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> You can’t practice it beforehand (no, open source does not give you the same experience).

This is ridiculous. Even if you want to ignore the kernel, there are plenty of "large established codebases" in the open source world that are at least 20 years old. Firefox, various *office projects, hell, even my own cross-platform DAW Ardour is now 25 years old and is represented by 1.3M lines of code at this point in time.

You absolutely can practice it on open source. What you can't practice dealing with is the corporate BS that will typically surround such codebases. Which is not to say that the large established codebases in the open source world are BS free, but it's different BS.
Could you give an example of increasing authoritarianism from progressivism?
That sounds like an epic photo, indeed.
Naturally unless it's trivial do it in steps, but committing to doing the whole migration as quickly as prudent or rolling it back completely is key.
I think he is suggesting that this move has favorable PR optics for the incoming administration. Making it appear like a conservative victory may give them some slack or earn them some favors.
Accept that you are evil and just try to do some good every now and then. It's what Christians are told. But somehow everybody seems to be missing the point.
Zig lets you inspect type info (including, eg, function signatures), but it doesn't give you raw access to the AST. There's no way to access the ast of the body of the function. As highlighted by view 0 in my article, I consider this a good thing. Zig code can be read without consideration for which pieces are comptime or not, something that heavy AST manipulation loses.

Though, if you really wanted to do stupid things, you could use @embedFile to load a Zig source file, then use the Zig compiler's tokenizer/ast parser (which are in the standard library) to parse that file into an AST. Don't do that, but you could.
I would say Flux leads the pack in COHERENCY not necessarily in terms of sheer realism. (See the Flux chin).

SDXL + LoRA easily eclipses Flux in realism, but prompting is 100% more difficult for complex scenes.
MS Flight Simulator 2024 can consume...who knows how much.

I know my 10 GB 3080 ran out of VRAM playing it on Ultra, and i was getting as low as 2 fps because I'm bottlenecked by the PCI-Express bus as it has to constantly page the entire working set of textures and models in and out.

I'm getting a 5090 for that, plus I want to play around with 7B parameter LLMs and don't want to quantize below 8 bits if I can help it.
I used Bing on mobile for a while, and I quickly noticed a horrible dark pattern: the mobile website has a little banner that pops up at the top prompting you to download their app, but this banner only loads in after a short delay (maybe half a second) after the rest of the page. In particular, it shows up right where the search bar was (pushing the bar downwards) - meaning that if I aim for the search bar right when the page loads, I often end up hitting the banner ad right as it loads in. I’ve probably loaded their App Store page a dozen times at this point by accident - it’s that annoying.

I swear this is deliberate. There’s not really any good reason for a delay on the “you should get our app” banner that I can see, and even less of a good reason to have it load at the exact position of the search bar. Some engineer in Redmond is probably feeling really good about tricking people this way…
Hard disagree here. Instead of one type of error handling, there are two: panics and err. Panics could effectively be replaced with os.Exit() if you really wanted to exit.

If anyone says Go is Great without addressing this issue, they've drunk the koolaid.
A practical application of storing data in space that could just easily be beamed to earth to be stored?
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I've thought about this, and I'm almost certain I've seen some basic tools to do similar. Call it "semantic chaffing". Maybe one example could be for every search query you make three random queries are generated. Random results are followed through their tracking links. Now it's much less clear to a dumb algorithm what your interests might be. Maybe a human or well-trained LLM could pick up the thread, but now it takes considerably more resources. It's a form of asymmetric warfare.
What's stopping you from maintaining multiple identities?
Please provide one example of your assertion.
Android can run a full-blown Linux desktop distro in a chroot[0] - so yes, you absolutely can run LibreOffice on stock Android if the mood strikes you. I haven't tried it wine[1], but I don't see why one wouldn't be able to run x86 Wine on x64 Android hardware - it's not an emulator, like it says in the recursive acronym.

0. https://www.reddit.com/r/termux/comments/1e6ahlg/how_do_i_in...

1. Because I don't own x86-64 Android hardware, and it's usually pretty awful (Dell Revue).
I'm confused on where the quote on cigarettes comes from? Isn't in my post, is it?

And you didn't address that they did find modest gains to the goals in the Seattle study. I fully agree that, on the merits, this is easy to circumvent. I further agree that this sort of tax is almost certainly regressive. Largely for the reason you give of how easy it can be to get around. The study shows that, despite that, it still saw gains to the goals.

My gut would be some of the gains will have come from advertising around the ideas. Having a tax is one thing. But prices typically go up with people being none the wiser. So, the messaging that went with the taxes could have also given a pause.

That is beside the point, though, being that I don't know why it could have had modest results. Study shows that it did.
Came during the pandemic like every other country and still doesn’t compare to past debt level when compared to GDP which is how you compare debt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_public_debt#/media/Fi...
Yes, it usually can't be done with one massive checkin. First get buy-in that the old pattern will be changed to the new pattern (hopefully you won't have some senior developer who likes it the old way and fights you), then as you say, come up with a plan to get it done.

The down side to this that I've experienced more than once, though, is incomplete conversions: we thought we had agreement that the change should be done, it turns out to be more difficult than planned, it gets partially completed and then management has a new fire for us to fight, resources are taken away, so you still have two or more ways of doing things.
I once worked on a large project in the past where it took 3 days to rename a field in an HTTP response because of how many services and tests were affected. Just getting that through QA was a huge challenge.

Working in a large dev team, focusing on a small feature and having a separate product manager and QA team makes it easier to handle the scale though. Development is very slow but predictable. In my case, the company had low expectations and management knew it would take several months to implement a simple form inside a modal with a couple of tabs and a submit button. They hired contractors (myself included), paying top dollar to do this; for them, the ability to move at a snail's pace was worth it if it provided a strong guarantee that the project would eventually get done. I guess companies above a certain size have a certain expectation of project failure or cancellation so they're not too fussed about timelines or costs.

It's shocking coming from a startup environment where the failure tolerance is 0 and there is huge pressure to deliver on time.
> Community notes are just opinions of random people on internet. Like Wikipedia.

IDK if you intended to compare this to the world's #1 comprehensive and trustworthy repository of information.

But if you did, mission accomplished.
A day in the life of a prolific voice phishing crew
The deep irony is that some of the original contributors to Birdwatch were working on this stuff at Facebook before being blocked for various reasons and leaving to work at Twitter.

To steelman this a bit, early versions of Birdwatch had problems with unsourced notes and speed of note display. There’s a bunch of research that shows that 1st impressions of info tend to dominate, so speed matters a lot.

In practice FB’s program was poorly resourced and overly complex so I’m not sure it ever achieved its theoretically lower latency.
There's an insistence that materials can overcome lacking texturing and normal mapping. It's not true, but it's a result of a lot of marketing fluff from things like Unreal Engine being misunderstood or misrepresented. Did you know that in Super Mario Sunshine, for "sharp" shadows the Gamecube was unable to render, that they actually used flattened meshes instead? In Delfino Plaza the shadows under the canopies near the Shine Gate are actually meshes instead of textures. Meanwhile the tile plaza that the mesh shadows lie on looks so nice because it's not one giant texture, it's actually several dozen 128x128px textures all properly UV mapped. In a modern game you'd get two brick textures and a noise pattern to blend them, and they'd all be 2048x2048px with the shadows being raytraced so they have sharper edges.

Ironically as we've gotten hardware with more VRAM and higher bus speeds we've decided to go with bigger textures instead of more of them. The same with normal mapping, instead of using normal mapping alongside more subdivided models we've just decided that normal maps are obsolete and physically modelling all the details is technologically forward way. Less pointy spheres is one thing, but physically modelling all the cracks and scrapes on the sphere is just stupid and computationally wasteful.
It’s not conflating. They also announced that a lot of content that was moderated won’t be any more. For example labeling someone trans as having mental health issues was forbidden and it won’t be anymore. So they are reducing moderation too.
Neither email not SMTP are legal entities.

Wikipedia (or more precisely, the Wikimedia Foundation that owns it) is.
It parses "Jake's Resume" well

https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/jakes-resume/syzfjb...
> it seems like a miracle to me

Conception, yes. Hell, many animal childbirths (and egg emergences), also yes.

Human childbirth? Obviously subject to personal taste, but I'm not seeing it. To approach its messiness we must look to some of the most inbred animals we've engineered, e.g. French bulldogs [1].

[1] https://www.frenchbulldogbreed.net/blog/can-french-bulldogs-...
Especially the Trump White House… they repeatedly exaggerated the available evidence to insinuate a lab leak… it would’ve been a huge political boon if they had any actual proof of malfeasance.
Meta appears to have given up this fight to make the internet a better place by abdicating innovating in conversation moderation.

Sad that Meta is resorting to shifting the onus, and cost onto the user for maintaining Meta's FB content value.

Sad that the smart, creative pals who work there haven't been tasked / brought helpful ideas to fruition on this issue.

Meaningfully, thumbs down.
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I cited a major academic work to back up my position and gave a real world example to demonstrate the concept. What about Khun is crazy? You should attempt to engage in the topic and avoid ad hominem attacks. Or are you of the opinion that “we don’t believe in facts”?
It seems like “prevent account sharing” and magic links are somewhat at odds by design.
There are few things that aren’t political regardless how you feel about them
"Consistency for consistency's sake" is usually a misinterpretation of "Consistency because there are reasons for the way things are already done and you don't understand those reasons well enough to diverge". If you understand the current system completely, then you can understand when to diverge from the system (though this is usually better expressed as "when to improve the system" rather than doing something completely new). If you don't understand the current system, then you can't possibly ensure that you haven't missed something in your shiny new way of doing things.
Last Saturday, myself and two other firefighters managed to find a woman lost in a maze of 40+ miles of trails. Her hip had dislocated, she could not move. The temperatures were in the upper 20s (F) (-3C or so) with serious windchill amidst 35mph/56kph wind gusts. It was extremely dark. We stayed with her and tried to keep her as warm as possible until a UTV arrived to extricate her. I was home by 01:00, after 4hrs outside under the stars.

In the end we didn't really do much at all, but it felt like one of the most meaningful nights of my entire life.
It’s okay to leave X.
Yes, but we call them pop, not soda :-)

Or at least used to. 51st-ifying is underway.
It’s banal because nobody is going to share the truth for fear of retaliation unless they’ve never done this before
I'd noted that in my initial comment.

The counterargument is that whilst the escapement of a spring-driven or pendulum clock is in a sense digital (as, for that matter, was a Jaquard loom's card-based governor), the driving mechanism (gravity weights, spring) isn't. But then, quartz-crystal clocks utilise a battery....

Again: ideas are interfaces, ways we get a grasp and shared understanding of reality, and are models of that reality. To that extent, all definitions are both arbitrary and flexible, but ultimately are governed by their utility.

Again: quartz crystal movements involve a manifestly digital accumulator which drives a display (character-based or analogue hands) based on accumulated ticks. The ticks are digital, a sequence of accumulated 1s and 0s, and are interpreted by logic rather than mechanism.

(Yes, logic itself can be mechanically implemented, but it remains a mechanical implementation of logic rather than a purely mechanical process.)

Escapement mechanisms lack such an accumulator, but rather utilise gears and cogs to match the movement's oscillation to the desired movement of hands on the display. That entire process is analogous of time, and hence, and analogue movement.
Imagine how sad you'd be if you were still poor.
I was just talking about the "preparedness paradox" that the parent was referring to. Whatever reason you attribute it to, heightened security or more vigilant passengers, the fact that it hasn't happened means we can't prove that it wouldn't happen in the absence of either of those things. Both arguments are counterfactual, so people begin to take it for granted that "no further work was required to prevent fill in the blank from happening."
Lots of job postings are fake
Then you've got 'YouTube-speak', where video creators swap in alternatives to words suspected of making the algorithm downrank/demonetize videos. 'Unalived' being a particularly common one, to avoid mentions of killing or suicide.
This is where most effective altruism people go wrong. All the money in the world won’t fix anything if no one acts on the problem.
All this is good. But honestly long term thinking needs some kind of decoupling of housing being an investment and bigger taxes on second, third or other houses without having loopholes via company structure etc.
If you're familiar with Marx's work beyond capitalism-bad-communism-good, I think they're fairly obvious, but I'll bite since most of the other comments so far are fairly brief quips. Marx predicted that communism would rise from the internal collapse (or revolution, but the two are interchangeable in his context) of late capitalist societies, however this has not happened. Neither China nor Russia were really capitalist societies in any reasonable sense when they turned to communism, if anything, you could call them agrarian.

Similarly, Marx claimed that as capitalist societies develop, workers would face increasing poverty, declining living conditions, etc. While the income gap between the top and low end is ever increasing, in the grand scheme of things, living standards for workers have improved considerably across the board in pretty much every category. Marx also argued that capital accumulation would lead to a decrease in profit margins, which would eventually result in an economic collapse, again ending capitalism. While we've seen numerous economic downturns, practically all affected economies have eventually recovered.

And so forth, there's many other examples we can take turns picking apart, but I doubt there's much value to it — most people arguing over Marx don't actually know much about Marx.
It definitely does not.

Have your logging-in session wait for / poll "has visited magic link", and authenticate that session when it's done.

Tons of systems do this. It works great, and it can quite easily work without any web browser at all on the logging-in side because it just needs to curl something -> poll for completion and save the cookies -> curl against the API. A number of oauth flows for e.g. TVs work this way, for instance, because it's a heck of a lot easier than integrating a full browser in the [embedded thing]. Many app-based 2FA (e.g. Duo) works this way too.
Congrats on the launch and cool idea!

Some questions

- I noticed you limit to three free images, but incognito browsers effectively give you unlimited free images. Do you have a plan to prevent abuse, e.g. via fingerprinting? Did you notice people trying to abuse this? I'm more curious because I have a similar idea in a different space and noticed people running up my diffusion model meter.

- Not sure how long you've had this live, but do the paid accounts at least cover the cost of your infra/inferences?

- Why flux specifically? Was it an optimization on cost? latency? quality? ease? I see you're on GCP, why not keep it inside GCP all the way and use Gemini?
I use it at work with asp.net MVC, no issues either. I did have to use Webpacker though...
This was a thing in the 2010s when “cancel culture” and other SJW shenanigans were prevalent.

As far as I can tell the culture war is over since end of the pandemic - now the class war has begun, it’s going to be interesting
If only they had lawyers to defend their free speech rights
Yes - the number of languages will grow, however, their adoption will be much slower and harder to enact than now (and it's already incredibly difficult).

You might have written the DSLs, but the LLMs are unaware of this and will offer hallucinations when asked to generate code using that DSL.

For the past few weeks I've been slowly getting back to Common Lisp. Even though there's plenty of CL code on the net, its volume is dwarfed by Python or JS. In effect, both Github Copilot and ChatGPT (4o) have an accuracy of 5%. I'm not kidding: they're unable to generate even very simple snippets correctly, hallucinating packages and functions.

It's of course (I think?) possible to make a GPT specialized for Lisp, but if the generic model performs poorly, it'll probably make people wary and stay away from the language. So, unless you're ready to fine-tune a model for your language and somehow distribute it to your users, you'll see adoption rates dropping (from already minuscule ones!)
I had a nexus 7 as a kid, much before I had a personal laptop or even a phone. Used to utilize almost all of these features that most people seem to consider pointless. Had one of the little OTG cables so I could plug in flash storage and keyboards. I remember unzipping APKs, finding assets and trying to change them and rezipping. Only to find out they wouldn't install. Presumably failing a signature check.

Was super cool reading the OP article and finally learning how the thing actually worked with the 5th pin.
He's flooding the zone and media is once again failing us.
The video is wild - Waymo support apparently struggles to remotely control the car.
They will just relabel what is political. Union organizing? A bill on internet censorship? Anything mildly inconvenient to Meta or its shareholders? That's politics, you said you don't want to see any politics, didn't you? The culture war? Well, that's just pop culture, so that gets a pass.
If my Brother laser printer starts while I have the ceiling fan going on the same circuit, the breaker will trip. That's the only thing in my house that will do it. It must be a huge momentary current draw.
I feel this is not needed if you tie-break nodes in Open to favour lower h-values. This leads to a node selection bias for deeper paths, which are more likely closer to the goal.

If you look at runs, this tie breaking makes A* behave like a greedy algorithm in the absence of obstacles and simply follow a straight path if there's one, and act sort of cleverly when there's a small detour.
I think the way to deal with this is to just opt-out: don't use Facebook, Threads, X, etc. I gave up on Facebook years ago.
Those are not moral systems, they're sentences with undefined meaning. "Good" and "bad" need to be defined, they can't exist independently, like some intrinsic property of the universe (say, like the fine-structure constant). One could say that's the essential purpose of any moral system: to define what "good" and "bad" mean.
That's not how biology works.

In biology, instead of "necessary but not sufficient", we have "sufficient but not necessary".
I disagree with gravity though. It makes life a lot easier when you can fly.
It's worthwhile to link earlier related discussions, and both the original article (now linkrotted) and a direct discussion of it satisfy that relation to me.
So the guy is in the car and he's concerned about catching his flight but when the operator asks him to do something in the waymo app he doesn't want to do it. Could it be that he'd rather keep filming for internet notoriety than stop filming and actually solve his problem?
I realise how good I did myself by abandoning most social media a decade back. I just do not feel a median brain can handle so much information, be expected to have informed takes on every topic under the Sun etc.

Ultimately the arbiters of legal/illegal and good/bad will change and continue to evolve with time but worrying about every instance or post beyond my control will not help me in any way nor the cause under concern.
Putting aside the absurdist notion of “AGI” to start with, we live in a world of finite resources and we’ve used up our carbon budget and are burning down the planet to run LLM right now.

The new “reasoning” models get very marginal improvements in output for huge increase in token count and energy use.

None of this is sustainable, and eventually, and soon, crops will start to fail en masse due to climate disasters.

Then the real fun starts.

Right now “AI” is more harmful than helpful on a species level balance sheet. These are real problems, today.
My approach is what I call defensive programming, with a different meaning than the usual usage of the term. I assume that my coworkers are idiots that aren't going to read my documentation, so I make all public classes and methods etc. as idiot-proof as possible to use. Hasn't saved me from every issue caused by my teammates never reading my docs or asking me questions, but it's definitely prevented several.