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>What is the process like on Google Chrome to change the default search engine?

Straightforward. The user would go to settings, enter "engine" in the search box, look around till he sees, "The search engine you choose will be used for features like searching from the address bar and from images on web pages." The choices are Google, Yandex, Bing, Duck Duck Go and Yahoo.
Yeah, but free Prime next-day delivery?
I don't personally have a strong opinion about relicenses to try to prevent competitors from selling cloud-bases services (either in the case of Redis or in general; if anything, having worked at MongoDB at the time when it was relicensed to SSPL biases me a little bit in favor of companies who do relicenses like this). My perception is that there's a non-trivial contingent of users who migrate whenever something like this occurs, but you're not wrong that this might be influenced by a smaller number of louder voices.

I do agree with you about open source developers being within their rights to maintain as they see fit. My personal philosophy is that while open source maintainers have no obligation to maintain in a way that conforms to user expectations, users still have the right to voice their opinions on that (although the maintainers are free to ignore it, per the previous point). To me, the distinction that matters isn't about whether users are "entitled" or not but whether they're voicing opinions about an open source project (including decisions about how to maintain it) versus personal insults at individuals. I don't see anything wrong with someone being vocally upset about a license change; I just also don't see anything wrong with a maintainer choosing not to care about it.
That's not necessarily a good thing because they are overloaded while novel jargon is specific.

We use new words so often that we take it for granted. You've passively picked up dozens of new words over the last 5 or 10 years without questioning them.
I'd assume Character AI's defense is more along the lines of "A user created that character, you can't expect us to review all those submissions!"
> You are additionally going to be saving a lot of workers from getting chronic back pains.

That'll probably be a big comfort to those who lose their jobs
Google seems salty they can't acquire their way out of this mess this time
Don't underestimate the determination of hams to find people that aren't playing by the rules on the spectrum.
I don't know whether there's a common practice that's followed up and down all the org charts of all the employers.

I didn't disbelieve the article's story. It might've just, for example, been someone's pet project, with only budget to hire some co-op students and an inexperienced new-grad coder, to make a demo, to pitch for a real project/contract. Or to proof-of-concept a method, to possibly be properly designed and implemented by a real engineering team. Maybe they didn't think they needed experienced serious engineers with clearance for this compartmentalized exercise.

Another, maybe less-likely, possibility was something involving a cleanroom implementation as demonstration it was "obvious to first-year students". Or to find a plausibly alternate cleanroom implementation, by people who hadn't been tainted by knowledge of the encumbered one. Guessing not, but I did see something like this done at least once. I'd bumped into this affable young high school student, who was idling around in common areas of my lab, and was outgoing enough to strike up a conversation with random passerby me, and start telling me he was working on a project. It turned out a professor had tasked him to reinvent this one algorithm that was some alum grad student's thesis, which had been patented, and which the alum had been milking rather hard... and the professor didn't tell the high school student about the prior work.

I also once had a current PhD student hired as an intern, to apply very niche expertise towards a speculative new feature ("wouldn't it be great if we could do this cutting-edge thing in the new system"), and they were mostly successful, but the product ended up going a different direction. (The PhD student did OK: they then had understanding of a great, tricky real-world domain example, to guide research. A lot of research uses over-simplified examples of applications that they never had the opportunity to really understand.)

I did have a twinge while reading the article, wondering why it seemed like they were about to go into methods used by what sounded to my naive ear like a tracking/targeting component of a military system, but I would guess that they didn't spill any secret sauce beans.
Small models don't "know" as much so they hallucinate more. They are better suited for generations that are based in a ground truth, like in a RAG setup.

A better comparison might be Flash 2.0 vs 4o-mini. Even then, the models aren't meant to have vast world knowledge, so benchmarking them on that isn't a great indicator of how they would be used in real-world cases.
As I recall, China is launching this into orbits that don’t naturally decay fast enough (unlike starlink) and this could create a major space debris problem in the future. Anyone know more?
I think tradition is certainly part of it, but I think that take misses some important nuances. A few:

- agriculture isn't necessarily fungible. Land that is used for one product isn't immediately capable of being used for another, or at the same value (monetarily or calorically)

- A large part of corn production is used for feedstock. That means there would be systemic issues in the production of meat if it had major disruptions. That's another reason why you can't just swap corn for meat production.

- subsidies sometimes trade efficiency for stability. This isn't always a bad thing. A volatile market can make farmers lose their hat. A significant amount of farmers are generational, meaning there aren't a lot of people starting out unless they grew up farming.

- corn isn't just about food. Part of the national security element is fuel (ethanol). Again, recognizing the inefficiencies, this is more about stability. Other agricultural products can be used for fuel (e.g., soybeans for diesel) but the distribution of fuel needs and agricultural capacity is not in their favor.

- I'd put this in the "tradition" bucket but there are political concerns. Politicians have to place nice with places like Iowa because of how political primaries are structured.
Most corn is actually farmed for meat production (beef, pork, and poultry) not human consumption. I doubt the farmer cares if their corn goes to a human or a cow, so long as they get the best price, and uncle sam fills in the rest.
> In theory we could sue for our money, but the imbalance of power between an enormous multinational company and our small agency makes that utterly nonviable.

Have you even talked to a lawyer? You had clear contract terms, you delivered, they are in breach. That's the easiest case a lawyer has ever seen.

The real question is if it's worth suing, giving the lawyers a cut and pissing off the client, vs hoping they pay eventually.

There are statutes of limitations though, check those out. If you wait too long you might be totally out of luck.
https://archive.ph/20241211190641/https://www.bloomberg.com/...
A good place to start would be addressing overeating as a symptom not the cause.
> Nvidia’s moat doesn’t seem that big.

Well, look at it this way. Nvidia played their cards so well that their competitors had to invent entirely new product categories to supplant their demand for Nvidia hardware. This new hardware isn't even reprising the role of CUDA, just the subset of tensor operations that are used for training and AI inference. If demand for training and inference wanes, these hardware investments will be almost entirely wasted.

Nvidia's core competencies - scaling hardware up and down, providing good software interfaces and selling direct to consumer are not really assailed at all. The big lesson Nvidia is giving to the industry is that you should invest in complex GPU architectures and write the software to support it. Currently the industry is trying it's hardest to reject that philosophy, and only time will tell if they're correct.
Is there any phone in the world that can realistically run pro weights?
He lead a mob of his audience to threaten families that just had a child in their family murdered based on lies. There's no price on how horrible that is. Argue all you want, it went through a long process to get to that number so good luck with that.
It would be wonderful if we could increase Bluetooth bandwidth by switching to this new spectrum.
MM was an WPE investor. He sold his stake in WPE a few years back, but I wonder if there was some bad blood in the board room that is the root cause of this public battle.
The bigger and more important your company is, the less you should rely on a tool like this. You have more budget to invest in operations and less tolerance for being down for 3 days when a tool like this has a bug that takes your site down. You should hire DBA's and operations staff that understand how to apply db migrations in a safe way, and have them review them before and/or apply them during deployments. It's not hard to do manually, just a little bit of extra work (not that much extra). With a little bit of feedback engineers will learn the basics of how to write migrations that are safe and then the use case for this product is dramatically reduced anyway.

You keep things simple because you need to be able to understand what is going on to work with it later. pgroll is inherently complex and poorly designed, but even if it wasn't it is still bad to use something that you can't reasonably correct the problems it causes when it breaks.
I don’t believe you are engaging in a good faith discussion. Your previous comment is worthy of further contemplation but not this one. A computer can not emulate a person’s brain. At least not now and there isn’t sufficient evidence to believe that is even theoretically or practically possible to do in the future.

Your response here implicitly admits there’s difference in human thinking and computer “thinking”. A chess program that just searches a vast number of possibilities and chooses the best one is not thinking like a human. It’s not even close.

* > How will a computer prove such a thing?
I have no idea*

If you knew about these things you’d know that it isn’t possible to have an algorithm that halts in a finite number of steps that determines whether or not a given statement is an axiom in 2nd order PA. A computer is incapable of reasoning about such things.
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Operational changes for airlines are quite tricky - one of our bets is that most of the value for customers here is in handling "brownfield" deployments where you drop into an existing process, and that intelligence (or at least, good perception and reactive planning) really unlocks this ability from the robotics side.

For widebody planes, bags are already loaded into Unit Load Devices (ULDs), which are large semi-truncated boxes that get loaded directly onto aircraft. Narrow body planes don't use these (apparently) because they impact turn-time and decrease the amount of time a plane can be in the air, and also impacts how quickly bags come out, since it adds an extra step to unloading.

Many airport conveyance systems also load each bag into a bin, but those bins aren't loaded into the airplane because they belong to the airport and waste space/weight.

The best case for us would be a customer process change where everyone loads their luggage into perfectly regular and very sturdy hardshells, but this one's probably out of our hands.
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Of all of those hypothetical "if you could go back in time" situations, I'd want to go back and rat that guy out for selling kids that crystal.

Just the other day in another thread there was the conversation about mischievous people doing things, and that pretty much sounds like what that guy was doing. He got the best of both worlds knowing he was going to cause some chaos but none of the repercussions of it.
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I see a few instance of people defending his actions as "free speech."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42384921#42387916

"View it for what it is: a deliberate attack on free speech. This is essentially legislating from the bench. They can't ban him from speaking but they can make it very VERY expensive to do so, and warn anyone else at the same time."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42384921#42385358

"Maybe the “victims” should go after the actual shooter for a billion dollars then.

Instead we have people crying that free speech is the actual evil crime here."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42384921#42389350
I love duck typing. It's amazing. REXX is more weakly typed, of the "stringly typed" variety.
>the rest of the record of the case

Is that not available somewhere? You'd think it would be presented in detail, since this is the key reason for the default judgement.
Mine is simple but relies on a few cheap tricks (like generating uuids in the frontend and manually linking relationships in an order where replaying on the db is going to work). Happy to walk you through it if you want to message me.
Not an insurmountable problem for sure. If Level 4 self driving requires more compute in the car, someone has to physically put more compute in the car, which may require redesigning something to do retrofits, etc. A "FSD" car today may not actually have Full Level 4 Self Driving when Tesla finally rolls it out.

Thus it's a hardware problem.
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I've been in this situation, a little bit of a legal threat does wonders

This is likely incompetence, not malice
> those shill bids are also betting on being able to perfectly find the point where they are juuuust below your max bid without knowing the actual max bids on the item at any given moment

Yes. That or you use one shill to uncloak the max and then another to bid just below it. Worst case, as you said, you're only out your listing fee.

> shill bidding aligns with the goal of auctions to find the maximum price for an item

Which is why for high-value items in a system subject to shill bids, bona fide bidders don't put their actual maximum price into an unsealed (or semi-sealed) system. Which lowers the auction price.

Klemperer wrote an approachable intro to auction theory.
The alleged/misunderstood "fragility" can be exploited though. A lot of residential walls are gypsum board, which contains a lot of water, and attenuates microwave signals.

Rather than fight this by trying to shout as loud as you can from a single AP across the house, you can put smaller, weaker APs in multiple rooms. Because of the excellent open air penetration and high frequency, you can get a multi-gig links with no interference or competition.
Just another day in Paradise lol
again, until someone notices and complains.

i don't know why we're being argumentative here
you're mixing up 2 different results

a) error-correction needs small level of errors to begin with to amplify signal - we finally got to that point, and larger correction setup deals with more errors

b) "standard" benchmark problem now 100% computes something uncomputable with classic chips (in practice) - the problem is that it's so quantum, neither it is verifiable with classic chips anymore
This brief note tells of an x-mas party organised by the "All-In" podcast at Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco on December 7. A correspondent from Economist was there and "was made to feel most unwelcome".

But before she was kicked out,^1 she witnessed "a riotous celebration of how a clique of billionaires, the so-called PayPal Mafia, helped cinch Donald Trump's election vicory and has taken Washington by storm".

The title of the article is taken from a comment by a party attendee, Aaron Levie, founder of Box: "The PayPal Mafia's takeover of the government is now complete, so good work on that."

1. When she "sought a word with Jason Calacanis, a co-host dressed as a jovial Santa Claus on stage, he flew into a rage, shouting "Don't talk to journalists!". A few minutes later she was kicked out.
Rexx was the favorite language of my high school programming teacher. I recall being surprised by the syntax being so similar to English text.

I'd credit the language for sending me down the rabbit holes of programming language design, self-documenting code, and literate programming. :)
If the problem is that all the parsers implement a different interpretation of the spec such that you get the kinds of incompatibilities the article lists, that all means that the spec is faulty.
It's fun but as I tested it I realized how this is pretty much the modern equivalent of a Facebook quiz that asks you the name of your first pet, first car and mother's maiden name.

If they recorded any of that they likely have enough to clone my voice somewhat faithfully.

Congratulations on labelling my French Canadian accent as French though, I'll have to work on my pronounciation more to fool the AI.
Yes, ARexx was also something different that is more akin to scripting AND having Microsoft COMs for interoperability. Really revolutionary at that time for automation and process interactions.
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IQ is an interesting one. There are indeed plenty of issues in actually measuring it and deciding what we're even measuring to begin with, but at the same time, I've heard some people try to say it doesn't even exist at all.

Which seems odd, because I've yet to see anyone who doesn't believe that stupidity exists and it's the other side of the same coin.
6THz isn't very fragile at gigawatt levels in a tight beam path. Travels right through most objects (eventually)
FWIW, anecdotal data is also considered a valid diagnostic tool too, and we know how unreliable such information can be.

Also, by populations, do you mean groups of particular types of people or just groups of people in general? If anything, I thought IQ really only had anything close to merit at large population levels. Much of what I have read clearly fails at an individual level.

However, if you are talking about IQ's application in regards to populations like one race vs. another, then yes, I think the pushback is well deserved.
That's too simple a comparison, against something that's a little more complicated. A 720p stream without adequate bandwidth can have terrible artifacts, mostly showing up during fast motion/panning/action. They can look objectively worse than DVDs.
Well the microwave oven is an example of non-ionising frequencies having harmful impacts on human biological function.
I don't know about you but I'm paid to sit in a chair for 12 hours a day.
Typically payments in the foreign currency are pegged to exchange rates, in which case you’re still paying the same amount of “value” whether in pesos or dollars.

Regardless you’d be subject to Section 988 and could potentially owe capital gains (or ordinary income) tax if you had a large enough gain from buying, holding and then exchanging the foreign currency.

The US code treats all non-USD currency as property, so you can (mostly) think of it as any other transaction with an exchange between assets. There are some nuances and exceptions of course.
> "As a result of increased production and economies of scale, we’re excited to announce we are able to lower the price to just $399 for the 16GB version and $499 for the 32GB version"

? Also, both now listed as No Stock Available
This is one of the things I enjoy the most these days, but I also had quite a lot of fun with it back in the day... I just looks for designs online and then I reproduce as much as I can using other tooling... I enjoy doing this for anything print, like magazines and corporate image documents too...
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Mosh was suggested in another comment, but I’ve found that et (https://eternalterminal.dev/) suits my needs better.

It does nothing to fix lag, but connection failures are handled without a hitch, same session resumes like normal on spotty train wifi and mobile data.
Yeah, this is an example of the kind of misbehavior those controls are meant to prevent.

This kind of thing is routine in the tech world, too: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2010/09/elite_google_enginee...
Surely this is misguided - the synergies and economies of scale a large healthcare conglomerate offer are immense. The cost savings alone have to be gigantic.
> The pre-college US education is not excellent. ... The standards are low.

If so, might still be a lot worse elsewhere. Maybe the US is not good, but less bad?

As an extreme example, think of Haiti for example.
> Even in popsci/social media I've seen more and more awareness that it's "bunk" science.

Devil's Advocate: Then why is it so heavily used still? (Then again, I guess back to my initial point -- the same could be said for BMI.)
But Windows Phone was actually good, like Xune, it was just late, and it was incredibly popular to hate Microsoft at the time.

Additionally, Microsoft didn't really have any advantage in the smart phone space.

Google is already a product the majority of people on the planet use regularly to answer questions.

That seems like a competitive advantage to me.
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There is this whole issue - which plays into the dispute in multiple ways - that treats Matt, Automattic, WordPress, wordpress.org, wordpress.com, WordPress Foundation, as essentially interchangeable and synonymous. That's part of the problem.

This lawsuit is between two for-profit companies, Automattic and WPE. Automattic has investors and revenue streams. As does WPE. This isn't "Matt is financially responsible for WP development".
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Fell for it. 90% czech, 10% polish. Nothing further from the reality. I guess it just geolocates by IP?
How long until there is a Section 230 for AIs so that these corporate dirtbags can escape accountability for another decade?
poe.com has a decent model where you buy credits and spend them talking to any LLM which makes it nice to swap between them even during the same conversation instead of paying for multiple subscriptions.

Though gpt-4o could say "David Mayer" on poe.com but not on chat.openai.com which makes me wonder if they sometimes cheat and sneak in different models.
> cash completely trumps any notion of "giving up debt."

Not true. The entire point of bankruptcy proceedings is to resolve debt to the creditors.

And in fact, that wasn't the issue that the Judge took here. The judge didn't like the amount, not the creditors bid.

> The other creditors are far better off getting more cash, and those $7 million of claims are worth way less than one cent per dollar.

The other creditors signed off on the deal which is why the Trustee took the bid. Alex Jones would have $3.5 million dollars less debt than if he took the FAUC bid. Which is exactly what the Trustee should prioritize, cutting back on Jone's debt.
And one of the others is one of those "parasites" as Matt describes them, the General Partner of a PE firm.