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> Why did Rails get outcompeted by newer (and also some older) alternatives in the long run, when numpy and scipy did not?

Chiefly, because big money corp invested massively elsewhere.

Also by now it’s easier to find developers who are cheaper and already (only can) use javascript/python?

I think that actual technical merits are dwarfed compared to other forces at stake here.
At this point "Tesla says it will do..." is virtually without meaning. Historically this means either they will never do it, or they are catching up to the industry, or it's something their supplier already does for everyone.
I owned one for 4 years and all of this is in the eye of the beholder, and constantly moving goal posts.

A lot of what FSD does & doesn't support is left intentionally vague.

At various times the FSD product page, the car sales page, and what Musk tweeted were completely out of sync as to what mode does what.

Lots of people bought the car thinking it handled situations it very much did not, and have attempted to use it in unsupported ways.

For example - poll 10 Tesla users about Autopilot on non limited-access highways use and you will get 4 different answers. Then ask them about what objects Autosteer is capable of avoiding. LOL.
Since reading your comment, I have gotten very excited about Doom Emacs in the last 45 minutes.

But, now I realize this is a very powerful configuration of Emacs if and only if you prefer using the VI keybindings.

It looks like spacemacs is that as well.

I actually enjoy Emacs keybindings, and would like to find something as polished and supported as Doom, but without using VI keybindings.

Does anyone know where I should look for that?

Or, can I revert to emacs keybindings in Doom and use the rest of the amazing features? I'm concerned I might be swimming against a tsunami if I try to do that and would be better off finding another project.
The CLI runtime that 99% of people use is Node.js, available via the same package manager where you'd get Python 3.

Its dependency management story is not great, but in general better than the horrible mess on the Python side.

On macOS there's a system runtime called JavaScriptCore.framework. It's actually a very good and useful engine. If you're writing native code, you could link to that. But of course it doesn't provide any of the Node.js API, just the JS standard library which is tiny. So the most typical use case would be to embed a JS API into your application.
https://archive.is/56Qs5
The utterly hilarious defense by the left for a movement that - above all others - is deeply patriarchal in its attempt to overwhelm and wipe out the very concept of "woman".
Solving race conditions is QA's problem right? ;)
I used Evil for 5-6 years. Meow is another great modal system for Emacs.
100%
They unlocked it for all buyers without safety score requirement in December so they could book all the revenue finally
> there's nothing strange about a country going to war

That doesn't make it any less sickening. War is always a travesty.
> the intention is to divide us

Who actually has this intention and why?
I don't really think it is a language ting, just more of a project size thing.
Retrained last year as a horticulturalist after 30+ years in IT and communications. I am fitter and healthier than I have been in decades. Pay rates in the industry are low but I am building up my own business and enjoying the lifestyle benefits. Thoroughly recommend it.
Amazing, thanks for sharing!

For how long were you locked in the Queen's Chamber?
DuckDB: Querying JSON files as if they were tables
The ZF-8 auto that BMW uses is honestly pretty great. I’m a diehard manual fan, but I have very few complaints about it in our BMW wagon, despite having hated every other automatic I’ve ever been subjected to.
That must be up there on the "imaginary legal knowledge" shelf.
I agree that is a big concern, but laws of some countries could make contributing to some projects a bit dangerous for some people.

For a weak example, old and potential crypto laws in the US and probably other Countries could be a concern for a project. see:

https://www.openbsd.org/crypto.html

> If any non-American cryptographer...

It seems to be hard to draw a fair line with these things.
Install Bitwarden and thank me in a year!
Unlikely: buying a replacement car because your previous one burst into flames usually involves staying away from the previous brand.
Well yes.
But if you pump out millions of graduates with almost exclusively python experience, guess what they write in production once they have jobs?
I guess that means they no longer need nuclear research for energy purposes?
Same. I was using intellij, then vscode the ten years before I switched to doom. I tried a lot of other editors and IDEs, but emacs was the only one with good vim integration. From all editors I tried, it was also the only one with good plugin interoperability. In emacs plugins are often build up on the interfaces of other plugins. In vscode plugins tend to be encapsulated, competing units which often do not play well together. I also find it much easier to customize emacs to my needs, because the interfaces of both the system and the plugins are mostly well documented.

Emacs has a high barrier of entry though. I think it would be difficult for a novice to get a good IDE experience from emacs, even with doom.
We are entering a period of Moore's law for GPT bots. The claim by NVIDIA that in 10 years a GPT bot will be one million times more powerful than ChatGPT may or may not pan out. But I can easily see a factor of one thousand, which means a doubling of capabilities each year.

Five years from now the world will be unrecognizable.
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Feature factories give web dev such a bad rep, it doesn't have to be this way..
That's a very good point that the 30 percent savings are for round the clock work. I didn't notice that in the article.
If you are in Phoenix, AZ. And it only operates in a well-defined area.
Personality variation eroded by simple social behaviors in collective foragers
That's not what caused the war. Interest in NATO membership came later, before 2014 there was basically no support for it in Ukraine.

What resulted in all this was that Ukraine was negotiating a very favorable trade deal with the EU. They had a presidential election, which was won by a guy who promised to be friendly with Russia, but also push through the trade deal. Only, when the trade deal was almost done, Putin called him, they talked for several hours, and at the end he declared that he was shutting down the deal, and would make one with Russia instead.

This was extraordinarily unpopular, because the terms of the EU deal allowed for Ukrainians to work as guest workers in EU. Doing that, you could earn more in three months doing unskilled labor than you could expect to earn in Ukraine with a degree in a year. Russia had nothing similar to offer. Because of this, there were massive protests. Then the president ordered troops to fire on the protests, and the protests escalated enough that the president fled. After that, Russia invaded Crimea and Donbass.

Two thirds of Ukrainians opposed NATO membership in 2013. Support only became a thing when there already were Russian troops in Ukraine.
Yes, we need more tools that are cit friendly. If you are looking for a good GUI based client that works on top of plain text files, do checkout Bruno.

https://github.com/usebruno/bruno
See also the Writehander, from 1978. My Dad's old mate had one.

https://www.microsoft.com/buxtoncollection/detail.aspx?id=6
I started using Emacs because it could actually run on my cheap netbook, and continued because I'm addicted to Magit and Tramp plus I can't retrain my window management muscle memory. Tinkering with it came naturally over the years in tiny increments, the same way VSCode users change a setting or install a plugin. The emacs.d folder is a git repo that follows me from system to system. Customising it isn't a selling point, it's more just the natural outcome of spending a lot of time near the editor.

Choosing Emacs for its low memory and CPU footprint is probably very ironic to anyone from the era of Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping jokes.
Please name any other comparable IDE or editor which is also free software (and also preferrably developed by more than a single company).
If you’re a PRISM target wanting to protect yourself from the NSA you’re gonna need a lot more OpSec than just switching from VSCode to Emacs.
I think the worst problems happened when switching between branches where the same directory changed between being a submodule or being part of the parent repo.

Having to set a configuration option to make submodules work is another example of the feature being unfinished.
To add: Strong vs. weak/eventual consistency is more related to the Isolation property of ACID.
I also think there are a lot of products that hijack the need for cognition, to make people feel like they're achieving something when they're really not - for example dense complicated games like Factorio/Satisfactory/Dwarf Fortress/Paradox games have all at one time completely taken over satisfying that cognitive need.

While I see what you're getting at, I take issue with your main point here:

> So they are sort of scratching their itch for cognition, but not in a way that makes their life better in an objective way (which is most likely the reason we have this drive)

Evolutionarily, there is no such thing "the reason" why we have any drive. Rather over time certain characteristics are selected for by their fitness in the environment. That might seem like a semantic or not important distinction, except that this drive for cognition has effects way beyond the individual.

The key thing is these people who go after what most would consider "unproductive" things, IE not using their smarts to go after lucrative professions, serve an important role in society to break out of local maxima and ultimately bring society to entirely new places. But this drive is obviously not a precise tool, it is just as likely to go towards some non-productive ends as productive (the cognitive equivalent of junk food or whacking off).

Some people simply have a larger drive towards cognition than to social status, and that occasionally leads to changing the world.

(Footnote: this is simplified - obviously evolution/selection happens on the individual level, but as a society we place value on intellectualism because of the outsized impact, which alters the environment to select for this drive - and people often reach their achievements later in life, so the "evolutionary success" of having kids is based on their potential for greatness, even if they never reach it. This way selection can favor drives that actually hurt most individuals with the drive, because the ones that change the world have such an outsized impact - this only works because humans are adaptable enough to alter their selection criteria based on the broader environment - think fat people used to be attractive when nobody had much food)
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I followed the inverse path: first academia in non-CS and then tech engineering. And though it hasn’t been that many years after academia, I wouldn’t be able to do it again after my gap. Granted, academics will probably don’t care about my experiences doing something else, but personally I have forgotten so many things that I’d have to start with master-level courses to refresh my memory. And then spend months to catch up with the advancements in the field I was working on.

But then again, I might be comparing oranges to apples here.
> > The degree to which we’ve been blessed with resources and opportunity to do the right thing (and have consistently chosen to do the dumb thing) never fails to amaze me

It’s the curse of natural resources.

When you have “the stuff” you feel like you don’t need to talk to others, spending time and human resources on talks and diplomatic relationships.

In the context of global politics, military and intelligence where everyone’s ego is all the way up their ass, not wanting to talk is interpreted as disrespect and hostility. And so tension ensues, add the language barrier, culture barrier etc. and pretty soon you are stuck with the old USvTHEM

Another country similar to that is Venezuela, they too have plenty of fossil fuels and sun and lithium.
Except AI being used by police fails to describe the problem. The problem is policing policy and practice, and that hasn't changed for hundreds of years. The ability to punt black box decision systems which might as well be a guy flipping a coin in there is just continuing the same problem.
Work on your sense of self and self esteem.
There a historical documentary film that tells the story of people who escaped Auschwitz to bring definitive proof of the atrocities happening there to the Allies.

As I recall it, their request was for the Allies to bomb Auschwitz, though presumably targeting railway lines and other elements that could knock it out of action.
Wouldn't it be possible to do worse? I think there should be enough opportunities to pick up true losers or almost dying companies.

I'm not saying you could extract profit for those situation as there are too many other people trying to do it. But losing money should certainly be possible.
Compared ChatGPT to BLOOM - which I know doesn't benefit from RLHF.
I've rewritten real world performance critical numpy code in C and easily gotten 2-5x speedup on several occasions, without having to do anything overly clever on the C side (ie no SIMD or multiprocessing C code for example).
Since I have an all-powerful magic wand that rewrites history, I guess I could use it to make Python the default language in Netscape Navigator 2.0 and then everything written in JS since 1997 would be in Python instead...

But I don't actually want to do that. The Python design philosophy isn't really compatible with loading embedded, sandboxed user programs over the network. A hypothetical Python-Netscape would have crashed and burned with security holes like ActiveX, IMHO.
I didn't label anyone a theocratic fascist. That's just Matt Walsh's twitter bio. Though radfems seem not too uncomfortable with Walsh, considering JKR praised the man for his "documentary" and received little backlash from her loyal following.
What does your last paragraph mean? Many countries already have nukes but this one should not?
I should be more precise:

Getting anything that could produce, look like, or smell anything like misinformation out of meta is very hard (for good reason!)

My friends have had repeated push back for various papers because they are ML based and could be in the same room as something that could possible be used by miscreants.

And here we have a LLM that can spit out all sorts of things that are misinformation like.

If their department tried to launch something like Galactica they would have been slapped down and told to think again about what they were doing in life.
I didn't find a solution to read in a .png-file and iterate over the rows and in every row over the columns, is the low level stuff somehow hidden?
Found some higher level stuff libraries here and there, but if it's not easy to do some low level operations, the language would be useless for me.
Yeah, picking fruit is the ur-example used in media of work “work Americans won’t do.” It fucking sucks.

That being said, yeah, I had friends who did it as teens. They hated it, fast food was a huge step up as far as a job for teens.
If you're going to consider obscure languages, and you liked Julia theoretical features but got disappointed by the implementation and perhaps instability, I suspect you will enjoy Common Lisp.

Check this out: https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/numbers.html
> [...] and turning the monitor off is a good way to get your feet wet.

Is it weird that I, as someone with normal sight, had never thought of that as a simple way of testing whether your software (and the whole operating system together with it) works correctly with screen readers? It's like there's some sort of unconscious bias which links typing on a computer with its monitor being turned on.

And I lived through the times when most computers didn't come with any pointing device, which led to most software back then being accessible to keyboard-only users (notable exceptions being things like Paintbrush, which required a mouse), so I understand the link between the lack of a device and software being designed to work well without that device.
FFI into lean C isn't some perf panacea either, beyond the overhead you're also depriving yourself of interprocedural optimization and other Good Things from the native space.
I can't see it for me, but who knows. The same holds for my family though, they're much more likely to deal with the US government than China.

I maybe should add that I'm not saying I like any of the general data collection, and I'm not saying I think the risk is high that either government will 'disappear' me/family. I just read the article expecting to read about behaviour that was beyond what other companies were doing, but I didn't see it. I'd be willing to entertain that there's more the US intelligence knows but aren't saying though.
The entire point of doing things the right way is that you end up delivering more value in the long term, and "long term" can be as soon as weeks or even days in some cases.

Business owners definitely prefer less bugs, less customer complaints, less support burden, less outages, less headaches. Corner cutting doesn't make economic sense for most businesses and good engineering leadership doesn't have much trouble communicating this up the chain. The only environment where I've seen corner cutting make business sense is turd polishing agencies whose business model involves dumping their mistakes on their clients and running away so the next guy can take the blame.
I should have been more precise, I have added an additional comment.
Aren't those pyc files still technically just string bytecode, but encoded as hex?
Tesla's camera-only driving is a gamble. It has the _potential_ to be the best in the business.

...but it also takes a ton of computing power to determine how far objects are just from a moving image. A LIDAR unit would give you range + position instantly.
Julia and Carbon fill very different niches. Can you say something about the type of work you’re doing that these would be the two languages you’re looking at?
>why would you just accumulate savings without using them for living an interesting life?

Having kids. Not that you have to do this with kids, but it is a reason
Yep, US sanctions were working in the past, when US economy dominated the world. Right now sanctioning a country just means that you are giving China a free reign over it.
I work with maybe 100 people on a consistent basis. I probably know 25 of their names. Many of these interactions are random one offs, large meetings, etc. Many of them are foreign (to me) compounding my difficulty with their names. In addition I'm remote so can't associate names and faces, everyone is just white text on a black background. If any portion of this group started requesting I use varied pronouns I would probably lose my job in short order. Not because I don't care but because I am so incredibly busy I simply don't have the mental reserves to do it. Currently I am regularly working weekends and until 4 in the morning. I'm burnt. To expect me to somehow remember people's pronouns is a mission impossible.

I don't remember individual interactions with many of my coworkers at all, they all blur together.

If work wants me to do it then they'll need to reduce my workload by half just so my mind can absorb it.
I suppose this answers my own question:

https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/53319/how-to-disab...
Some customers will like them. Some will thank them - and once in a blue moon, even thank them sincerely. But a small but non-zero subset of customers will scream in their face, curse them out in graphic terms, and threaten to get them fired or arrested for some perceived slight or mistake. And a larger subset will very obviously treat them as "servant class".
The most logical thing would be for Archive.org to distribute these weights
Agree, I thought it was a pretty low-effort article until I got to the end and realized it was just an ad for CodeSpaces and CoPilot.
This comment is a strange sensationalistic loop. :-)
Trans people are out to abolish biology. Gender is little more than personality.
Phoenix, AZ is one more place than Tesla can claim. There are exactly zero places on this plane of reality where your driverless Tesla will come pick you up.
Why Alex Murdaugh’s Quick Conviction Worries Me
"I was admiring the quality of their HTML5 video player"

Which reminds me of when YouTube spent forever with a broken beta HTML5 player, spending 5+ yrs building something that porn sites did immediately.
Is it? Or is that just hyperbole? I mean, they announced every product they do deliver too, and they're selling a lot of objectively very successful products.

I just don't understand the hate around this company. It's not enough to criticize, people need to deploy stuff like "virtually without meaning", or "will never do it". I mean, can't they just be like any other company that spins a bit with their product announcements?

In this specific case, though, the criticism is just silly. Tesla already deploys induction motors on half the drive train that meet this requirement. The question is whether they can get rid of the (higher power/weight) permanent magnet motors in the back.
>I'd be out-of-touch with compilers

Why?

Ive always thought that those jobs are like: every company does it a little bit different (tools, processes, architecture) but theory, parsing and LLVM stay the same.

So what changes in e.g year or two? new CPU instructions? Architectures?

How does your job look like? You are doing more frontend or backend work?
doesn't matter how much you earn if the next guy earns the same amount and you are competing for scarce resources (like land in the area).
It seems like the model has been leaked (not by Meta) and is being distributed via a torrent. Someone has created a PR to the repo as a joke, suggesting that instead of filling out a form and waiting to be granted access (which is the official way to get access to the model), that you could just download it via the torrent.
I don't like Julia either but Carbon isn't ready for use - https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang - and even if it was, it would still need an ecosystem of libraries which it doesn't have.
We call that momnesia, probably a result of the brain damage from lack of sleep.
And your boss probably knows there aren’t many other opportunities, and that’s why they think it’s ok to treat you poorly.