforcement: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/apple-admits-to-...

Apple is quite the fairweather friend when it comes to security.
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All preventing that got us was a Chrome browser monopoly instead by a business whose overwhelmingly dominant source of revenue was internet advertising, oops. Talk about going from the frying pan into the fire. We'd probably have come out better off with the Internet Explorer monopoly.