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> complex applications can still be fully specified in plain English

In plain English, of course, but not in natural English. When using language naturally one will leave out details, relying on other inputs, such as shared assumptions, to fill in the gaps. Programming makes those explicit.
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"The split of Rust for the compiler and Zig for the standard library has worked well so far, and there are no plans to change it."

I assume that statement will need updating.
This is almost like reaction videos on YouTube but done properly by adding insightful commentary along the way.

I can see a trend like this in the blogosphere being beneficial for everyone involved specially the readers.
I think Github Actions could be used for scheduled builds, so that the initial load would have random articles right in. Further requests could then be made in advance so users would not notice any delay from the API.
> To say that Microsoft is “irrelevant” is so myopic. Despite Tesla, GM is still relevant. Despite AWS, DB2 mainframes are still relevant. Heck, I have to work with EBCDIC data, a format designed to not produce holes in punchcards that are too close together.

There's more free energy in growing things.

Leave shrinking things to private equity.

There might be a lot of money in programming COBOL, but who wants to do that? It's not exciting to be a buzzard and subsist on carcasses.
One of the main innovations in how `jj` works (in my opinion at least) is that has a concept of "immutability" for commits, which if I recall correctly is configurable with an arbitrary filter in the config, but the default (which I've never messed with personally) essentially considers commits in tracked branches from remotes to be "immutable", meaning that anything purely local is "mutable". When you run a command to try to change any immutable commits, it will refuse unless you manually opt-in with `--allow-immutable`. This makes it super easy to clean up the commit history from local development without having to worry about accidentally putting stuff in a state where there will be conflicts when you try to sync the changes with a remote later.

I think what they're the parent commenter is referring is being able to make changes to older "mutable" commits without having to do a rebase. I'm not sure I find the description of this as being similar to an "automatic rebase" super helpful personally; the way I'd personally describe it is being able to do the equivalent of "git commit --amend" on any commit with a built-in safety check to prevent this from accidentally modifying commits pushed to remote branches that you need to explicitly override if you want to ignore it.
This is awesome! Can't wait to read it. I've been very curious about why we don't hear more about LLMs on TPUs.
> Claims from people who have proven to be the opposite of truthful.

Interesting you say that.

All I know is that confidential payment data is apparently being handed to specific individual(s?), known to be partisan actors, who lost a bunch of lawsuits in court of law recently. Am I to just ignore that?

The point is not to shut payments, but to use it in information warfare, Twitter Files Redux.
I agree, chat is only useful in scenarios that are 1) poorly defined, and 2) require a back-and-forth feedback loop. And even then, there might be better UX options.

I wrote about this here: https://digitalseams.com/blog/the-ideal-ai-interface-is-prob...
"Whether or not you agree with the policy aims, wouldn't this mean that the death camps are actually doing productive work?"

You can't ignore the policy aims when determining what is "productive" as productivity is directly to the end result. It's WORSE that this is productive vs non-productive.

You're "Tired of nazi comparisons" when... Musk did two Nazi Salutes! He brought the comparison on by doing a Nazi salute! Twice! You're the one who refuses to see a salute for what it is.
It is partially the markets fault. If they were demonized for this, there's at least be a veneer of trying to look moral. Instead they can simply go full mask off. That's why you shouldn't tolerate the intolerant.
I think enforcing the law is only important while there is rule of law. What the Republicans are doing now is rule by law. It's not a good-faith reading of laws, it's using raw state power to turn the legal apparatus against the perceived enemies of the state/regime.

We're way past lofty ideals like equal application of the law. It's going to take a reconsideration of our social contract in order to live in a society where we once again protect the innocent and punish the guilty.
A lot of times it is because those things aren’t properly wired up into their systems well enough to get the right context needed to help. Lots of them are nothing more than a prompt with no ability to dig any deeper than their original training data.
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This is an excellent writeup. Even though I come with a bias against MS, I did some work on the .NET framework and was just blown away with how great the dev experience is. Maybe I’m overselling it but I wouldn’t consider any other platform (except that it’s managed by MS). The old school win32 api is surprisingly powerful too.

Then looking at the spider web of new technologies they’ve released, half-released, and half-deprecated it makes me seriously doubt the future of MS. I mean they’ll always be a profitable, popular company just not whose tools I want to be locked into.

Working in the SharePoint ecosystem, for example, was totally miserable and I’ll never do it again if I can avoid it. Still love C# though.
And I think in the vast majority of cases, it's only used against actual criminals. You only hear about these sensationalized cases because it's out of the ordinary and not at all common.
In fact, Apple Invites appears to be a direct response to the popularity of Partiful.
In the US yeah it is. In the rest of the world, not so much.
> Why would they be building these specific things if they weren't planning on invading Taiwan?

It's basic, obvious, and rational defense policy. Everyone does it.

Why does the US have thousands and thousands of nukes? It's to ensure the destruction of any adversary in case of nuclear war.

The US isnt the only country that's entitled to an arms stockpile.
I too have lazy eye. I get wicked motion sickness from most FPS games. So I would not equate too much to that hypothesis.
This is a very niche kind of cool. There's something purely fun about reviving old tech and it's not a simple feat.

I think it would be cool if you did a follow-up article on the "why" part — what inspired you about the KIM-1, why you thought it was interesting to revive, etc.
That's a very pessimistic way to bring that up.

I was thinking similar, except, "I wonder how this works with non-Apple users?". Instead of jumping straight to how evil this is.
Some code or maths proofs can be self supporting with things like unit tests or proof checkers as an example
Which defense contractor did they just sign with to sell AI features?

Really if a company wants people to trust claims like this, they should make them legally binding. Otherwise it's all PR.
It seems they clawed back the offer or never gave it in the first place.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-exempt...
To which performance and resource requirements are you referring? A cloud VM runs as long as the agent runs, then stops running.
Some people, when they have the problem of incrementing integers think, "I'll use Redis."

Now they have two problems.
You are hallucinating arguments that I never made.
I said “the west” in the context of what Palantirs CEO was talking about refers to countries that are mainly seen as populated by white people.

I never said “white people bad” but that is what you seem to understand, I wonder where it came from?
It’s… unclear. Right now their stated business model is explicitly to burn VC cash: https://x.com/partiful/status/1620481353396658176
Historically notable fascists and dictators have been in at least part elected, going back to Roman times and with several significant 20th century examples, most especially the obvious ones. Populist extremists are, by definition, popular.

Historically, democratic processes have not been sufficient to remove them, in general.
In medicine, for minor procedures such as blood tests or ECG, there is the notion of implied consent. Just holding out your arm for the blood test is implied consent. To refuse, you might say, I am of sound mind and I do not consent to this procedure. Or, you are performing this procedure without my consent and against my wishes. I'm not a lawyer,and not in the US, but this is how it generally operates for practical reasons. Written informed consent is required for more invasive or significant procedures.
I wanted to like Rust (memory safety and performance - what's not to like?) but both of my experiments with it ended in frustration. It seemed a way too complex language for what I needed.

Recently, a coworker of mine made a great observation that made everything clear to me. I was looking for a replacement for C, but Rust is actually a replacement for C++. Totally different beast - powerful but complex. I need to see if Zig is any closer to C in spirit.
I'm not trying to strawman the opposing side, but I always found it ironic that many of the cryptocurrency proponents I talk to think that starting a business is amazing and innovation is important, but also hate inflation, which encourages those two things.
I don't know more about ATC, but it looks like a field ripe for disruption and innovation. AI should be able to handle the coordination of flights without the downside of the delays and limitations of the human training pipeline, worker fatigue, and stress - all for less expense. The more I think about it, the more I feel like I could have something tangible at the end of a weekend or two - at least a prototype.
"We won't use your dollars and efforts for bad and destructive activities, until we accumulate enough of your dollars and efforts that we no longer care about your opinions".
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>These flaws of 1PTP voting have been repeatedly exploited by fascists and authoritarians to gain power and impose their rules and avoid the rule of law.

Hitler was elected Chancellor in a parlimentary system without a majority. The voting system is relatively unimportant compared to the social forces at play. While hard to admit, it is certainly possible that a majority of voters simply wanted Trump to win.
> unresponsive the bureaucracy has become to political direction from the president & secretaries

You call it unresponsive, the founding fathers called it "checks and balances"
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about how one thing science needs is a social network for sharing big data.

One thing the post gets at is that providing a decentralized global subscribable data catalog is fundamentally a network protocol problem, somewhat similar to RSS.

The social network analogy is particularly generative here - because the desired network structure is similar to that of Federated social media, the protocol I want would be very similar in structure to those protocols underlying attempts to decentralize social media platforms. I therefore think it might well be possible to build what I’m suggesting by piggybacking off of BlueSky’s AT protocol or the Fediverse/Mastodon’s ActivityPub protocol.

I’ve made a repo[1] for discussing ideas for how one might implement such a protocol.

Curious what people think of any of this!

[1] https://github.com/TomNicholas/FROST
It went both ways. They actively attempted to amplify the narrative that the war in Gaza was entirely on Israel and that it was the democrats fault despite relatively no interest from the republicans in actually helping those in Gaza. It was a successful campaign largely. This was a divisive issue for more lefty dems.
The reason people didn't vote for these two had little to do with being "center-right". Both of them were very unpopular before they were forced as candidate undemocratically. Democrats would have won with Bernie and their chances in 2024 would have been a lot better if they did a primary to pick a candidate people actually like and want to vote for. Using an candidate people hate will work if the party is far ahead in the poll, not when it's 50/50.
> while megacorps aren't fundamentally "evil" (for some definitions of evil),

I think megacorps being evil is universal. It tends to be corrupt cop evil vs serial killer evil, but being willing to do anything for money has historically been categorized as evil behavior.

That doesn’t mean society would be better or worse off without them, but it would be interesting to see a world where companies pay vastly higher taxes as they grow.
Elon has gone off the reservation. Just based on his insane social media postings, he's either completely mad or is cynically pretending to be. Either way he is completely untrustworthy.

At this point, it's probably the safer bet to assume Musk isn't the primary reason those companies are capital efficient.

Maybe he runs companies like he plays video games. Someone else drives while he pretends to.
"Move fast and break things" may work well when you are making an entertaining website and selling ads. It works vastly less well when "break things" means people depending on the government for medical coverage die.

There's a reason why the people constructing bridges and nuclear power plants don't "move fast and break things" even if the people building a fundamentally unimportant website can do that.
One of my chief worries about LLMs for intelligence agencies is the ability to scale textual analysis. Previously there at least had to be an agent taking an interest in you; today an LLM could theoretically read all text you've ever touched and flag anything from legal violations to political sentiments.
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Peak runtime performance is slightly better on JVM, yes. Native Image ships a JIT within your binary so it is not as different as one might think.
You need a Google Account to use Google Calendar.

Anyone can have an Apple Account whether or not they own an Apple Device.

In this case, too, you can create Invites on icloud.com on non-Apple devices. Including the webpage seems nicely responsive and can probably make them in an Android Chrome tab if you wanted.

The only remaining obstacle is that it isn't a free feature of an Apple Account, but requires an iCloud+ subscription. But that's useful for Apple Music and Apple TV+ and other products, too, many of which work just fine on non-Apple devices as well.
A megacorp is amoral. They have no concern over an individual anymore than a human has concern for an ant, because individuals simply don’t register to them. The ant may regard the human as pure evil for the destruction it rains upon its colony, but the ants are not even a thought in the human’s mind most of the time.
Nice site @aikz

Hope you don't mind, but as others are pointing at wiki type sites, I'll plug my own (also using Vercel and cursor)...

https://ont.fyi it's a work in progress ... feedback wanted (no matter how painful), focusing on enabling adding in your own data at present, lots of ideas and work to be done
Yeah, I don't really dispute that, but I would like to hear the nominal explanation of this, from the people who support it.

It's possible that there are parts of the federal government that really could be cut, I'm happy to acknowledge that, but what I really hate is how the entire Trump administration is sort of using logical implication incorrectly.

It's like they're saying cutting workers implies more efficiency, but that actually isn't implied. They're roleplaying as being "logical" by misusing logic.
History shows that they aren't really digging a hole for themselves.

This whole thing where the average person feels that they can use rules against a more powerful person? That's really an invention of maybe the last 80 years, if not more recently than that.

With the exception of that human lifetime-sized era, the vast majority of history is a bunch of psychopaths running things and getting to kill/screw whoever they wanted and steal whatever they wanted. Successful revolts are few and far between. The only real difference is the stakes.
The same issue as with some other terms in 21st century. For example monopoly by the 19th century definition would be almost impossible today, because "look, that company has a whopping 0.1% of the market, hence we with 99.9% are not a monopoly". So yeah, it wasn't banned everywhere, but that reached momentum wide enough for me to consider it essentially a ban.

And as a I said below, even if call it not a ban but idk "popular advisory", the point is that it set a precedent. And now right wingers would really ban words they don't like.

Also they may argue that they did not ban their words either. Can you apply for grant elsewhere? Yes you can, technically. "So what the problem"(c) they will ask.
They're shipping the org chart: this app is someone's ticket to a promotion.
We should build Tool AI, not AGI – Max Tegmark at WebSummit 2024 [video]
Why would I assume otherwise? They aren't neutral observers from a trusted third party. Neither Musk nor Trump has a track record of honesty, and both have used their power for personal gain. A recent example is Musk moving NTSB announcements to Twitter.

From what I can tell, the apparent purpose of DoGE is to benefit Trump and his allies financially, weaponize funding against opponents, and dismantle parts of the government they oppose. Musk’s preference for young engineers may stem from the same logic the military uses with young soldiers — they tend to be more obedient and less likely to push back.
Would a child of European descent born and raised in China be a 'westerner' in your eyes? What about a second generation child, still fully ethnically European?
Does anyone else not live off of propaganda here?

The Chinese civil war started in the 1900s, many many decades ago, not yesterday.

Every single last PRC leader has had a goal for reunification of China, including Mao, Deng, Xi, Hu, etc, etc.

Every last one of them.

The civil war didnt start yesterday.
The journal app is freaking garbage. It took 2 major iOS versions before they added the ability to export your notes!
> The amount of effort being put into this is much higher than GitHub changing their default for new repos to "main"

Sorry but that's bullshit. This is just deleting a few words from static content. The whole `main` thing required:

* Github (and Gitlab etc.) to make `master` configurable - an entirely new feature.

* All tooling that previously could assume a default of `master` now can't have a sensible default. You have to specify every time.

* Users to remember which one to use for every repo.

This is still causing me pain. Repos I use are about 50:50 split between `main` and `master`. I sure do love having to retype `git switch master` half the time I do it.

This is dumb, but it definitely is less effort than the dumb `main` change.
I'm around calc 2 level, and spent some time learning ANN architectures, but it's taken a very long time to increase my ability to parse the more arcane topics since graduating.

For example, this[1] is something I'd like to be able to just glance over and know all the applications and appreciate the beauty... but it's very hard to prevent my eyes from glossing over. Maybe someone has a youtube video on the topic that makes it easier to catch up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lp_space
Can’t believe it has edit access, lol
The market's objectives are wealth-weighted.

This is a very important point to remember when assessing ideas like "Is it good to build swarms of murderbots to mow down rioting peasants angry over having expenses but no jobs?" Most people might answer "no," but if the people with money answer "yes," that becomes the market's objective. Then the incentives diffuse through the economy and you don't just get the murderbots, you also get the news stations explaining how the violent peasants brought this on themselves and the politicians making murderbots tax deductible and so on.
USAID is being burnt to the ground. Those are "grandma's checks" to a lot of people.
Who else would they be?

The government has to appoint somebody to actually carry out law. There must always be an executive branch to execute the law.

The people running these agencies are all appointed by congress. If congress didn't want DOGE to have access to these systems then they wouldn't've confirmed the appointment of people who would give them access. Or conversely, they would impeach the appointees if the didn't like it.

This is the strength and weakness of a single-party system (grant US has multiple parties but one party is actually in control currently). The party does what the party wants and if it's not what you want then it's tough.
It works right for them though. Curious question: Shouldn't those with a bigger stake in the economy have a bigger say in how it's ran?
I wonder if it is rooted in similar things though. Right, like with email. People don't really read or check emails because spam became a serious problem. Then with social media, looking at facebook, there is definitely a big different in ad space in facebook between the time I used to use it to now. Where ads have effectively become the "spam" equivalent for social media. Ultimately, did success of these technologies also lead to its demise. Email was so good, so it made sense for a market of spammers. Facebook became a prime place for ads, and as ads become more and more of the platform, people started to consciously or subconsciously step away to other platforms.
What's gone wrong with James Bond?
Canadian 'Pirate' Stole Millions in Cryptocurrency, U.S. Prosecutors Say
Is it a canary? Does this mean the government has imposed on Google for use of it's AI?
Even if those numbers are true, you do understand that is a very different situation than 25% tariff across the board, and 10% on energy for completely disingenuous reasons.

If it wasn't for oil, natural gas, power Canada would be at a trade surplus with the US. Oil and Natural gas are not things are not easy to find replacement US based sources.

https://economics.td.com/ca-canada-us-trade-balance
Yes, the Llava model can encode image, and you can encode image into 3D vae space. Without fine-tune the model though, you are not going to have fidelity to original (if only use Llava's SigLIP to encode), or end up with image with limited motion (3D vae encoded latents as the first frame then doing vid2vid).