Damn this looks cool but it’s got a customer noncompete, “you will not (and will not enable others to) use the AI Features: (e) for the development of any service or other offering that competes with or replicates the Services.”
That’s real bad since they also write “ Memex may generate aggregate, deidentified data from your use of the Services and Subscriber Data ("Usage Data") and use it to operate, improve and support the Services”
AKA “we can learn from your codebase and you aren’t allowed to compete with us”
Basically, it’s a brain-rape machine for idiots who don’t read the fine print. Sad
I'm going to re-post something that I commented in another thread awhile ago:
I tend to think it will. Tools replaced our ancestor's ability to make things by hand. Transportation / elevators reduced the average fitness level to walk long distances or climb stairs. Pocket calculators made the general population less able to do complex math. Spelling/grammar checks have reduced knowing how to spell or form complete proper sentences. Keyboards and email are making handwriting a passing skill. Video is reducing our need / desire to read or absorb long form content.
The highest percentage of humans will take the easiest path provided. And while most of the above we just consider improvements to daily life, efficiencies, it has also fundamentally changed on average what we are capable of and what skills we learn (especially during formative years). If I dropped most of us here into a pre-technology wilderness we'd be dead in short order.
However, most of the above, it can be argued, are just tools that don't impact our actual thought processes; thinking remained our skill. Now the tools are starting to "think", or at least appear like they do on a level indistinguishable to the average person. If the box in my hand can tell me what 4367 x 2231 is and the capital of Guam, why then wouldn't I rely on it when it starts writing up full content for me? Because the average human adapts to the lowest required skill set I do worry that providing a device in our hands that "thinks" is going to reduce our learned ability to rationally process and check what it puts out, just like I've lost the ability to check if my calculator is lying to me. And not to get all dystopian here... but what if then, what that tool is telling me is true, is, for whatever reason, not.
(and yes, I ran this through a spell checker because I'm a part of the problem above... and it found words I thought I could still spell, and I'm 55)
A couple of counterexamples from a declining demographic is not much to flatly deny the article's entire case.
There are vast teams of marketers and data scientists hard at work making things like food and social media more appealing and addictive. Of course more people are, on average, going to get more addicted to them, even if a few fish have the willpower to swim against the tide or the money to buy the chemicals to do it instead.
Except python builders in nixpkgs are really brain damaged because of the writers ways they inject search path which for example breaks if you try to execute a separate python interpreter assuming same library environment...
No, I mean rf mcus that let you do all the way down to IQ sampling or pulse shaping. It's up to the developer to decide what level you let the hardware handle.
This is how those proprietary rf protocols work for mice and such.
That''s a very classic view, from an era when market-based systems vs. central planning were a big issue. They missed so much.
- Just because there are restoring forces doesn't mean stability is reached. This is basic control theory, but it escaped economists for a long time. There's always nonzero lag. Often there's a lot of lag. This can move things out of the stable region.
- There's an assumption here that a market economy is a competitive market economy. This breaks down when the number of major players in a market is small. Or somebody has a "moat". Read Thiel's "Zero to One".
- Hayek was writing in an era when manufacturing dominated, production cost exceeded marketing cost, and the size of companies was limited by inefficiencies in coordinating a really large organization. Those constraints favor a market economy. Today, services dominate, marketing often costs more than production (which means most of the cost is advertising), and computing has made it possible to scale companies to planetary scale without organizational collapse. Those factors favor sheer scale.
This book changed my life. I listened to the audiobook while I was doing some heavy yard work for a couple weeks in my backyard. There were times when I was 8-hours in and muscles I didn't know I had in my hands, back, and feet were aching and hurting unlike anything I've felt before. The streaks of clean skin formed by the sweat beading and trickling down my face had tried and slowly returned to the dusty grit from which it was carved. It was in these times I felt I was strong, I felt I was pushing my limits, I felt like I had conquered the earth.
Then the passages of the book flooded my mind's eye with images of their struggle, conquest, and perseverance. Their endurance.
Not many wiki site engines based on Markdown work directly from git as cleanly as this.
There's a few of them though, such as this old Ruby lang standby with a decade's worth of features that a decade ago was a way to host your same GitHub Pages site locally, supporting SSO:
I always struggled and had to check library functions to do what I actually wanted, as they frequently didn't. That's partially why many Lua uses build their own standard libraries, and as a result the Lua user community is very fragmented.
I recalibrated by using the thermocouple on my multimeter.
That's not my biggest problem though - my biggest problem has just been keeping tips tinned properly. I've succeeded once, but it constantly feels like a struggle.
I don't disagree with what you meant here, but this sentence threw my mind through a loop. It shows how "have to" is a real weak point in how we communicate and think.
Maybe we should rank our "have to"s on a scale from 1 to 5, where for example:
- "objects in motion have to (1) remain in motion unless acted upon by an external force"
- "humans have to (2) eat food to stay alive"
- "developed countries have to (3) maintain a scientifically literate populace"
- "university PR people have to (4) write like that to pay for food and shelter"
- "university PR people have to (5) write like that to afford a new sports car"
I think you meant something like the example for (4), but reasonable people might see it more like (5), and in both cases it's at odds with the more fundamental "have to" (3) for society.
It is easy to treat Galileo as fighting the obscurantist church of the 15th century, but as the article explains briefly:
> provocatively voiced the pope’s own arguments through an obtuse Aristotelian called Simplicio
... Galileo's ordeal with the inquisition was mostly due to him making fun of the pope (probably not a good idea). The truth is that until Kepler introduced elliptical orbits and variable orbital speeds, the Copernican heliocentric model still needed epicycles and was not much better than the ptolemaic model.
And the church didn't even care _that_ much. Copernicus himself was a priest and, while he himself was wary of publishing it and framed it as a way to do astronomical calculations without any kind of philosophical implication, in the end it circulated without much fuss.
This of course should not diminish his contributions to the scientific method and his other contribution to astronomical observations (mostly the satellites of Jupiter and the rings of Saturn, though his instrument wasn't good enough to recognize them as rings).
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oh I looked into that. Conclusion at the time was resolution was far too low to compete with my 27" 4k display on my desk. (I'd love to be able to travel and work remotely without lugging my big display, but my productivity takes a blow restricted to just my laptop display).
From what I'm reading about the Apple Vision Pro, it's not there yet either.
We just got new windows in our home, replacing aging double-pane glass with newer, much better insulating triple-pane glass. However there was an option to get added sound insulation and my SO is sensitive to noise, we added that.
I was also considering the safety glass option, given that we had a porch door with "all" glass (just a small wooden frame). I'm a distracted and clumsy at times so I was worried about running through the glass in the door. After talking to the window manufacturer, I learned that I didn't need the safety glass option since the extra sound insulation meant the construction was laminated, hence acted much like a laminated safety glass.
Haven't tried to break them yet, but after helping getting them mounted (about 50kg for a 1x1m window, heavy!) it seems to me it'll take some effort to get through them. Proper anti-burglary glass is likely much better, but wouldn't surprise me if a group of teens would struggle.
Anyway, wasn't my primary consideration but I sleep slightly better at night compared to the old windows which could easily have been shattered with a simple rock, including the porch door.
edit: Also sleeping much better due to the sound insulation. The triple-pane does most of the damping I imagine, but between them it was a vast difference. I had three ~10 yo boys running around screaming (or playing as they'd say) 10m from my wall, and once I closed the new window to my room I could barely hear them. Not at all like the old windows.
edit 2: We also got the option for IR blocking, it adds just the slightest blue tint but cuts 60% of the IR. Made a massive difference in keeping especially the living room cool during summer.
Oh NTP... I remember a series of extremely annoying incidents that were caused by time skew on hundreds of Linux VMs in our data center. Our setup was typical of a startup - built to be good enough at first, and fall apart at scale.
Every VM ran CentOS, and every one of them hit the default CentOS ntp servers. These are run by volunteers. The pool is generally good quality but using it the way we did was extremely stupid.
Every few weeks we'd have one of these "events" where hundreds of VMs in a data center would skew, causing havok with authentication, replication, clustering. We also had an alert that would notify the machine owner if drift exceeded some value. If that happened in the middle of the night, the oncall from every single team would get woken. And if they simply "acked" the alert and go back to sleep, the drift would continue, and by morning their service would almost certainly be suffering.
Whatever about diagnosing the cause, I started by writing a script that executed a time fix against a chosen internal server, just to resolve the immediate issue. I also converted the spam alert into one that Sensu (the monitoring/alerting system we used) would aggregate into a single alert to the fleet ops team. In other words, if >2% of machines was skewed by more than a few seconds, warn us. At >4%, go critical. (Only critical alerts would alert oncall outside sociable hours).
Long story short, we switched to chrony, because unlike ntpd we could convince it to "just fix the damn time", because ntpd would refuse to correct the time if the jump was too big, and would just drift off forever until manually fixed. (No amount of config hacking and reading 'man ntpd' got around this). We also chose two bare-metal servers in each data center to work as internal NTP servers, reducing the possibility of DOSing these volunteer NTP servers and getting our IP range blacklisted or fed dud data. Problem solved right there, and we also ended up with better monitoring of our time skew across our fleet.
They won capitalism. The prize is you don't have to compete anymore, you don't have to innovate, and you get to charge more and deliver less.
Getting companies to this position is foundational to the incentive structure of our economic system. Once they win, that's it. They get to stay there forever.
I watched Tim Hunkin explain sewing machines when I was about 8 and have never lost my fascination with them (or mechanical engineering) since then.
https://youtu.be/8lwI4TSKM3Y
How do I have to understand the fact that Ilya is not on the board anymore AND why did the statement not include Ilya in the “Leadership group” that’s called out?
That’s real bad since they also write “ Memex may generate aggregate, deidentified data from your use of the Services and Subscriber Data ("Usage Data") and use it to operate, improve and support the Services”
AKA “we can learn from your codebase and you aren’t allowed to compete with us”
Basically, it’s a brain-rape machine for idiots who don’t read the fine print. Sad