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I agree with the deep fakes thing wrt video, but I’m still not convinced by the ability of current (and near future) ML models to generate meaningful written content like a film script. The GPT-2 stuff I’ve seen has mostly been sensible English, but I’ve never seen it actually generate a coherent story. What do you see are the steps between where we are now and where we’ll be in 10 years?
This is the kind of article that keeps me coming back to HN.
I've been using Joplin for a few months now. So far it seems to fit my requirements better than any other note taking app I've tried - and I've tried plenty - including my own Jupyter based solution.
- future proof (it's open source)
- standard/open format for notes (uses mark down which is easy to write and easy enough to parse if needed in the future)
- sync support and conflict detection - Kudos to their implementation here, it's very versatile. I use Syncthing and it's worked very well for me.
- support for multiple clients (I use Linux, Android, OS X and Windows)
- stable (no issues so far)

The major issue I have is it doesn't support stylus based notes like Onenote. A partial solution would be to extend Joplin to support additional file types so I can keep all my notes together when they are different types. For now, I keep my written notes separate.

If stylus support isn't a requirement for you, I strongly recommend Joplin. I've tried a number of closed and open source note taking tools - Joplin hits the sweet spot for me. For a long time I used Jupyter for taking notes with custom scripts for Search. It's been pretty good however it had two major shortcomings: no android client and the Jupyter client had poor conflict detection when using a a file based sync tool like Syncthing.
Ok you just skipped the second part where I say about overtraining NN's. You can put all the context you want from other sources and expand arbitrarily, but still artificial NN's are a lot more constrained than biological ones. It is because artificial NN's are still only approximation of biological NN's. We still don't know a lot about functioning of brain and other stuff.

Maybe some parts of image recognition require spinal cord neurons and muscle tissue to interact? So is it just count of inputs to neuron, or there are ways where inputs to neuron are modified by other chemicals in a body? Are we making weights on inputs stronger because of good reasons, are making some other inputs weaker because of good reasons?
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Totally agree with you. This irritate me so much, reading about terraforming and living on mars. It’s such a grotesque nonsense talking about terraforming another planet while we are destroying our perfect and beautiful earth.
I've heard 10 days before, possibly older documentation?
As always - reject the "going dark" framing. We are under vastly more surveillance than ever before, yet they want to strip us of even these last, tiny scraps of privacy we have left.
You can use taints, tolerations, affinity and anti-affinity of k8s to schedule the load-generator to a different node than the one contains the service under test.

The load-gen and the service does not need to be co-located in case of REST (drill) and PostgreSQL (pgbench) based load testing.

In case of pure network benchmarking (with iperf & qperf) currently only the same cluster is supported.
They don't really interfere much. Good question, though; I thought they would.

My girlfriend (Latvian, and the reason I'm learning the language) says there's a lot of Latvian words adapted from German (due to long occupations over time), but I haven't really found them yet.

Maybe being native in the language makes a difference? My native language is Spanish, and I can get a decent sense of meaning from texts in Portuguese and Italian. We went to the Louvre last year, and I could also understand some French. My girlfriend, however, couldn't understand a word, despite being fluent (but not native) in Spanish.
That works. I’ll try checking if my pi-hole is killing it.
Don't get me wrong -- I love Common Lisp (except when it comes to I/O). The underlying OS and drivers are almost certainly written in C. To think you are going to consistently beat (correctly written) C at I/O is unrealistic.
Sounds interesting and very similar to a combination of a string split and then unpivot/melt if I understood you correctly.
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Newspapers and literature are quite distinct. Good authors do not require the smokescreen that typical journalists use. Whatever the language.
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Let's not forget that the occasions where Lisp is faster than C are the exception and not the rule. If it were otherwise, the article would be titled "Beating Lisp with C".
Do you realize that Windows 10 can run Linux aswell?
Also Windows 10 NTVDM (NT Virtual DOS Machine) has an unofficial port to 64bit.
Congratulations on the release. Wish you all the best with it, and will not hesitate to recommend it … but first, email 100% has to be supported. Should be as good as Intercom's user-facing email flow.

Email and twitter DMs are IMO more important for people looking for a support channel than "live agent" chat boxes. Live agent boxes are often adblocked and can't ever be the sole point of contact for a company that cares about having a support channel.
people who can afford it value exclusive ownership of an item. a good example is the vacation home. it's possible to defray the cost of ownership of the second home by a lot if you are willing to rent it out to others while you aren't using it, but most people don't seem to do this. [0]

I suspect that unless it gets banned outright, wealthy people will be happy to pay whatever it costs to guarantee strangers can't leave a bad smell in the vehicle that takes them to work.

[0] only about 30%, according to https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/07/12/study-mor...
They're also supposed to be in them until they're 10 or so, these days. You're likely to go through 3-4 seats per kid—infant (often also a carrier), toddler, then either a larger car seat and later a booster or a convertible booster that can do both.

And yeah, you absolutely hand them down to younger kids. Throwing out old car seats is nuts and not something people actually do unless 1) they have more money than you know what to do with, or 2) the seat looks like it's in bad shape or reveals on inspection that it's damaged or deteriorating, or 3) you just don't know anyone who could use it.
‘The car seat lady’ looks like a rather biased source. Which does not mean their wrong.

This is one of the few unrelated looks into the topic and it shows relatively minimal benefits. Likely still worth it, but less critical than generally perceived. https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_levitt_surprising_stats_abo...
The idea came when we tried to optimize Cluster filesystem (CEPH via Rook) for K8S. During this exercise we needed to test both PV&PVC performance, as well as TCP latency and bandwidths.

Target audience would be Kubernetes and OpenShift administrators who would like to measure and tune their installations. It is convenient for them as one CR can be used to describe the performance measurement.
Based on the reminder emails they've sent me, they recommend renewing when one-third of the current cert's validity is remaining. That is, 1 month for their 3-month certs.
I do have some testing that showed me the Common Lisp was roughly the same speed as the C, when testing against a file of a few dozen megabytes. As I explain, I wasn't interested in optimizing it further, as I feel showing this achieved in just a few minutes to be valuable on its own. I also note that a C programmer may boast about being a small fraction of a second faster, ignoring everything else that goes into the program, which I find foolish.

The reason I didn't strictly adhere to the POSIX behavior was because I don't know where this is documented and don't feel like scanning through the C to find out. On all of the files I've tested, which include a wide array of punctuation and other such things, the results were identical, but I'm merely not making any promises. I'd prefer to not be accused of being one of those Lispers who only complete part of the program; if you look at the libraries I've written, which actually concern me, then you'll find they're well-documented and rather comprehensive for their purposes.
Thank you for your input and the suggestion where you would have expected this info the first time
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search results used to be pretty neutral 20 years ago... but yeah Google Search is not neutral.
Huh, the part about software developers having to understand client's needs and work with them is what I've been taught. I'm guessing that in big enough companies, management starts to mess with processes that they should not touch?
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This response literally proves fanboys and employees will offer circuitous logic to substantiate Apple. iOS Safari W3C non-compliance is well known, a little googling will lay out the (intentionally) missing features.

You go to lengths to defend Apple, but do not have the guts to let the consumer pick a Google/Mozilla alternative engine. What is Apple so scared of, if not a level playing field.

This is the same company that retroactively modified it's store policies to substantiate booting steam off the app store. Courage in the face of competition, not!!
> Also, if you are using utility classes why not just inline CSS? "red-border white-background pad-20" is just as bad.

Those of us who’ve used Tailwind in particular might write “just as good, but better”. The utility classes are satisfyingly regular and well documented. They are higher level than inline CSS, and though obviously congruent, I'd reject a claim of direct equivalence.

Tailwind is to inline styles what assembler is to machine code, and that’s a good thing. With inline styles there is no opportunity to use combinatorial selectors, or to specify units, breakpoints, and other stylistic preferences as part of the compiled utilities.

My experience of a semantic or domain-specific approach to class-based styling is a drop in maintainability and a rise in complications, duplication, and special cases. Especially so in larger, componentised applications. Thinking of elements as purely on-page structures (and not representational of anything greater) helps avoid layering violations, promotes generality of style, and creates more opportunities for extension and substitution.
Firefox seems reluctant to innovate in the web though. You need to at least push for some change in order to see it. They 've barely wet their feet with that, very reluctantly and not with enthusiasm (like with Persona).
Interesting, my complaint about Chrome's UI is that it doesn't support Tree Style Tabs (or an equivalent) so I can't have that many tabs open at once.
The problem with things like this is it's hard to disable on a case-by-case basis. I enabled something similar in a VPN and found that certain redirecting tracking links from emails were blocked. Ok great, they don't know that I clicked on the link, but also I don't know what the link led to, since it was blocked, and it was something I actually wanted to go to.
I think it would be a great addition to the article to show the speed as-is with a couple measurements, then show what popping in a few DECLAREs does.
I work as a derivative quant/trader in EM (mostly fx swaps and such) and think that the broker-dealers I transact with provide value. Otherwise, obviously, I wouldn’t need them! This may be a little controversial, but in most cases, being paid means you provide value. And when this isn’t true, it almost always has to do with government regulation.

Anyways, while I don’t have any experience with MBSs, you were probably providing value even if you didn’t think so.
the data stays in your computer though, doesnt travel to their servers. that's very significant

I 'm not sure Brave's model will work, but at least they are giving websites more options , which is more important imho than fighting for who will have the fastest rendering engine.
I can't confirm that, since as of late I've been getting great results with this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DydIK14AvXI
Thanks for the reply. I put some more thoughts on github.
It just reminds me of a female contraceptive device.
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> The bitstream format isn't anything special. [...] This is all relatively old hardware, very well-documented and well-understood.

I wasn't aware of that. This is even better of course!
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I really hope this is a RISC-V play of some sort. Otherwise I don't see how they can win. Apple does better ARM than anyone. Given the level of investment, nobody is going to out-Apple Apple in this area. Beefy, cheap, power efficient, legacy-free RISC-V, now that's something I'd be interested in.
The nuclear propulsion project was unrelated to Orion. And yes, the reason is unknown, because in giving his Executive Order there was no reason attached.

It was nuclear thermal engines, similar were being developed in Soviet Union in fact. IT was even tested for safety in case of crashing on Earth (and could run on earth, though the target was using it in space).
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So, my pihole thinks the DNSSEC is “bogus” rather than the normal “insecure” when there isn’t a signature. I’ll investigate more on my end.
The issue is for whatever reason even data-driven people don’t measure anything around meetings. Since almost no one has had proper training and have no feedback loop, it becomes very difficult to identify what is necessary v. what isn’t. Meetings shouldn’t be removed altogether, they should be measured for effectiveness and then tools can be implemented to run them properly.
It needs to fight for the present of the web, because it is getting worst.
It was many many years ago, so I unfortunately don't have the details. But yes, the process should be quite similar to EnChroma.
What about a mvp scenario? Many successful businesses have crap legacy code, but maybe they would not have been able to become successful ever had they not rushed with the code?
Are you saying taking tech debt is never good?

To me it seems like a failure to take a look at the bigger picture. In the end it is all about the value provided. You are creating a start up that has 10 percent chance of succeeding and only if it gets to market fast.

Also it is never binary. It is always time invested vs quality of the code. It is a spectrum. From what point can you call code crap?

The closer you get to perfect code the more time it takes to get it better as you are closing near perfect.
"Interfaces must remain simple, while implementations are free to be as complex as needed."

IOW, local complexity in exchange for global simplicity is often a good tradeoff.
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They’re exceptions because Lisp programmers are rarely looking to match the inherent unsafety of C by removing heap allocation, bounds checks, type checks, overflow checks, and so on. For many programmers, those are valuable features, something not reflected in the average C program. Eliminating those—much of which is an exercise in declaring what you believe are facts to the compiler—is not difficult, and it’s not hard to produce assembly rather close to that of a usual C compiler.
Wow, I remember the days of the late 90s early 2000s checking out every distro I could get my hands on. I ordered so many from Cheapbytes and Linux Central. (I feel like there may have been a Linux Mall in there somewhere too). I just couldn't believe that these complete distros were free to install and use! RedHat 6.0, Debian Slink. NetBSD 1.4, Slackware.... Getting these things set up and then installing something like Enlightenment with some gorgeous theme.... only to tear it all down days later and try something else. What an incredible time.
Or, it's a song you've listened to a hundred times already and know the lyrics and the tempo by heart. At least, it works for me.
I'm going out on a limb and saying that "emergency response" is a thing of beauty. timestamped. To the point. Examplar of how it should be done.
Any projects or murmurs alluding to tangible progress in that space?
1. I'm sending this link to my partner to justify my messiness, not sure she will buy into it... but....

2. It's not too surprising given the way ntural selection finds efficiencies in quite complex structures. But trying to reason about how they work is tricky. When engineering things, being able to reason about a system is often a lot more important than that system being close to maximally efficient. Main point is, I think you should always be aware of what trade offs are you making.... much like my point #1, if you use this to justify being messy, then it's probablly the wrong tradeoff, but shhh, my partner doesn't read this :)
If you look at a standard library implementation, they go to extreme pain to uglify their symbols not to conflict with the user namespace. If you encroach on the library namespace your code deserves to be broken.
Under pure "will this bring immediate profit", both were wrong decisions. Building the STS as it actually flew was a wrong decision, but that wrong came out of political pressures that resulted in NASA begging USAF for money, and USAF requiring features that were never used but which killed the reusability benefit and arguably stopped US launcher R&D for better part of 30-40 years.

As for no mission - the missions on the horizon are locked by available launchers and bus systems available, with NERVA engines opening significant options. Despite Congress actually voting the money into budget Nixon killed it with Executive Order, and so far I haven't seen any real explanation why, except possibly internal politics and some people's ego.
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Agree but this can also become subjective very quickly. Oh this code is crap according to “me” so lets re write it the way “I” think is better without understanding why it was written that way to begin with. If you apply this article to code then I would say it argues that find out the reason before just removing it.
Two things to share.

1) The book Your Brain at Work by David Rock does a great job explaining the brain and how to tilt it in your favor, more often.

2) I have solved more problems and had more great ideas 3+ miles into a run than any place else. There's something to be said for thinking less and not forcing the brain into a corner.
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>> Sad to see once decent, thoughtful operations like WSJ, NY Times, WaPo, basically turned into conflict generation drivel producers.

I'm not sure that's a fair description of news orgs. The world's fairly complex and you're going to end up with slant one way or another however you try to describe it.
He was a member of the US gov JASONs team.
From The Guardian:

Student housing doesn’t officially classify as housing. It falls into the murky category of “sui generis” (Latin for “of its own kind”). As it falls outside a specific use class, it doesn’t have to adhere to the usual standards associated with dwellings (class C3). Local authorities differ in the their approaches, but student accommodation is usually either treated as a hotel (C1) or residential institution (C2), the same category as care homes, hospitals and boarding schools. Due to their limited occupation, these building types are immune from many of the codes that govern residential dwellings – from space standards to daylight and acoustics.

Daylight is the relevant thing here. This building would be too dark inside to meet housing standards, but it's okay for student accommodation.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/aug/29/carbunc...
> its effecient. ...yeah

> Im tired of it. Its not effecient. Its bad and you should feel bad.

You're ignoring that sometimes, measurably more efficient code is less readable, possibly much less readable. If this weren't the case, there'd be no such thing as sophisticated data-structures and algorithms.

This doesn't mean anyone should make an uncommented ball of mud with no comments, of course.

> No, lets double down on our delusions of superiority by telling ourselves that crap we wrote is somehow effecient in some way.

The usual wisdom about efficient code, answers this: if you aren't measuring performance, that means you don't really care about performance.

If you're going to great efforts, and writing less readable code, on the hunch that this is more efficient, then sure, you're doing it wrong.
Think, I would use release of SolveSpace 3.0 for my CAD experiments, instead of nightly builds.

[0] https://github.com/symbian9/solvespace-daily-engineering
Something of a side point, but I'm curious about how expensive this was for her to do.

In the 80s / 90s wouldn't a blank 3hr video be something like $5 or so (I'm guessing, as I recollect it was about £5 or so, and am expecting they'd be cheaper in the US as most things seemed to be then)

Given that 70k hrs would be around 23k 3hr cassettes, that would work out at maybe $115k. Seems a lot for an ex-Communist organiser to have ready to spend on a project like this (much as it has plenty of merit).
Your link implies that Chrome is more respecting of privacy than Firefox. Can you show me a single reputable tech journalist or online privacy expert that agrees with this premise?

No, you can't.

Your bulleted points are widely known. Could Firefox be even more private? Of course. Would it be better if it didn't rely on Google for the vast majority of it's revenue? Obviously! Heck, even Mozilla itself freely admits that.

Is Firefox worse than Chrome at respecting your privacy as your link implies? That's plainly ridiculous. Even Google itself has never made such a claim.
Or a waterproof notebook (with an attached waterproof pencil). They worked really well for me; I sketched a few public talks in the shower this way.
I saw the VIA in there. Didn't make the connection to nVidia. It felt like it invoked VIA and NUMA.

It made me wonder if it was a VIA spinoff; maybe licensing some of the interdependently developed x86_64 IP they bought with Cyrix from the entire Via C6 era.
One example I've read about is that increased fuel economy requirements actually had a reverse effect in the case of the Ford Ranger. This is because the regulation was based on vehicle footprint, and in order to get the Ranger to meet the regulation it would have priced it higher than the more capable F150. So the Ranger (which got around 22 MPG) was discontinued (along with most similar sized pickup trucks), and those customers bought the F150's that got 15 MPG.

BTW, someone pointed out previously that there is more to the story than just fuel regulations that killed the Ranger and similar vehicles, so take the above with a grain of salt if needed.
I strongly disagree with this. Software should not be written to suit the machine. Software should be written to accommodate the weakest link: humans who are going to need to figure it out 6 months from now when its current programmer departs for the greener pastures. If there's no rhyme or reason to it, it fossilizes immediately and costs a lot of money to rewrite (often into another fossil). So whatever effort you spend to reduce complexity and cognitive load, will pay for itself several times over. As a rule of thumb, the hallmark of a good system is when your guesses about how something would be done are right almost 100% of the time. You don't arrive in this state by accident.
Isn't that exactly what Erlang's gen_server does or am I missing something?
It's quite possible that USSR made overthrowing Ceausescu more probable (by clandestine negotiations rather), because after all in spite of being fellow socialists, Romanian regime had unfriendly relations with Kremlin in 80s. It however doesn't support the idea about Gorbi asking anybody to step down.