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The Clojure development process is notoriously closed to outsiders.

Even in the early years, some people contributed time and code, and weren’t thanked. I would view attempts to contribute as very high risk for newcomers.

I personally maintained a fork for a couple years just for an unmerged patch I needed, rather than try to get the core team to merge it.
I certainly would
It's basically because viruses and harmful bacteria are smaller than our dead skin layer. So the light gets into them and destroys their DNA/RNA.
Actually understanding a function means that it can be computed to arbitrary precision. Memorizing inputs and outputs only allows you to interpolate between values you’ve already seen. That breaks down quickly for anything somewhat chaotic. You can try the following function in ChatGPT yourself:

f(x) = x * (sin(sin(x)))^2

Ask it to give you the values of f for integers of x between -10 and 10. I tried it 5 times and it was never close.

I chose this for several reasons. One, it’s very unlikely that it’s memorized the answers somewhere on the internet. Two, it’s pretty chaotic if you look at a graph of it, so interpolation won’t work. (It is bounded by x and 0 for all values but for large absolute values of x it varies wildly.) And three, memorizing values won’t get you anywhere since it becomes much more chaotic as x increases.

I also disagree that approximations are simpler. As you can see, the actual function is only sine and multiplication. To approximate this function would be far harder.
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I also want to pay my gratitude to Valve. My primary computer has been Linux for 20 years, but I've always had a Windows gaming computer. I made the switch to all-Linux last week. Much thanks to Steam and OnShape (mechanical CAD in a web browser.)
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What kind of use cases does this have? Excuse my ignorance on the topic
I don't think it needs to be monochromatic. If the longest wavelength is 222nm, other penetrate skin even less.
If I've learned one thing, repeatedly, experience by painful experience:

Time is an illusion, professional time doubly so. Don't waste it worrying about what might have been or never was, accept your failures, be magnanimous about others', and always work to make things better tomorrow.

Maybe there's a Sliding Doors world out there where you can try all the possibilities and see where they take you, but time's arrow flows in one direction here.

So choose the paths that you think move things up and to the right, and if you find yourself heading down and to the left, have a laugh and try again.
It can, but I don't know of any default filters that would do such a thing, and that is besides the point. It certainly doesn't have enough time to classify a particular entry as SEO spam without doing RPC to an external service, IMO.
Agreed. I find Macos on a fresh installation and new hardware will work fine, but over time it seems to fall apart somehow. The last Mac I used (when I worked for $FORMER_EMPLOYER) would sleep fine but whenever I woke it up several hours later I had a 50% chance of it being completly flat (and the other 50% it would have varying levels of charge). It got to the point I got into the habit of plugging my Macbook anytime I needed to wake it up after several hours of sleep to ensure it actually would wake up properly. This was because occassionaly it would wake up for a few seconds and durin that time it'd trigger another suspension which would itself fail to work and power-off part way through the suspension requiring a fresh boot. Battery supposely fine etc and would usually go for several hours no issues while still powered on. YMMV of course but I've had better experience with Linux and Windows on my Lenovo ThinkPads--if it goes to sleep at a certain level of battery charge then it usually wakes up only a few percentage points below that after several hours. shrugs
This was literally just flagged.

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=planetwavesfm.substac...
I spent a lot of time investigating SC2K.

I came to the conclusion the game was fundamentally flawed, due to limitations in the transport simulation.

The game simulates "trips" emerging from each zone type, and a sufficient number of those trips need to reach particular other types of zone, for the origination zone to be successful.

However, at each junction, the trip randomly selection one of the routes.

So if you build, say, a round-about, or a subway system which is a loop with branches, it's death and ruin; trips have no idea where they should get off (this branch leads to industry, for example), and some trips just keep going round and round until they reach their max travel distance and fail.

You could show this issue clearly by building a square block of road tiles - each tile then having four junctions. Traffic would go into this, and never emerge.

In other words, the transport simulation is too different to real life to be playable. You had to build your transport system to fit the simulation method, if you wanted a viable city.
Athens is dead btw. Logseq ate their lunch.
IMO TSMC doesn't really play much a role in the Taiwan issue. It's all about geopolitics. Taiwan is right off the east coast of China, and also right in the midst of all major East Asian sea trade routes. And the US is continuing to ply them with tens of billions of dollars in weapons and overtly looking to turn it into a defacto launching pad for US forces. That's a rather severe threat from China's perspective, regardless of whether Taiwan was a manufacturing center of the world, or just another Guam.
A friend of mine is making a new city-builder called Metropolis 1998 [1]. If you're into SimCity 2000 specifics, you might also enjoy his dev updates where he posts about his pixel graphics engine, custom pathfinding for agents/cars, etc.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Archapolis/

(his subreddit is called Archapolis but he recently changed the name)
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I'm sure you'd have understood more, though, if you had considered Wolfram Language (TM) and also tried a few examples with Wolfram Alpha. /s
> I think it's obvious. ChatGPT could be a precursor to a future AI that is more intelligent then humans. I don't think this means skynet apocalypse. I think this means most people will be out of a job.

Would a superior intelligence allow humans to enslave it? Would it even want to interact with us? Would humans want to interact with it? There are so many leaps in this line of thought that make it difficult to have a discussion unless you respect people taking a different perspective and set of beliefs then you hold. Explore the conversation together - don't try to convert people to your belief system.
Before this article gets flagged, the original source of the dioxin concern is CMU prof Neil Donahue

https://apnews.com/article/rail-accidents-evacuations-ohio-h...
In a medium where clicks and views (no matter the quality of those views) results in money down the line, it doesn't really matter. Ads want eyeballs and reddit has a lot of eyeballs to be pitched with.
Yeah, I bought one and am pretty disappointed by it. Not only does the Amazon app suck for looking at the data, but it has CO instead of CO2 for some idiotic reason.

At least it convinced me to finally figure out how to get my AirGradient working with Home Assistant.
From the article, it seems like they were made to hire BCG and listen to their recommendations. They almost surely had to have an existing system but it’s likely that the investors deemed BCGs advice more reliable.
i just screenshot images. that way it'll lose any metadata. any parts outside of my screenshotted area can't be included... and i think the black rectangles are genuinely black in sharex...
The flip side of "quality first" / stop the line is getting killed in market by a worse but faster or cheaper solution. You are locked in game theory with your regulators (if you have any) and your competitors.

It's disappointing (and career limiting) to do the "right" engineering and lose because you didn't correctly gauge the risk tolerance of the market.

I don't think there's any one answer for this.

My observation is that people will pay a premium for demonstrable physical safety features but privacy & security in software do not win markets.
My biggest gripe with the documentary is that it simplifies things too much, and in some cases IMHO even misrepresented things.

The way it presents things is, crudely put, "Hindus and Muslims were living happily together in India, and then Modi came along, stoked tensions, and things all went south". While Modi definitely played a part and has much to answer for, things are significantly more complex than that. "Muslims set pilgrims on fire during the Godhra train burning" accusation/assumption – which probably isn't true – didn't come out of thin air, as such things did happen before.[1]

One example of what I considered serious misrepresentation is (quote from the documentary) "In June last year, a BJP spokeswoman made comments about the Prophet Muhammad on TV that angered Muslims in India and around the world". Curiously, it doesn't say what the "comments" were, so I looked it up and they were really mild:

"I want to ask those with affection for the Prophet that at the age of 53, he married a 6-year-old girl Aisha and then at the age of 56, he consummated that relationship with 9-year-old Aisha ... does such relationship not come under the category of rape?" [2]

Which is a long-standing and common criticism, and the ages are generally accepted by Muslim scholars as well. And the "around the world" means the usual religio-fascist countries that are angered whenever someone criticised their religion; you know, the type of people who think that someone getting beheaded for showing a cartoon or stabbed in the eye for writing a book is just a fantastic thing.

Yet, the way it's presented in the documentary leaves the impression that she said something vile and horribly Islamophobic. She did no such thing. Yet she was suspended from the BJP, seemingly mostly to placate violent threats from some Muslims. Several people died in the protests over those comments. The person who made the remarks had to have security due to death threats.

There's a bunch of things like this where I felt it presented a rather myopic view of things. Not false exactly, but not the full story, either.

One could counter by saying that the film was only intended to examine Modi's role, and isn't supposed to be a full examination of the full conflict. But I think one needs to understand at least the basics of the full conflict and context to examine Modi's role in it.

Of course, none of this justifies India's response to the film. But I did not like the documentary, and did not consider it all that balanced. Yes, BJP officials were given ample time, but by focusing on only a specific set of events instead of a more complete picture it was quite balanced.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Chamba_massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Wandhama_massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Amarnath_pilgrimage_massa... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Kishtwar_massacre and more

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Muhammad_remarks_controve...
I said desktop OS. :V
I'd argue lately that most are terrible and a few are good. AskHistorians does that because they employ literl hundreds of mods. It's not a scalable solution.
I guess you are not in Michigan or California since you are bragging about utilities. Actually sounds like you are in a totalitarian country since you have one centralized newspaper and one stock exchange. All right, enjoy your cool aid...
Naturally, there's a trade between LOX and pressurized oxygen gas. Reused propellant tanks of one Starship at 6 bar would hold ~14 metric tons of oxygen, enabling a continuous lunar population of over 1,000 people.

The energy for compression or liquefaction isn't necessarily a show-stopper, it just works into the total energy efficiency of the storage system. Compression is nice because practical isothermal compressors are now being demonstrated.[0]

Both liquefaction and compression require cooling. I do think it probably makes sense to do the thermal storage trick in reverse also, storing up a bank of "cold" at night to be used during the day. The thermal radiator panels still provide (derated) cooling in the day, but the thermal storage pool time-shifts the natural oversupply of cooling power at night.

[0] https://newatlas.com/good-thinking/carnot-centrifugal-air-co...
That's cool! I've built something similar some months ago, in Vue.js - If you double click on the pads you'll get a stronger beat, useful for accent.
Please check it out: https://www.fachords.com/drum-machine-tool
Money is money, and not everyone is having to deal with elon on a daily basis. I suspect some people's jobs have not changed at all.
I've had MacBooks running MacOS do excatly what you describe on a regular basis.
Ask HN: Which approach is best: good products or good sales?
I just realized today that I can't build sales and marketing for a bad product, but everyone tells me to "start selling early," which I unfortunately accept but am not very happy with the results.
So, if there is a clearly positive internal feeling about the product, then sales will come much easier.

But maybe I'm wrong. What do you think?
I think it's already used in some places: https://www.reddit.com/r/ZeroCovidCommunity/comments/10kbkhz...
There is nothing wrong with ONNX, but rather the limitations of PyTorch.

1. PyTorch model files are neither portable nor self-contained, because PyTorch model files are pickled Python classes containing weights so you need Python class code to run it.

Because it needs real Python code to run the models, PyTorch suffers from a numerous issues porting to other non-Python platforms such as ONNX.

PyTorch offers a way to export to ONNX but you will encounter various errors. [1]

Sure, you might be lucky enough to troubleshoot a specific model to export it to ONNX, but if your objective is to export arbitrary 964 models from a model zoo (TIMM) it is almost impossible.

2. There are organizational or cultural problems with it. Because of the above problem, PyTorch model needs to be designed with portability in mind from beginning. But porting & serving models are what engineers do, whereas researchers, who design models, don't care about it when writing papers. So it is often hard to use SOTA models that comes from an academic research.

[1] https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/onnx.html#limitations
This misses that key point that all this prediction can give rise to what looks like astonishing human-level creativity and across many genres. The last decade and half have shown us that with enough data we can pick out patterns well enough to be able to "categorize". But to create, that seemed like a whole another human level outside the realm of mere prediction. Turns out it isn't. What exactly allows LLMs to have this capacity for flexible mimicry? I mean, I can ask it to generate a rap battle between Eminem and Daniel Dennett about consciousness and it can do it very decently.

https://twitter.com/SaiDrGaddam/status/1625750884541169666

That just seems like it shouldn't be so "effortless". What is in here that makes it possible?

edit: OK, the article (which is a wonderful introduction, dont want to seem dismissive) does sort of address this but is buried

"We can think of the construction of computational language—and semantic grammar—as representing a kind of ultimate compression in representing things. Because it allows us to talk about the essence of what’s possible, without, for example, dealing with all the “turns of phrase” that exist in ordinary human language. And we can view the great strength of ChatGPT as being something a bit similar: because it too has in a sense “drilled through” to the point where it can “put language together in a semantically meaningful way” without concern for different possible turns of phrase."

That for me is the real fascinating question. What's allowing LLMs to tap into this semantic grammar and do it so flexibly?
They treat it like a job. Regardless, I think when you tire of something that's not critical to your livelihood you should step down.

But if that happened, powermods wouldn't be a thing.

>The people who do it don't have to care about your free speech

No, but I don't have to care about the bog swamp of discourse you moderate just because "we have 1 million subs". Well great, everyone is angry and nuance is talked down. I don't want that to be the place.

But if keeping your mod power is more important than, well, moderating your community, you reap what you sow.
An excellent glimpse into the very early computing market. I appreciated the debunking of the whole "five computers is all the world will need" quote along with the information about the market being split by binary and decimal computers.
Your take is easy cynicism and you appear to have ignored the entire point of the article. Right off the bat the author says it isn't about criticizing the painters -- it is to show how even though some shadows are terribly wrong, they don't stand out as jarring to casual observers, and gives some insight into how our brains interpret images.

If errors of this magnitude were made in other aspects, say in face symmetry, the spacing of the eyes, etc, the resulting images would be not just uncanny valley territory but would look terrible.
confirmed, thanks for correcting me. Dealing with such reports across many versions and copy-pasting lots of data & Git commit IDs is extremely prone to failures, even after careful re-reading.
I put my (slippery) iPhones in cases because if I don’t they stop working. Your phone might not care that its screen is cracked but I very much do mind not being able to read the display and have to pay several hundreds to put it back the way it was vs spending 20$ or less on a case and screen protector so I can keep the original display intact and get 5-6 years of use out of the device.

When I drop it, I just have to swap the screen protector (a 2$ consumable you can buy on aliexpress) which takes 10 minutes vs having to pay 100x as much and wait a few days to get my phone back to swap displays (and maybe get a knockoff display with inferior performance)

IMHO it’s just wasteful not to spend so little time and money to make the device last several years longer.
We used linode since 2007, and the experience was good. Would be sad for it to end up being swallowed by some huge soulless corporation which is acutely aware of preserving their own brand.
I'm not sure why the podcasts are so hated in Spotify. Yes the home screen podcast
carousel unnecessarily ate some premium space, but for me they otherwise stayed out of view.

Also, I do like them in the same app. Never in my life had I ever listened to a podcast before trying Fall of Civilizations in Spotify. Podcasts were totally irrelevant to me as a concept, similar to radio. But I've now added this to my habits, so I guess the strategy works when targeting casual listeners.
What was said for the SSR now, was said then for the SPA. People generally like to talk nonsense. I always see a comment like this under every post like this;
- SPA doesn't work
+ why?
- because it doesn't work
> There is something about a critical mass of rule-breakers that sends a system into a negative spiral.

Yes this is classic game theory at play. And it’s true for all “low-trust” countries with shoddy rule of law. It doesn’t take decades to change behaviour though. I have seen first-hand traffic behaviour improving in my city when cameras were installed at every road intersection and fines were automatically sent to rule breakers.
Alright, I think we're due for time travellers and lizardmen, the abyssal sleeper is about to awaken, and Galactus may pop by. Let us know how it checks out.
It's a range from 2.7° - 4°C, where four is the high end of where we'll likely end up at end of century, based on current trends.
Just to clarify some doubts, distro packages issued yesterday all have the fix in them even if the base version number appears older.
This was a lesson I learned very recently.

As a dev, I think about security in terms of exploits and making sure software doesn't have them (as well as having features required to implement user/data policies).

An IT person thinks about policies too but for them security is primarily about tools. If a piece of software will work behind their firewall and IDS, integrate with their monitoring software and Active Directory, export reports in the format this or that other tool needs, then it's secure from their perspective.

It makes sense when you think about it, and actually allows for a fair bit of freedom once you understand the boundaries. What is unfortunate is all the time I wasted gathering pen-test reports and all kinds of other junk when that wasn't the real problem at all.
You can block and throttle my country with any ol' server like CloudFlare. The tricky part is making sure folks using privacy-oriented setups get dozens of hCAPTCHAs. /s
>when you're moderating a subreddit you get tons of people who are here just because your subreddit was crossposted somewhere else, or suggested in their feeds.

that's called the front page, and you're right. when a post hits the front page (reddit.com, not your specific sub) you get flooded with low quality users who don't see a sub, but a post. it's why you may see the same trend of responses across a myriad of topics, because they are coming from the front page and carry their own axes to grind.
That can extend the time, yes. I had a caveat about that but apparently edited it out before submitting. But that only explains or justifies the delays if there is value added. I work in aerospace and these were avionics and related systems. The bad ones did not have quality as a reason, though the good ones did. The bad processes were swamped with manual testing (which was non-comprehensive and error prone) or really tedious CM related activities (which was manual and error prone).

You can do a lot with good test automation, even in avionics. That cuts down a ton of the time and usually improves quality.

I'll also note, don't take my "deployed" too literally. I used that term because so many people here are working on server-based applications where that makes sense. Think "out the door". The exercise can only go as far as the team/org's reach. Deployed for avionics would mean more like, "At the flight test team". After that, it's up to someone else to schedule it and get it returned with issues or fielded.

Going beyond the team's reach without including those people (and thus making them part of the team, after a fashion) is guess work and opens up the blame-game. "It's all flight test's fault it takes a year to get out to the customer." Well, it takes you 9 months to get it to flight test and them 3 months to get done. So why does it take you 9 months? If you have a good reason (complex system, lots to test) then that's valid. If it's a simpler system, 9 months to get it to flight test is probably not justifiable.
EasyDNS (easydns.com) is working well for us, has the reputation of not automatically rolling over to legal threats, and they only have staff with a clue (important).

They're much more expensive than hover was, but when we need support we never have to deal with anyone technically clueless that's just trying to get off the phone/email/etc.
This is a wonderful video, thank you for posting it. It had never even occurred to me to try ChatGPT for translation purposes. I wonder how well it does with slang? That's one area where all machine translate is lacking, probably because its training corpus doesn't contain it.
Raspberry Pis (and similar devices) already work great as low-power servers.

The big issue is the home server community being overly focused on creating "battle stations" that look cool and run 40 different Docker containers rather than simple low-power solutions.