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As the article says, a book is not the ink, but the words. I am not my physical atoms, but the connections that form my thought patterns and memories. If it were possible to make a perfect copy of those things, the copy would be "me". If the original still existed, that would also be (a different) me.
Most of the issue exemplified in the article arise due to a lack of domain expertise, not ego. Parochialism, maybe, as it relates to lack of expertise. We fear what we do not understand, which translates into domain ownership and controls over guardrails.

The productivity of every single team that I've been apart of, that shipped fast, was enabled through permission, by highly experienced domain experts who knew how to build guardrails instead of controls. Canary releases, monitoring and rollbacks, not release managers. Automated testing, not codeowners.

Controls prohibit actors from doing certain things. Outside of regulated environments, they should only exist at the perimeter of your business, interfering in the nefarious activities of malicious external actors.

Guardrails on the other hand, guide actors in the right direction. Well installed guardrails can see your legal team pushing changes to your API schemas.

Those guardrails however take real expertise to install.
Nice work! I would suggest changing the blue font color so attacks are more easily readable
What it the main difference between controlling, regulating, and processing emotions?
I think you might be slightly misunderstanding why you're struggling to sell. In finance, correctness matters. A tool that's mostly right most of the time, but radically incorrect sometimes is a very hard sell when there's battle tested and well understood boring tools out there that do the same thing.
I'm surprised Jodi Allen hasn't sold his sports teams yet...things she was reportedly not all that interested in at the time of his death.
AWS is basically running 100% of their own software on their own Graviton ARM CPU
this is really, really cool.
Your numbers are way, way off [1].

Receptive vaginal sex: 0.08% (1 transmission per 1,250 exposures)

Insertive vaginal sex: 0.04% (1 transmission per 2,500 exposures)

Receptive anal sex: 1.4% (1 transmission per 71 exposures.)

Insertive anal sex: 0.11% (1 transmission per 909 exposures)

[1] https://stanfordhealthcare.org/medical-conditions/sexual-and...
We're losing the word "podcast" quickly
Surely it's just a dash cam with a button and maybe some kind of comms module. There are many mass-market dashcams with a 'record' button that saves a time period before and after pressing the button, it's pretty standard usage. The only new thing is sending the video on, and making sure the time/location are correct (many cameras do this via GPS already - standard usage). I'm not seeing what is so expensive or unique.

Very profitable by the sounds of it!!!
I think the million data breaches with no consequences have shown that email is not a liability.
Doesn't plasma have deep blacks and color reproduction similar to OLED? They're still very good displays, and being 15 years old means it probably pre-dates the SmartTV era.
To some, buying used never crosses their mind.
> we are free only as much as we don't have guns in our face telling us we're not.

Is this actually an old saying?
This is the problem all medium to large businesses face - red tape, faceless bureaucracy overloads the system

Every. Damned. Time.
It's a retro-invention, something that could have been pitched in the golden days of radio. Inner joke I guess, I laugh at re-reading it. Normal people do poetry, I hate poetry.
How's this: if you're over 27 years old, you were born closer to the moon landing than the present day.
talking about ownership, I ran into some git repo with a "declaration of non ownership"

an economy of giving in a way
Machines that will make espresso, automatically, that I personally like better than what Starbucks serves are widely available. No AI needed, and they aren't even "robotic". They can use ordinary coffee beans, and you can get them for home use or for commercial use. You can also go to a mall and get a robot to make you coffee.

Nonetheless, Starbucks does not use these machines, and I don't see any reason that AI, on its current trajectory, will change that calculation any time soon.
This is great! The best teams I've worked on have worked towards the following:

Pizza teams that own the whole stack, and for the roles that don't need a full-time individual, specialists that come in and advise but also make it possible to DIY the things they do.

The best examples of specialists are Designers and Security teams as this talk highlights. They can make the tools and the means for other teams to self-service those needs. For example, security teams implementing CI tools and designers building design frameworks that are easy to apply. Conversely, they can feel free to make changes themselves and are empowered to at the best organizations.

Everyone else in product development is a generalist, including the managers, and everyone is on-call. When everyone is on-call then it results in far fewer alerts going off because when there is an issue, it's taken very seriously and remediated quickly in the following days & weeks.

I think GTM teams could also benefit from this same kind of process, but instead melding Marketing, Sales and Support roles and responsibilities.

My theory on why this wasn't more common in the past was that the work was too complex and specialized and that the tools and knowledge to do the job weren't as easy to acquire as it is today. LLMs have certainly leveled the playing field immensely in this area and I'm truly excited to see the future of work myself.
isn't the new pedestrian from a few years ago the same way? (the one with lights)
It's based on Section 5 of the FTC Act, which prohibits unfair and deceptive practices. The vast majority of "FTC cases" you read about are Section 5 cases.
If someone else is free to decide that they'd rather die than lose an eye, or rather die than have to experience a few months of chemotherapy in order to be cancer-free, then I am also free to decide that those views are absurd and extreme, and reflect a deep misunderstanding of medical outcomes.

> Denigrating someone expressing their personal opinion seems absurd.

There's a difference between saying someone is foolish and saying their beliefs/opinions are foolish. The former is not what the GP did.
It depends on what you're doing. When I've used Angular I generated a lot of that boilerplate which reduced a lot of friction between frontend/backend.

If you can't do that then taking a simple approach (pulling in the libraries you need) makes more sense

My experience with Next.js is that it's an order of magnitude slower than Angular and makes it very easy to make massive security blunders (I have more than once found developers accidentality sending secrets to the browser).
None of those matters (except multimodal). If you are running a business, the only thing that matters is

a) How does it perform on my set of evals

b) What is the cost/latency of serving it to my consumers.

It shouldn't matter to me how many parameters, corpus it is trained on, whether it's LLM or Transformer or something else
> It seems to me that a lot of people are forgetting that when updating to next major version of a package, breaking changes are expected

No, I don't think that's the problem here. The author completely understands and accepts that a new major version will break their code. They're asking whether there's actually a benefit to these breaking changes.

> seamless updates […] That requires a lot of work from the package developers.

Well, the lower something is in the stack, the more likely developers seem to be to put in that work. The Linux kernel syscall API is sacred, so are most Win32 base interfaces. libc/VCRT almost as much. Python versions a little bit less. GUI toolkits and SSL libraries break a bit more frequently but tend to just be parallel install. But the more you move up the stack, the more frequent breakage you get.

Same in the browser. Basic DOM is backwards compatible to the stone age, but the more things you pile on the more frequent API/update breakages become.

It's really a kind of obvious logic, since the lower something is in the stack, the more things above it indirectly snake down dependencies, and the more pressure to not break things there is.
Derivative at a Discontinuity
What it you get an email from [yourbank].bank? Or if your mother got one?

It's never a single signal, and the more legitimate a domain looks, the bigger a chance is that someone fells victim to a scam.
View it as Raspberry Pi for AI workloads. Initial stage is for enthusiasts that would develop the infra, figure out what is possible and spread the word. Then the next phase will be SME industry adoption, making it commercially interesting, while bypassing Nvidia completely. At some point it would live its own life and big players jump in. Classical disrupt strategy via low cost unique offerings.
The Sense of Style – Steven Pinker – Talks at Google [video]
> there's big alpha to be had in starting a hedge fund that simply embraces AI.

Maybe hedge funds are completely out of step with the rest of the finance world, but much of finance has been using AI for a long time. AI is old news at this point.
> Who's gonna renew that hobby domain or pay that hosting bill? I've seen some really valuable online resources disappear after the author died.

This is why the Internet Archive is so important.
Where was the Musk bashing? I didn't see that in the slides.
I don't have a free link but an article in The Economist thinks this is highly likely, given the abruptness and the absence of a successor.
Visualizing Bluesky posts falling from the sky in real-time
Way too many people. Surprised they can make any decisions.
seems somewhat reasonable, if frustrating. I wish there was a mid-ground between this model and the ad-exploitation bonanza that every other search is based on
I love how the fact that we might not want AI/robots everywhere in our lives isn't even discussed.

They could serve us a plate of shit and we'd debate if pepper or salt is better to complement it
Is Technology Destroying Marriage?
Effective Strategies for Mitigating Hallucinations in LLMs for Data Analytics
Porsche is also based in the EU so starting with a design that meets EU specs and then adjusting export models as needed is probably their procedure anyway
It's more of a technical liability to write anything new in Python. All of my old perl code still runs fine, all of my python code went unusable since. It's also extremely bloated.
I still don't understand why graphics cards haven't evolved to include sodimm slots so that the vram can be upgraded by the end user. At this point memory requirements vary so much from gamer to scientist so it would make more sense to offer compute packages with user-supplied memory.

tl;dr GPU's need to transition from being add-in cards to being a sibling motherboard. A sisterboard? Not a daughter board.
Great work! It is fun :)
Frankly I think that's bullshit. If it's not worth paying for the trial for it's not worth prosecuting as criminal.
Hey nice job.
I think you should add a timer. The faster you answer the question, the greater the hit. It’s a nice challenge code-wise and adds a little stress to the game, as us dads can’t realistically subtract 19 from 56 in less than 4 seconds.
Nicely done. How much did dad/mom help?
The major drawback for PC gaming at 4k that I never see mentioned is how much heat the panels generate. Many of them generate so much heat that rely on active cooling! I bought a pair of high refresh 4k displays and combined with the PC, they raised my room to an uncomfortable temperature. I returned them for other reasons (hard to justify not returning them when I got laid off a week after purchasing them), but I've since made note of the wattage when scouting monitors.
I think covenant made more sense story wise than Prometheus. Romulus basically doesn’t have a story.
I don't understand the logic of calling superhero movies lesser/unserious like this, it's very snobby. Movies and music are made to be entertaining, the avengers is more entertaining than your "arthouse cinematic masterpiece that nobody likes but it's just because they aren't smart enough to understand it". It's also lazy and ignorant to ignore the sheer manpower that goes into making a movie like that.
The problem is, if their software had cost what it needed to from the start then that would've put it in a totally different competition with other companies. Bypassing that competition doesn't mean they can suddenly start complaining about how many customers they have vs how much they get.
The person on the other end of the phone has near complete discretion and the process is still not auditable or verifiable to you. They could make whatever they want up and you wouldn't know.

You probably got lucky and called in a month when budgets weren't tight and they weren't trying hard to squeeze out every penny so they just waved it instead of giving you the runaround.
Thanks for asking. I would guess you're asking as someone that spent years learning math notations and being taught BODMAS operator precedence. The funny thing is that if you took a 3 year old child and taught them right to left it's actually more natural than multiplication before addition. Array languages often take a fresh first principles approach rather than regurgitating common learnings. This does mean programmers from other languages can find it more confusing than total beginners.
the one who solves this problem will flood the world with a neverending wave of light..

every day I wonder how come I do so few now that I'm paid compared to when I was jobless and hacking prototypes for $0

finding the recipe for creating goal driven, high speed, high quality, frictionless teams is a difficult quest
But why not make the world simpler? Eg. let's simplify those writing systems that are causing issues. Not everything needs to be encoded as text strings.
Good thing you mention UTC, because guess what, time zones are a simplification, real local time is on a continuous spectrum.
I genuinely wonder why no one is doing this? Why can't I buy this specialized AI inference silicon with plenty of VRAM?
> Sentiment analysis has been used as a tool ... since the late 90s

Yes!

> LLMs didn't really break any new ground here

I don't think this is true. LLMs are a gigantic leap forward from any traditional sentiment analysis I've seen. Pre-2013, bag-of-words and TF-IDF were still state of the art. Call me out if you think I'm wrong, but hand-waving away the transformative power of LLMs here because we had some sentiment analysis approaches before seems unfair.
Why can you not install ChromeOS Flex directly on your hardware?
I'm not a huge Trekkie but I recall the reason Bones McCoy wouldn't go in a transporter was he believed it killed the person and created a copy.
I interviewed with them once. The worst ever interview with incapable rude interviewers, who didn't even know the answer to their questions. They came p with some bizarre offer which I'm glad I declined.
Oh no... my POWER gaming rig... no..
If having to undergo a few months of chemotherapy in order for your cancer to go into remission is "too painful to live", then I think someone's threshold for pain is way below that of the average person, to a point where that's kinda sad.

I know several people who have gone through chemo and came out the other side happy and healthy, after recovery. They live full, rich lives. They are much happier living than dead.

Sure, there are some cancers where you end up with declining quality of life for months or years before you eventually die. I wouldn't fault anyone with deciding to opt out of that from the very start. But that's not what we're talking about, exclusively: the person upthread was very absolutist and rejects chemotherapy in it entirety.
Was le cloud a la AWS evaluated?
It's definitely not a red herring. Software is there to do something. Art isn't. If you're spending money on software, it's to do something, and if it's the wrong thing it's a waste of people's money.
Sponsored shortcuts on the Firefox New Tab page
LiveView has been a pleasure to work with, I jumped on the train only recently with a personal project, and once you get the hang of it, it feels like absolute magic.
Once upon a time there were (and still are) mainframes (and SAP is similar in this respect). These insular systems came with their own tools, their own ecosystem, their own terminology, their own certifications, etc. And you could rent compute & co on them.

If you think of clouds as being cross continent mainframes, a lot more things make a more sense.
I wrote my thoughts on the LiveView 1.0 release: https://dockyard.com/blog/2024/12/03/phoenix-liveview-goes-1...
Excellent - keep rocking!
Einstein and Feynman both supposedly struggled with unseating some of Dirac's ideas.
tell it to my intc stock price
Police seize Matrix encrypted chat service after spying on criminals
I think actual stenography, like court transcribers use, wouldn't be a great fit for programming, because it is designed specifically around the use case of spoken English (or whatever), and relies on shorthand for phonemes to achieve speedups. It doesn't really have allowances for punctuation and other things that are specific to programming syntax.

But there's been a steady increase in the popularity of chorded keyboards with a small number of keys, which is kind of like stenography but probably more suitable to writing code. I don't really like them myself (I prefer a 60% keyboard with macros and layer modifiers over memorizing a bunch of chords), but some people swear by them. I assume there are projects to do it in software as well if you don't want a fancy new keyboard. I'd look in that direction if you want to check this out.
I'm guessing they just copy pasted from the official docs page.
I believe EU allows directionally controllable projector headlights (my description, I don't know the official name). These can be brighter because they can be directed away from oncoming traffic. The US, in contrast, is lagging in approving this technology and puts an absolute limit on the brightness.
This just creates a cottage industry of people who are good at writing OSS grant applications and demonstrating "progress". It also keeps incumbents in place. Central funding is the worst idea unless there really is no alternative.
We are running them at https://syself.com for six months now, after adding support for it on our platform. So far so good.
Even with his presidency ending, this is insane. In most developed, capitalist countries in the west, anything close to a coup is career suicide, even more so when this comes from the top without the support from media and general population.

You don't become the leader of a developed, stable, democratic nation by pulling crazy stunts like that.

Is there any other factor to influence or any big group that would benefit from such extreme measures?
I've been there, and it's definitely worth it -- if anyone is in the Seattle area, go check it out asap!
You could take a look at https://syself.com - 100% support for bare metal (I'm an employee).
That's fine, but please don't stand in the way of those of us who would love to experience the world on a longer time frame, and are frustrated that the current level of medical knowledge doesn't allow it.
Can it run Llamatron?
Maybe, maybe not. [citation needed] But store.apple.com is perfectly legit, so what’s wrong with apple.shop[0]? Sure, you and I know that one is a subdomain and one is a TLD. How many random folks on the street in Des Moines know this? 15%? Less? “Say what? It matters which end the ‘shop’ part is on? Whose brilliant idea was that?”

[0] sigh Apparently nothing is wrong with it, as it redirects to apple.com. So much for that example; take in the spirit intended.
I had to look pretty hard to find the Musk bashing - there's a (face redacted) photo of Musk carrying his sink around on the slide about narcissistic personality disorder.
Tesla Cybertruck workers begin 3-day furlough, signaling demand slowdown
A high voltage DC line is being built to Singapore now from a solar generator in Northern Australia, so it's definitely doable to send over that distance (around 3,000mi).

I would like to see more storage though in its various forms; the oversupply is during peak daytime hours, however there's still large draw at night that could be offset.
The stab at Musk seems out of place. You might not like him, or his politics, but he took over and reformed a slow and bloated place, and despite all the doomsayers Twitter is still working and IMO better than before. And he has a solid track record of delivering: finance app, electric cars, rockets. Sure he over-promises and under-delivers, sometimes borderline lies, etc. but there is a huge amount of wisdom behind what he's doing, and you're doing yourself a huge disservice by just dismissing one of the most successful technical entrepreneur of our times.
It's a significant difference. I doubt any manufacturer would want to limit their European vehicles to the American maximum:

> European lighting standards (UNECE) allow over two times the light output from high beam headlight systems as compared to the U.S. (Broertjes, 2018). U.S. compliant systems allow a vehicle maximum of 150,000 candela while European compliant systems allow a vehicle maximum of 430,000 candela (Official Journal of the European Union, 2018). This provides for gains in sight distance, but also increases the potential for glare to affect oncoming and preceding traffic when high beams are not dimmed.

And

> 3. European specification systems consistently provided more roadway lighting when an oncoming vehicle was approaching, or a preceding vehicle was close.

> a. Based on static target illumination data, the increase in roadway lighting could be as much as 86 percent (comparison of average European specification high beam to U.S. specification low
beam).

https://www.aaa.com/AAA/common/AAR/files/ResearchReportEuroS... (scroll to at least page 19-20 for illuminating illustrations).
It would have been a great game in 1998 when plain javascript was what everyone was using.

But OP has clearly put a lot of effort in and still gotten not-great results because they aren't making use of more modern tooling (game engines etc) to turn each hour of effort into more productivity.
I got hit by this too - a "toll evasion" from a similar looking plate (and E vs an F), but a completely different style of car (Truck vs Hatchback) let alone different make/model.

And I guess as they drive through 3 cameras that all made the same mistake, I received 3 notices of "Toll Evasion" on the same day for incidents that happened within a few hours of each other.

And the third included a notice that said as this was my third violation, they may file a lien against my vehicle and repossess it.

Sure, they immediately dropped them when I challenged them, but I often spend multiple months away from the country, I can certainly see me coming back to a repossessed car if I hadn't challenged it in the allowed time.