FeedCity

In a conversation with economist Paul Krugman, climate journalist David Roberts asserts that the United States and China are going in different directions in energy, one forwards and one back. One of the grand international stories right now — though it’s very hard when yo...

Help! My Favorite Athlete Is an Idiot (Alt headline: When Sports Heroes Have Terrible Opinions). “Just root for the jersey and not necessarily the nitwit wearing it?”

For one sixteenth century Austrian mayor, a long, luscious beard was both his claim to fame – and the cause of his downfall. 

Read more about Hans Steininger and his deadly beard: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/beard-braunau-steininger-hans

And how about a deep-dive into facial hair culture in 16th century central Europe? 

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1468-0424.12538

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Astronaut Michael Fincke was rendered unable to speak while on the ISS, prompting an evacuation to Earth. “We’re almost 100% sure that this is a space-related thing.” Uh, I’ve been reading a lot of sci-fi recently; this is *exactly* how It starts.

A new study shows that since 1990, the United States has caused $10 trillion in global climate damages. China is responsible for $9T. “Our emissions have caused damage not only to ourselves, but pretty substantial damage in other parts of the world.”

As we close out CR Month, the guys gather together for one more pod that is all very off the record, on the QT, and very hush-hush. They take a trip to the Formosa Cafe and revisit Curtis Hanson’s ‘L.A. Confidential’ starring Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kevin Spacey, and Kim Basinger.

Producers: Craig Horlbeck, Chia Hao Tat, Eduardo Ocampo, and Matt Pevic

Join us in San Francisco for a live taping of ‘The Rewatchables’ on April 8th!

Tickets go live on April 1st HERE

Find what you're looking for. https://www.amazon.com/firetv/
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Release: datasette-files 0.1a3

I'm working on integrating datasette-files into other plugins, such as datasette-extract. This necessitated a new release of the base plugin.

• owners_can_edit and owners_can_delete configuration options, plus the files-edit and files-delete actions are now scoped to a new FileResource which is a child of FileSourceResource. #18
• The file picker UI is now available as a <datasette-file-picker> Web Component. Thanks, Alex Garcia. #19
• New from datasette_files import get_file Python API for other plugins that need to access file data. #20

Tags: datasette

Release: datasette-llm 0.1a3

Adds the ability to configure which LLMs are available for which purpose, which means you can restrict the list of models that can be used with a specific plugin. #3

Tags: llm, datasette

Jesus Clarifies Return Will Be Strictly Limited To Carpentry Business. “My sole focus during this Second Coming will be various woodworking projects and not the establishment of a messianic kingdom.”

Stop scaling headcount. Scale your workspace.

Most security teams don’t have a talent problem, they have a noise problem. Manual phishing remediation, chasing risky OAuth permissions, and auditing file shares shouldn’t be a full-time job.

Material Security unifies your cloud workspace, bringing detection and response for email, files, and accounts into one place. It’s security that actually works: augmenting the native gaps in Google and Microsoft without the usual enterprise bloat.

Stop fighting fragmented consoles and start focusing on strategy. It’s time to simplify your SecOps.

See how Material scales.

Link: material.security/lp-cloud-office-security?utm_source=third…

Note that the main issues that people currently unknowingly face with local models mostly revolve around the harness and some intricacies around model chat templates and prompt construction. Sometimes there are even pure inference bugs. From typing the task in the client to the actual result, there is a long chain of components that atm are not only fragile - are also developed by different parties. So it's difficult to consolidate the entire stack and you have to keep in mind that what you are currently observing is with very high probability still broken in some subtle way along that chain.

— Georgi Gerganov, explaining why it's hard to find local models that work well with coding agents

Tags: coding-agents, generative-ai, ai, local-llms, llms, georgi-gerganov

Oppo Find N6 has done it. Now what?

MKBHD Merch: http://shop.MKBHD.com

Playlist of MKBHD Intro music: https://goo.gl/B3AWV5

Phone provided by Oppo for review.

~
http://twitter.com/MKBHD
http://instagram.com/MKBHD
http://facebook.com/MKBHD

I love these looping GIF animations from perfectl00p that use Windows 3.1 elements (Minesweeper, Solitaire, SkiFree, Notepad).

Paul Graham:

So when you have a world defined only by brand, it’s going to be a weird, bad world.

Graham’s thoughtful essay focuses on the mechanical watch industry. But I disagree with his conclusion. I think the market for mechanical watches has never been more fun or vibrant than it is today. The action, for me at least, isn’t with the high-end luxury Swiss brands. It’s with the indies, from companies like Baltic and Halios.

It’s also interesting to ponder Graham’s essay in the context of other industries. I think it’s self evident that the entire market for phones — the most popular and lucrative consumer devices in the world — is defined by a single brand, and every competitor just copies that one brand with varying degrees of shamelessness. That’s bad and weird.

Link: paulgraham.com/brandage.html

Anything can handle broad daylight

Scott Knaster:

The Big Mac is about 22 times the size of the little Mac.

Link: scottknaster.substack.com/p/macs-of-unusual-size

Get yours before April 12 on Kickstarter!

Trip Venturella released Mr. Chatterbox, a language model trained entirely on out-of-copyright text from the British Library. Here's how he describes it: Mr. Chatterbox is a language model trained entirely from scratch on a corpus of over 28,000 Victorian-era British texts ...