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AWS Adds support for nested virtualization (github.com/aws)
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hell yes, finally
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This is a big deal because you can now run Firecracker/other microVMs in an AWS VM instead of expensive AWS bare-metal instances. GCP has had nested virtualization for a while.
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whats the ~ perf hit of something like this?
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Could someone explain why this is might be a big deal? I remember playing with nested virty some years ago and deciding it is a backwards step except for PoC and the like. Given I haven't personally run out of virty gear, I never needed to do a PoC.
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What's the performance impact for nested virtualization in general? I'd think this would be adding multiple layers of MMU overhead.
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From memory, the virtualisation operations themselves aren't nested. The VM instructions interact with the external virtualisation hardware, so it's more of a cooperative situation, e.g. a guest can create & manage virtualisation structures that are run alongside it. I don't know if this applies to the specific nested virtualisation AWS are providing though.
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Would love to see performance numbers with nested virtualization, particularly that of IO-bound workloads.
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"* *Feature*: Launching nested virtualization. This feature allows you to run nested VMs inside virtual (non-bare metal) EC2 instances."
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Sounds expensive for legacy apps
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Highly doubt that
welcome AWS to 2018!
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Yep. It's pretty boring. I've been using it at home for years and years with libvirt on very not-special consumer hardware. I guess the AWS clown is finally catching up on this one little not-new-at-all thing.
Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues (noheger.at)
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finally
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The interesting part, for anyone who actually reads the article - the change was fixed in an RC and then reverted in the final release. Which implies there was some regression, some issue, some incorrect behavior or negative impact. One has to wonder… what could it have been? What could the issue with having a more accurate clickbox for the corner of the window possibly be?
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Since the first taste of Linux WMs, I believe the best and only good way of handling window move and resize is super+lmb/rmb respectively. No more pixel-perfect header/corner sniping! https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/qv0vmz/missing_super_right_mouse_click_for_resizing/
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Rectangle Pro for the win
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Trying to get Liquid Glass to work is such a clown show. Incredible. The UI wasn’t perfect before. It’s slowly been getting worse with each of their dumb updates to make it look more like iOS over the years. What we’re forced to use now is just a joke. Ignoring all the visual design issues they can’t even make basic stuff fully functional.
You have to wonder what’s actually going on under the hood when the curve of the hitbox is different to the curve of the window? I’m very curious to understand how Apple have got to this point.
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This is relatively common. The mouse interaction code doesn't necessarily look at the visual asset, and in many UI toolkits the ability to have interaction targets located and sized differently from visual features is a feature.
It's bad when stock Gnome is better. That's where I am now.
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Switched to KDE Plasma last month and very pleased I can have square-corner windows again.
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Corners are great aren't they! :)
>In total the thickness went down from 7 to 6 pixels, which is a 14% decrease, making it 14% more likely to miss it. Pedantic, but chance of miss is actually less than 14% more likely since the user's click location is not uniformly random over the thickness area, it's biased toward the center (normally distributed).
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I had similar thought but didn't want to be that guy.
I miss resizing windows with alt+right click
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Did macOS support that at some time in the past? I've used Linux as my daily OS for 20 years and got so used to alt-right resize and alt-left drag that the macOS and Windows way of actually needing to move my mouse to the corner or edge of a window feel almost barbaric in comparison. I still have found no way free equivalent on macOS.
Steve Jobs is rolling in his grave.
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Attach a generator to him and the AI datacenter energy needs are solved. Even better, the more trash like this that AI produces the more energy is generated.
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> Even better, the more trash like this that AI produces the more energy is generated. Do you have any "inside knowledge" that this was caused by LLM use or do you just attribute everything you don't like to AI?
I’m a Windows guy, but was given a MacBook for my current job. Fair enough. But I laugh at how horrendous such a simple thing as resizing windows is. Want Slack to take up the right third of a screen then fill the rest with browser? In Windows, it takes 2 seconds. Not on Mac. I have to resize the window myself? There’s no auto-snap? I’m sure someone will buzz in with some hidden way to do it. ‘Hold cmd-shft-9 then say these magic words and voila!’ No. Dragging the window with the cursor should suffice.
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The defaults in every OS are set made for power users (i.e. anyone doing more than browsing the web and using office). With Windows you need to remove most of the cruft, Mac is no different; most people are using some combination of Raycast, Rectangle, Alfred, etc...
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The answer, unfortunately, is to install a 3rd party program. Once you do that, it works well enough
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Yeah window management and the desktop experience in general on Mac just feels like I'm dragging my hands through tar. For example, "open two file browsers, navigate to $home in one and $downloads in the other, move and rename a few files between them" is a 10 second task on Windows (Win+E x2, quick clicks on the explorer links, easy to scroll around, move files, drag, rename, anything you want). On Mac I get about 7 system ding sounds and Finder windows bugging off the side of my screen while simultaneously deciding the best way to show downloads in a list is alphabetically and with 256x256 tiled icons. It's just an indescribably bad and slow experience to do any kind of file management on Mac. Another example. Take a screenshot and quickly redact some info with a black box. Easy on windows that I can type it out exactly (win+s, drag box, win key "paint" enter control v box tool save boom). On Mac?? After command shift 4 to take a screenshot I think it's actually physically impossible to edit it within 60 seconds.
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> After command shift 4 to take a screenshot I think it's actually physically impossible to edit it within 60 seconds. This is completely incorrect, and the solution is way more discoverable than needing to know obscure things like Win+E. Click the thumbnail that appears in the bottom right, then click the marker icon.
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you can edit the image with preview any time you want
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Raycast does it. You need Raycast anyway; spotlight sucks.
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Lots of 3rd party tools to help, like Rectangle or Raycast. And at least the most recent macOS release has auto-snap and tiling features: https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/mac-help/mchlef287e5d/mac There is also this option you can enable to drag windows around when holding a shortcut: https://petar.dev/notes/drag-windows-on-macos/
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I've been using Rectangle ( https://rectangleapp.com/ ) for years now. IMO the shortcuts actually make it a massive improvement over Windows.
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Rectangle Pro. I'm actually agreeing with you. You shouldn't have to resort to third party apps.
I'm also struggling with a macbook for work, but hold your mouse over the green circle in the top left for a few seconds and it'll pop up. (You don't get the nice snapping that windows does though)
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I don’t see options for thirds, though. Even on an UltraWide monitor.
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tHaTs BeCaUsE wE dOn’T SeLL wIdE ScReeN DiSpLaYs YeT! -Apple Genius
Double-clicking the edge or corner of a window (anywhere a double-headed arrow cursor shows up) will resize it to the edge of the screen. Hovering over the green dot in the title bar will bring up some simple window tiling options. https://support.apple.com/guide/macbook-air/manage-windows-on-your-mac-apd2345fc25d/mac has more to say on the subject, more recent versions of the OS than I use have added more stuff in this vein, personally I just use Moom and have been for years.
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Moom looks great! Is there a Mac app which enhances the functionality of desktops/workspaces?
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash (theverge.com)
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“Canceled” for now. Maybe it was a just a video, they’ll continue with the “quiet” development and slowly launch it
Yep. Anyone got alternatives? I love the convenience of a video doorbell but I really really would like to not help the police or ICE or anyone else for that matter unless I decide it's a good idea.
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Normal door bells are pretty great and have less overhead and maintenance... All tech puts it's best foot forward, some of it's really nifty, but a camera on every street corner is always going to pose more risks than it's worth IMO... It's work to go back to the old ways but I think this is one we step we should really all take.
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None of these agencies get your video data without your consent. The feature was designed so they have an easy way to present you the request for footage. Unfortunately a portion of the information getting circulated is the complete opposite.
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Doesn't matter, unless you're a asshole you shouldn't continue to give money to companies like ring that partner with ICE or flock. I'm not a asshole so I cancelled my subscription.
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> Yep. Anyone got alternatives? The self-hosted and home-automation and home-assistant subreddits are _full_ of discussion threads on this. The good news is that you have a TON of options to pick from. The bad news is that they're all deficient in one way or another so you really do have to spend a bit of time to figure out who executes best on the things you care most about. If you don't mind the lock-in, Unifi is nice. Reolink (and the other DaHua re-brands) usually leave a lot to be desired in terms of software / quality but they are cheap and they reliably spit out a regular video stream that can be used with just about any software. Just don't let them onto the WAN!
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I have a Reolink doorbell. It records to a SD card and works great with my Home Assistant setup. So much better than the Ring it replaced.
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Got the UniFi Doorbell from Ubiquiti and I'm really happy with it. It's hooked up to my Dream Machine, records video on disk and I access it via Tailscale. Not paying any subscription and it doesn't live in a cloud.
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I use Amcrest's AD410. I don't pay for their cloud, have my own NVR, and can access them through Wireguard if I'm out of the house.
you can use a company that is self hosted like Unifi and have complete control over your data, still have remote access, and not pay a subscription. “self hosted” scares people off but its literally a box you plug in and forget about. Pretty trivial. I dont understand why anyone chooses Ring when the costs of Unifi are so much better. The ring app also sucks imo and all their hardware is quite slow.
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Honestly, that commercial convinced me to dump my Nest cameras because, eventually (if not already), they'll do the same.
We've got an analogue video phone on our apartment. Works flawlessly. No digital path other than the ring selection. Has a flat monochrome CRT which is kind of cool. I made it half a century without a doorbell in my phone. I don't need it now.
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Eh. I have a Logitech Circle View, and appreciate seeing whether it's a delivery person or some rando selling vacuum cleaners. It also pops up a picture of the person on our TV and chimes my phone, so even if we have the music up or we're not at home, we can still see that someone's there. I like these.
This is a temporary rollback while there’s a choice to speak against it. Cloud connected doorbells must die as well as dragnet surveillance.
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> Cloud connected doorbells must die as well as dragnet surveillance. I'd disagree and restate that cloud services willing to make these kinds of deals must die, painfully, in a fire after being stung by a million killer bees, after receiving a million paper cuts and having lemon juice poured all over them. It is possible for a company to charge a monthly fee to provide a service and only that service without attempting to leverage their users and their data for any other form of income. Companies used to do it all of the time. It just takes a C-suite/board/founder to have the moral fortitude to not sell out their users.
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> It just takes a C-suite/board/founder to have the moral fortitude ... Just for context, could you provide some examples of such people?
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Agreed, but this would then inconvenience millions of non-techies. Could a solution be forcing Amazon (and Google and Flock and...) to open their backend software either for self-hosting or for running on somebody else's "cloud"? So subscribing to such a device isn't that different from getting web hosting from Dreamhost or Hetzner? Maybe there's a host or IP field in the settings that users can easily change?
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I know this is not constructive, but fuck 'em and their convenience!
I worked across several facilities and obviously cannot talk specifics about those. It is public knowledge that one of them housed a large metro area's main ISP "meet-me room." During Snowden revelations I'd already been apprenticing for years; nothing Edward documented surprised me . I'd literally walk around our 500,000sqft elevated floors knodding my head [none of this exists, officially] . ---- Nothing is as it seems. ---- During DEF CON ~XX~ (approximately same timeframe as story above) it was publicly revealed that intelligence communities had redefined the word "intercept," to mean when a human operator catelogs a certain piece of data/traffic (i.e. not algorithms sorting) . #1984 #newspeak #elevenyearsago ---- I no longer carry a cell phone. Don't use email. PO Box in profile
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> I no longer carry a cell phone. I'm not quite there yet, but after Netanyahu made that comment like "if you have a phone you're carrying a little piece of Israel with you" right after the pager attack stuff.. I keep the phone in the back of my backpack away from my meat bits.
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Yeah well aware of that stuff here. Two companies I worked at had entirely airgapped infrastructure because they knew the adversarial situation wasn't winnable. Everything was checked for implants at goods in. It's shocking some of the shit that goes on. I run grey man where I can. Stuff that's private stays private. Paper and physical security is still good.
Now whenever the cameras detect a lost dog, all your neighbors' phones begin playing "Angel" by Sarah McLachlan
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They also play this when the cameras in your house detect you using more than one square of toilet paper at a time.
Daily Struggle over two buttons labeled "RECOVER LOST PUPPY" and "DEPORT NEIGHBORS"
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Is it a struggle for them? Clearly they're pressing both buttons.
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Who wouldn't?
Early audience response suggested the message struggled to land. According to an iSpot survey of 500 viewers, the ad’s likeability score placed it in the bottom 3% compared with Super Bowl ads over the past five years. Its top-two-box purchase intent scored 24% below Super Bowl norms and 19% below ads in its category that aired over the last 90 days. Viewers most commonly described their reaction as “WTF,” signaling confusion around both the message and the execution. https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/super-bowl-revealed-ai-messaging-crisis/
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I think that the ideas of AI boosters and other tech maximalists will pretty much always "struggle to land" with normal people. (See also: the ring ad.)
↙ time adjusted for second-chance
My Grandma Was a Fed – Lessons from Digitizing Hours of Childhood (sampatt.com)
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This is SUCH a great story. Thanks for writing up both the human and technology parts with equal love and depth.
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Way too much work :( At least my collection is miniDV.
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Neat! I briefly tried digitizing some old VHS tapes for my family. I was just planning on giving them the files, maybe putting it on iCloud, it's a much smaller collection (and I don't have a NAS already!). I did a few, the time investment was the biggest issue, as well as figuring out the right encoding so as to not take up a ton of space, but still be compatible with everyone's (Windows + Mac) native video players while preserving video quality.
Discord Just Killed Anonymity (michael-dev-tech.github.io)
I used to use discord for games a long time ago, but then I noticed it was being used for more serious stuff. For example, LLVM moved their chats from mailinglists to discord, as did a lot of open source projects. These are big, important projects, and now their chats are not discoverable and will soon be behind ID checks. It really bothered me that so many important projects were relying on a proprietary chat technology instead of using mailinglists or IRC which were more decentralized and under the control of the local admin. I would like to get back to a situation in which you can participate in group chats for open source projects without these being hosted on closed platforms, but if this results in major open source projects shifting from discord to telegram or whatsapp, then nothing will have been learned.
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the discoverability point is huge and underappreciated. i've been trying to find community discussions for specific game dev tools and the answer is always "join the discord." which means the knowledge is locked in a real time chat with no indexing, no real threading, and it'll be gone whenever the server admin moves on. for open source it's even worse because now your community knowledge base is hosted on a platform you don't control, that can change terms whenever it wants, and that requires account creation to even read. we went from mailing lists (archived, searchable, federated) to this. the irony is discord is great for exactly what it was originally built for: voice chat while gaming. it's terrible as a replacement for forums and mailing lists, but the network effect pulled everything there anyway. i don't think the fix is another proprietary platform either, it has to be something with open protocols and local data ownership.
> Discord dropped the hammer: mandatory age verification for all users is rolling out next month. The era of anonymous gaming chats is officially over. This isn't really accurate. Age verification is not mandatory for all accounts. You will be able to join a Discord with your friends, chat, and do voice without age verification. Here's the exact list of what's restricted if you don't verify: > Content Filters: Discord users will need to be age-assured as adults in order to unblur sensitive content or turn off the setting. > Age-gated Spaces – Only users who are age-assured as adults will be able to access age-restricted channels, servers, and app commands. > Message Request Inbox: Direct messages from people a user may not know are routed to a separate inbox by default, and access to modify this setting is limited to age-assured adult users. > Friend Request Alerts: People will receive warning prompts for friend requests from users they may not know. > Stage Restrictions: Only age-assured adults may speak on stage in servers. Taken from the announcement https://discord.com/press-releases/discord-launches-teen-by-default-settings-globally So the claim that Discord is making ID verification "mandatory" or that you need it for gaming chats is untrue.
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Seeing more and more of 'This message is unavailable' - 'Discord requires ID in order to see certain messages' Pretty much an AI detecting vulgarity and blocking it, although actual racist, vulgarity gets through things like 'here with my gock' to 'troll it' are what I've seen. So, yes it is a requirement, and yes, they are censoring people and things, and requiring others to have an ID to see the messages as well. So 'Not mandatory for all accounts' is technically true, but I mean.. you get it, hopefully. > You will be able to join a Discord with your friends, chat, and do voice without age verification. No, building a community is a goal for many; this just isn't acceptable. > So the claim that Discord is making ID verification "mandatory" or that you need it for gaming chats is untrue. Again, not mandatory but creates more issues than it solves.
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> Here's the exact list of what's restricted if you don't verify: > >Content Filters: Sound like something people might not want tied to real-world identities. > >Age-gated Spaces: So, #politics in my local instance.
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1. Given the bad press, they may reverse their decision to do this. 2. If they don't about-face, there's a lot about the implementation that remains to be seen. Personally, I use discord for things that should be completely unaffected by this. I will not verify my age if there are surprises. I'll leave. If the communities I'm a part of decide to move, I'll support them and move even if I don't run into surprises. There is absolutely no way we should support giving identifying information to a U.S. company given what's going on right now. The trust is no longer there. If you verify your identity, anything you say on Discord could be used against you if you ever pass through American borders.
The government would like to know. 1. So they can use it against you later if they want to (eg. blackmail, spying, etc.) 2. So they can start shutting off access to content that those in power don't like Calling it now: Reddit is next.
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Reddit is already like this in my country.
Let's call this what it is: 1. A way for politicians and the state to track porn habits to US citizens and use that information against them in the future. Blackmail for the future politicians, business leaders, and wealthy to coerce them into doing what those in power want. 2. A way for conservatives to tighten the noose around non-chaste materials and begin to purge them from the internet. And if that works, that's hardly the last thing that will go. Next will be LGBT content, women's rights content, atheist content, pro-labor content, and more. (Or if you're on the other side of the political spectrum, consider that the powers could be used to remove Christian content, 2nd Amendment content, etc. It doesn't really matter what is being removed, just that the mechanisms are in place and that powers can put a lid on the populace.) We aren't screaming loudly enough. Do not try to sugar coat this with a pedantic mistake. This is far worse. It's a first step down a path the Big Brother state wants. Yell. Scream. Protest.
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> 2. [escalating content purge] Consider for example what might have happened if there was no anonymity available back when the official party line was that covid couldn't possibly have come from a lab accident and that Hunter Biden's laptop was a plant. People could have been prevented from sharing links to articles that disagreed with the official truth!
> 1. A way for politicians and the state to track porn habits to US citizens and use that information against them in the future. This topic really brings out the crazy conspiracy theories. No, politicians are not using Discord age verification to track constituents' porn habits and blackmail them with it later.
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It's as crazy of a conspiracy as the NSA listening to your phone calls or ICE will arrest American citizens. It's a few years too late to call it just a theory when it's already happening. There have loads of "hacks" where nudes and dating profiles with photos are somehow leaked. There's a zero percent chance they somehow decide Discord or specific porn sites are safe, don't worry, just upload those full face and ID scans bro.
never, ever is quite strong wording when you're in an arms race with 14 year olds who want to gain illicit access to something digital. I know everyone's a digital native these days and real life isn't a 90s hacker movie, but 'rarely' already seems like a pretty high bar given how ingenious a 14 year old deprived of their preferred entertainment can get.
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if your goal and reasoning is child safety this is a big issue that it can even happen. my point is these tools are unreliable. It is using a problem that cannot be fixed as justification for a big privacy invasion. I was 14 once too, that’s how I got into what I do now.
Hmm no but that's usually a good thing. I've had some late night chats where I knew all the other people around and it would not be so cool if anyone else could just join and scroll back to it. In fact this is the reason some irc networks blocked matrix bridges at first (they now have settings to disable this) I'm not saying mainstream people should use IRC though. Matrix is better for that.
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It's situational. In a lot of contexts, especially in large public chats, being able to see history when you join is perfectly fine and good. Telegram lets group admins choose whether members can see history from before they join, which is the perfect solution (IMO).
Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification (matrix.org)
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You can’t pay me to use Matrix, it’s irredeemable trash.
That sounds more like a recipe for overreach than a method to escape the law, to be honest. Governments don't typically go "aw, shucks, you've caught us on a technicality" without getting the courts involved. Clueless lawmakers will see this app called Element full of kids chatting without restrictions and tell it to add a filter. When the app says "we can't", the government says "sucks to be you, figure it out" and either hands out a fine or blocks the app. There are distinctions between the community vibe Discord is going for (with things like forums and massive chat rooms with thousands of people) and Matrix (which has a few chatrooms but mostly contains small groups of people). No in-app purchases, hype generation, or kyhrt predatory designs, just the bare basics to get a functional chat app (and even less than that if you go for some clients). I'd say being based in the UK will put matrix.org and Element users at risk, but with Matrix development being funded mostly by the people behind matrix.org that implies an impact to the larger decentralized network.
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It's just a reality that law is harder to enforce when you cannot target a given server and take out an entire service. Regardless of what you think of the law. This is why to this day torrenting of copyrighted material is alive and well.
The Australian law doesn't care where servers are run. I don't know about others.
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I've been threatened by the governments of Pakistan and Germany for stuff I've said pseudonymously on the Internet. As much as they may think everybody needs to care about their laws, I happen not to.
Yes, you could. Whether or not authorities with jurisdiction over you would notice your instance (homeserver) or bother you about age verification is an issue you'd have to consider for yourself.
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I'm more familiar with Australian legislation than others, but here at least a home server would definitely not require age verification. Kids are free to make group chats with their friends in a bunch of services. The spirit of the law is definitely not against chatting with friends, but it is against the idea of connecting minors with strangers, so while federation is generally not codified (or, IMO, understood well by legislators) and you're probably not going to be bothered by authorities about it, I reckon sooner or later the law will come for federated networks. (Since we all seem fine just taking some uncertified random third party's word for it that their AI face recognition definitely didn't see a thumb with a face drawn on it, maybe it'd be adequate for Matrix.org to add an "18+ user" flag to the protocol and call it a day?)
ICE, CBP Knew Facial Recognition App Couldn't Do What DHS Says It Could (techdirt.com)
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Technology wise, I’m more interested to have a platform or site that tracks the people who build these technologies and apps, rather than the runner boy in the streets. Those people have no morals or ethics, I want to know them and know their names/company names if contractors, so I never work with them or hire them or share any sort of collaboration with them.
Privacy issues and politics aside, the title doesn't really seem to describe the content of the article. The app seems to be doing what they say it can do. Is there any actual data as to it's effectiveness, match and false positive rate?
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Despite DHS repeatedly framing Mobile Fortify as a tool for identifying people through facial recognition, however, the app does not actually “verify” the identities of people stopped by federal immigration agents—a well-known limitation of the technology and a function of how Mobile Fortify is designed and used.
Are you sure you are aware what tribe I belong to, if any? I was speaking from a position of "anyone" with the power of the sword.
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The tribe currently wielding the sword is the red tribe. Framing their actions as "squashing a rebellion" rather than seditious conspiracy to undermine our Constitutionally-limited government is a form of empathizing with their particular violence. The framing of corporate vaccine mandates is from the same vein - both the implication that it's at the same level of coercion as de jure government action, and also the normalization of what would normally be a fringe viewpoint as a mainstream political rallying cry (a direct result of tribal propaganda). If you want to talk about needless escalation, sane leadership would have unequivocally told everyone they should get vaccinated, and then the number of people defecting would have been small enough to just cope with. Furthermore addressing your original appeal for " open, peaceful, extended discussion ", this doesn't particularly work when the red tribe is still fully cheering on their spite-candidate looting and burning our country's institutions to "own the libs". From what I've seen there are many Democrats still asking "how can we compromise" (even if half are tone deaf about the reasons), while the red tribe continues happily supporting whatever they're told is "winning".
DHS -> Department of Homeland Security, parent agency of both others created after 9/11 CBP -> Customs and Border Protection, descended from U.S. Customs Service, which traces back to the end of the 18th century, but added to DHS at the beginning of the 21st ICE -> Immigration and Customs Enforcement, created in 2003 from the criminal investigation arm of CBP and related agencies They are related but not the same. Under the current US regime, all the stops are being pulled out and all the lines blurred. As a result, you're seeing ICE doing crowd control, BORTAC (basically CBP's tactical / SWAT unit) doing run-of-the-mill immigration enforcement, and all kinds of other wackiness. The DHS does much much more than just CBP/ICE stuff too.
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In my own country the border guard is part of the military- its a special form of military police. They also protect embassies for some reason. Trust me the US does not have a patent on bureaucracy... Over the centuries things just develop. One can only assume it made sense once.
That trend of blurred lines has been going on for quite a while. Iirc a big callout of the 9/11 commission report was lack of communication between the FBI and the CIA. Even on the local side increasingly it seems every major crime gets a mixture of various federal, state and local law enforcement response. A notable case was the Uvalde school massacre, which only ended when a border patrol tactical team (believe from the BORTAC group you mentioned) took over from dithering local forces. This was a major example, but interagency collaboration has also become routine in far less dire circumstances. The militarization and blurred lines have thus become a feature not a bug. And it won't be reformed simply by having the current administration fade into the rearview mirror. It would be beneficial I think though if current excesses led to a more holistic introspection and reform, but we'll see.
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The CIA and FBI had been deliberately separated, after the Church Commission found many, many abuses. The Patriot Act removed and lowered many of the barriers. And now we're back to what the Church Commission found.
Fixing retail with land value capture (worksinprogress.co)
I don't think there is a connection. The situation where the landlords capture most of the increase in value that a cluster of retailers create, would not be affected if we switched from taxing the landlords on the value of their land and building, to taxing them just on the value of the land.
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The trick is that land alone can command higher tax rates than land+buildings without negative economic effects, due to land having an inelastic supply. A community could therefore tax land value at ~100% and capture the entirety of the value increase that'd otherwise end up in landlords' bank accounts. Combine that with UBI or some other means to redistribute that captured value and literally the only “losers” in this scenario are the landlords (and only to the extent that they'd no longer make money on renting out land; slashing the building tax to zero would make those landlords less disincentivized to maintain and upgrade their buildings).
> Retailers take on all the risk > landlord which has done literally nothing This isn't really accurate. It actually takes a decent amount of work and capital input to get a set of retail buildings into usable shape and keep them that way. The internet caricature of landlords is that the buildings just popped into existence one day and the landlords rent them out, but there's obviously more to it. I know several attempts at retail real estate development that flopped and lost investors a lot of money. There's also a risk involved in renting out the properties. Not all tenants will pay the rent, and when they stop paying for long enough you have to evict. It takes a long time to get someone's business out and turn the property over so a new business can move in. The rents have to be adjusted to compensate for some of that loss, but in a downturn (e.g. COVID) the losses can all sync up at once and torpedo the financial model used by the landlord. Retail spaces also need to be kept up. It's common in my area for groups to buy out blocks of spaces and overhaul the old parking lots, landscaping, lighting, traffic patterns, and security so that they go from being sketchy run-down locations to something safe and inviting. I'll probably get downvoted for trying to add some balance to the conversation because this is an internet comment section and my comment wasn't "landlords bad", but retail property investment isn't really a magical safe investment like everyone assumes. Keep that in mind if anyone hits you up for an investment opportunity related to one.
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There is risk in choosing tenants for sure, though it is usually the case that the retailers themselves are putting in the expense and sweat equity into renovating a space. Sometimes this is cost shared, often it isn't. I know my retailer friends painted their store themselves. It is in the scarce retail environment where landlords have the least amount of risk around choosing a tenant because if one fails they can easily get another. So a city adding more retail zoning would increase vacancy, increase risk to landlords and hopefully reward good retail tenants.
Where is this? As far as I know, my area doesn’t do that. The assessments go up over time, but there’s no large jump on transfer of ownership.
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This is in California. The hand-wavy explanation is that in the late 70's when this initiative passed (Prop 13), home values were rising rapidly due to an influx of people moving to the state and higher inflation rates of the times. Many people that owned homes, including those that had purchased their homes and retired, were getting priced out of their homes on the property tax rates. There are other rationales or rationalizations depending on where you come down on it. But Prop 13 was intended to slow property tax growth while you owned the property, with assessment reset to full market value at sale time.
We are in commercial zoning oversupply to be honest. New retail units going up all the time under apartments failing to lease because there is only so much retail demand, at least at the prices offered but we know people would rather take a loss from an empty unit they can write off than actually lower rent and underlying asset value they use for collateral for loans.
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Really depends on local markets. NYC by comparison has a lot of new condos that go up with zero street level retail space. It all gets filled up with an expansive lobby and amenities. Makes the surrounding street life dead.
There seems a bit of inner conflict in what you're saying. If retailers "revitalizing a neighborhood" leads indirectly to them getting priced out due to rising land values, isn't it also true that poor people living in the neighborhood get priced out at the same time? Is it a good or bad thing to make a neighborhood more hip, is the retailer a hero or a villain?
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It's absolutely the case that poor residents get priced out and do not necessarily benefit from a neighbourhood becoming hip. The cool new retail is tangentially to blame through second order effects, but the real problem is the inflexibility of the system in responding to change which results in a shortage of housing, which means that the disruptive impact on low income persons is really severe as they have no where to move to when things become more expensive or they are evicted. Much like how the solution to increasing retail rents is more flexibility in retail zoning, so to is the solution for increasing rents. It's less of a big deal if a cheap lame neighbourhood suddenly becomes cool if you can easily bail out because there's plenty of affordable apartments elsewhere. The problem we're in is that there's a general shortage and so in many places, losing a long held apartment is like an existential crisis because everywhere else is even more expensive and there's a shortage. Another approach is that in redeveloping "cool" areas we could increase land/property taxes and developer fees so as to recapture the land lift and divert toward public realm projects that benefit existing long time residents. The area becoming cool and getting new condos pays for the new pool and new below market housing. Should be mentioned as an aside that the actions themselves of poor people can ultimately gentrify a neighbourhood just as much as retail. A neighbourhood can become known for a vibrant arts/music scene that ultimately gentrifies it not just because it has some bars, but because the working artist residents are they themselves creating the attracting works in putting on events and shows. They earn a meagre income as working artists but ultimately may displace themselves as condos come advertising themselves on the scene that they've created. Cyclical neighbourhood change I think is inevitable so I think what we really need to focus on is not necessarily finding ways to keep neighbourhoods the same, but giving people and retailers options so that when change happens, it's not disruptive and painful.
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By that logic making an area worse deliberately is a win for affordability.
In truth, retail is a pretty awful business. People love the romanticism of it and the "simplicity", but really it's a shit way to make money the vast majority of the time. $100k of money sitting on shelves depreciating. Narrow hours when most of your business comes, but need to hang around all those other hours for the trickle of other customers. Dealing with theft. Dealing with bottom tier workers. Dealing with the general public It's really best when you are already retired and just want something to do for fun.
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Vanity shops/restaurant projects by rich spouses are very much a thing in some rich towns as well. People who are doing it for fun since they have nothing else to do with their time and this also hurt competing businesses that actually need to make money. That said it would probably be fun way to engage with the community in whatever retirement hobbies you have. Like a daytime cafe / nighttime lounge / listening bar / art gallery thing haha. You do need some staff you can trust to deal with all the not fun parts. Anyone who has worked retail as a teen knows what that’s like.
A perennial cause for revolution around the globe. It’s a bit ironic. In an effort to horde wealth, the wealthy bring about their own ruin. Though I suppose if you die before the revolution that’s alright for you
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Apres moi, le deluge.
Rari – Rust-powered React framework (rari.build)
If anyone’s exploring Rust + React, I’ve been building something similar on the rendering side. react-vello [1] exposes Vello (a Rust GPU renderer) as a React renderer via WASM + WebGPU, so you can draw shapes and text declaratively while Rust handles the rendering in the browser. [1] https://github.com/mblode/react-vello
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Very nice, I think a Rust server using a WebSocket to send MorphDOM diffs to the browser would be very well received.
It's like beating a dead horse. React is the literal worst of all the modern JavaScript frameworks and yet that's what everybody insists on using. Vue is light years ahead of it (and will be even further ahead when the new Vapor mode is released in 3.6). Svelte is ahead. Solid is ahead. Heck, even Marko is ahead.
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As a Svelte developer working with React at $DAYJOB I must say it is the most horrific kludge of terrible abstractions I’ve ever had to suffer through in my life. The sheer number of hoops you have to jump through to do literally anything is comically absurd, and even the nicest way of doing things is a dumpster fire of bad programming patterns. The worst part is, React devs are blind to just how much of their day is spent solving problems that are created solely by React itself, unrelated to any business logic or actual value. One day my dream is to delete 75% of the code, sprinkle some svelte into the business logic, and be left with a strictly superior, more performant version of the platform.
How is a viewmodel better? It's way more skipping around in the codebase to find the parts you actually care about
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- Allows you to use async/await and generators (useful for pagination/infinite scroll) - You can test the view model independently of the rendering logic - Dramatically reduces the code that lives directly in the component (it's only TSX) - Allows for better abstractions and state management (services) - Clear path to leveraging threads in front end applications - Simple "visual" components (like <Input />, <Button />) don't need view models, just orchestrating components. In practice, when writing traditional React, I focus too much on rendering cycles and the nuances of managing component state while spending much less time on making the application look good and feel performant/nice to use. Having a component be pretty much exclusively TSX gives me a clear separation of "view" and "what the view needs" - so I just think of the html structure and css. I tend to create much better looking and nicer applications this way. > It's way more skipping around in the codebase to find the parts you actually care about Not really. You cnt+click to an implementation. Say you have "await someApi.getItems()" - you just click and go directly there. Traditional React apps need to thunk with redux or have a bunch of custom hooks that quickly become a source of confusion.
Naming so lit
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Thanks twin!
A party balloon shut down El Paso International Airport; estimated cost –$573k (log.jasongodfrey.info)
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Speaking of, that helium is a precious non renewable resource.
Thinking more practically though. Why wouldn't there be "narco drones", with drone technology becoming so ubiquitous and cheap? And what would their operators care about airspace restrictions? The practical ones, as in "not get sucked into a jet engine or damage a wing and cause a plane crash"?
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Why would they fly near an US airport though? There are miles and miles of border with practically no people living near. (Regardless, seems building a wall was kind of a waste of money.)
Remember, this is the same side that espoused "meritocracy" as their number one virtue. Instead, we got a cabinet full of loyalists and fascists that decided doing joint missions between the DoD and Border Patrol was a good idea. Firing lasers at party balloons in American cities, everyone else be damned. OPSEC is clear.
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To be fair, the current version of the party is nothing like the version of the party from even a decade ago. Whats disturbing is how so many people on that side have completely abandoned everything they ever said about their principles and values.
Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation (anthropic.com)
I haven't used it to replace workers though, only to replace Google search. My company is pushing copilot but it's only $16/user/mo. Hardly lucrative and no moat.
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Claude Code and Cowork are incredible products, and can do much more than just search. Lots of people are paying hundreds of dollars a month for them. If you’re just using AI for search then I can see why you’d not see the value. But many people really are getting a huge amount of value out of agents, and are already paying for it. That said, agentic search connected to your companies information sources is very valuable on its own. We have just connected up our internal zendesk, Jira, confluence, and github in Claude Code and it’s incredible how useful it is to find information spread across different services in 1 minute instead of it personally taking me 15 minutes of manual search.
I thought it was a far superior UI to facebook when it launched. I tried to use it but the gravity of the network effect was too strong on facebook's side. In the end I'd rather if both had failed. Although one can argue that they actually did. But that's another story.
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I very much wanted Google Plus to succeed. Circles was a great idea in my opinion. Google Plus profiles could be the personal home page for the rest of us but of course, Google being Google... That being said, tying bonuses for the whole company on the success of Google+ was too much even for me.
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I very much wanted Google Wave to succeed. It seemed like a really cool way to communicate. I guess we sort of got it with Slack though
Theoretically Apple can spend just as much. What are the outcomes though? All those giants have their own business that are established and profitable. It’s the new kids in the block that will make the difference. You know those lists on twitter about how many companies US has in top 10 and are presented as a win? Those are actually lists of capital concentrations blocking innovation. It looks like US is winning but for some reason life is better in EU and innovation is faster in China. It’s companies like OpenAI Anthropic that will move US ahead. Even if some core innovation or and capital comes from the establishment.
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> Theoretically Apple can spend just as much. What are the outcomes though? All those giants have their own business that are established and profitable. Ah! Well, if we put aside "The Innovator's Dilemma" and pick up Reis and Trout's "marketing Warfare," we get the answer. Apple does have an existing business, but investing in AI does not cannibalize it. They can throw money at it, try to find a way to make it work really, really well for consumers on very specific custom hardware in their devices... Likewise, someone like Google has all the money in the world to throw at it, but they aren't investing in a new market, they're defending their search business against everyone just asking a generative AI Chatbot questions. I\But it's possible for them to screw this up internally over turf wards, just ask the engineers who tried to make search better but were kneecapped by Prabhakar Raghavan who demanded that search be poor enough to drive people to click sponsored results. In the "Marketing Warfare" model, Apple is attempting a flanking attack: An outsider trying to disrupt the AI giants with an approach that they can't imitate without undermining their value proposition. On-device AI flanks the big giants that areservcie-centric. And in that model, Google is playing defence, which is what every leader is supposed to do. Their job is to "cover every move," which they are doing in textbook fashion. If AI goes away, Google dry their tears and continue to mine ad revenue.
> Theoretically Apple can spend just as much. What are the outcomes though? The GP was talking about Google specifically, and their outcomes on AI are nothing to scoff at. They had a rocky late start, but they seem to have gotten over that. Their models are now very much competitive with the startups. And it's not just that have more money to spend. They probably have more training data than anyone in the world, and they also have more infrastructure, more manpower, more of a global footprint than the startups. The Innovator's Dilemma is an anecdotal, maybe a statistical relationship at best, but not a fundamental law of nature. When an established company has everything it should take to become a leader in a new industry in theory, and in practice their products are already on par with the industry leaders, you know at some point it becomes rational to think that maybe they might become a leader.
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Google didn’t have a late start, they invented the tech, had bespoke hardware in place that supported it and have money to spend. I don’t have any idea what comes next but Google and Microsoft look bad right now because they can’t execute a product strategy. My personal bias is that either ms or Google or both will land just fine after it all shakes out but they started with a lead and are now playing catch up.
Google Cloud is good and successful. Except they can't implement billing hard caps, or pretend they can't.
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Neither does AWS and you can argue they aren't good but they're objectively successful, so it doesn't seem like a good metric.
GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark (openai.com)
Wow, I wish we could post pictures to HN. That chip is HUGE!!!! The WSE-3 is the largest AI chip ever built, measuring 46,255 mm² and containing 4 trillion transistors. It delivers 125 petaflops of AI compute through 900,000 AI-optimized cores — 19× more transistors and 28× more compute than the NVIDIA B200. From https://www.cerebras.ai/chip : https://cdn.sanity.io/images/e4qjo92p/production/78c94c67be9b480e9e4e39b7c26e8b11da167325-4096x2160.png?auto=format&dpr=2&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=1400&q=75&w=1400 https://cdn.sanity.io/images/e4qjo92p/production/f552d23b565912e206698908c746f5454f9516e8-1070x877.png?auto=format&dpr=2&fit=max&q=75&w=1070
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Maybe I'm silly, but why is this relevant to GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark?
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That's what it's running on. It's optimized for very high throughput using Cerebras' hardware which is uniquely capable of running LLMs at very, very high speeds.
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It’s the chip they’re apparently running the model on. > Codex-Spark runs on Cerebras’ Wafer Scale Engine 3 (opens in a new window)—a purpose-built AI accelerator for high-speed inference giving Codex a latency-first serving tier. We partnered with Cerebras to add this low-latency path to the same production serving stack as the rest of our fleet, so it works seamlessly across Codex and sets us up to support future models. https://www.cerebras.ai/chip
Wooshka. I hope they've got good heat sinks... and I hope they've plugged into renewable energy feeds...
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Fresh water and gas turbines, I'm afraid...
This has been the industry standard for the last 20 minutes. I can't believe people are still using GPT-5.3-Codex.
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Ha think of all the losers still using codex 5.2
Continue to believe that Cerebras is one of the most underrated companies of our time. It's a dinner-plate sized chip. It actually works. It's actually much faster than anything else for real workloads. Amazing
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If history has taught us anything, “engineered systems” (like mainframes & hyper converged infrastructure) emerge at the start of a new computing paradigm … but long-term , commodity compute wins the game.
Can anyone buy TSMC though?
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Not without an army
The bigger the chip, the worse the yield.
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Cerebras has effectively 100% yield on these chips. They have an internal structure made by just repeating the same small modular units over and over again. This means they can just fuse off the broken bits without affecting overall function. It's not like it is with a CPU.
Does that mean smaller chips are made from smaller wafers?
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They can be made from large wafers. A defect typically breaks whatever chip it's on, so one defect on a large wafer filled with many small chips will still just break one chip of the many on the wafer. If your chips are bigger, one defect still takes out a chip, but now you've lost more of the wafer area because the chip is bigger. So you get a super-linear scaling of loss from defects as the chips get bigger. With careful design, you can tolerate some defects. A multi-core CPU might have the ability to disable a core that's affected by a defect, and then it can be sold as a different SKU with a lower core count. Cerebras uses an extreme version of this, where the wafer is divided up into about a million cores, and a routing system that can bypass defective cores. They have a nice article about it here: https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/100x-defect-tolerance-how-cerebras-solved-the-yield-problem
There was a pre-LLM version of this called "battledecks" or "PowerPoint Karaoke"[0] where a presenter is given a deck of slides they've never seen and have to present on it. With a group of good public speakers it can be loads of fun (and really impressive the degree that some people can pull it off!) 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPoint_karaoke
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That is very cool. Thanks for posting this - I think I’m going to put on a PowerPoint karaoke night. This will rule! :)
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