skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Julia is way superior if you are building programs and systems, especially if you are building for sustained use (rather than something to do a job once). Julia is less error prone, more expressive, more maintainable, more performant.

But if you are creating cut and shut scripts for data science notebooks Python wins... the repl start time alone is a killer for Julia, add in the requirement to actually think about structure and the problem and it's out of my "3 -> 6hr" workflow.
I don’t think it has anything to do with smiling, go ahead and smile. At least with the russians I’ve spent time with, it just takes some time before people open up.

Don’t ask a question and completely ignore the answer.

Don’t give platitudes when they could spend some effort and saying what a team member did well. It’s the same in dating, don’t tell someone they are beautiful, go the extra mile.

At least I think this is what people mean by “fake” but I’m not sure.
It's not right-wingers mocking people with "freeze peach!"
Imagine two objects hitting each other perpendicularly, as opposed to head on.
Plenty of momentum could be conserved and thrown out in a median vector.

Edit: Not only that, but even if 90% of momentum was lost - it only takes another satellite going in the opposite direction to supply all the energy. Here's what 2 ounces of plastic does at 15,000mph to a block of aluminium. https://imgur.com/gallery/8NwAhgK
I think the news industry is better than ever. Just like 50 years ago, you can watch the evening news on TV, or listen on the radio, or read the major papers (NYT, The Economist). My local paper is online now and charges a small subscription but it's still around. In addition, Google is constantly recommending me articles from hundreds of different news sites and blogs, some which are major operations and some which are just a single person. The tech giants have diverted ad dollars from the News industry but they hardly broke it...
What other intention did they have in pushing up the steps of the capitol and then inside? It’s not like two idiots did that. They were all attending a “Stop the Steal” rally and were told that their country was being stolen from them. They were told Pence must comply.

Their goal was to stop the counting of the electoral college votes and cause havoc. They were trying to literally subvert the federal government and our collective voting system.
AppImage? I don't see the need for much sandboxing, since certbot requires to have the keys to the kingdom anyway. systemd can whitelist a single folder for certbot to have write permissions.
Actually yes, that's how nature "works", at certains scales and regimes of applicability. Likewise quantum mechanics also tells us something fundamental about how nature works, again at certain regimes of applicability. It's still not a theory of everything, but that doesn't mean it's wrong.
Out of curiosity, why were you involved in that development if Teams is so bad? I mean I'd rather wouldn't like to associate my company with such garbage. Just good old money reasons?
- Using Python directly is a better experience than calling Python from Julia

- I've never run into unsolveable performance issues with Python

So I guess I'm not in the target audience unless I just happen to be curious about a new language? That's kind of my overall point - even if Julia is a good language on its own and I work in data science, I don't have reasons to pick it over Python.
You seem to think that I owe you something when I don't. You have a computer, go work it out yourself. It's not my job to help you grow up and think more clearly.
Except it's a meager 1M vaccinated and nowhere close the efforts of the UK, for example.

As someone with the "feet on the ground", I can say that there has been no information on the vaccines to the general population (at least, not a large information campaign). Not even among healthcare professionals, of which a part refuses to be vaccinated.

That is exacerbated by statements "threatening" mandatory vaccination, which don't help the cause at all.

Of course, also the EMA is to blame, because it is far slower than MHRA or FDA when looking at market authorizations for vaccines. "Perhaps" we'll see a decision by the end of the month on AstraZeneca.
he lived there almost 18 years - incredible
Forgo has gotten better in the last couple of days, thanks to contributions.

- Forgo Router https://github.com/forgojs/forgo-router

- Error boundaries for sub-component error handling

- CodeSandbox Links https://forgojs.org/#try-it-out-on-codesandbox
I love how there are exactly zero technical details on the website about how this Basis thing works and what it is. It's chock-full of marketing copy and unnecessary animations instead. But from the early access form I can gather that it's going to have a monthly subscription (of course, it's 2021 after all) and probably need proprietary consumables.
I suppose a large blob of magnetic gel might be more useful, attached at the front of a rocket. Magnetic and gel like substance to trap any parts, dust, an debris from collisions.
Not odd, he's just a workaholic with no family :)
> "if you can't tell the difference, does it really matter?"

It indeed does. The problem is that societies and cultures are heavily influenced and changed by communication, media, and art.

By replacing big portions of these components with artificial content, generated from previously created content, you run the risk of creating feedback cycles (e.g. train future systems from output of their predecessors) and forming standards (beauty, aesthetics, morality, etc.) controlled by the entities that build, train, and filter the output of the AIs.

You'll basically run the risk of killing individuality and diversity in culture and expression; consequences on society as a whole and individual behaviour are difficult to predict, but seeing how much power social media (an unprecedented phenomenon in human culture) have, there's reason to at the very least be cautious about this.
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> worried about government overreach when people guilty of murder are caught and sent to prison

Oh please. Banning dissenting opinions off of platforms is more akin to capital punishment. Try not to make strawman equivalencies.
If that machine is under MDM (mobile device management) then you should consider even your encrypted disk at risk of prying eyes.

That said, portable apps running off the encrypted disk might also help. Browser, email, etc.
And Skype for Business is actually their old Lync product and not related to Skype, the once famous VoIP startup.
Seems like it would still be useful use Julia as the backend for the R package instead of Fortran. I've been showcasing a lot of that lately with good success:

https://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/juliacall-update-automat...

https://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/gpu-accelerated-ode-solv...
The point is, like a sheep on a farm, you're being milked and sheared by your government, like in most socialist countries.

Sure, like sheep on a farm, you're well tended to, but you basically live in a society where people exist to serve their government rather than the opposite.

That may not be your definition of the word "socialism".

Call it "collectivism" if that fits your definition better.

That won't change the fact that you're living in hell AFAIC.
It's not me I'm worried about - it's the 50% [1] of people who get their news from social media and "entertainment" news platforms. These people vote, and can get manipulated into performing quite extreme acts.

At the moment a lot of people seem to have trouble engaging with reality, and that seems to be caused by relatively small disinformation campaigns and viral rumours. How much worse could it get when there's a vast number of realistic-sounding news articles appearing, accompanied by realistic AI-generated photos and videos?

And that might not even be the biggest problem. If these things can be generated automatically and easily, it's going to be very easy to dismiss real information as fake. The labelling of real news as "fake news" phenomenon is going to get bigger.

It's going to be more work to distinguish what is real from what is fake. If it's possible to find articles supporting any position and a suspicion that any contrary new is then a lot of people are going to find it easier to just believe what they prefer to believe... even more than they do now.

[1] made-up number, but doesn't feel far off.
Julia has some packages to address this now.

https://github.com/timholy/Revise.jl
Thank you for this info, as you mentioned CLIP is used for re-ranking DALL-E outputs, by itself it is just an (image, text) pairs classification network.
Transform data structures in between formats: TypeScript, mongoose, JSON, XML
You don't need to get rid of all those 8km/s. Just enough to drop down into the atmosphere, the rest is a shooting star.
>They are afraid that eventually, Twitter or Facebook is going to remove their conservative speech

Have they (and who are they? The ministers? Every Frenchmen alive?) said this themselves or are you spreading FUD?

Censoring speech is "removing something he said". France and Germany are for this. Censoring people is "removing a person because of what he said". France and Germany are both against this. Of course Facebook and Twitter take the easy way out instead of the ethical one.
Well, the very idea of the scientific method is a philosophical innovation. I think you're not even aware of the history of how we got here.
> Regular social media platforms like Facebook have a single point of failure. If their servers go down, your content goes down with it.

While I agree with the principle of this argument, I think it's far more likely that any of the publicly available Mastodon instances goes boom long before Twitter does. My different kinds of social media activities might be spread across the fediverse, but all of my toots are only on one point of failure, and technically in significantly more incompetent hands than on Twitter.

I'm not disagreeing with this article per se – I want decentralized social media to succeed as much as everyone else – but it's much too brittle and technically minded for the people I mostly like to hang out with, i.e. non-techies.
Yes - if you have a real problem Julia is the way to go. If you are just banging something out to prove a point or make a delivery then Python is often much easier.

Ofc this is like Excel and Notebooks - I start doing things in Excel because I can sort out an answer in like 30seconds. Doing it in a notebook requires 5 minutes, or maybe a little longer. But... see me there, a week later after the feedback and next questions from the customer... now I am in Excel hell and I wish wish wish I had started out in a Notebook.
The correct spelling is Selbstbewusstsein btw.
Why Israel is doing better that everyone else at Covid vaccinations
A Study of the “Human Flesh” Search Engine (2010) [pdf]
Seems much more secure than having a three-letter passphrase, but fair enough.
You can still encrypt the backup with an additional layer when you back it up. I use the E2EE in Nextcloud for folders with sensitive info, that works quite seamlessly.
> honestly, not a lot of productive applications come to mind

Not so convincing when you enumerate so many applications yourself.

> but won't be able to say anything about current events

There are variants that use transformer + retrieval, so they got unlimited memory that can be easily extended.
My fast break meal is a piece of watermelon <10 mins break> spinach, avocado and macadamia nut salad with EVOO <10 mins break> one egg omelette.

Watermelon is very easy for stomach to digest even though it has a fair amount of fructose and would otherwise not be considered optimal for first meal. The breaks are to see how stomach is reacting to food introduction. Rest of the options are made as options that activate sirtuins (restorative cellular signaling) while system is sensitive to new inputs.
The tiger is not evil, but it will eat you all the same when hungry.
If it wasn't google it'd be something else. News was always going to have to compete with free.
It does sound like a lot but it depends on the actual wall clock time. If your run time goes from 10 days down to 1 day then yes, it matters a lot. If it goes from 1s down to 0.1s it might not matter so much.
Jails has their share of problems, all i was saying is that when the tooling and implementation is complex, the risk of doing "something wrong" is bigger. ;)
If they hired team managers that use those metrics, do you think that their peers would know this is a bad practice? It seems like this problem widespread and nobody wants to say "we don't need this data", so yes this should come from the top. However, I fear that if a company starts to suffer, the shareholders would want to know answers and data. Would any exec have dared to say "sorry we don't have any metrics about individual employee performance"?
I was able to find a screenshot easily by searching “parler screenshot violence”:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2021/01/08/apple-w...

“… Prepare our weapons, and then go hunting…”
I'm not sure I understand the story. A guy flew from US to US (but is he a US citizen?). When it came time to leave the airport he showed a stollen ID. The airport staff didn't let him leave (but didn't arrest him?). He was then given the option to return (?) but refused since his place of origin has more Covid than the US (is there such a country?). Then people kind of let him be and he was able to eat simply base on the kindness of the few people using the airport for the passed 3 months.

I feel like I am missing a lot
> You probably heard that the Twitter-account of Donald Trump recently got compromised by the owners of the platform. I don't want to engage in any political discussions, but the main flaw with this is the violation of freedom of speech.

Freedom of speech is a deeply political demand. Who gets the right to speak freely and who shouldn't? Does even the US believe in freedom of speech when that speech involves a provocation to harm it? Would the US tolerate this from a foreign entity? A domestic one?
Living microbes, possibly 100M years old, pulled from beneath the sea (2020)
This makes tulpamancy sound like a voluntary version of what happens when multiple personalities form due to childhood trauma, but that wasn't how the original article made it sound.

From what I understand, recognizing each of the personalities and integrating them into a cooperative "system" is the standard of care for multiple personalities, but trying to induce this voluntarily is a lot different from just creating an imaginary friend.

In this case, a tulpa would share, and sometimes control, your own body.
Use tabs and spaces (2018)
Given the circumstances over the past year and the impact on mental health, maybe this is too harsh a punishment for this guy. I mean he didn't destroy anything or do anything wrong besides stay in what was probably an empty secure area.

Help the guy get home and then provide psychiatric care. Have we all lost any sense of compassion?
First they censored Something, and I did not speak out
Because I was not a Something (and disliked it).
"WILLLLLLSOOOONNNNNN!!!!"
Ceramic knives cut through onions like butter.

Special mention for the peculiarity that Kyocera makes amazing ceramic knives, and on the subject that Peugeot makes amazing salt and pepper grinders.
I don't think Putin gives a sh* about being "embarrassed" - or whatever anyone else than him thinks about him for that matter.
I always thought "free as in free beer" was a way to make a distinction between freeware and free/libre open source software. That's how the FSF seems to use it [O]

[0]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
Xcode is…not very extensible IDE, I'll grant you that. The true impact of XcodeGhost is felt to this day :( I wish it was more extensible, and have myself done sketchy things to make it so, but I entirely agree with you that this is not a positive by any means.

If you are dealing with Xcode settings, move everything you can into xcconfigs, full stop. Just do it. It will save you countless merge conflicts, you'll be able to do mix and match and inheritance easily, and you'll actually understand what your build process is doing rather than it being a black box. I have no qualms blowing away targets and schemes now because I can just make them on demand and let Xcode autocreate the rest. I can "rebrand" an app in seconds and undo the changes in the same amount of time. Things which get used by other people always have ⌘B do the full build rather than some strange dance of "oh CocoaPods changed those settings so you should try to not set your development team on these targets and the dependency analysis is a little broken so…".

Debugger variables are…fine, I guess? I think the biggest issue I have with it is that it's placed in a not-so-great place, where it is generally to small to really see things. So usually I grab that information myself through a combination of p/po.

Xcode is still slick, IMO. Performance wise I haven't seen a huge change–it gets steadily bigger and slower and more complicated, but at about the rate that I update my computer. The people testing Xcode are clearly not using an Early 2015 MacBook Pro like I am, so I write off some of the features like Playgrounds or Previews or many simulators, but other than that I guess it's fine? I certainly value that it opens "immediately" rather than "initializing" (looking at you, Java-based IDEs…).

Where Xcode really shines is the things you touched upon: its integration with LLVM is first-class. It's certainly my preferred frontend to LLDB. The ability to flip on a bunch of diagnostics with one click has surely found many bugs, and the the built-in tooling for debugging memory graphs and view hierarchies is quite good–yes, it breaks sometimes, but it gives me useful results that I can't quickly get anywhere else nine times out of ten. Instruments is certainly unparalleled on macOS for external developers, and in comparison to tooling elsewhere it's a very solid offering.

Finally, of course, it's a nice native Mac app that plays well with all the other ones. That has to count for something :)
That fact that you made up that number is extremely funny in this context.
With regard to Nikola Tesla, I see some interesting parallels with Elon Musk. Below is an excerpt from his biography.

Elon exhibited all the traits of a curious, energetic tot. He picked things up easily, and Maye, like many mothers do, pegged her son as brilliant and precocious. “He seemed to understand things quicker than the other kids,” she said. The perplexing thing was that Elon seemed to drift off into a trance at times. People spoke to him, but nothing got through when he had a certain, distant look in his eyes. This happened so often that Elon’s parents and doctors thought he might be deaf. “Sometimes, he just didn’t hear you,” said Maye. Doctors ran a series of tests on Elon, and elected to remove his adenoid glands, which can improve hearing in children. “Well, it didn’t change,” said Maye. Elon’s condition had far more to do with the wiring of his mind than how his auditory system functioned. “He goes into his brain, and then you just see he is in another world,” Maye said. “He still does that. Now I just leave him be because I know he is designing a new rocket or something.”

Other children did not respond well to these dreamlike states. You could do jumping jacks right beside Musk or yell at him, and he would not even notice. He kept right on thinking, and those around him judged that he was either rude or really weird. “I do think Elon was always a little different but in a nerdy way,” Maye said. “It didn’t endear him to his peers.”

For Musk, these pensive moments were wonderful. At five and six, he had found a way to block out the world and dedicate all of his concentration to a single task. Part of this ability stemmed from the very visual way in which Musk’s mind worked. He could see images in his mind’s eye with a clarity and detail that we might associate today with an engineering drawing produced by computer software. “It seems as though the part of the brain that’s usually reserved for visual processing—the part that is used to process images coming in from my eyes—gets taken over by internal thought processes,” Musk said. “I can’t do this as much now because there are so many things demanding my attention but, as a kid, it happened a lot. That large part of your brain that’s used to handle incoming images gets used for internal thinking.” Computers split their hardest jobs between two types of chips. There are graphics chips that deal with processing the images produced by a television show stream or video game and computational chips that handle general purpose tasks and mathematical operations. Over time, Musk has ended up thinking that his brain has the equivalent of a graphics chip. It allows him to see things out in the world, replicate them in his mind, and imagine how they might change or behave when interacting with other objects. “For images and numbers, I can process their interrelationships and algorithmic relationships,” Musk said. “Acceleration, momentum, kinetic energy—how those sorts of things will be affected by objects comes through very vividly.”
Censorship-free? What are you talking about? On instances there are moderators that can do as they please and the largest federation doesn't allow instances like Gab in it.
I teach a graduate course in optimization methods for machine learning and engineering [1,2]. Julia is just perfect for teaching numerical algorithms.

First, it removes the typical numpy syntax boilerplate. Due to its conciseness, Julia has mostly replaced showing pseudo-code on my slides. It can be just as concise / readable; and on top the students immeditaly get the "real thing" they can plug into Jupyter notebooks for the exercises.

Second, you get C-like speed. And that counts for numerical algorithms.

Third, the type system and method dispatch of Julia is very powerful for scientific programming. It allows for composition of ideas in ways I couldn't imagine before seeing it in action. For example, in the optimization course, we develop a mimimalistic implementation of Automatic Differentiation on a single slide. And that can be applied to virtually all Julia functions and combined with code from preexisting Julia libraries.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdkTDauaUnQpzuOCZyUUZ...

[2] https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1WWVWV4vDBIOkjZc6uFY3...
Astra needs a lot less ground facilities than Virgin Orbit does.
> How will I know that I have a conversation with a real human in the future?

This problem should be solved with cryptography, not by banning large neural nets.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/4/17424472/youtube-lgbt-demo...
Pentagon plans to spread AI across military services
If it's better than ever, then why are lots of independent businesses which earn their money via journalism are going broke at a higher rate than ever?
If someone deletes an instance, is your content gone? Can one join many instances and, if so, does that mean what you post in one instance is not seen on others? Or does everything you do show up on your profile?

>As mentioned, the great thing about the fediverse is that all of these services are connected with each other. If I signed up for an account on a mastodon instance, I can subscribe to your posts on Pixelfed, and vice versa.

This part confused me a bit. Can anyone ELI5?
This is a song called Alice’s Protocol
What I would do:

1. Protect your people, only let the most resilient people deal with this customer, and only if they are okay with it. In our old company we had an ex-military officer, who would've been capable of dealing with such people and strong language.

2. Try to set boundaries: "This language/those arguments are not helpful. Let's end this meeting/call now and continue tomorrow/next week", then hang up or throw him out.

3. Get the hell out of the contract, ASAP. Never do business with him again.