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> at least tens of thousands of simulated AI agents

Are you planning on displaying all/most of them every frame, or just to control that many of them, then draw those nearby/visible?

If it's the former (but how exactly?) then perhaps Vk is the way to go, if the latter, then it's hard to see how Vulkan vs OpenGL is all that relevant here.
It was interesting and the point is Neon, so thanks!
Odd, the suggestions I am getting from it are very relevant to my previous viewing history, both on my work account, which I use mostly to listen to music, and on my more personal account.
(The Adidas Predators were on a whole other level…)
In the US and other Anglo Saxon countries it's a free for all after Bachelors.

Whatever the faculty wants happens.
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I use RepRapFirmware for all of my 3D printer builds now. Along with the Duet boards, it's really a very pleasant experience. The documentation is extremely good, the forums are nice, and the codebase is well written.

I also like the "everything is GCode" configuration model. GCode isn't a particularly great language for configuration, but the internal consistency is appreciated. You can play with things in the REPL, and then when you like what you have, commit it to your config file.

I guess the downside is that the Duet boards are more expensive than a Raspberry Pi and an Octopus. On the other hand, not having to maintain a Linux install on your 3D printer is nice. Raspberry Pis are all fun and games until you want to turn the power off. With RRF, you just cut power to the board and you're cleanly shut down. Do that with a Raspberry Pi a few times, and you will be reimaging it.
Unfortunately, the Ryzen 3 1200 -- as with most Ryzen chips -- doesn't have an integrated GPU. You would need to find some sort of video card and occupy your single PCIe slot.

A properly designed server motherboard would have a basic VGA port and an IPMI port, but buying those retail bumps up the price ridiculously. The NUC-style machines always have integrated video, sometimes really good (non-gaming) video, but offer only a single SATA port and a single M.2 slot.
While necessary, I doubt this will be sufficient.
Square one is great then. Let's move to square two "feature complete" by implementing search :-)

Honestly, Gitea's feature set is quite impressive. sr.ht I'm less familiar.

Of course GitLab is another option. I didn't mention it because it is well known, and probably less interesting / approachable to someone who would like to start from scratch, because it is more complex and there's this open core aspect.
We think that getting a billion people to cook (and eventually grow some of their own food) will have huge effects on climate: https://parsnip.substack.com/p/why-we-started-parsnip

This elicited a strong reaction from folks on HN, but then again any novel idea does: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32266086
The thing is, if you don't have top grades or an exceptional background, most universities will expect you to have a Master's, instead. But if you do have top grades, or an exceptional background, then you can probably go straight into a PhD from high school, or anyway many universities will accept you.

It matters a lot whom you have impressed with your skills, your knowledge and your dedication, it goes without saying, and by how much. Like in chrisseaton's comment above, they were investigating about a "gifted engineer" and I'm guessing they would have written a strong letter of recommendation for that candidate.

So it may not be possible for everybody in practice, but in theory, it's possible.
> even fast food menus are insane now

They were really good when the kiosks were new, just like Google was.

I guess PMs hunting local revenue growth but macro loss by spamming upsell and making what you want hard to find is a common problem with these luser uncentric systems.
Why the hate? This headline makes the audience clear, and it’s not you! Enjoy the freedom this gives you to skip reading the post.
It seems like most more modern languages actually have facilities for expressing proper sum types (even if it is in some languages more verbose than in others).

Certainly Kotlin, Swift, Rust, etc. do have them. Even Java, I believe, is planning to add them, though I suspect that many people won't necessarily understand why they're useful even when they land.

It's probably helped by functional programming becoming more mainstream and "obvious" sum types needing to be implemented (Optional and Result, mostly).
To me big potential issue about Metamask is if a compromised update got pushed out; a lot of damage could be done before people noticed even if it would be discovered immediately.
There's more trees in Europe than in roman times.
Yes, I got that. I didn't feel that the "alternative definition" was offered disingenuously, but it's still a problem when you want to have a discussion and you use certain commonly accepted terms, but with a different definition in mind. Imagine if I talked about "democracy" and in my mind I meant "The Athenian model that only allowed men over the age of 30 to vote", when everybody else was talking about, well, democracy.

In case you're not familiar with the book (i.e. "M. Feathers, 2004. Working effectively with legacy code."), it is a classic and widely regarded as "The" book on how to approach legacy codebases (even if a bit dated by now). A highly recommended read. It was also very enjoyable to read, which is remarkable for an otherwise technically-oriented book. Here is the relevant except from the introduction, defining what legacy code is and why it's a problem:

> In a strict sense, Legacy code is simply code you've gotten from someone else. However, clean, easy to work-with code is rarely referred to as 'legacy' code; the term usually implies a tangled, unintelligible structure, difficult-to-change code that is difficult to really understand. Therefore, a more pertinent description is:
>
> Legacy code is where any of the following questions fail to apply:
>
> - Is your code easy to change?
> - Can you get nearly instantaneous feedback when you do change it?
> - Do you understand it?
>
> If the answer to any of these questions is no, you have legacy code, and it is draining time and money away from your development efforts.

Further down, he offers this simpler, provocative definition, which introduces the main theme of the book:

> Legacy code is code without tests: Code without tests is bad code. It doesn’t matter how well written it is; it doesn’t matter how pretty or object-oriented or well-encapsulated it is. With tests, we can change the behavior of our code quickly and verifiably. Without them, we really don’t know if our code is getting better or worse.

In a more modern setting, presumably 'tests' would be extended to include other good software engineering practices, like version control, CI, etc. But the book's theme still applies in the more general since, so it's still relevant today. If you've not read it, then pick a copy up, you're in for a treat :)
Exactly.

Many people actually ”need” things, but always end up getting beaten by the person who has more $. It’s just constant battering of people that aren’t as well off as others. It’s often a disgusting system. The poor always suffer due to this “I’ll just hand wave to the ethics and talk about capitalism“.
Republic and democracy refer to two different axis.

Republic is about how the vertex of government is structured.

Democracy is about where the executive/legislative power comes from.

The US is both, you could argue that Canada is not a republic as they have a recognized queen, but it would be a stretch as she has essentially zero power there.
Regardless of complexity: error messages, error messages, error messages. I can't emphasize enough how important decent error messages are. When you are having trouble with a file, include the full path in the error message. Put in the name of the function in the error message, what you expected and what you got. Bubble up lower level errors, don't swallow them. Include a stack trace, include the path of the log file if applicable. Please don't have your error message say "Something went wrong".
It's actually enforced by Habr rules https://habr.com/ru/docs/help/posts/
I went to a serverless conference some time ago (great excuse to travel on the company's dime), and every single talk had a few minutes about how they were unable to test or debug their production infrastructure. They couldn't even run their code locally, just bits of it.
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Does tiktok actually collect that much (valuable) information? It seems all the scaremongering people spread (rightfully or not) is around it's moderation and attempts to steer discourse and change opinions to pro-china?
haha true, all humans depend on food to do their job, so working as a farmer is a catch-all for helping fight climate change
No, I am saying some people do that, and it is one way in which companies can maintain profit margins. Do you really believe brand name products really have no real brand-only advantage? Hell: the Costco store brands are so famous for being good it managed to become something of a brand itself!
I went to a serverless conference some time ago (great excuse to travel on the company's dime), and every single talk had a few minutes about how they were unable to test or debug their production infrastructure.

They couldn't even run their code locally, just bits of it. Serverless code could not run without a server. A specific provider's servers.

Call me old-fashioned, but I develop with a few docker containers locally, then release them to a plain old linux server, and it's working great. Sure, my humble business isn't Google, but neither are yours, right?
Sure, if the pseudoscientific description of factor analysis applied to images is correct, then it's phyiscs.

As-is, it's pseudoscience. What happens when you do a factor analysis on images? You get some measure of the axes of geometrical variance across those images.

Are those axes "related" to any physical variables, sure -- but almost never directly. To suppose the system itself had these properties is to suppose, for example, constellations actually exist and cause your personality traits.

Everything we want to know is what phyical properties of the system give rise to the observed consistent correlations in geometrical properties. *THAT* is physics.

Showing these geometrical properties exist and are consistent is just what we're trying to explain.

You cannot go from images to the domain of physics -- there are an infinite number of theories consistent with these images domains. And this is pseudoscience.
It was not „inefficiency“. It was environmental disasters left & right without nobody responsible. Single-use plastics is peanuts compared to just dumping chemicals and bio waste left and right.

For example, there is a lake in my hometown. Next to it, there was a carpets factory. Do you know how you could know what color they'd use that day? Just go swim in the lake in the evening :) The factory didn't care. Upper tier of the party doesn't care if some workers' town lake is messed up. There's neither resources nor incentive to take care of it.

If you'd go to local party office or KGB, they'd laugh you off and go party with the factory management :) Oh, and you probably work in the same factory. Or local school/shop/water, which is run by the same single party as the factory.

As a citizen, do you want to vote with your wallet and not buy carpet made in such way? Tough luck, that's the only carpet factory you get it from :)

State farm in the outskirts of town was run in same way. Just drop fertilizer in a water ditch and call it a day. Who cares how much you produce and that local ecological system is messed up? Meanwhile tractor driver can steal diesel planned for fertilising the fields and sell it in black market :)

It's not a random town with tough luck. This was modus operandi throughout USSR. If you want bigger scale stories, look up lake Karachay and Majak nuclear accident(s) :) Same line if thinking, just worse consequences.
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Yes. God help you if you're looking for a video not made by a popular youtuber. Saw an amazing fried chicken recipe ten years ago and think you can just scroll the results until you see it? Ha, fat chance. You've got about five results and then nothing but whatever horseshit is trendy today.
Sweden: Users are not party to their own privacy rights?
"I'll be able to find a few people that are like me" - consider that you don't necessarily need or even want to find people like you. You're already the person you are and its perfectly viable to cross-pollenate your own life/personality by befriending interesting, nice, successful people with integrity and empathy.

"... meet interesting people and start afresh?" - A simple MVP approach might be to make a list of places/things you wouldn't normally go/do and rate the viability of each? Take a stab at things in the top 10% of your viability list?

Consider that in performing an experiment where you meet new different people, you're quite likely to come out the other side a little different as the person you were going in.

I've spent the better part of my adult life moving around etc, different cities, regions etc and making new friends is as systematic of an endeavor as any other tech problem you might be trying to solve. Consider approaching it from that angle.

Good Luck - now go do some things you wouldn't normally do!

EDIT: Above all, never forget that your life will quickly start to resemble the things you spend the majority of your time thinking about. If you spend your time systematizing the process of starting fresh and meeting new people it will happen as certainly as spending enough time thinking about X will eventually make you a student of X and possibly even an expert of X.
what's the "addictive" part of tiktok to ban? Scrolling? Providing recommendations? Seems quite nebulous to legislate against.
Having a better understanding of who the essential employees are is necessary, but not sufficient, to run a more profitable company than the current market leaders.
Kipper is nice. Still waiting for someone to build a firmware on top of embedded_hal in rust, though :/
I don't have an AC but a home that stays naturally cool even at 40° outside. It's the first proper place after student rooms so it's not like I was clever enough to plan this ahead, I just got lucky. It seems that ground floor or below is perfectly doable without AC, especially when shaded by neighbouring houses (or you could just construct building-sized sunglasses).

That would be the simple solution when ACs were outlawed.

That won't stop drought and forest fires, or extreme weather events like flooding. Not to mention that I'm curious what the ecosystem does if we just let the climate change by this much. We still need food somehow, I'm not sure how much our current supply can be artificially recreated (we can't just put wheat and a cow on a space ship and call it a day, the soil will be exhausted in no time, do we know how nature has been replenishing that? Which bacteria to bring, or in this case, to preserve on space ship earth?).

It's unfortunately about more than just comfort and convenience. We won't all die I'm sure, we're clever and resilient, but with millions displaced it won't be fun either. I understand your comment was mostly a joke, but I don't know to what extent you might also have been serious.
One of the big value-adds for a senior engineer is being able to recognize tasks that just don't need to be done, ever, because they just won't contribute much value relative to other things.
Remember, it's not how much you get done. It's how much of the right stuff you get done.
The UK electorate does not elect a party either, it elects a bunch of local MPs, and the MPs in term elect a leader. While many voters of course vote for the MP who represents the party who is headed by their desired leader, MPs defecting could just as easily flip the government to another party without consulting the electorate, as they can replace the PM with another from the same party.
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>User can easily refuse consent - go visit some other website. //

GDPR requires that you allow users to access services without giving up PII unnecessarily on an even footing with those who do willingly consent to being tracked.

You provide an "accept all tracking" button (eg "ok"), well you can provide a "reject all unnecessary tracking" button too.

You, the website provider, can easily not track users and not trade in their PII.
>It'd be practically impossible to enforce the 'privacy' concerns,

But US would first need a law, now you just surrendered before you even tried.
It could be possible to enforce it, you find an illegal action you slap them with a fine, find a new infraction slap them again and again.

Do I need to spend my time thinking for americans? Make a law so Tik Tok keeps US people data in US, force them to have US employees and offer a bounty to this employees to report illegal stuff. The only downside is that most US citizens and companies will have no choice then to accept EU privacy laws as really good and valid (but I am sure the world can find soem other laws to make fun off, like something about bananas shape).
But you could use it for load not tied to database, isn't it? Like CPU, IO or network bound stuff...
Mary Schmich is awesome. I enjoyed her columns in the Chicago tribune
This is what they are actually implementing:
https://fidoalliance.org/multi-device-fido-credentials/
I don't think they are at risk while they remain here in my country. It's very unlikely that the Chinese government decides on a strike against any dissident here. That's more typical of the US like they did yesterday in Afghanistan.
Oh man I used to run a climate tech / impact investing company. Hiring was so easy.

On the other hand, having a team of mission-driven true believers actually makes for some difficult and potentially toxic team dynamics.
This document puts the sheer magnitude of DALL-E 2's knowledge of images into perspective. The same black box knows how to illustrate The Last Supper in the style of Quentin Blake, paint an ornate Late Baroque cat in sunglasses, compose a candid photo, draw a detailed blueprint... and so much more. DALL-E 2 knows more than a human ever could about imagery.

Whether or not this particular iteration of the model is 'good enough' to be widely applicable, or whether DALL-E 2 is 'creative', it's only a matter of time before the way humans interact with media is changed profoundly.
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That might get tricky if they use your fake address in later pieces of paperwork.
The problem is the source isn’t one place. The source is a collection of 500 MLSes across North America. They have a vested interest in keeping the data accessible only for licensed realtors. Striking a conversation with 500 MLSes would be a big undertaking, I would need contacts and connections in the real estate world.
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You really don't want to hire those engineers though? We really explicitly hire for judgement, and while those all might be a good judgement for the business some day, they aren't today, and an engineer who doesn't get that is way more of a liability for the business.
It's true that there are many mathematically equivalent ways to describe physical systems. But the important point is that some are more useful than others. For example, Lagrangian mechanics and Hamiltonian mechanics are equivalent to Newtonian mechanics, but they can give much better intuition for certain problems. Feynman diagrams are equivalent to grinding out the QFT algebra by hand à la Schwinger, but they give a completely different intuition for the underlying Physics.

More importantly, though, they could use this NN on systems that have not yet successfully been modeled, perhaps complex dynamical systems, to discover good parameters and conserved quantities.
I'd join, though I'm really only a casual (bullet) player
It's better to look at the world from a perspective of possible/impossible rather than sane/insane as there exist people inside governments who are paid to do insane-yet-possible things.

I don't believe the theories around the Chinese government controlling children's minds through TikTok are likely to be true. It's probably just a dumb app. But there's nothing impossible about it.
Damn, though the hardware of the GPU is a lot much weirder than what you’re used to with the CPU, and don’t let me even get started about CPU-GPU memory transfers…
Do not ready beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly.

More true than ever in an Instagram world.
I can say from experience that employees get some protections that students don’t. Particularly when it comes to:

- working hours (often paid for 20 but working close to 40)

- paid time off (I have worked through a lot of ‘vacations’ and ‘holidays’)

- health insurance (for my whole family, not just me)

- behavioral requirements for managers (I have stories)

- retirement funding

- credit for work products (imagine being told your name isn’t on a pub because you were in training)
There's WebGPU Native, with wgpu-native implementing it on top of wgpu, using Vulkan/Metal/DX11/DX12.
https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu
They said they elect their leaders democratically which is simply not true no matter how you want to phrase it. The president is elected by an electoral college and not a democratic vote.
Can’t help people who don’t want to help themselves.
DeFi meets DeRob.
Ah yes. Chain emails were where meme-like disinformation used to spread before Facebook made it even easier. At least I don't have people forwarding garbage into my inbox anymore.
Sorry, I read a paper on this 10 years back...

The principle, as I recall, is that when a nanoparticle or nanofiber lodges somewhere, poking a membrane or anyway intruding, immune system cells attack it with increasingly caustic chemicals, trying to break it down. If it is too stable, they fail, but don't give up. It is this inflammatory response that underlies asbestos's toxicity.

A smooth, locally flat surface does not, by itself, provoke that immune response, and chemically PTFE doesn't draw attention. But PTFE happily adopts any shape. So, maybe nobody makes PTFE microfibers or nanoparticles on purpose, but that doesn't mean there aren't any.

The short story is that tests showing PTFE surgical implants don't evoke an inflammatory response do not tell you much about effects of PTFE in different circumstances. Likewise: people can wear metal jewelry for years, but that doesn't mean you can poke a knife through somebody with no effect.

There was a recent report that those mesh tetrahedral tea bags each release literally billions of plastic nanoparticles into your tea. That cannot have been deliberate. I wonder if those have been banned or recalled yet...