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Why do I have to agree to terms and conditions to look at a map

Yeah but it fails the instant you want to do something audio/visual and actually see/hear anything. Good example right on the OPs site, smoothing a Mandelbrot fractal and working on a set of color palettes.

The article is a case report. They’re almost always N=1. They’re just meant to contribute to the sum total of general knowledge of practicing medicine.

I’m gonna go eat my banana which was produced by an invisible matter producer that doesn’t require power, and think about what I could be thinking about.

even better you can do “php -v”

When we humans have realized we created a system too incoherent, at some point we just create a new one, porting all or some of the data/functionality. But also, we are already presented with problems that all of the current compute on the planet cannot solve. If a software system becomes one of those problems, I'm not that bothered, because it isn't as pressing as real-world one. I don't know, I see it as an argument against the singularity, but I'm not nearly afraid of it as the author seems to be.

Where do they recommend banning open models? I only see a recommendation to harden our systems to defend against the potential replicators.

“Using a VPS from a hosting provider”

What reality are we in?! The name of the thing literally contradicts the term. You are using a HOSTING PROVIDER. Somebody other than yourself is providing the hosting!

It is very simple actually. The entity providing the host environment is the one doing the hosting. If I am hosting a VPS on my own hardware, I am providing the host environment, and it is called self-hosting. If a company is hosting a VPS from a data center (or wherever), they are providing the host environment, and it is not called self-hosting.

Might be sarcasm in this case, regarding how certain molecules might be cherry-pick-regulated vs others. Although it’s an apples-to-oranges comparison to equate drowning with “overexposure” to water.

This might sound kinda crazy, but I define “self-hosted” as something that I host myself.

Yes! My friend and I used to say that all the time

I meant sanitary in a general sense. Maybe a better word would be “unexpected.” You want to minimize the possibility of receiving unexpected input. Though not perfect, the maxlength attribute is one way of getting there.

For example, a password value of a million characters, to me, would be unsanitary, or unexpected. Of course it’s possible somebody might want to use that as their password, but more likely it’s an attempt at a buffer overflow. I’m not saying there is a specific number where it changes from sanitary to unsanitary, but choosing some reasonable value to limit the length at would be a good idea. Even outside of security, from a purely utilitarian perspective, it would make sense to have some limit on the length of any data you’re storing/processing.

Re: security, yes, there should be a reasonable minimum length as well.

It’s the literal piece of paper that was transported by the pigeon and it’s signed by the author of RFC 1149. A little piece of Internet history ephemera.

> This is one example why we shouldn't use the maxlength attribute on the password field.

While I acknowledge your issue is incredibly frustrating, it is still good practice to use the maxlength attribute. Yes, it can be bypassed. Yes, you should still check the length on the backend. But it’s one more layer of ensuring sanitary input. Obviously, companies should do a better job of communicating the maximum password length to the user, properly setting the attributes on all inputs, AND if they do enforce a max length, having it be large enough that it ensures a secure password, but we shouldn’t just abandon using the HTML attribute altogether.

I half-consciously avoided touching the fingerprint (on mobile, obvy) lol. I did think it was annoying

Nothing that person said was about removing ads.

oh man I somehow never realized I could just use that square bracket syntax. must update everything

> If this view takes hold, it will shake the foundations of our society, rupturing our existing political and ethical frameworks, and fundamentally changing what it means to be human.

When we peer into previously unseen areas of existence, new knowledge may come to light, which necessarily causes such a rupture. It is not our responsibility to maintain the status quo because the alternative is frightening. It is our responsibility to confront ourselves, ask why the new knowledge and the alternative political/ethical frameworks may be so frightening, ask how we might change and grow so that it isn’t so frightening, and be open to the possibility of our own ignorance.

The type annotation gymnastics you sometimes have to do when reducing to an object in TypeScript are annoying.

allTasks.reduce((acc, item) => { acc[item.label] = t => t.item.label === item.label; return acc; }, {} as Record<string, (t: typeof tasks[number]) => boolean>)

Can you chill Uncle John? It’s ok to have feelings, you know. And this post was literally about how the author is figuring out how to go forward, in their own way.

If any aspiring Japanese learners read this, forget this article. Just start learning hiragana/katakana from the get-go. You’re going to have to eventually, assuming you want read anything (and anything worth reading certainly won’t be written in romaji). But beyond that, you want to start breaking down your instinctual pronunciations and biases that appear when reading letters you know, so that you can more accurately and efficiently learn the correct pronunciations.

If there was documented, provable harm done to the residents from the lead poisoning (not saying there isn’t, I just don’t know), they could surely win a civil case claiming negligence by the city and/or water treatment facilities/etc… There may also be laws or regulations in Jackson or Mississippi that were broken. Perhaps there aren’t, but there maybe should be. Which are all points brought up by Engelhardt:

> The Constitution does not provide redress for every governmental wrongdoing. Rather, the remedy for Plaintiffs’ injuries lies in pursuing tort claims, electing representatives who will better manage the public-water system, and petitioning their representatives for other remedies. And Plaintiffs have not been left to go at it alone. The State of Mississippi and federal government have worked for years, and continue today, to improve the City of Jackson’s drinking water quality through regulations, investigations, and compliance plans. These already-established-and-undertaken avenues are the proper course for rectifying the lead contamination. We will not expand the Fourteenth Amendment to create novel theories of constitutional liability.

And now people who don’t take the time to actually read, or just can’t understand, are gonna be yelling and screaming about how the courts are corrupt, etc… (some courts may very well be corrupt! But this would not be a good example why).

This is way outside my expertise so might be a dumb question, but how does the target model verify candidate tokens? Naively, I would assume it must perform its normal auto regressive decoding to know what the “correct” token is in order to have something to compare the candidate token with. But obviously that would defeat the purpose of speculative decoding so there must be some other way.

Also, what is the difference between “target model” and “target-model,” if any? I feel like half the instances of that phrase included the hyphen and half didn’t.

Why did you use so many words? You could’ve made the same point with at most half the amount of sentences.

The point is that radio, then television, then internet, then smartphones, then AI, each one of which is as impactful on the world as the examples you gave, emerged within a couple hundred years ago years, rather than a couple thousand (and the last few within a couple decades).

Not quite verbose but they tend to repeat the same few ideas multiple times with varied wording/imagery. You keep scrolling because you think you’re gonna see something new and by the end you’ve realized you just read the same thing 4 times over.

ahh I love that! YouTube compression not doing it justice

That “overbearing assumption” is made by practically every other X-media editing app, for good reason — you can save your work and continue/revert stuff later. If all you’ve ever used is MS paint then I guess it’s an unexpected thing, but any other image/video editing app, digital audio workstation, 3D modeling software, etc… work exactly the same way. It would be unexpected to me if “save as” exported a flat file.

There is no very best token to choose at each decision point. It is context dependent and subjective.