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> Math, big-O, and proofs are programming concepts. If you want a shallow understanding of whatever (...) take a coding bootcamp. But know that after a few years your skills will be out of date and you will have a hard time keeping up with the field.

I'm sorry to break it to you, but your personal belief on the virtues of ivory tower feats doesn't hold any water in the real world. At all.

The most important competency, by far, is being able to onboard. Whether it is onto projects, frameworks, programming languages, architectures... Being able to jump in and get up to speed and fix things and implement features is what matters.

No one cares at all if you know an algorithm by heart. Plenty of critical services are built upon crude O(n²) brute force implementations that are good enough, and no one bothers to waste 5mins to even switch the underlying container.

You're talking about a field where premature optimization is recognized as one of the worst and most fertile sources of problems. And who exactly is behind this problem? Precisely these short-sighted theorists, who believe big O musings has critical importance when it has close to none beyond superficial analysis of "should I use an array, a linked list, or a hash set"?

I know people with a boot camp and experience with a framework who landed jobs in FANGs, and I know PhDs in computer science that can recite inconceivable algorithms who can't get a job in the industry. How do you explain that, if waxing lirically about computer science is supposedly so critical?
> NATO is a defensive coalition.

It is an economic one more than anything.

Germany, France and every European country wants Nord Stream 2 because it would greatly help their energy problems. The US doesn't, which is why it is pushing NATO to Ukraine, provoking Russia and looking for excuses to stop it: https://www.reuters.com/world/biden-germanys-scholz-stress-u...

A third of Ukraine (Russian speakers) don't want any part in the government operated by American allies in Ukraine and would rather be a part of Russia. They definitely do not want NATO there. If Russia did absolutely nothing, it would mean years of proxy war in Ukraine... which is to say there would definitely not be Nord Stream 2... which is exactly what the US wants and exactly what Russia doesn't.

The US is clearly the aggressor here.
Eye tracking “to make sure [you] don’t look away from ads”
This is very bad news. I don't want Facebook, or anybody else for that matter, to be able to track ads conversions.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30306925

Short version, deficiencies in Chromium and Safari as browser engines are large enough that they outweigh most telemetry concerns. Browsers like Brave can disable some telemetry, sure, but they can't add in the larger set of features that are missing from Chromium. Browser telemetry is worth thinking about and considering, but you should be less concerned about browser telemetry than you are about Ublock Origin performance.
... er, eventually.

Rome tried many different kinds of tax policies in it's territories. The relatively light touch they finally ended up was essentially a reaction of first trying a policy so maximally extractive that it could be described as genocidal.
>are you saying that taking your money with you is not important?

Not at all, and I don't think the original person you responded to was either. I am just saying that there are times you would want to flee even if it means loosing your wealth. This should be obvious, but someone didn't get it.

>What good is it to a person if he can escape a scary regime but can’t take his lives savings with him?
This paper only uses the growth rates in fossil fuel and industry CO2 emissions to arrive at an already catastrophic 2°C.

But in the real world there are other climate factors, such as positive feedbacks from the vanishing cryosphere, changes to the biological pump and methanogene organisms.

The paper mentions that there are climate factors that allow for an >3°C or <2°C outcome, but then it says that although their research is limited in scope, existing research on those factors should not be considered plausible, because those are not based on observations. They used data published by the International Energy Agency for everything.

Even by intentionally keeping the scope this limited they could not manage to keep their projection under 2°C. This paper will be used for further denial, but things are rather dire if the math can no longer be bent enough to spit out better scenarios.
How can a language model invent algorithms for arithmetic? How would an algorithm be represented in a language model? Isn't that the first thing to ask, before starting to look for algorithms?

For example, if I take a stroll on the beach, am I likely to see any algorithms coalescing in the grains of sand?
Yeah like https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/pin/
Maybe you could propose the idea to the jdk tracker or mailing lists?https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2022-Februar...
And if there are people specifically interested in console-style IIgs game development, I've picked up and significantly enhanced my old graphics engine that was used for the IIgs Super Mario Bros demo.

It's available on github at https://github.com/lscharen/iigs-game-engine
Most of the employees in this announcement are in Europe, where there is no "firing" (i.e. at-will employment aka employer abuse).

There's only laying off with a severance and firing for cause, where firing for cause is by design <<super>> hard to do. And it's definitely not something that can be done to masses of people at once without all the government authorities coming to pay the offending company a visit ASAP.

> That's the entire basis of this comment thread.

Not if you figure out the entire context of this event.
Honestly not too aware with the title rules here, as I mostly just lurk. Thanks for clarifying on that. Love your work over the years btw, thanks for everything!
> Legislation definitely needs to be part of the solution.

Yup, that's about where I'm at. Standard Oil wasn't broken up because a lot of people made extremely rational arguments about how much monopolies hurt long term economic health to Rockefeller and he just changed his mind. It was broken up because the government stepped in.

Advertising is costing America an intense amount of productivity and we're going to need regulations and constraints to help restrict it (vermont has greatly benefited from said billboard restrictions)
Your plan is the same as mine. However I have older (male) relatives who eat healthy, exercise, and aren't overweight but still have high blood pressure.
We sometimes leave the submitted title up even after changing the URL. In this case though, I'd rather give the thread to the submitter who first posted the original source, and since doing so involves re-upping that submission to the front page (approximately to the same rank as this one reached), I don't see why we would change its title now.
Ah, I think I see what you mean: you are saying that because it's better than humans at predicting the next element in a sequence it's good at generalising. Is that correct, or am I misrepresenting your point?
The GP isn't writing a thesis, they're just sharing their experience and pondering what might be happening. We don't need the kind of rigor that demands some peer-reviewed study. There is nothing wrong with anecdotes in a discussion on a forum like this.
That doesn’t make it any less debunked and repugnant.
As others have said, definitely go to a custom domain!

I would suggest organising your email how you want it in your current account and use imap to migrate - makes it take easy. I'm not sure if that was part of your question but I didn't see it mentioned in the other comments.
I don't understand why Mozilla would do this. Clearly the image I have of Mozilla and the real Mozilla are very divergent. I guess I have stuff to figure out, like my next browser...
Congrats on your launch!

We had our baby two weeks ago (a mixed race kid as well) -- luckily we managed to find a service here in Australia and get his cord blood stored at the last minute. I didn't know this is a thing and could be vital for my kid's future health. My in-laws work in the medical industry and they were the ones who suggested us to do it. I was curious why isn't this suggested or recommended by OB/GYNs during pregnancy? Are there still any medical restrictions for using of cord blood?

Also, is 20 years the maximum effective storage period for it? Is it possible to transfer it between countries in case we decide to migrate in the future?
More on this: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/debkafile/
> You can easily achieve the output of using break using filter, but you cannot achieve the behavior because filter goes over every item in your array.

Because JS’s map and filter provide the index and array as arguments, you can, in fact, achieve the behavior of break. If you need the original array after the iteration, you need to apply the map or filter to a copy, though, because the way to achieve the behavior of break involves modifying the array by deleting all the items after the current one, which stops the iteration.
Crypto and NFT owners targeted in kidnappings, home Invasions, robberies
But grad school requires expertise regardless of what the subject is, I don't doubt that.

Question is will you sound educated outside of academia when talking the basics of the subject. It's hard to do with math, compared to humanities.
Javascript is like Ice 9, it turns everything it touches into Ice 9.

LiveView was invented not to have to deal with Javascript-powered SPA architectures and client-side coding in general, because JS is ass, and here's LiveViewJS to convert to Javascript a technology invented not to deal with Javascript.

Gary Bernhardt warned us, yet no one listened. shakes fist at cloud

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
Yeah it's strange, it locks up the whole browser and makes it really hard to exit the tab.
Completely understandable, thanks.
Non-paywall: https://archive.vn/sTAzO
I don't want to dox the professor that uttered the quote, but he was talking about these coordinates ;-) http://fusionwiki.ciemat.es/wiki/Boozer_coordinates
While it might have been a young CTO at a small startup, the field of technology is vast, it's not the job of the CTO to understand all aspects of it.

Similarly, when I started in Engineering, I didn't understand quite how much complexity existed in all the other areas of running a company, I've since learned much about them and have much more respect for CEO's who have to manage all of those issues.
Did this once, but not with the goal to find other consulting work, just to have more control over where I lived and how much time I chose to invest in the client on a weekly basis as I wanted to build something myself. The general process was: 1. Make self indispensable. 2. Explain new reality to client. 3. When I wanted even less work from the client I raised hourly rates.
The naming around the various features is confusing. Briefly:

- Tracking Protection basically blocks connections to known trackers entirely so the resources don't even load.

- Enhanced Tracking Protection prevents various kinds of cross-site tracking by blocking cookies, etc. (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-prote...).

ETP is on by default. TP is not.
I think you might have an anxiety disorder.
Funny enough, that cupcake trick works for bees (old Boy Scout trick: if you're having bee trouble, put some juice in a can and set it away from the campsite. Bees will gravitate towards the easier target).

But on the topic: at least in the US, if we're talking a legal solution, there won't be one that doesn't factor in the needs of Fortune 500 companies. And attempts to build solutions not factoring them in in Europe got us, well, the GDPR and infinite consent dialogs.

Better to bring parties to the table than try to hash a solution that pretends they don't have interests here.
I am mostly talking about concurrent contributors, but yes, even 30 MSLOC is just "large", not "huge". Stories of commercial software projects having to build "overnight" on server farms are common.
Amazingly, it’s now on booking - at 7.6. Honestly, every aspect of it was comically bad - just four or five rooms (with padded leather doors) around a barren concrete courtyard with several wrecked cars and a bonfire in it. Oh, and they tried to distract us with a song and dance about passports, but I watched them evict the girls from the rooms before ushering us in - same sheets, of course, but we had sleeping bags. Still both got a skin infection. The air con was great though, which was why we were there, and arriving at 5am - it hits 56C in the steppe at that time of year, within a few hours of sunrise. Sleeping in the car out of the question.

Man, another Kazakh hotel story - stayed at a “premium” hotel in Shymkent, which they advertised as having a pool, which sounded just amazing having spent the previous night in said amusing hotel. Got our room, my god, it’s great, let’s put the AC on and crash for an hour before hitting the pool. Wake up 20 minutes later, REALLY hot. Decide to see if the heat exchanger for the AC is obstructed, as it’s blowing lukewarm rather than cold air.

I open the curtains. It’s dark. Which is weird because it’s 3pm. I go to open the balcony door - and the handle is almost burning hot. As is the glass of the door and windows. And then I realise they’ve bricked up the balcony, because that’s of course where they’ve built the pool - and is where the heat exchanger lives, doing its damndest to pump even more heat into what had already become the inside of an oven.

So, we get a new room, after noting that the lobby is full of dozens of huge freestanding AC units and their heat exchangers, and having some trouble explaining the problem to the staff. New room is fine, and has a nice view of the … still under construction pool. 8.4 on booking.

We got so drunk that evening. Thoroughly recommend visiting Kazakhstan. Lovely people, and there’s never a dull moment.
Nobodies don't have much to fear from this kind of surveillance. Nobodies have to fear being caught up in electronic dragnets and being processed by algorithms. This kind of surveillance will only be used against important people and people who become important by being a threat to important people.

The endgame of this stuff is that societies become completely controlled by nameless people; the least surveilled.

edit: just like the cops begging everyone to snitch and putting snitches everywhere are the least snitching people on the planet, intelligence organizations have mysterious locations, methods, budgets, customers, allegiances, owners, and employees. The least surveilled people on the planet will be the people who own the surveillance.
Is it meaningful to include "Linux" as a discrete vendor? How would you compare an OSS project to a company like Microsoft or Google?
> emacs pdf reader does not do smooth scrolling

I have had this[0] bookmarked for a while now, never got around to setting it up. Maybe this can be helpful (there do seem to be some quirks according to the readme).

0. https://github.com/dalanicolai/pdf-continuous-scroll-mode.el
The one question doctors never answer, nor seek to find out, is "why" someone has hypertension. Isn't that the question they should be answering? A diagnosis is not a cause, and doctors do not have time to find out the cause of each persons hypertension.

Trust me, when they find out why you re hypertensive, nutrition, supplements, and lifestyle changes can easily treat hypertension.
Looks like someone beat me to it.

https://boingboing.net/2022/02/11/pussy-pupal-and-agora-amon...
Yea, but its def a game, and that is more relaxed than actual programming. And you can do it with friends who may not want to code.
> If the language implements them as lazy iteration

JS doesn't, though.

> then I think take_until would be effectively equivalent to break

JS also doesn't have take_until.
You're right. Slate, Quill.js and ProseMirror-based use contenteditable. Hacking browser for custom cursor (similarly as Zoho Docs does [0]) is quite hacky and often leads to more problems than advantages it provides.

[0]: I suggest you to take a look in Chrome debugger how it works. Quite funny piece of code. It is written in jQuery + vanilla JS, so it will be very easy to spot the whole algorithm.
> For example, though we were provided with practice problems to prepare for our exams, we were never given solutions.

This made my jaw drop. Just find similar problems from the textbook that do have solutions, or check out other math books from the library, or use the internet. I feel like a Princeton student should be able to aggregate information from different sources, even if it's not their field.
>> The point of the paper is to show that NN can still learn long after fully memorizing the train dataset.

That is the claim in the paper. I don't understand how it is supported by measuring results on the validation set.

Figure 3 looks nice but it doesn't say anything on its own. I don't know what's the best way to interpret it. The paper offers some interpretation that convinces you, but not me. Sorry, this kind of work is too fuzzy for me. What happened to good, old-fasion proofs?
why is everyone acting like this is all new?

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-usa-spying-idUSBR...

ten+ years ago obama knew they were spying on merkel's phone and didn't say anything. The powerful people have already been spied on, and participated in the spying. The question is how many phones germany is tapping that merkel knew and didn't say anything about.

This game is not new.
Meanwhile, HPC software will continue to be written with C+MPI, or Fortran+MPI.

Source: was involved in development of multiple HPC frameworks, attended multiple HPC conferences, despite wailing and gnashing of teeth all actual software continues to be written the same way it's always been.
Side note but this is the first time I’ve seen reddit comments embedded in the same manner as tweets. I really like it! I’ve always thought of reddit and twitter as fulfilling very similar niches.
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There's a lot of Wordle clone sites out there, some of which people have built for other languages!
I'm not certain if Apple and Google acting bilaterally could actually kill advertising dead - I think, even with the enormous power they have, that we'd still need the government to come in as a rule setter to accomplish it. I think there's too much money on the table for both parties to stay honest in the long run for purely altruistic reasons.
I know we have seen students coming out of high school without a grasp on the basic math, never mind algebra. They just aren't fast enough at the basics to be comfortable going on. I would assume Princeton wouldn't have that problem, but I guess I could be very wrong.

I've often wondered if a course called "Just Numbers and some logic" would be helpful. I've been collecting a lot of different math and logic material and wonder how far someone could get before algebra? I just think one of the big problems is students don't really have basic math skills. Given some of the techniques and problems my school age relatives do, I think there are problems at the beginning.
This seems very expensive to me.

We got something similar from a private company here in London - umbilical cord, blood, placenta - and the storage fee is £100 per year.l (there was an initial "set up" fee of approx £2,000 too). 85USD a month for storage seems like a lot for the same thing.

We figured that we'd spend perhaps £3,800 all-in to "insure" our kid until they're an adult which seemed like a great deal. 18k USD just for storage seems like less of a clear-cut value proposition.
Speaking with respect to non-nuclear builds, this is exactly how the military operates. USS and USNS vessels utilize off the shelf hardware for airgapped systems routinely, though USB device usage is strictly prohibited. In practice however, many unofficial semi-airgapped networks exist Equipment may require specialized software that is not purchased, but licensed and can only be operated by a service technician. The tech brings a preloaded laptop of questionable provenance and initiates a firmware/software update and reboot. Every company is vetted to some degree and employs background investigation, to what effect is hard to determine.
Ad networks do three things to boost efficiency:

1. Attribution

1. Tailoring

1. Detecting fraud

An ad network without any of these will be less efficient than its competitors. It will attract fewer ad buyers. Currently, all three of these things require tracking.

Ad networks can use attribution to detect some fraud on popular sites & apps. This doesn't work for the long-tail of small sites and apps that don't generate many clicks.

Ad buyers could buy ads directly from popular sites/apps. This just shifts the burden of detecting fraud from the ad network (which has the expertise to do it) to the ad buyer. This excludes small sites & apps, slowing the rate of innovation.

The proposals for privacy-preserving ad tailoring all provide coarse tailoring (example: "interested in bicycles"). They do not allow precise tailoring like "interested in bicycle brand X product model Y". Precise tailoring is very efficient.

I welcome all work on privacy-preserving ad-tech for these three areas: attribution, tailoring, and fraud-detection. It doesn't matter who develops a proposal. Let's examine the proposal and evaluate it on its merits. Eventually, we may end up with some combinations of techniques that allow efficient privacy-preserving ads.
> There's no inherent reason to prefer more "natural" solutions to medical issues.

Patent-free availability and lower cost can be reasons. (assuming they work)
Flask is pretty lightweight and will run under anything. Including compiling to a portable executable.

I mean, potentially.

I'm 100% with you on file-based storage and flexible storage interchange APIs. I have a bunch of stuff I'd like this kind of tool to interoperate with.
it could be interesting to gauge how entwined the “how did you arrive at that answer” process is with the answering itself. i.e. which paths do they share? even at this early a stage: is there some structure which is used to determine the operand(s) that’s leveraged in both of these prompts? is the “how did you X” answer leveraging most of the “X” circuitry and just bailing out early? or does it deviate as early as post-tokenization?

philosophers would like to know.
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From the article:

> In addition to an updated build, the 2022 LaserWeeder features 30 industrial CO2 lasers, more than 3X the lasers in Carbon Robotics’ self-driving Autonomous LaserWeeder, creating an average weeding capacity of two acres per hour. Growers who use Carbon Robotics’ implements are seeing up to 80% savings in weed management costs, with a break-even period of 2-3 years.

How does this compare to competing laser weeding robots?

Agricultural robot:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_robot