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It's a tradeoff.

For example: With Python Python breaking changes are more common, and everyone complains about how much they have to go and fix every time something changes.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Either have good backwards compatibility but sloppy older parts of the language - or have a 'cleaner' overall language at the cost of crushing the community every time you want to change anything.
My reading is that it doesn't solve it, it just indicates there is a market for non-urgent freight in which airships could compete.
Exercism.io does what you want? It has language tracks and each track has questions geared to seal your understanding of some language concept. It also has it gamified by building a community around it and folks comparing their solutions.
When wondering if there was some dumb programming joke about "settiers" to go along with "getteirs" it dawned on me that there's a certain gettier nature to Get/Set encapsulation.

Suppose you've got a class library with no source, and the documentation defines a get method for some calculated value. But suppose that what the get method actually does is return an incorrectly calculated value. You're not getting the right calculated value, but you're getting a calculated value none the less. But then finally suppose that in the same code is the right calculated value in unreachable code or an undocumented method.

On the one hand, you have a justified true belief that "the getter returns a calculated value": (1) you believe the getter returns a value; (2) that belief didn't come from nowhere, but is justified by you getting values back that look exactly like calculated values; (3) and the class does, in fact, have code in it to return a correctly calculated value.
IPython is huge: 15,5 Mo without any extras.

Python is 150mo. Hard to justify that 10% of the lines of code, source of bugs and maintenance only go to the shell.
We stopped tagging anything hackoberfest years ago. Even the #good-first-issue github issues regular get attention from users who use AI to answer (both PR description and code).
Seems contradictory but you can clarify. If a proposition can be falsified then that is knowledge that said proposition is false, and the negation is true. If nothing can be proven or known then it must follow that nothing can be falsified.
Yea. But it’s mostly good except for the commas
Exactly. So, we need to make those companies more successful:)
love it, will definitely be using it for sketching documentation in comments for SQL sprocs, etc.

One request: support for self-reference, i.e. "A --> A", "A --> A & B"
Yeah, but a kidney is a piss filter. Eat it raw or cook it how you like, but it's still a piss filter.
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This is not how C standards work. If it appears in the standard, it means that it is already implemented in some compilers (in that case, at least in gcc and clang).
Hence why I also said ‘or even mostly identical’?

If it’s only vaguely similar in fact, then that seems hardly convincing.
On Mobile Safari at least, you can press and hold the image to share. I imagine there's probably an equivalent gesture on Mobile Chrome. I spent considerable time many years ago trying to figure out how to indicate to users that they could do this. ("press and hold to share", with a progress indicator) Results were mixed.

Fortunately, these days if you wanted to make it more obvious you could hook up a regular Share button to navigator.share() API and pass it your image blob.
Thanks both for pulling on this point. In drafting, I was both torn and fuzzy about the nomenclature. Also trying to be distinct about hardware features (dynamic vertex data?) versus language/API constructs. But you are right, it's important to be clear because they are different and hardware might not support both.

I was trying to see if the other graphics APIs (Vulkan, DirectX) had this Vertex Amplification in Vertex Shader feature, but it doesn't seem so? Maybe it was easier for Apple to inject the concept into Metal (advantage of controlling of the whole stack).
"I can be pretty certain it is my bank contacting me."

This is a neat advantage of this approach. I usually get phishing emails on a "wrong" email address, which makes them trivial to identify. So I know what to look out for should they ever manage to target the correct email address.
Manifest approvals has been a reality for a while. But that works because, not despite, the bottlenecks.

Countries know goods must flow through certain choke points so they can essentially quality control the manifests.

Remove that and pre-authorised customs will go again.
Clang 19 has it.
If it were an emergency backup you have basically free reign, afaik all the FCC rule parts have an exception for emergency use. The tough part is you'd ideally want to test your backup before the emergency too.
Perfectly valid to do if you need to interface with a large C code base and you just want to do some simple OO here and there. Especially if you cannot have runtime exceptions and the like.

This is how I managed to sneak C++ into an embedded C codebase. We even created some templates for data structures that supported static allocation at compile time.
Wikipedia indicates that they are a different genus, family, and order, so they are pretty much related in the way that they are both flowering plants.

So they're kind of related like humans are related to weasels, because they're both mammals.
Automattic plans to enforce WordPress trademark with 'nice and not nice lawyers'
Pimp My Ride: Venture Capital Edition.
"Not to debate jargon, but how does that completely artificial jargon-only concept fits on the natural world?"

That's not a question that can be answered.
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Metal is the main reason many games are never ported to MacOS.

Metal is roughly equivalent to Vulkan, which is on Windows and Linux. But Apple just had to Think Different. So all the major rendering libraries either have a layer which abstracts over Vulkan and Metal, or they don't support MacOS at all.

That's what WGPU does. If it were not for Apple ignoring standards, much of that would be unnecessary. It adds so much excess baggage that the consensus is to go direct to Vulkan or DX12, and blow off MacOS support.
You're out of touch with reality. I'm not a fan of everything musk says but you're not clear about how ludicrous it is to catch a rocket with chopsticks. You're only going off your gut feeling from social media and popular opinion.

This is the reality. Musk made bets that have a lower chance of success then winning the lottery. If even one of the bets succeeds it means he's smarter than normal. That being said, Musk has succeeded in way more than one bet.
You cannot run this program. Invalid certificate.
As long as they remain at in the lead of what could be a humanity changing field I’m not convinced losing money is a certain indicator of a bad business. Definitely not a good sign either but the bet is clearly a long term one. (Or maybe it’s just the classic silicone valley bigger idiot swindle)
General Ripper is thrilled at Chevron being overturned.
Yeah people forget that Sushi was once considered very adventurous to most people, and than a huge percentage of American men only first experienced hot sauce as Tabasco sauce in the army. Other than ethic enclaves I think the American palette was historically considered pretty underdeveloped.
"ChatGPT Plus has no real moat" other than the fact that they still have the best models. Competitors can be useful in some situations, but in the general case, GPT-4 (and now o1-preview) are more useful than anything else out there.

And that's before factoring in what other models they are cooking that they're in no hurry to release.

If ChatGPT is so easy to outcompete, where's the competition?
This is incredible work, thanks for sharing. That said, does anyone know what kind of technology they’re gesturing to? Maybe I’m really stuck in the present, but short of tangible holograms I’m not sure how we’d make tactile computing devices.

The keyboard is tactile, and I’ve long dreamed of augmenting Alexa by covering my house in purpose-specific buttons, but that seems like a short road. Even the most advanced HCI device I’ve ever seen proposed by a consumer company—Meta’s Orion wristbands that read hand movements by measuring the electrical signals in your wrist—aren’t tangible in the slightest.

What am I missing? Can any fellow futurists point me in the right direction? I don’t need “doable today” or even “the technology is worked out”, but ideally I’m looking for something more doable than tangible holograms. See https://xkcd.com/678/

EDIT; the VR suits from the Three Body Problem books come to mind, using tiny actuators and temperature controls (thermal actuators?) to simulate touch. I could see that in a glove for sure, and that’s probably the most futuristic tactility gets at this point, but I doubt it’ll ever see fully-body usage, both for technical feasibility and user convenience reasons. There’s a reason the TV show replaced them with brain-modulating headsets… I guess that’s really the end dream.

What is a tangible hologram (or any interface, really) other than an illusion, at the end of the day?
I use Hey.com's "catch all" inbox for this but it's a bit janky. If you set up a "custom domain" Hey account, you can actually email `[anything]@yourdomain.com` and it'll arrive in the catch all inbox. (Not unique to hey obviously) It has the benefit that it's impossible to block, but Hey obviously doesn't really want me doing that since they charge per-email-address.
this is an upsell? My dentist pokes around a bit and checks for lumps in my tongue (like I wouldn't notice that?) but that's about it. Is there something more I missing? Going to the dentist tomorrow and would love to ask for optional high-margin upsells! /s
literally 90% of AI startups right now are some combination of the above and their "edge" is just a long system prompt that tells them to "be this niche and output response that mimics an expert from that niche"

This was never going to work out because OpenAI is literally watching everybody and how they are using it including prompts. AI wrapper startups serve these functions:

- wrappers prop up NVIDIA which are owned by the people giving VCs the money to invest in wrappers who are long Nvidia too.

- wrappers give OpenAI RSU holders a fuzzy warm feeling and they are able to see what the market is doing with their product so they can pull "Amazon Basics"

- IRS, attorneys, accountants, politicians love them all because they all get to squeeze milk from the fume
I just test some links in the table of content, works fine for me. Using zathura pdf reader.
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I think the issue with iPython is that it's really quire large and has a non-trivial number of third-party dependencies that would need to be dealt with.

Python already has a million libraries built in, adding more in would be a pain. Plus there is the politics of making something "core" when the maintainers aren't part of the core python team.
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How much of that is actually perception though?

"Where can I put my feet safely?"

"What is the orientation and 6 higher order velocities of my body?"

etc.

I've been told that a perfectly observable / estimable system is trivially controllable. It's one of the reasons I believe perception is upstream of everything - interaction dynamics alone are nearly impossible to just wave away with models.

I don't even work in perception. But I know that everything is fine until you try to go online with perception in the loop. Then you are behind the perception team's debugging nearly all the time.
The other big downside is a dependency tree that is better described as a rainforest with all of the third party widgets that you'll likely be importing, each of which comes with is own set of quirks, shortcomings, level of QA and maintenance, preferred development style, etc.
Or

xxd --include <file>

:)
I do this as well. Unique emails for every account along with unique passwords, password manager. Works great so far.
> I'd classify that as very low risk.

The majority of CAs are in the US.
Less than 100 years later, we stand waiting for nuclear bombs guided by GPS to be launched when the authorization cryptographic certificate is verified.
I'm a Google employee. After looking at this demo I can tell you're spiritually a Googler in ways I can't quite articulate.
Should Claude users interpret this as a prelude to a new release? Or is their post clarifying the responsible scaling policy and trying to intrigue folks who might fit Anthropic well, career-wise?
I don’t understand why the article leads with SoftBank. A lot of the other points in the article are pretty good, though I suspect that Microsoft is going to fund OpenAI for a long time since it lets their co-pilot shenanigans go semi-unnoticed. Which may be a little tinfoil, but with stuff like Teams being bundled getting them into regulatory trouble I’d assume they want as little focus on their AI “bundle” as possible. That and a lot of what they invest in OpenAI goes into Azure anyway.

That part, and the points about subscriptions and losses on the dollar comes in later though. Maybe there is something I don’t understand, but I almost stopped reading the article when it touched on the SoftBank investment. How is that even remotely relevant?
None of what you just said about US law is relevant here. Yes, Cloudflare has to abide by international law where it operates. This is established and every company across the globe is subject to it.

Cloudflare operates in and has a physical data center presence in Moldova, serves content owned by Moldovan citizens, and serves content to Moldovan citizens. Thus, they are subject to Moldova law. If they don’t want to be subject to it, they can remove their operations from the country and remove any interactions with Moldovans.
I was around in 1999 when we had this conversation the first time. People openly mocked Google for throwing money down the well. It was a search engine! People Clicked away from Google. They were fools, it was unsustainable, etc etc. Then adwords launched and we know the rest of that story.
Loss-leaders tend to grow fast. More importantly, you need a moat to benefit from being a loss-leader and get back to profitability, which OpenAI does not have.
Repeat it with me ... "they have no moat"
> can you name an American dish that wasn't developed by immigrants?

I consider Tex-Mex as American and home grown. It also depends on your definition of "immigrants" since that path looks different everywhere (and across time). Texas was at one time Mexico (and even its own country plus a few others). But tortillas, beans, corn, cornbread are Native American. Many have simply lived here through generations and name changes.

I would also argue for BBQ[0]. I had to double check, but according to that wiki page it was from the Taíno who had inhabited Puerto Rico, which is part of America; which was acquired by Columbus, then brought to the mainland by the Spanish. Since Texas was a part of Spain for some time, there is a case to be made that the dish was not by immigrants if looked at from that angle.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbecue_in_the_United_States
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Early stage companies care more about growth than profitability.

Looking at this arbitrary chart from a quick search[1], OpenAI is likely still at the "young growth" stage

[1] https://vlp.teju-finance.com/courses/pluginfile.php/1844/mod...
Would be interesting to their reasons, but I'd be surprised if they had chosen it. I freaking love ipython, but it has a bunch of dependencies and extends far beyond just being a repl for the language and introduces things like magic commands, execute as shell, fallback logic etc.

Given how tight python keeps it's standard library, it seems pretty much imposssible to imagine those kind of advance features being developed while providing the stability that python normally asks from it's standard library.
Kopia allows to specify quite different snapshot configurations with patterns etc. I converted old snapshot since 2005 backwards into the same dedup mounted on diverse paths, so I wonder what would be missing.
Mine (some 23 year-old Westinghouse model) spins by default but has a button to override it.
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There's also 'free trade' areas within China that allow transfer without import and export tax and other innovations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Free-Trade_Zone
I am not so sure you can build an economy of scale with projects that take a decade to construct and even longer when accounting for approvals and paperwork. The projects are too massive and too long. The contractor that poured the foundation for the last project may no longer be around. It has worked in some areas of the world like China because they have been building from zero and are able to scale mega projects.

The US has more hope to learn by iterating on smaller projects.
Honestly, I love the idea. Wealthy people chase status (and power), its all they have left after economically winning (it's why Gates, Dalio, etc go from podcast to conference to book tour to talk, it's the wealthy person's equivalent of Jeb Bush's "please clap"). If they want to race to see who gives more away, why not? Erect the leaderboard of charity flex!

@preetramsha What do you think about a style more like GoFundMe from a wireframe perspective? Their UX is already great for discovery and campaigns, your focus just so happens to be on the leaderboard.
You might be looking for the wrong phrase. The V in VPS means virtual so it's usually shared with other hosting customers. Look for root servers or dedicated servers. If you launch a new project renting should be more attractive because you don't have paying customers yet (I assume). It's not easy to sell a used server, they loose value faster than cars.
Does Metal allow for better performance with Apple hardware than if Vulcan were the “direct” interface, if you optimize with it?
> As a Swede I always found it interesting we were one of the few countries which do not flouridate tap water.

Wikipedia doesn't support this claim. Here are two quotes from different articles:

(1) "As of November 2012, a total of about 378 million people worldwide received artificially fluoridated water. The majority of those were in the United States. About 40 million worldwide received water that was naturally fluoridated to recommended levels.", from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation#Worldwide_p...

(2) "Out of a population of about three-quarters of a billion, under 14 million people (approximately 2%) in Europe receive artificially-fluoridated water. Those people are in the UK (5,797,000), Republic of Ireland (4,780,000), Spain (4,250,000), and Serbia (300,000).

The first water fluoridation in Europe was in West Germany and Sweden in 1952, bringing fluoridated water to about 42,000 people. By mid-1962, about 1 million Europeans in 18 communities in 11 countries were receiving fluoridated water.", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation_by_country#...
That ground penetrating radar really delivers but what is the stunning part?
> Then adwords launched and we know the rest of that story.

I guess the moral of that story is that OpenAI may be profitable once they start injecting Temu ads into ChatGPT responses. Profitability, but at what cost?

They appear to already be working on something along those lines: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41658837
What would be an example of "simple OO here and there" that cannot be done cleanly in plain C?
Quite curious that the backside of the lens is modeled as a mesh of quads with varying (x, y). I could imagine that a fixed grid of points with only varying height would be easier to model, am I missing something crucial?

You can probably build an end-to-end model of a grid of heights (constrained to be h=0 at the edges), a simulated ray exiting the slab (surface normals modified by whatever Snell's law tells you), and the eventual light intensity on the target plane... and immediately optimize the entire thing with backprop?

I'm probably massively oversimplifying this and ignoring half of the physics
Competition did that.
Sure we'd say physicists have knowledge of quantum mechanics and general relativity. And we can also say physicists have knowledge of how to make predictions using quantum mechanics and general relativity. In this sense, general relativity is no more wrong than a hammer is wrong. Relativity is simply a tool that a person can use to make predictions. Strictly speaking then relativity is not itself right or wrong, rather it's the person who uses relativity to predict things who can be right or wrong. If a person uses general relativity incorrectly, which can be done by applying it to an area where it's not able to make predictions such as in the quantum domain, then it's the person who uses relativity as a tool who is wrong, not relativity itself.

As a matter of linguistic convenience, it's easier to say that relativity (or theory X) is right means that people who use relativity to make predictions make correct predictions as opposed to relativity itself being correct or incorrect.
Last time there was a campaign against fluoridation in my town it was extremely innumerate and resorted to emotional appeals like "do you want chemicals in your water"? That has coloured, perhaps unfairly, my perception of the issue ever since.
very hard to grasp what this is doing...is this mainly for test/debug purposes?
WordPress doesn't have employees. It's open source software. Do you mean Automattic (i.e., wordpress.com) employees or WP Engine employees? Or just anyone who is employed and working on WordPress?
The German Railway company DB often works with well known chefs who have also worked for aviation, often for Lufthansa, so they can benefit a bit from their experience.
There are a bunch of different ways. The best nootropic is sleep, the second-best is exercise.

https://vonnik.substack.com/p/a-few-ideas-that-made-my-life-...

Another good thing to do is block out the energy-suckers; ie distractions, especially the screen-based ones.
A company giving away money for free could probably beat them (and might lose less money per customer than OpenAI).
Hmmm... You didn't really explain yourself - I'm not sure I understand your point.

But guessing at what you mean - when I evaluate ChatGPT, I include all the trivial add-ons. For example, AutoGPT will create a plan like this and then execute the plan one step at a time.

I think it would be silly to evaluate ChatGPT solely as a single execution endpoint.