skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Building a bit on that, I'd imagine fluid multitasking with imperceptible latencies. A unique programming model or language, say, an OS written in Rust and, relying on that, extensive multithreading and async calls everywhere.

A lot of that is in Haiku, but I'd expect more, adapted to heterogeneous cores.
> Why books over blogs, videos or talk? I'd actually say books on the side of those. Shorter formats tend to skim the surface compared to a book, for any topic.

There's more to it than that: Books are random access devices. You can skim portions, or re-read potions in great depth, and when you suddenly realize you aren't understanding something it's typically easier to jump back to the place where you now realize you had lost your way. Videos and podcasts lack the necessary affordances for deep understanding.

Blog posts can be deep too, but by their nature are typically so only for single topics. This can be good or bad, though for the point the author was making, yes, not helpful. But I don't dismiss them at all.

> Books are in-depth, and well-organized knowledge. ...

Books can be poorly written too BTW.
Realistically it won't be discontinued (if it works well), realistically you can expect to see unskippable ads in your car one day (unless you sign-up to a youtube-google-music-premium-red subscription).
Interesting, I never connected "viteaz" with viking. "Vitez" is a word that in many Slavic languages means "knight". In Hungarian it's "Vitéz".

A short trip down wikipedia and wiktionary leads me to Proto Slavic word vitędzь https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/v...

And indeed, there it is:
> Based on the ethnonym Proto-Germanic *wīkingaz (whence Old Norse víkingr (“bay's dweller”)).

I was a bit skeptical about your claim, but you were indeed right. Thanks for the little history and etymology lesson.
It hides the complexity in the first bullet point: "The protocol proceeds in synchronized epochs."

That is, we're now solving consensus for a synchronous system.

So for example the Paxos assumption:

>Messages are sent asynchronously and may take arbitrarily long to deliver.

Does no longer hold AFAIK.

Edit:
Good article, they even say this:

>Partially Synchronous Network: The network can at times be unreliable, or adversarial; the protocol must not lose consistency in this case. However, when network conditions are good, i.e., when honest players can communicate with each other within 1 second, the protocol must make progress.
Usually its 99.7% percent of the time: three standard deviations.
They are both middlemen. If Alipay is more profitable than Visa, they are extracting even more rent and thus "taxing the economy" even more heavily.
Is this the clathrate gun I've heard so much about?
Approximately what percent of the cost of shipping is the driver's salary? i.e. if you removed drivers entirely, how much can we expect prices to drop?
The big behemoth is Salesforce.com

My experience has been different. When I worked for a travel company, it joined Salesforce. Shortly thereafter it had to hire a full-time Apex programmer to make Salesforce do all the things the Salesforce salespeople promised it would do without a programmer.
Stack more GPT-3s! Have GPT-ception via stacks of multi-headed GPT blocks. I'm sure softmax attention can be modeled as a few-shot text generation problem.
That's what I like about a desktop PC as well. It gives computer-based activities a designated physical place, and therefore the time I spend at the computer is more deliberate.
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Hi, there's lots of things coming to Qt3D in Qt6, including an RHI backend, some new API changes, more performance improvement...

Main issue is that The Qt Company doesn't communicate about it at all. They made a commercial decision to go for a new API (qtquick3d) and as far as they are concerned, the graphics stack no longer includes qt3d.

We (KDAB) will put out a couple of blog posts about the upcoming changes soon.
> Well exactly... doesn't that show you that it's a bad idea?

I don't think so, no. Sometimes we think too abstractly and make what turn out to be poor decisions. Emotions are really valuable heuristics and should be harnessed at a time like this.
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What's interesting is it's not even close to being a new observation. Taking the blame for the fall of Rome off of the shoulders of "the Barbarians" is as old as Gibbon[1].

Elites got to define history (especially before the printing press). Of course they blamed "the Barbarians", but what's really true is that Roman society started eating itself.

The claim that the fall of Rome was a "good" thing, on the other hand, is simplistic beyond belief.

[1]https://smile.amazon.com/Decline-Empire-Volumes-Everymans-Li...
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Indeed, ECMP uses some kind of hashing (dependant on the implementation) to do the distribution and doesn't take different line speeds into account at all.
Great improvement if this project does take this into account.
Aka. the Chinese room argument. However, I'm not so sure us people are little more than just pattern matching machines. When I start to talk (or write, as I'm doing now), the words kind of just flow out. I can make the argument, that I understand the "real" world, but do I really?
Not sure why this opinion is so prevalent. Tesla is in no way close or comparable to a L4 system. It is not even a brief thought for waymo
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Because most "AI engineering" has lost its meaning and is actually data analysis.
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There have been hypotheses in the past that this drug would help; at least one study didn't find that it helped.

https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/results/NCT01354444
I also switched from Vim to Emacs specifically for Org Mode and Magit. I found the Doom Emacs configuration to be a perfect match for my muscle memory. ;)

I document my learnings about the Emacs/Doom ecosystem (including Org Mode, Magit et al) in a form of short videos on YouTube [1]. Maybe it will help in your journey...

[1]: https://zaiste.net/courses/emacs-doom/
As opposed to the AI techniques taught in the AIMA book (KR and logic reasoning), which had plateau'ed in the 70s...?

Norvig had to be pretty clueless to decide ANNs are such a dead-end, that they don't deserve even a chapter in his book, where all around him there are biological living proofs that neural networks are probably a pretty good bet for AI...

(Note: I held the same opinion in the mid 90s when I reviewed his 1st edition and I'm definitely no Feynmann-level. It's just common sense.)
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Yes, I think the focus on "getting to the moon,", to use his analogy, ignores the fact that GPT-3 is an SR-71 in a world of 19th century balloons. It may not get to the moon, but it definitely points the way to lots of useful stuff. There is a lot of boilerplate text in the world that is well-suited to auto-generation by a GPT-3-style model. And currently a lot of people employed to generate that text, at significant aggregate expense.
Sounds like the legal justification.
> Regardless, my question is why did consciousness arise? What was the need?

Yeah, this is the right question. All these proposition like "consciousness is an alpha-rhythm", or "consciousness is a EM waves" are just an destructive reductionism, trying to get rid of something too difficult to understand and to replace it with something of much easier nature. It is like attempts to reduce the problem of "free will" to a physical determinism. Free will is a psychological or social phenomena, it couldn't be equivalent to a physical phenomenon. It could be explained in terms of a physical phenomena. Maybe. (In this particular case I believe it is pointless.). But if proposition draws an equal sign between phenomena from completely different levels of abstraction, we must be suspicious.

But, ranting away, what is a consciousness? I like the most this explanation[1]. Consciousness is a tool to communicate with others and nothing more. All the thinking, decision making are done without help of consciousness, somehow the process is reflected in the consciousness, which allow to communicate the decision itself, motives behind the decision, and so on. Does explanation in terms of EM waves adds something to it? After this EM waves doesn't seem as an explanation at all. It is like ask what is async/await and to answer that it is all about transistors switching states.

[1] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.0192...
I've been pretty happy with paying for applecare on my iphone. It's saved me money a few times, and the one time I cheaped out and didn't buy it, I got burned.
We have experts with 12+ years of experience too but they are not available on a fixed $499 budget. Can you share us your email or a way to contact you and we can take this further. Thanks.
> So although there are a lot of examples and a lot of computation, like the text I had as an undergrad, this development keeps trying to direct the attention of students toward the understanding that they get from higher-level ideas.

I have not read your book, but this to me is one of the commonalities I have found in all successful curriculums for difficult subjects. An effort to tie new material to old material by repeated comparison. The insight that is brought from persistently trying re-examine previous concepts through the lens of an new one, or vice-versa is so satisfying, and illuminating. Nowadays, I try and force myself to make these kinds of connections and comparisons myself whenever I learn something new.
I could definintely get behind sets of cores and associated L3 cache being isentified as a task unit.
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Source? From what I've seen they are around half the speed.
They really ripped off the Alibaba shareholders when they just split it off in 2011 with no compensation.
It's most likely connected with an ability to create models of reality (or intelligence). If you want to achieve certain change in environment, you need to be able to speculate on the state of the future and how to achieve it. In order to do that, one needs to be able to access the memories and locate some actions and consequences they had. Consciousness can be then seen as a root cause of those actions, especially when modelling the future.

Imho, self-control is about the energy expenditure and the fact that brain is optimising for the energy conservations. Habits, addictions and other available models of reality are cheap to access. Conscious self on the other hand requires much more energy to create new models of reality, therefore your brain will try to avoid them as much as it can.
One datapoint out of the norm would be explainable via noise, which is why the article is not about a single datapoint but the trend of all the recent datapoints being far below the norm. You're dismissing the article as a "simple report of an ice free october" when that's not what the article is.

It would not normally just be imperceptible slow to our human senses, it would normally be imperceptibly below the noise floor over our entire lifetimes.
I would agree with the second half if you could set up automatic paycheck transfers to your IRA from your employer. It has to be that easy, in order for people to save.

Going from your checking account to your IRA brokerage is something only financially savvy people do. You have to make it as easy as possible for retirement savings to happen, and it's totally within the government's interest to ensure people save money for old age when they can't work: it means less reliance on Social Security.
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It's visually unpleasant. Boxy UI elements (notably tabs); elements of different sizes in the same container; too much whitespace in some places; generally not enough whitespace in most places (bookmark folders/menus in general/the whole area around the location bar); elements that change size (the location bar); etc. I don't like customizable UIs; it seems to lead to less attention being paid to the default UI. I don't want to invest in configuring a UI; I just want it to work. Themes degrade over time as they're not maintained. Font rendering is worse than Chrome; colors are different from Chrome (I can't claim that one is right, but it's a jarring difference when comparing them, and I'm used to Chrome). Firefox doesn't have a polished UI, and its whole job is to be a UI for other content.
Seeing that a significant portion of activists are "activists" for purely reasons feeding their own ego and self worth, I see this as a net win for weeding such people out. That said, if this does catch on, you can probably expect such people to start signing their content even if the system specifically doesn't support it.
Something I've learned over time is that sometimes it's OK to let people be curious and amazed. The world and science would be far too boring if we were cynical about _all_ of it _all_ the time.
Lots of advanced warning, lots of emails, lots of inperson reminders, etc.

For me, I ended up sending multiple emails and killing the group. (I'm not paying meetup "half price" for an essentially useless service. (Ok, the only thing it holds is membership data.. but they expect you to pay for zoom to hold your meetups [which those don't work])
This change has dramatically increased the backlog for Linux builds (currently hovering around 9600 jobs) and has severely impacted the upcoming release of Fyne v1.4 as the wait time is now multiple hours.

Can anyone recommend a good alternative?
From my skimming of that article, Axler's main complaint with determinants is that it pedagogically leaves students with the impression that eigenvalues are somehow a property of the determinant rather than being a fundamental property of a linear transformation.

I'm not sure I've ever met anyone who has that view; in my experience, more people leave linear algebra with a laundry list of matrix properties whose utility isn't obvious, with determinants and eigenvalues both on that list. This in general is a pedagogical issue with teaching linear algebra as plug-and-chug techniques without explaining why we're doing them.

Truthfully, I'm not convinced that introducing the determinant as "just" the product of eigenvalues is itself useful. One of the more useful properties of the determinant is that it is built up via row-reduction, and consequently, it can be computed using Gaussian elimination. I've seen some texts actually define the determinant via its row-reduction properties, and then build up to demonstrating the other formulas for it.

I'll also point out that there are two more uses that Axler doesn't acknowledge: the determinant tells you the volume of a parallelpiped, and it's a convenient way to remember the formula for a cross product.
>>> I'm wondering a bit about that as many frameworks/libraries that use Postgres already implement an internal connection pool.

That's precisely the problem.

The usual misconfigured python/ruby application will throw 16 connections at the database.

The model for these languages is to deploy one process per core, so there will be 8 concurrent processes running. 8 cores * 16 pool = 256 connections total.

Multiply by N parallel servers and that's even more connections.

There are issues with large amount of connections and postgresql, hence people decide to put pgbouncer in front of the database to mitigate.
That may have helped when Emory University's IT dept. accidentally sent a wipe and reformat command using Microsoft's SCCM to all of the Windows computers and servers on campus back in 2014.
https://it.slashdot.org/story/14/05/17/051214/emory-universi...
I used to work as an intern in this department at the autonomous driving company Daimler acquired. Had a lot of great experiences there, and watching the hardware and software for autonomous vehicles being developed (and contributing to it and driving it!) was eye-opening and made me to fall in love with programming and ML applications. Waymo paired up with a great team here to help develop their autonomous trucking program.
Blog post: https://nextjs.org/blog/next-10

Full changelog: https://github.com/vercel/next.js/releases/tag/v10.0.0
> And no, that does not mean switch to Brave or Edge. Chrome forks by and large fall in line with Chrome's choices. Firefox or Safari are the only choices.

What choices? After seeing how they responded to Manifest v3 Mozilla seems pretty spineless compared to Brave.
$180 per year.
> Everybody seems to want a razor thin phone/laptop/whatever

Do they? I'd be much happier with a phone that was a little thicker and had a bigger and/or replaceable battery. Apple just doesn't want to sell me that.
Sperm-powered targeted delivery in the human body (even upstream!)
> Was it proven they all laughed?

It doesn't sound like it was even proven that anybody said it. Yikes.
That'll depend on the cargo. Corn costs like $150/ton. iPhones... do not.

https://www.trucks.com/2018/05/22/shippers-truckers-soaring-...

> Driver compensation accounted for 33 percent of motor carrier expenses, according to 2016 data collected by the American Transportation Research Institute, or ATRI.
It's the problem of expressing complex logic and calculations to meet your ends

This transcends programming. It is fundamental to basic success in life. You have to know how to form ideas, express those ideas, and then act on those ideas.

I had a very little bit of U.S. Army training. (Nice people, turned out not to be my thing.) One of the things that we were taught is that a big reason some armies are more successful than others is because some train their soldiers to think, others train them to blindly follow orders.

Another arena where we see this is education. There is no shortage of people graduating from high school and college who can pass written exams through memorization. But there is a massive shortage of people graduating from high school and college who can think.
For a basic company wiki Nuclino is another option. It doesn't have all the features Notion does, but I loved the incredibly fast page loads and search. Notion feels pretty sluggish by comparison.
Agreed. I had an additional conflict in that I am a naturally sloppy person, and the worst part of doing matrix calcs by hand is that I'd often make a calculation error due to an inability to read my own handwriting, which would lead to terrible marks again and again.

Learning numpy was godsend.
Yes. Around where I live (New England), it's fairly common to post land without a blanket "No Trespassing" with the intent to prohibit motorized vehicles, hunting, and trapping but not people simply walking on your property.

It still happens though that as rural towns become more like exurbs though that new landowners post their properties to prohibit "traditional" uses that long-time residents had been doing all their lives.
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Obligatory "we did that back in the day with Multilink PPP" ... which sucked ROCKS, had no real standards, and only actually worked with personally applied patches and black magic in my experience.

Really glad to see this project advancing.
One of the few breaking compatibility stories that I would consider positive would be Apple's (temporary) restriction on Flash, which was definitely good for the Internet and mobile ecosystem.
> “This investigation found that one person was responsible for instigating the incident and nine other members of the team were part of the Slack channel. By the time we became aware of it, the Slack channel had been deleted; we attempted to recover it but were unable to...

I find this slightly worrying. We use the free tier of slack (which in itself is a bone of contention), one of the big problems being that there's only a 10,000 message history available to users so useful information quite often drops out of view.

That said, Slack have specific admin tools to deal with harassment and bullying. Even on the free tier it's possible to contact them and ask for this history, even if it's been deleted by a user and even if it's past the 10,000 limit. The fact they can't get the chat log strikes me as suspicious.
For those in ASIC and chip design industry, the two of the largest chip companies namely Intel and AMD buying two of the largest FPGA companies is inevitable, it's just a matter of "when" rather than "if".

I think the more interesting news is what they are going to do pro-actively with these mergers rather than just sitting on it.

I really hope their respective CEOs will take a page from the open source Linux/Android and GCC/LLVM revolutions. I'd say the chip makers companies are the ones that benefit most (largest beneficiary) from the these open source movement not the end users. To understand this situation we need to understand the economic rules of complementary goods or commodity [1].

In the case of chip makers if the price of designing/researching/maintaining OS like Linux/Android and the compilers infrastructure is minimized (i.e. close to zero) they can basically sell the hardware of their processors at a premium price with handsome profits. If on another hand, the OSes and the compilers are expensive, their profit will be inversely proportional to the complementary elements' (e.g. OSes & compilers) prices.

Unfortunately as of now, the design tools or CAD software for hardware design and programming, and also parallel processing design tools are prohibitively expensive, disjointed and cumbersome (hence expensive manpower), and if you're in the industry you know that it's not an exaggeration.

Having said that, I think it's the best for Intel/AMD and the chip design industry to fund and promote robust free and open source software development tools for their ASIC design including CPU/GPU/TPU/FPGA combo design.

IMHO, ETH Zurich's LLHD [2] and Chris Lattner's LLVM effort on MLIR [3] are moving in the right direction for pushing the envelope and consolidation of these tools (i.e. one design tool to rule them all). If any Intel or AMD guys are reading this you guys need to knock your CEO/CTO's doors and convinced them to make these complementary commodity (design and programming tools) as good and as cheap as possible or better free.

[1]https://www.jstor.org/stable/2352194?seq=1

[2]https://iis.ee.ethz.ch/research/research-groups/Digital%20Ci...

[3]https://llvm.org/devmtg/2019-04/slides/Keynote-ShpeismanLatt...
Whenever I have something in my hand that I'm about to put down for a second in the exact absent minded kind of way that would leave me searching all over the house for it 5 minutes later, I say it out loud. "Headphones on the table by front door."
how will you test your belief?
There are a couple of ways to do it. You can give it a prompt that shows examples of the classification and it mimics what it thinks is the correct behavior when you feed it new unclassified input. They also have a search endpoint that lets you do classification by giving it an input along with labels as the searchable documents and using the resulting semantic relevance scores.
Most cameras can't, I agree, but mine does. It has a 4 exposure stacking mode, but only in JPEG mode, and the stabilization is sufficient that I can get quite sharp images at 0.8x4 handled, especially at the 35-28mm equivalent focal lengths of an iPhone.

I can share some pics, if you want. It does require a steady hand.

But then again, the iPhone doesn't really do a 3 second exposure, it rejects a lot of frame so it's more like 1.5-2 seconds, which I can do reliably.