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I like your argument about implicit index.

But is an article an index to the attached media? Not even "just", but "at all"? Is this the right abstraction? Or do we have a better one, achievable by simply removing the trailing slash?

We discuss this in the context of cruft, user friendliness, and selecting proper forms of expression, which the original article seems to be all about, by the way.
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SHIPYOURENEMIESGLITTER is amazing idea!!! I already hav a list of people who would really "enjoy" such a letter!
By "AI model" do you mean neural nets? "AI" or "ML" are just buzzwords that conveys no real meaning about the underlying mathematics. The underlying models could be something as basic as linear or logistic regression, which depending on the application could actually be more appropriate that full-blown neural nets.
Author here, no clue about homeomorphic (or whatever) encryption, what could certainly be done is some sort of encryption of the model into the inference engine.

So e.g.: Apple CoreML issues a Public Key, the model is encrypted with that Public Key, and somewhere in a trusted computing environment the model is decrypted using a private key, and then inferred.

They should of course use multiple keypairs etc. but in the end this is just another obstacle in your way.
When you own the device, root it or even gain JTAG access to it, you can access and control everything.

And matrix-multiplication is a computationally expensive process, in which I guess they won't add some sort of encryption technique for each and every cycle.
Netflix HD isn't that much. And no; two dishes won't give you 2 Gbps.

You'll need four in Ku Band (that's what's publicly in use)

To get 2 Gbps antennas in Ka, V, E or Q will have to be used.
I like those experiments: I did many experiments over christmas and some I will try to continue working on. It's just fun playing with pl theory and concrete implementations.
> it was technically illegal to skip my disclosures

It was illegal and the reason for that regulation is to prevent exactly what author was doing.
Leaving X is one way. But there is an intersection in the venn diagram between those who find X valuable and those who dislike Elon's content.
This was the idea behind soylent if I’m not mistaken.
Reminds me of this quote from Schopenhauer:

"My curse upon anyone who, in future editions of my works, knowingly changes anything in them, be it a sentence, or even just a word, a syllable, a letter, a punctuation mark."
"VPN" used in context of current day casual Internet conversations refer to paid Web proxy services that typically offer automagic client apps, not VPN technology itself or its traditional use cases.
If you have to fight this much to use a platform...why bother?
2030, browsers are TPMd DRMd and JAILed, one cannot simply access web with Firefox anymore:

so we have jailbroken the Chrome using MIDI protocol to install extension that blocks ads
It pains me but I’m leaning in this direction too. I found the idea of a digital town square with a commitment to maximum truth appealing, but seeing what Twitter has become it’s hard to not feel this was naive of me.

To me the big blow was seeing the response to what’s happening in Gaza and what narratives people and algorithms in combination end up promoting. The thoughtful, balanced, humanistic view gets approximately zero traction, while completely untruthful propaganda (on both sides) has enormous reach.

Maybe it’s an insurmountable problem. Human defense mechanisms in combination with algorithms will always push people to tribalism and cheering for atrocities. I hope not, but seems like it.

I guess you could take the OPs approach of filtering out all the propaganda and keep contributing. But then you are effectively working for a propaganda machine free of charge, helping create value that will draw others in to be subjected to the propaganda.
Disclaimer: I'm not qualified in any particular way for this.

First, some basic tests that neurologists try routinely can be done remotely on a video call. A couple of these can be:

- drawing a clock/watch. On a piece of paper, which they can then show to you on the screen, without, obviously, looking at a real clock. The goal is to have a round clock, with 1 to 12 numbers and the hands pointing the current time. Signs of problems can include difficulty placing the hands or the numbers correctly, or even just not managing to do an approximately round shape. Rarer signs can appear in the order in which things are drawn.

- counting backwards out loud from 30 down to 0 in steps of 3. (30, 27, 24, 21...). You'll have to look for various "obvious" difficulties with getting the correct numbers and more subtle ones like the effort it takes to do it.

But these are very obvious tests and, as RobinHirst11 says, you'll probably get a better evaluation through "normal" conversation. I'd suggest a longer conversation going through various subjects. While at it, try to ask things like the current date and weekday, and a few basic things on their daily lives like what they ate/had for breakfast today or yesterday. Also go through a number of subjects, particularly ones that involve different groups of people (different sides of the family, groups of friends -theirs and yours-, neighbours, etc) and different situations and dates.

Some clear signs may be repetition -asking the same questions- or difficulty keeping track of a story/actors. But more subtle ones can be seen through "going back" or "mixing". Mixing is just that, confusing the people or actions in different stories you've been talking about. "Going back" is just that, going back to previous stories after that part of the conversation has ended -like you may be now talking about your cousin this Christmas and in an unrelated, unexpected way, they ask about something you mentioned before about your car, or whatever-.
You can cherry-pick problems here and there, of course, but the aggregate statistics are pretty clear. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q
I’m not sure I’ve heard it summarized that way before: that good process causes good metrics, but good metrics don’t cause good process.

People are indeed prone to affirming the consequent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirming_the_consequent
You won't get messages from Elon, but you will sure get a lot of messages about Elon since he lives rent free in so many people's mind.
Ok it was not clear if you used Redis directly with some custom code or the integrated stuff.

Anyway I agree that once you go with more than one server it's a whole new world but not sure if it's easier in any other language.
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It should phone the mothership dayly to check legislation changes. You go to work on Monday and when you open the program it shows a nasty messages that explains the change, disable the main button and ask for another $x to enable it again. Users will be angry.

In serious countries, the changes will be anounced in advance, so the author will have to track all of them and may show a warning a few days/weeks before the deadline.

But here in Argentina a few years ago we decided to skip DST one week before the change. I guess the mantainers of all OS still hate us.
The UniFi E7 also has a 10GE port.

Seeing as the majority of Wi-Fi devices will get absolutely nowhere near the theoretical maximum though, even 2.5GE is unlikely to be saturated.
A hull rolls better than a wheel? Has humanity been doing vehicles wrong this entire time?
Extreme is right; I can only imagine the waste of power. It's probably exponentially worse than the waste of gas by postal services for delivering junk mail.

Except I'm not sure there's anything that can be done about it in the US because of first amendment rights.
It’s a shame eBay didn’t help out at all
Slack as a message broker for LLM agents
while working on a few slack apps and llm agents i couldn't help but notice how chat platforms like slack could be to agents what message brokers (kafka, rabbitmq, sqs) are to services.

what do you think?
Perhaps the standard is flawed and needs to be updated.
Anyone that doesn't get hired at the first company they apply for? $20 isn't much if it's a single application, but I suspect most employees need many hundreds of applications to find a company that'll hire them. Even more so with fake jobs, and fake jobs incentivised to be such due to the idea mentioned in this post.

$20 may not be much, but $200 or $2000 might be, especially if the candidate was recently homeless, has been laid off for a while, is from a poorer background in general or has other things to pay for. That great candidate might be a great candidate for your job, but may also be one for many others, and see those as a better deal.
I thought it was a credible source of actual jobs replaced by LLMs. When I see headlines like this, I ad homimem the source as unprofitable company CEO, big consulting firm, bootcamp seller etc.
Hairdressers. Have you ever had a bad haircut due to miscommunication between yourself and your hairdresser? I think software could help with this problem.

We have AI that can now show us pictures of how our hair would look if we had it cut/coloured/styled in a certain way, but getting hair dressers to actually embrace these technologies is a different story. I think they’re just resistent because the current apps that do this stuff are currently gimmicky, but if you could design some sort of software/program that leveraged that AI and collaborated with a Haircare product brand to market it to hairdressers it could be a cool way to start introducing more digital technologies into a very analogue industry.

If salons had some digital enhancements, AI could be used to help clients communicate more effectively to their hairdresser what it is they want and the hair dresser can also communicate back to their client what is realistically achievable. I just think it might be helpful for the consultation process.

apologies if this comment is super left field, I am super high
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At the time of posting, I count 8 matches for "Elon" on this page and 23 comments. All of but one of the mentions has a negative sentiment.
> look at the proprietary innards of a commercial BS.

I was wondering a bit whether that means Base Station or perhaps something else...
Terrible take, wall is not the red herring, wall is the reason of deaths of almost all souls in the plane. "Something bad is going to happen" usually has very different outcome than hitting a concrete wall.

Aviation accident history definitely disagrees with you.
I remember those years pretty well. There was a lot of hand-wringing but not a lot of concrete action, very much unlike the situation with China now.
Um yeah good idea in principle but for me if I don't want to see the bad content it's better to just not look at it. The hate is everywhere, even on positive posts in the comments.

But good idea yes.
At this point I have tried them all and don’t like any of them. What I really want to know is more granular data on where I am spending my money on. These apps will tell me I spent $6000 last year at Costco but it cannot tell me if some that was on spur of the moment items like a new pair of bedsheets that I probably didn’t need or actual groceries.

What I want is an app that can do OCR recognition of the bill or invoice and categorize the individual items and not just the whole invoice into a broad category. Sadly this tech does not exists.
If you have a dynamic website with a dedicated backend, adding link blogs are fairly easy. But I'm too lazy to maintain a backend for my blog. At the same time, I didn't want to pollute my RSS and spam the readers.

So I went with the simplest possible route in my Hugo site.

- Add a dedicated page per year and add the links reverse chronologically

- Group the detail pages in a list view

- Filter out the link posts from the main RSS not to spam the readers

I started this in August last year and it's working splendidly. Wrote a quick note here:

- https://rednafi.com/misc/link_blog/

- https://rednafi.com/feed/2025/

- https://rednafi.com/feed/2024/
Thanks. I just tried it. Im confident my tool is easier to use, offers a better experience and does not overwhelm users.

That is just my opinion though. If you find Zoho good, thats great as well.
Situations like these really annoy me. And the platform's complete disregard is infuriating.
Agreed. I work on a different type of vehicle with safety-critical systems for a living, and I'm naturally also very interested in the interactions between the pilots and the machine (and among themselves) and the spiral of events in the cockpit.

But that doesn't mean debating whether there's a better way to engineer typhoon-resilient localizer antenna arrays isn't also a good use of time. Safety makes it imperative to discuss all of these matters exhaustively.

Re ocean, no, that isn't so great - sea rescue is a lot more difficult to perform than on land.
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What steps are you thinking of? Nothing like what is currently happening with China, I'm sure of that.
And on the other side AI being used to create more of it and to find ways to bypass the filters.
> For example, if you're designing GPUs and/or GPU drivers? If your next-generation product has the aim of providing 25% more frames per second in "Baldur's Gate 3" and "Call of Duty 6" while maintaining the same quality - that would be a good objective for the team, as it's closely aligned with what your customers want.

I can get selection of particular gaming titles, but how do you come up with 25% goal? How is this closely aligned? Your users tell you they want ~30% gains?

This seems to be completely ignoring a constant feedback loop between general aspirations for the product, operated timeframes, and conclusions from ongoing engineering R&D.
GHC 9.12 and Cabal 3.14 releases
It's groq, they have amazing custom built hardware.
The internet was a tough sell. What's a similar technology today?
I ran into a fellow at a party yesterday evening that had played a role in setting up one of the first dial-up internet service providers in a rural town in Canada in the 90s. He talked about going down to San Jose to a conference where he saw the first graphical user interface for browsing the web. He also shared stories about travelling to remote communities and having a hard time convincing people that this internet thing was going to be useful. This was only 30 years ago. Sometimes it's easy to forget how much has changed and how non-obvious the internet seemed in the early days.

Of course, there have also been a lot of other technologies that were a tough sell and never took off. In hindsight, we assume we would have been able to tell the difference but we're probably wrong about how good our forecasting ability would have been.

What's a technology today that is seeing a lot of skepticism and limited uptake but will have a massive impact over the next 10-20 years?

One idea that comes to mind is pre-fab housing kits/components. People have been trying to make it work for a long time but it's never been able to achieve scale. I think it will finally reach a tipping point.
There's probably a better way, but I use this graphical element zapper from Ublock Origin to hide distracting elements.

Works wonders for sites that I visit regularly. StackOverflow: Do I need related posts? The left sidebar (whatever it is they have there, I have forgotten already)? Their footer?
X is by far the least fun social media app. I tried it and I never got the appeal. Just stick to insta for lighthearted content.
Gemini is pretty good on Android nowadays. No real complaints
Apple really should've bought a Chinese EV firm rather than try and build their own car from scratch.

We've seen two phone makers - Xiaomi and Huawei - both successfully roll out EV's 2024, as well as rolling out native OS across all their hardware units. These two are the most significant competitors to Apple in the China phone market.

The future consumer is actually what Apple always envisioned - always connected and always locked into a lifestyle ecosystem - but Cook got distracted by the Metaverse, failed to innovate on the phone, and failed again at one of the big pieces of the future - the connected car.
I don't think these companies are generating MVPs using LLMs. They're just using LLMs to assist in coding. A human reviewers is there. And in a few years, LLMs might be so good that they can fix mistakes by 2024 LLMs.
I think a few years back someone examined the JS of one of those "XX people are looking at this product right now" or "ZZZ from YYY just purchased this product" and saw that it was basically randomly generated.
If the platform wasn't the problem, nobody would've moved.

Closing down the API, charging for the checkmark, not displaying tweets to those not logged in, artificially boosting tweets by the owner itself etc etc.
Calling everyone Hitler /creates/ Hitler. So be careful.
There are Chinese patents on "A Drag-Type Submarine Cable Cutting Device and Its Cable Cutting Method" and "A Deep-Sea Optical Cable Submarine Shearing and Salvaging Device"

https://www.reddit.com/r/Wing_Kong_Exchange/comments/1h8es3w...
What does "succumb to US financial policies" even mean?

The situation has waxed and waned but in general West Germany and Japan at the government level have been pretty happy to have US troops stationed there while facing off against the Soviet Union (now Russia) and China. The Ukrainians and the Baltics would love to have some US troops stationed there right now.
In most cases, "confuse humans in a Turing test" is counter to other more important goals.

Do you want your LLM to have an encyclopedic knowledge? So it knows who Millard Fillmore is even if the average human doesn't?

Do you want your LLM to be able to perform high-school-level math with superhuman speed and precision?

Do you want your LLM to be able to translate text to and from dozens of languages?

Do you want your LLM to be helpful and compliant, even when asked for something ridiculous or needlessly difficult - like solving "Advent of Code" problems using bash scripting?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, you probably don't want your LLM optimised to behave like an average human.
How do you measure positive and negative societal impact of this technology?

I find mobile phone face unlock so useful, giving every citizen the power to use face recognition could be better than a few people, robots that identify someone and give them lifesaving medication are great (but the opposite, robot assassin can also be created). I guess it comes down to good people building good tools. Humans are generally kind and empathetic
SSG are indeed a perfect fit for this. But you do need to figure out a few things like search (client side), RSS, and how to organize things. I didn't want to maintain a dedicated backend for my blog and integrated a link blog to my static site. Wrote about it here:

https://rednafi.com/misc/link_blog/
how dare they talk (badly!) about him in a thread about twitter!
I still chuckle when I recall this tweet, "OKRs were actually a psyop from Google to slow down potential early stage competitors" [1].

[1] https://x.com/benwbear/status/1543056694330003456
Is your VPS on OpenBSD.Amsterdam by any chance? (The 46.23.. address seems familiar.)
Left-handed calligraphy is slightly harder in shodo. The two main thing I've struggled over the years is how to end a line in a beautiful way.

Usually, a line start with pressing slightly harder, then "drag" it while slowly lifting the pencil, making that end of the line more aesthetic by thinning it out. And at the end you move it swiftly.

It's much easier to control this end movement when you're dragging towards your body, rather than away from it. For left handed, it's essentially the opposite in the way that what for right handed is dragging towards you(r right hand) is away, so all the details become the opposite.

Apparently you can learn this as a lefthanded too, but in Japan it's quite common to "correct" lefthanded kids to learn to use both hands for writing, so not many people know the struggle or the remedy. (my mom used to point out that me and my younger brother wrote badly, and we are both left handed)
Whats your endgame with these people after you have won the fight? Ship them off to Madagascar?
There's no antisemitism/racism at those levels, it's all elite v non elite.

You're playing right into their game.
I remember reading an anecdote about this stuff from the book The Essential Deming by W. Edwards Deming the "father of the quality movement and was hugely influential in post-WWII Japan".

It talked about some company moving oil around in barges, the setup was unprofitable and a new manager was brought up to fix it. He created metrics of the business, but didn't put any goals or goalposts for the barge crews and other managers in the company.

All he did was simply print the metrics and glue them on every barge of the fleet weekly. Soon the whole project was massively profitable. Apparently the captains of the barges would compete with each other to see who could save more money, without any penalties for the low performing nor any rewards for the high performing barges.

One thing that was very surprising is that the barges were given freedom to choose where to source materials and, more importantly, the fuel. Before the metrics the captains would pick whatever was closest no matter the prices, after the metrics the captains would, on their own, try to source fuel from the cheapest place that they could. No amount of central planning could have been as optimal as the prices fluctuated a lot from day to day, so whenever a captain saw a good deal he would re-fuel.

It turns out that empowered people want to do a good job and want to save money.
I have friends who work at gentrified restaurants in Budapest and they tell me the owners pocket all the tips. Only American tourists tip haha.
Or maybe a "classical" (I assume author meant "typical"?) home network does not have multiple VLANs.
LLMs in a nutshell.

Also see: people using them to write artificial garbage and then readers using them to summarise the said garbage.
Yes! Instead of data-driven management, I believe in conversation-driven management. Frameworks such as OKRs are a way to spark helpful conversations.