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Cool! I'm reading your blog post right now:

https://blog.steve.fi/so_i_wrote_a_basic_basic.html
In the UK mask adherance in supermarkets is spotty at best, but when I say "died down" that's because we've been following social distancing measures. The feeling I get is that the public

However high density mass transit in cities is still empty on the most part (there's always exceptions) - most "knowledge workers" (the ones that cram into cities on overcrowded peak trains every day) are remaining at home. Those working in factories, warehouses and shops tend to drive there, so there's less opportunity to spread. Johnson is trying to get people back to offices to save share prices of Starbucks and Pret. I get the feeling it's that, combined with fewer people out at pubs, that's keeping it at bay.

We've expected to see increases ever since the VE Day conga lines, the Bournemouth Beaches, the BLM protests, and the pubs reopening, and on the whole we haven't seen it. I certainly don't think it's run it's course, but aside from local outbreaks which seem linked to poor factory conditions (the meat packing industry especially seems vulnerable), Leicester sweat shops) it does seem to be rumbling on without the exponential growth we saw in March.
The venn diagram of "celebs who are influential" and "fans who are data hoarders" don't overlap as much as you think. The latter tend to be a much nerdier group than the general population.
>where 0 Kelvin is defined as a system devoid of energy

This is not true, in quantum mechanics at zero kelvin (so in its fundamental state) a system has a non zero energy. See this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_harmonic_oscillator#Ha...
You forget that a good number of professionals do not use phonetic input methods, and use component based ones like CangJie, Boshiamy, WuBi, Four Corners etc. Plus even phonetic input methods have "fuzzy modes". If you ever watch an experienced typer use a phonetic method you'll see that often they only enter the first letter of each character.

The fact that any number of people forget Pinyin at all demonstrates that it can't be compared to English phonics. You can't forget phonics, you can forget Pinyin.
Such a long and detailed article!
Really cool seeing GPT-3 in the wild. Very nice landing page.
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Anyone else experiencing problems with newrelic?

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[1] https://status.newrelic.com/
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I still don't get it. Do these people not blow their nose?
yep, and was hoping the youtube would be a rock video...Question Stanford's position on this --DEC had a big office in Palo Alto, but it is where we kept the feral Unix (er Ultrix) monsters...and DEC won the 32-bit war baby (at least until the micro prism chip architecture was misappropriated into the 8080, er. Pentium "Pro").

TL;DR: DataGeneral (a spin off of DEC from before my time) with the Eclipse team was battling DEC (a 1950s tech giant that made its name subverting IBM) with the VAX team for "first 32-bit" bragging rights. (To make things interesting, for me at least, my Dad was an expert at Data General technology and I was a teenage mutant DEC nerd.) When I learned VAX MACRO32 they were drawing comparisons between it and the (even then, older than dirt) IBM 360 assembler and it was totally mind blowing. Getting rid of of the memory limit on the (preceding) PDP11's separate code and data segments and introducing a 4.3GB virtual address space (the "Virtual Address eXtension") changed everything. Prior to that, computer scientists had to rely on complex "overlay" techniques to swap program and data segments in and out of memory at the application level (under RT11 and RSX11, the preceding operating systems to DEC 32-bit VAX/VMS and under RDOS, the preceding operating system to DG 32-bit A/OS). Too hard for non-specialists, so someone wrote an entire operating system (RSTS/E) in BASIC which was quickly starting to dominate in the run up to VMS (also probably inspired Bill Gates and his BASIC interpreter ROMs for competing microprocessors).

iPhones/Macs and even Raspberry Pi are all dumping 32-bit now, but cost-effective 32-bit lives on in nRF and ESP class micro controllers that will surely "eat the planet" (who needs to carry a phone, dawn AR glasses/earplugs or sit at a desk/tablet when all planar surfaces for as far as you can see are I/O devices run by $0.10 micro controllers that network to edge nodes for any memory/compute heavy lifting).
>I desperately want nuclear fusion to work because nuclear power is the only realistic way to solve the looming energy crisis of the 21st century while still maintaining the same standard of living for everyone.

If that's all you care about we can do without nuclear fusion. We have a sun in our neighborhood so we can just harness its energy in various forms such as wind, fossil fuels, biomass or via PV. The real reason we need nuclear fusion is because it is necessary for interstellar travel. There's no sun in deep space. You'll have to bring your own fusion reactor with you.
Note that latest wyhash 1.0 is still not included into my benchmarks, it's in the wyhash branch. My benchmarking machine is still busy with fuzzing unfortunately.

As for the speed: I wouldn't claim XXH3 the world's fastest hash function at all. It's very fast for bulk digests, of large buffers. Amongst other similar hash functions. But as we know hashing mostly involves short strings, and there code size matters most. Wordwise FNV1, crc-ni and wyhash would be the fastest IMHO.
I think the article lacks one more "standard" claim for this type of pseudo-science writings: slow breathing cures cancer.
It is out of academic fashion these days to blame Capitalism in papers directly. It is often arrived at very indirectly.
Are you not entertained?
Not all of it is structured. I've seen numerous examples where the structure is inferred from HTML markup, i.e. not so structured.

I get your point about structured data laying it out on a plate, so to speak.
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Not just you. Same problem for me.
Semver is not about choice.

It's about conveiing when something might potentially have broken due to API changes.

And it's about doing so in a way which can be interpreted by an algorithm.
Good for them. I daily drive an AMD Hackintosh (3900X) and the price to performance ratio of this chip is excellent.

More broadly, consumers are real winners with this zen-powered competition of the last few years. Intel first dropped prices aggressively and now with them shaking up the tech org it seems likely the two companies will have to fight one another for consumer dollars for years to come.
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Interesting, but not entirely coherent. Often it seems to prompt me to respond to something I think the system intended for "me" to have said. The drug dealer trying to either buy or sell some drugs from/to me starts talking about me in the third person, then complains that a lot of people don't know how to talk about themselves.
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Britain uses a lot of CCTV but I don't see them doing better on crime. Theoretically that should conclude the topic.
Tibor Scitovsky once remarked that the most rewarding leisure tends to be skilled leisure: playing a musical instrument, sports, drawing and painting and so on. and that as people start to work less, they will increasingly need to learn how to spend their free time in a way that doesn't make them miserable or bored. Reminds me a lot of the maker ethos as well: production is more satisfying than consumption.

Long work hours are also harmful when they make it hard to spend time with your kids, time to resolve personal issues or wind down after a stressful period, time to study. For a lot of people, weekends are stuffed so full of errands, appointments and grocery shopping that there's very little time left to actually recover from the work week.

Point taken, though, the quality of work often matters more for wellbeing than the quantity.
TLDR;

"We have shown that poverty traps exist. People are poor because of a lack of opportunity. It
is not their intrinsic characteristics that trap people in poverty but rather their circumstances.
Poverty is not an innate condition. This has implications for how we think of development
policy and for the value of eliminating global poverty."
Mallsoft popped into my head when reading this too. Basically mallsoft is a sub genre of vaporwave which is Ambient / electronic music with a focus on evoking and creating nostalgia. mallsoft is a sub genre because it focuses on the nostalgia of an empty shopping mall.

Vaporwave etc is absolutely fascinating.

It's also dead now.
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Highlights:
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Verdin modules provide a modern, future-proof set of interfaces focusing on ease-of-use and robustness. The Verdin line expands on the already successful Colibri and Apalis SoM families and comes with the same extensive software, documentation, ecosystem and support. This includes Torizon - the easy-to-use industrial Linux platform - and Toradex BSP Layers and Reference Images for Yocto Project.

The currently available Verdin SoMs feature the new powerful and efficient NXP® i.MX 8M Mini/Nano applications processors. Currently in development, is a Verdin SoM with NXP i.MX 8M Plus applications processor with Neural Network Accelerator and Image Signal Processing units. Additional Verdin boards are planned. Dahlia works with all current and upcoming Verdin SoMs providing highly scalable and future-proof solutions.

The Dahlia is available on the Toradex webshop, for more information visit the Dahlia Carrier Board page.
> You average in declining cases and deaths in NY, say, and it obscures what's happening in Texas. Same on an international scale.

I am not. Look at the rate of change in daily deaths in NY versus Texas. It's a big difference.
I think there's a number missing under Google Cloud AutoML Vision Inference Cost:

> Our tests yielded x predictions per second
Shufflepuck!? Really?????
The specific flawed ideas in the article are actually from the 1960s.
Someone below mentioned the following link, in which they do a sharp comparison of fusion technologies. I am by no means an expert, but after watching that link, it appears to me that such solutions are probably unproven science: it took over 50 years to get anywhere near a Q-factor of 1 (energy in = energy out), with hundreds of technologies screened, tested and scrapped.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0KuAx1COEk
They do and very efficiently, it was at one point a bunch of high end servers - they called it out as an example of going deep not broad for scaling.

I remember reading they had 256GB of RAM on DB servers when that seemed like an absurd amount to me.
Poverty is the base case. It's the default state. How does prosperity increase at all?
Without making the jump from washing plates/factory work to software I don't know how I would have escaped(still haven't) considering my pay increased 4 times. Just brutal when you trade hours for money directly at a low rate, I was doing 70hrs washing plates before and it was nothing ha.

Edit: there is the thought of living within your means, personally with a roommate I could live on $10-$20K a year which you can make doing labor jobs but not a lot saving. I'm lucky being single/having no direct responsibility eg. children.

It is my opinion though that if you want to/have internet/time then you can alter your life for the better, but yeah can't just say "learn to code". But other options available. I see the point about opportunity because I had a friend to crash on his couch when I was technically homeless that is helpful/bare min opportunity.

My jump was not fast, it took at least 2 years not including the 3 years before that of self-study/personal interest. I freelanced on the side while working as a dishwasher before first in office/full time job.
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Ok, I would be curious about evidence that dark matter has momentum, because my favorite theory at the moment is that spacetime itself has certain topology on large scales, which isn’t tied to any masses. If one could show that dark matter has momentum, I would reconsider, but I don’t think that is what Bullet Cluster shows.

Edit: even if it turns out that dark matter is the best theory, it would still be a conceptual disaster. But so is QM. Nature seems not to care what we find conceptually appealing.
I guess I’ll be calling it the Uait Aus in Uoscinton because in my language “sh” is unreadable and contains no extra information.

Some words have been imported and adapted into English in the past, but I doubt that nước mắm is one of them.

I‘d also say that news outlets should be held to a higher standard than “conversational language.”
Hehe: My dad used to refer to Mum as the CEO, they are both alive and after being married in well over 40 years they are still an example in being nice and respectful to each other.

I have adapted kind of the same attitude: As the one who brings most money to the table I demand a final say on anything major, but in reality my wife has found our last 3 cars, do the majority of the shopping etc, I mostly just rubberstamp and sign and keep telling my kids to respect their mum.

So far it has worked fine : )
I'll probably read the whole thing at some point, but I'd say that it's due to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediocrity_principle, basically "don't assume you're special". Or "don't assume any one sample of a thing is special", from the start.

And since the natural state of humanity is poverty (after all we all started as hunter-gatherers), breaking out of it on your own is extraordinary. I wouldn't be surprised that the first communities to break out of poverty had 1 extraordinary individual that lifted their entire family/clan/tribe. Then through social osmosis more people in their vicinity were lifted, provided they cooperated/were open enough to the new thing that made their neighbors rich/were not discriminated for a million reasons/...).

Look at the Industrial Revolution. It basically spread geographically from the UK and is also spread socially to UK off-shoots, first.
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It's just expired because it was a big internet niche fad in like 2012. Subsequent micro-genres have appeared since, and also had their turns. Perhaps we'll soon see new ones based on '00s nostalgia.
My battle with WD to get my shucked SMR drive RMA'd
That's not my experience at all. To a limited extent, you can get something more beautiful by just putting more work in it.
This past week one of the companies on "who's hiring" sent me three challenges that "would only take 2 hours" before I ever got to talk to a human being or even got a human being responding with an email. This was a fully automated system apparently. "Take this programming test, we'll let you know if you're good enough to talk with a human."

Whilst the challenges were not particularly complex, you also had to ensure that the person who was going to run your code could stand up your environment, so part of the second challenge was "thoroughly document how to run your code, the environment needed, etc, etc."

Life is too short to deal with this kind of stonewalling.
Transcript of that:

> You look at card.
The number on the card points to a warehouse in the poorer part of town. The warehouse is dark, with an old man standing in front of it. He nods as you and Jeanette walk up.

> You ask Jeannette: "Are you still here?"
"Yes, I'm not done with him yet."
"Really?"
"Yeah, I don't want to leave until I make sure he doesn't have anything else. I want to be sure, you know?"

> You "Who are you talking about?"
"You, of course. Who do you think?"
"What do you mean?

> You "You're talking to me about me in the third person. That sounds weird, you know?"
"Oh. Yeah, sorry about that. I forget that some people don't really know how to talk about themselves."
You laugh. "It's fine. So what do you want to ask me?"

> You "I want to get out of this life. I don't really need yet another drug dealer."
"You're serious?"
"Yeah, why else would I come to you?"
Jeanette laughs. "OK. Well, I'm here if you change your mind.

> You approach the old man in front of the warehouse.
You walk up to the old man, and he nods at you. "What can I do for you?

> You show the card to the man. "I got this number. I guess I'm here to buy something?"
"Yeah, I got something. What do you want?"
"Uh... do you have anything worth buying?
"Sure, we got most things."
"Well, show me."
"

> You "Do you have anything special?"

The man studies the card. "Yeah, we got some new gear that came in."
"What is it?

> You inspect the gear.
You look at the gear. It's fairly high-tech looking, and definitely more than what you usually buy.

> You "What does it do?"

The man pulls out a gun and shoots you in the throat.

> You "Ow! Why did you do that?"

The man shoots you again, this time in the chest.

=====

Was I asking for a live demo of the gear and it turned out it was a gun? It was an unexpected twist.
“Corporations” and “business end of a gun” are not mutually exclusive mechanisms of power.
Two things:

1. Take PG like an opinion piece in the newspaper.

2. This article so vehemently tries to criticize PG for his lack of sources, but it itself does not provide sources or data to support their criticism; instead it raises more rhetorical questions. Before you go out to publicly criticize someone, make sure you’ve got your own ground covered. Otherwise, it is just a metaphorical stone fight between the two. I’m looking for a chess game, not a stone pelting contest. Perhaps with both parties dressed, suited and politely dismantling each other’s tactics with reason, logic and data. It could be a draw or it could lead to a checkmate. Both acceptable and the game concludes with a handshake.

Also some low blows to SV folks - CEOs and “intellectuals”.

That was really glib and poorly organized, written and put forth.
Isn't all that a fancy way of saying that comparing income using PPP rather than exchange rates makes sense?
That's interesting, because from the outside Chinese cooking seems to be barbaric compared to Vietnamese cooking. Chinese cooking styles varies more, but they often prefer barbaric techniques, like overcooking, over saucing, using stark with lots of sugar, soy over fish sauce, ... even in terms of their own style.

Best cooking is definitely from Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia.
This is horrific UX. Mi bank is almost 100% paperless, and once a month they send this exact mail. I read the subject (something like "You have a message with your monthly statements") and I delete the mail without opening. They never punish me for refusing to get tracked.

Pixel tracking is awful, if you do it at least show some decency and don't blame the victim if they don't fall in your trap.
I don't want to defend capitalism, but I'd say that capitalism needing the exploitation of the weak is not even entirely true.

There is strong evidence that overall economic growth peaked at times (or places) where income taxes were higher and the distribution of wealth and income was more equitable. Of course there is the whole matter of causation/correlation, but this at least shows that a capitalist society can and does prosper when the highest tax bracket is over 80%, while trickle-down economics mostly failed to induce general growth.
That specific principle you linked to seems to be saying something different to your hypothesis - it’s arguing the idea that a sample of one doesn’t let you assume something is unique.
I'm a huge supporter of Darwin.
Yeah, you may be right here. Also Instagram has low entry barrier, where super stars got enormous promotional budgets. Now it is full race to the bottom I would say, commoditization of popularity, massive celebritism :)
Finally! A way for a 68k Mac to use more than 1 GB of memory! Jokes aside, this is a neat tech demo :)
He’s not wrong...
I'm surprised that we're still chasing moon shots in strong force fusion, while weak fusion, which has actually been demonstrated already, gets little attention. Chemically assisted/low energy nuclear reactions have been proven to produce clean energy and useful transmutation. This process can be used to turn radioactive waste into inert material. For example, technetium-99 is a particularly pernicious by-product of nuclear fission. It has a half-life of ~200,000 years and is very mobile in the atmosphere, making it difficult and expensive to handle. In a CANR reactor, this nuclear waste is converted into the safe, and valuable, palladium-106, and the by-product is clean heat. Given the double benefit of clean fuel and nuclear waste recycling, I think this should be a bigger priority than strong-force fusion.

http://nautil.us/issue/86/energy/einsteins-lost-hypothesis

https://www.jstor.org/stable/24216601?seq=1

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B978012815...
But this is beyond ridiculous, so many years of R&D for 8 minutes of sustained acticivty activity? That sound like a joke