skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazing work and any developer should work on whatever he pleases.
But there is also something in me that wished development would focus on something more open. What if Apple tomorrow decides only signed kernels are allowed to boot (to protect the children). I know there currently is no ARM laptop equivalent to the M1, and ARM booting is a minefield. So I get that if the M1 becomes a viable Linux target this would be very interesting.
Let us say we have 1000 activities humans have done, the AI does them all correctly and of course in seconds instead of days. You then conclude that the AI is better than the humans - but you cannot prove that there is not some slight change in inputs that humans would consider inessential that would cause the AI to fail at a particular batch of tasks.
I can't recommend Calakmul enough. It is a far larger and more interesting site than Chichen Itza, by a substantial margin. And, there are at most a few hundred visitors per day (we saw maybe ~100 total the day we visited) vs 6000+ per day at Chichen Itza. You can climb all the structures at Calakmul and the understanding you get of the scope, views of the rest of the site and surrounding area, etc are incredible.

Here are a few pictures I took at Calakmul of two of the many large structures:

https://500px.com/photo/1027901445/Ruins-at-Calakmul-Structu...

https://500px.com/photo/1027483989/Calakmul-Ruins-Structure-...

The "Mayan Train" is currently under construction and may eventually bring many more tourists to the area - I would highly suggest going before that happens and everything there changes. (It will be great for the region in terms of economic impact, but the status quo with few visitors on incredible sites is really magnificent.)

The ruins at Becan, Xpuhil (Xpujil), and Coba are all also really incredible - and only a handful of people visit them per day. You can easily stay in Bacalar, visit Chetumal in the morning, drive to see Becan and Xpujil in the afternoon, and then visit Calakmul the next day. (Driving back to Tulum/Playa del Carmen/etc makes for a long drive afterwards, but is certainly doable.)

Fly into Cancun, rent a car, and then go drive down the coast and plan various stops for a really great trip. Playa del Carmen and Tulum are fun, of course, in an "international tourism" sense. Bacalar and Chetumal are also "tourist towns", but they are very different - think of a small, charming beach/lake town with an older, more original/authentic feel.
it's god damn mangoes, like seriously, the people growing them don't even share anything with the Taliban, not the same language or ethnic group, not the same sect, nothing in common.
Having been to parts of the Greta wall that were fully “repaired”, keep in mind what you’re asking would most likely make it seem like it was from Disneyland or a cheap facade.
In the countryside most of the times we didn't have running water at the place where we were doing our thing, it was essentially just a hole in the ground with some stuff around it. In the city usually the apartment bathrooms were too small for a bidet-like appliance to be installed, and even if the place had been there the communist authorities/institutions that had been building those apartments were regarding the bidets as too "bourgeois".
When I was at AOL in the mid-90s, I got stock options on multiple occasions, always with a four year vesting period. In 1997, the environment became so toxic there that I could no longer stay.

I later calculated that if I had been able to stay, and kept all my options and cashed them in at the height of the market, I would have made $16m.

But my life and my sanity are worth much more to me than a measly $16m.

Sure, you can look at the money. But you also have to look at your life and what it’s doing to you.
Won’t fix can be such a trap as well because it doesn’t make the problem go away but signals to the users “we don’t care so go away”. The issue that pushed me off of android was tagged as wontfix, and doesn’t seem to be solved despite a decade of users complaining android is literally costing them money: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/36907469?pli=1
I first checked out Fermat's Library on account of the email list (the "Journal Club") that features a different paper each week. Even that is designed for maximal vendor lock-in: You can't download the paper. They don't even link to the paper's DOI so you can find another copy.

Additionally, like many social sites, the idea is to collect user-created value for free, centred solely within their control. That aspect echoes of the great problem with scientific publishing: Scientists produce information, and give it away to some corporation for free, which then charges the public to access it. The user comments, even if informative, are stuck on the site; you have to return to the site to access those comments.

Even if "All team members have an academic background and share the desire to make science more open and widely distributed" [0], there is no guarantee that the user-populated database of annotations will remain free or accessible in the future, since again, it's stuck on that site.

[0] : https://fermatslibrary.com/about
I’m from the Philippines and first time I read someone commented about our cries. Haha!
I guess it depends on how fussy you are about these things - I definitely noticed my 16" MBP lag at times. When the system was under a lot of load in particular the Chrome dev tools started to get quite laggy.

However I got an M1 and can say this is no longer an issue. (despite having only 16GB RAM compared to the 32 on my 16" also). When using native apps the M1 laptop runs amazingly well, it is one of the best performing machines I have ever used for day to day use, even compared to my 5950X desktop system. Of course the 5950X will run circles around it with highly parallel workloads but on single thread the M1 is basically just as good.
> Writing code is only 10% of the total time spend

Sure, now that we have more powerful, pipelined, branch-predicted computers and you don't have to optimize every last bit of your program, that's true.
A very bad title for the post, by the way.
I'm going to buy a steam deck and plug a keyboard into it. Perhaps carry around a really nice portable monitor as well.
:) My point was intended to be: look, it’s going to be hard work, and I suspect there is not really a way around that.

You're right that that is distinct from “hours worked”, and sure, maybe 35 is the magic number for someone.

0 hours is too few hours, and 70 is too many— so clearly there is a line there somewhere. I suspect that that line varies from person to person and even week to week, hence the point about “either be working or don’t be working”.
> For precedent, the US has a variety of bases across the world in Europe and Asia and many of those bases are not political nightmares.

I think it is difficult to compare Germany and Afghanistan.

I am French and if we had a US base here people would not be happy but it ultimately would have been a topic during elections.

The soldiers wood blend in and the cultural difference between the US and Germany << US - Afghanistan.

South Corea is an exotic country for us, but this is many food, entertainment, on the surface at least.

I do not think that US soldiers wood blend in, or at least naturally incorporate into Afghanistan, there are too many differences.

Just compare how and where the youth spend their time. In France, Germany, SK out Japan this wood be tiktok, listening to pretty much the same music (we had the kpop wave here...). In Afghanistan this is probably vastly different
I have worked at a few projects at a few companies and I’ve seen some interesting cycles over the years. The pattern I’m thinking of goes something like:

* motivated/passionate/skilled engineers/builders/scientists make a thing happen

* what starts out as a healthy balance between doer/creators and business/decider/facilitators slowly tips towards the latter

* economic cycles and other disruptive actions cause the passionate engineers that make things happen to depart to other pastures

* management/business continues to consolidate decision making prerogative and fails to realize that they are left with engineers of a more compliant ilk (not necessarily worse, just more willing to do as told and less incline to exercise risk taking initiative)

* progress slows to a trickle

I’m curious if anyone with insider information can speak to the possibility that this has happened in Boeing’s space division. The symptoms seem similar from afar.

Like others, I wish the engineers success from afar, because I would really want to succeed in an endeavor like this. But I know sometimes the engineers can become largely a body of people just willing to get the days tasks completed and that’s enough for them.
It seems that after the law passes neither YOU nor Apple will be able to keep vendor A from doing business with customer B which is great because neither of you is a party to the transaction. I understand why you prefer the status quo I don't understand whatsoever why you feel like you have a moral right to prevent this.
>A chain fails with one weak link. A chain doesn't succeed because of one strong link, they all have to be strong. There's nothing remotely like symmetry

You absolutely nailed it!

This is why when people ascribe Success to any one factor, i simply roll my eyes. Personal Characteristics/Motivation, Timing, Circumstances, Random Chance etc. all have a role. The relative proportion of their weights will vary for any given event but all are necessary. As a learning and adaptive organism we do have some control over some of the factors i.e. ability to change their relative weights but everyone of them still count and cannot be neglected.

On the other hand, Failure is the general status-quo because it is so easy to be unaware/miss/neglect any single factor which might be essential (i.e. has a higher weightage) to achieve the goal.

Looked at from the above pov, it becomes clear that Failure is unavoidable and not something to be afraid of but is an essential learning method, thus; trial and error methodology. The importance of personal initiative and self-effort also now becomes evident; it is the only way we have to control and tame the various factors to the extent possible in our favour.
Completely agree, which is another reason I wouldnt buy XPS, aside from the terrible webcam.
"I take it in, and they don't know what is wrong with it. So, they are going to replace the entire transmission next week."

Isn't the nightmare scenario though where the complexity is so much, they can never fix the transmission - because the car is so f'ed that it will continue to break itself and really you should abandon it and buy a new, simpler car.

We can see this happening actually, today - in Afghanistan the organization complexity has evolved to the point that the Afghan military doesn't actually exist, so a third rate Taliban military can make an utter mockery of what is/was normally consider to be the strongest military in the whole world...

It does happen in software too, almost every bit of software that's "old and decrepit" once was shiny and new, simple, easy. They all have some glaring issues which only get worse over time, and so it has to be rewritten or replaced. A famous example would be Windows Vista - a rewrite of an OS from the XP days which was staggeringly bad it took gutting most of it with Windows 7 to get back on track. Arguably, Microsoft never recovered - they went on to fail at mobile, and their strategy to "get back on track" in the cloud is in large part about using a stack they didn't invent (networked linux systems)...

Another way to look at it, software today commands such complexity it almost requires mega-corp resources to develop. A Google or an Amazon can pilot a product and make it worthwhile/work, but the tools do not allow smaller competitors to compete well, a lot of smaller software shops are in danger of going under. I'm not certain that this is completely good or bad, but I certainly disagree, to use another metaphor, that an international business cartel is required in order to produce a tasty, let alone healthy burger, such as from McDonalds, when I know for a fact that ground beef with a bit of spice mixed in makes for a perfectly delicious (cheaper, healthier) alternative.

Your truck is probably similarly overpriced trash/junk.
I like the idea of what you're doing. May I suggest a Nim port? Nim outputs C anyway, but is safe, so you'd worry less about bugs.
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It’s 100% about wanting to work with a great team on a big problem. It’s not that the domain doesn’t matter, it’s that it just matters less than you think (for me, anyway.)

Not to shill my own stuff too much here, but I wrote a bit about this here: https://waseem.substack.com/p/will-your-startup-make-you-hap...
I love this hyperbole. Please continue.

I have never once seen an ad on my phone or on my desktop -- all thanks to ad blockers.

They don't use photos for ad-targeting.

Your messages are typically E2EE.

I do actually have location history and sharing (with spouse) turned ON. But, yet again, I have not seen an ad for anything on my phone. I have turned off personalized ads too. I don't know how people are using

As far as sharing my location with Google or Apple is concerned -- I don't mind because either way my cellular provider also knows where I am. More importantly, thanks to the rights and liberties in our country, I do not feel the need to hide my location from law enforcement.

And now, the iOS devices I have are going to have the capability to scan my photos via neural hashing and cross-reference that with whatever TPTB see fit.

Etc.
You paid for a piece of hardware with certain capabilities which are intact. You did not for your piddling dollars buy the right to freeze the universe in the configuration that would be most ameniable to you. I cannot fathom why you think you did.
The comment was arguing that fruits are also bad since they have a very high sugar content. It was in no way stating that candy is good.

Many diets forbid fruits on account of the simple carbs.
I think this is the sort of thing that enters the collective consciousness and then gets generalized, but code smells were originally pretty specific anti-patterns that had specific fixes. All from this book if I recall correctly

https://www.amazon.com/Refactoring-Improving-Design-Existing...
It's very interesting to see how those hash function finalizers are constructed/discovered behind the scene. It seems to me that instruction count is not the best metric (since slow instructions and fast instructions have drastically different speeds, and CPU internally can pipeline instructions), probably sorting the candidates by real clock time performance is more reasonable?
Philip E. Agre's Paper – Lessons Learned in Trying to Reform AI
Why is it no one can talk about crypto without TLAs?
However the potential maximum release from a coal plant is… something. The maximum accidental release from a nuclear plant is one that can cause absolute devastation of a country or entire region.
Jamming with Jenkins: Integrate
The one thing that helped a lot, was teaching HTML. How td is child of tr and sister to another td, and it has a child of h1, or how things have properties border=2 and etc.

It helped with understanding where does code belong, how the code in the for loop is related to the code above it and etc.

I also spend time on things like how to steal someone's cookie, and what is a cookie day 51,52,53 (https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids#day-52-basic...) and also we spend a lot of time touchtyping, so her thoughts easier to be expressed through the keyboard.

Also as the talk also mentions, we spend a lot of time reading code, https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids#day-72-basic... i just print it on paper and we go over it with a pencil.

The most difficult lessons are the more abstract ones understanding what the memory holds, and what the variable points to https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids#day-95-basic...

Also tearing down commodore64 and showing the actual memory address space in physical manner helps, the variable color points to somewhere >here<.

We are spending about 50 days now only doing lists and for loops, I write the next day's lesson after the current lesson finishes, and I try to see what she grasps, and what is somewhat interesting and prepare for tomorrow.
Previous threads, comments & votes.
yea, not sure what the OP is referring to or what their personal circumstances are but that is definitely not as simple as that from personal experience (i left Australia for 10 months) along with first hand accounts of people I know.

Besides the obvious wife/kids being in Australia = personal ties, ATO also considers the following to be reasonable points to be constituted as a tax resident:

- Australian Bank accounts, even with $0.01 in it.

- Superannuation

- Properties owned, regardless if it is as an investments or owner-occupied (not rented out)

- Any Australian Account e.g. commsec, vanguard australia, telstra/optus mobile, etc

- Postal address/P.O. box

And so forth. ATO is purposefully applying broad strokes to "ties" to Australia so that they can claim their share of taxes accordingly.

I have a mate whom is a miner, working offshore for BHP, and was audited by the ATO since he lives in Indonesia (wife/family) thus claimed he is a non-tax resident. He is originally from WA so got dinged for a house he owns in WA (which he intended to come back to) + his (Telstra) mobile plan that he never used but paid the smallest plan to keep so that he didn't lose his aussie number + his NAB bank account that had $1000 in it so that he has some cash to spend when he visits family. ATO told him that if he wanted to be considered a non-tax resident, he had to liquidate _and_ close everything he has in Australia to be considered a non-tax resident. Since he didn't do so, they considered he has every intention to return to Australia thus place undue burden on medicare & pension system, if applicable, thus had to pay the difference in tax he paid in Indonesia vs. working in Australia.
> I don't want to go through line by line here because I truly feel like you're not thinking this whole thing through.

Can we have some more respect for each other? It's a basic premise in the UK parliament, and I would wager the Canadian parliament too, that the opponent is making their argument in good faith. It's assumed they want the best for the country and people too. Without this assumption, debates quickly descend into useless ad hominum attacks which just waste everyone's time. We could do with adopting this principle here too.

Related to this, I'd like to point out that those hesitating to get vaccinated are not just the stereotypical "idiots", but also those with the highest levels of qualification [1].

[1] https://unherd.com/thepost/the-most-vaccine-hesitant-educati...
It's amazing to find some music there that I composed about 30 years ago. I'd shared it via diskette with a friend who slapped it into a demo, then he mailed the demo on another diskette to someone else who would duplicate and send out more copies, one of which made it maybe to a demo party that ended up feeding the archive. All of this by snail mail, there was no consumer internet back then. Pretty unexpected survival of these artifacts!
But likewise, not all failures are necessarily equivalent either and a form of success is how you structure the links to allow for that.
User ownership of virtual land in a persistent game-world that multiple studios can work with without having to explicitely interoperate or know about each other.
in low bandwidth situations, for recording speeches or podcasts, i have a similar question.
the codec2 examples have a 8 KHz range so can't be compared to the lyra ones as is. perhaps you could encode your own voice wavs with ffmpeg and compare.
in this case there's also the question of portability, can the resulting files be played on android or iphone and how much cpu cycles/battery power would it cost? I'd rather listen to 1 hour of lyra speech then codec2 speech if the battery would last twice as long.
War on Terrorism (2001)
>we are really looking for is something actionable

Great viewpoint!
In the papier they compare lattencies from 7ms to 26ms and observe no loss of quality. Processing requirement is lower for higher latencies because of batching.
I'm composing the music to my video game in Protracker on (emulated) Amiga -- just to add a little 90s cyberpunk authenticity to go with the theme of the game. It may not come out nearly as good as some of these masters' work, but if it turns out to give the feel of the era it'll be past the threshold of "good enough".
I could do this, and it certainly crossed my mind. But depending on the project, it could significantly increase the amount of code overall. It feels a feels a bit... heavy to me.

I can understand the AWS auth code... while there seem to be so many layers in boto3/botocore. There's a lot of code to add a few HTTP headers to each request. (It was a few years ago, but I posted about not using boto3 https://charemza.name/blog/posts/aws/python/you-might-not-ne...)

I might be suffering a little bit from not-invented-here syndrome admittedly... I don't know. But one of the things I really like about S3 is how much of its API is quite simple: it's just HTTP (I briefly wrote about _that_ as well https://charemza.name/blog/posts/http/s3/the-core-s3-api-is-...). My instinct is that in many cases, it's better to use a simple API directly rather than (what I see as) a more complex code base on top of it.
From the point of view of how image processing works, what is happening can indeed be called “scanning”.
Is there any point to such speculation? Just as much as that is true, so too could the AI succeed in similar scenarios where humans would fail. The same question could be asked about two humans being contrasted against each other, and just as fruitlessly.
Counterpoint: valid statistical methods and good experimental design has produced good psychological science. Most notably, the predictive power of various theories has been demonstrated in the various social media and advertising algorithms that target different categories of people.

Most of psychology is borderline religious bunkum, but not all. It will eventually converge with a theory of biological intelligence and neuroscience, and until then, will likely not improve much from broad statistical tools and observations.
Lye, aka the industrial commodity Caustic Soda.

I advise people to stop young, by the time I grew up it was shiploads.

Nobody's fault but mine.
> by making fun of trivialities like the command sequence to get out of a program, you're just showing you're a moron.

I still laugh at the word vi being the translation from Aztec of "how do I get out of this shit"

For context, I started with Linux in 1993, by making changes to the kernel. Vi was the editor of choice and I took it like I do with cultures of the countries I visit: I keep the comments to myself.

So I suffered in silence until I discovered joe (an editor based on Wordpress key bindings) and that was a great change.

I know 3 or 4 commands in vi, enough to make the changes five times a year when I have to use it somewhere
The point is that "good" and "quality" is subjective and highly dependent on use-case.
Quite hilarious to see the page with photos of the laptops showing windows running...
The Framework laptop seems to be a safe purchase. Even though the company is still young, all the reviews are praising it.
Prepay for the rental car, too. If you prepay, you'll get the agreed upon price. If you don't, you may find your rental car doubles or triples in price. Best to book on the rental car's website.