skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let us concede that in the last 20 years, the number of mentions of "I" in his writing has decreased, and there are more mentions of "We".

As much as a cellular automata, and computation in general, fan as I am, and after having read a fair amount of his work... I am still not convinced that Wolfram is not just a rich crack pot.
Glad to see the term ML being used more often than AI in the comments as it looks like most "AI" models are trained for image classification.
Having said that, the idea of "doing more with less" sounds interesting and I wonder what it means exactly. Does it mean taking a dataset of 50 images and to create 1000s of synthetic images from it?
Also used by OpenOCD[1] for chip debugging and flashing.

[1] https://openocd.org/
The k8s steering committee is a rotating set of 7 people with elections of 3-4 members every year. You need a sustained record of contributions and leadership to k8s, but no you don't need to have been one of the original creators.
is there a blog part of the site? maybe I'm missing. like the minimalism
What he is trying to do is that he is trying to create a computational theory to explain the world. As opposed to pure mathematics which isn't computational. Not really that crazy.

He may be off putting at times but when he gets in to it he can be very interesting to listen to.
>> You dont loose credibility by acknowledging you were wrong, you do so by lying to protect your image despite knowing better. You being wrong isnt dependent on you acknowledging it.

Unfortunately, in the public/political realm, I think this isn't true. Flip flopping suggests weak morals. When scientific "facts" change, a lot of people conclude that the scientists know nothing.
https://haskell.computer

Focus: Philosophy, functional programming, strategy, product

Source code: https://github.com/ale0sx/nobelium
Meta will need a currency for the metaverse. Zuck Bucks are a good start. Crypto was a mistake for Meta, since they had to share control, but a Meta only based currency will eventually be a success since they have such a large user base and they will have complete control to use it as they need. It's a bit scary since they will now have a currency that they control. Meta's control over it will be similar to a country. Also, the bucks will eventually have a conversion rate to hard currency. All they have to say is that people that buy ads will need to buy them in zuck bucks and set the conversion rate.

Imagine, there will eventually be a group of people that will spend their time working for Zuck Bucks.
The system you talk about is mostly dead.

Google promos everywhere up to a certain level are in-org (IE not unknown engineering peers). They are done alongside rating calibrations.
Google promos everywhere up to an even higher level are basically in-PA.

For cloud, they are in-org to even a higher level. So the stuff talked about in this tweet would have been evaluated not just by cloud engineers, but almost certainly fairly local cloud engineers.

My experiencing having been on promo committees for google for 15 years is that for every case in my org i see of google incentivizing the wrong thing (or disincentivizing the right thing), i see probably 5-6 cases of it doing the right thing.

I see a lot more cases that are like:

1. Person builds new shiny thing for ... questionable reasons.

2. They make a mess of the world by not making it easy to migrate people to it and get rid of the old thing

3. Things are in a bad half-state, where both things have to be supported and the new thing does not provide obvious higher value.

4. Google doesn't promote them, they get pissed off about it and post on twitter about how Google didn't care about product excellence or something.

Than cases like:

1. Person toils away on the right thing forever

2. Person tries to get promoted for doing the right thing and having impact

3. Google turns them down

4. They get pissed off and post on twitter about how Google didn't care about about product excellence or something.

Externally, of course, people can't distinguish these two cases because they look the same (angry people on twitter).

I have been promoted from SWE III to Senior Director at Google, working only on open source until i was an L7.
It's a fun article, but hardly a scientific analysis of the diet back then. It's all anecdotes and no numbers.

Though such numbers do seem to exist for 20th century USA (Android won't render the xls, though): https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-availability-per...
"That was so amazing" said my 3 year old son.
From what I knew, you couldn't have a Bundled Worker wait on IO or sleep for more than 30s. May be it isn't true anymore?

For most workloads, I'd reckon that Unbound Workers are about the same cost as Bundled. In fact, Unbound will be ~2x cheaper than Bundled if your average workload completes within 50ms IO or 10ms CPU.
the cgc is still fire, not quite the same, but the dd will be back
Has Altman had his eyeballs scanned and added to the dataset?
Sorry Guillermo but you’re not being truthful here. “$ now” worked on any node server, not just static content, it would just run “npm start”. Now v2+ instead requires a handler-based approach.
Thank you! I'm glad that my work was useful to you. I'm familiar with Lilypond, I've used it in the past to typeset musical notation, which I later exported for use in LaTeX as well.
I'm not sure "training" is the right way to think about it. Children don't train to identify objects, they quickly develop the ability to recognize objects and are able to correlate them with prior information that was retained and learned. Case in point: if you take a child born blind, give them the ability to see, they are immediately able to recognize and correlate objects around them.
Is their model god and I'm the heretic?

Or am I in denial about how impressive this all really is by reading something slightly different into the static hand selected examples openai teased us with? :)

I'm sure two more papers down the line this thing will do what the true believers are convinced it already does perfectly much more seamlessly if they solve for my new favorite term, panoptic segmentation.
Junio has been promoted over the years at Google for building and maintaining Git.

I do not believe he has had any problem doing so.
(nor is it a competitive process)
There's a parallel here that I've seen with new developers. Universities and bootcamps tend to focus on single journeys through software - "when the user does X, Y, and Z display this result". Then the dev comes to the horrible Real World where users do "X, X, X" or "Z, Y, X" or "X, Y, Volkswagon, Potato, Z" and they argue that The User Is Wrong, because they've only been taught about the happy path where users do what you thought they should do.

I'm not suggesting that compsci teaching should change, but that there shouldn't be too much expectation that the theory taught to students probably should reflect the real world. The real world is too noisy. It'd be impossible to learn anything. Leave those lessons to experience.
As with everything, I think it's a mix of a lot of things, and we don't know which factors predominate. Partly it's because I'm getting older. Partly it's because I simply don't know of anything good that comes from drinking. I also have a meditation practice, and I notice that drinking has a negative effect on it.

One strategy for continuing to get social value out of extremely moderate drinking is: _go fancy_. Learn to make fancy drinks. Care about flavors and ingredients and all that. Drink less. Spend more time enjoying less alcohol.

One thing that concerns me a little about your description of your experience is that it sounds as if you might be self-regulating, and drinking even a little bit causes the regulation system to fail, at which point suffering arises in the form of sadness or anger. This is not a terrible situation, but as you age, the firewall will inevitably degrade, and you may find yourself unable to keep the bad stuff at bay.

But if there's nothing bad behind the firewall, it will be OK when the firewall degrades. You can decrease the amount of stuff in your mind that the world needs to be protected from through something like meditation practice. Here's how I do it:
https://library.dhammasukha.org/uploads/1/2/8/6/12865490/the...
Correct on Black Friday being the best and perhaps only major discount for O'Reilly Learning. Historically he Black Friday price is 50% off, at $199 down from the regular price of $399 [1]. It looks like they've raised the normal price to $499 now, so I would expect $249 on Black Friday this year.

Note: There is a significant typo in the article below, in that the renewal price in subsequent years does stay at the discounted rate. I've been subscribing since it was called Safari Books and still on the discounted rate.

[1]: https://slickdeals.net/f/13605994-year-of-o-reilly-online-le...
Police Records Show Women Are Being Stalked with Apple AirTags Across the USA
You've sent me down an interesting reading path, about a group of mathematicians working under the pseudonym "Nicolas Bourbaki" and lo and behold they do even have a web site these days:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki

https://www.bourbaki.fr/

Now how does that relate to Stephen Wolfram?
Hand-optimizing the TCC code generator
After 15 years of experience with SAS this sounds to me like saying "knowing how to write and having a pen makes you to a poet". But it depends on how far you can toss a stone...
I think he was pretty clear that the Wolfram Institute, headed by Stephen Wolfram, has the single purpose of exploring the Wolfram Multicomputation model as a new foundation for all of science and mathematics. To do so, it is going to apply Wolfram's methods for productivity that have made Wolfram Research a successful company, and Wolfram Physics Project a successful delivery. Also of note, any major discoveries will be shared to the world in Wolframs clear and simple exposition style.

In short, maybe this leads somewhere, who knows, but right now it looks like a massive vanity project. It also looks like it has a good chance to start derailing other people's money from actual research into Wolfram Pet Theories.
Pure math isn’t computational? o_O

(Constructivist mathematics is a thing, and it is pretty easy to formulate physics in a constructivist framework. Many serious quantum theoreticians do.)
Maybe due to the increase of dance macabre themes in visual arts after Black Death?

https://worldhistory.us/european-history/the-plague-and-the-...
https://danielsalami.com/

It’s a piece a salami that rotates back and forth and when you click the salami, music plays.
Blueprints, or node graphs more generally, allow people to encode programmatic logic without needing to learn the syntax of a programming language. If they can read a flow chart, they can implement simple (or not simple) functionality without the perceived technical hurdle of "learning to code."

This is important in games because iteration is so critical to success. Delegating high level logic to visual scripting can allow different people to focus on low level concerns like performance, so both problems can (hopefully) be iterated on in parallel.
Sounds like confit.

The meat is often salted a little before cooking. Stored in cellar/refrigerator, it keeps a long time.

You can also buy canned confit duck. Can be eaten straight from the jar, buy delicious and crispy when (re)cooked.
it s just an idea not a proposal. it would be sandboxed, the idea is to allow html only, so as to avoid scripting. don't we do that all the time with ajax?
The predominant social infection is "sanitization theater".

WHO and other health authorities sent the entire world into sanitization frenzy.

The new variants are now as infectious as measles. We can only hope that new variants remain mild and / or limited in danger by current and developing vaccines.
https://www.desudesu.com/

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Todo: responsive images.
Uh..how many times have you said that to someone, and at what point will you start to get nervous about, just, probability?
This is just the law of inertia at play. Big projects slow down. K8s isn’t just the K8s core, it’s a massive ecosystem, and when taken as a whole it’s unbelievably vast and growing at an amazing pace. As it does, the core of it moves slower, there are more stakeholders, more arguments. Small changes make for big problems and not everyone can be happy. Patches will keep coming, major changes will become eventually impossible. The death of Kubernetes makes for great clickbait, but most of us won’t see it in our lifetimes. Not when our banks run on 60 year old code. Kubernetes is too big to fail at this point.

As far as FAANG promo committees go, let them value what they value. Kubernetes is a direct revenue driver for many companies; it’s health is tied to billions of dollars in investments. Just because one cohort of contributors age out, cash out, or fall in love with someone doesn’t mean there is no one to take their place. The new people won’t do it the same way and that is okay, even great. I’m grateful for the vision and effort that have make K8s the platform it is, and if I can translate that into a contribution in the future I will.

Finally, I’ll say that people who really love working on the project may not get support to work on it full time, but then may find themselves able to retire sooner than many and have ample opportunity to contribute.
Related read: https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwu...
Placebo Effect in the Treatment of Depression and Anxiety
I think I donated to ya once :) nice work
https://ulvgard.se

Reverse engineering algorithms and results from papers. I love the process of walking backwards from the results and figure out how they were achieved, uncovering what the authors glanced over or failed to mention at all.

Two mentions:

- Facebook Prophet: https://ulvgard.se/articles/trend_and_seasonality_decomposit...

- One-shot neural network training using hypercubes: https://ulvgard.se/articles/one_shot_training_neural_network...
https://patrickbrophy.dev
Some pthalates seem to be detectable to some subset of the population. Same chemicals that are estrogen-alike.
To me that reads mostly like the royal "we", as in "We, Stephen Wolfram". Especially when saying things like "Wolfram Research has been geared towards making things we think up into products".
No, that is a complete overreaction. You can still call out "aliens did it" or other obvious nonsense.
This is a tool AI, not an agent AI. Agent AI's can explore and change their environments, this model does not, and it has no sense of time passing.
http://robomartin.com/

Kind of obvious, I guess. Nothing of note at the moment. Clean slate.

Thinking about what to do with it. Will likely end-up being a web version of my fairly large repository of engineering notes and data across innumerable disciplines.

Not sure what platform to use. I don't want to use Wordpress. What would you use for something like this (considering I am extremely busy)? In other words, some kind of a easy to deploy, manage and maintain personal-made-public knowledge management system.

I know. I know. Someone is going to say "Use WP with this plugin".

I would enjoy being able to bring some of the material to life beyond simple display using Python. This would call for Django and something for the front end. I'm just not sure I have the time to do this right now. Maybe I should wait.

My material spans hundreds of gigabytes of notes and documents accumulated over the last thirty years as well as tons of notes in dozens of OneNote repositories. There's also lots of useful engineering tools in Excel, VBA, VB, C, C++, Python, even Forth, LISP and APL. At some point I'd like to share a good deal of it. Just not sure how to start this on the right path.
I listened to a great episode of Darknet Diaries about Puerto Rico lottery being rigged.

https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/101/
https://nico-boo.com/

My old portfolio (old because most links are dead now, but still use it)

If you're on desktop, you can enjoy the raymarched sphere with moving colors as you hover links.
Hotdogs are tacos too.
SAM local isn't a perfect emulation of the cloud based lambda environment. This is why AWS SAM added the "Accelerate" feature, making it easier to deploy code to the cloud for testing purposes.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/accelerating-serverless...
I was wondering the same, I only know the GCP ecosystem and there I already consider cloud functions to be a “legacy” choice relative to Cloud Run where I no longer need to have a 1 to 1 relationship between requests and invocations along with a bunch of other advantages.

Every time I peek over into the AWS ecosystem I’m very glad I don’t have to work in it. This seems like it’s multiple years behind what GCP has unless I’m missing something obvious?
> Your write will be fine; that is, it's not as if data from one write will be interspersed with the data from another write.

Are you sure? I thought it could be if the first write had more data than the size of the kernel/fs-driver buffer, not all of it would be written, and then it could be interrupted when another thread calls write() with a small buffer that gets written in one go.
https://www.vladsiv.com/

Recently started a personal blog. The plan is to blog about Data Science/Engineering and implementation of modern data solutions in scientific research.

The blog is hosted on GitHub pages using minimal mistakes theme [0] (which I had to customize a lot to suit my needs [1]).

[0]: https://mmistakes.github.io/minimal-mistakes/

[1]: Blog's source code: https://github.com/VladimirSiv/VladimirSiv.github.io
I like blogging but I hated having to blog using markdown or via Wordpress’s horrible editor or some other blogging platform’s flow.

I was anyway playing around with building my own email inbox when I realized emails written in Gmail yield HTML which could be repurposed to post blogs.

I released an early version of this at https://moogle.cc around the same time Hey.com was launching Hey World built around the same idea.

Now, my inbox has evolved and so has the tooling for the blog. The newer product combining the inbox and blog is at https://pretzelbox.cc.
Let him do his thing, he supports many employees for a living, and does meaningful work occassionally. There are many people that are far more problematic for the society than Mr. Wolfram. He hasn't done any harm to anyone. Let him chill in peace.
A group of mathematicians operating under a pseudonym is basically the exact opposite of a single mathematician naming everything after himself.
Underrated post. Fast generics in go in under 30 lines? Thank you.

Feels like this approach could be leveraged to get default parameters / optional parameters in Golang too! The Go AST / token lib seems ridiculously flexible.

Huge CockroachDB fan btw. Thanks for the revolution in databases!

PS: Showcase of the awesome Go AST / token lib if you're a Python fan: http://igo.herokuapp.com/
> I hate coding stuff that I know could be better expressed with a visual graph or say, an animation curve.

I hate coding animations in CSS, but I enjoy watching them in e.g. devtools. I really wish I could see the representation of my code visually more often. Immediate mode UIs are sort of like this, but I've rarely seen tools which actually show while coding.

We unit test (or try to) every new feature, why shouldn't we be able to visualize them too?
It's probably largely just habit at this point, but the keybindings are a big part of what keep me with emacs. I honestly have no idea how people navigate text/code with default windows keybindings. That they work by default in many other contexts is a really nice bonus. Most emacs binding emulation modes I've seen for other editors don't support even basic things like "C-<space> C-n C-w", which is basically a non-starter for me.
I think anybody with a feeling to go with the words 'exponential growth' could tell that this virus was going to be a huge problem from very early on.

That turned out to be a surprisingly small minority.
Out of the thousand amazing breakthroughs in the history of science or mathematics I can think of zero that said they were in the text itself. Show not tell.
DeLorean announces a reveal date and its first image of their electric car
I host http://geekring.net/ which is a site for you to share your personal website and see other peoples personal websites.

My own personal website is http://dusted.dk/
To be fair if you look at the last year of contributions they’re #12 which is better.
So its a public https endpoint, with no built in throttling? This... doesn't seem like a ddos vulnerability to anyone? All it would take is one script kiddie to rack up an unsuspectingly large aws bill, no?
I can't tell if you're being serious or sarcastic when you say "Wolfram's clear and simple exposition style"

Can you link me an example?
“A lot of people” are also idiots. But that’s not new.

Flip flopping for all the right reasons makes all the difference as G-man would say.
https://mikemcquaid.com

Various articles I’ve written and talks I’ve done over the years working as a software engineer or at university.

The skyline in the header is always a view from my current house.

This site has lasted in some form across my name change, self-hosting in my university flag to Wordpress to GitHub Pages.
It's not that secret.
> It started as a language for scientific computing.

Did it? The way I read the famous old “Why We Created Julia” blog post (https://julialang.org/blog/2012/02/why-we-created-julia/), it was intended as a general purpose language from the beginning. Quote:

“We want a language that's open source, with a liberal license. We want the speed of C with the dynamism of Ruby. We want a language that's homoiconic, with true macros like Lisp, but with obvious, familiar mathematical notation like Matlab. We want something as usable for general programming as Python, as easy for statistics as R, as natural for string processing as Perl, as powerful for linear algebra as Matlab, as good at gluing programs together as the shell. Something that is dirt simple to learn, yet keeps the most serious hackers happy. We want it interactive and we want it compiled.”
Why would milk containers have phthalates in them? All ours here in Australia are made with HDPE which doesn't need plasticisers.

Although I have read that apparently a fair proportion of milk in the US is made with equipment that uses PVC piping that leeches phthalates before it's even packaged...
Just today and yesterday our widely respected health minister here in Germany lost a lot credibility by changing his opinion.

He said there would be no requirement for quarantine soon and changed it to "quarantine stays" a day later.

All he did by that was alienating his biggest support group: vaccinated people. While the covidiots are cheering because "they knew it all along". We came out of this with a better solution but still...unnecessary loss of credibility. Next time people will think: I can ignore that, "they" will probably turn it around tomorrow.

The art is to only talk if you're sure what you say.
> Liberalism is about liberty.

Only in the rest of the world. In the US that word was redefined to mean "people I do not like" and they use "libertarian" instead for the original meaning.