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A hot take is defined as "a quickly produced, strongly worded, and often deliberately provocative or sensational opinion or reaction (as in response to current news)"

So you can't really do a hot take on a personal experience. Because a personal experience generally isn't "hot". You'd just be an a-hole. You might be able to have a hot take specifically about chlamydia in koalas though... ouch. Lets try...

"Koala bears keep dying because they cant keep it in their pants"

See the difference?

AKA Click Bait.
And changing ones. I imagine once a skyscraper's plan is set it really doesn't change much at all.
I reckon we're about to enter an exciting new experiment where they combine nominally high interest rates with large amounts of money printing. The banking system is already under a lot of stress, so I expect they're preparing to unleash hitherto-unprecedented amounts of largess on anyone who looks important and has a bank account.

They don't have a lot of options at this point except word games where they explain it isn't a bailout, it is a Special Financial Operation. It isn't money printing, it is Quantitative Adjustments. This isn't central planning, this is just the only way grown men could imagine planning a financial system. The US isn't going to default, it'll just ... not pay back its debt in real terms and its creditors will be OK with that because what causes them worry is the word, not the fact their wealth just vanished.
Interest rates being near 0% would create the most easily predictable risk of a calamity from investing in long-term bonds. Where else do interest rates go? Going negative is not likely to happen for long.

Furthermore, the bond yield was inverted for quite some time (indicating a financial tsunami was on the way) making it even more idiotic to be in long-term treasuries.

Also, building walls against physical forces is a terrible analogy for pressing a button to change your bond ladder risk.
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That’s… odd. I just figured from the name that it’s someone who wanted to protect their privacy, but that’s certainly, uh, some persona.

If it is the creator, my charitable interpretation would be that it’s a form of experimenting with identity and gender.

It doesn’t rub me well though when OSS projects list fake contributors. (Even projects as neat as Asahi.) I mean, morning me, afternoon me, and late night me are vastly different people, but I can’t pretend to be a three-man team just because of that!
Python is a scripting language. It allows me to develop a right answer in record devopment time and with a high degree of confidence that the result does what it needs to do. If, then, there are speed problems then I can optimise my existing code or rewrite sections in other languages, but crucially use my initial code to aid in testing the more obscure rewrites.
Most of the time, some thought upfront will tell you if you will need a compiled solution early on, but even then - getting it correct in Python before getting it fast in something like C++ can be faster - the spec is often revised as implementation can change specsand Python is more agile.

Execution speed is more than execution speed - you need to be correct, and being fast enough is quality; faster may be wasteful.
I did not mean to blame him for having polio.

I just meant to say that his solution to his mobility problems came with significant tech debt that came to hang him later.
Yes, browser bookmarks collaborate well with Vimium extension. I open a bookmark simply by typing part of its title or url in Vimium search bar (press "B"), without touching my mouse at all.
You know who really wants that button Seth? Nobody.

People seek entertainment, people seek hope, people seek emotion, not just facts.

Reality is hard for a lot of people at the moment, and mindless stuff can be a reprieve.
Does anyone have tips on how to speed up test collection in pytest? In our django app (~5000 tests) it takes about 30s to run a single test with `-k testname` when the actual time spent in the test is on the order of a few hundred milliseconds.

It hangs forever on the `collecting ...` phase.
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You can make an argument that FBS is not adding to the suffering of animals. At the moment it is just collected as a side product and most of it is thrown away.

There are always multiple products from raising an animal. Some of them, especially the filet pieces, drive the number of animals being raised and slaughtered. Others are sold at a discount, sometimes quite sharp, some edible products are actually thrown away. You don't drive animal cruelty with FBS, or even low-priced parts of the actual animal. Up to the point where demand is outstripping the "side chain supply".

Can't say all that for milk. Cows are raised for giving milk, and at the end of their lives slaughtered. They have to give birth to calves every year, half of which are male and slaughtered much earlier. That meat is actually cheaper than meat from cattle raised specifically for meat generation, because it's a side chain and the meat is of lesser quality but it is available. A similar dynamic applies to chicken.
They probably don't - it's what you get when a sociopath designs cars and doesn't think of anyone but himself.
Interesting as they just removed almost all buttons in Hyunday Tucson at least. Good thing they're bringing them back.
There is relatively easy way to validate domain part - resolve and check that there is either an A or an MX record (but if you do resolve be prepared to wait - I've seen domains DNS query to which takes many seconds of even minutes because of poor internet links or infrastructure). And the local part just not worth validating. May be reject non-ascii if your system doesn't support SMTPUTF8. Full RFC syntax is very complex for historic reasons and most simple regexps developers tend to use reject addresses people do use.

I try to use a email like me+www.service-name.com@example.com when possible but many services reject such perfectly valid address.
Yes! But only so I can open them with Alfred.app
Put a shield around the most vulnerable and their carers, until there was a vaccine for them and leave everyone else, especially the young, to continue their lives as normal.

Easily said now, however.
Protein and poutine do not rhyme if you pronounce poutine the proper way in Canadian French.

And you are right of course that gelatin and practice have the short "ee" sound at the end whereas skeleton and and cactus have the "uh" sound.
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> These rate rises are starting to feel political in the UK and US.

They are deeply political. The interest rates would have to be significantly higher, particularly in the UK, but actually going there would do other damage. So they are trying to go as high as possible, without losing support of the businesses.
"Additionally, when your in the middle of creating your building, the owner doesn’t come in and say “actually, I want this apartment complex to also have a suite of luxury condors on every odd floor”."

From what I've heard from people working in the construction industry, this sort of thing ("variations" I gather they're called) happens more than you'd think.
Response: https://twitter.com/fluffypony/status/1638396003790249985
What's "the wrong thing".
Testing User Interface code sucks. I hate it. It's difficult and fragile. You probably agree so far. Controversially; I also think UI testing is low value and the answer is to be pretty decisive about cutting it.
I would like to, but my browser (firefox) seems to actively combat this by hiding them behind several clicks of buttons that are too small to accurately hit with a mouse.

I usually resort to making link lists and publishing them online where I can escape from mozilla's overt user-hostility.
I've been using Rider style rules for two years now exclusively in a VS based team and aside from some linebreak rules I need to tweak here and there I've seen no issues ?

But I use a .editorconfig tuned stylecop and roslynator on all projects so maybe that overrides some defaults.

Mind sharing which Java style rules are you seeing ?
or like an intern who can google snippets of code from previously known solutions and is sometimes out of context or outright false.
Consumption is driven by the availability of money in the form of income/stimulus or credit.
The full analysis of newly uncovered genetic data on Covid’s origins
A group of independent international researchers has released its full analysis of newly uncovered metagenomic data collected by the Chinese Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in January and February of 2020. The data closely links SARS-CoV-2 to the genetic tracks of wild animals, particularly raccoon dogs sold at the Huanan Wholesale Seafood Market in Wuhan, China, the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, the group's analysis says.
Looks like we are going to see this kind of investigations "asking GPT-4" to confirm or not assumptions just like we had "after a quick search on Google" for a few lusters.
As a non-American, I'd be cheering on legislation for stronger data protection, but this isn't really it. Banning TikTok is first and foremost a protectionist policy lobbied for by Facebook and the others. I think it is also short-sighted at that.

If the national security concerns are valid, then they are also valid regarding Meta and Google in other countries. US legislation will serve as a shining beacon for privacy advocates in the EU to ban or heavily regulate these data kraken as well. Even China had better reasons to ban Facebook, and can rightfully claim hypocrisy on the USs part once again.

Banning your competitors could also fracture the internet. For many young people, TikTok, Youtube and Instagram are the internet. It is an incredible means of soft power for the US currently, but they risk isolating themselves as TikTok might succeed without the American market as well.

The big problem is the asymmetry though. If you only go after specific companies on dubious grounds instead of crafting clear legislation applying to all companies in the sector, that's not in the spirit of constitutional democracy. It allows government and media to decide the winners and losers of the economy, which gives them power far beyond what is chaste.
> This is nothing more than a monopoly which continues to this day with DuPont, Honeywell, and Arkema at the head of it. You're just a brainless sissy.

Amazing, you can't even get monopoly right
> The accusations of a known scammer are clearly nonsensical and should not need refuting.

Spagni stole money from a company, presumably to fund his crypto investments.
Artificial Intelligence Is Like Allopathy
For training you could rent a GPU server for a short period.
Yes, if I remember correctly this can only run Mac OS 9. Strange that this is not mentioned (?) on the github page.
There's a new oracle in Delphi.
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Hey, don’t forget the thirty years war after the invention of printing press
Did you forget? There is a reason that all depositors would want their money in 24 hours … they realized that the bank was mismanaged and overly exposed to the interest rate risk, and they were only insured for $250k.
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> there will be no human able to compete with a sex robot that has fears and hopes.

Or we just will be selecting for people with genetic disposition to fetishize fucking real people rather than ultra sex bots.

Oh wait breeding is already a kink
A decade ago I had lunch with a friend through kindergarten (our daughters were friends) he was a financial advisor and things were going good for him. I complained, as people who 'make' stuff often do, that finance was unbalancing everything and taking too big a share of profits (not to be annoying to him, just sharing a viewpoint) and he replied that the reason why finance was getting more of the share was because finance was where the innovation was nowadays.

He later got charges for corruption and there was a big investment scandal where some people who had done well with him before ended up loosing money later.
>Google's cloud revenue is almost same as Oracle.

What about their profits?
So you are converting your code into english and then asking GPT to convert it back to code? Might as well right the code at that point.
From Chicago ... and with more than a thousand solves on that puzzle we've never received a single complaint about the rhyme on that one (plus the stats say users find it an extremely easy rhyme to solve)! Curious how you pronounce that one such that they don't rhyme?
Exactly. It can also easily be seen via stock indices, the likes of S&P 500 and similar. The general curve is "exponentially upwards", which implies that someone somewhere must make money available in the very same fashion. Now, looking at fiat money I think it is clear how that comes to be, but that also means that all this fake money -- technically massive amounts of debt piled on debt, plus interest on all of it -- is aplenty.

As you wrote, it was the hickups in the actual economy which caused the price hike, and with all that "money" available it was also clear that this inflation wouldn't go down anytime soon as so called "experts" were talking about initially. In fact, it is a wonderful dumping ground for all this junk in the stock market, although by now it is more of a trickle in relation to the amounts piled up there ...
I was curious until he started getting into technophrenology by "asking" ChatGPT for answers on why. He also does not explain how the asset tracing is even possible. Somehow, I trust the league of established papers on Monero weaknesses (none of which have successfully been used) than this.
> Interplanetary travel, involving the production of a substance that will produce more energy per pound than is required to lift that pound out of the Earth’s gravitational field.

Arthur C. Clarke had some words to say about this persistent idea in The Promise Of Space.

You don't actually want to lift your pound of fuel <out of earth's gravitational field>, that would be useless. You actually want to burn it as early as possible to lift a pound of something else (preferably cargo).

Every second you burn it sooner, the less high you need to lift it. Ideally you'd burn all your fuel on the ground in second 0. Sadly, releasing that much energy all at once tends to lead to Rapid Undesired Disassembly. Hence space rockets burn for a little longer (but still as quickly as possible).
Market segmentation. Back when the Pascal architecture was the latest thing, it didn't make much sense to buy expensive Tesla P100 GPUs for many professional applications when consumer GeForce 1080 Ti cards gave you much more bang for the buck with few drawbacks. From the corporation's perspective it makes so much sense to differentiate the product lines more, now that their customers are deeply entrenched.
You seem to be doing what movie critics do to movies.

Does everything need to be a criticism, play on or comparative or something? Does everything need some deeper meaning?

It's a fun action sci-fi book. Do you question the motivations of Sam-I-Am in Green Eggs and Ham? Why does he insist so much? Where did this food come from? Does he have an ulterior motivation? Is this a reflection on 1970s conservatism in the UK and societies inability to adventure and explore?
> Yellen says unsecured depositors at TBTF banks will always be bailed out, but those at smaller banks are on their own.

I agree SVB and Signature uninsured deposits shouldn't have been guaranteed, but that's not quite what Yellen said. The $250K guarantee applies to deposits at all insured banks. Having clarified that, Yellen said:

> A bank only gets that treatment [guaranteeing all deposits] if a [super] majority of the FDIC, a super majority of the FED board, and I in consultation with the president determine that the failure to protect uninsured depositors would create a systemic risk and significant economic and and financial consequences ...
The correct definition of murder is as such:

> Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse [...]

Animals are not humans, killing an animal is not a murder. Attribution of human traits, emotions, or intentions to animals is called anthropomorphism.
Fundamentally, it never will be able to do this.

The reason is because a hash is a galois field, or finite field which has no unique solutions.

Turning a file into a string is simple, and only has one correct answer in that direction.

Turning a string into the same file mentioend previously is impossible, because there are multiple correct answers given any string, and the context had been discarded. There is no determinable way to rebuild the context, its a guess.

In one direction you have a unique answer, in the other you have a many to one answer. Determinism which is the property needed by computers to do work requires that there be a 1:1 solution otherwise you run into issues with the halting problem, and other non-deterministic behaviors that don't lend themselves to anything useful.

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

Fundamentally if determinism is not present, a turing machine can't solve those classes of problems. Its a fundamental in the theory of computation. Yet so many people subscribe to magical thinking about computers because they do not understand this.

If you could preserve the context for a single file, then you could get the same file back, but special handling would be needed to switch between conflicts with determinism (which isn't possible for turing machines, halting problem) and for a general solution you would have to save the context of every single possible file (an infinite solution requiring an infinite amount of memory).

It can attempt to make an approximation, but that approximation in functions like hashes is so chaotic it will never get close to a general approximation.

It must get infinitely close, and as it works the memory required grows up to the size of the unique domain for the output function, at which point you run into the halting problem where determinism breaks. From that point it grows infinitely from there in a non-deterministic way.

Given the constraints imposed on the design of current day computers, more likely it will simply only map to the first unique answer within the space despite there being other possible answers because after that it has no way to know when it should halt, nor will it ever.

There are limits to the types of problems computers can solve.

Edit: clarified language
Your first four paragraphs make me wonder if A.I. might nudge developers into converging onto "best algorithms" - and to a possibly lesser extent, onto "best practices".

Or is real-world code an impossibly complex algorithm soup ?
I think he assumes the factory production aspects of how fetal bovine serum is collected taints the karma of lab grown meat.

But that is indeed an entirely sentimental or spiritual concept. FBS doesn't contribute to the suffering of animals because it is a side product that is actually discarded most of the time. At worst, buying FBS means making the main production chain slightly more profitable.

In any case, I don't believe "clean meat" means less animal suffering than "cultured meat". "Clean meat" is just as unscaleable as cultured meat (currently) because of demands on labor and land. You still need to kill an animal long before its natural death, and you raise that animal in the first place to kill it. So I don't follow that particular argument.
> Banking is basically nationalized now.

More like government is privatized
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"outed as Interpol informant"? Really?

No idea who this guy is but if I was in his situation I would also do the same. Accusing him of being an informant over this seems a bit extreme. It is a well known fact that various law enforcement/intelligence agencies will try to establish ties with people in such positions.
I tried it both ways; with individual prompts and prompts in bulk. I ran both tests the same way. There's a tradeoff in writing a legible/interesting blog post and relating step-by-step the way the evaluation was ran! Appreciate you reading and the feedback :)
I recall reading that when training AlphaZero they would start pitching it against itself doing millions of games in a few days, which worked great because there is an external metric (who wins the chess game) that would objectively be a good measure to train towards.

But if you let an AI's approval be the metric, things turn a lot more fussy and subjective. The goal is not actually "to write a good answer without error" but actually "to write an answer that is approved by the AI". Those are very different goals, and as you keep using it you'll get a bigger and bigger divergence, until eventually the AI is just answering complete garbage nonsense that precisely hits certain sweet spots in the grading AI.

This divergence of the target vs the actual human goal is a pretty interesting problem in AI safety research. I love the example where an AI trained to stay alive as long as possible in Tetris realized that pausing the game was the best strategy.
Can your source be not someone with an animated profile picture?
I started recently with Consider Phlebas and loved it. I then read Surface Detail (not sure why I read that next) and found it pretty disappointing and disjointed comparatively. I'm hoping more of the books are closer to Consider Phlebas as I read onwards.
Plus, you can probably fix them yourself! None of this "hack it yourself and void the warranty, or pay a goon to hookup a computer to your car to 'fix' it."

I wonder how long it will take for people to start selling jailbroken cars...
Hah - we only made the blog over the weekend and don't have any nav or menu for now. But yep we link the prior article a few times in this article, that article goes into more detail!
For people in to historically themed power metal, the Swedish metal band Sabaton have a song about him - https://youtu.be/DxkeOkaVRLo and their collab with a historian, Indy Neidell (of The Great War and WW2 fame) to tell the history behind their songs also has a video about him https://youtu.be/UadfxEJKVM8 .
Looks interesting! Have you considered a proper vector database like Qdrant (https://qdrant.tech)? FAISS runs on a single machine, but if you want to scale things up, then a real database makes it a lot easier. And with a free 1GB cluster on Qdrant Cloud (https://cloud.qdrant.io), you can store quite a lot of vectors. Qdrant is also already integrated with Langchain.
UK law is common law, which is different from the civil law systems practised in continental Europe. Importantly, the theory of contract differs - in the UK anything can be a contract, provided there’s certain elements like an exchange (the legal term is consideration). This isn’t the case on the continent, where contracts must fit into prescribed types.

Working without a contract would be so utterly alien to the mindset here on the continent. If you don’t have a work contract, which of the seventy-four different pension schemes do you fall under? How do you register your new job with your mandatory “public” health insurance? What social security ‘status’ is recorded for you in the centralised national register of inhabitants?

I mean, I recently needed a notarised copy of my rental contract just to register my change of address with the government, which is mandatory here every time you move. This is not a system that deals well with “yeah, I don’t have any papers for that”.
I know that at that time I used to be like "what kind of pleb uses anything other than Windows? Get off your high horse and use the OS that actually works", because well... Windows XP was pretty good, and games worked on it.
To be exact, they have three active CLRs: CoreCLR, (Framework) CLR and MonoVM. WebAssembly, Android and iOS apps use the MonoVM because it is optimized on AOT.